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I was born to kill it,

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I was meant to win I am

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down and willing so I will

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find a way It took a minute

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now it didn't have to ride

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away When it get hot in the

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kitchen you decide to stay

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That's how it went

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what is going on everybody

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welcome to chopping it up

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with coach crispy cream my

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name is scott switzer I

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will have by next week I

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promise new bumpers new

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backdrops um we'll get

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something appropriate for

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this show but I do like

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that song it's fine by me I

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always want to like groove

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a little bit when it's

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going but yeah so how's your week been

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Good.

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Yeah, what, it's Thursday?

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Time just flies right now

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with quarters ending.

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We have a lot of athletes

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who are prepping.

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The semis prep is always odd,

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especially with the calendar this year,

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because some teams have been prepping.

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they have longer some indies

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don't have as long now that

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their quarters is done

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depending on when their

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semis is so it's a lot of a

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lot of athletes are

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starting to get back in the

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gym after taking some time

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off quarters just a lot of

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moving parts plus logistics

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for semis and things like

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that but it's been good uh

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lex says you must be off

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today scott you're knocking

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out like 40 interviews

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Uh, I think it's 39, but close,

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close enough.

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Yeah.

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And I actually, I took yesterday,

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today and tomorrow off, uh,

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for mental health.

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Um,

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just one stressor I didn't need was my

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job.

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And so I took a couple of

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days off and then tomorrow

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we're heading to

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Pennsylvania for my mom's birthday.

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She turned 79 years old yesterday,

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79 years old.

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And, uh, go and check,

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see what she's doing and

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hang out with her for a weekend.

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So yeah.

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That's awesome.

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So yeah, got a lot done today.

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You've been busy.

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It was a productive day.

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Even got a workout squeezed

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in between the last two.

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Very nice.

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What'd you do?

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It's Cardio Thursday at Polaris.

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Love it.

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So every Thursday is just like super long,

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super cardio machines.

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So it started with a salt

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bike and four rounds of a

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salt bike and pushups.

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Okay.

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Then I went into like three

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rounds of double unders and pushups.

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Pull-ups like very like

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Murph testy kind of stuff.

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Um,

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and then it finished with farmer's

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carries and squats, air squats.

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I like it.

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So, yeah,

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what I like about those is it's

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an in and out workout in out,

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not a lot of warmup,

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not a lot of cool down.

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Yep.

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So yeah, you don't have to prep too much.

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Yeah.

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So Hattie's in the comments.

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Oh, hey, Hattie.

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And we'll see her in an hour and a half.

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Hour and a half.

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Two hours or so.

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So a lot of things have

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happened this week.

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We had an agenda.

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It's the same agenda we had

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last week that we never got to.

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Yeah.

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But I want to talk quickly

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about... I was on Coffee

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Pods and Wads yesterday.

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And...

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While I had a blast, right,

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and I knew kind of what

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Peter looks for in those

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games and I tried to pick

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the pieces of my argument

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that would get me the most points,

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I left feeling like there

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was more I wanted to say

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about each topic because

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you only have 60 seconds.

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So you got to figure out

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like what haymaker I'm

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going to throw for the 60

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seconds and then the rest

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of it's just kind of out there.

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And don't get me wrong, I had a blast.

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You looked like it.

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Had a blast, and I won.

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So, yeah, you got to love that.

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I don't think Harriet

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Roberts knew what she was

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in for on that show.

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Nope.

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Waking up at 5 a.m.

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and jumping on in Australia.

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Yeah.

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And Adam, I thought, came pretty hard,

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but he did not prepare properly.

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Yeah,

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it seemed like he just showed up and

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sent it.

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So the big thing I just

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wanted... I really do

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believe that... Because the

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first question was,

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how do we improve the

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quarterfinals for 2025?

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And my opinion is,

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it doesn't... We need to

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keep strict video review in the process.

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And I truly believe that too

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many people with bad

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movements have gotten

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through in years past.

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And we just keep forgetting

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about that when stuff like this happens.

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And the one thing I didn't

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get to say on the show is,

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if you feel wronged,

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why haven't you posted

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proof that you were wronged?

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I mean, that's something that has I mean,

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what an athlete that I know,

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who's good friends with my

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fiance brought up early in

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this whole thing.

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Where's the only one we saw

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drop a video pretty quickly was Velma.

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Right?

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And he just threw it out

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there like whatever.

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Yeah.

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I think it's a valid point.

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And

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It's really funny because in

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my Emily Rolfe interview today,

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she talked about how

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someone messed up her clock

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during that workout.

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So it actually happened twice.

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Her clock got messed up mid-workout.

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She had to redo it a couple times.

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She is normally a do the workout,

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get it posted, and be done.

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She does not review the video.

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But because that happened, she's like,

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well,

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I've got the video of the first half.

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I might as well take a look.

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And she didn't like her reps.

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So she made sure she came to

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full extension on the next rep.

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So thankfully someone

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stopped her clock midway through because,

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yeah, it may have cost her.

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I mean,

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we had a slightly similar thing

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with Jacob.

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I just wasn't paying enough attention.

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And the first time he did that,

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he only started with his

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back to the barbell on the first round.

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So then we had this huge discussion about,

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you know,

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are they going to watch that one?

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Are they going to penalize that one?

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This whole thing.

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And then I also really started, you know,

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we'd seen him do it.

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We had seen a couple other

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athletes on site do it.

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We were starting to get some

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scores from some people.

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So then the conversation also turned into,

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okay, we need a cleaner run and we,

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we can probably put up a

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significantly better score.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah.

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But again, super fun.

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Super glad I got invited on.

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And I get to do it again in

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a couple weeks.

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Nice.

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Heck yeah, man.

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As we move through the process.

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It is a fun show to watch.

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I try to catch it when I can.

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It is.

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I...

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To be fair,

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I catch that in Death By every

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week just to hear where

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people's thoughts and

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feelings are for our shows.

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Just so I can kind of hear a

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smattering of different topic thoughts.

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Yeah.

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And those are kind of the

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two hot topic shows.

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Right.

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I do like Peter's because it

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is so succinct.

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it's done in 30 minutes and, you know,

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so you can get in and out pretty good.

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Um, or death by,

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they can kind of go on for a while.

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Yeah.

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I also thoroughly enjoy

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Peter's sense of humor.

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He's hilarious.

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And I love it.

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So another thing happened on

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the way to this show is, um,

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Andrew Hiller,

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Broke news just about an

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hour and a half ago.

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Maybe a little longer.

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Yeah.

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I've been in interviews,

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so it's hard to like your time.

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That some of the semifinal

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workouts have been released.

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We have a leak.

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There's a leak in the boat.

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And it was confirmed by John

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Young that some coaches already had it.

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Oh.

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By the time Hiller posted it.

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So if you watch the Savant

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show from this afternoon,

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I listened to it on the way

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to the gym and on the way home.

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Yeah,

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John Young says that some of the

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coaches he knew have it.

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Dang, I need to get on that list.

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Well,

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and so that brings up a lot of questions.

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So first, I'm going to put up the...

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their workouts that were leaked.

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Um, there it is.

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Carolyn already is jumping in.

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Yeah.

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I'm not surprised either.

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Carolyn, uh,

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not surprised at all by the

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fact that some coaches had it.

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Not at all.

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That's a problem.

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Yeah.

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That's a major problem.

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One thing that was brought

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up by Brian spin on that

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show is that the circle has

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to be bigger than it used to be.

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Right.

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For semifinals,

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you've got people in Africa,

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got people in China,

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you got people in South

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America that have to know

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what the workouts are and

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the layouts to be able to get equipment,

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get floors ready, get venues ready.

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Yup.

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So that circle is way bigger.

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And we don't know if this

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leak came from HQ or from

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just some random guy

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putting a rig together in South America.

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Yeah.

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Friends of athletes test

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things can leak there.

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So, Carolyn,

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we are in a sport where

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friends of athletes test workouts.

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Things can leak there.

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Then all the regions know the workouts,

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so stuff can get leaked there too.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I think there's a... I mean,

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I'm not surprised given the

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logistics of the semifinals

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this year at all that it got leaked.

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There's so many more people in the circle,

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so many more opportunities

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for wandering eyes.

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You know,

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HQ doesn't have that tight locus

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of control that they

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usually do on the events

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and the workouts.

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So...

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I mean, as a coach, I guess,

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if I'm not on the list of

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coaches to get it sent to them,

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then I'm glad that Hillard

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posted it publicly.

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But I also...

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I mean, you've known me a good while now.

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I get pretty fired up when I coach,

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and I do have a certain

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level of aggression when it's game time.

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So my inner coach thought,

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not looking at it from the

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nuts and bolts of the sport,

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is I don't give a shit.

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We're going to go do what we

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need to do anyways.

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So I want to throw this at you.

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And we're always talking

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about the sport and the methodology,

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right?

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Yeah.

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The methodology to train

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general physical

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preparedness has the term

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unknown and unknowable.

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And it is so that you coming

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into the gym as average Joe

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are going to do something

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different every day.

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It's constantly varied.

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You don't know what that is going to be.

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You can't prepare for that.

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It just is what it is.

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Somehow that term has

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flipped over to the sport.

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But I ask you this.

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We know what the events of

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the Olympics are,

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and it doesn't make it less dramatic.

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Yeah.

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So why do we need to hide

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what these workouts are

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until last minute?

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I don't.

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Especially if some are

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getting it leaked to them

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and some are not.

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Right.

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I don't personally see an

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issue if the workouts were released, say,

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the end of quarterfinals or

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when the leaderboard was finalized.

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it's hard because some

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people will have longer time to prepare.

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Some people won't,

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but we had that in the

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regional system and

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everybody just kind of

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understood that the last people to go,

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we're going to probably put

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up the fastest times

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because they had the most

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time to prepare.

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They could watch other high

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level athletes do it and

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strategize and things like that.

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I don't necessarily fall in

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the camp where I want a set, you know,

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event list year to year.

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I do like that it changes, but I also, uh,

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do think it would be nice if we had,

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especially for the prior

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stages of the season

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quarters and the open, we had, you know,

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kind of like a list,

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like people have talked about of 50, 40,

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60, however many movements like, Hey,

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these are the things.

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And then for quarterfinals,

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it's all those things from

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the open plus these for semifinals,

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it could be a little more elusive,

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but perhaps we get the

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workouts a little bit earlier and,

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there's a lot of things that

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play into this because from

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a coaching standpoint,

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knowing the workouts early

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is a nightmare.

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It's like,

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how many times can I make them

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do this or a version of

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this to perfect it on game

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day without making them

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sick and tired of doing this workout,

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getting an overuse injury

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from doing the same

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fricking movement patterns over and over,

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you know,

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still trying to preserve general fitness,

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like not actually letting

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people get detrained

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because you're only

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focusing on these things.

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So your variance goes down.

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So it's like, it has a lot of play to it.

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I don't, I would prefer, of course,

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that if they were leaked or released,

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they were done at the same

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time so that everybody just knows it.

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But yeah, it's, I don't have...

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I don't have super strong

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feelings about the workouts

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changing and that part of

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it being unknown and unknowable.

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I do think though,

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when we start to use that

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as an excuse for off the wall movements,

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it can potentially be an

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issue and things like that.

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Also, I think

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Sometimes that gets brought

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into the conversation of

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the way we test movements.

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So personal bias here,

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a back loaded ring muscle

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up is asking for a torn labrum.

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Like that's a terrible movement.

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You should never load that

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dynamic of a movement with

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a weight behind you.

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It's a terrible idea.

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So if that's the

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justification for something like that,

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then I would have some

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arguing points against that.

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So it's such a nuanced

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conversation that I think

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it's hard to have a,

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a hard stance one way or the other.

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And there's so many

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different ways it can apply

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to different stages in the season.

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With like these two being known,

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if they are in fact the real workouts,

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which there's no reason to

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believe they're not other

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than I think Carolyn

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pointed out in the comments

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that why two echo bikes.

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They had two echo bikes last

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year and they had two

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assault runner workouts last year.

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There's no reason it couldn't be.

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I would be more surprised

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than the fact that they

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have echo bikes at every

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one of these venues,

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but you can also make the argument.

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It doesn't matter.

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If somebody is on an assault

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fitness bike and somebody

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is on an assault bike and

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somebody is on an echo bike,

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as long as everybody at

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that regional is the same.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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So with these being known,

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is there a fear as a coach

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that you have that athlete

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that wants to keep drilling

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this down to perfection

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that they overuse the

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muscle and then overtrain

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it and it creates injury?

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Yes, exactly.

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Yeah.

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You start to hit the same movement pattern,

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the same exact in the same exact way.

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So many times with the same loading,

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right?

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You're not getting,

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With the dumbbell,

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I think the safest

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assumption with that is

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it's a 100-pound dumbbell overhead lunge.

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That would make the most sense.

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I can't have them do that 16

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times before then and not

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start to have shoulder, tricep, elbow,

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whatever.

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right start to flare up with

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people so it's this that's

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why I almost don't like

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having them super early

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because it's this fine

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balance of okay how many

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times are we going to do

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this what other things can

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I program that simulate

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this plus perfecting our

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race day strategy and pacings um

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it's also mentally hard for

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the athletes like to do

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intervals or even the

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testing of the workout so

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many times prior.

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Like, I mean,

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I know there are athletes who,

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by the time they get to semifinals,

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you have to be careful with the workout.

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If a workout super painful,

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you don't want to be gun

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shy going into semifinals

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of what you're going to experience.

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Right.

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Right.

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It's,

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it's just this kind of annoying balance.

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Um,

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My last question before we

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just look at the workouts

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themselves is Europe goes in two weeks.

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This stuff was going to have

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to be announced soon anyway.

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I think the date was the

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10th in the rulebook.

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So we're a week away.

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We're a week early with the league.

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So the East was going to

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have three weeks with them anyway.

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yeah so it's like does it

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matter yeah I don't know I

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mean it's a little more

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time yeah it's just I just

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think man the crossfit we

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just love drama we just

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love drama um before I pull

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up the workouts here I

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don't carolyn says I don't

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think two echo bikes are

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necessary if you're going

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to do two of the same thing

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it should be running

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I don't disagree,

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but I would caveat that

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with the fact that we had

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the lane eight issue last

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year at the European

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semifinal where everybody

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who ran on lane eight's

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runner got dead last in the workout.

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And I would also say I hate shuttle runs.

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So...

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don't disagree I don't love

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the echo bike a whole bunch

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of times but I at this

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point don't trust the

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efficacy of a fair

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semi-final on assault

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runners because it was

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proven last year that they

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don't have a testable

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repeatable way to calibrate

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those so I have a lot of

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thoughts on that because

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As a volunteer,

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starting my life in

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CrossFit as a volunteer,

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I saw them calibrate those.

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Oh, really?

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I would argue that maybe the

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person in Europe didn't do their job.

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Potentially.

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Or it was just all a coincidence.

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We believe in those.

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Yeah.

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Um, so here are the workouts.

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Do these make sense to you as a,

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as a semifinal workout?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Uh,

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obviously it would be interesting to

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see if there, you know,

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we don't know anything with this,

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if there's a different echo

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bike calorie prescription

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for the ladies on these, or if, you know,

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it's just expected,

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they're going to be a

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little bit longer on those bikes.

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Um,

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72 foot is a really particular number.

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I imagine that's based off

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of some sort of average

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length of field of play for

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most of the regions.

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15 ring rustle ups isn't

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anything out of pocket.

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Tall box jump overs,

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nothing super crazy there either.

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I mean, the first workout,

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70 echo bite calories,

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14 legless rope climbs,

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10 box jump overs.

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you're going to have a

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little bit of a break

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between the legless.

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So it's a healthy number of

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legless rope climbs.

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That's for sure.

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But I don't think it's

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anything outlandish.

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Um,

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If this is truly one of the workouts,

00:21:50.694 --> 00:21:52.115
I'm a little surprised that

00:21:52.714 --> 00:21:54.256
we don't see the return of the seated.

00:21:54.455 --> 00:21:56.276
I thought those were a very

00:21:56.395 --> 00:21:58.116
good thing to test last year, personally.

00:22:01.397 --> 00:22:03.097
So it's funny you say that

00:22:03.117 --> 00:22:04.318
because if you remember,

00:22:05.278 --> 00:22:06.199
one of the big complaints

00:22:06.259 --> 00:22:07.339
coming out of semis last

00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:09.420
year were that people were

00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:11.340
resting sitting down and it

00:22:11.381 --> 00:22:13.661
was a bad look for a fitness competition.

00:22:16.801 --> 00:22:18.563
But here they're split up.

00:22:20.259 --> 00:22:20.558
Okay.

00:22:21.038 --> 00:22:22.900
People are going to say resting,

00:22:22.941 --> 00:22:24.141
sitting down is a bad look,

00:22:24.221 --> 00:22:25.221
but then I want everybody

00:22:25.241 --> 00:22:26.221
to remember that when they

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watch the first two heats

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of people at semifinals,

00:22:28.644 --> 00:22:30.104
put the dumbbell down four times.

00:22:33.185 --> 00:22:34.346
Okay, cool.

00:22:34.467 --> 00:22:35.727
They'll just be resting, standing up.

00:22:35.807 --> 00:22:36.948
So that looks better, I guess.

00:22:38.929 --> 00:22:40.069
Those were comments that were made.

00:22:40.919 --> 00:22:44.101
Yeah, I mean, it is odd to watch.

00:22:44.181 --> 00:22:46.282
You're not moving quickly, right?

00:22:47.222 --> 00:22:48.743
It takes maybe away a little

00:22:48.763 --> 00:22:50.506
bit of the speed of the

00:22:50.586 --> 00:22:52.146
race with a seated legless.

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But I wouldn't have been

00:22:56.410 --> 00:22:57.411
surprised if those made a

00:22:57.451 --> 00:22:58.171
return this year.

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That's for sure.

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Those wrecked people,

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both at semis and the games.

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Well, in the games, they were tall,

00:23:06.057 --> 00:23:06.356
brother.

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And I know Kelly had mentioned...

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And the Einhorn team,

00:23:12.133 --> 00:23:14.614
when you sat on the mat, you almost sunk.

00:23:16.234 --> 00:23:17.194
So you were starting even a

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little bit lower than you

00:23:18.455 --> 00:23:19.215
would have expected.

00:23:20.797 --> 00:23:21.017
Yeah.

00:23:22.356 --> 00:23:24.377
That alpaca workout was gross.

00:23:25.598 --> 00:23:26.179
Yeah.

00:23:26.638 --> 00:23:28.400
Hands took some damage.

00:23:29.220 --> 00:23:31.961
Oh, yeah.

00:23:31.981 --> 00:23:33.902
So we're good with this.

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We're going to move on to our podcast.

00:23:36.198 --> 00:23:37.298
yeah yeah I don't think

00:23:37.618 --> 00:23:38.799
there's too much to say on

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this other it's the one

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thing I would leave with

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the whole leak thing is

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it's interesting from a

00:23:43.703 --> 00:23:44.825
coach's perspective because

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now it's you almost don't

00:23:47.347 --> 00:23:48.689
have a choice but to act

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under the assumption that

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these are the workouts

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because then if you if you

00:23:55.555 --> 00:23:57.977
don't and they are then

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you're kind of caught with

00:24:00.018 --> 00:24:01.619
your pants down and right

00:24:02.219 --> 00:24:05.020
yeah so it's it's and then

00:24:05.060 --> 00:24:07.281
if they aren't but you did

00:24:07.301 --> 00:24:08.103
them a whole bunch it's

00:24:08.623 --> 00:24:09.403
kind of annoying you're

00:24:09.423 --> 00:24:10.944
like well that was a waste

00:24:10.964 --> 00:24:12.826
of time so at least

00:24:12.865 --> 00:24:13.766
hopefully the movements

00:24:13.806 --> 00:24:14.747
show up if these aren't the

00:24:14.787 --> 00:24:15.867
exact workouts at this

00:24:15.907 --> 00:24:18.589
point there's nothing here

00:24:18.650 --> 00:24:21.570
that wouldn't help you in

00:24:21.811 --> 00:24:23.011
preparing for semis though

00:24:23.673 --> 00:24:27.255
correct like it's just that

00:24:27.335 --> 00:24:28.596
fine line and a fine line

00:24:28.615 --> 00:24:31.538
of overusing right yeah

00:24:33.270 --> 00:24:33.451
All right,

00:24:33.471 --> 00:24:34.271
so we're going to go back to

00:24:34.332 --> 00:24:36.253
quarters and just talk

00:24:36.314 --> 00:24:37.433
about those workouts for a

00:24:37.494 --> 00:24:39.576
second because you made a

00:24:39.635 --> 00:24:40.777
statement on one of our

00:24:40.836 --> 00:24:43.098
shows that the most

00:24:43.159 --> 00:24:44.240
important programming that

00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:47.301
CrossFit will ever do is

00:24:47.382 --> 00:24:48.643
this year's quarterfinals

00:24:49.284 --> 00:24:50.545
because the window to make

00:24:50.605 --> 00:24:53.527
semis was reduced from 60 to 40.

00:24:53.527 --> 00:24:53.847
Yep.

00:24:56.148 --> 00:24:57.170
So it needed to be the most

00:24:57.269 --> 00:24:59.112
well-rounded test possible.

00:25:01.775 --> 00:25:02.977
So we're going to go through this,

00:25:03.096 --> 00:25:04.557
and I want you to explain to me,

00:25:05.179 --> 00:25:07.942
did CrossFit meet that goal or not?

00:25:09.263 --> 00:25:09.544
All right.

00:25:11.666 --> 00:25:14.049
So here is workout one,

00:25:15.971 --> 00:25:18.034
the famous penalty workout.

00:25:18.575 --> 00:25:20.297
The penalty workout, the slaughterhouse.

00:25:20.317 --> 00:25:20.817
Yes.

00:25:22.287 --> 00:25:23.827
It was four rounds for max

00:25:23.907 --> 00:25:26.390
reps of one minute of snatches,

00:25:26.990 --> 00:25:28.632
one minute of rowing for calories,

00:25:29.251 --> 00:25:30.913
one minute of dumbbell box step-ups,

00:25:31.433 --> 00:25:32.275
one minute of rest.

00:25:35.797 --> 00:25:39.240
I liked this workout in the sense,

00:25:40.260 --> 00:25:42.682
I like this workout more in

00:25:42.803 --> 00:25:43.864
how it fit in with the

00:25:43.903 --> 00:25:45.244
totality of the other

00:25:45.285 --> 00:25:46.645
workouts than as a

00:25:46.726 --> 00:25:48.507
standalone test for a

00:25:48.547 --> 00:25:49.347
quarterfinals workout.

00:25:50.705 --> 00:25:53.327
Especially when on the men's side,

00:25:53.367 --> 00:25:54.368
we take into account the

00:25:54.429 --> 00:25:57.050
snatches really didn't matter.

00:25:57.070 --> 00:26:00.413
It didn't behoove the men to

00:26:00.472 --> 00:26:01.292
snatch very much.

00:26:01.653 --> 00:26:04.435
It was get some reps here to help yourself,

00:26:04.496 --> 00:26:06.317
and then what can you do on

00:26:06.356 --> 00:26:09.239
the rower and still hammer the step-ups,

00:26:10.019 --> 00:26:10.220
right?

00:26:11.921 --> 00:26:13.741
I did like the 20-inch box

00:26:14.823 --> 00:26:17.464
for both genders, I think, with...

00:26:19.569 --> 00:26:20.391
just a lot of height

00:26:20.431 --> 00:26:22.030
discrepancy from human

00:26:22.070 --> 00:26:22.951
being to human being.

00:26:23.112 --> 00:26:24.332
I think that is a fair thing.

00:26:24.732 --> 00:26:24.972
You know,

00:26:25.673 --> 00:26:28.574
I'm nowhere close to most of my athletes,

00:26:28.653 --> 00:26:30.755
but if I do box step overs

00:26:30.815 --> 00:26:33.876
on a 24 against some athletes that are,

00:26:34.737 --> 00:26:35.917
that I coached that are shorter than me,

00:26:35.998 --> 00:26:38.019
I can hold my own just cause I'm tall.

00:26:38.898 --> 00:26:39.078
Right.

00:26:41.059 --> 00:26:41.140
Um,

00:26:43.857 --> 00:26:46.299
I liked the fact that it was

00:26:46.339 --> 00:26:47.240
an interval test.

00:26:48.201 --> 00:26:49.903
I think it fit the bill of a

00:26:51.084 --> 00:26:54.405
power output-y-ish workout well.

00:26:56.667 --> 00:26:58.028
As a general rule of thumb,

00:26:58.269 --> 00:27:00.590
I don't love AMRAPs in competition,

00:27:01.152 --> 00:27:03.173
but I also understand those

00:27:03.212 --> 00:27:04.493
are probably not ever going

00:27:04.534 --> 00:27:05.535
to disappear completely.

00:27:07.236 --> 00:27:09.758
But overall, as a standalone workout,

00:27:09.837 --> 00:27:10.499
I wouldn't have loved it.

00:27:11.888 --> 00:27:13.210
When you look at the other three,

00:27:13.549 --> 00:27:14.991
I think it fit very well.

00:27:17.273 --> 00:27:18.494
My argument for your AMRAP

00:27:18.615 --> 00:27:22.839
is that this was a long

00:27:23.460 --> 00:27:25.082
time to get four workouts in.

00:27:26.903 --> 00:27:28.785
So if ever you're going to do an AMRAP,

00:27:29.365 --> 00:27:31.708
this is probably the weekend to do it.

00:27:31.768 --> 00:27:33.289
Yeah, I would agree with that.

00:27:36.178 --> 00:27:39.299
In my observations watching Jamie, Haley,

00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:40.319
Jim,

00:27:41.280 --> 00:27:44.603
and some of the general population of

00:27:44.663 --> 00:27:46.243
Jamie's gym do this workout

00:27:47.163 --> 00:27:48.704
is a lot of people underestimated it.

00:27:49.884 --> 00:27:50.246
Yeah.

00:27:51.886 --> 00:27:53.047
Really underestimated it.

00:27:54.827 --> 00:27:56.648
This is the only one I didn't do.

00:27:57.229 --> 00:27:58.150
Let's put it like that.

00:27:59.891 --> 00:28:02.211
I had no desire for that smoke.

00:28:03.577 --> 00:28:04.939
Yeah, Haley... I mean,

00:28:04.979 --> 00:28:05.839
Haley got into the second

00:28:05.900 --> 00:28:07.480
round and realized she had

00:28:07.540 --> 00:28:09.563
jacked her heart rate to a

00:28:09.643 --> 00:28:11.064
point it was not going to recover.

00:28:12.204 --> 00:28:12.365
Yep.

00:28:13.865 --> 00:28:16.428
Put the dumbbells down, called it a day,

00:28:17.048 --> 00:28:18.288
came back and did it the next day.

00:28:18.309 --> 00:28:19.230
Lived to fight another day.

00:28:19.309 --> 00:28:19.730
That's good.

00:28:20.310 --> 00:28:21.291
I did like...

00:28:23.134 --> 00:28:24.035
that there was a certain

00:28:24.055 --> 00:28:25.174
amount of strategy to it.

00:28:25.674 --> 00:28:27.576
I just don't like when that

00:28:27.656 --> 00:28:30.498
bleeds in from you can strategize it to,

00:28:31.259 --> 00:28:31.459
well,

00:28:31.499 --> 00:28:33.599
really you strategizing it is just

00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:34.380
the same way that

00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:35.401
everybody's going to do it.

00:28:36.642 --> 00:28:36.821
Right.

00:28:36.842 --> 00:28:38.423
Like putting your eggs in those baskets,

00:28:38.903 --> 00:28:39.323
so to speak.

00:28:41.124 --> 00:28:41.384
Yeah.

00:28:41.523 --> 00:28:45.866
I, you can probably convince me I'm wrong,

00:28:46.826 --> 00:28:48.288
but I thought for some athletes,

00:28:49.568 --> 00:28:51.509
their best bet was to snatch like crazy.

00:28:53.626 --> 00:28:55.347
And forget about this box step-ups.

00:28:56.928 --> 00:28:59.909
For general population people,

00:28:59.969 --> 00:29:02.470
just doing quarterfinals to do them, yes.

00:29:03.230 --> 00:29:04.450
But everybody who is trying

00:29:04.470 --> 00:29:06.211
to be in the top 40,

00:29:06.211 --> 00:29:08.151
those step-ups were it.

00:29:10.771 --> 00:29:11.011
Okay.

00:29:11.372 --> 00:29:11.832
You got to think,

00:29:11.852 --> 00:29:14.432
a good score on those step-ups,

00:29:14.452 --> 00:29:15.833
we're talking 20-plus a round,

00:29:16.313 --> 00:29:19.554
that's a large ask.

00:29:20.134 --> 00:29:20.934
Even if you're holding...

00:29:22.835 --> 00:29:24.715
say somebody could do 13 snatches,

00:29:26.217 --> 00:29:28.357
those seven more snatches in that minute,

00:29:30.019 --> 00:29:31.000
that's a tall ask.

00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:33.221
Okay.

00:29:33.902 --> 00:29:34.082
Right.

00:29:34.281 --> 00:29:35.323
That's why you're the coach

00:29:35.383 --> 00:29:37.263
and I'm the media guy.

00:29:38.464 --> 00:29:39.184
I also watched a lot of

00:29:39.224 --> 00:29:40.625
people do this and thought

00:29:40.665 --> 00:29:41.227
about it a lot.

00:29:42.768 --> 00:29:43.028
All right.

00:29:43.087 --> 00:29:46.130
So let's go to workout two.

00:29:46.150 --> 00:29:48.010
The grinder.

00:29:48.371 --> 00:29:48.971
The grinder.

00:29:52.298 --> 00:29:53.640
This was three rounds for time,

00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:55.561
50 wall ball shots,

00:29:55.561 --> 00:29:58.625
50 lateral burpee box jump overs.

00:29:59.886 --> 00:30:00.327
Not really,

00:30:00.387 --> 00:30:02.130
didn't have to be burpee lateral,

00:30:03.791 --> 00:30:06.434
but those that were doing

00:30:06.494 --> 00:30:08.156
it fast kind of went lateral.

00:30:08.176 --> 00:30:09.057
Mm-hmm.

00:30:09.864 --> 00:30:10.023
Yeah.

00:30:11.003 --> 00:30:13.085
I think the decision to call

00:30:13.164 --> 00:30:14.325
it lateral but then not

00:30:14.424 --> 00:30:15.805
mandate the lateral was

00:30:16.565 --> 00:30:18.144
from kind of the lack – not

00:30:18.184 --> 00:30:19.326
wanting to do floor plans,

00:30:19.425 --> 00:30:21.246
measuring tape under the box,

00:30:21.306 --> 00:30:22.026
that kind of stuff.

00:30:22.145 --> 00:30:24.787
So I think it would have

00:30:24.807 --> 00:30:26.027
just been – if they didn't

00:30:26.067 --> 00:30:27.386
want the scrutiny of it,

00:30:27.426 --> 00:30:28.047
they should have just said

00:30:28.086 --> 00:30:29.646
burpee box jump overs.

00:30:30.907 --> 00:30:32.567
Orient yourself however you would like,

00:30:33.607 --> 00:30:33.807
right?

00:30:36.128 --> 00:30:39.894
My media observation of this workout was –

00:30:39.894 --> 00:30:40.536
Find your pace.

00:30:43.218 --> 00:30:43.738
Very correct.

00:30:43.917 --> 00:30:46.881
And hold that pace to the bitter end.

00:30:47.740 --> 00:30:47.901
Yep.

00:30:48.521 --> 00:30:49.423
Come hell or high water.

00:30:50.343 --> 00:30:51.503
That is... So this was...

00:30:52.125 --> 00:30:53.465
This is actually a really

00:30:53.685 --> 00:30:55.207
interesting workout, I think,

00:30:55.547 --> 00:30:56.688
from a coaching perspective.

00:30:56.728 --> 00:30:58.710
So this was our 5K run.

00:30:59.931 --> 00:31:02.512
This was our 5K row of quarterfinals.

00:31:02.792 --> 00:31:02.992
But...

00:31:04.150 --> 00:31:06.171
crossfit did it in a way

00:31:06.730 --> 00:31:07.951
where from a crossfit

00:31:08.050 --> 00:31:09.571
methodology programming

00:31:09.632 --> 00:31:11.673
perspective it was a weight

00:31:11.692 --> 00:31:12.932
lifting and gymnastics

00:31:12.972 --> 00:31:16.013
movement we have a loaded

00:31:16.074 --> 00:31:17.094
movement in the wall ball

00:31:17.615 --> 00:31:18.394
and then we have a body

00:31:18.434 --> 00:31:19.515
weight movement in the

00:31:19.934 --> 00:31:21.596
burpee box jump overs right

00:31:22.875 --> 00:31:27.157
but the stimulus was long

00:31:27.357 --> 00:31:30.078
aerobic capacity right

00:31:31.318 --> 00:31:32.940
muscle endurance that kind

00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:33.519
of stuff so it was

00:31:35.241 --> 00:31:37.123
it was good in a sense to

00:31:37.343 --> 00:31:39.084
see something like this again,

00:31:39.104 --> 00:31:41.705
I think as a community,

00:31:42.006 --> 00:31:43.067
we've gotten away from

00:31:43.146 --> 00:31:46.147
testing engine without

00:31:46.409 --> 00:31:48.869
leveraging machines a lot of the time.

00:31:50.191 --> 00:31:50.810
And you know,

00:31:50.851 --> 00:31:52.511
the older CrossFit programming,

00:31:53.692 --> 00:31:55.294
large chippers with a ton

00:31:55.314 --> 00:31:56.674
of reps with lighter weight

00:31:57.194 --> 00:31:58.096
kind of movements that you

00:31:58.115 --> 00:32:00.237
can still be cyclical with were a staple.

00:32:01.877 --> 00:32:01.958
Um,

00:32:04.009 --> 00:32:04.910
You're absolutely right, though.

00:32:04.930 --> 00:32:08.192
This was how well can you pace yourself?

00:32:08.792 --> 00:32:09.733
Can you sustain it?

00:32:10.513 --> 00:32:12.275
And there was absolutely nowhere to hide.

00:32:13.256 --> 00:32:16.018
If you didn't have the ability to sustain,

00:32:16.838 --> 00:32:18.359
be aerobic throughout this whole piece,

00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:20.020
keep moving on those burpees,

00:32:20.080 --> 00:32:21.362
keep moving through those wall balls,

00:32:22.143 --> 00:32:23.903
then you were just going to

00:32:23.923 --> 00:32:24.605
have a bad day.

00:32:25.786 --> 00:32:28.667
And I saw two types of athletes.

00:32:29.488 --> 00:32:31.349
The athletes that died on the last set

00:32:32.713 --> 00:32:33.714
the athletes who could pick

00:32:33.755 --> 00:32:36.176
up the pace just one gear

00:32:36.217 --> 00:32:38.077
higher just a smidge yep

00:32:38.278 --> 00:32:40.921
yeah yeah I mean speaking

00:32:40.980 --> 00:32:43.482
from like a you know an

00:32:43.563 --> 00:32:44.242
actual practical

00:32:44.282 --> 00:32:46.885
perspective when jacob and

00:32:47.046 --> 00:32:48.787
I game planned his pacing

00:32:48.826 --> 00:32:50.929
for this we basically game

00:32:50.969 --> 00:32:52.730
planned a 19-minute finish

00:32:53.990 --> 00:32:55.873
and he finished his first

00:32:55.952 --> 00:32:58.355
round exactly on pace

00:32:59.365 --> 00:33:00.208
And then he finished his

00:33:00.268 --> 00:33:03.232
second round exactly on pace.

00:33:04.855 --> 00:33:05.636
His score ended up being

00:33:05.676 --> 00:33:06.979
just over 19 minutes.

00:33:07.700 --> 00:33:08.642
And that's because when he

00:33:08.701 --> 00:33:09.703
started to pick it up,

00:33:10.204 --> 00:33:11.406
he jumped off the box.

00:33:14.010 --> 00:33:15.151
So he had to run around,

00:33:15.211 --> 00:33:16.132
do another burpee box up

00:33:16.192 --> 00:33:18.291
over and ended up, he would have been,

00:33:18.633 --> 00:33:22.294
you know, sub 19, but that to your point,

00:33:22.374 --> 00:33:24.134
that is how that workout should go,

00:33:24.434 --> 00:33:24.694
right?

00:33:24.755 --> 00:33:26.394
You should be on pace,

00:33:26.515 --> 00:33:29.215
perfectly holding steady,

00:33:29.955 --> 00:33:31.576
very uncomfortable from

00:33:31.656 --> 00:33:34.278
minute eight through,

00:33:34.577 --> 00:33:35.678
but not going to fall apart.

00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:37.538
And then somewhere in those

00:33:37.618 --> 00:33:38.659
last 50 burpees,

00:33:38.719 --> 00:33:41.359
depending on your level of fitness, you,

00:33:41.599 --> 00:33:43.340
you kind of bite down on the mouthpiece.

00:33:45.123 --> 00:33:45.883
As an athlete,

00:33:47.523 --> 00:33:49.505
what is the fear going

00:33:49.525 --> 00:33:50.925
through your head that

00:33:50.965 --> 00:33:52.526
you're going to notch up

00:33:52.546 --> 00:33:53.987
that gear just a hair too early?

00:33:56.008 --> 00:33:56.827
You can't come back.

00:33:57.608 --> 00:33:57.868
Right.

00:33:58.388 --> 00:33:59.128
You can't come back.

00:33:59.750 --> 00:33:59.950
I mean,

00:34:00.150 --> 00:34:03.050
so I got roped into doing this with

00:34:03.111 --> 00:34:04.291
some other Ascend athletes.

00:34:05.112 --> 00:34:08.974
And I finished my first round at 640,

00:34:08.974 --> 00:34:10.994
which is exactly on pace to finish.

00:34:11.873 --> 00:34:13.335
Looked at the clock and was like, well,

00:34:13.355 --> 00:34:14.295
that's not happening again.

00:34:14.916 --> 00:34:15.835
So just kind of muddled

00:34:15.896 --> 00:34:16.936
through the middle round.

00:34:17.356 --> 00:34:19.438
I was with another one of our athletes,

00:34:19.978 --> 00:34:22.219
Dion, going into the last wall balls.

00:34:22.780 --> 00:34:23.760
He got a little bit ahead of me.

00:34:24.561 --> 00:34:29.103
We had about a minute 15,

00:34:29.103 --> 00:34:31.605
a minute 30 on the burpees.

00:34:33.266 --> 00:34:35.447
And I said, I'm going to go get him.

00:34:36.527 --> 00:34:37.949
And I just started pushing my burpees.

00:34:38.851 --> 00:34:41.793
Did eight or nine, looked up the clock,

00:34:42.134 --> 00:34:44.556
and we had 45 seconds left.

00:34:45.596 --> 00:34:46.476
And I was like, crap.

00:34:47.597 --> 00:34:49.380
Because even that, for me, where I was at,

00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:50.860
I tipped over that red line.

00:34:51.681 --> 00:34:53.143
And then those last 45 seconds,

00:34:54.143 --> 00:34:56.545
I just had to go to moving

00:34:56.585 --> 00:34:57.445
and surviving pace.

00:34:57.746 --> 00:34:58.467
And then I tried to pick it

00:34:58.507 --> 00:34:59.708
up for a couple more at the end.

00:35:00.969 --> 00:35:01.869
So if you do that...

00:35:03.237 --> 00:35:03.456
you know,

00:35:03.476 --> 00:35:04.777
if you're on a pace to finish

00:35:04.818 --> 00:35:05.878
that workout and you're fit

00:35:05.918 --> 00:35:07.179
enough to finish that workout,

00:35:07.518 --> 00:35:09.199
but you do that on burpee box,

00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:12.900
jump over 10 of the last 50,

00:35:12.900 --> 00:35:13.762
that's a bad day.

00:35:16.523 --> 00:35:16.742
Yeah.

00:35:17.963 --> 00:35:18.244
All right.

00:35:18.443 --> 00:35:21.065
So we got to go here.

00:35:23.065 --> 00:35:25.847
Number three, my favorite one.

00:35:27.722 --> 00:35:28.922
Four time, three rounds,

00:35:28.922 --> 00:35:31.264
10 handstand push-ups, 20 toes to bar.

00:35:31.744 --> 00:35:33.726
Two rounds, 10 strict handstand push-ups,

00:35:34.186 --> 00:35:35.088
five rope climbs.

00:35:35.648 --> 00:35:36.108
One round,

00:35:36.108 --> 00:35:38.829
10 chest to wall handstand push-ups,

00:35:38.829 --> 00:35:40.492
20 muscle-ups.

00:35:40.911 --> 00:35:41.612
Time cap, 15 minutes.

00:35:43.108 --> 00:35:45.769
So this one was all gymnastics, right?

00:35:46.730 --> 00:35:46.929
So,

00:35:47.489 --> 00:35:49.851
and this is where I think it's good to

00:35:49.871 --> 00:35:50.710
start talking about how

00:35:50.731 --> 00:35:51.570
this all fits together.

00:35:51.751 --> 00:35:53.431
So we have a pure gymnastics workout.

00:35:53.972 --> 00:35:55.152
We had technically a

00:35:55.371 --> 00:35:56.833
weightlifting and gymnastics workout,

00:35:56.952 --> 00:35:58.152
but the stimulus was very

00:35:58.233 --> 00:35:59.152
aerobic and long.

00:36:00.313 --> 00:36:01.833
The time cap on this is long,

00:36:01.994 --> 00:36:03.934
but the competitive times is not long,

00:36:04.655 --> 00:36:04.815
right?

00:36:05.710 --> 00:36:07.592
And then we had that, what was it,

00:36:07.592 --> 00:36:08.914
15 minutes of work,

00:36:09.193 --> 00:36:10.215
but it was more power-based

00:36:10.255 --> 00:36:10.835
on the first one.

00:36:11.215 --> 00:36:12.215
You kind of had to really

00:36:12.275 --> 00:36:13.577
hustle for about three minutes,

00:36:14.097 --> 00:36:15.277
and then you could have

00:36:15.297 --> 00:36:16.099
your minute of recovery.

00:36:19.422 --> 00:36:21.443
I liked the progressive

00:36:21.503 --> 00:36:22.563
nature of the handstand

00:36:22.583 --> 00:36:24.244
pushup as a separator.

00:36:25.074 --> 00:36:27.335
in this workout I also liked

00:36:27.795 --> 00:36:29.557
the rope climb volume I

00:36:29.597 --> 00:36:31.418
thought it was appropriate

00:36:31.759 --> 00:36:34.661
for semi or for quarter

00:36:34.681 --> 00:36:37.204
final stage not something

00:36:37.264 --> 00:36:39.565
that you know is going to

00:36:39.606 --> 00:36:41.306
completely like you can't

00:36:41.387 --> 00:36:42.248
win this workout on the

00:36:42.288 --> 00:36:43.568
rope climbs but you can

00:36:43.648 --> 00:36:45.309
lose your score on the rope

00:36:45.349 --> 00:36:46.190
climbs if you're not

00:36:46.231 --> 00:36:49.413
proficient um and then

00:36:49.452 --> 00:36:52.496
finishing with 20 ring muscle ups I think

00:36:54.150 --> 00:36:55.570
This is something that we've

00:36:55.630 --> 00:36:56.951
seen over the last couple

00:36:57.010 --> 00:36:58.711
years of quarterfinals tests.

00:36:59.871 --> 00:37:01.713
We had the 21 wall facing

00:37:02.152 --> 00:37:03.293
last year on the first one,

00:37:03.353 --> 00:37:05.414
we had the nine rope climbs.

00:37:05.733 --> 00:37:06.894
So having some sort of a

00:37:06.994 --> 00:37:09.936
very taxing dense set of

00:37:10.016 --> 00:37:13.237
gymnastics to finish might

00:37:13.297 --> 00:37:14.677
be a trend that we continue

00:37:14.717 --> 00:37:15.838
to see rather than

00:37:15.938 --> 00:37:17.217
dispersing the volume

00:37:17.277 --> 00:37:19.179
throughout the workouts or

00:37:19.398 --> 00:37:22.099
a workout into more manageable sets.

00:37:24.346 --> 00:37:25.567
This was my favorite workout

00:37:25.606 --> 00:37:27.789
of quarterfinals as a test.

00:37:27.829 --> 00:37:28.911
I really liked this.

00:37:30.012 --> 00:37:33.376
I liked that athletes could

00:37:33.436 --> 00:37:34.418
play to their strengths a

00:37:34.438 --> 00:37:37.041
little bit on this one and

00:37:37.161 --> 00:37:39.523
still get competitive times

00:37:39.724 --> 00:37:40.485
for their regions.

00:37:41.717 --> 00:37:42.557
You didn't have to

00:37:42.597 --> 00:37:44.639
necessarily go unbroken on

00:37:44.778 --> 00:37:45.539
the toes to bar and the

00:37:45.579 --> 00:37:47.818
kipping or the strict, right?

00:37:47.838 --> 00:37:49.458
You didn't have to go as

00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:52.280
fast as you could on the rope climbs.

00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:53.639
It was more,

00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:54.900
how do you move through these

00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:57.481
first five rounds and set

00:37:57.521 --> 00:37:58.621
yourself up for success on

00:37:58.641 --> 00:37:59.501
those 20 muscle ups?

00:38:00.121 --> 00:38:01.481
And that strategy would be

00:38:01.561 --> 00:38:02.961
different for different athletes for,

00:38:03.641 --> 00:38:06.362
as an example for Jamie, right?

00:38:06.422 --> 00:38:10.463
We knew, okay, we got to get ahead, right?

00:38:10.987 --> 00:38:11.666
For Jacob,

00:38:12.228 --> 00:38:13.467
who ended up redoing this and

00:38:13.847 --> 00:38:15.048
did a lot better his second time,

00:38:15.128 --> 00:38:15.748
it was more,

00:38:16.230 --> 00:38:17.769
how do we have you better

00:38:18.371 --> 00:38:19.490
when you get to the rings,

00:38:20.791 --> 00:38:22.492
even if it's just around the same time,

00:38:22.672 --> 00:38:23.572
so that we can hold

00:38:24.153 --> 00:38:26.635
potentially better sets, right?

00:38:28.896 --> 00:38:29.456
I think, too,

00:38:29.655 --> 00:38:31.317
if you're the elite of the elite,

00:38:31.938 --> 00:38:33.358
this was a pure muscle-up

00:38:33.398 --> 00:38:35.259
workout and how you manage

00:38:35.278 --> 00:38:36.179
yourself to get there.

00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:37.601
If you...

00:38:38.846 --> 00:38:41.527
are a fringe semifinal athlete,

00:38:42.427 --> 00:38:44.967
it could be a couple things.

00:38:45.567 --> 00:38:46.887
There are two stoppers in

00:38:46.927 --> 00:38:48.248
this workout that if you're

00:38:48.268 --> 00:38:49.068
not proficient at,

00:38:49.447 --> 00:38:52.068
could stop you from being successful.

00:38:52.568 --> 00:38:53.588
And that is the handstand

00:38:53.608 --> 00:38:56.028
pushups or the rope climb.

00:38:59.989 --> 00:39:02.530
So I watched Jamie and Haley do this.

00:39:04.650 --> 00:39:06.030
They are very different athletes.

00:39:07.512 --> 00:39:08.512
Very different athletes.

00:39:10.253 --> 00:39:10.952
For Haley,

00:39:11.614 --> 00:39:12.695
it wasn't that the handstand

00:39:12.735 --> 00:39:13.735
push-ups stopped her.

00:39:14.275 --> 00:39:15.255
It just slowed her down.

00:39:15.315 --> 00:39:15.536
Yep.

00:39:17.498 --> 00:39:18.518
To where she gets to the

00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:19.418
ring muscle-ups and she

00:39:19.458 --> 00:39:20.699
just doesn't have a lot of time.

00:39:21.681 --> 00:39:21.880
Right.

00:39:23.282 --> 00:39:23.481
Right.

00:39:24.322 --> 00:39:26.123
She was proficient at the rope climbs,

00:39:27.364 --> 00:39:29.626
but side-by-side, her and Jamie... Like,

00:39:29.686 --> 00:39:31.567
Jamie is proficient at

00:39:31.788 --> 00:39:33.208
everything leading up to

00:39:33.648 --> 00:39:34.469
those muscle-ups.

00:39:34.989 --> 00:39:35.150
Mm-hmm.

00:39:35.849 --> 00:39:36.690
And it was about...

00:39:38.271 --> 00:39:39.391
could she string them together?

00:39:40.211 --> 00:39:40.391
Right.

00:39:40.711 --> 00:39:41.373
When she got there.

00:39:42.534 --> 00:39:42.693
Right.

00:39:44.735 --> 00:39:44.934
Yeah.

00:39:45.155 --> 00:39:45.275
I,

00:39:45.614 --> 00:39:47.996
I'm a big fan of rope climbs personally.

00:39:48.117 --> 00:39:50.378
I'm really glad they were in

00:39:50.438 --> 00:39:51.059
quarterfinals.

00:39:51.099 --> 00:39:52.418
I think it's a good thing to test.

00:39:52.498 --> 00:39:53.019
I don't think,

00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:54.460
I know there was some

00:39:54.501 --> 00:39:55.940
pushback on some other shows.

00:39:56.561 --> 00:39:57.521
Maybe it was barbell spin.

00:39:58.063 --> 00:39:59.083
And I thought I saw

00:39:59.163 --> 00:40:00.864
something else on another

00:40:00.903 --> 00:40:03.206
channel about rope climbs being a, um,

00:40:04.510 --> 00:40:05.911
uncommon movement or this

00:40:05.952 --> 00:40:06.672
that and the other and I

00:40:06.713 --> 00:40:08.233
thought it was perfect two

00:40:08.313 --> 00:40:10.255
weeks ish before

00:40:10.335 --> 00:40:11.757
quarterfinals the main site

00:40:11.777 --> 00:40:12.757
workout of the day was 30

00:40:12.757 --> 00:40:16.061
rope climbs for time so I

00:40:16.260 --> 00:40:17.121
I'm a big fan of rope

00:40:17.141 --> 00:40:18.623
climbs I program you can

00:40:18.663 --> 00:40:19.844
ask any of the any of the

00:40:19.905 --> 00:40:21.726
athletes I coach or a lot

00:40:21.766 --> 00:40:22.646
of our ascend athletes I

00:40:22.686 --> 00:40:23.467
program a lot of rope

00:40:23.487 --> 00:40:25.528
climbs uh I have a running

00:40:25.568 --> 00:40:26.630
joke if you're trying to be

00:40:26.670 --> 00:40:27.710
competitive rope climbs are

00:40:27.731 --> 00:40:28.811
a monostructural movement

00:40:29.132 --> 00:40:30.253
not a gymnastics movement

00:40:32.235 --> 00:40:33.396
you should just if you can

00:40:33.456 --> 00:40:34.677
get to a place on those

00:40:34.717 --> 00:40:35.579
rope climbs where you just

00:40:35.619 --> 00:40:37.820
breathe and move uh it's a

00:40:37.860 --> 00:40:40.344
game changer I'll tell you

00:40:40.384 --> 00:40:42.585
what I've seen a lot of

00:40:42.606 --> 00:40:44.387
crossfit in my days my

00:40:44.427 --> 00:40:46.228
co-host and my friend she

00:40:46.268 --> 00:40:48.030
can kick ass on rope climbs

00:40:48.650 --> 00:40:49.512
she's a monster at rope

00:40:49.552 --> 00:40:51.693
climbs dude oh my gosh I

00:40:51.733 --> 00:40:54.096
love it it is first as

00:40:54.155 --> 00:40:56.719
small as she is to be a two pool

00:40:58.190 --> 00:40:59.490
Rope climber is just insane.

00:40:59.911 --> 00:41:00.431
It's amazing.

00:41:00.692 --> 00:41:01.751
It makes me so happy every

00:41:01.791 --> 00:41:02.771
time I watch her do rope climbs.

00:41:04.592 --> 00:41:05.452
I get chills right now.

00:41:06.132 --> 00:41:06.333
Yeah.

00:41:06.893 --> 00:41:07.552
She's great at them.

00:41:08.173 --> 00:41:08.393
Yeah.

00:41:09.793 --> 00:41:12.375
So then we finish up with a workout four.

00:41:16.835 --> 00:41:18.155
And that is the ladder.

00:41:18.175 --> 00:41:18.235
Yep.

00:41:21.036 --> 00:41:24.757
So you talked, we had power output.

00:41:26.108 --> 00:41:30.050
We had the engine workout

00:41:30.490 --> 00:41:31.831
mixed modal engine test.

00:41:31.871 --> 00:41:32.032
Yeah.

00:41:32.391 --> 00:41:32.572
Yeah.

00:41:32.992 --> 00:41:34.793
We have the pure gymnastics

00:41:36.172 --> 00:41:37.494
and now we have pure barbell,

00:41:38.074 --> 00:41:39.434
pure barbell, single modality.

00:41:41.414 --> 00:41:44.096
So I actually had a

00:41:44.155 --> 00:41:45.016
conversation with one of

00:41:45.117 --> 00:41:47.498
our other coaches two days

00:41:47.557 --> 00:41:48.398
ago about this workout.

00:41:48.838 --> 00:41:51.840
Cause he, he's an Olympic lifter by trade.

00:41:51.860 --> 00:41:51.900
Um,

00:41:53.681 --> 00:41:55.320
done CrossFit for many years, um,

00:41:55.641 --> 00:41:56.481
been on some teams that

00:41:56.501 --> 00:41:57.342
have been to the games and

00:41:57.561 --> 00:41:58.121
stuff like that,

00:41:58.202 --> 00:42:00.101
but he is a very purist

00:42:00.121 --> 00:42:01.003
when it comes to weightlifting.

00:42:01.043 --> 00:42:01.943
And he was making the

00:42:02.063 --> 00:42:03.382
argument to me that this

00:42:03.543 --> 00:42:04.603
isn't a strength workout.

00:42:06.164 --> 00:42:08.483
Um, and I disagree.

00:42:08.744 --> 00:42:09.065
I think,

00:42:09.284 --> 00:42:10.605
especially at the quarterfinal level,

00:42:10.985 --> 00:42:12.445
this very much was a strength test.

00:42:12.824 --> 00:42:14.766
It did the job of testing strength.

00:42:14.786 --> 00:42:15.606
Um,

00:42:17.047 --> 00:42:18.007
Jacob finished this.

00:42:18.768 --> 00:42:20.329
He went in with a really, really good plan,

00:42:20.449 --> 00:42:21.289
executed really well.

00:42:21.389 --> 00:42:22.610
Hattie had a similar plan,

00:42:23.989 --> 00:42:24.931
a little bit more variance

00:42:24.951 --> 00:42:25.630
in her strategy.

00:42:25.690 --> 00:42:27.210
But the first thing Jacob

00:42:27.251 --> 00:42:28.291
said to me after he got up

00:42:28.331 --> 00:42:28.931
off the floor was,

00:42:29.072 --> 00:42:30.351
you can't do well at that

00:42:30.411 --> 00:42:31.112
and not be strong.

00:42:34.414 --> 00:42:35.893
And he's 100% correct.

00:42:36.054 --> 00:42:37.715
So this tested strength in a

00:42:37.855 --> 00:42:38.835
CrossFit manner,

00:42:39.235 --> 00:42:40.735
you had a buy-in of grace

00:42:40.976 --> 00:42:41.815
at ascending load.

00:42:43.134 --> 00:42:45.635
And then you had to AMRAP

00:42:45.635 --> 00:42:47.195
245 as many times as you could,

00:42:47.356 --> 00:42:49.197
or 165 for the ladies as

00:42:49.257 --> 00:42:50.018
many times you could in the

00:42:50.057 --> 00:42:50.657
remaining time.

00:42:51.177 --> 00:42:51.679
So it was a very

00:42:51.818 --> 00:42:53.559
cross-fitting way to test strength,

00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:54.219
but I think it was an

00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:56.340
appropriate way to test

00:42:56.380 --> 00:42:58.742
strength at this corner final stage,

00:42:58.862 --> 00:42:59.963
especially with a bigger

00:43:00.043 --> 00:43:02.264
pool of athletes relative

00:43:02.364 --> 00:43:04.826
to a one rep max or something like that.

00:43:04.865 --> 00:43:05.947
Cause you could have had people,

00:43:06.367 --> 00:43:06.746
if they would have

00:43:06.766 --> 00:43:07.987
programmed a pure one RM

00:43:08.827 --> 00:43:09.588
that didn't have any kind

00:43:09.608 --> 00:43:10.548
of fitness requirement,

00:43:10.929 --> 00:43:11.889
you could have had people who

00:43:14.041 --> 00:43:18.463
maybe barely did four rounds

00:43:18.704 --> 00:43:20.485
on the previous workout and

00:43:20.525 --> 00:43:22.326
then could have just smoked

00:43:22.385 --> 00:43:24.628
a 370-pound clean and jerk.

00:43:26.548 --> 00:43:27.909
I know athletes at local

00:43:27.929 --> 00:43:30.632
gyms in Houston who have that potential.

00:43:32.092 --> 00:43:34.253
So I think this balanced

00:43:34.755 --> 00:43:36.356
things well for the

00:43:36.456 --> 00:43:37.757
leaderboard needing to

00:43:39.092 --> 00:43:39.934
the people who are strong

00:43:39.974 --> 00:43:41.014
enough and fit enough,

00:43:41.175 --> 00:43:42.135
we're going to place very

00:43:42.175 --> 00:43:42.896
well in this test.

00:43:43.516 --> 00:43:43.715
Right.

00:43:46.277 --> 00:43:48.079
And I actually, I did this one as well.

00:43:48.199 --> 00:43:49.940
And Jacob and I had a good

00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:50.661
conversation about it.

00:43:50.681 --> 00:43:52.603
Cause he like watched me slash judged me.

00:43:53.583 --> 00:43:56.425
And so Jacob got 28 reps.

00:43:58.286 --> 00:43:59.027
I got six.

00:44:00.608 --> 00:44:01.610
That's the difference.

00:44:02.289 --> 00:44:02.771
But that,

00:44:02.891 --> 00:44:04.311
that perfectly highlights the

00:44:04.371 --> 00:44:06.032
difference between it being

00:44:06.072 --> 00:44:08.375
a strength test and a fitness test.

00:44:10.563 --> 00:44:10.762
right?

00:44:11.282 --> 00:44:11.782
For him,

00:44:12.242 --> 00:44:14.403
he had to be fit enough to keep

00:44:14.483 --> 00:44:15.244
moving that bar.

00:44:17.125 --> 00:44:18.085
I just not strong enough.

00:44:18.364 --> 00:44:18.925
It doesn't matter.

00:44:19.724 --> 00:44:19.905
Yeah.

00:44:20.585 --> 00:44:20.786
Right.

00:44:21.326 --> 00:44:22.445
So I actually really liked

00:44:22.465 --> 00:44:23.025
how they did this.

00:44:23.126 --> 00:44:24.266
I did think it was interesting.

00:44:24.405 --> 00:44:25.586
And I guess this bleeds into

00:44:26.367 --> 00:44:27.367
probably one of my biggest

00:44:27.407 --> 00:44:28.748
takeaways from the test.

00:44:28.788 --> 00:44:29.467
I thought it was interesting

00:44:29.487 --> 00:44:30.628
that it was single modality,

00:44:32.307 --> 00:44:34.068
even though it had some volume to it.

00:44:35.208 --> 00:44:37.690
So when we zoom out, so let me,

00:44:38.820 --> 00:44:40.181
Reset this conversation.

00:44:40.762 --> 00:44:41.422
Coming into this,

00:44:41.983 --> 00:44:43.164
you made the claim that

00:44:43.184 --> 00:44:44.425
this was the most important

00:44:45.065 --> 00:44:46.327
programming that CrossFit

00:44:46.347 --> 00:44:48.028
was going to do because of

00:44:48.088 --> 00:44:51.032
the short window for people

00:44:51.052 --> 00:44:52.452
to qualify for semifinals

00:44:53.012 --> 00:44:54.094
and how many people were

00:44:54.114 --> 00:44:55.295
going to be competing.

00:44:56.036 --> 00:44:57.577
It had to be perfectly programmed.

00:44:59.059 --> 00:45:02.161
Did CrossFit meet that expectation?

00:45:02.181 --> 00:45:02.222
Go.

00:45:04.675 --> 00:45:05.717
I would say yes with an

00:45:05.896 --> 00:45:07.858
asterisk just because of

00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:10.280
all of the shenanigans

00:45:10.661 --> 00:45:13.103
surrounding the step-ups.

00:45:14.224 --> 00:45:18.708
From an energy system, loading, skill,

00:45:20.068 --> 00:45:22.471
testing, balance testing, yes.

00:45:23.711 --> 00:45:24.853
I think they did a very good job.

00:45:25.893 --> 00:45:28.235
I think from testing the

00:45:28.356 --> 00:45:29.516
fitness perspective,

00:45:31.139 --> 00:45:32.440
the right people are moving on.

00:45:34.447 --> 00:45:34.628
right?

00:45:35.268 --> 00:45:36.268
Even those people who got

00:45:36.329 --> 00:45:37.509
bonked out because of a penalty,

00:45:37.849 --> 00:45:38.570
if they were in,

00:45:38.590 --> 00:45:41.550
I think they fit that bill, right?

00:45:45.253 --> 00:45:46.273
I was very pleased with the

00:45:46.313 --> 00:45:47.153
workouts overall,

00:45:47.233 --> 00:45:48.994
especially after things

00:45:49.034 --> 00:45:49.675
have actually kind of

00:45:49.715 --> 00:45:50.675
calmed down and I could sit

00:45:50.715 --> 00:45:52.235
and kind of think about them a lot more.

00:45:53.257 --> 00:45:54.317
Something that I thought was

00:45:54.476 --> 00:45:57.119
interesting that is a

00:45:57.199 --> 00:45:58.119
little bit different from

00:45:58.159 --> 00:45:59.760
what we've seen in the past is

00:46:01.072 --> 00:46:01.532
To me,

00:46:01.592 --> 00:46:03.034
when you look at these four workouts

00:46:03.094 --> 00:46:03.873
on a piece of paper,

00:46:03.893 --> 00:46:07.737
it is almost like a CrossFit combine.

00:46:10.338 --> 00:46:12.300
So you have an interval test

00:46:13.322 --> 00:46:15.262
that requires high power output.

00:46:16.643 --> 00:46:20.186
You have a long aerobic test

00:46:20.608 --> 00:46:23.028
that requires muscle endurance, right?

00:46:23.088 --> 00:46:23.690
And bounding.

00:46:24.951 --> 00:46:28.594
Then you have a pure gymnastics test.

00:46:31.092 --> 00:46:33.052
with varied skill and things like that.

00:46:33.672 --> 00:46:34.833
And then you have a pure

00:46:35.112 --> 00:46:35.992
single modality

00:46:36.052 --> 00:46:37.713
weightlifting test that

00:46:37.773 --> 00:46:39.333
requires both strength and fitness.

00:46:40.514 --> 00:46:41.393
A lot of times in

00:46:41.454 --> 00:46:42.733
quarterfinals of the past,

00:46:43.295 --> 00:46:45.355
we've seen loading and

00:46:45.534 --> 00:46:47.054
skill much more evenly

00:46:47.114 --> 00:46:49.115
distributed throughout the workouts.

00:46:49.195 --> 00:46:49.576
Last year,

00:46:49.596 --> 00:46:52.737
we had crossovers and 70 pound

00:46:53.056 --> 00:46:54.157
dumbbell snatch for the men,

00:46:54.157 --> 00:46:55.297
50 pounds for the ladies.

00:46:55.356 --> 00:46:58.157
We had heavy front squats with gymnastics.

00:46:58.197 --> 00:46:59.157
We had moderate to

00:47:00.168 --> 00:47:01.230
moderate to kind of heavy

00:47:01.309 --> 00:47:03.371
deadlifts with gymnastics.

00:47:04.012 --> 00:47:05.534
And then we had the row GHD

00:47:05.594 --> 00:47:06.934
is kind of this longer test.

00:47:07.936 --> 00:47:10.097
When we look at this year and last year,

00:47:10.117 --> 00:47:12.739
it's kind of pretty

00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:14.041
different in how they

00:47:14.860 --> 00:47:17.704
structured these pieces in the testing,

00:47:18.623 --> 00:47:19.364
but it's still,

00:47:19.465 --> 00:47:20.905
I think did a very good job.

00:47:21.045 --> 00:47:22.226
Obviously your athletes that

00:47:22.246 --> 00:47:23.548
are on the bubble and

00:47:23.648 --> 00:47:24.929
fighting for those bubble spots,

00:47:25.690 --> 00:47:27.172
the programming structure

00:47:27.231 --> 00:47:28.311
matters a lot more than,

00:47:29.306 --> 00:47:30.907
for them to perform and, you know,

00:47:30.927 --> 00:47:32.106
possibly punch a ticket.

00:47:33.126 --> 00:47:34.847
But I just thought it was an

00:47:34.887 --> 00:47:35.708
interesting observation

00:47:36.827 --> 00:47:37.929
that it kind of seemed to

00:47:37.969 --> 00:47:40.628
me like they were testing

00:47:40.789 --> 00:47:42.369
specific different modality

00:47:42.449 --> 00:47:44.250
or different themes of CrossFit,

00:47:44.289 --> 00:47:46.771
so to speak, in each, you know,

00:47:46.871 --> 00:47:47.590
each of these tests.

00:47:47.630 --> 00:47:48.711
But then when you put it all together,

00:47:48.751 --> 00:47:51.333
it's relatively well-rounded, I think.

00:47:51.932 --> 00:47:54.612
Kenneth says, that was an awesome analogy,

00:47:54.793 --> 00:47:55.773
CrossFit Combine.

00:47:56.766 --> 00:47:57.186
Thank you.

00:47:57.206 --> 00:47:58.786
It kind of is right.

00:47:58.806 --> 00:47:59.686
Like that's what they're

00:47:59.706 --> 00:48:00.668
trying to do anyway.

00:48:01.148 --> 00:48:02.268
They're trying to show the

00:48:02.329 --> 00:48:05.590
talent of these athletes to

00:48:05.630 --> 00:48:06.309
make sure they get the

00:48:06.389 --> 00:48:08.271
right people onto the next round.

00:48:09.331 --> 00:48:09.751
Yeah.

00:48:10.411 --> 00:48:11.072
And I mean,

00:48:11.112 --> 00:48:12.152
if we're going to continue with

00:48:12.172 --> 00:48:14.034
this kind of combine thought process,

00:48:14.094 --> 00:48:16.375
combine analogy to me,

00:48:16.434 --> 00:48:17.956
if there's a stage where you want that,

00:48:18.076 --> 00:48:18.775
it is quarterfinals.

00:48:20.896 --> 00:48:21.735
What's your bench test?

00:48:21.775 --> 00:48:23.056
What's your 40, right?

00:48:23.117 --> 00:48:24.177
Let me see you run a route.

00:48:24.858 --> 00:48:26.157
Let me see that stuff before

00:48:26.217 --> 00:48:28.398
you go off to the big leagues.

00:48:29.219 --> 00:48:30.460
What do the athletes at the

00:48:30.900 --> 00:48:31.980
NFL Combine call it?

00:48:32.481 --> 00:48:33.081
A cattle call.

00:48:34.021 --> 00:48:34.882
Right.

00:48:34.882 --> 00:48:35.922
25% of the people in the open,

00:48:36.362 --> 00:48:37.623
a huge amount of people

00:48:37.983 --> 00:48:38.983
that you need to funnel

00:48:39.023 --> 00:48:40.364
down to the people that are

00:48:40.384 --> 00:48:41.724
going to be drafted in the NFL.

00:48:42.103 --> 00:48:42.284
Right.

00:48:44.385 --> 00:48:45.306
I love that analogy.

00:48:48.106 --> 00:48:48.347
Yeah.

00:48:50.056 --> 00:48:53.677
I like, I love the tests as a fan.

00:48:54.358 --> 00:48:54.978
What always,

00:48:56.099 --> 00:48:57.039
they always seem to do a

00:48:57.099 --> 00:48:58.780
pretty good job at this level.

00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:00.800
And it's the level that we

00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:04.461
don't get to see as a fan.

00:49:06.322 --> 00:49:09.402
And it's the one I want to see the most.

00:49:11.244 --> 00:49:11.463
Yeah.

00:49:13.503 --> 00:49:13.724
Yeah.

00:49:13.985 --> 00:49:15.085
I mean, I, I,

00:49:17.532 --> 00:49:19.353
I love every athlete that I coach,

00:49:19.494 --> 00:49:21.394
but I will always have a

00:49:21.454 --> 00:49:22.476
special place in my heart

00:49:22.516 --> 00:49:23.556
for the athlete who is

00:49:24.338 --> 00:49:25.378
clawing with everything

00:49:25.438 --> 00:49:26.818
they have to go to semifinals.

00:49:28.701 --> 00:49:30.101
And they just get no love.

00:49:31.682 --> 00:49:32.983
And it's the most stressful

00:49:33.023 --> 00:49:34.606
because you're waiting a

00:49:35.485 --> 00:49:38.248
week for everything to shuffle.

00:49:38.268 --> 00:49:40.190
They're still waiting to see

00:49:40.230 --> 00:49:41.831
who's accepting and who's declining.

00:49:42.271 --> 00:49:43.273
Have you seen Halpin's thing

00:49:43.313 --> 00:49:44.733
about the team alternates?

00:49:46.362 --> 00:49:46.902
Yeah, it's like,

00:49:47.244 --> 00:49:48.864
I guess there's some issue

00:49:48.925 --> 00:49:51.545
with people who are on a team,

00:49:51.666 --> 00:49:53.027
but like roster,

00:49:53.706 --> 00:49:54.987
but listed as the alternate,

00:49:55.068 --> 00:49:56.309
not being able to sign up

00:49:56.588 --> 00:49:58.010
and accept their individual invite.

00:49:58.090 --> 00:49:58.610
I have no idea.

00:49:58.989 --> 00:49:59.811
That was the gist of his

00:49:59.831 --> 00:50:00.891
story that I briefly read.

00:50:02.512 --> 00:50:03.632
I think it's by tomorrow.

00:50:03.693 --> 00:50:04.313
They have to,

00:50:04.454 --> 00:50:06.134
they have to declare team or individual.

00:50:06.755 --> 00:50:08.356
Also, I have no idea what's happening,

00:50:08.396 --> 00:50:09.757
but Madison just called me.

00:50:09.976 --> 00:50:11.137
One of my team athletes just

00:50:11.177 --> 00:50:12.458
text me and one of my team

00:50:12.478 --> 00:50:13.259
group chats went off.

00:50:13.699 --> 00:50:14.840
So I bet the team workouts

00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:15.519
just got released.

00:50:18.168 --> 00:50:18.509
Okay.

00:50:20.309 --> 00:50:21.050
Oh, I love it.

00:50:21.070 --> 00:50:22.811
Um, fun.

00:50:24.550 --> 00:50:25.811
I do think one thing I will

00:50:25.831 --> 00:50:28.452
say about quarterfinals before, you know,

00:50:28.472 --> 00:50:30.454
we, we move on or do whatnot.

00:50:31.514 --> 00:50:32.193
I think it's really

00:50:32.213 --> 00:50:35.574
unfortunate that whether

00:50:35.594 --> 00:50:36.295
it's just because of the

00:50:36.376 --> 00:50:37.896
shock value of people

00:50:37.936 --> 00:50:39.097
getting penalties this year

00:50:39.177 --> 00:50:39.976
relative to years in the

00:50:40.016 --> 00:50:41.918
past or whatever we want to

00:50:41.998 --> 00:50:44.259
put the onus on for what happened with,

00:50:44.498 --> 00:50:44.978
with that, um,

00:50:46.208 --> 00:50:47.309
I think because of that,

00:50:48.110 --> 00:50:51.052
no one is talking about the

00:50:51.112 --> 00:50:53.074
programming other than in a

00:50:53.153 --> 00:50:54.554
bad light with one workout.

00:50:54.574 --> 00:50:56.735
And really,

00:50:58.137 --> 00:50:59.858
there's a lot of bitching going on.

00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:02.840
But if Paige Powers isn't

00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:04.081
one of the people penalized,

00:51:04.721 --> 00:51:07.322
it doesn't even make the front page.

00:51:09.264 --> 00:51:09.844
I said this,

00:51:11.085 --> 00:51:12.806
and I mean this with no disrespect.

00:51:13.286 --> 00:51:14.967
I would feel the same way if

00:51:15.027 --> 00:51:15.989
it was one of my athletes.

00:51:17.795 --> 00:51:19.217
CrossFit got along just fine

00:51:19.557 --> 00:51:21.840
before Paige Powers was doing CrossFit.

00:51:22.219 --> 00:51:23.981
We will be okay.

00:51:24.101 --> 00:51:24.601
It sucks.

00:51:25.041 --> 00:51:25.443
I get it.

00:51:26.603 --> 00:51:29.346
But people really just kind

00:51:29.365 --> 00:51:30.686
of went crazy with some of this stuff.

00:51:31.288 --> 00:51:33.150
I love Paige Powers.

00:51:33.250 --> 00:51:34.570
She is one of my favorite athletes.

00:51:36.112 --> 00:51:38.014
She came on the show early in her career.

00:51:40.356 --> 00:51:41.876
She's a monster, dude.

00:51:42.498 --> 00:51:43.739
But if...

00:51:47.677 --> 00:51:48.938
just uh chase and bill gave

00:51:48.978 --> 00:51:49.998
the programming praise too

00:51:50.340 --> 00:51:51.559
I'm glad I didn't get to

00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:52.681
watch their show I do

00:51:52.940 --> 00:51:54.322
obviously being a super

00:51:54.342 --> 00:51:55.382
nerd usually try to tune

00:51:55.422 --> 00:51:56.322
into their programming

00:51:56.362 --> 00:51:58.184
shows and stuff but uh I

00:51:58.204 --> 00:51:58.943
didn't get to catch that

00:51:59.023 --> 00:52:01.306
one so I use that as a here

00:52:01.346 --> 00:52:03.327
they are oh boy all right

00:52:06.697 --> 00:52:08.038
These are the semifinal team

00:52:08.177 --> 00:52:10.619
athletes or team workouts.

00:52:11.438 --> 00:52:12.159
So I guess we'll go,

00:52:12.259 --> 00:52:13.219
we'll go through these real

00:52:13.239 --> 00:52:14.380
quick and get your first impression.

00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:15.000
Okay.

00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:16.840
I do have to go at the top of the hour.

00:52:16.860 --> 00:52:18.739
So we have about 10 minutes.

00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:20.681
All right.

00:52:20.701 --> 00:52:25.342
Um, so team event one, 30 rope climbs,

00:52:25.342 --> 00:52:28.822
120 wall facing handstand pushups,

00:52:28.822 --> 00:52:30.103
150 calorie echo bike,

00:52:30.103 --> 00:52:32.802
48 foot handstand walk accumulated.

00:52:32.943 --> 00:52:33.402
Anyhow,

00:52:33.963 --> 00:52:35.903
non-working athletes must hold the worm.

00:52:37.731 --> 00:52:39.371
So I'm imagining that's one

00:52:39.510 --> 00:52:40.532
athlete working at a time.

00:52:41.791 --> 00:52:42.211
Or two.

00:52:42.911 --> 00:52:43.371
No one?

00:52:44.731 --> 00:52:47.972
Two might be a tall ask at semifinals.

00:52:48.032 --> 00:52:48.773
Holding the worm with two

00:52:48.793 --> 00:52:49.612
people is really hard.

00:52:50.673 --> 00:52:52.034
Team event two.

00:52:52.713 --> 00:52:54.034
Three cleans.

00:52:54.233 --> 00:52:55.655
Two front squats, one jerk.

00:52:56.755 --> 00:52:58.255
So barbell complex.

00:52:59.135 --> 00:52:59.976
So it's a clean and jerk.

00:53:00.976 --> 00:53:01.536
Basically.

00:53:04.077 --> 00:53:04.297
Okay.

00:53:04.317 --> 00:53:04.456
Yeah.

00:53:06.847 --> 00:53:07.967
uh team event three five

00:53:08.027 --> 00:53:10.387
rounds for time 800 meter

00:53:10.427 --> 00:53:13.648
run 15 worm thrusters so

00:53:13.668 --> 00:53:15.628
we'll have runners there's

00:53:15.668 --> 00:53:18.128
that two and a half mile

00:53:18.168 --> 00:53:24.710
run and team event four

00:53:26.570 --> 00:53:28.050
four time male female pair

00:53:28.170 --> 00:53:30.032
one three rounds 30 calorie

00:53:30.072 --> 00:53:31.472
row 30 overhead squats

00:53:32.543 --> 00:53:34.784
Male-female pair, 290-calorie row,

00:53:34.784 --> 00:53:36.806
90 overhead squats.

00:53:36.947 --> 00:53:37.527
What's the load?

00:53:37.547 --> 00:53:37.527
125, 185.

00:53:39.648 --> 00:53:39.768
Shoo!

00:53:39.789 --> 00:53:39.849
90 at 185?

00:53:39.889 --> 00:53:40.869
Well, I imagine that's split.

00:53:40.889 --> 00:53:41.289
Yeah.

00:53:41.610 --> 00:53:42.110
Yeah.

00:53:42.130 --> 00:53:43.552
It doesn't say synchro, so...

00:53:55.885 --> 00:53:57.465
Event five, four rounds for time,

00:53:57.565 --> 00:53:59.568
five synchro muscle-ups pair one,

00:54:00.188 --> 00:54:01.849
five synchro muscle-ups pair two,

00:54:01.849 --> 00:54:03.630
10 worm clean and jerks,

00:54:03.630 --> 00:54:06.273
15 synchro burpees over the worm,

00:54:06.974 --> 00:54:08.936
one section worm walking lunge.

00:54:09.956 --> 00:54:10.376
I like that.

00:54:13.239 --> 00:54:14.039
And that is it.

00:54:15.141 --> 00:54:15.380
Okay.

00:54:15.681 --> 00:54:16.041
Interesting.

00:54:18.583 --> 00:54:20.204
Only five events instead of six.

00:54:21.206 --> 00:54:21.606
Called that.

00:54:21.726 --> 00:54:22.766
They're only competing two days.

00:54:24.675 --> 00:54:25.655
Is that enough to get the

00:54:25.695 --> 00:54:26.476
best of the games?

00:54:28.257 --> 00:54:28.496
Yes.

00:54:29.818 --> 00:54:30.978
Yeah, I think so.

00:54:31.478 --> 00:54:32.318
I think the difference

00:54:32.398 --> 00:54:33.820
between the top tier teams

00:54:34.619 --> 00:54:36.561
and the bottom is there's a

00:54:36.581 --> 00:54:37.260
pretty big gap.

00:54:37.800 --> 00:54:38.141
Yeah,

00:54:38.221 --> 00:54:39.481
I think just briefly thinking about

00:54:39.501 --> 00:54:41.222
these workouts, your top tier teams,

00:54:41.242 --> 00:54:41.742
you're going to have

00:54:41.762 --> 00:54:42.603
significantly different

00:54:42.643 --> 00:54:47.085
scores for sure on this workout,

00:54:47.164 --> 00:54:48.085
the run workout.

00:54:50.905 --> 00:54:51.365
Carolyn,

00:54:51.405 --> 00:54:53.266
do we like the next lift for five events?

00:54:55.878 --> 00:54:58.221
So full disclosure, myself as a coach,

00:54:58.541 --> 00:55:01.483
I'm kind of tired of testing max lifts.

00:55:01.842 --> 00:55:02.764
I would much rather see

00:55:02.824 --> 00:55:03.864
moderate to heavy barbells

00:55:03.923 --> 00:55:05.065
paired with high skill or

00:55:05.105 --> 00:55:05.666
something like that.

00:55:05.706 --> 00:55:06.226
At this point,

00:55:06.326 --> 00:55:07.206
I just think we could use a

00:55:07.266 --> 00:55:08.106
change for a couple of years.

00:55:08.527 --> 00:55:09.208
That being said,

00:55:09.228 --> 00:55:11.168
I think there's a strong

00:55:11.248 --> 00:55:13.990
argument to make that it's

00:55:14.030 --> 00:55:15.371
going to impact the leaderboard,

00:55:15.932 --> 00:55:17.172
but they haven't really

00:55:17.233 --> 00:55:18.753
rewarded the teams for

00:55:18.815 --> 00:55:20.094
being strong at any point

00:55:20.135 --> 00:55:21.115
in the season so far.

00:55:21.135 --> 00:55:21.735
And again,

00:55:22.724 --> 00:55:23.726
with there only being four

00:55:23.766 --> 00:55:24.706
stages of the season,

00:55:24.846 --> 00:55:26.047
open quarter semis games,

00:55:26.387 --> 00:55:27.708
how long can we make the

00:55:27.809 --> 00:55:29.349
argument that you're not

00:55:29.389 --> 00:55:30.610
allowed to have a max lift yet?

00:55:34.193 --> 00:55:36.454
So I kind of see both sides of that, but.

00:55:41.097 --> 00:55:41.318
Lex,

00:55:41.378 --> 00:55:43.338
that's the same complex Indy had before.

00:55:43.358 --> 00:55:44.900
I do believe it is.

00:55:45.181 --> 00:55:45.641
I think so.

00:55:45.681 --> 00:55:45.880
Yeah.

00:55:48.643 --> 00:55:48.682
In,

00:55:50.677 --> 00:55:51.759
Interesting that they're

00:55:51.798 --> 00:55:53.380
doing clean and jerk after

00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:55.059
the teams did deadlifts and

00:55:55.099 --> 00:55:56.960
shoulder to overhead in quarterfinals,

00:55:57.041 --> 00:55:58.702
which is relatively similar

00:55:58.742 --> 00:55:59.322
movement patterns.

00:56:00.623 --> 00:56:01.184
Full disclosure,

00:56:01.224 --> 00:56:02.764
I was kind of expecting a snatch.

00:56:08.608 --> 00:56:09.648
It's the year of the clean and jerk.

00:56:12.090 --> 00:56:13.851
Max lifts do get the crowd going for sure.

00:56:14.661 --> 00:56:15.862
Maybe the Indies will have a

00:56:15.902 --> 00:56:16.764
snatch variation.

00:56:16.784 --> 00:56:19.465
I think that would be, to me,

00:56:20.186 --> 00:56:23.527
a wee bit too repetitive if

00:56:23.568 --> 00:56:24.949
we had clean and jerk in

00:56:25.009 --> 00:56:26.530
quarterfinals for max reps

00:56:26.570 --> 00:56:27.710
at a moderately heavy load

00:56:27.851 --> 00:56:29.353
and then a clean and jerk 1RM.

00:56:31.273 --> 00:56:33.476
So this is my argument to Wad Zombie,

00:56:34.675 --> 00:56:34.856
right?

00:56:35.536 --> 00:56:37.378
So I've been in the Coliseum

00:56:37.458 --> 00:56:38.239
for some max lift.

00:56:38.358 --> 00:56:39.460
I was there for the sandbag.

00:56:39.960 --> 00:56:40.780
I was there for...

00:56:42.478 --> 00:56:42.818
A lot.

00:56:42.918 --> 00:56:43.097
And the,

00:56:43.237 --> 00:56:44.358
and the roof comes off the

00:56:44.398 --> 00:56:45.579
building in the Coliseum.

00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:49.601
I would argue that the 400 meter,

00:56:49.721 --> 00:56:52.061
not really run into the

00:56:52.202 --> 00:56:53.202
clean and jerk ladder or

00:56:53.222 --> 00:56:55.483
the clean ladder got the

00:56:55.543 --> 00:57:00.324
fans just as hyped as a max lift.

00:57:00.905 --> 00:57:01.085
Yeah.

00:57:01.485 --> 00:57:03.226
And it had a fitness component to it.

00:57:05.686 --> 00:57:05.867
Yeah.

00:57:09.009 --> 00:57:09.768
I'm okay.

00:57:12.478 --> 00:57:14.440
The worm thruster and worm

00:57:14.460 --> 00:57:16.240
clean and jerk is fitness, not strength.

00:57:17.541 --> 00:57:18.963
I have athletes I coach who

00:57:19.023 --> 00:57:20.284
do not have the largest

00:57:20.324 --> 00:57:21.186
clean and jerk in the world,

00:57:21.306 --> 00:57:22.547
and they can absolutely

00:57:23.226 --> 00:57:25.469
hold it together with their

00:57:25.489 --> 00:57:26.750
team doing worm clean and jerks.

00:57:27.650 --> 00:57:28.771
So, yes.

00:57:30.233 --> 00:57:32.434
But I think for most teams

00:57:32.474 --> 00:57:33.695
who are competitive at this point,

00:57:33.755 --> 00:57:36.978
the worm is a test of synchronicity,

00:57:37.059 --> 00:57:37.358
fitness,

00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:38.701
and muscle endurance rather than

00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:39.081
strength.

00:57:39.581 --> 00:57:39.922
Unless they...

00:57:40.608 --> 00:57:41.710
bring out that crazy thing

00:57:41.730 --> 00:57:42.931
that was sectioned out and

00:57:43.311 --> 00:57:44.632
we watch everybody get their ass kicked.

00:57:46.635 --> 00:57:48.076
Now that brought the crowd to their feet.

00:57:48.916 --> 00:57:49.157
Yeah.

00:57:49.277 --> 00:57:49.838
People were scared.

00:57:49.858 --> 00:57:50.637
Someone's going to die.

00:57:50.657 --> 00:57:52.099
Yeah.

00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:54.942
Um, as I said yesterday on coffee pods,

00:57:55.143 --> 00:57:56.664
nobody watches sports for safety.

00:57:57.625 --> 00:57:58.246
This is true.

00:57:59.166 --> 00:57:59.367
Just,

00:57:59.467 --> 00:58:00.987
just remember the people like me who

00:58:01.027 --> 00:58:01.668
are in the back, like,

00:58:05.706 --> 00:58:06.626
Carolyn is not happy.

00:58:07.106 --> 00:58:07.887
She's not happy.

00:58:08.007 --> 00:58:08.989
I don't disagree.

00:58:09.088 --> 00:58:11.190
And I, I haven't,

00:58:12.130 --> 00:58:12.972
I haven't looked at it more

00:58:13.012 --> 00:58:15.333
than what we just saw, but it does.

00:58:15.353 --> 00:58:17.255
I mean, you have muscle up handstand,

00:58:17.275 --> 00:58:22.380
push up, clean and jerk thruster worm.

00:58:22.539 --> 00:58:22.739
Yeah.

00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:25.581
So a good bit of overhead work,

00:58:26.282 --> 00:58:28.043
which I mean, they did dumbbell snatch,

00:58:28.804 --> 00:58:29.505
shouldered overhead.

00:58:30.545 --> 00:58:32.327
ring muscle up premium on

00:58:32.367 --> 00:58:33.648
ring muscle ups at this

00:58:33.708 --> 00:58:38.971
point um handstand push-ups

00:58:39.030 --> 00:58:43.253
in quarterfinals so yeah I

00:58:43.273 --> 00:58:44.355
would say that she's on to

00:58:44.394 --> 00:58:44.954
something there with

00:58:45.014 --> 00:58:46.195
potentially some redundant

00:58:46.275 --> 00:58:50.137
overhead work um Carolyn

00:58:50.157 --> 00:58:51.719
says I'm not saying I'm not

00:58:51.759 --> 00:58:53.119
happy I'm just looking at

00:58:53.159 --> 00:58:55.320
movement patterns Carolyn

00:58:55.400 --> 00:58:57.061
I'm still salty that you

00:58:57.101 --> 00:58:58.242
got way more votes than I

00:58:58.282 --> 00:58:59.483
did on our drafted teams

00:59:05.994 --> 00:59:08.454
I like two and a half mile run.

00:59:08.514 --> 00:59:10.235
I'll be interested to dive into the,

00:59:10.976 --> 00:59:12.137
the flow of that workout.

00:59:13.976 --> 00:59:15.117
No way they have two runner

00:59:15.177 --> 00:59:15.998
or four runners.

00:59:16.878 --> 00:59:17.057
Yeah.

00:59:17.137 --> 00:59:19.539
It's so this is like, it's nice,

00:59:19.619 --> 00:59:20.739
but you don't have the flow

00:59:20.759 --> 00:59:21.739
of the workouts here.

00:59:22.380 --> 00:59:22.599
Right.

00:59:25.121 --> 00:59:25.400
I mean,

00:59:26.201 --> 00:59:27.762
I'm going to make my teams just

00:59:27.802 --> 00:59:28.902
probably run together

00:59:28.961 --> 00:59:31.443
because now we'll do some

00:59:31.463 --> 00:59:32.262
different variations of it.

00:59:33.545 --> 00:59:34.905
I'm sure if you go to the website,

00:59:35.525 --> 00:59:38.487
they probably have the full descriptions.

00:59:38.827 --> 00:59:40.788
Or they'll be up tonight or tomorrow.

00:59:43.188 --> 00:59:44.827
I guess CrossFit just said, screw it.

00:59:46.469 --> 00:59:47.469
The Indies got linked,

00:59:47.509 --> 00:59:48.789
so we'll just drop the team

00:59:48.829 --> 00:59:50.090
workouts to get everybody's

00:59:50.130 --> 00:59:51.210
attention on something else.

00:59:52.510 --> 00:59:53.389
Hey, look over there.

00:59:53.409 --> 00:59:54.831
Yeah, literally.

00:59:56.731 --> 00:59:57.030
All right.

00:59:57.130 --> 00:59:58.170
Well, awesome.

00:59:59.472 --> 01:00:00.532
We did all that and still

01:00:00.911 --> 01:00:01.672
got it under an hour.

01:00:02.369 --> 01:00:03.048
I think this is the best

01:00:03.068 --> 01:00:05.471
we've ever done right there.

01:00:06.632 --> 01:00:08.452
Well, thank you everybody for joining in.

01:00:08.472 --> 01:00:08.512
Um,

01:00:09.494 --> 01:00:10.954
that looks like this thing may become a

01:00:10.994 --> 01:00:11.574
weekly thing.

01:00:12.416 --> 01:00:12.536
Um,

01:00:12.596 --> 01:00:14.036
I just got to get the bumpers for it

01:00:15.117 --> 01:00:15.777
and the backdrop.

01:00:15.818 --> 01:00:17.099
So we represent what we're

01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:17.818
really doing here.

01:00:17.838 --> 01:00:18.599
Yeah.

01:00:19.740 --> 01:00:21.001
With that being said,

01:00:21.021 --> 01:00:25.885
I'm going to go ahead, shut her down and,

01:00:25.985 --> 01:00:26.085
uh,

01:00:26.125 --> 01:00:28.907
had a Kenya in an hour for my last

01:00:29.347 --> 01:00:30.688
Canadian interview of the day.

01:00:32.739 --> 01:00:32.840
Um,

01:00:32.960 --> 01:00:35.041
this is Canada day on Clydesdale media.

01:00:35.081 --> 01:00:37.681
So we are representing

01:00:37.722 --> 01:00:39.143
Canada on this one too,

01:00:39.623 --> 01:00:41.282
even though he's a Texas guy.

01:00:42.003 --> 01:00:43.023
I am a Texas guy now.

01:00:44.244 --> 01:00:44.405
Yeah.

01:00:44.625 --> 01:00:45.105
So, all right.

01:00:45.505 --> 01:00:45.864
With that,

01:00:46.324 --> 01:00:47.445
thank you everybody in the chat

01:00:47.465 --> 01:00:48.025
for being here.

01:00:48.646 --> 01:00:50.166
Thank you, Carolyn, for all your input.

01:00:50.527 --> 01:00:51.666
We love it as always.

01:00:52.128 --> 01:00:52.987
And we'll see everybody next

01:00:53.027 --> 01:00:55.469
time on chopping it up with the,

01:00:55.768 --> 01:00:56.929
with coach crispy cream.

01:00:57.550 --> 01:00:57.929
Bye guys.