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It's open day,
three hours away from hearing what the
first workout is of the twenty twenty six
CrossFit Open.
Let's talk about it next.
I love the chase and the hunt,
and I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I'm wanting,
I always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
Now wake up!
It's time to look at the enemy.
Look in the mirror if he is no
friend to me.
It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
It's time to break up so I can
make a better me.
D-E-M-M-E!
it's lunch time what is going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the clydesdale it is
open day and we've got cowboy with us
to talk about everything open um it's open
season baby
David comes in.
We've got Train Olive in the house.
We've got Mike DeVito hanging out.
I haven't seen Mike in a minute.
Nope.
Glad to see you.
Got Frida.
Yeah.
Got some people.
Fun stuff.
I got to have it.
Before we get into some other stuff,
I have to make a confession.
Oh?
This open is going to suck for me.
I'm going to tell you right off the
bat.
Um, I've got people DMing me, uh,
about what I'm going to do with the
open this year, what it's going to be.
Dude, if I get reps in every workout,
I'm going to count it as a win.
I am still coughing up dried blood from
Monday.
Right.
Right.
Like if I have to go upside down
today or tomorrow, like it,
I don't even know if I can.
Right.
Right.
There ain't but one way to find out.
Right.
I am going to try.
And I've said that all along,
like with everything going on,
I'm going to try.
A hundred percent.
I'm going to try,
but it may result in something that I
just cannot physically do because of what
I've put my body through.
And I start treatment on whatever this is
next week.
And so I don't know what that's going
to do to my body.
None of that stuff.
But I'm going to try.
And I want to support the community by
signing up and doing it.
And I'm going to give it everything I
have.
But that may be six reps in a
workout or three reps in a workout.
So I just want everybody to have the
right expectation that I'm not here to
win.
I'm here to win at life.
Well, not with that attitude.
And to start,
start my progression back from five years
of dealing with all of this stuff that
I'm finally getting answers on.
I would like to remind you of where
you've been for the past five years.
So anything starting today is going to be
a win.
Right.
Any and all of it.
So let's go from there.
Let's go ahead and take that into account.
And I am excited.
I am excited.
You should be.
I'm glad.
But you know one thing I can do?
I can give Hexy Lover what she wants.
And that is a shout out to her
husband who is in the hospital watching
right now.
Because I know what that feels like.
I've been in hospitals a lot lately and
it sucks.
But you know what?
Once you get the answers and you get
the solutions, everything gets better.
And you just have to do what you
can do.
So, you know,
thoughts and prayers for you in the
hospital.
Hope whatever it is that has you there,
you get out of quickly and you get
back on your feet and back to doing
what you love, whatever that may be.
Because life is short and take advantage
of every opportunity you get.
So shout out to the Hexy lovers lover.
Is that right?
Sure.
Okay.
And if not,
we're going to go ahead and call it
that anyway.
Yeah.
Jonathan Ortega just had an earthquake.
In Atlanta?
What the hell?
The fault line.
No, I got to go Google it.
Larry Young,
I've been coming to terms with that idea
too.
I'm a tad depressed.
I'm like, well, shit, Larry,
you're still unfit as hell.
Stop it, Larry.
You are not unfit.
I watch your videos.
I see what you can do.
You are a freaking athlete.
The shit he does is absolutely bananas.
Yeah, like we're talking,
we're talking a Clydesdale,
a real Clydesdale out there.
What I want to see from you, Larry,
is I heard John say that you broke
his heart on this show when you said
that watching him for two hours count down
the top one hundred was a waste of
time and you weren't going to do it.
Breaking John's heart.
David said there's been a lot of
earthquakes in Charleston.
Columbia, South Carolina, I'll be damned.
I just came back from there.
Yeah, wow.
Just signed up.
See,
if he'd be on my team for this
intramural cup that we're doing at my gym,
I would be up his butt sideways.
That drives me bananas,
the people that wait until the absolutely
last second.
I got people on my team.
I talked to you today.
He's like, I'm going to get signed up.
I'm like, we're starting tomorrow.
Can we get this process going?
Like, for real.
Yeah.
I wonder what we're at.
That's an excellent.
I'd like to know.
I know this much.
One ninety one ninety seven nine five.
OK.
I grab this little AI feature that the
spin is put on his website.
I have it linked.
So there we are.
This is live every ten minutes and
updates.
Beautiful.
Hundred and three thousand men.
Eighty seven thousand women.
And the next update will come in three
minutes and fifty seconds.
Love it.
I feel like there's always a real big
jump, like the day of, the day before,
for all the David Johnsons of the world
that are like,
I'm going to wait until the last second
and do it.
I'm just messing with you, David.
You know I love you.
Well,
I think they were saying last night on
the spin that typically it's a hundred
thousand on the final weekend.
Sign up.
Between now and Monday.
Yeah.
If it's a hundred thousand and we hit
two ninety, that's pretty good.
I'll take it, dude.
Almost three hundred.
yeah but I I'm I'm thinking more in
like the two fifty two sixty range is
my prediction I'm gonna go I'm gonna go
I'm gonna lean towards the positive side
just from what I've seen at our gym
in in particular and let's say two seventy
five I like two seventy five wow nice
if I'd love that man yeah I know
I take it I take it in a
heartbeat let's go two seventy five
So before we dive deep into the open
stuff,
I actually stole something from Larry
Young's Instagram.
Oh.
Because I thought it was super cool.
And it is this.
I'm sure you've seen the reel.
Have you seen this?
When will you ever use this in real
life?
I said that to my wife and some
friends of ours this morning.
It is awesome.
And...
music because I don't want to get dinged.
Grandma,
ninety two goes viral after scaling a
seven foot gate to escape from a nursing
home.
If if my grandma can scale a seven
foot fence to get out of a nursing
home, what the hell is she doing there?
Correct.
Correct.
What the hell is she doing there?
No hesitation.
Like she's just up over the wall,
getting back down the other side.
I said that to one of our family
group chats this morning,
text this morning.
I was like,
no nursing home can contain me.
Where are you?
That's going to keep me in.
It's not going to happen.
And my wife said,
I guess I'll just be stuck in there.
And I was like, no,
I'm gonna get you out first.
And I'm coming behind you just like this.
That is why we do CrossFit folks.
That is why we do it.
Um, she clearly does CrossFit.
Uh, that's just too cool.
So cool.
Oh my God, that's great.
And then Sten asked,
are we sure that's not Jacob Hefner in
a wig?
We did get some crack research on that.
It is not Jacob Hefner.
Okay, I was about to say,
because we haven't seen that lady and
Jacob Hefner in the same room at the
same time.
Yeah, it took a deep dive, but
yeah so we don't ever know it could
have been hepner he wouldn't uh like he
wouldn't stop to put his feet on the
little simple thing on the door he just
wanted to clean over it yeah jacob's good
at the box or the box overs get
overs yeah so um
And we saw in the Heppner Bridges fight
that he is way taller than Josh Bridges.
Josh would have needed a step stool to
get to the symbol.
Yeah.
She belongs in the nursing home on
Landman.
It's one of my favorite bits in the
whole show.
Every time they go,
they go back and she just got them
doing something else,
but then they go to the strip club.
They go to here, they go, bro.
It's fantastic.
The lunch day drinking parties are
hilarious.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's two,
there are two nursing homes in the land,
man.
There's the one that the mother and
daughter volunteer at,
and there's the one where Sam Elliott came
out of.
Yeah.
Two drastically different nursing homes.
Way different places.
Way different places.
Not even close to doing the same thing.
Just picture Happy Gilmore's grandma with
Ben Stiller as the orderly.
Yeah.
If you've seen Happy Gilmore II,
Ben Stiller's like the owner now.
I haven't brought myself to watch it yet.
And I know I've heard not many good
things about it,
but just haven't brought myself to watch
it yet.
Cause I'm such a fan of the original.
It's really good.
It's, it's really like, honestly,
when it came out,
it was when WFP was going up against,
uh, CrossFit games.
And if you have that in mind,
it's even funnier.
Oh, I bet.
Cause it is truly a competitive golf
league versus the PGA.
Yeah.
And it's really funny.
So, yeah.
Funny stuff.
So,
before we again dive into this open stuff,
just one last thing.
And I am truly over the drama.
I'm truly over the drama.
But I had to write it down to
make sure I got it right.
And I only do this to show the
absurdity of where we are in this drama
in the CrossFit space.
So now we have a response to the
response, to the response,
to the response, to the response,
to the show.
I think that's all of them.
I've double checked deteriorated into just
pure mudslinging.
Yeah.
really really has it's not even about the
original content at this point it's really
just about
mudslinging at this point.
And I'm going to reiterate,
I've met both of these individuals in
person and both of them were amazing and
awesome to hang out with and talk to
in my experience.
I have no insider knowledge to anything
that's going on in this whole thing,
but it is now spreading to the spin,
uh, dense updates.
It's spreading to on the Savant podcast.
It is on everything.
Our show has talked about it every day
this week.
We have been sucked in as well.
WOD prep podcast on Monday night talked
about it.
It is totally consumed everything.
And that's why I say that Andrew,
and it's not just the seven space.
It is everybody has been sucked into this.
And, um, and I really,
it has gotten to a point where I
just can't take it anymore.
Um, and I've really, really, um,
i'm really just over it i can't watch
any more of it and so i am
officially done yeah same i have been
though i bet i was done before you
were so i know we talked about it
after the show yesterday i've been diving
in just so i can keep up with
it in case we need to talk about
it and i'm done yeah i'm over it
completely
So if you want to know anymore,
go watch their stuff.
If you care to stay in the drama,
I just can't follow it anymore because
it's really, really,
really at a level where none of it
is even part of the original argument at
this point.
Correct.
When Bennifer breaks up, America reacts.
That is true.
oh david says they're both right in
different ways i can see that as well
yeah um so uh best love drama since
twilight there we go yeah jacob ben gosh
i can't even remember i watched the first
one i could not move on to twilight
two or whatever it was called
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Here's the thing.
In two hours and twenty nine minutes or
so,
I'm as much as I don't care about
it now,
I'm really not going to care about it.
Yeah, Grace has helped me out.
It was Edward, Jacob and Edward.
Yeah.
Kristen Stewart.
No, thank you.
All right.
Yeah.
Okay.
We could have an argument about that,
but we're not going to.
No, there's no need to.
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Thirdsy helps you sleep your way to the
semis.
Helps David sleep his way through semis.
Mark's like,
I'm not sure if that sounded how I
wanted.
Yeah, that's, it's fine.
I can see why you'd say that,
but it never feels that way.
So awesome.
And I think it's Mark.
Mark was very creative.
He went back and commented,
Thirdsy is jazzy.
on a video that on a video not
even a video a podcast I did with
Jacob Heppner in like my first year of
doing this podcast it was audio only that
I moved over to YouTube with just some
pictures oh and I that is not a
video from yesterday through Sunday going
back five years to say thirdsy is jazzy
not really helpful to the concept of this
contest
No, but you know what?
Mark, I appreciated it.
A for effort.
And I got a view on a video
that was five years old.
Mark said he was too fast.
He didn't catch all the rules.
He just, he was so excited.
He was so excited and rightfully so
rightfully.
So I wouldn't be that excited as well.
Uh,
Have I pulled up Hefner's new video?
Why I have not.
Dude.
I've watched, I've seen a ton of them.
I don't know which one specifically he is
speaking of, but I can do that.
They're all fantastic.
Hefner is seriously good at making,
making entertaining comment, uh, content.
Is it a pinned one or the first
non pinned?
It cannot be this.
This is great performance.
I need a little help there.
It's going to be one of the ones
where he's dressed like an old guy.
Thirty five to thirty nine is going to
be a bunch of OGs.
It's going to be amazing.
So amazing.
So let me ask you this.
I mean,
it's how would that field is stacking up
to look like?
Do you think that they are going to
recognize it?
They being, yes, this right here.
This dude.
Again, can't get dinged with the music.
Broomstick.
Yeah.
Water jugs.
Water jug.
And the pouch.
The only way it could have been better
is if he had died to water blue.
Because weren't there blue jugs?
There were blue jugs.
Yeah, that would have been the only way.
Oh, yeah.
What's awesome is his humor fits in with
the Hoppers, the Peppers, the Coltons.
Like it's really cool.
It's like this side-by-side of OG versus
new school kind of thing.
What I was getting at is that with
the way that the thirty five thirty nine
is shaping up with all the people that
are going to be competing in it,
it looks like this year and or we're
taking for granted that they're going to
make it right.
Hepner is going to make it through.
Pancheck is going to make it through those
guys.
Do you think that CrossFit will see fit
to give us being masters more media time
and exposure because those guys are in
there now?
So here's my thought is the Masters this
year actually are going separately from
everybody else.
Correct.
So they are actually the only division
that are going the beginning of the week
of the games.
So it is actually primed for them to
get some exposure because they are like
the pre-show,
the opening act to the CrossFit Games.
Adaptive and teens are going during the
games.
I think they're going to get less coverage
because of that.
Unless they decide to go over to that
location during breaks and like shoot in
some live coverage while they're over
there.
But truly the masters have their only,
they are the only show in town for
the first couple of days.
Yeah.
And I hope that people are getting excited
for the games.
And so they want to like dip their
toe in the water and start watching some
stuff and start looking at stuff to get
themselves ready for the weekend.
I hope that that is what happens.
I hope that there's a push for that.
Will it happen?
I have not seen that executed very well
in the past.
But we have a media department that seems
reinvigorated,
and maybe that's what happens.
I hope so.
I truly do hope so.
Craig says, for sure, more media time.
Shanna says, I hope so.
David wants to put the onus on me.
All right.
Colton's IG post with ACDC come and get
it and signed your defending open champion
was awesome I didn't even see that one
yet yes Corey they should will they no
clue it's people that CrossFit
participants who have the money to spend
on the games are interested in people that
have been in the game the thing is
that people have to watch it
We can complain that there's no footage,
but I did an eleven-part documentary
behind the scenes of the Masters games.
It didn't get a ton of views.
Right?
People have to watch the stuff.
They have to care about it.
We can put it all out there,
and if nobody watches it,
it doesn't matter.
True story.
You have to see if...
If CrossFit puts it out there,
go freaking watch it.
Got to support it.
You don't support it,
it's pointless at that point.
Do masters age athletes make up most of
the open signups?
Most of the open signups are between
thirty five and forty nine.
It is really those three segments of the
masters population.
And I'm sure it's going to continue to
grow northward.
If you go out to.
Clydesdale media on Instagram are crack
stats and information person data.
Wad Holly Dugan, uh,
put out a master signup as of yesterday
in each age group.
You can actually see how many people in
each age group have signed up.
I was stunned.
We have over a thousand seventy plus
people signed up.
She also has, uh,
broke down by each individual age,
like how many forty nine year olds are
signed up,
how many forty eight year olds are signed
up,
which that's a cool that's a cool number,
too.
And you can see somebody had mentioned the
fact that like the beginning of the age
group,
huge numbers and get down to where I'm
at, less huge numbers.
Like it was a it's a pretty big
it's a pretty big shift.
But
I went ahead and commented back like,
yeah, that may be true,
but I'm in the last year of my
age group and I ain't going out like
that.
Look who came by to say hi.
From Facebook, no less.
Go ahead, Kat.
Old friend, Kat.
Miss you, girl.
Yes, ma'am.
Chris Love,
the other one not following the rules.
And then he realized it.
Frida says with those names,
it will be more eyes for sure,
but I don't think it will be better
media wise.
I don't think they will because it's in
a different venue.
The cost of media itself is astronomical
already.
I don't see them mobilizing it from one
venue to the next.
Talk about the teens and the adaptives.
But even the masters are in the same
building as the teens and the adaptives.
So,
Broadcasting is,
there are cheaper ways to do it.
Is CrossFit willing to do that for those
groups and use like a smaller package,
not an iPhone hanging from the rafters,
but like a smaller package that they can
pipe some stuff in occasionally.
So, who did you say posted those numbers?
David, it's on my Instagram.
I am a collaborator on the post,
but it's done by DataWad.
But you can go to the media and
see it.
She collaborated with Clydesdale, me,
and you.
So there you go.
It's in several different places.
Yeah.
Yeah, I understand what you're saying,
David.
Like the big cameras for the elite
division and the high-end stuff,
you're not going to move that from one
venue to another.
But you can with some...
The technology has moved ahead so much
that some of the smaller cameras have just
as much HD quality.
Hell, the new iPhones can go...
You can do some broadcasting and have some
people walking around with a gimbal and an
iPhone and get some decent coverage.
It's really something that the entities
that are running those divisions should
put some money in and collaborate together
so that they can broadcast some of this
stuff
Cheaply over the coming years.
It's been shown that it can be done
for cheaper and done pretty well.
And Shanna rubbing salt into the wound.
Let's find more interns for this year's
streaming.
Nobody asked me for help this year,
Shanna.
Sad but true.
So there we go.
All right.
So the open is today.
Any thoughts on what the workout will be?
I mean,
thoughts on what the workout will be.
I know that I just finished the judges
course and bench press was in the judges
course.
That's the first time I've seen that since
I started doing the judges course.
And that's been four or five years now.
There's always stuff in the judges course
that never shows up.
Just saying this seemed to be pretty
specific.
Like there were tape lines shown,
like where they go on the barbell,
make sure your hands don't go, you know,
any wider than that.
Uh, was that, what was it?
What that was for?
Uh, I just, it stuck out to me.
I'll put it to you like that.
Like the judges courses for the entire
season, not just for the,
so it definitely could be a quarterfinal
semifinal games event.
Uh,
I would want it to happen too much,
so that's why I'm just kind of naysaying
it because I don't want to get my
hopes up.
Even with my lungs the way they are,
I could bench.
David's right.
We did have it in the AGOQ a
couple years ago.
It was like a billion shuttle run buy-in,
and it was like rope climbs and bench
press,
and then a billion shuttle run buy-out.
Yeah, I actually was.
I did a documentary on Jamie that weekend
filming her doing that.
It was crazy.
It was terrible.
We did it at a, so our,
the ropes at our gym don't go to
feet, but a buddy,
a friend of mine has a rope that
goes to feet,
but we had to go inside because his
bench is inside.
So it's like run outside rope, climb,
run in the, run in the,
his little shred shed, do the bench press,
run back out and then go back to
the shuttle runs.
It was a, it was a, God,
it was so terrible.
So,
and I want to know what's the moving
standard for the bench press.
Again,
it's probably not going to be an open
workout.
It's probably going to be a quarter to
semi type of thing.
Um, and there they put,
you put tape lines on the bar and
your,
or your hands have to be within so
many, whatever with that tape line.
Um, but anyway, okay.
Uh, Kate said I did that workout twice.
So many shuttle runs.
Yeah.
Jamie did not thank goodness because they
didn't have a foot rope.
We had to go to another gym to
film her doing that.
And, uh,
Yeah,
to go back out to do that again
would have been tough to begin with just
in a short weekend.
But Jamie crushed that, of course.
I mean, rope climbs and running,
she's going to hammer.
Looks like feet off ground, hand can move.
He said by the wall walks.
I sped through it.
I'm going to be completely honest.
Like I just wanted to get it done.
So watch some of the videos was just
moving.
Didn't really read what the new standards
were.
Whenever it, if it's on or not,
if it's on,
when it's on the standard sheet for the
workout, I'll read it then.
But like for the judges course,
I just wanted to get it done so
I could judge people at the gym tomorrow.
Alyssa Stuckey,
I had to do that shuttle run bench
rope climb workout twice within a few
hours because I totally forgot to film my
weights in the bar.
Way too many shuttle runs.
That would suck.
Bro, it was tough.
It was absolutely tough.
Tristan,
wall walks are the worst thing
standard-wise.
I'll say this, Tristan, for...
for legends qualifiers last year they took
away the the starting tape line like your
hands had to start or actually he moved
it back to where it made way more
sense like you'd have to hand you have
your hands stuff especially if somebody
like me like way up here
to start and then for the Monster Games
qualifiers,
they took the first tape line out
altogether and just got rid of it
completely.
And you can put your hands wherever you
wanted to start.
Now you still had to get your feet
on the wall before you went up and
inside the tape line, you know,
ten inches from the wall,
thirty inches long.
You had to touch both times before you
come back down.
But the starting tape line,
they just did away with.
And I hope to God CrossFit does that
because that makes way more sense.
because of anatomy right it's a jacob
pepner handstand push-up thing like my
arms are not the same size as your
arms or as anybody else's so like why
do i have to start with my arms
way out here just because some arbitrary
tape line that you made um grant
reiterates it the hands can move once the
feet are off the ground versus both feet
on the wall which fixes a lot of
things um
And Andrew makes a good point.
Wall walk is tough to judge because it's
hard to see both the hands and the
feet at the same time.
It just is.
And it puts the judge in a bad
position.
Yeah.
No matter what angle you take to try
to judge somebody with that,
like you're either,
if you're a three quarter view,
you're trying to wash their feet when
their hands are over here.
So like you kind of,
you're trying to basically almost guess
like, okay, it looks like it went up.
Right.
It's not, it's not a great thing.
Yeah.
Uh, Terry says short people struggle.
I would have to stretch and reach.
Yeah.
Peter Benoit agrees with Corey.
One tape line is better.
Stan,
if someone can move their hands while feet
are in the air off the ground,
and they are very agile.
There you go.
And just Ramirez just passed his judge's
course.
So back to the predictions for today.
I think it's going to be a repeat.
And I think I'm leaning toward
The one with the fifteen snatches,
and I think it's thirty double-unders.
Just back and forth.
Oh.
Just back and forth.
Is it snatches and double-unders,
or thrusters and double-unders?
Snatches and double-unders.
Yeah, it was early, like, fourteen-one,
fourteen-two, maybe?
Fourteen-one.
Yeah, Amanda.
Amanda.
Fourteen one, fifteen snatches,
thirty double unders back and forth for
like ten minutes.
I'd be down with that.
Yeah, it was it was a fun one.
Yeah,
they were seventy five pound thruster
snatches, like super light.
It's already a workout,
but you're using a barbell.
It's going to hurt.
Yeah, like that's my prediction.
I don't have, I don't, here's the thing.
Anytime I've ever tried in the eight years
that we've been,
that I've been doing this to try to
make some sort of prediction or some kind
of,
I've been so horribly wrong and like off
base.
It's not even funny because it's always go
to like something I'm usually pretty good
at and it's not, I'm never even close.
It's ridiculous.
Um,
Peter Benoit says it was eleven point one
as well.
Um,
Joseph Ramirez says shoulder to overhead
and bar-facing burpees.
Oof.
Depending on the weight,
that could get rough, dude.
Keeping it real or Grant snatches and
burpee box jump overs.
He just wants burpee box jump overs in
every workout.
Hmm.
I mean, I'm not mad at him.
We do more of them per capita than
any training program on the planet,
more than likely,
because Brandon is absolutely engaged with
burpee box jump overs.
But we do all these once a week.
It's a tradition, Corey.
Make a horrible guess.
I can make a horrible guess if you
like.
Seven minutes of burpees.
There you go.
That is a horrible workout and is a
horrible guess.
Yeah.
I'm leaning against,
I'm leaning against burpees today.
And I'm making the quintessential mistake
of predicting the workout.
Looking at the people,
there's a distinct advantage for two of
the athletes over the other two athletes
if you're doing a burpee workout.
And I think they want this to be
a competitive, watchable event today.
And I think they're going to hold off
on the burpees.
think it makes more sense next week with
those three women uh as a competitive kind
of piece um but that is that's my
reasoning behind it oh tristan i hope not
because that that's that now you're
talking about a redo of which is my
first open workout i mean i wouldn't mind
doing it again necessarily but holy smokes
that would get bad quick
And I'm going head-to-head with one of the
other coaches tomorrow night before the
festivities start.
That's like a little pre-show deal.
So, yeah, no thank you.
Grant,
the seven minutes of burpees always seems
fun.
The two times I did it, three minutes,
and I realized I was sorely mistaken.
Since everyone is expecting burpees,
you would think Dave would program
something else.
David says,
I thought the consensus was that wall
balls were one of the movements because of
the video Dave put out asking if anyone
would go unbroken.
All of that is just mind messing.
don't give a damn what anybody says
including dave castro none of his clues
mean he finds stuff that he thinks is
cool somebody showed him how to use ai
so he made that second one last night
and like he's just putting stuff out and
just be like people are expecting me to
do this so i'm gonna do this um
i don't think it'll be a redo maybe
another movement but i think we row and
wobble i think
think you're foolish if you don't think
we're going to do a repeat at some
point or some repeats it's the twentieth
anniversary we're going to do something to
pay homage to the past whether it's a
repeat with a twist or like maybe that
we do like the snatches and the double
unders but it becomes ninety five pound
snatches and crisscross applesauce or we
do ninety nineteen point one but we add
in burpees over the roller
So wall balls, rowing,
and burpees over the rower.
I don't think burpees over the rower.
I think Dallin made a great point because
you now have two different styles of
rowers that are allowed with the Rogue and
the Concept II.
They're different heights.
Oh.
And so that makes it difficult to
standardize that event.
I still haven't.
I saw one of them.
They had them at,
that's what they use at Fittest of the
Coast,
but I did not actually get on one
because my teammate was doing all that
rowing.
Jamie agrees with Tristan on the wall
balls and rower with a third movement.
Jody asks, what came first,
the athletes or the workout or the
athletes?
And I don't think it matters whether you
pick the athletes first and then do the
workout or you pick the workout and then
fit the athletes to the workout.
Like it can go either way.
And I think that they've learned you don't
want to run away competition at an open
announcement.
You need that momentum to get people to
sign up and get people excited.
And to do that,
you need a good race.
We just want it to be a good
show.
And for that,
it needs to be a good race.
And for that,
it needs to be something where nobody's
going to have a clear advantage except
whoever's actually fittest.
Joseph says the hint suggested wall balls.
Again, if you're going by the hints,
I think you're crazy.
I think Corey made that abundantly clear.
I really don't.
Every time they come out and I,
I mentioned that, oh, you know, they, uh,
Castro put his, put his hints out.
My wife rolls her eyes,
like visibly makes a point to look at
me and rolls her eyes and then she'll
wait a second.
She'd be like, they don't mean shit.
And I'm like, you're probably right.
I'm just telling you it just happened.
And this year he put out two for
this one.
So here we are.
Yeah.
I hear you,
but a lot of people can't do
double-unders.
And if they're trying to get more buy-in,
do you think double-unders would show up
in the first workout of the year?
I think at twenty years into CrossFit,
double-unders have become an essential
basic component of CrossFit.
And you can scale it to single-unders and
do the scaled version.
But I've seen a lot of people at
gyms that I've been to get their first
double-under
during a workout just like this,
may have been this specific workout,
got their first ever double under.
And the excitement of that was as much
adding to the excitement of the open as
people crushing the workout.
People getting their first of anything in
the videos that pop off from that are
as much to promote the open as people
killing the overall workout.
Yeah.
I agree with that, a hundred percent.
Amanda Harry showed a post from someone
that guessed a repeat workout where the
open announcement was done at CrossFit
Bison.
Can't remember the number.
That was recent.
Was it?
Yeah, but I can't remember what it was.
Not a clue.
All the announcements...
The recent announcements, I should say,
kind of blur together for me.
Like if I try to pick one out,
if I see it, that's one thing.
But like in my brain,
they all just kind of meld together.
If it's not like all the champions doing
the one that was Rich, Annie, Sam,
all those people.
Kate, our dear friend Kate,
does two Castro clues equal two-part
workout?
That'd be fun.
I am down for a two-part,
whatever it ends up being.
Yep.
Whatever it ends up being.
I think the more areas tested, the better.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Give people more of a complete test for
the open so that the twenty-five percent
that are going on to quarterfinals feel
more like they deserve to be in
quarterfinals because they did more of a
complete test.
That's where my brain's at.
Peter Benoit,
I think it's a pyramid up to fifty.
Bullseye, ten, twenty, thirty, forty,
fifty, forty, thirty, twenty, ten.
Wall balls, burpees, or if not burpees,
one, five, one of wall walks.
Bro, who hurt you?
Like that's...
No, just no, no.
It's going to go ahead and move on.
First of all,
that is more than a hundred and fifty
wall balls,
which is not going to be happening during
an open workout.
That's just not just going to be a
thing.
So let's just move on from there.
Yeah, I agree.
So now let's finish up the show because,
man, we're running long already.
We have these four gentlemen going live
today.
When this was first announced,
you said you would take Colton all day
long.
Yep.
Now we are here the day of the
open.
Who do you got to win?
Twenty six point one.
The Iron Hog Colton Mertens.
I'm going to take down Pepper.
Solid choice.
think he's got something to prove i think
they're going to avoid burpees to make it
more of an even playing field um so
i'm going down pepper i still think i
i i don't disagree with you on that
first part of that but i still do
think that they're going to still try to
do make it as i hate using this
word but as inclusive as possible and if
it just comes down to a mostly motor
test
I think Colton just takes it.
I really, really do.
This is my other thought.
Love Colton to death.
I hate when I always say that because
I say it all the time and now
I'm going to dog him.
The dude doesn't travel well.
He is a guy who loves to be
in his,
his little bubble where he's at and where
he's most comfortable.
And that's how he won the open last
year.
He did it in his barn,
in his place, doing it his way, right?
Okay.
When he travels, he gets sick a lot.
That does happen.
Right,
so he had to fly out to California.
He had to do this.
Normally,
I think Colton is an open beast and
would crush any open workout.
But I think because of those factors that
I have seen firsthand when he travels that
he has to deal with and get out
of that comfort zone of being in Iowa,
I think that it affects him more than
it affects others.
These other guys, well,
Dallin and Jason travel all the time and
work out.
So it's like second nature to them.
And that's why I'm giving Dallin Pepper
really the lead in the possibility of
winning this one.
My only counterpoint to that is the fact
that he,
that Colton is there with those guys and
he will cough up blood on the floor
before he lets them beat him in whatever
this is.
But if he has to cough up blood,
that's a disadvantage.
That's all I'm saying.
Just saying.
Um, Dallin for me,
but hard to bet against Colton.
Uh,
I like James pepper pick the James pepper
pick.
I don't know.
I think more hit his head or something.
Joseph Ramirez now, and I now have beef,
apparently the new CrossFit drama.
Yeah.
uh hexie lover says your hour goes by
too fast good move keep us wanting more
iron hog for the win speaking of did
you see that piece of content that they
put out yesterday with all four of them
guys like the hype reel basically dude
best reel i've seen crosses put out oh
my god i went and found the song
like that's how much i was into it
i was like what is this track i
needed to go find it that's so good
dude
think Colton mindset alone.
Call back to spin he called Dallin Oh,
yeah, gotcha.
Joseph Ramirez is now making a video about
me.
So the beef has begun.
Here we go.
Geez, guys quit leaving your computer.
Yeah, I know.
I'm sorry for training and having an
actual life.
Family and kids and all that good stuff.
Work kicks off in two hours?
Less than two hours.
Hour and fifty-five minutes.
And one last look at what our open
registrations are sitting at now that
David has signed up.
We're at one hundred and ninety-one
thousand five hundred and ninety-nine.
So about fifteen hundred since the
beginning of the show.
And forty-five minutes.
Yeah.
That's bananas.
I got to get back to work.
We will be back tomorrow to recap the
open announcement, talk about the workout,
see what it means going forward.
Is it going to be new and creative
and exciting,
or are we going to get burpees and
dumbbell snatches again?
Please don't say that.
I'm going to do it regardless,
and I'm going to put everything I got
into it because I'm only doing them once,
but I really don't want to do burpees
and dumbbell snatches again.
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Hope the workout suits your skill set.
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