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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
what is up everyone we are two two
days away from the crossfit games let's go
Welcome to the show, it's time to ignite.
Scott's silky smooth voice keeps the vibes
just right.
Caroline on the mic,
wants a star on the ice.
Games athletes so strong,
keeps the balance precise.
And Jamie's in the house,
the engine full of grit.
Never backing down, down,
doesn't know the word.
When together they bring the fire,
never say never.
So buckle up friends,
it's burpees forever.
Welcome to Sunday night.
we are live for sunday sunday sunday night
crossfit talk what is going on everybody
jamie's on the road yet she still was
able to join us what's up hi
I can see her or bright orange suitcase
behind her head,
ready to be put on a plane to
head to San Jose, California.
You got it.
And I finally have internet in California.
I went to a local Starbucks.
So hopefully this week I can actually hear
you guys because the last two weeks I've
just been here and not really listening
because I couldn't really hear anything.
So trying this out today.
CrossFit says your bags are definitely too
heavy.
your bags are definitely too heavy.
So Carolyn can hear this week,
but now Jamie can't hear it cause she's
in a car.
Um,
Yeah.
Before we get into the CrossFit stuff,
I got to tell you,
I watched a new Michael Jackson movie this
weekend.
I still haven't watched it.
I got to watch it still.
It was really, really good.
It just made me mad about how he
was raised.
But
was a really really good movie especially
i mean i was twelve years old when
thriller came out so like i vividly
remember that right it impacted my life
greatly my wife is a little bit older
than me so she was like really into
thriller and we really enjoyed it start to
finish so um great great show if you
haven't seen it already
I'll go watch it at some point.
So it's still in theaters?
It is.
The other big thing I did this weekend
was I moved more dirt,
and then I woke up last night with
my back locked.
So I've just been stretching all morning
trying to get it right and prepping for
a six-hour flight to California.
Yeah.
Alexis' back is always getting locked
lately, the past week.
This week was a tough week for us
because Coast, one of our two dogs,
he had a little mass,
a little localized mass on one of his
toes.
And we didn't really think anything of it.
It wasn't too big.
So then he got it tested and the
results came back and
Lex knows more about like all the details
of it,
but they had suggested for a full toe
amputation.
So like literally last minute,
got into that on Thursday,
got his toe amputated to not have,
they basically said it was the best case
for like a possible cancer to not spread.
So he's been, you know,
we bought a wagon.
So on a little wagon,
walking around because Callie,
our other dog,
still wants to go for like long walks.
So it's been a tough week just taking
care of him.
And yeah, so that's been our busy,
unplanned week and kind of changed a
little bit of our plans even for this
upcoming week at the games because she'll
stay back now.
um yeah i saw that i saw you
guys post that stuff as a dog lover
it you know i'm just glad he's doing
okay he's the happiest golden doodle like
ever um like you could do anything to
him and he'll just he's just dookie um
so i'm just happy that that's you know
off and hopefully good news from there
it'll get biopsied and we'll get like more
detailed results from the biopsy but yeah
he's in good hands like lex is so
good with him like that's like her spirit
dog it's their connection is so so deep
so um yeah so she'll she'll uh stay
and take care of him because he needs
his mama
Um, whoops, not wrong one.
Cross fat kind of stops at an interesting
point.
He's talking about the Michael movie.
I'm sure it did stop at an interesting
point in more ways than one.
Um,
but I also think it kind of set
it up for a sequel.
And if you're going to watch it,
know that almost the entire Jackson family
are executive producers on the movie.
So you're going to get the Jackson's
perspective,
which made his upbringing even more hard
for me to watch.
And because there were no punches pulled
on that.
Ed AI says, I watched Char take second,
and it was just as dramatic.
I think he's talking about Char LeClaire
in the F-One race today,
who I wanted to win over Kimi Antonelli
so bad.
I'm tired of him winning.
I want anybody else but Kimi to win.
Anybody but a Mercedes,
that's what I want.
Avera says, Scott,
sounds like you need an inversion table.
It will change your life.
I've tried inversion tables.
It does not work for me.
Whatever I have going on in my back,
it actually makes it worse.
They just released the thirty-five to
thirty-nine, I think, workout.
Okay, we'll look at that in a minute.
You need the vibrating belt.
That's what you need.
Robo cop.
Yes.
Yeah.
Um, actually I wanted to tell you, Jamie,
I'm bringing you my red light therapy.
Yep.
Awesome.
So you'll get that on Wednesday sometime.
Um, before we dive into the new workout,
Amy was bored this weekend.
And so three days, I said four,
but it was really three days prior to
the games.
I was corrected on that last night.
Um,
she decided to do a local comp and
just go win it.
You're crazy for that.
Yeah, I know.
I don't feel too bad.
It wasn't, it was,
it was good programming.
Nothing like beat us up,
but my idiot self tore.
So I gotta, that's the only issue.
Well,
the comp is outside and like hot bars
or rings and yeah, that's tougher to,
hand maintenance and heat is always
something to deal with.
It is in the most beautiful location
though ever.
Uh,
having gone there a couple of years ago,
right on Lake Michigan, it is,
if you want to have fun at a
comp, go to fresh coast.
It is a blast.
Yeah, we were nervous.
Cause like the air quality index was like,
I don't know, four hundred on Friday.
And it actually went down to like sixty
on Saturday.
It went back up to like one twenty
today,
which they were still competing today,
the intermediate.
um before intermediate but it actually was
not bad yesterday the air was pretty good
uh crossfit wants to know if you can
get him a number seven with the diet
coke you know we'll swing through um all
right so carolyn is it on legends yeah
it's on their instagram
Okay,
I think I have legends pulled up here.
Let me refresh.
Is it true that this got added to
Forty to Forty-Four also?
Oh, I don't know.
I just got a notification that said
Legends Workout is out.
Yes, Forty to Forty-Four.
Oh, there we go.
Jay, you get a seventh event.
I went to Fresh Ghost and I thought
I only had six.
They heard the complaints.
Eight rounds for time.
Eight.
I said eight rounds for time of a
two hundred and forty shuttle run.
One seated rope climb.
One heavy sandbag clean.
For forty to forty four,
it is a two hundred and one fifty
pound sandbag.
Same for thirty five to thirty nine.
I don't know why they put them out.
Any thoughts?
I hate the fact that you run and
then you just go sit down.
I like the run, go jump,
and then go sandbag and make it a
race.
The just going to sit down,
it's a mood killer.
How do you want to say it?
It stops the flow of the workout a
little bit.
Yeah,
just straight leg lifts would have been
fine there.
I would have done like two legless or
two slash one for the females or every
other round is one for the females and
two for the men.
I think that would be more fun to
watch.
I always just find anytime we're just
sitting down, it just looks dumb.
It looks dumb.
CrossFat says at least they made it in
a font that the old people could read.
Agreed.
um i'm i hear exactly what you're saying
i've about legends a lot i came in
tonight wanting to about legends and not
sure if i was going to because i
don't even know who's at fault but at
least this is high skill for once it
is a this is a what i would
call a games type workout finally
But I do hate seated rope climbs for
what Carolyn said.
It's just a bad look.
Even though it's a higher skill and I
respect what they're trying to do with it,
if you're watching it as a spectator,
it just looks weird when everybody's
sitting down.
I would just rather see two legless where
you're running and then you jump up, boom,
come back down, go.
I think that would look better.
but I do want to give them credit
for it.
This is actually a pretty good workout.
Yeah.
So, um, anyway, that just got,
that just got released.
Um,
I had a thing about only six events.
I guess I don't have to bitch about
that unless I am doing that for forty
five to.
Seventy plus.
But.
What I do want to say and and
my the feelings I'm expressing are mine
and mine alone, mine, Scott Switzer,
not my co-hosts.
Just mine.
Is that.
Two years ago,
we had nine events for Masters athletes at
the games.
Last year, we had eight.
Now,
seven if you're a forty-four or under,
six if you're forty-five and up.
They keep going down and down and down.
They cut the field.
They have their own venue for three days.
Dedicated to just them.
Yet we can't.
And some of the events are super fast.
Couple minutes long.
So why in the bloody hell do we
keep reducing the number of workouts?
These are the elite athletes in these age
groups.
The best of the best.
They should be tested as such.
And six events doesn't cut it.
End of story.
That's all I got to say about that.
But I was so pissed off this weekend
because I'm flying all the way across the
country to see my two friends compete at
the CrossFit Games.
And I've met so many other Masters
athletes, so a lot of them.
And the fact that I'm going all this
way and I don't get there till Wednesday
and I'm only going to see like two
events just pisses me off.
Yeah,
and I still think they have an issue
with, like, putting on a show and, like,
making them spectator-friendly workouts.
Like,
the row he and Stan lost one is
going to be extremely hard to follow as
a reason.
Yep.
You won't know who you are in that
race.
I don't even know who to fully blame
because I don't know how much CrossFit has
a hand in it,
if they care at all,
if they don't care and they're just
letting it go.
But yet they're restricting the people.
I don't even know where the blame lies
in the whole thing.
It's just ugly.
And I saw comments about we should just
boycott.
You lose the Masters in the Open,
you're losing a lot of money.
That's all I got to say.
You lose a handful of elite athletes,
no big deal.
You can keep moving on.
People will take their place.
But the Masters bring most of the money
to the ball game for that.
And I know nobody wants to watch them,
and I know that I'm the only one
there in the stands, which is a lie,
because last year the stands were pretty
damn full for the Masters CrossFit Games
at a ticket price that was ungodly and
still quite a few people.
So, anyway.
I'm going to be curious.
Sorry,
I just started thinking about the legless
workout.
I don't know how many we had at
semifinals the one year,
but like on the female side for seated
legless,
it wasn't more than like a handful and
like a lot of females couldn't do it.
So eight,
I think is going to be a huge.
huge, huge separator,
especially on the female side,
where I just think that's one of the
movements that we lag a little bit behind
on the men's side,
specifically the seated legless.
So I'm wondering if the lower the target,
seeing as we have the same reps as
the men,
if like the men go to the beam
and the women go to like a red
part, or if it's,
but it could have been,
because ours was seated up and down.
I don't know what the rules will be
for this one, if it's just seated up,
but yeah.
Yeah.
CrossFit cross fat says masters usually
bring affiliate members and family.
True.
um there's rooting for you too i think
the tickets so um because lex wasn't isn't
coming anymore so i was trying to get
um a couple people from the gym that
i've been training at here across at
sublime um and uh we were looking at
like single day tickets and it was like
one twenty five per day for like one
day ticket and like a hundred twenty five
to see the same workout like seven eight
times i don't know how many divisions we
have but like that's crazy
Oh,
hundred and twenty five to go in and
watch like on the on the Tuesday,
there's only one workout that you're going
to see.
Correct.
Yeah.
Like at least at least or for most
people on Tuesday and Thursday and
Thursday, they're only seeing one workout.
And then on the Wednesday is the day
that is more worth it because then you
get three events.
But the other two days,
you're only seeing the athletes really
twice.
So that's extremely expensive for people
to come watch.
Okay, so that makes a great point.
Flow Elite is cheaper than a ticket to
the games.
That's true.
Hopefully the stream is good.
Carolyn did bring up a point before we
went live on the air that it appears
that men and women may be going at
the same time,
which is another reason that why the hell
are we cutting the number of events down
if you're running two floors?
Totally agree.
But there it is.
Denise said something up here.
I'm trying to find it.
But they also need more volunteers.
Well,
when you're trying to run two floors,
you're going to need a lot of volunteers.
You need double everything for every
event.
It is what it is.
That's true.
Becca Voigt-Miller in the chat.
men do the rope climb legless women just
have a seated start based off of the
living document thanks becca that makes
sense that would be yeah that makes sense
so it's like half legless basically until
you can get your feet that's that changes
it because i i don't think many
in the thirty five to forty four division
would do eight seated legless on the
female side like i just think most people
would get cast so i like that it
changes it a little bit more i still
don't like the seated position to start i
just think it ruins the flow thank you
for that because it that went live becca
went after we went live on the air
so we all we had was the instagram
I'm at dinner,
so I'm going to leave you guys.
Have a great dinner.
And I'll see you tomorrow.
I'm going to make the drive down tomorrow
morning.
Have a safe flight.
If you didn't hear me.
What was I going to say?
And the two hundred and forty feet.
I'm wondering then if the floor is in.
Thirty feet increments.
And let's say it's eight times, one, two,
three, four.
So that'll be probably the same case for
the handstand walk is thirty feet.
But like in five foot sections,
if I were to guess.
Avera asked, Carolyn,
would legless cap most women if they only
had to go to twelve feet versus fifteen
feet for men?
I still I still think the seated legless
is super hard.
Like when even like think about the
alpaca.
I mean,
I get that rig is much higher,
but like,
no one could even do six seated.
I mean,
I think that was up and down.
Now,
I just don't remember if the regionals was
up and down.
I think it was up and down,
which is why I'm thinking that it was
like, so so so difficult.
Just on the way up.
I still think it it's hard for
the majority of the field,
you would get some finishers, of course.
But I think if you're looking for at
least a third or like half of the
field to finish,
I think that would be difficult for eight,
eight rounds of that seated legless.
You're right.
We know,
do we know all the events now for
masters?
We do.
All of them.
So eight scored events.
I'm assuming it's a hundred and a hundred
on the row one.
I'm assuming.
So yeah,
eight scored events for two divisions and
seven scored events for the remaining
divisions.
I think the teenagers only have six scored
events, which is crazy as well.
And adaptive division.
The other thing they announced is the kits
you guys are going to be receiving,
which was a little more bountiful than
what was initially rumored.
I mean,
I heard one shirt and one pair of
shorts.
Yeah,
I was seeing a lot of the Yeti
stuff.
One of my friends works for,
I think the sponsorship stuff for just
CrossFit in general.
And she was telling me that the divisional
games are completely separated in terms of
what they receive and all that.
So I think that's all we're gonna get
is the elite days.
I don't know how much of like the
other sponsors that we really get or if
those sponsors are mostly just for the
main show of like the teams and the
individual athletes.
But yeah, it's like two t-shirts,
a tank top,
maybe two pairs of shorts and a pair
of leggings.
And then we're only forced to wear the
work,
that's higher one of the workouts each day
and they'll let us know which one of
the workouts i'm assuming it's maybe one
of their more prime time flow leaks stuff
um yeah so the other times you can
wear whatever you want as long as it's
not um like bad words or political stuff
that they also said to not put on
your shirt and that's about all the
restraints i think
um they also you also get grips and
you get wristbands and sports bras yeah
yeah but i don't think we're getting shoes
though i like the valitez shoes that we
got last year uh with the regular uh
games i wear those quite often yeah like
they're comfy but yes they do have a
very euro fit um and
The shirts are actually really
comfortable,
but my thing last year was they only
do crop tops.
finishes for the female.
So they only had female tank tops that
were crop tops and the T-shirts were all
crop tops.
So I had a big bust last year
and essentially cried and got them to give
me a men's T-shirt.
So I'm hoping because I've emailed them
multiple times during the year to say that
not everyone wears crop tops.
It's certainly not everyone in the
master's division is going to be
comfortable wearing crop tops.
I'm not comfortable wearing crop top.
So I hope
I hope they will bring a regular fitting
t-shirt or tank top for some athletes.
So,
because if we're forced to wear one of
their things,
I brought shirts from last year that had
my name on it, preparing that, like,
I'm not wearing that crop top on the
floor.
I don't care what they say.
I'll wear a Revo Belitez or just a
Belitez CrossFit t-shirt.
So I hope they'll let me.
I'm sure they will.
If it's just Belitez.
Terrible Tessa says,
I hate wearing crop tops too.
Um,
CrossFat says that their velites is a very
Euro fit.
And someone wanted to know what is a
Euro fit?
Kenneth,
what is a Euro fit for us non-world
travelers?
A little smaller, a little tighter.
Denise says not everyone wears shorts.
This is very true too.
So a lot of like...
games out these like they they want to
wear leggings right like you do barbell
stuff road climb stuff um and having like
one pair of leggings for the whole weekend
is you know not not the best so
i just wish that like if you if
they would send us an email for sizing
and stuff and like if they already had
the clothes already picked up and be like
i want three of that three of that
like don't even worry about sending me
this i'm not gonna wear it
Like, I just wish we could do that.
So people could just be comfortable on the
floor because the worst thing is to,
you know,
you want to be just out there on
the floor and performing and not have to
think about, you know, being,
it could be self-conscious.
It could be uncomfortable.
It could be the wrong fit.
You just want to be able to like
compete.
And when you're forced to wear things that
you're not comfortable with,
it's just another factor that shouldn't be
in there.
So hopefully they'll figure out clothes
this year.
um let's move to the open division i
see the chat talking a lot so i'm
going to address it very quickly but not
more as much as you guys think i
may or may not whatever i i am
aware of what happened today with the
barbell spin releasing a video with
accusations against the savan podcast
From the beginning of this rift between
the two of them, I have said,
I hate that it's happening.
I really hate that it's happening three
days before the games.
The attention should be on the athletes
and the amazing performances that they
have put forth to get to the CrossFit
Games.
I have not talked to Brian Spinn.
I have not talked to anybody on the
Savant team.
I don't know what all is involved with
this.
If what was alleged is true about
critiques made against CrossFit got people
kept out of the games, that is bullshit,
in my opinion.
we live in a country with free speech.
You should be able to say what you
want to say,
and you should be then allowed to go
to places regardless of your opinions.
As long as you are not threatening someone
or doing something dire or using hate
speech,
you should be able to say what you
want to say.
I do not like things being taken out
of context and used.
But again,
I don't know enough details to be able
to comment further than that.
So that's where I'm going to leave it
tonight.
And again,
I have not commented on any of this
rift as it's gone on because I have
friends on both sides.
I respect people on both sides.
There are people on both sides that I
don't get along with well.
And I just don't know all the details
enough to be able to speak more to
it than that.
So with that,
we'll move on to the people that deserve
the attention.
And those are the athletes who have made
it to the CrossFit Games.
CrossFit said, don't agree with it,
but Portnoy and Big Cat made killer
content when the NFL banned them.
Barstool Sports blew up when they started
getting banned from places.
It's all how you take it and what
you do with it to move forward.
And there are very talented people that
are now banned who can take that
opportunity and use it to their advantage.
Um, so with that, with that, the,
they released media in,
in they released media information to the
media members coming to the CrossFit
games.
It is,
it is locked down more this year than
it's ever been locked down.
Um,
because of the exclusive broadcast rights
of flow elite, um,
You cannot film anything live from the
CrossFit Games until like forty eight
hours after the games have ended,
which I don't know how you can do
live after it's over.
But those were the instructions we were
given.
So essentially, you can talk live,
you can be at the venue live,
but you cannot take anything of the floor
live during the games.
Let's call that the Corinne Pepper rule.
mean that makes sense right you see it
i mean you'll still see some people
probably film their their favorite athlete
on instagram live here and there but like
they're they are such small accounts that
it's hard to we will see this looked
a lot more that's sent to the media
but like there's fans that will do
sometimes you know live and it is what
it is sometimes but i've been to concerts
now where if you pull your phone out
you you could be asked to leave
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I don't go to enough concerts.
So, yeah,
my wife went to a concert that if
you pulled your phone out,
you were asked to leave.
Escorted out, I should actually say.
I have to subscribe to the flow elite
tomorrow.
I've told myself that.
So I have two accounts now because you
can't,
you can't have more than one person, uh,
watch it at a time from a different
location.
So I'm like subscribing for my,
my family back home.
And then Lex will also want to watch.
So she has one there.
So, um, I mean,
you have to expect that at some point,
like it goes behind the paywall,
like a lot of sports are heading that
way.
Um,
I don't mind.
I don't mind paying like it sucks,
but like I don't mind paying thirty
dollars to like I'm just such a fan
of CrossFit.
I just know it's going to other people
might not watch certain events or maybe
they're not going to watch at all this
year.
But and they'll wait to see the
leaderboard or whatever pop up on
Instagram.
But I don't know.
To me, you know,
I go to a restaurant and it's around
that time or, you know,
that price to go out for dinner like
you can pay for it.
to subscribe if you really are interested
in watching.
You can't take photos.
You can't take photos of the live event.
You just can't broadcast the event live to
any platform.
You can even take video as long as
it follows a very prescribed rule.
But you just cannot broadcast live.
One of the things that I just didn't
really like from the way that they put
the Flow Elite is sometimes the women's
heat is on Flow Elite only or sometimes
the men's heat is on Flow Elite only.
I don't like that.
I feel like either both of them are
on Flow Elite or they're both not.
It's only one occurrence,
but I knew what you mean.
I think it's event fifteen.
Women only is on the paywall.
There's like two or three of them,
I thought.
But I thought that was just weird.
I don't particularly like that.
CrossFit,
I do believe it's going to be Hamilton
Roads for this year,
but I do think that Flo is going
to try to
If you listen to their co-founder on the
CrossFit podcast,
I think they're going to ramp up after
this year and create their own team to
do these things.
So just so I so half, like,
let's say half of the events are on
flow lead.
And the other half are still on YouTube
for people to watch free.
Is that how I understood?
So it's seventy five percent.
Seventy five percent of the events are not
behind the paywall.
Okay.
And they'll be on flow,
YouTube and the games channel.
And Flow is doing something awesome where
they're giving prizes,
like money prizes for best,
I don't know if it's best performance or
a gritty type performance.
Like I think about something like someone
like, you know,
Rebecca Foussier maybe a few years ago
could have maybe have gotten an extra
bonus for, you know,
perseverance or however you want to call
it.
They say it's like grittiest performance.
Yeah.
I don't know how they're going to judge
that,
but it's still putting money into the
ecosystem.
So,
Good for them.
I think like the fusillade thing would be
an easy call.
That event,
you would say Rebecca deserves it.
But other ones,
it's going to be a tough call who
got the grittiest performance.
So I did enjoy that.
Made me want to chip in my thirty
bucks a bit more.
But the only thing I was concerned with
is like,
let's say we're going all the time,
especially the Masters division,
men and women at the same time.
How are they going to juggle the races?
Is there going to be a feature that
you can choose the woman or the men's
floor?
on their website.
I hope that they allow you to choose
both,
but I'm not sure that they would have
the broadcasters for both.
I think it's going to be similar maybe
to Legends where sometimes you just kind
of miss half the race.
Not ideal.
I'll wait and see after the events for
more judgment.
There's also Strava is the new wearable
No, I don't think it was Strava.
I think it started with a W or
something.
Yeah, I tried to find it real quick,
but it's buried.
Here it is.
Wuro, W-O-U-R-O, sorry.
Wuro.
They are doing bounties for certain
events.
So they are doing bounties for event one,
They are actually going to give a bounty
for the total,
the actual total of the total.
And then the event, ten, twelve, fifteen,
sixteen, eighteen, and twenty.
So yeah,
it's a total of sixty eight thousand
dollars added to the prize pool.
Love it.
So like, you know, some of these athletes,
you know,
you've got twenty events or
attempts at trying to get a prize
possibly.
I'm assuming CrossFit's still doing maybe
the prize also for the first.
There used to be like a three thousand
for a first,
second was like two thousand and third was
maybe an additional thousand.
Assuming that there's some sort of prize
money to each event.
If you have a wheelhouse workout that you
can go for, you just go for it.
Especially because there's
Twenty athletes out of the field of sixty.
So, you know,
a third of the athletes are going home
most likely with zero dollars, you know,
twenty first to thirty.
So, you know,
I like that these sponsors are adding a
bit more money.
I'm fifty six years old with bad eyes.
So apparently it's work.
W.U.R.Q.
uh did a lion roar behind carolyn uh
she's at a starbucks someone was probably
getting some steamed milk no they're
cleaning the tables and i think like drag
the whole table um okay so there's that
we know a little bit more this week
we know there's a five hundred meter run
and we know there's a speed snatch ladder
that was released we not call it a
sprint though that is not a sprint
I understand why you say that.
To me as a spectator,
that terminology doesn't matter to me.
They're just going to run fast.
Yes, it's who can run fast the longest.
It's not a sprint.
It's like a completely different energy
system.
Your top sprinters, top, top,
top sprinters,
that's not necessarily their race.
The demo team was announced.
And I have that here.
So we have Rafa Sanson is the captain
of the demo team.
Grace Walton and Chris Ibarra representing
Proven.
I mean, add the demo team.
Then we have Bill Leahy, Emily Rolfe,
and Sydney Smith.
I actually think these are pretty good
choices other than the connection to
camps,
which is really just the proven camp.
I think the other three are unaffiliated.
that's what i like about like rolf is
not connected i don't think to anyone and
she's a great tester and can give very
good you know data sydney i don't think
i think she's invictus maybe so i don't
think that she's and then she also has
some team experience so maybe could um
give some input for some of the team
workouts same with rafa bill i think does
his own thing as well so he's not
connected it's just the other two that
would be connected to proven
Yeah.
What's worse?
Your dating partner being on a demo team
or a twin?
What do you think is...
I think a twin.
You're a twin.
Yeah.
You have that connection.
We don't even have to speak.
Yeah.
Okay.
A partner too, though.
Your dating partner is...
It's bad.
I think a twin is just a tick
worse.
I'll agree.
I'll agree with that one.
But both are fit.
It's just, yeah.
I don't know how... I mean,
every year there's kind of conflict of
interest on the demo team.
The perception doesn't look great for
multiple reasons when people are connected
to people that are competing,
but
They continue to do it every year.
But they are fit and they will give
great data, I'm sure.
And I'm hoping that most of the events
are pretty much finalized and they might
just be doing most of the team workouts,
I'm assuming.
Yeah,
I told you before we went live that
I saw Emily did the trail run and
she's the perfect person to test that.
Awesome person.
She will give you the, the,
the top end where that's going to be.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She's great.
So, um,
and like grace is probably the best
swimming tester.
So I think like they have some really
good people there.
I bar is just like good at everything.
Yeah.
He's well rounded.
So like,
I feel like he can give some really
good, um,
dad as well,
and Rafa's been there forever.
I feel like he's always testing.
I think each member kind of brings
something
you know, to the table.
Like back then,
there used to be like a strength
specialist, a gymnastic specialist.
It's kind of like a well-rounded.
I feel like, you know,
this is just a fit group of athletes
here that they're on the bubble basically
at any stage of the year.
They're right there.
So I think they'll get all the information
that they need to test.
So let me ask you this.
Who is more beat up coming into the
games?
a CrossFit Games athlete, or Rafa Sanson?
He goes through the ringer.
I feel like he tests like five versions
of things.
Does he live in California?
I believe he lives right there.
That's why he's used.
He's just a guinea pig for everything.
That's why Allie Scuds got used all the
time because she lived right there,
like Santa Cruz, Aromas area.
yeah and like i assume that you know
he is also uh what's the word like
has good integrity that he's been able to
um do the workouts is able to you
know keep his mouth shut to to stay
on the demo team um the last couple
years or just as a tester right because
that says a lot when you're able to
get you know a lot of testing and
they keep asking you back because keep
your mouth shut which is i mean ideally
what you want for the games is to
not have any people have advantage so i
hope i really hope that it's not the
case this year that there's no leaks and
that it's a fair test they've released a
lot of the workouts they're going to
release over half of them but some of
the secret ones you hope that the testers
have kept their mouth pretty shut we'll
see uh he did
Sorry.
He doesn't really look like Dave's type.
He's willing to do everything,
and that's Dave's type.
And I would say the video he did
with Greg Glassman in learning the
backward roll to support is one of the
best videos I've seen in a while.
And I actually jumped up when he got
it.
I was excited that he was able to
get it.
Eric Mackey asks,
how much really does change week of the
games due to last minute testing?
All I can tell you is what I
know from personal experience of
volunteering at North Park during the
twenty seventeen games.
A lot changed.
from my experience there was you know the
test is already made um but there's some
stuff that you can't do until the whole
floor is laid out so it could be
adjustments to time caps as sorry
someone's moving the table it could be
adjustments to time caps as the
transitions are kind of getting calculated
or now you're getting top athletes tested
so before this
you were getting good testers maybe high
level semi-final athletes now you're
getting some games athletes that are like
been there a while and can give you
better information on how the events are
going to be for them so you might
see a few time cap change maybe a
movement or two change but for the most
part it's pretty set but there could be
some changes last minute
Yeah, personally,
I was there for strongman's fear.
The weight of the Viking things,
that changed the week of the games.
The way the rope was connected to the
sled changed the week of the games.
The hay bales for the Madison triplet,
the position of the hay bales changed
three times.
And I had to lug the hay bales.
So I personally know.
the times it moved and i was ready
to quit volunteering that night because
that was the hardest i've ever worked in
my life um but that's what i know
from personal experience and maybe they're
more dialed in now than they were back
then because seventeen was the first time
they were in madison so it was a
whole new venue they probably didn't get
they built the
that north park that week so they didn't
get a lot of time out there testing
on it
think the fact that they were able to
go to san jose at the sap center
multiple times probably helped a lot as
well just to kind of dial in some
some things because i don't think i don't
know that in the past they went to
the venue and could really test much at
the venue um so i'm assuming most of
it's probably done they're probably doing
some team like i think the demo team
right now is most likely doing a lot
of team testing um and maybe
Some few little individual stuff.
I did see in the behind the scenes,
the one that came out today,
they went to the SAP center,
they quadruple checked the weights,
the bars, all that stuff,
and forgot to take chalk to do their
testing.
So, Avera, no,
Masters is not at the SAP.
They're at the convention center down the
street.
i think it's the san jose convention
center i think is what it's called have
they announced where the run is it just
says like i was trying to look on
um my information i don't know if a
master is in the comments or not but
our masters athlete but it said i think
it's a green park arena do you know
if that's attached or is it a part
of the convention center
I'll be honest,
because I'm not going to be there Tuesday,
I didn't pay a whole lot of attention
to it because I didn't,
I wasn't going to have to be there.
Fair enough.
I mean,
I'm assuming we'll get it tomorrow at the
briefing anyways.
Averitt, she has that,
what we are now calling the slippery ball
run,
which is the med ball run with the
non-med ball run and the med ball run
again and
This run.
Yeah.
The need a chiropractor that night run.
I could only practice with a twenty five
pound,
so I'm just I'm hoping that the thirty
just feels about the same as a twenty
five.
Both gyms that I was at twenty five
was the most that they had for the
wall ball.
So I think that should be gave me
a good idea of what it would be.
That damn thing is so big.
CrossFit wants to know your favorite
shark.
Pavelski?
No, I like... Pavelski is good.
He went to Wisconsin, so I'll say him.
There you go.
I got to train with him and do
some stadium stairs.
I'll go with him.
So then predictions.
Do you have any predictions for the open
division athletes?
It is so hard.
I can't imagine being in a women's
field...
like those girls now,
especially those top girls,
like when you went to the games every
other year,
like you knew you were going for second
or below, you know,
whether Tia was in a field or Laura,
like it's wide open this year.
It's completely wide open.
I changed my picks like five times today.
I know it's hard.
I mean, I love someone like Lucy Campbell.
I like Emma Lawson's well-roundedness just
overall.
I think Kazan could be in the mix.
I think Danielle's in the mix always.
Who am I missing right now?
So here's my top three.
Just is Kazan.
It's hard to, yeah.
Mine is Kazan one, Rogers two,
Campbell three.
But I've had Emma Lawson in the top
three, too.
So like Emma right now is not someone
that I'm kind of picking on any of
the events to like win,
but she's just not doesn't have many
holes.
Like even on the total,
I don't see her being that far back.
Like she's not taking a huge hit.
on the strength like i mean i think
her olympic lifting strength is stronger
than her raw strength but i still think
she's strong enough to do damage there um
yeah i think those five that i named
i think are going to be in the
mix uh on the men's side i have
sprague one adler two gerard three those
are the three that come up in my
head too those three
With Tony events,
I think you have to look at the
most well-rounded.
Jason just there as well.
There's so many good on both sides.
It is anybody's game.
Yeah.
John Young,
y'all go over the last one announced.
Yes, we did.
And Becca Voigt clarified some details on
us because it actually was announced while
we were live.
And it is my favorite as well of
the Masters events.
Has anyone heard confirmation on which
events on Wednesday are open to RX Plus
ticket holders?
It is my understanding, Wade,
that Wayne is anything at Morgan Hill is
what is open to RX Plus.
the ranch is off limits for tier one
media and RX plus that is just the
athletes.
Ken Walters says everything but ranch
event and swimming will be cut off.
Uh,
Carolyn,
if you had to partition the following
however you want,
how would you approach it?
Thirty-minute cap, a hundred bench press,
one thirty-five, ninety-five,
row two hundred, one fifty,
row cow two hundred,
and three hundred double unders.
Maybe you start I mean,
you basically go back and forth between
the bench anytime that you need.
Anytime that you feel like your arms are
about to
give out a little bit, you know,
you do a little set of, you know,
thirty to fifty double unders,
go back to the bench.
Ideally,
you end on the road and you just
save on the transitions there.
If you want to start on the road
by in a little bit with some intensity,
then go back and forth between the double
unders and the bench until you're done,
your bench and your dogs,
you can just kind of finish.
I say that as a person and then
and then you finish on the road so
that you finish hard on the road.
No matter what you finish on the road.
i wouldn't do like ten rounds that's too
many transitions um yeah that's how i do
it uh i feel like raptus is about
to surprise the world uh i just don't
see it i think she'll be okay but
i don't i think someone like miriam could
do very well and we no one's kind
of talking about her um yeah miriam's
gonna be up there i think again this
year
think a big wild card is danielle and
you mentioned her i because she could
she's good she's just good at everything
but then i keep seeing the syndicate in
my head where she kept overheating and
like i don't know i don't everything keeps
going back and forth in my head she's
just got to survive the total do what
she needs to do there
take an L on the hundred and fifty
points and then do well on everything
else.
Yeah.
CrossFed says the lettuce parasite is
hunting Raptus like a predator.
She catches everything.
Yeah,
Raptus like looked good at Syndicate like
you know towards the back end like once
she got like basically got done with day
one.
which affected her.
I mean, yeah, she's there.
This is the deepest field, I think.
Oh, your mic went out, Carolyn.
You're still, it's all static.
Can you hear me now?
Yep.
This is the deepest field that we've seen
on both sides.
So like, honestly, I feel like
Anyone can do so well.
Like everyone has their strengths and
weaknesses and can, I feel like,
basically win workouts.
I'm excited to see them go after it.
Like it's a strong field on both.
Your mic keeps,
I think your headphone wire has like a
tiny short in it.
And now you're muted.
But I'm going to address this.
If no vendor offers a veggie Raptus wrap,
they're missing a golden opportunity.
CrossFit says Raptus should only eat
steamed veggies.
And Kipping says someone tell her not to
eat any salad.
That poor girl.
Yeah.
Since it's the day of beefs,
I did find out today that Lauren Khalil
is hosting the press conferences.
So my chance of getting any questions
asked of the athletes is probably nil and
next to none.
But I'm still going to do whatever.
I don't even know what I'm doing this
year.
I'm just going to have fun.
And I don't even know what I'm allowed
to do or...
I don't know.
We'll see.
I think you'll be fine.
If you lift your hand,
you don't just ignore someone.
We actually talked after the beef,
but I just don't know where we stand
totally at this point.
No more questions.
Thanks.
Anyway.
It's going to be a short show tonight.
Jamie's heading for a plane.
Carolyn's driving out tomorrow.
I'm flying out Wednesday.
Really bummed I missed the first half of
the Masters competition.
But I'll be at the Masters on Wednesday
and Thursday.
If you are a Masters athlete,
I just want to chat with you,
get some interviews, get some content.
Come find me.
I'll be around.
I do have media credentials for Masters,
so I'm allowed in the ring around the
floor this time,
which is better than I had last year.
So hopefully we'll get some good shots and
I can talk to some Masters athletes.
And then we'll do whatever we can in
the Open Division.
Um, good luck girls from Lana,
the rock star.
Thank you.
Um, uh, Carolyn,
will you and Jamie be coming on Clydesdale
between events?
I haven't really talked to them cause I'm
getting there halfway through their event,
but you,
are you still staying for the whole
weekend, Carolyn?
Yeah,
so I'm going to obviously compete until
Thursday,
and then I'll stay with some friends from
the CrossFit Sublime that I train at here
for the rest of the weekend and watch
the individuals and teams both.
So I'm there all weekend until Sunday.
So maybe we can hook up live and
do a couple live short shows.
Yeah, I could do that.
During the event.
Yep.
So we'll do that.
I'll hook up with Carolyn after she's done
competing.
And we'll get some stuff set up.
I think Jamie's staying the whole weekend
too.
So we might be able to rotate through
some stuff over the weekend and just do
a few live shows live from San Jose.
Somewhere in San Jose.
Not guaranteed where.
I was going to say from a suite
just as a joke,
but then it's probably too soon.
I was just about to say.
Everyone's welcome.
Live on the podcast.
It's really going to be at the Travel
Lodge down on Fourth and Vine.
All right, guys.
Hope you just got a killer deal on
sweet seeds.
Nicole, that is right.
She is staying to help Coach Declan,
but I'm sure we can lure her over
for a show or two.
So with that,
I hope you guys have a great rest
of your night.
Tomorrow's lunch with the Clydesdale is
going to be at a weird time.
Our vendor scheduled me for a meeting
right at twelve thirty.
So I'm going to talk to Corey tomorrow
morning.
We're going to get something set up
tomorrow.
And.
Yeah.
Oh, that'd be a fun game.
Where in San Jose is Scott?
The Clydesdale.
where in the world is mr clydesdale gotta
have enough like there we go anyway bad
singing then the show with that we'll see
everybody next time on sunday sunday
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