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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Thursday Night
CrossFit Talk on a Sunday morning,
live from Jamie Latimer's dining room.
Good morning.
So strange time for us,
but it's been a fun weekend.
We want to recap a little
bit about what's been going
on here in Lansing, Michigan.
Um,
and also what's been going on around
the world in CrossFit quarterfinals.
Um,
so I remember the TV talk I wanted to
tell you.
Oh, May 2nd.
Reacher.
Welcome to Wrexham.
Oh, nice.
Season three.
I haven't been following.
Are they doing good?
I'm trying not to follow.
I've heard hints,
but I want to be surprised
when the season comes out
and watch it through.
All right.
Yeah, it was supposed to premiere earlier.
They pushed it back a couple weeks,
and now it's premiering, I think,
May 2nd or May 3rd,
one of those two days.
That's exciting.
But that means we'd actually
only get to watch like one
or two episodes a week and
then have to wait for the next week.
Yeah, true.
Can't binge it anymore.
so that's just for kenneth
you know he gets upset if
we don't do at least a
little bit of uh talk tv
talk back at the hotel
julie and I've been
watching old movies um we
watched the hangover
yesterday we watched um the
princess diaries okay yeah
good stuff on on tnt or tbs
or one of those that's been
while I've been editing videos
That's been on the TV.
So you are all done with all the workouts.
We're only going to talk
about the first two though.
Okay.
Because scores have not been
submitted for events three and four.
You didn't necessarily do them in one, two,
three, four order.
No.
But we're going to talk
about them in that order.
Okay.
Okay.
So one is the interval workout.
You did that one on Friday.
Thursday.
Thursday.
Yeah.
I caught Haley, but I missed you.
So you have reported on
social media that that was
the worst workout of the four.
Yeah.
I think that one hurt the worst.
It was it because your goal
was to push every,
every round of that and every segment.
Yeah.
Um, I mean, yeah,
like those high power
output workouts for me always hurt.
I like a 17 minute burpee
wall ball is just consistent movement.
And that doesn't hurt me.
I mean,
Yeah.
I don't know.
Like I felt like that was just,
just get through it.
And that one was fine.
The intervals you've got to
like ramp up that row and
then grind through it.
And I love step ups.
They just weren't going well
for me on Thursday.
I,
I probably should have not done it
Thursday, but it is what it is.
I agree, but for selfish reasons.
Yeah, yeah.
You had a goal and you stuck
to your goal pretty well.
You showed me your board at
the gym and that it was
just on the last set of step-ups in row,
right?
Or just last set?
The last two rounds of step-ups.
Last two rounds of step-ups.
You fell off pace just a little bit.
Yep.
Just fatigue?
Yep.
Yeah, like I said,
because I did the clean and
jerks beforehand and stood
around and judged and
didn't recover my legs.
So into round two, I was like, oh,
probably shouldn't have done this.
Like my legs just aren't
powering through like they
normally would.
And you ended up with 196 reps?
195.
195.
So almost 200.
Yeah.
Not 300, like some people predicted.
I got that one right on heat one.
So the one thing that I
observed watching your
community do this is you
had someone that was like 6'4", 6'5",
do this workout.
And it was obvious that
snatches were his weakness.
Oh, yeah.
Because he's got some mobility issues,
too.
And we actually talked while he was going,
like, should he even do the snatch?
Because his first round of
row was 28 calories.
Yeah.
And it's fair to say he's
not in the elite status of quarterfinals,
right?
And then his first set of
step-ups were like in the mid... Yeah,
I think like 23 or 24.
They fell off after round one.
But round one was like way up there.
And, um,
and what was cool about him is
when he stepped up,
like it was immediately at hip extension.
Like he doesn't,
he doesn't have to like pop at the end.
It was just boom up.
He went.
And I was like,
should he even be doing the snatches?
Because it, his mobility was making it.
So there was,
there had to be more effort
in that than the other
stuff and maybe save that energy to,
to keep hammering the other two.
Now, in retrospect,
what advice would you give him?
He likes to go out super hot
and get the reps when he can get them.
There's not going to be much
I can say to get him to do
other than that.
But I probably would have him...
back off the row a hair
because his step ups back way down.
And I feel like those,
he should have been able to
hold onto those a little bit longer.
Yeah.
Cause he went like 28, 24,
something on the row.
And then the row,
the step ups went like 24 to 20.
And then he was struggling to get to 20.
Yeah.
I don't even think he got 16.
Yeah.
it fell off but yeah um but
it was fun to watch like
different like there's no
like you would never tell
haley not to snatch right
right you would almost tell
her to back off the road to
get more snatch because her
cycle rate was so fast um
and so that's what I loved
observing it is all the
different types of athletes
you have in the gym like I
would give them all different advice yeah
It would definitely, yeah,
there's a lot of
gamesmanship to that workout.
And it,
it is interesting to watch people's
choices of which movement they pushed.
Yeah.
And then you had,
I think Jim step ups are not his.
No, no, even to the 20.
I mean, the 20 okay for him.
He actually did great on the step-ups,
I'll say.
I think he was extremely
consistent at like 16 reps every round.
Nice.
And his mindset is pretty good.
He will just push through.
Yeah,
and I'm probably confusing box jumps.
Oh, yeah.
24-inch box jumps are not great for Jim.
Yeah.
It's all melding together.
So let's move into that one.
You know,
everybody was fearing workout too.
You look great.
Yeah, it felt smooth.
It didn't look like you ever lost pace.
Yeah, pretty steady.
And it even felt like at the
end you hit the gas and
were able to give
everything you had to finish.
Did it feel that way to you?
Yeah.
I felt like I had some in
the tank still to push at the end.
And I feel like that'd be one looking back,
like it would've been nice
to have somebody like push
me harder on that one.
But then do you redline
earlier and pull a Taylor self?
I don't know.
Cause I felt super comfortable,
like that whole workout too,
like too comfortable.
I don't know.
Well,
I don't think you could have added
any speed to the wall balls.
They just are what they are.
I think I could have maybe done two sets.
The wall balls weren't bothering me.
Your rests were so short.
Yeah.
From an observer's point of view.
You definitely showed at the
end you could have went
faster on the burpees, but at what cost?
Yes.
Right?
Yeah.
That's the unknown.
Yeah.
That's exactly right.
Again, watching other people in the gym,
that workout was brutal for some.
Yeah,
most people said that was the worst one.
And again,
I just think it's because most
people don't want to work
for 20 minutes straight and
don't like burpees.
I like burpees.
And
I also don't think people
will necessarily push
themselves to this extreme
intensity in the interval
workout to make it hurt.
I agree.
I would say that...
Uh, it was funny.
I was yelling at you.
Like, this is where you,
this is where you win this workout.
And that was last 50 burpees.
Yeah.
And you could tell, like,
you knew you had the
confidence to finish strong.
It was just, it was just fun to watch.
I didn't know the time Aaron
never gave me.
And I,
my back was to the clock the entire
time burpees and wall balls.
So I had no idea where I was at.
No idea.
You,
you always have like a pacing written
out.
Yeah.
Did you hit it or no?
I was ahead.
Cause I think I wanted to be
at six minutes, like 12 ish and 18,
like 18 ish was my plan.
Yeah.
So yes, I was ahead.
Veronica jumps in and says she loved it,
but would rather face the box.
No, it was definitely faster with that.
Yeah,
it didn't seem like the lateral was
slowing you down at all.
It was faster.
Yeah,
and like watching Fi and all those people,
it didn't seem to slow them down either.
Right.
I thought it looked more fluid laterally,
even though you were
allowed to do it however you wanted.
I feel like that's a mental
thing you're telling yourself.
I honestly don't think I
changed anything about my
jump and step down.
I just didn't turn my body
as much to do the burpee.
Yeah.
You're less dizzy.
Yeah.
So I feel like, I don't know.
I feel like people were
thinking they were jumping
sideways and they didn't like it,
but I think they just needed to be like,
Bring that bring that
outside foot up high and
you're almost facing the
box and you just don't turn
as much when you step off.
Trying to live 32 says
faster for high level people, not for me.
It shouldn't be slower,
I can tell you that much.
There's literally nothing different.
Well, I I'll tell you for me,
like box jumps are always a mental game.
Like I have,
I have ripped off my shin skin
so many times, like I have a scar,
no matter what,
no matter which way you orient me,
I'm going to,
I'm going to have a mental issue with it.
So it's going to be slow regardless,
lateral facing,
because the minute I don't
concentrate is when I go down.
Yep.
And trying to live follows
up with just a rhythm issue for me.
I think, sort of think that's what it is,
is a mental, it's a rhythm thing.
Like people aren't thinking
what to change.
You just needed to do like
two sets of 12 before you
started and get in the
mindset of this is how I'm
doing my burpees.
So that's all done.
You have three and four in the books.
There is some minor debate
as to maybe redoing three.
Yeah, I'm not happy with my score,
but it's a shoulder issue and it's,
is it worth pushing that
right now in this stage of the game?
And probably not.
It's a pride thing for
placing in the North America East for me,
which is stupid.
So I need to just tell
myself to move on and get
through the stage for age group and.
know that if my shoulder was
normal I would I would
probably be where I expect
to be yeah I mean without
giving away your score
through the rope climbs and
the wall facing strategic
you were on fire yeah it
was just fit the finish got
you and it wasn't it was not a
It was not a capacity issue.
It was from the first muscle up.
You could tell it was a shoulder issue.
Yes.
So it was, there was no,
it wasn't about fatigue.
Um, it was strictly about, I will say,
I think it's a little bit
of pulling fatigue and
that's how I do ring muscle ups.
So rely relying on that and
not having full pull
strength because of rope
climbs and total bar.
Probably affected it a little.
Didn't help the shoulder position.
But yeah.
Yeah.
So you are currently sitting
in fourth in your age group.
80th-ish in North America East.
56th.
56th.
Better than I thought.
Wow.
That's really good.
Our other co-host,
which I believe is doing a workout today.
So I invited her on,
but I know that she was
busy today a little bit.
She is sitting in seventh.
Yeah.
North America East.
So she's in a really good
spot going into semis.
Just has to hold on for the
last two workouts,
which should not be a problem for her.
Agreed.
It'll be good workouts for her.
So everything's going well there.
Let's talk about universally
Yonekoski killing it as he
has been doing all season
and leading quarterfinals.
Is he the winner worldwide right now?
Yeah.
Nice.
That's crazy.
I could see that with these
first two tests.
wins the Open, you know,
his best finish ever at the
Games last year, wins the Open,
winning quarters going in
after the first two events.
Yeah, pretty awesome.
And on the women's side, surprise,
surprise.
Tia Toomey.
Tia Toomey.
She's back.
I think her toughest test, though,
is workout three.
with the wrist.
We'll see how that goes.
Um, but the first two, not a surprise.
I know,
I know we talked a little bit about
the burpee pushup.
Yeah.
Um,
but the true test I think is going to
be these muscle ups and the
turnover with the handstand pushups.
Yeah.
Handstand pushups.
And what she said,
front rack is what bothered her.
Peter Benoit says,
do you think the volume of
the four workouts would
affect a redo or not?
Thinking about handstand
pushups specifically.
Her handstand pushups never
faltered at all.
Yeah.
The handstand pushup, the volume of hands,
it's not a handstand pushup workout.
For Jamie.
Right.
For people of handstand pushups,
it's not a,
if you have good handstand pushups,
strict,
it's not a handstand pushup
workout at all.
So no, I would not say that volume.
Honestly,
I think doing clean and jerks
first for me,
I'm so tight in my traps
that I think that's pulling
my shoulder out of place.
I think that maybe it was a bad decision.
Okay.
And it's too late.
I've already done them.
Learning.
You got to learn through the
whole process and make sure
you don't repeat the same mistake.
Right.
So, yeah.
So those are your overall leaders.
Looking at the leaderboards,
no big surprises.
In the individual side,
we checked on a couple
people we were interested in,
like Tudor Magda.
uh 17th I believe in the
west yeah um pretty good
for not really his
strengths in his first two
workouts um as kenneth the
lap always says justice for
tudor um just trying to see
how he's doing uh we looked
at jack farlow uh he's
doing well and he the clean
and jerk workout would will
be a piece of cake for him yeah um
So, yeah,
everything looks pretty much as
you would expect across the board.
A couple people sitting
outside the top 40.
Danny Spiegel.
Rebecca Vitteson,
as reported by Barbell Spin.
Sydney Wells.
Maybe too far to come back.
I don't know.
I haven't looked at the
other people ahead of her
and who could possibly come out, but that,
that range is pretty far.
Sydney, little nervous for her.
I don't know how great the
ring muscle-up workout will
be for her to try to climb those spots.
Yeah, she's in 80?
55th.
55th.
Okay.
Everybody's in 80th place in
my head for some reason.
I don't know.
55th place with a muscle-up
workout still to come.
I'm worried for Sydney.
Yeah.
But her sister Brooke,
who we were worried about, is an 11th.
So she's doing okay.
Who else?
Rebecca of Edison,
that European region is
just... It's a tough region.
It's a tough region.
I just don't know if there's a way.
Did we look up Yella?
No.
Sorry.
European men.
Offers way up there.
Oh, yellow's a ninth.
That's good.
He won the interval workout.
As he should.
Yeah.
I think the first two
workouts are right in his park.
So he might be safe.
Might have enough of a cushion.
Kenneth,
I don't know about Louis Oscar Moya.
Did not check on him.
I think they talked about
him a little bit on the recap show.
Because that's who, isn't that who?
Oh, no,
that's not who Taylor was having
the beef with.
I guess I don't know about
Louis Oscar Moya.
Me neither.
So I did look at some masters.
All the names you expect to
be there are there.
Jason Grubbs down.
Yeah.
11th, 12th.
But again,
maybe he's thinking not right
now is not the time.
Yeah.
Rudy's winning.
Kelly Friel's winning.
Sam Dancer's winning.
So they're all in good shape.
Do you think Sam will stick with 35-39?
I mean,
he's not even close to contention
in the West, right?
I didn't look.
Because I know that was his goal.
Oh, he's 11th in the West.
So maybe that's still his goal.
He can do both, right?
Technically.
Yes.
So, yeah,
11th is going to be fine for him.
Yeah,
I think he will definitely take the
semifinal spot and go live
and see if he can make it.
We know there were some
Masters athletes that were
going to try to do team and
Masters in the same year.
Would it be really wild if
Sam actually did individual and Masters?
I doubt.
If he makes it to the game in individual,
I just think that's what he'll do.
I don't think he'll go to age group.
Yeah.
It's a month difference.
Yeah.
I think once you're done with the game.
games you just want your offseason.
But I think he'll definitely
go to semifinals and try to get the spot.
Yeah.
Still a cool concept.
Yeah.
So there's that.
There's really not a whole
lot to talk about because
you're still waiting on two scores.
You got your withdrawals.
Katrin.
Yeah.
Katrin's out.
And I'm sure everybody
watched the Taylor
implosion on workout too.
It's so funny because in my
CrossFit career,
I've gone dark a couple times,
but I don't know if I've
ever thought to myself,
you're going to hurt yourself.
Push through.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like I've probably done that in my earlier,
more competitive career,
like with swimming and football.
But when you have the one
person on your shoulder saying,
if you don't stop,
you're going to do some damage.
And the other side of you going,
don't wuss out and keep going.
And you decide to go keep going.
And your body just shuts down.
That is crazy.
Does Jamie have any advice
for how to approach workout four?
Do you know me as an athlete
trained to live?
I don't mean that's the clean and jerks.
So like, unless you,
unless you're a weaker athlete like me,
I don't know.
I think I'm the good one to
ask about that workout.
That's like 80% of my one rep max.
From an observation
standpoint and watching the
people on TV and watching people do it,
I think it's all about
whatever your pace is to
get through the first three
rounds without a lot of damage.
Yeah.
So if the fourth bar is like
your one rep max or...
very, very close, then I think you,
I think you almost need to
go pretty fast on the first
two barbells and then
properly pace the third to
give yourself some time to hit,
to hit one or two reps at the final.
Otherwise it's, you know,
you should be able to
manage the first three and you're,
you're going to take 10,
15 seconds per rep on the fourth barbell
Until the last minute and then turn it up.
Like you don't want to be,
you don't want to go so
fast that you're standing around for 30,
40 seconds near the end.
Cause that's where I noticed
a lot of people that have
the capability are able to ramp up five,
six extra reps.
And you don't want to be
standing there only getting
one or two reps in the last
minute because you went too
hard a little too early.
Kenneth says, uh,
the series was called
Taylor versus the world.
He had a lot of pressure.
I'm sure.
So we talked about this last
night a little bit.
And I'm going to be... I
want to start by saying, like,
I have nothing but the
utmost respect for Taylor's self.
Right?
Same.
But I view him as,
at this stage of his career,
as a Rudy character.
Okay.
Right?
Yeah.
His natural skill set
compared to the three
people he went against is
probably deficient in a way.
but his work ethic and his
stick-to-itiveness and his
heart and his frankly his
balls are bigger than
everybody else in the room
and jamie and I were
talking about it last night
at dinner that for him to
compete with this guy these
guys he had to give every
ounce of everything he had
in every workout to stay
with these guys to beat them
And it's different in the
open when you do it once
and rest a whole week and do it again.
Right.
As opposed to three days
back to back to back.
Two in one day.
Four workouts.
Yeah.
And so.
And it's not a dig on him
because he's got he has
gotten every bit of juice
out of what he has every
every little bit.
But his body just was done.
Yeah.
Like there was nothing left
to give at the end of that workout.
And so I found it,
it's actually fascinating
what happened with this.
Yeah, I agree, Peter.
It is a little,
it is probably a little bit
like everyone's first
experience at the games.
Just a ton of, like a lot of volume,
a lot of intensity,
doing more damage to your
body than you've really
ever experienced all in one weekend.
I mean, I guess I don't really know,
but from three, four, three,
four day comps that I've done.
Yeah.
Well, you know,
we're good friends with Corey Leonard,
right?
Masters Fitness Collective.
He had never done a
three-day full weekend competition.
He came out on fire Friday and Saturday,
did way above his expectations,
won an event.
Like that's one of the
coolest things of covering
the sport that I've ever watched.
And Sunday came and he just
looked at me and went, boss, I'm tired.
Yeah.
And there's just nothing left, like,
because you don't know what that's about.
Right.
So Kenneth asks,
what does it say about the
programming that each
workout was won by a different athlete?
Non-crossfitter, so don't honestly know.
I think it's good.
Yeah.
I think we've said from the
get-go that this was great programming.
Yeah.
I will say the biggest
surprise to me that came
out of this was Hopper.
You know,
what did I say after the games last year?
I'm giving up on this guy.
I am not writing his name
down for anything because
all he does is break my heart.
He's changed who he is.
Yeah.
So I thought that was really
cool to watch.
But I think if you put that
workout two on its own,
I think Taylor competes for the win.
Man, I would love to see him fresh.
He just had nothing left
after three other workouts.
Yeah.
I personally believe he
would have won that workout
had they not done the other
three ahead of it.
But that's why they do that
many in one weekend because
it's about overall fitness,
not just about the fitness on one event.
We did talk about...
CrossFit mandating the order.
And I do think that could
have affected how this played out.
Cause he obviously would
have been fresher.
Cause it would have been
required to be either one or two.
Like,
I guess you can't really mandate that
so much,
but definitely could have
mandated one and two get
done before three and four.
If you gave the athletes
passwords and that would have affected,
I think it would have affected it.
So,
so here's my question to you about that
concept, because I,
It's very rare that you go
into a competition,
you get to pick how you do it.
Exactly.
Right.
And there's already strategy
within each workout of how
you're going to attack that workout.
Are we testing strategy or
are we testing fitness?
I feel like we're testing
strategy and scheduling and
availability and, you know.
What should we be testing?
Fitness.
Yeah, 100%.
Yeah.
I think.
I think allowing people to
choose the order takes away
an element of fitness.
Yep.
And then it's just the
people who have the best
corner men who can analyze
it and tell them what way to go,
how to game it.
We've talked about that.
And we're going to have a
longer show about that.
Yeah.
About everybody figuring out
how to game the workout to
make it easier on themselves.
I think if CrossFit wants to grow,
they need to take that out of the sport.
Yeah.
There has to be a universal
rule book for the season.
If you are going to do
burpee box jump overs,
this is how the standard
that it has to be.
If you're going to do step ups,
this is the standard it has
to adhere to for the whole
season and not change it
every time there's a new
level of competition.
Right.
Um, so I,
we are going to talk about that in depth,
probably at a later show.
Okay.
Um,
cause I don't want to do it in the
middle of quarterfinals and
be the group that's just bitching about,
about stuff.
I want to do it, um, from, uh,
an analytical standpoint
and kind of looking at,
at the workouts a little bit closely.
Okay.
But just from the standpoint of order,
I think that makes all the
difference in the world.
Like you said,
if you would have been
forced to do the clean and jerk one last,
you actually may have done better.
Yeah.
Because your shoulder isn't
fatigued from the clean and
jerks going into workout three.
So, yeah.
It's going to be interesting.
So, anyway.
There's that.
Did you take anything?
Fi, what the hell, man?
She looked so incredible.
And always the smile.
Yeah.
Always happy.
That's what I love about that girl.
And I've said it a long time ago.
When I first got access
underneath the Coliseum,
I felt like I had imposter syndrome.
And she was on the demo team.
And she came running over
and gave me a hug.
And I was like, okay,
I do belong down here.
And because of that,
like she'll always have
that place in my heart and
she's just freaking awesome.
And I'm glad she got to get
some exposure for the great
person that she is.
Yeah, I think this was great for her.
I got her a lot of fans and
she deserves them.
Yeah.
And the fact they did
donations yesterday to up
the purse for the women and
for Lindsay to get some pay
as well was really cool as well.
So love that the community did that.
Any takeaways from either
the guys or the girls in that?
No, I do.
I think it,
I personally think it helped the guys.
You can see they're,
Most of them are sitting up top.
I think having that little push.
And I'm curious to see Dalen
and Colton's redo on number three.
I'm anxious to see if Taylor
accepts the invite.
You think he'll still make it?
I mean, he's 81st right now.
Yes, he'll make it.
That's a big jump.
He's going to have one of
the best times in the world
on the muscle-up workout.
The number three is going to
jump him way up there.
And he held his own on the clean and jerk.
He did.
I mean, better than Hopper.
So I think he's in.
It'd be a shame if he didn't accept it.
I think he has so many fans right now.
I know.
And the grit he showed
through this whole thing,
people want to see it play out.
it's good.
It's good test for him.
So, um, that's my hope.
And he clearly needs that like three,
four day competition.
Bam, go.
Well,
and I think they said it yesterday on
the show that like,
they've almost become like
a little brotherhood that those four guys,
like they just trust each other.
They like hanging out together.
Like, and that alone is super cool.
Yeah.
He might redo for workout four.
Why?
He has an incredible score.
Yeah.
I, I think it's three and four.
Fine.
Yeah.
It was the burpee box jump
over that got him and
there's no way he needs to
redo that after what happened.
You can't.
And he's yeah.
Right.
And it's in Sarah says,
he said he will go if he makes it.
Oh, great.
Awesome.
Cause I think on Friday he said no.
Yeah.
so well good that's good
kenneth says why do people
get so fidgety when they
hear that a peptide company
paid out for a comp I
didn't know people were
getting fidgety well I mean
I can see why it's well it
goes back to everything are
we not wanting money from
monster or rain right it is
what it is get the money
from whoever is willing to
donate and I'm on record to
take the money from whoever
It doesn't mean you have to
drink a Pepsi after every win.
Exactly right.
They need an influx of money
into this sport to make it
the best it can be.
And whoever's going to pony up the cash,
I think it goes back to in
the CrossFit world,
there's these people who
want it the way it's always been.
Yeah.
And then there's a group of
people who want it to
change and become something better.
And I'm kind of in between.
I want it to be better with
an awareness of the past.
But I believe it was
Progenix was a major
sponsor of the games.
And then someone tested
positive and blamed
Progenix as a tainted
supplement way back in the day.
I might be getting it
confused a little bit.
I've been sleeping in a
hotel bed for three nights.
But I believe that that was the case.
So is it the person blaming that's lying?
Is it Progenix that's lying?
Yeah.
Who was it?
But then mysteriously
Progenix went away as a sponsor.
Interesting.
And I believe Glassman or
Castro said that the
supplement company would
not be a sponsor of the games again.
Now, you have Jocko,
and that's technically a supplement,
right?
I got the protein.
Yeah, so they are back, so who knows?
But I think that's where it stems from.
I mean,
Sarah Cox is in a qualifying
position to move on.
So...
I don't know.
We'll have to see.
Sir,
I don't think he has to redo four to
make up for the bad burpee workout.
He's going to have one of
the top five times in the
world on the muscle-up workout.
And then he's going to have,
I think the 30 is a legit
time on that workout four.
I mean, that's too ahead of Hopper.
So I think he's fine.
And I think he'll make the
top 40 with or without
redoing that workout.
Yeah.
And I think his body needs a
rest right now.
I do too.
I mean, I guess till tomorrow night.
So I guess he has today completely off.
I don't know.
He looked like he was at max effort there.
I'd be shocked to see him
squeak out another rep on that.
Did you see him say that he
wants to coach John Young
and take him to semis?
Oh, really?
Aw.
Do you think that that's possible?
Yeah.
I mean,
seeing John do the five-minute
burpees gives you some
I mean, there's potential there, right?
I didn't see what his wall
ball burpee workout was.
Yeah, I don't know if they showed it.
I have to look at like the
longer time domain workouts.
How is he able to sustain?
So I think there's potential there.
If Taylor takes on John,
what kind of content do you
think that builds and how
many people are going to
watch that storyline?
I mean,
I think it's a niche group that's
already following them both,
to be honest.
But I think it would be
great for Taylor's training program.
Yeah, I think
I don't know.
I think it's,
there's going to be 50% of
people that want to see John fail.
Yeah.
And 50% of people want to see him win.
I like the guy.
I want him to be successful.
I don't think I ever, I don't,
when he got the five
minutes under sub five burpees,
I was ecstatic.
I know.
I, I really didn't think he had a shot.
I thought maybe low fives,
but I didn't think he had a
shot of breaking five.
So.
So Monday night, the scores will come out.
We'll know who's in, who's out.
We'll have a round table on Tuesday.
We'll talk about that a little bit.
I'm going to try to bring in
Coach Krispy Kreme to talk
about everything after the fact.
And then we're going to take Thursday off.
Correct.
Because it's draft night.
Correct.
And my other passion is my Chicago Bears.
And they have two picks in the top 10.
So we'll take Thursday off.
But we're going to do a
Sunday night show next week
to kind of rehash everything.
Talk about who's going to semis.
Maybe some predictions as to
how we think each semi will go.
And then we'll move on from there.
Sounds great.
So that's the plan over the next week.
We have Rebecca Fusile on Tuesday morning.
Nice.
She is sitting 11th in the
West or 7th or 11th.
One of those.
She's up there.
It's all merged.
She'll do great at work.
And yeah, workout three,
she's going to crush.
She's going to do fine at workout four,
to be honest.
We'll see if big Becca comes
out for the final workout.
I think she's been working hard.
I think she's safe.
That's awesome.
So we'll get to talk to her
right after the scores are revealed,
see where she lands,
how confident that is going into semis,
and all of that.
And with that, I'm hitting the road,
heading back to Ohio.
Sad to see you leave.
It's been a fun,
fun weekend hanging out
with Jamie and Aaron and
all the crew at Redemption Fitness.
Part two of like a behind
the scenes of Redemption
Fitness community will come
out either tonight or tomorrow.
And it's actually really good.
We got some they have some
kids that are really, really good.
Yeah,
we've got some like 12 year olds that
are trying to prep them for next year.
Yeah, that Emma,
her movement quality is so good.
So good.
And she did the 13,
14-year-old weights just to
kind of see where she was at.
She got through all the
cleaning jerks and maxed
out at the end with weights
that Ron said she hadn't
ever done before.
So it was cool.
It was cool seeing it.
We got some of that footage.
Awesome.
With that, oh, and if you didn't see it,
we have Jamie versus Haley last night,
came out right around
midnight for a workout too.
If you want to go watch 300 reps,
that's such a boring workout to watch.
It is.
I tried to be creative with
like the camera,
but when you're filming quarterfinals,
you only get a half circle
because you can't get in front of,
you can't get in front of their cameras.
Right.
So you're kind of stuck there, but it's,
if you haven't already fast
forward to the end,
I'll just put it out.
I'm going to clip it and put
it out as real.
Um, the end of that video is amazing.
It's better than anything
that's happened at quarterfinals.
Um, with that,
we'll see everybody next
time on Thursday night, CrossFit talk.
Bye guys.