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So the question is,
is the Legends Championship becoming the
fire festival of CrossFit?
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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Yes, I am riding solo today.
Corey's got, he's in the chat.
He is in the waiting room,
waiting on his wife.
And thoughts and prayers to him and the
family.
Hope all that goes well.
But you can wish him well in the
chat, as some of you already have.
it is draft day which i used to
get so so excited about um when my
team stunk and um and we picked in
the top ten but now the bears are
good and i don't even get to see
I pick until like number twenty five.
Gosh,
it's going to be eleven o'clock tonight
when that pick comes in.
And that's past my bedtime, people.
That's past my bedtime.
So but anyway, it's in Pittsburgh.
If you don't know,
I grew up just outside of Pittsburgh and
it's been fun watching all of the.
The media descend on Pittsburgh.
Pat McAfee show went to Kennywood Park
yesterday,
which was where we went all the time
as a kid with my family, with schools.
It was the little amusement park in
Pittsburgh.
I say little, but they had like five,
six roller coasters.
And it was really cool seeing them go
there and kind of check all that out.
So all of that to say,
today's going to be a quick show.
I have a one o'clock meeting.
So we're going to get right into the
news of the day.
We've been talking about Flow Elite all
week and how it is an option for
you to be able to watch Legends
Championship this week.
And Magic City the following week.
And now it's been announced they are going
to be covering the age group CrossFit
games in San Jose.
It's behind a paywall.
I checked the other day.
I think it's twenty nine dollars a month
to subscribe to it.
carolyn put in a question yesterday to the
people at legends and asked will
everything be streamed before i tell my
family to purchase this streaming service
for twenty nine dollars a month are they
even going to be able to see me
the response from legends was yes all
heats
all divisions will be streamed live.
Then last night, the CrossFit Network,
formerly the Savant Podcast, went live,
and Pool Boy's in the chat,
went live with Pool Boy,
and the response from that team was,
no way are we doing all heats,
all divisions.
So here we sit with two conflicting
stories as to whether or not all divisions
will be streamed.
And if you are the supporter of one
of those athletes and you're trying to
determine,
is it worth my thirty dollars to throw
down on Flow Elite for the month?
and not know the answer to that is
really, really frustrating.
And it's becoming,
it already was a shit show and it's
becoming more of a shit show.
In addition to that,
if you did not read in the CrossFit
Network News,
The barbell spin in an Instagram post on
Andrew Hiller's page hinted that Del Mar
competition floor has not arrived yet.
The barbell spin also reported that
legends championship would be on flow
elite.
And then last night,
what we just mentioned.
So where are we?
We,
one hand doesn't know what the other
hand's doing.
I'm now hearing they're running two
floors.
I don't know how physically possible it is
for one group to broadcast two separate
floors.
That doesn't even seem possible to me.
Yet the leadership from Legends is saying
it's going to be done.
What in the world are we even doing
here?
So Jenny says there are two floors.
Sivan story made me concerned.
I think it's safe to assume us advanced
masters won't be streamed.
Yeah, I don't know.
If you want to read more,
I got all this information from CrossFit
Network News, their website.
You can see the screen here.
This is where I got my information.
The Del Mar Fire Festival.
So go check that out.
I'm sure they'll be updating information
as they get it over the weekend.
um uh pool boy says community first okay
we've already talked about the programming
all week and how it's very one-dimensional
um i
I don't know if I would classify it
heavy or what,
but it is all power output.
It is a ton of machines.
It is a ton of barbell work.
And we've talked about that all week.
What I want to show you is a
complete contradiction to what they are
doing.
And at Magic City,
they released their workouts yesterday.
And all of theirs are past regionals games
workouts.
And so try to get rid of these
heads.
Why in the world do we have those?
That is frustrating.
Frustrating.
Anyway, the first one is Naughty Nancy.
It is a six-hundred-meter run,
twenty-five overhead squats.
I love Nancy.
Nancy's one of my favorite workouts of all
time.
We've got two,
but this is a named workout.
Naughty Nancy was used, I believe,
in the online games in twenty-twenty,
maybe.
or another qualifying event.
The male bar is one thirty five.
The female bar is ninety five.
Then they move on to semi Nate.
Corey and I actually talked about this.
The one the one
Beef with regional Nate was the strict
muscle-ups were hard to judge.
They took the strict out.
It's four ring muscle-ups,
three for the ladies,
seven strict handstand push-ups,
six for the ladies,
and twelve dumbbell snatch instead of
kettlebell swings,
which is normally innate.
The commute is fifty burpee box jump
overs, one and a half mile bicycle,
fifty burpee box jump overs.
Fun workout in bringing in a bike to
this.
I think that's really interesting.
and then we have the tie down this
is a long chipper hundred and fifty double
unders five rope climbs hundred and fifty
foot sandbag on the shoulder walking lunge
hundred double unders five rope climbs
hundred foot sandbag shoulder walking
lunge fifty double unders five rope climbs
and then a fifty foot shoulder sandbag
shoulder walking lunge the sandbags are
one hundred and seventy pounds
And then we have semi-Gwen.
We've already seen this, just like Mayhem.
And then regionals,
fourteen point seven reloaded,
sixty four pull ups, eight thrusters,
complete all out sprint to get to the
end.
What I love is there's a lot of
gymnastics components to this.
There's also some barbell work.
There's also some sandbags.
There's odd objects like a bicycle.
And what's cool is it's like when you
were in high school and homework was due
that day and you didn't get yours done.
And so you went over to your buddy
and said, Hey,
can I see your homework from last night?
And you copied it down,
but you made little tweaks and little
changes to make sure the teacher didn't
bust you for copying the workout.
What Magic City did is took famous,
awesome workouts, looked at them,
tweaked them to what they needed for this
competition,
and put them together in a way that
makes sense.
I thought the Mayhem programming started
us off on a really big high.
After I saw Legends,
I was worried to death.
But then I see magic city and I'm
like, dang, these guys get it.
You don't have to recreate the wheel.
You just have to put it in them
in a reorganized manner and maybe make
some tweaks to make it awesome.
And now I wish I could hop in
my car and head to Birmingham to watch
this live because I think these events are
really super freaking cool.
Um,
Larry says he has to teach Shelly how
to ride a bike this week.
Yeah, that, that is,
that's going to be an issue for a
lot of people.
I'm sure.
Um,
Shannon says legends compared to magic
city is a joke for my age group.
Him legends.
Shannon's age group does four workouts,
four workouts to go to the CrossFit games.
It's ridiculous.
Corey says, Shanna,
all divisions at Magic City get to do
all the workouts.
Can't say the same for Legends.
Turns out the bike we're using is the
same bike I have at home,
so the chances of me doing a workout
at in-person semis with a bike I already
have is apparently one hundred percent.
Yeah, I think it's awesome.
It's just a really cool concept of going
back and grabbing some of the best
workouts from CrossFit history,
tweaking them to what your competition
needs, make them fit for all age groups,
and let them go.
Best make it to the games.
It is freaking awesome.
cows and CrossFit.
I agree with you on the programming,
but is there too much of a shift
towards gymnastics?
I don't think so.
You've got some sandbag.
You've got Gwen with a barbell.
Let me look back through these real quick.
You have dumbbell snatches.
You have overhead squats.
But they're combined with other things,
like overhead squats with a run.
So it's who's well-rounded.
You've got semi-nate,
which is ring muscle-ups,
handstand push-ups, and a dumbbell snatch.
You've got the commute,
which is just an all-out,
long cardio workout.
Burpee box jump overs, bicycle.
Not gymnastics, but monostructural.
Mark Phillips,
I don't think it's too gymnastics heavy
personally.
I don't either.
I think it's balanced.
Gwen is all barbell all the time.
And regionals unloaded is pull-ups and
thrusters.
So you have thrusters and pull-ups.
you're getting both barbell movement and
gymnastics in the same workout.
You have one full monostructural,
you have one full barbell moving, Gwen,
and a lot of the other,
all the gymnastics are paired with a
barbell or a lift of some sort.
Mark Phillips is at it again,
gifted five Clydesdale Media memberships.
So five people at random in the chat
will get a membership to the Clydesdale
Media YouTube channel.
Thank you so much, Mark.
As always, you are the best.
Thank you so much for that.
John George, it's about time.
Why do gymnastics always have to be earned
through heavy barbells?
It's good that they're equal.
It's balanced.
I wouldn't say equal.
I'd say balanced.
It makes sense.
When you look at it, you're like, okay,
it's paired with this.
So if you are good with a barbell,
you have that part of the workout.
If you're good with gymnastics,
you have that part of the workout.
And if you're good at both,
you're going to the CrossFit Games.
I agree, George.
Nothing feels too heavy of a clean,
of a lean.
Nothing feels too heavy of a lean.
I thought the workouts were very good,
just making sure that I didn't think that
because Legends is so bad.
No,
I think if you put Magic City up
against Mayhem,
which we all have been lauding as great
programming and a great event last
weekend,
I think the Magic City workouts and the
Mayhem workouts look good together.
Like you can look at those two and
compare them and see that they were well
thought out.
Yeah, so I, you know,
I'm excited for Corey.
I'm excited that Corey gets to do these.
Shelly gets to do these.
It really,
I may see if I can get down
there to watch this.
I just know Birmingham is not cheap right
now, so...
Amanda says comments on the Magic City
Instagram post are all very good comments
toward the programming.
Again, right,
and they didn't reinvent the wheel.
Like we always talk about how like Rich
and JR and these people can program really
well.
Magic City didn't try to reinvent
anything.
They took stuff that already existed and
made it work for them and did it
in a way that makes sense.
It's that simple, people.
Mark Phillips is ten minutes from the
crossplex.
I'll be popping in at least one day.
Shannon,
it's so exciting as an athlete to have
good workouts.
Wish I was going.
This gets me fired up.
And more importantly,
I think Corey hits nail on the head.
They all look fun.
If it's fun for the athlete,
isn't it fun for the spectator?
The more fun we make this thing,
the more attention it gets,
the more eyeballs it gets,
and the more people enjoy the entire
thing.
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Amanda says, Shanna,
I have to say I'm feeling grateful I
chose Magic City.
Amanda, I think you're right.
I think you picked the place to be.
I feel like the various podcasts just spew
negative shit about CrossFit.
not trying to spread negative stuff i'm
i'm trying to laud uh magic city and
i don't know if that's what you're saying
teresa i'm trying to give magic city props
for what they did john george really
wishes he could have accepted his invite i
think the barbell the
Burpee box jump overs will be decent to
watch who pushes it,
who plays it too safe.
Uh,
Daniel Arnson must not have listened
yesterday.
This is the most positive podcast in the
space.
I know,
I know I get negative at times because
I just want it to succeed so bad,
so bad.
Um,
And so I do go negative sometimes.
I also try to point out when it's
good and when it's really good.
And I think Mayhem was really good and
set a very high bar for the rest
of the season.
I think Magic City has followed suit and
done an incredible job for all age groups
at their Masters semifinal.
Ortega asked, is Magic City streamed?
It will be streamed on Flow Elite,
just like Legends this weekend.
I don't know who's actually physically
doing the broadcast.
It appears, and again,
I have no inside knowledge,
that Savan is doing Legends,
and it will appear on Flow Elite.
I do not know who's broadcasting Magic
City.
Amanda says,
I've been using Third Z for years and
was nervous to try salted caramel because
of old school progenics cocoon was so bad.
The salted caramel is so good.
And that is a limited time flavor.
So if you like it,
now is the time to get it.
There's no guarantee it's coming back.
Constructive criticism and negative are
two different things.
You are not negative,
but also negative isn't always bad.
If something is bad,
you got to call it out.
Daniel, when I go negative, I really,
really try to have a solution in mind
so that I'm not just hating on something,
that I'm trying to find a way for
it to be better.
But sometimes that's even tough.
Yes, Grant,
there are a hundred burpee box jump overs
somewhere.
That Magic City.
Amanda says, except at Magic City,
we aren't competing for the streaming with
the indies like Legends, unfortunately,
is.
Grant, the Magic City,
don't you follow this sport?
Magic City is in Birmingham, Alabama.
Not this weekend,
but the following weekend.
Grant couldn't beat anybody at Magic City.
Oh, that's right, Daniel.
Grant only follows Hiller, only Hiller.
And I'm blessed that he made my chat.
He made it to my chat.
So I feel honored to be Hiller adjacent
for Grant today.
Hiller is really going after the PED use
in the Masters division.
I don't know if you saw his latest
post, but wow.
He is hitting that hard right now.
Jay Birch says, Grant, get off my lawn.
Yeah,
Jay Burch is part of my scream at
the clouds, get off my lawn club.
Of course, he is.
That one guy looks like he walks through
every door sideways.
Yeah.
I truly feel like programming like Legends
is what has promoted more and more PED
use.
It was always going to be in the
sport.
People are always trying to figure it out.
But when everything is about how powerful
you can be and how much you can
lift,
it just promotes more and more and more
PED use.
And why it makes me so mad is
my two best friends, Carolyn and Jamie...
are struggling to... Well,
Carolyn is a freaking phenom.
And Jamie is awesome.
But she's so tiny to try to go
up against these.
If you watched her at the games,
she was so tiny.
And these big,
unnatural women were surrounding her.
And she's having to compete with them for
three days over nine events.
It takes its toll.
And it's hard to watch.
It's hard to watch when people that you
love are out there on the floor giving
their all against these crazy,
crazy freaks that have taken whatever they
could to get strong and somewhat fit.
And the crazy thing is Jamie beats most
of them.
There's one she didn't beat,
and Grant is naming it.
But it's really frustrating.
Did you guys watch Girls Unfiltered?
The only thing I want to highlight on
that is Emma Lawson talked about the five
K run at mayhem.
And within thirty eight seconds,
her heart rate had spiked to like one
hundred and eighty five beats a minute.
And her average was in the one nineties
for that run up that hill.
That is crazy.
That is crazy.
Coming off of doctor's orders to keep my
heart rate low while I was in this
AFib and then seeing what her heart rate
was.
And she held her phone up with the
chart and it was all in zone five.
All of it was in zone five.
Train Olive said that was my heart rate
just watching them do it.
The other funny thing that Emma had talked
about was when Rich said they maybe needed
gloves or T-shirt,
she thought that they might run too fast
and fall and that that was to catch
themselves when they fell.
And then if you watch the beginning of
the five K, Emma fell.
She stumbled.
Let's say stumbled.
We didn't fall.
She stumbled and caught herself.
But I just thought that that was pretty
ironic that she thought that they may fall
and that's why they needed gloves.
And then she was the one that stumbled
at the start of that race.
But she said that the steepness of the
hill was like this.
Larry says, Scott,
there are strong people not on anything.
It's kind of bad to assume all masters
are cheating.
I'm sure a few are on TRT,
but tons of strong people are not.
Larry,
I'm not accusing all strong people of
being on TRT.
And I know that there are masters people
that do it right.
I have been to the games with them
in the back.
I am telling you,
there are a good number of people using
something to get to where they are.
I've been around sports way too long.
Way too long.
And in twenty twenty four,
a lot of them got busted.
A lot of them got busted.
I know there's a lot of strong people
that don't do that.
But I'm telling you,
back in the warm-up area in twenty
twenty-four, hanging out with them,
there were people using.
It is just a fact.
And there were women that were completely
unnatural.
And I'm not one of these internet trolls
that say to every CrossFitter around the
world that you're on something.
I don't believe that.
But there were women back there that were
completely and utterly unnatural.
Those people would have been strong young.
You do not get suddenly strong, ripped,
and jacked in your fifties.
It's obvious.
Just look at Masters versus Games
athletes.
Masters guys are more jacked than not.
It's a problem when the old people are
way bigger than the peak age athletes.
And I do think it's a problem.
And there is no testing other than at
the games.
And that's why so many Masters athletes
pop for stuff at the games.
Because there is no test until you get
there.
It's going to be interesting to see what
they do this weekend at Legends and next
week at Magic City where they are
in-person semis.
Are they going to test them knowing they
have a spot at the games?
Shanna,
I don't think people understand how easy
it is to spot until you are our
age.
Physiology is physiology.
Hard to maintain muscle with little to no
hormones,
which is what happens as you age.
There should be options you can add to
your open registration,
in-person semifinal event, support,
five dollars, masters testing,
five dollars.
I don't think we're ever going to get
to that because I, honestly,
I don't think sports organizations,
this is not a CrossFit thing,
this is sports in general,
do not want their athletes to test
positive.
And Scott,
as long as your T does not come
back too high,
they don't test for exogenous
testosterone.
So you can lower your dose three weeks
before to come in normal range.
So if you have questions on how to
use TRT,
go to Grant at Kipping It Real CrossFit
on IG.
Just DM him.
He'll give you all the instructions and
the half-life of all your products.
Shelly just PR three, fifteen squat,
but just looks like every other grandma.
I am not accusing Shelly Larry at all.
I am telling everybody says Andrea Pinero.
Look at that woman.
That is not natural.
It's not.
She's so much bigger than every other
person in her age group.
Grant is now saying he doesn't want to
help anybody.
Sorry.
I agree with that,
but I can tell you in two thousand
seventeen on a team, we were tested.
um, OFC after regionals,
but also every day at the games,
they randomly called people up to be
tested at the end of the day.
Amanda,
I agree with you on the elite side.
They are testing people at the games and
they are testing people when you qualify
at regional semifinals,
but
If you know when those tests are coming
and you know the half-life of the drugs
you are taking, you can beat those tests.
It doesn't even take complex math.
CrossFit, it's not even size.
It's the muscle mass to adipose tissue
ratio on some of these athletes.
Clock cutter,
are we getting any CrossFit network
coverage of Del Mar?
I'm not seeing anything posted.
I believe,
and I do not know this for a
fact,
But from what I understand,
they are the ones doing the Flow Elite
broadcast.
So you're going to have to subscribe to
Flow Elite to see the coverage in Del
Mar.
Unfortunately,
random is probably expensive.
Only way to truly catch them.
Right.
But even the NFL doesn't test in the
offseason.
If you listen to Pat McAfee,
everybody knew.
Everybody knew when you had to quit.
Am I the only one not stoked about
this Flow Elite thing?
I don't think anybody's stoked.
There is bad PTSD from Flow Elite in
the two thousand teens and Wadapalooza and
the horrible coverage we got for a very
steep price in my opinion.
But I'm going to buy it because I
want to support my people and I need
to watch it to cover the sport.
So
I'm stuck.
What else do we do?
Pat got tested for leveling.
One of the best hits by a punter
ever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
uh larry young i'm stupid i guess i
don't see hillar really any stronger just
don't think it's worth it i think that
is one data point yes and it was
really hard to cancel cross fat you are
correct i got billed for flow elite longer
than i wanted to because it was not
easy to cancel hopefully that has changed
It's been almost ten years,
eight years since Waterpalooza time.
Hopefully it's different now.
But Larry,
these guys are probably blasting two or
three times as much while training three
times as much.
Is it still a separate fee for every
sport?
I think, I don't know.
I haven't signed up yet.
I was waiting till last minute so that
I could get the month as long as
I could in case somebody else went with
them.
Because I think NorCal is now.
I'm trying to get them all into the
same time frame because I don't want to
pay for more than a month.
But it looks like I'm probably going to.
Imagine all these poor old people in
masters that have to ask their kids to
sign up and cancel it.
Yeah.
All right, guys,
I have a meeting in five minutes,
so I'm going to head off to that.
Don't forget to like and subscribe to the
channel.
And if you've not watched the Hattie Cano
behind the scenes of the games,
all the episodes are live.
All of them are on the YouTube channel.
Go check it out while you're waiting for
Flow Elite to boot up.
You can watch a couple of those episodes.
They're each fifteen minutes to twenty
minutes long.
Super quick watch.
Have a great day, everybody.
We will see everybody soon.
From the gym to the spring, yeah,
we cover it all.