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I was born to kill it.
I was meant to win.
I am down and willing,
so I will find a way.
It took a minute,
now it didn't happen right away.
When it get hot in the kitchen,
you decide to stay.
That's how a winner's made.
Stick a fork in a hater on my dinner.
What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast,
where we are featuring the
athletes of the semifinals.
This West Coast Classic Edition,
we are featuring Amy Hosking.
What's going on, Amy?
Hello.
Nice to see you, Scott.
Yeah, you too.
I was going to tell you
before we went on air,
but I'm going to say it on air.
Every year we do the
semifinal series and there
are stories that like grab
me and touch me.
And you were one of my
favorite interviews last year.
And I was rooting for you so
hard to make it back this
year to have you back on to
catch up with you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate that.
I'm happy to be back on.
Yeah, you're going to semis again.
I know.
Yeah, I'm happy about that too, obviously.
So I was looking at your numbers.
We talk about that at the
beginning of all these shows.
Last year you came into the semis in 37th.
There were 60 in the field.
This year they cut that field to 40.
And that 37th looked a little scary.
But you crushed that with a
27th place going in this year.
Was there any trepidation,
worry going in when they
cut that field down?
I mean, initially when it happened, it was,
I don't even remember in the season,
but I felt pretty confident.
Like, okay, I did 37th last year.
Like most likely I can get in again.
And then as it got closer and closer to,
I was getting more and more
nervous about it.
Just, you know, that's pretty natural.
And then,
when they released the tests
and seeing it was only four
tests plus like,
I would not call those
wheelhouse workouts for me,
the quarterfinals workouts.
I was like quite,
I would say almost
depressed for like the
first two days of quarterfinals.
Cause I was like, I don't,
I had such doubts that I
could make it in honestly,
like that wall ball burpee one,
especially like that's
going to be a hard workout for me.
So you finish the first two
and you submit them.
Then the leaderboard becomes public.
Where did you sit after two days?
I was in 63rd,
but what I reminded myself of is like,
okay, it's not about the placing.
Look at the point spread.
And it was literally only 35
points between me and 40th.
So I knew that's nothing.
that's nothing.
And I feel more confident that I could be,
um,
like consistently high in the second
two workouts.
Number one actually worked
out to be my best score overall, but, um,
yeah,
the second two workouts launched me
and like,
I knew there was going to be
more separators in those workouts.
Like there's going to be
people who can't do
Um,
strict handstand pushups or wall facing
or ring muscle ups once
they're like crazy fatigued.
Um, yeah, so it worked out.
Or 10 rope climbs or.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Or one 65 bar.
Like most people can do it,
but can you do it for a ton of reps?
Right.
Especially under fatigue.
Um, what order did you do them in?
Oh, I did.
I did the gymnastics one
first and then wall balls
and then workout one.
And then I repeated the wall
balls cause I didn't finish
it originally.
Um, and I was like, you need to,
in my head, I just needed to, to qualify.
Um, so yeah,
I repeated number two and then.
repeated gymnastics and then
finish off with the clean and jerk.
So I actually only repeated
two of the four workouts.
Yeah.
How much of that wall ball workout
I mean, so I went, my co-host Jamie,
I went up to her house to
watch her do them because I
like to see them kind of in
action to be able to talk
and through the stuff.
And for me watching that wall ball workout,
it was all mental.
It was all,
can you tell your body just to
keep the pace?
Yep.
That's what I found too.
Like, obviously,
you need fitness to do it.
Yeah,
and it was like a lot of leg fatigue.
I feel like honestly,
my legs hurt more than I
was breathing hard.
But it exactly was that the
mental side because I was
trying to think of it like
an erg because like,
I can push on an erg and go
really hard for 20 minutes, you know,
like,
I can do really well in a biker,
but there's so many
opportunities to stop when
you're doing burpees.
So you had to kind of just
stay in a rhythm.
I was like, okay, just get into a rhythm.
And you have to tell yourself, like,
keep going, you can do this,
because there's,
there's times where you
just want to stop.
I mean, every single burpee, basically,
you want to stop.
yeah I that is not my
workout clydesdales are not
good at those things um but
jamie killed it um and I
got to watch her she
actually sped up in the
last round yeah especially
on the burpees not the wall
ball stayed pretty much
steady but then as you know
like the lights at the end
of the tunnel she was able
to kick it up a gear toward the end
Um, yeah,
we have a couple of people in the
chat just saying hi.
Uh, Corey Leonard says, yo, uh,
Kyle Greenlee.
Good morning, Scott.
Bradley Davis.
The best Amy.
Thanks Brad.
So you, are you still with OPT?
Yep.
Yep.
And you have a crew up there.
Did you guys do the workouts together?
um I was always with at
least one other person but
we were kind of all over
the place our um we kind of
cycle through three
different facilities
because we the opt facility
um there's lots of other
clients like it's not just
competitive so we had it
blocked off from like 10 to
2 each day and so if you
wanted to do the workouts
outside of those time
periods you had to go
somewhere somewhere else um
which is fine.
Cause like, for instance,
the gymnastics one,
the setup's not great in that gym.
So we'd all go somewhere else.
But, um, yeah,
usually we'd stick in packs
of like two to five and
cheer each other on,
which it helps a lot.
And, um,
obviously like we have a super
talented pool of people.
Um,
so it's always good to push with people
who, you know,
are gonna like crush
specific workouts and have
top times in that just to
give you an idea of what to push for.
How much advice is given
back and forth from people
who may have done it before you?
Depends on the person.
Some people are like not
super open about it and
just want to keep private,
which is totally fine.
But most of us will pass on
advice just with the caveat
is like everyone's so different.
Like the where you feel
fatigue is going to be
really different.
Like I found the gymnastics
one super grippy.
Other people were like,
I didn't feel my grip at all.
It was just my triceps.
So you kind of have to take
it with a grain of salt,
but generally we're,
we're happy to share tips and tricks and.
I was watching Hiller's
video at Mayhem yesterday.
And he was talking to Saxon Pancheck,
which I found riveting.
And I actually have Saxon on on Monday,
so we're going to talk
about this with him.
But he talked about that
today's CrossFit athletes
don't work out at an
affiliate or a gym for the most part.
There are some, but not all.
And that, like in his opinion,
there are 40 spots at semifinals.
And if you're working out at
a gym with others,
you should try to lift
everybody up to make it
into those 40 spots.
As many people as you can.
What's your philosophy on that?
No, I'm totally with him.
I completely agree with that.
Because even though they cut the spots,
to me...
there's room for, for everybody to get in.
Like if it was 10 spots,
I think it'd be a bit more
cutthroat because there's
like 10 of us wanting to try to get in.
But to me, it's exactly that.
Like we should be,
we always want to beat each other.
Obviously we're competitive,
but I think it's good to
root for everyone.
And it's helpful to bring each other up.
Like you're,
what's the saying steel sharpens steel.
Like that's for sure the case.
Yeah.
And,
and he wasn't saying it in a soft way.
He was saying it as like,
we as a group should try to
take all the spots.
Yeah.
Right.
Take over.
Right.
Like the heck with everybody else.
We're going to take all the spots,
but we should lift each
other up to get all of them.
Yeah, exactly.
I thought it was a really cool concept.
And I wanted your opinion because you,
you do have like a crew of
people that kind of are all
singing out of the same
hymn book or whatever.
So, so you make it,
you get through all of
quarters and then the
Wednesday after all hell
breaks loose where
penalties are being thrown
around left and right and
What,
how did that play on your nerves from
that point?
So it's kind of funny, like,
obviously I I'm always
nervous for video review.
Like I'm very, um,
cautious around those things.
I'm the person who like
reads the rule book through
reads all the standards through,
and then I'm still paranoid
that something's wrong.
Uh,
or we forgot to take a video of something,
but anyways,
this year it kind of worked
out nicely for me in a way.
Because I think both my one
and two got validated on Tuesday.
So I got validated.
And then all of a sudden I'm
hearing about big names
getting penalized on workout one.
And so like, I thought it was kind of like,
oh, at first I was like, oh, drama,
like kind of fun.
But then it's immediately
started getting not fun when it was like,
okay, now there's 100, there's 200.
like this is serious.
And then also I've had a
couple of friends impacted by it.
And that sucks to see.
Yeah.
Matt and Greg are the two
guys who got penalized.
So I was like, okay, well,
this completely sucks for them.
And it seems like out of
control at this point,
but then CrossFit's gotten
themselves in a place like
you can't win now because you can't
You can't change things.
You can't go back on the
standard you put in place
because that's not fair to
people who did it correctly
and probably is slightly
slower because of that.
Yeah, it's tough.
So I've boldly made the
statement on a game show
that I don't think they
should change that aspect.
I think they should stay
strict and even lean into
it more and do more video review,
not just one workout, but more.
Give themselves more time,
back the quarters right up
against the open,
and then they have more
weeks to do it all.
But then I heard... Because I've seen,
and my basis on that,
I've seen a lot of really
good athletes not make it
because people put in crappy videos.
And that shouldn't be there.
And that upsets me.
So I'm still pro-athlete.
I'm just for the ones who did it right.
And saying that, like, I love Matt.
Like,
Matt Brady is one of my favorite
people in the world.
And I've never seen his video,
so I don't even know good, bad,
or indifferent.
But then I heard Rich,
who is probably my CrossFit man crush,
say today that you're
keeping someone out of
semifinals because of step-up capacity.
And then I'm like, man,
that is really touchy.
Yeah, and it's not even like capacity.
It's just...
that 0.2 seconds you needed
to take to completely lock
out and like it would get
caught in in-person
competition like yeah it's
tough and yeah I haven't
seen everybody's videos
either I don't know so
right it's tough to say but
like off of like pat
velner's video for instance
like I don't think it would
have taken him any more
time to lock out his knee
on his left side it just he
didn't realize it was happening
And his judge didn't say anything.
So it's tough.
And I think they really were
quite harsh on the penalties.
And I do applaud Pat for
putting it out there
because he didn't have to.
Yeah,
that's like a super vulnerable position.
Right.
And, and as a former judge, like he did,
he did have soft knees there.
There is no question about that.
I think what they could
clean up is a arbitrary
percentage shift from,
it can be anywhere from 15 to 40.
Like that just seems way too
arbitrary and up to decisions.
Um, and I, especially on, um,
especially on workouts that
are like reps that just
like trashed people.
Like,
I think it should have been just
however many reps were bad,
take those away.
Don't say like there was a
significant amount,
which they don't even have
defined in the rule book.
And then you'd give them a 40% or 15%.
Like that's pretty harsh.
A 15% penalty on like a
timed workout is a bit
different of the case, but.
Well,
and I think the other factor is we
have 25% of the population now doing this,
and the penalties made you
fall into that wash with
all of those athletes.
So it became even a more
significant penalty than it
had in years past.
Yeah.
So I think some of that
could be cleaned up,
but I do think they should
be strict with the review
process as long as they
don't allow the judge to stop, pause,
blow up,
The review.
Put lines like, yeah, that's a bit,
a bit too much.
Like treat it more like a live.
Correct.
Competition.
Cause like Pat Pounder's video live,
I would have said was a no rep.
Yeah.
Right.
But in live,
I would have told him and he
would have stopped.
He would have corrected it
and done like just as well.
Exactly.
So it's tough.
I agree they should be be strict on it.
And I mean,
even thinking about it for myself,
I'm like, OK,
now I'm going to take like
two camera angles next year
if it's going to be like this.
And I agree they should look
at all the workouts because.
I mean, they validated my workout three,
but I don't think they really.
looked at it.
So well,
I've actually I've actually talked
to athletes that had
workouts never validated.
Yeah, my workout for wasn't.
Yeah.
So I think those they didn't
look at at all.
No,
which a rapper to on that last workout
could have been huge places.
So it's tough that they they
are so harsh on one,
but not the other because
it would have shuffled
things completely again.
Well, cool.
Well, now that that's all over,
I want to talk about some more fun stuff.
So can you explain to me the
title Trailer Park Girls?
Oh, yes.
Yeah,
that was our Wadapalooza name for our
team of three.
So Trailer Park Boys,
do you know that show?
It's a Canadian show.
Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian show.
It's a comedy, like pretty dry humor.
But classic Canada,
like I think it was
originally set in the East Coast,
but then it became really
big in Alberta because a lot of people,
it resonated with them.
But so that was part of it.
Like, okay, we're Canadian.
And then my friend Kendra, Kendra Dutton,
she was on the team.
She like famously has
trailer park cleans because
she's not the strongest squatter.
So she often just like
starfishes her cleans.
So that was kind of part of it as well.
And just keeping it light and fun.
Like that was the whole
point of going to that competition.
Yeah.
It's pretty funny.
You should check out a couple of clips.
Okay.
I'm trying to think of something.
Okay.
But so you go to Wadapalooza,
you have a cool name
because that's half of Wadapalooza.
You have to,
you can't just go with like
your typical CrossFit name.
It has to be something cool
for the glitz and glam of Wadapalooza.
Exactly.
Was that your first time there?
Yep.
Yeah, first time there.
First time even in Florida, actually.
But yeah, I did the Wadapalooza qualifier.
I think the past two years in individual,
it didn't work out.
And then the timing of it, it just,
the individual didn't make
sense this year.
But we were talking, the three of us,
and decided why not take a chance?
Like,
originally we were going for the RX
division.
And then...
we made a push and got into elite.
So that was a pretty cool
experience to get there.
It was my goal to in the off season,
do at least one large
competition just to get
more exposure to those
types of environments
because I was so like
overstimulated at semifinals last year.
So I'm glad we did that.
But it was also like a lower
pressure competition being
a team and just going to have fun.
But if you want to be overstimulated,
that is the place to be.
Yes.
I did not realize how large it was.
It is a massive party.
Say that again.
Sorry.
It's a massive party.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was, it was super fun.
And like having that stage on the barge,
like that was so epic.
So cool.
So on a serious note,
like what did you learn
during that weekend?
Oh,
Good question.
I mean,
competing in a team is pretty cool.
Cause you get to learn how
other athletes compete.
Um, and both those girls like Lindsay,
maybe you'll have her on the show,
Lindsay Martin.
Um, but they're, they're so cool.
They're such cool ladies, like,
and they're so fierce.
They're very fierce competitors.
And I'm a bit more of an anxious.
competitor so it was really
good to to feed off um
their vibes like yeah so
that was cool and you kind
of always get exposed to
like okay where are people
where are they wanting to
rest and when I'm not and
where am I wanting to rest
when they're not and you
can kind of take that and
say and bring that into
your training and
approaches to other events
that you do and then
I mean,
the weather that weekend was also
not the best.
So it was good exposure to
having things shifted around.
Like times got shifted.
I think they changed like
two or three events on us as well.
So just rolling with the
punches was another big learning as well.
And kind of just being
prepared for whatever is thrown at you.
Yeah,
rumor is that they changed events
while you were in the corral.
correct yeah the last
workout was pretty bad like
they did change the second
workout that we did on the
barge um where we were
doing lunges I think
instead of the step overs
and they told us that in
the tent um it started
raining like as soon as we
went out and they were like
okay you got to go back
Okay, now we're changing it,
but it wasn't changed to
like the reps were the same.
So it was pretty easy to
like process that.
But the final event was a
total like crap show.
It was really bad because it was raining.
We had a weather delay.
So they said our heat was pushed.
And then they said, just kidding.
Your heat's going to be at
the same time again.
But at that point,
we had literally five minutes to warm up.
Those are the things I heard.
I'm not there in like four years.
Yeah.
Thank goodness.
Yeah.
That was crazy.
And they changed like all the reps on us.
So we didn't know what was going on.
I swear our judge didn't
even know the rep scheme.
Cause if you look at the video, I like,
I'm doing strict pull-ups and I'm like,
okay, I'm done.
And I run.
And then he's like, no, you have more.
And I go back and I do like two.
And again, I think I'm done.
And he goes, no.
So who knows?
We're not sure if we did it right.
It was fun though.
Yeah,
I know famously one male team said
they did like 900 double
unders because the reps were so off.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Oh, well.
So you have that experience, though,
because I think last year
when I talked to you,
semis was your first big, like big comp.
Mm-hmm.
So how did last year go at semis?
You say you were overstimulated.
What did you learn from that experience?
Yeah.
Last year was not fun for me.
I did not have fun.
I think it was very weird though.
Every time I saw you, you were smiling.
Yeah.
I think I was trying to, like, I was,
I was trying to really like
take in the moment and I
shouldn't say I had no fun.
Like we had such a big group
there that that was so amazing.
And,
Like the first event,
I was trying to really take it all in.
Like I was on the treadmill
and my whole family was in front of me.
So that's really cool.
I'm definitely going to like
take that with me,
like soak in every single moment.
But I also, I don't know,
I like put way too much
pressure on myself last year.
I think like in my head, I was like,
this is my time that I can
like get exposed and like
potentially get sponsors
and stuff like that.
And I must perform because unfortunately,
like, that's the case, like,
the people who get the top
times get the most attention.
So I think there was that.
And yeah,
then then events just like didn't
go how I wanted to and kind
of started just like snowballing.
You know, I was in a bad mindset.
So
But really, it doesn't matter.
The outcome doesn't matter at all.
Nobody.
I talked to a lot of people that weekend.
We interviewed two people from every heat,
I think, the whole weekend.
You're not the only person
that felt that way.
Events weren't going right.
Events weren't going the way you planned.
The way those events were set up,
they had traps in them.
And I don't think anybody
knew that pulling weights
on a napkin was going to be that hard.
Yes.
On a felt mat.
Yeah.
Um, and it, and from that moment on,
everybody just, some people,
some people dealt with it
in a good way and just kind
of let it go off their
shoulders and other people
like clung onto that and like,
this is bad.
And then it just kept getting worse.
Mm-hmm.
So were you one of the latter?
Yeah, I'd probably say so,
which like sucks to admit,
but I do find it hard to
let things go sometimes and
then not let it flow into
the next event is really tough.
Like you try, you try your best to reset,
but it can be really hard
sometimes to pull yourself
out of that like darker headspace.
Yeah.
Once you're in it.
So I've had to practice that a lot.
I'm not always successful still,
but we're getting there.
And like I said, you weren't the only one.
Last year was very bizarre
with the way the workouts
were designed because there
were so many new movements,
so many new things kind of
being thrown at you.
This year, the workouts are already out,
and it's very classic CrossFit.
Nothing new.
Does that give you some
peace of mind going in this year?
Good question.
In a way.
I do actually like kind of
the weird stuff to an extent.
To an extent,
because I'm kind of just like
that naturally able to pick
things up quite quickly.
So that always gives me an advantage,
but it makes me nervous
performing under pressure on the floor.
So in a way, yes,
it makes me a bit more comfortable.
And I mean,
we have so much time to be
practicing all the workouts that you,
you know,
exactly like what your game plan
should be.
Roughly.
So here's a weird question
because I've heard a lot of
people talk about this.
I do a coach's show with Tristan Patrick.
He's the head coach at Ascend Athlete.
And he talked about
sometimes you don't want
your athlete to know what
it's going to feel like
because it's not going to feel good.
And to get to that place,
you've got to go to that bad place.
So it's sometimes bad to
know ahead of time because
are they willing to go back?
Yeah.
Yeah,
it is kind of funny like how there is
that there's both sides to the coin,
right?
Like usually if you repeat a workout,
you're going to do better
because you learned where
you should and shouldn't be pushing.
But it's exactly that as well.
Like once you know how something feels,
I think it's just natural
like human nature.
Our brain knows and it's like danger,
right?
don't do that again.
And so there is some resistance as well.
Um, yeah, there's both sides.
I find for myself,
like when I'm testing workouts,
I don't go 100%.
And then you also have to realize too,
that when you get to competition,
you're going to be peaked.
Like you're not going to be,
you're going to be feeling good.
And then there's all the adrenaline.
So you have to kind of let
go of how it was feeling in
training as well.
Cause it's going to feel better.
It's kind of like your
warmup versus the actual workout.
Like the warmup always feels
crappier than the actual workout,
but I agree to an extent,
but it is important to test it.
At least if you're even just
gonna do part of it,
just little snippets of the workout.
So,
and I'm sorry I'm quoting all these
other people but it helps
me get to where I want to go.
Carolyn Prevost is my co
host on my Sunday night show.
She said I think she's doing
a mock up weekend this weekend.
And then she said,
I'm not doing them again until semis.
Now I may do,
I may incorporate the
movements with some other
stuff that is similar,
but I'm not going to do the
identical thing again after this weekend.
How do you,
how are you guys going to
approach that just a one
time or are you going to
hit them a couple of times
between now and then?
For myself,
I don't think we'll do it more than once.
Like we're testing them this week.
I did one and two yesterday.
I'm doing three, four today.
Um, so for me, I just need to hit it once.
Um,
maybe that last workout we could do the
first, like,
I don't think the lunges are
necessary to do twice,
but maybe trying to like
echo bike into the 15 ring
muscle ups in different
sets would be valuable for me.
Um,
But otherwise,
I honestly think hitting it two,
three times,
like that's where you get
exhausted and like, okay,
you're not even excited to
do it again once you're at semifinals.
So, yeah.
Yeah,
that was another thing Tristan warned
about is you don't want
them to like hate the
workout and be just blah
going into semis.
No, exactly.
And that's why I was slightly,
I'm not going to say like upset,
but kind of the bad part
about them releasing the
workout so early is like, okay, well,
these are just,
these are all the movements
that we're going to be
doing in training now,
like just over and over.
So you do get a little bit
bored of the combination, but it's,
it's somewhat necessary to do.
So to go back to your other question,
like now we're going to
test it once and then we're
going to have the
combination of movements,
but not necessarily the actual workout.
So like,
we're going to do a lot of total
bar into front squats for event too.
Well,
and thank goodness you're not the
last week.
Like Carol is like, yeah,
that's a slog for her.
Yeah.
Yeah.
For like Europe and Asia, like they,
they're going to be done in a week.
Yeah.
And that won't be so bad.
And then it just gets
increasingly worse as you go across.
But wow.
So you've seen the workouts.
Are you excited?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Number one's a bit rough, I would say.
But I'm kind of glad it's
number one and then you get
out of the way.
The rest I really like.
And that's the 800s and the
clean and jerks, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just hard.
It's going to be hard for everyone.
And, you know, you have to stay engaged.
It's kind of like that,
that burpee wall ball one.
It's kind of one of those ones where it's,
you got to treat it like a sprint,
even though it's not a sprint.
Yeah.
You just have to be
extremely uncomfortable the whole time.
That's how you know you're doing it right.
that's the one I thought of
when I thought you don't
want to go to that dark
place and practice and then
have to revisit that at,
at the real thing.
But that's what's going to happen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're all going to be
suffering pretty hard after that one.
Yeah.
Um,
You come in in a higher place.
You're in 27th,
so you won't be in the first heat,
which you weren't last year,
but it was a much bigger field.
Is there a goal this year to
end the weekend in a certain heat,
certain position,
or are you going for the games?
I don't have a placement goal, honestly.
I think it's better for me not to.
Like I still want to go out
and I want to do my best
and put my best effort in
and feel proud of myself for pushing.
But I don't,
what I've learned is I don't
have control of what other
people are doing.
I don't have control of
where I end up placing wise.
So, and I don't want to sell myself short.
Like I honestly think like,
essentially anyone could get
that like last spot or two to the games.
If you're having like an amazing weekend,
you're feeling good.
The events line up like the
top 40 are not actually
that different in level
other than maybe like the top, you know,
five,
like our fitness levels pretty similar.
Yeah.
The West is very, very top heavy.
Like you have the top four or five,
and then I think everybody
else is kind of bunched in there.
So if you would get like nine or ten,
it's kind of anybody's game
for those last four or five spots.
Yeah, like it's up for grabs.
So we'll see what happens.
Which makes for a very
interesting competition.
Yeah, it'll be fun.
It'll be a good one.
is there anybody that you
line up against that like
intimidates you because you're a fan or,
or anything like that?
If you would be in the same
heat as that person?
That's a good question.
I wouldn't say like intimidated,
like obviously like Gazan, for instance,
is just like an extremely
talented athlete.
Like,
She's a rock star.
Like,
I can't beat her on legless rope climbs,
like, realistically, you know?
So something like that.
But at the same time,
it's not like her being
good takes away from my fitness.
Like, I can still go out and do my best.
I love the attitude.
I don't have to compare
myself to her necessarily, you know?
I was talking to somebody
last year who had grown up
following Katrin.
She was her favorite.
And I think in the first event,
by the way they fell,
she was going to be right
beside her in the first event.
And she was worried about
how that was going to affect her.
And she was young, like 1920.
So I can't remember who it was now, but...
um but yeah yeah I mean
that's fair because I i do
I remember last year I
think I was like beside
chloe wilson on the first
one and I'm a fan of her um
even though she's not
competing this year sad but
in my head I was like I
think I could have kept up
with her on that workout
but I think subconsciously
or maybe consciously
I was thinking like, well,
she should be able to beat
me on this workout.
Like she's Chloe Wilson.
So you do have to be mindful of that.
Again,
like don't sell yourself short just
because they're good at something.
Do you work full time?
Not anymore.
So I was last year.
I quit my job in October,
my full time job.
So I was completely
unemployed for about a
month and I quickly
realized that's not for me.
I get, I need something to, um,
outside of CrossFit just to
have something else in my identity,
like something else to
focus on because I found
I was just hyper focusing in
on training or how my body
was feeling like injuries.
And I was just becoming a
bit too like obsessive
about those things.
Um, to like an unhelpful extent,
like there's nothing you can do.
So I, uh, now I have, um,
I'm doing consulting,
so I have a background in
quality assurance and food manufacturing.
So I got in touch with well,
I have a friend who also
does it and she got me in
touch with the company she contracts for.
And so now I'm doing some
work with them where
essentially you can pick
what what times and days you want to work,
how much you want to work.
So that's been really nice
and healthy and also a
steep learning curve there,
which keeps me mentally stimulated.
So it's I'm in a good place now.
I'm very balanced.
Is that the job you had before you quit?
You were doing quality
assurance with food?
Well, technically it was operations,
but quality assurance would
still fall under that.
But yeah, that's what I was doing before.
For a major restaurant, company,
supermarket?
No, it was for Righteous Gelato,
their frozen desserts
manufacturer in Canada, mostly,
but also the US.
Okay.
I think I've heard of them.
Yeah, I probably mentioned it last year,
and I'm wondering if they'd
be in Ohio now probably.
Yeah,
I don't – we didn't talk about your
job last year.
I just listened to it back.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, so I didn't know what you did.
Oh, it's okay.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm learning new stuff this year.
Mm-hmm.
So we did talk last year
about the autoimmune issues
that you have dealt with.
Still under control?
Yeah, now they are.
So because...
I'm trying to think of the
timeline because around
quarterfinals last year,
my arthritis was flaring up a little bit.
I got it kind of under control for semis.
And then in the summer,
it flared up again.
And I was trying to cut back
on the medications I was taking,
like essentially naproxen, like Aleve.
But I quickly realized that
that's probably something I
just need to be taking on a
regular basis to keep it under control.
So that's what I've been
doing and it's helped a lot
in the past six months now,
probably I've been in a
really good place with that.
Okay.
If you weren't being a
professional athlete-ish,
would you need the medications as much,
or is it what you do to
your body that makes it
kind of more of a requirement?
I think I'd probably still
need it here and there.
Like,
I would get flare-ups once in a while,
or if I decided, like,
when we originally got our
house and we were doing a
lot of painting and crouching and stuff,
that aggravated it.
So I'd probably still need to, like...
take it here and there,
but not on a regular basis
is more my thought,
but we'll see once I'm done
competing whenever that is.
And if I can scale back on that side,
we'll have to see where my body's at.
Yeah.
For, for you Canadians,
you seem to go forever.
So, um,
We'll see.
I think physically I could
go for many more years, obviously.
We'll see, though.
Mentally.
Mentally,
if I can handle it and if... Yeah.
Like Corey says,
if I could ever find my mask.
There we go.
Is anyone ever done competing?
Yeah, it's tough.
It's tough to make that
transition or maybe you
think you're done and then realize...
you're not quite like,
maybe you still want to
compete at to an extent at
a certain level,
but maybe it's not the main
focus of your life.
So you just have to decide
where your priorities are really.
I think in Corey's life,
he competes at everything.
So like, yeah,
he may not compete in CrossFit anymore,
but,
Right.
He is doing his first ever
semifinal this year as a 47-year-old.
Wow.
Congrats.
Yeah.
The Civic Student says, hashtag Team Amy.
Nice.
Civic State Amy.
So, um,
last thing I'm going to leave you
with is I was talking to Gabby Spence, uh,
last week and we were
talking about the battle at
the barracks and lo and behold,
when you look at the podium,
there you were.
Yep.
Explain to me how big of a
competition that is, uh,
in your neck of the woods in Canada.
Yeah.
It's funny.
Cause I mean like the actual
location is obviously it's a CrossFit gym,
like it's a box.
So physically speaking,
it's quite small and
compact in the competition.
However, it's extremely competitive.
Like I think they made a
post and the four of us,
like the top four of us are
all going to semifinals.
And the fifth place was
Megan Sears who went to semis last year.
So.
it's an extremely talented
pool of ladies that all
come and compete there.
Like, yeah, I would compare it to, I mean,
even some years at Canwest,
like probably had the same
amount of talent.
So yeah,
it's always a good battle in the
barracks.
Yeah.
Gabby shared that it was the
place where she first felt
like she figured out how to
have fun at a competition.
Hmm.
Um,
because of the people she got to
compete with.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We do always good to have
good chats and I mean,
it's tight quarters in there.
So you're, um,
you get to know one another
and they do make it a
really cool environment.
Like they always bring out
the lights and like the
steam machine for the big lifts.
Um, so it's a, yeah,
I would say it's quite
bonding of an experience.
Kyle says barracks is very
overstimulating good
practice yeah it is yeah
when you have to like max
out your jerk when there's
like lights shining right
in your eyes it's good it's
good practice Josie says
love you Ames thank you and
she and also best of the
best thanks Jocelyn
So we already talked about your goals.
We already talked about all
the stuff you've done to kind of prepare.
Compared to last year,
how are you positioned
yourself going into semis
compared to last year?
Good question.
I definitely feel fitter than last year.
We've done...
a ton of work on just like endurance side,
um,
mental side to keep pushing during the
endurance.
I haven't ran as much as I
would have liked,
but we're getting in some
running leading up to comp.
Um, and then on the skill side,
like the positioning,
we've done a ton of toes to bar.
I don't know if you remember,
but I blew up quite hard on the last,
last year's toe to bar event.
Um,
Yeah,
so just feeling a lot more
comfortable with those
movements and gaining confidence.
So I would say I'm a lot more confident.
I'm in a lot better head
space going into semifinals.
Like not every day is perfect.
I'm not going to say that.
But I feel like I'm ready to
go in and actually enjoy the experience.
Like so cool we're in the
tennis stadium in Carson
and not take it for granted.
Like,
who knows what's going to happen next
year?
Are you a student of the
history of CrossFit to know
how iconic that is?
Carson?
Yeah.
I mean, obviously I know the games.
were held there for,
I don't know how many years, four, five.
Yeah.
That's what I meant.
Yes.
Yeah.
I honestly, well,
I was trying to find them.
I think there are,
I have to rent them on Apple.
There's like the past two
years are available,
but then past that I have to rent,
but it's very tempting just
to get myself hyped up.
Like, Whoa,
we're going to be competing
where the games were.
It's pretty cool.
I started CrossFit in 2011.
I purchased them all as they came out.
So I own all of them.
That's awesome.
I know.
Cause I love going back and
rewatching them.
Yeah.
And the tennis stadium is so
iconic and so many big
events happen there.
I hope I want to be there so bad.
I just don't know if it's
going to happen this year.
Why wait?
Why?
Well,
I just found out on Monday that I was
approved for credentials.
And now the price of airline
tickets across country for me is insane.
Not to mention
accommodations in California
is not cheap.
No, everything.
It adds up, right?
Yeah.
But I hope you come.
I feel like you should do
GoFundMe or something.
or a t-shirt.
It's been a weird season for,
for us this year as a company,
I had some health problems
at the beginning of the
year and wasn't sure I was
going to be able to do much of anything.
Um,
and now I'm kind of fully recovered
trying to get back into the
swing and just,
I'm just trying to tell
myself it's only one season.
You just do what you can.
Um,
But either way,
we're going to be reaching
out to people as we do our
coverage from the weekend.
So you may get a DM from me
just to kind of see what
it's like and have you on
to talk about your events
during the weekend if you'd
be cool with that.
Oh, yeah.
I'd be happy to pop on and chat.
Yeah.
William Clark actually asks a question.
He's my husband.
How do you feel about the
first two workouts?
He knows I tested them yesterday.
They're tough.
My legs are very sore.
Is he in the house with you
now or is he at work or something?
No, he's on a job.
He goes into the field a lot,
so he's up in Hinton, Alberta.
It's like six hours away today,
but happy to see he has time to tune in.
I, I, so we have,
and I told you this last year,
we have a lot of Canadian
listeners and I was trying
to do Canadian geography
last week and British
Columbia and Alberta are
side by side on the West.
And the people in the chat
were saying that's the best
and forget about the rest.
Is that how you people in
the West really feel?
I mean, so my husband's from Ontario.
I went to Ontario for school.
So that's more of the Eastern side,
like around the lakes.
I've actually been there.
Okay.
I mean, and my brother lives in Toronto,
so I can't like, and we have, um,
my husband's family's in
Ottawa and also like
greater Toronto area.
So I can't totally bash it, but, uh,
we'd never moved to Ontario.
We'd never moved back there.
Yeah, for our lifestyle, at least.
Like, we have the mountains and, like,
B.C.
If you want to go to B.C., it's so close.
Like,
Vancouver Island's amazing on the ocean.
So I will say there's still perks.
Like, obviously,
Ontario has amazing lakes
and stuff like that.
And I have a lot of friends there,
but Ontario is awesome.
Yeah.
There's just too many people in Ontario,
specifically Toronto area.
I don't know if I've ever been in,
I've been to Toronto a bunch of times.
I don't think the weather
was ever nice one time I was there.
And Lake Superior was like,
or is it Lake Ontario?
Lake Ontario was like rough.
Yeah.
Depending on the time of year,
like they have really hot
days in the summer.
So that's like,
lovely lake weather and it's
like warm nights so there's
there's still benefits to
ontario because here in
alberta like it can be
really hot in the day and
then it drops at night
because it's a lot more dry
so it's like maybe it's 30
in the day and then it
drops to like 15. celsius
sorry yeah I don't know you
you metric people yeah
But I can somewhat convert-ish.
I get an idea.
Yeah.
Well, as always,
now that we've bashed Canada,
Eastern Canada, we can end the show.
But I'm so,
so glad that I've had you on
again this year.
I'm glad you're back.
Glad we got to catch up.
And we'll be watching and
rooting either from here or from there.
And we'll try to catch up
again that weekend.
Awesome.
I so much appreciate it.
Thank you for having me on.
And it's always fun chatting with you.
Yeah.
With that,
we thank you to everybody in the chat.
You've been awesome.
And we'll see everybody next
time on the Clydesdale
media podcast featuring the
athletes of the semifinals.
Bye guys.
Well,
there was the end and it didn't happen.
We're going to try again.