Lunch with the Clydesdale - Cookin up Cajun with Cory - What is Metfix doing?

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How y'all are?

It's Cajun Wednesday.

I'm with the legend, Corey Leonard.

What is going on, everybody?

It's just another Wednesday, Scott.

Just another Wednesday.

Just another Wednesday.

I'll say that.

My, uh...

My son's last ever band concerts tonight.

And so my wife is all up in her feelings,

has been for quite some time.

He's in the, like whatever the highest,

like they've got three

different levels of band at the school.

And he's a senior,

he's been there forever.

He's in the highest level.

So he didn't actually even

play until about probably six,

thirty-seven o'clock.

And she's planning on

getting there at five so

she can sit in the front.

I don't get off work till five.

See you there.

Yeah.

I told her, I said, all right, she said,

getting Jameson and we're

going to do this and then

we're going to get, uh,

get some food and I'm

getting there for like five

thirty at the latest.

And I was like, okay,

it's going to be all right, babe.

So yeah, my Corey did all the band things.

So he's got that.

And then we got his

girlfriend's graduation party Sunday.

His graduation,

they're both graduating next Friday.

It's just all the things in

the next two weeks.

Sweet baby.

Trying to keep her sane as

much as possible.

Yeah.

My daughter did the marching

band and they do this thing

called Friday Night Live

where they take all the

songs they did on the field

and they do it in the auditorium.

Yeah.

And they do it for like four shows.

My wife had to go to all four.

Senior year.

Now, junior, sophomore,

we went for one show.

Senior year, we went all four.

Yeah,

when he was playing with two of the

three bands,

we would stay for whichever

ones he was playing with,

and then we'd deuce out as

soon as it was done.

And then this year, like what I'm saying,

I mean, they're good.

Don't get me wrong.

They are awesome.

But we have seen a whole lot

of band performance.

many as we can make because

we have absolutely no idea

what's going on jay birch

um we gotta throw a dart oh

yeah but because of ken

walters because of ken

walters questioning me we

have dart cam there it is

love it and we are going to

throw the dart let's see where it lands

Oh, bad.

Bad.

I don't even know if you can see that.

I'm going to remove Corey for one second.

I'll blow this up.

I'll remove myself.

I don't know if you can see it.

It's bad.

It's upper, upper right.

I'll have to fix the camera

so that we can blow that up

a little bit more next time.

You hit the board.

I did hit the board, but weak throw, man,

weak throw.

Really disappointed.

I was getting closer and

closer to that bullseye,

and now I put the cam up,

and I totally – pressure got to me.

Never fair.

I was trying to make the games.

Never fair.

Yeah, absolutely.

Pressure was on.

Under the bright lights.

Bam.

Terrible.

Can't handle it, man.

KLA all day.

Yeah.

KLA-man.

Yep.

Open scores are invalid.

I'm going to stop picking on that dude,

man.

All right, man.

So that's out of the way.

I've been talking a lot about this,

how everybody's going after WFP,

saying that they're not going to compete,

but then they are competing

against CrossFit.

But nobody's going after Metfix,

who says they're not

competing against CrossFit.

It's a natural fit for both of them.

Yet, they're competing against CrossFit.

And I'm cool with them competing.

I just wish they'd say we're competing.

So I think the difference is,

is that at no point did

they say that they weren't.

That is a lot.

Well, I understand that.

But I know all they said was

that we're going to be complimentary.

They never expressly said, oh, no, no, no,

no.

We're not competing.

I'm seeing Aaron Kaplan on

the Chris Cooper podcast

said they weren't competing.

I missed that.

Aaron says Greg spoke to it this morning.

Yeah, I didn't get to hear all.

I every Wednesday I have a ten a.m.

meeting,

which is when someone goes live

with Greg.

So I always miss it live.

I have to go back and watch it after.

I had it on but I was I

wasn't really paying a

whole lot of attention this

morning um I was in and out

of that work stuff going on

so I didn't uh but jeff I I

truly I truly don't care

about the competition I

actually think competition

is good oh I'd agree totally

I and I want to point

something out because I've

I've pulled up the broken

science website and the

metfix stuff and and you

know they do a daily

workout of the day just

like crossfit right but

it's more than that and

it's and it's actually

better and I want to

illustrate that where

competition can be a good

thing so this is their

workout of the day section

They actually call it the daily fix.

All right.

Every day it comes with a

recipe under belly.

And here is a recipe and you

can go down and there's the preparation,

the ingredients,

everything to make this

recipe for the day.

That's awesome, right?

Yeah.

Then you click on body and

there is your twelve minute AMRAP.

Complete as many rounds as possible,

five strict muscle-ups,

twenty walking lunges.

Then practice slips for

twenty-five minutes.

Planks and stretching.

Slips is scales, L-sits, inversions,

handstands.

Planks and stretching.

And then you go to brain,

and this is reading for you to do

about health and science.

How freaking cool is that?

Oh, that is outstanding.

I would say yeah,

I mean that you're offering

at that point.

alternative stuff,

then CrossFit is daily because I mean,

I still get emails daily

can CrossFit with all kinds

of stuff about that.

But

Okay.

I ain't mad at that at all.

Like good stuff.

All of this is offered on

the CrossFit website.

So feed your body neatly as this.

Yeah.

Feed your, feed your body, move your body,

feed your brain.

Right.

And, and you can go back,

like I'll hit belly here,

go back to yesterday.

There's yesterday's recipe.

Yes, indeed.

And there's yesterday's workout of the day,

which was rest and the

yesterday's reading.

And you can keep going back

just like the old workout

of the day on CrossFit.

There's cancer watchers, diabetes watchers,

stroke watchers, body seven rounds a time,

seven or ten push jerks, ten pull-ups,

belly, Cajun chicken skewers,

just right up your alley.

The only problem I have with

this is Cajun is Wednesday, not Monday.

Yeah.

We do Cajun Wednesdays, not Monday.

Here we do, for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm with you on that one.

So Greg said just before his

NDA was up that if anyone

wanted to create something

with him to take on the games he would,

this could possibly be the

beginnings of that.

I think this is competing

against CrossFit.

I don't think he has any, and they said it,

Jay Burch,

he has no desire to compete

against the games.

The games were never Greg's bag of tricks.

That was Dave's creation

that he let Dave go and

used it as evidence and

proof of his concept.

Then when it got so big,

that was never Greg's thing.

Well, no,

it's that whole look around at

what it has become as

opposed to what it started

as when it was literally a

backyard barbecue.

People were drinking beers

in between events and stuff like that.

And then it just snowballed

into this thing, which, hey, I'm a fan of,

but I'm also a fan of the

beginning part of that,

what leads to that.

Like when I started at Virtus,

it's because I wanted to

see what was happening and

wanted to get into shape.

And then once I found out

you could compete,

Well, cool,

because now I can do all this

other stuff.

But when I first I was still

playing soccer two nights a

week and I was a heck of a

lot better than when I

first started because I

could go faster and I was

stronger than everybody

that was out there.

You know,

anything that we did outside of the gym,

like and still am,

I'm up for whatever because I can.

Like you want to say it's a

five K this week.

You want to come running with me?

Sure.

Why not?

just wanted to show that as

I've been saying

competition breeds growth

we have before wfp ever

existed before metfix went

public um we have been

dogging crossfit because

they're dropping the ball

in different aspects right

there was no competition

for them there was nothing

pushing them to be better yeah

Yesterday we illustrated

their two new partnerships,

partnering with Mayhem to

do the Everyday Heroes

occupational games as one thing,

partnering with Ruck Race

USA to do their final event

at the CrossFit Games.

That's going to be something to see.

Those are good strategic

partnerships that CrossFit

never would have done in the past.

They would have let Google

get in the way and they would have said,

hey, we can do it better.

We'll do our own version.

Definitely not since

sometime around twenty, twenty, twenty,

twenty one.

I would even argue before

that it wasn't all peaches

and cream before the sale.

No, you're right.

I complacency, I think is a,

is the word I would, I would use, right?

Like you said,

when you're on top and

there's nothing else around,

there's nothing else that's better.

Everybody's talking about it.

You got three hundred and four, you know,

almost four thousand people

signing up for the open every year.

Then it's easy to just kind of let it,

just let it be, let it go.

See what happens.

Instead of growing up,

the media team happened on Greg's watch.

And if you didn't like what

it was focusing on,

he could have redirected

them into more the affiliate story.

I definitely think he

overcorrected on that part,

like getting rid of the entire ones.

And then let's bring out the

couch and the water jugs.

Like that was a, I get the idea behind it,

but man, like it's a, we went from on the,

in the lane to off the road

to overcorrect it.

And now we're facing the other direction.

Yeah.

This whole MedFit fixed WFP

competition thing came to

my mind because I, over the weekend,

I know other people were

diving into this.

Now,

I didn't know that at the time that it

came into my head.

All I heard was the Sivan clip about, hey,

CrossFit sent out these

letters about competition.

You work for us.

They're a competitor.

You have a no compete.

Right.

And then all that kind of

stirred all this in my brain.

And since then,

Jenny from dense updates

has put some stuff out.

So Vaughn's gone deeper into this.

Um, and I'm,

I'm anxious to hear what Greg

had to say this morning.

I'll probably listen to that

this afternoon.

I want to catch that part of it.

And, um, right before we went on, uh,

someone was talking about

or had with parts of the froning podcast,

uh,

Where, like Will Morad and them,

Will Morad and,

is it Saxon that's working with him?

Yeah, I watched that this morning.

Yeah,

I didn't get a chance to get into that,

but I really wanted to see

what all that was going on

because they decided they

went over there to go visit

and hang out and talk to him about it,

but wouldn't do it on camera.

And I thought that was kind

of interesting.

And I actually have some notes from that.

So that's a perfect segue.

Okay.

This is what I do.

And so that is what Rich said.

They invited them out.

They had a good talk.

They wanted to do a podcast

so that people would know

what the WFP is all about.

And there seemed to be a

fear that they would be bullied on air,

so they decided not to do that.

And I am quoting Rich.

Yeah, no, I understand.

I just think that's kind of silly.

if you were the leader of an

organization and you were

afraid to be bullied on air

you need to get a new

leader correct um and then

I I just I that is a very a

highly watched podcast that

by going on there the

publicity you could have gotten

And convinced Rich on air

that what you're doing is good.

And it does seem like Rich

believes for what they're

doing for the athletes and

the sports side is a good thing.

Now,

Rich is not a believer on what they're

doing on the affiliate side.

Well, and why would you be when they said,

give us money and then tell

us what you want and we'll

see if we can do it.

And there was a little bit

of back and forth that like

CrossFit would not

communicate with the WFP.

Yeah.

but I'm not sure there were

attempts made to

communicate from the WFP first.

And that never got cleared

up in this back and forth.

Right.

Because then they kind of like,

they were talking about it,

and then they dove into

what they think a solution

may be for the CrossFit game season.

And so you lost kind of like

what this meeting with WFP was all about.

But I think when you say to them,

I'm afraid to come on air,

they're not willing to then

now promote what you're

doing or try to explain

what you explained to them

when you don't have the

cojones to go on yourself

and talk about it.

Yeah.

If you're not going to come

on and talk about it,

I am certainly not going to

tell people what you said

about it because then it's

coming from my mouth and not yours.

Right.

And it'd be so easy for them to say, well,

that's not exactly what we meant.

Well,

we don't know what you meant because

you didn't actually come on

and go live with us or, you know,

be recorded, whatever,

where it could be put out

there and you could say it

in your own words.

So I'm not going to tell people.

I'm going to tell people we

had a conversation and I

understand it a little bit better,

but I'm not getting into

specifics because it's not what you,

you're not having a chance.

It'd be like, if you were,

it's guilty until proven

innocent type situation

where you just say whatever.

No, dude, why not go on with them?

That blows my mind completely.

I also think that it was

said by Vandersloot that

they're afraid to make mistakes.

Bro.

You can't be afraid to make mistakes.

No.

Now we're at a point where

your first event is a week

and a half away,

and we don't know anything about it.

And it's like they're

banking on the names

drawing in the people alone

without understanding the

concept of what it is.

I would love to know what

their ticket sales look

like because when they first announced it,

it was going to be a thing.

Having five thousand spectators,

which is insane, by the way,

especially with you got this going on.

You got.

Yes, yes.

Pull up Lito's comment, please.

It feels like they're just

trying to be liked by everybody.

Yeah.

I think that's exactly what

Scott VanderSloot said that

they're trying to,

they're trying not to piss

anybody off and you cannot

it to be a leader of, of an organization.

You cannot have those fears.

No,

you can't walk on eggshells around

every single person and

expect to succeed.

That's not going to work.

Because no matter what you say,

you are going to piss somebody off.

Yeah.

At some point,

and you have to be okay with that.

You have to be able to say, oh,

you don't like that?

Okay, that's cool.

And keep moving forward.

Because if you keep doing that and just,

well, I'm not sure.

You're setting yourself up for failure.

Well,

and that debate can be good if you

explain why you're doing

what you're doing to the

negative reaction.

Yeah.

Why it's going this way.

Why you made that choice.

And be firm.

Be resolute.

Hey, yeah,

I understand that that's what happened.

This is why.

And it's okay to let people go, well,

I'm like that.

Okay, well, you don't have to.

Aaron says, as an athlete,

he should know you cannot

compete and be afraid of making mistakes.

And then he says,

Rich on the Born Primitive podcast said,

if fifty percent love you

and fifty percent hate you,

you're probably doing something right.

Yeah, you're attracting the right people.

And the fifty percent that

don't like you don't matter.

Concepts are great.

Ideas are awesome.

But you have to implement

them and you have to

I was hopeful that they

could push the boundaries

of what the sport looked

like so that overall, in the end,

we could learn something

from it and either CrossFit

learn from what they see

and make changes or

CrossFit doesn't and they

die off and you have this other option.

But I have no confidence now

after hearing that.

No.

How are you going to...

CrossFit is notorious for saying,

as far as the methodology is concerned,

like if we see something that works,

we'll start doing it.

So same thing for the games

and whatever else.

We evolved from having a

softball throw to the stuff

that we do now at the game.

So why wouldn't you see if

somebody is doing, like you said, oh,

this is working.

Cool.

Let's do that.

Seems like they're there.

Seems like there are a shell.

Dang it.

Take a deep breath, Kyle.

Why don't you take this while I go?

Seems like they are a shell

of an organization.

Looks good on the outside,

but not much on the inside.

Oh, it's just me.

How's it going?

Yes, they are.

We got you, David.

Um, I would,

one hundred percent agree with that,

David.

Um,

it reminds me a little bit of when

Noble first started and

nobody knew what it actually was.

Like we have an idea, we have concepts,

we have thoughts that we're

going to just put out there

for everybody.

And then we'll kind of see

what happens after that.

That seems like an insane concept to me.

It's worked for Noble,

at least for a while.

I don't know anybody that

actually wears their shoes anymore.

Uh,

or any of their apparel for that matter.

they got all the way up to

sponsoring the games at one

point and then kind of died

off so my apologies the

dart cam started echoing

everything so I had to shut

it off not a problem um you

have to believe in what

you're doing if you're

scared to actually say what

you were doing maybe you

should be doing something

else a hundred percent that

is a confidence thing right

there right and

I think that's what Rich was

trying to get at.

If you want to compete against CrossFit,

just say it.

Yeah.

Just say it.

Do it.

You'll get more respect just saying, yeah,

I'm competing with CrossFit.

We think we can do it better.

This is our plan.

The dude,

I don't know what his actual title is,

with High Rocks, he was like,

we're trying to find a

fitness athlete on Earth.

He said that live on camera

for everybody to hear.

Is it true?

Maybe in his mind it is,

but he was bold enough to

actually go ahead and say

it and try to be a direct

competitor as far as that

title is concerned.

Us as CrossFit athletes don't believe it,

but kudos for him for

actually saying it

somewhere where people could hear.

Alito,

definitely not scared of making

mistakes when that you

program running in the semis.

We got video of Brandon

running behind the email

company team with a camera.

It's hilarious.

You see them four run across

and then there's Brandon

running behind them with the camera.

It's going to make sure that

somebody asks for the video.

We got a good video.

That was a topic on Rich's

podcast as well.

They did ask for the maps and the video.

But they're like, what does that prove?

You have a video of a guy

with a wheel going out to

eight or four hundred

meters and then turning

around and four hundred meters back.

And you have a GPS map.

Yeah.

What?

But it doesn't prove that

they actually they still doesn't ask.

Yeah.

And I think that's why, like,

for the EMOM team anyway, that's why,

like, Brandon went out.

Tell you, camera on a stick.

When he took off for the run,

he was running right there with him.

So at least... Mayhem filmed

their whole run, too, just in case.

Oh, I'm sure they did.

I'm sure they did.

I think anybody who could probably did,

and I think that's probably a smart idea.

And if you look at the top-twenty,

they're all, like, teams that...

been around there's nothing

um out of whack in who

qualified for the games no

that wasn't like bob's

crossfit team out of you

know yeah with four

athletes you've never heard

of before correct four

athletes you've heard of

never heard of before from

uh out from uh uh an

affiliate you don't

nobody's ever heard of like

there's none of that uh in

in the top twenty so

Kudos,

kudos to boss for putting credit or

putting faith in,

in people to do the right thing.

And extra kudos for

everybody who actually did

the right thing.

Good.

Good on that.

Vander Sloot said he actually,

he sorted it by the run

event to see if he saw any

names that were out of, yeah.

And even just in the run event alone.

Right.

No, that makes sense.

Why wouldn't you do it that way?

Like that's, yeah, that was a smart thing.

If I was trying to find out

who was cheating,

that's what I would have done too.

That's the easiest thing to do.

It's like going back and look from,

in our age group,

from the guys who did

amazing in the open and did

not sign up for semifinals.

Like, oh, and have no videos.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

I got you.

Not a big deal.

So I wanted to finish up

with you and get your ideas on this.

We talked about the

competition with Metfix and

CrossFit and WFP and CrossFit.

Then I watched Sousa's show yesterday.

The TMZ show.

So he's talking about how

kind of the guy that

everybody thought was going

to buy CrossFit did put a

bid in on CrossFit.

And then they've held out.

They brought in this

another third party to help

with the sale um and

they're holding the bid

open trying to get a bigger

bid and that is evidence

that they are trying to

make as much money as they

can on this sale right

There is a chance that someone comes in,

buys it for a higher price

than the person we thought

of who won't have the

idealistic view of what

CrossFit is or can be.

Right.

And we don't have control.

We as people in the

community have no control

over who's going to buy this thing.

If...

If someone comes in and buys

CrossFit who is another

private equity company or

something like that,

do you think there will be

a mass exodus to these alternatives?

Now that they're sitting

there and that they will be

established when the sale is done?

Now, if the right person buys it,

all this is moot.

But if the wrong person buys

it... I wouldn't be shocked.

How about that?

I wouldn't be shocked.

I mean, we've had staff meetings where

our head coach slash owner

as like when they jacked up

everybody's affiliate fees

like is it worth us still

being an affiliate and for

the time being it is

absolutely um just for the

brand name as far as like

as far as that goes

everybody you know whether

you do it or not most

people know what crossfit

or have heard of it I mean

I say know what it is but

definitely have heard of it

recognize the name

whatever the case may be.

But as soon as that starts

losing enough brand value

where people will start going, Oh,

those people, then yeah.

Why wouldn't you start

looking at doing something

else or unbranding

completely and just being, Hey,

we are a fitness gym.

We will make you better.

Not necessarily having a

affiliation one way or another.

Well,

I look at this Metfix website and I'm

like,

I know Greg's going to fight lawsuits.

His work,

his daily fix is pretty freaking awesome.

That's the first time I saw that.

I need to go look at it.

That's fantastic.

This is more than the

CrossFit daily workout gets me.

Right.

This gives me a workout, a recipe,

and a reading assignment for the day.

If I'm a gym owner and it's

five hundred bucks to do

Metfix as an affiliate, sign me up.

Yeah.

Hey,

we're still going to be doing

constantly varied

functional movements

executed at high intensity,

except now we're going to

have a little bit more

access to stuff that maybe

is going to be more

meaningful in the long run.

Like you said,

Greg's already proved that

he will take on whoever

if they're putting out false

information that is hurting

or helping to kill people.

Yeah.

And Jenny even pointed out

like this non-compete thing

is done with Greg now.

Cause like you go to their

daily workout and if you go back through,

there are named workouts,

CrossFit workouts in, in their daily fix.

Um,

David Johnson says,

I think the wrong person

would have to buy it and

then continue doing a bad job.

If they show that they are

capable immediately, then probably not.

The affiliation doesn't happen overnight.

I learned that

de-affiliation is very hard.

Most people just let their

affiliation expire.

So depending on when you signed up,

you may have a month,

you may have eleven months

to make that decision.

I think what David's saying

is makes a lot of sense.

Like,

like it doesn't happen overnight and

you're going to have to

prove to me that you're the wrong person.

You also have to prove that

you're the right person.

Like you can, it's easy to come in.

It's like after an election,

it's easy to come in and say,

promise all these great things.

But like,

if you don't show me stuff in the

first hundred days, six months,

whatever the case may be, then,

then we're going to start

having a problem.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I think it is really

interesting that you could actually say,

hey, we're going to be a Metfix gym.

If you want to compete,

you go to WFP or you stay in CrossFit.

And we don't care about the

competition side.

I mean, for somebody like me, who is very,

very interested in making

the CrossFit Games...

And Jamie will say the same thing, like,

because she already goes to the gym,

that's not affiliated, right?

It is.

She's got to jump through

all kinds of hoops to be

able to try to get to the

stage where she can prove

herself as being one of the

fittest people on earth.

So if we did the affiliate,

it's going to be a problem for me,

not for everybody else there.

You know,

for the couple of us that are

actually actively trying to

get to the CrossFit Games.

Then it becomes a problem.

Everybody else there, I say everybody else,

nine percent of people there,

they just want to get fit.

They want to come in, get their sweat on.

They don't give a shit

what's written on the

outside at this point.

Now, potentially getting in new people.

If we can't,

if we're not CrossFit Virtus

anymore and we are MedFix

Virtus or whatever,

whatever the case may be,

and nobody knows what that is right now.

then that could be a future

issue as far as that kind

of stuff is concerned.

That's where my head goes.

I am the vast minority.

It does not really matter to

everybody else because it's just me.

Aaron Fraser,

I thought all affiliates paid

a monthly fee now.

And actually,

David answers that you can do either.

You have the choice to

either make the one lump sum payment,

but then they added the

monthly payment as an

option when they increased fees.

Jay Burch says you just call

yourself Virtus Fit.

Then you can be a Hyrox gym, a Metfix gym.

You've never met my owner.

We're not going to be a Hyrox anything.

We're not going to be I can

promise you that much.

Yeah.

Polaris has changed her name

so many times that one back

wall with the logo has been

painted about seven times

since I've been a member there.

We got one sign outside.

One,

we just replaced it last year sometime

because the other one was

getting so beat up,

it was starting to be hard to read.

But other than that,

If you miss the sign and nobody's outside,

the bay doors ain't open,

you can drive right past it

and never know where you're at.

It's one big long building.

Our half is a gym, other half is a church.

You get your Jesus and your

fitness all in all on the

same day if you really need to.

There you go.

Most times in the middle of a MetCon,

I'm talking to him,

so might as well have a church.

Lord, yeah.

Lord, yeah.

Yeah,

I saw Brandon had a program for us

yesterday.

I was definitely...

on speaking terms with Jesus

at one point towards the end there.

Yeah, it was funny.

CrossFit players has always been CFP.

They just changed what the

initials meant at times.

And then it went to IBEX,

which was the Aramo

O'Connell programming.

Right.

And then when they sold the, they,

when they sold, uh,

the new owners immediately

took it back to CrossFit players.

And changed the logo design.

But it's still CFP.

Everything has been CFP like

the whole time.

Except for the IBEX year.

Except for the one short

time we were IBEX for whatever reason.

I mean, that's smart.

If you don't have to change

your name or you don't have

to change the initials and

just like for printing

t-shirts and selling

merchandise and whatnot,

CFP all day long.

Aaron asked, why did Christie sell?

To be honest with you,

I do not know factually why,

but I can make a really

good assumption that they

did not want to be tied to

the gym anymore.

They wanted to be able to travel,

and I think they're trying

to start a family.

Good for them.

And so because of that,

they just didn't want to.

And their family has owned the gym.

Christie only owned it for

the last five years.

Maybe her parents actually

owned the gym like all the

years previous.

And her mother was a

CrossFit Games athlete.

Maybe even before Christy was.

Or around the same time.

But yeah, Donna,

Donna Aramo was a Masters

athlete at the Games.

How old is she?

Donna.

I kind of think,

was she at a MFC the year I went?

She's still competing?

She has not competed in a few years.

She, that's not her favorite thing to do.

In fact, if you work out with her,

she always like downplays

how good she is.

And then she kicks your ass.

Every, yeah.

Every high level athlete I know does that.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, I hate snatches.

I'm not very good at them.

And then she's done.

She's done.

She's done.

She's done.

She's done.

then oh oh that was bad

really was it because I'm

still going really I don't

know if you had noticed

that or not the stuff that

killed me is we we had this

it was they did a challenge

where it was a five k a day

and so christy would run to

the gym she would do the

workout and then run home

and it it had to be a five

k each way and she would

come in after running a five k

barely warm up, do the workout,

be done in a quarter of the

time that you're taking,

and then put in her earbuds

and then run home.

Those people annoy me.

Good naturedly.

Her husband was a seven-time

regional athlete.

She crushes him,

but there's so many levels, right?

Because he's killing

everybody else in the gym.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But, yeah.

There's one hundred percent

levels to this.

It is bananas crazy.

It's funny.

When I first joined my original gym,

Shred CrossFit,

still in existence here in Columbus,

we all thought we had a

shot at the games.

Oh, yeah.

And I went to CrossFit

Polaris and I realized I

have no shot in hell of

ever making anything.

Dude,

my first ever Masters competition

when I did the Masters

division at Raging Games

and Lafayette is going to

be my second ever actual

individual competition, right?

And I remember going through

these warm-ups and thinking,

I'm pretty well.

I'm one of the

one of the better movers, even though I,

you know, just started, like I was,

I was at the, you know, I get that,

that beginner's bias or whatever.

Like you started just making

these huge jumps because

you didn't do anything before.

So it didn't click the fact that, well,

yeah,

you went from doing nothing to doing

something.

So of course it's going to

be a lot of job.

I got to,

I got to raising games and like

one of the,

one of the workouts that was a

two-parter and the second part was a max,

a max weight thruster.

And I had like,

I thought I was doing

pretty good with my little,

two hundred and thirty five

pound thruster.

And I could hear the

announcer two lanes over,

and this is our first attempt left,

right?

Get done.

I got two minutes to rest

and then four minutes or

whatever it was to find a one rep max.

And I was going to open at

two fifteen and like,

see if I could get that two

thirty five again.

And somebody two lanes over

hit two sixty five to open.

And I was like, oh,

okay maybe I'm not actually

nearly as strong as I think

I am and just watching

people just pass me by like

on the metcon part of it

it's humbling it's humbling

uh we I went to a comp

locally here it's um fall

jam they have it every year

um on the east side of town

and the second year I went

the first year I went I won

a couple events right

in the Masters Division.

Second year I go,

Andy Katzenmoyer shows up.

And he is a former Ohio

State and New England Patriot linebacker.

The one workout was a snatch complex.

So it was a snatch, hang snatch,

overhead squat.

They're like two minutes into the workout,

and the announcer,

you hear the announcer go,

Katsa Moyer is out of weight.

Somebody bring that man some

fives or some tens or something.

He's got everything loaded up on the bar.

I was like, what?

Yeah, I'm sorry.

What did you just say?

Because it sounded like you

said he's out of weight,

and there's no way that's possible.

Oh yeah.

That's good stuff, dude.

I love stuff like that.

We had a, uh,

a dude who was borderline

probably regionals, uh,

athlete in most of the stuff.

Like he couldn't run for

anything or whatnot, but we.

Calm down here called water girl.

And, uh, they were going to be doing.

Oh, a bear, one rep max,

but a bear complex.

So like, you know, all of the things.

And Kevin's standing up

there and he's probably six, two,

one taller guy, bright red hair.

And asking about, you know,

guys going through the athlete briefing,

talking about how much

weight everybody's going to have.

And he said,

does anybody need any more weight?

We had a bunch of us from

our gym that was there.

And we all turned around and

looked at Kevin.

And old boy said, what about you,

Red Rocket?

You need more than this, three sixty five?

He's like.

Maybe I watched him do the

equivalent of a back thruster.

At three hundred and thirty five pounds,

just.

What a girl, Jeff.

W-O-D-I.

Wadigraw.

Wadigraw.

So, like, think Mardi Gras, but Wadigraw.

Don't have it anymore.

The last time they had it,

it was a complete shit show,

and they did it in the rain.

Not a good idea.

So, just to finish up the Katzmoor thing,

the shittiest movement I've

ever seen in my life.

Everything was power.

He had no mobility.

and the overhead squat was good.

The question every time.

And,

and then he would slowly go down and

wait for the judge to say

he hit depth and then he would come up.

But it was, it was the trying to get that,

that mobility.

We're talking like four hundred.

Jesus Christ.

It was just stupid.

He used all the weight.

That's all I know.

Whatever they had on there,

we got it all on the bar.

That is it, Jay Birch.

Watergraw.

That is it.

That is it.

Well, cool.

Well, that was a lot.

And my lunch hour is just about over.

So time for you knuckleheads

to get back to work.

We'll see everybody next time.

Own!

Lunch with the Clydesdale.

Thanks, Corey.