Arielle Loewen - Clydesdale Media Podcast | Construction Again at the Loewen Estate

We catch up with Arielle to talk about some cool opportunities this offseason, what she is doing to be ready for the upcoming season and what is going on in the back yard. Going head to head with Tia in an Open Announcment, FitFest in the UK, A new Merch line? What her new gym will be like.  How Dillon is doing with all the attention and what that means for the family. and so much more.

What is Clydesdale Media Podcast?

We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.

I was born to kill it.

I was meant to win.

I am down and willing,

so I will find a way.

It took a minute,

now it didn't happen right away.

When it get hot in the kitchen,

you decide to stay.

That's how a winner's made.

What is going on, everybody?

Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast.

My name is Scott Switzer.

I'm the Clydesdale.

And I'm so pumped to have

with me today Ariel Loewen,

my friend that we get to

catch up a little bit after

about six months.

And you're my first

interview back from what

I've been going through health-wise.

And you're the person that

will ease me into this.

I know it.

So I'm leaning on you as

much as you'll be leaning on me.

I love it.

Thanks for having me, Scott.

To brag on Scott,

you were in the hospital this morning,

correct?

I was.

And he's still out here grinding.

Glad you're here.

I am.

I just wanted to get back to

normal as quickly as possible.

And I am so stoked to be back.

Good.

Well, I'm glad you're back.

I know we were supposed to

connect a little bit ago,

but all that scary stuff went down.

So hoping for it's just

smooth sailing from here for you.

Yeah, me too.

And I think this has been

going on for a couple of years.

So I think like this is

actually going to help a

lot of things in my life

now that this is fixed.

And, um, and I'm,

so that like bright light

at the end of this tunnel is very, very,

um, enticing.

And, um,

I want to thank everybody for the

prayers and,

You know, God helped me through this.

We talked a lot.

God and I talked a lot today.

And I'm glad I made it

through in super quick, super,

super easy.

And yeah, everything went super well.

The bright light at the end of the tunnel.

What is that for you?

What could you see?

Back to being fit again,

being able to do all the things I love,

especially around this media company,

being able to run from event to event,

being able to move and

groove with everything.

That's what I want to get back to.

Okay.

So you already have goals.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

They put me on a lot of

prescriptions going into this, and I...

my goal is already to check

all those boxes off,

like get rid of everything, get back to,

um, all that.

And my nutrition coach, Cheryl and I were,

we've got a plan.

Um,

I got a new family doctor through all

this who I love now and

their plant there.

You want to do that as well.

So that's huge.

Yeah.

Don't tell me you're going

to go on the carnivore diet.

Is that, is that the next step?

Uh,

I'm not a carnivore diet guy.

I'm more of a balanced.

I don't blame you.

Yeah.

Eat healthy all year round.

That's how I am.

Dylan has been dabbling with

the thought of trying the

carnivore diet and I,

I would love to watch it happen,

but I'm like you,

I am content with normalcy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Cheryl has me on 185 grams of protein,

185 grams of carbs and 60 grams of fat.

And I'm just trying to stay

in those macros.

Love it.

so that's the plan um and

I'm super excited for that

so and then sarah cooper's

asking the question where

she got her membership from

um wad zombie gifted five

memberships and they went

randomly to people in the

chat yesterday that's how

you got your membership to

our channel cool so yeah

thank you wad zombie for

that um he is one of the

coolest dudes in the in the land

He really is.

And he's everywhere.

Like I'll listen to podcasts

and then he'll be commenting on there.

I'll listen over here.

He's all over.

He's like Batman.

Yes.

We actually,

he actually sent me last night,

a Clydesdale wad zombie

collab t-shirt and it is sick.

Yeah?

Do you have pictures?

Or not yet?

It's on my phone,

and I don't know how to get

that up yet because I'm old.

But it's basically a zombie

riding a Clydesdale.

Love it.

Holding a barbell above his head.

As he should.

And it is really cool.

That is cool.

Well,

I'll be on the lookout for it to drop.

Would you sell those,

or is that just for you?

So we just...

is what I love about talking

to you we go all over the

map um we're actually

talking to a new sponsor

who is an apparel brand who

is looking to do some

clydesdale merchandise fun

so um now that we have that

and someone who can print

stuff for us it's gonna be

a lot easier to do merch

once we finally sign that deal

Love it.

Well,

I actually branched out Patrick pups

and PC, you know, Patrick,

he gave me the awesome idea

at water Palooza to make.

I train in my garage.

I work out of my garage shirts.

So I kind of like you tested the waters.

I had a two week presale.

It ended yesterday.

So I'm waiting on my t-shirt

lady to tell me like how much we sold.

Did the people like it?

It's like branching into the, you know,

kind of merge side.

Yeah.

I actually tried to buy one last night.

Couldn't remember my CV, whatever code.

Right.

Check out.

So I missed out on this one,

but I tried to make sure

you're wearing right now.

I like it.

I don't think she offered long sleeve.

So maybe the next one I'll

offer long sleeve.

Yeah.

It was, it was short sleeve.

It was short sleeve and then tank tops.

Yeah.

But I actually just printed

and made this one for myself.

Cause I like a long sleeve look.

So this one is exclusive.

So that's in my notes.

Like, so you did this line and it was,

this was just a test the waters thing.

Yeah.

Test the waters.

See if there's a market out

there for people to buy.

I mean, it's,

I don't want to say it's a niche,

like people who train in their garage,

but also to see like,

do people want to buy Ariel

Lowe and stuff with my name on it?

Do people train in their garage?

I had a lot of good response

from the street parking crew, of course,

because they all train in their garage.

But I actually had a lot of

people reach out from Canada,

from over in the UK, like,

where is the international shipping?

And that blew me out of the water.

And I'm like, what do you mean?

I figured only people in the

US would care.

So I don't know the numbers yet.

I'm hoping, like, I felt goofy.

The lady who I got to make

them doesn't really know much

So she's like, wait,

you want it to say I train

in my garage and that's it?

I'm like, yeah,

I want it to look like this.

I'm hoping more than 10 people bought them,

you know?

So she's like, okay, this is justified.

Which I'd imagine so.

Yeah, I think,

and that's kind of what I

wanted to get into first is, like,

a lot has changed since you

took third place at the Games.

You, a lot on the social media side.

Real life, no.

Well...

And I've heard you say that.

You know me.

I'm going to argue with you.

Okay.

What your professional

CrossFit life has looked

like since that has been

radically different from an

outsider's view.

Yes.

You are getting invited to

things like FitFest.

Right.

You are doing appearances

all over the place at Waterpalooza.

True.

You got invited to do an

open announcement.

Yeah.

You know, so like,

like things have changed.

Yeah.

Maybe not in downtown Midland, Texas.

Yes.

Not my everyday routine life.

The mundane.

No, which is actually really refreshing.

But from that perspective, absolutely.

Yeah.

So, um,

so I think like your professional

life is showing that a lot has changed.

Yes.

It's kind of given me the

pat on the back of like,

you are doing good.

A bucket list was to do an

open announcement.

You get to do one this year.

So I wanted to ask you, as an OG,

open announcement is a very

special thing.

And the last week, Scott.

Right.

And against the six-time champion.

Isn't that insane?

I can't really put it into words.

I don't know if I'm allowed to say this,

but we're friends.

I was supposed to be week one.

And then I got phone calls happen.

Something got moved around

and I was literally

training in my garage.

I work out of my garage and

I get a call from them and they're like,

Hey, things got moved around.

You don't have to say yes or no.

Would you be open to the

final week of the open?

Bad news is you're going against Tia.

Like you don't have to,

if you don't want to kind of pray to get.

And I was like, yes,

you don't have to tell me anymore.

Final week of the open honor.

I mean, you know, as an OG,

I still remember seeing the

thruster burpee open

announcement with Froning, Annie,

Sam Briggs.

You know, they save the legend for last.

So to get asked to do the

final week and then to get

asked to go against Tia head to head,

just me and her.

It's a little hard to put

into words because that's

one thing I've expressed to

Dylan is I have certain bucket listings.

Like the next bucket listing

would be to have the

leader's jersey at the games.

to do an open announcement

to podium at the game.

So I had all these,

what I thought were

ridiculous bucket lists.

And it's like, God is just like, oh,

you wanna do an open announcement?

Cool,

you get to do the best one against

the best person in the

history of the sport.

It is just all of these things are like,

how?

Like, I can't even put it into words.

So I remember a conversation

with you where you were

lining up for Elevated Elizabeth.

Yep.

And you asked people to get

your picture with all these.

Because I was in between.

Yeah,

I was in between Tia Toomey and Laura

Horvath.

I'm like,

when will this ever happen again?

I hope somebody gets a picture of it.

Absolutely.

And now, two years later,

you're going head to head with.

With Tia Toomey.

And people are asking where

it's going to be.

It's at the new Proven headquarters.

Okay.

I wasn't sure if they

released that yet or not.

Yeah, they have.

Well, Barbell Spin has at least.

So he got the information somewhere.

And so I'll just give him

credit that he has released

that it will be at Proven headquarters.

Cool.

Yeah.

So now I'm going to be on her home turf.

It's a win-win situation.

If I lose, who cares?

It's Tia.

If I win,

I get to go home with a golden

barbell and I mean an

amount of respect from, but if I lose,

who cares?

It's Tia, you know?

So I don't have any,

I think I'd be more nervous

to do the first week

because like like-minded

people were on the same level.

Whereas the last week it's like,

I have nothing to lose.

I could send it and do well.

I could send it, do bad.

It

I just get the opportunity.

Well,

what's cool is the little bit of home

turf you have is paper

street coffee is in the

proven headquarters.

That's right.

I forgot about that.

So coffee.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Your little mini crew there.

I know I've actually never

been to Nashville.

I've only flown in and then

went to Cookville last year

to do like a mayhem

training camp for fun.

I've never been in the city

of Nashville and eaten there,

experienced it.

So I'm excited.

Dylan's been there, believe it or not.

Somebody paid for him to

install garage doors in Nashville.

So he's driven from Midland,

Texas to Nashville and

installed garage doors somewhere.

Downtown of course.

So while we're there,

he's going to show me the,

he's like a dad.

He's going to be like,

look at the work I did.

So I'm excited to see the city,

a city I've never been to before.

So I've been a lot.

So in my region, back in the day,

when I was a volunteer and a judge,

all the regionals were at

the Nashville Convention Center.

So we would go stay in

downtown Nashville and work the event.

That one was usually stacked with people.

It was.

It was.

I was so lucky to be in this region.

Because I've been volunteering since 2013.

So seeing the end of Rich's career,

Graham Holmberg, Marcus Hendren,

Dan Bailey,

like all of them came up

through this region.

And then the women like Stacey Tovar,

Christy Aramo, all of that.

Right?

She was in that one too, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow.

It's been a lot of fun.

That is fun.

So, yeah,

I think you'll love it in Nashville.

It's a crowded city.

It's a lot of construction.

But when you get to things,

it's really cool.

I've heard my sister went

this past year and she said

on the weekend,

it's Bachelorette City Central.

Everybody's in white boots.

And she's like,

you'll know the crowds

because of their white boots.

So funny story.

The last year we had regionals,

I went with a friend who

got sick at regionals and

had to be taken by

ambulance from the

convention center to the hospital.

And I had to go with him.

The ambulance driver was

chit-chatting with me and

telling me that the night

before he had to go to a

bachelorette party.

They have like John Deere

tractors taking hay wagons

around downtown Nashville

with bachelorettes on it.

It wrecked.

So they were all drunk and

they were all from

Louisiana and he couldn't

understand anything they

were saying because they

were drunk and had a Cajun accent.

That's hilarious.

mean not in the moment I'm

sure but that's the bunny

yeah so um it is it is

bachelor at central uh and

that was really funny but

um so yeah so you get to do

that and the opportunity

for this golden barbell

super cool too that they're

actually putting a

significance on winning

these events and you know

me I'm a sucker for

anything I could put in my garage

The golden barbell.

I was like,

I know exactly where I want to

put it in the home gym.

So honestly, as goofy as it is,

I would rather go home with

the golden barbell.

Like I'd have more pride

with that barbell than I

would have beating Tia

because I'd get to look at it every day,

right in the center of the

wall of the gym.

But we'll see.

I'll have to think about

that barbell when I'm mid

pain cave and dying.

So last,

last I heard you had not hung the

metal yet.

No,

we actually have it actually beautiful

on display.

Do you want to see it?

Okay.

Kind of beautiful on display.

We'll see.

We'll let you guys decide.

We have like a shrine wall.

This is a plate.

When we first went to the games,

we had all the athletes

sign road belt buckles.

They give us every year.

My favorite picture.

And then this is just where

all the good stuff is.

The flag I wore at the games.

Elevating to Elizabeth.

Then I have just the third

place medal here.

This is third place from semifinals.

But we don't really have

anywhere special we want to hang it.

Now I have so much good stuff.

I'm like, I don't know where to put this.

But I do have on our dining table.

I feel like it fits perfect.

If y'all can see it.

The third place belt.

That's where it belongs.

With the lion in the middle?

Yeah, with the lion.

your house is gorgeous by

the way thank you you guys

did such a good job thank

you we love it as you can

imagine but now the next

thing have you seen the

next thing the new gym yes

the shop yeah I have that

to get to yeah um yeah yeah

we'll get to that but the

metal has not been hung up

yet but it has a place

Would you ever do like a

shadow box with maybe like a jersey?

I need to.

They gave me a third place

that I wore on the podium.

I think it'd be perfect to

have that with the metal.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've seen a lot of those.

I have too.

That's something I would

love to give to my mom and say like,

thank you.

I want this for Christmas.

And then she could handle it.

Maybe for Christmas,

I'll get that shadow box.

There you go.

Yeah.

So Judy reads asking, sorry, my mouse is,

there we go.

I thought Dylan wasn't

letting her hang anything

else in the garage.

He will let me hang that.

I'll make that clear.

That is special.

But I think we would do it a

little bit more professional, like buy,

I think Rogue sells

something to set a barbell on.

So we'd probably buy that.

But as far as posters,

like my 2023 game sign,

I would love to hang up.

But I think he's given up on that.

That's your podium here.

I would think that should

take the place of one of the other ones.

I agree,

but I have hope knowing we're

building a bigger shop.

Each of those banners come double-sided,

so I will get to hang up

all of those in the gym.

But if it was up to me, I'd have...

So much more hung up on that wall.

Denise Moore asks,

would you actually use the

golden barbell?

Probably not.

I do have three barbells, a men's bar,

a female bar, and then a shorty bar.

So I wouldn't see the need

to use the gold one.

I'm pretty basic.

I have one bar that does everything.

So I use a girl bar quite a lot.

So speaking of bars,

I don't know if you saw on

Savan the other day,

he had Katie Henniger on and Katie,

he asked Katie about your bar.

Oh, somebody commented, whoever commented,

I need to go back and look

and just send them a DM and say,

thank you.

She has not reached out to me.

I know she's a busy lady.

I don't take it personally, but I was,

I wish I could have been on

there because I believe she

thought it was to help with

the log clean and jerk.

But I wanted to tell her like, no,

it's for people with shoulder problems.

Like my elbow was flared up.

Holding a barbell in this

position versus this position,

like life changing.

The stability it adds,

like to bench press with it,

all the muscles you have to engage.

Like I'm sold on it.

Of course I was using it.

But whoever asked that,

I was so thankful because I

don't want to bug her.

I'm not the type to slide

into her DMs every week and say, hey,

didn't get back to me you

didn't get back to me it's

like no she I respect what

she does she's a busy woman

but I'm also eagerly

waiting well and it sounds

like she's got a lot going

on right now right they're

moving rogue to scotland

right there you know

they've got the arnold this

weekend here in columbus

which is this massive event

like bigger probably bigger

than the games wow for strongman right

Well, it's,

it has like 150 sports all

going on at the same time.

Wow.

They have like jujitsu, strong man,

bodybuilding, um, community event.

Is there the flap thing?

Have you seen the flap

that's going on there?

Yep.

Wow.

Okay.

So it's pretty big.

So yeah, it's, um,

and they're like a main sponsor for that.

So, um,

So yeah,

it's like 70,000 people come in

every day for that.

Every day?

Yeah.

Wow.

Now, anything with Rogue,

like I have a few bucket list things.

Rogue, of course,

is one of them at the top.

If I could partner with them in any way,

that's another one.

Yeah, they should sign you.

I would love it.

So my last thing on the open announcement,

you know my pet peeve, right?

We talked about this after

the games that when people

say fittest mom.

Oh, yeah.

And I think that that should be next.

You're the third fittest

woman on the planet.

I just don't want that last

open announcement to be all

about the battle of the moms.

I have a feeling, Scott,

it's going to be unfortunate.

Oh, I do too.

I have a feeling that's the

angle they're going to pull

and that's the angle

they're going to play.

What if it sells?

It sells.

But I'm like you because

I've gotten third fittest.

I'm like, guys, I worked really hard.

You don't have to use the mom card.

Like, I'm just the third fittest.

Yeah, I'm a mom.

It's a bonus.

And Tia's won six championships.

Mm-hmm.

Like, she's the fittest ever.

Ever.

Yeah.

Regardless of being a mom.

Yeah.

It's cooler that she's a mom,

but she's the fittest.

Right.

So the last thing about that,

and then I just have a

quick question about fit fest.

Like,

did you ever see yourself with the

opportunity to travel to

the UK to do CrossFit?

No, all like everything paid for.

We'll send you to London,

you and a friend.

Here's when we need you there.

Like the best opportunity ever.

Me and Dylan got to go

sightsee in London a bit.

Then we went to Birmingham

and they were just so sweet.

They're like,

here are the workouts we have

programmed for your teams.

And then my team was amazing.

Never did I think I'd be on team with BKG,

Dallin, Pepper, Hopper,

and Thurry and DB.

And then they just prefaced it with like,

people are paying to see you

guys we brought you here

for people to see you live

it up for the fans and just

they went above and beyond

to make sure we were

comfortable welcomed had

food had space but yeah to

think that I would say like

oh I'm going to London on a

work trip unheard of and

during Christmas time you

know me I love Christmas

and London does Christmas hard yeah I um

I just,

I kept thinking of you talking

about that first year back

at the Granite Games,

just wanting to sign.

Yep.

And how far you've come in three years.

Isn't it insane?

It's unfathomable.

It just blows me away.

Yeah, I agree.

I agree,

but the UK people were the

sweetest hands down because

they all have their sweet

accents and they'd be like,

can I bother you for a picture, please?

Or can I please have your autograph?

Like with the most utmost

polite respect would ask for autographs.

So even to go to Granite

Games and then now I'm in

London performing for

CrossFit and then all these

people are like,

can I have your autograph?

Can I have a picture with you?

I'm like, man, I'm so far from home,

but they make me feel so special.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's so cool for you.

And then.

Sorry to touch on that.

People wanted pictures with Dylan.

So that was funny to see too,

that they were like, Oh,

that's her husband.

Get a picture with him.

So let's jump to that.

Yeah.

He's Dylan is becoming his own celebrity.

And I know you, what,

how does that make you feel

that you get to share all this with him?

And, and even the notoriety.

Yeah.

I mean, you,

he was on the first podcast with you ever,

so you know how goofy it is.

He isn't funny.

I'm just thankful that

people are able to see that

now and they appreciate it

and they love it.

Like he was on,

I think Siobhan had him on the other day.

They talked for three hours.

And I'm just like,

I get it because I'm his

wife and I love talking to him.

But for another person kind

of non-biased to just be like,

what a good dude.

I love talking to him was awesome.

I love it because he is part

of the reason of my success

and people are able to see

like what he brings to the table for me.

Yeah.

I, he's just one of the,

the nicest guys ever.

Like every time I see him, it's such a,

and he's so genuine.

He's, and he's always himself.

Right.

Right.

He doesn't try to be,

try to be anything else, but who he is.

Right.

And people love that.

Like his goofiness.

And I, I'm picking up on it.

So I try to include him more

like the reel I made

yesterday of like my many

roles as a housewife.

And I'm like, Hey, he,

He gave me the idea and I'm like,

what if you're in it too?

He was like, oh, that'd be funny.

And I'm like, okay,

how do you want to present yourself?

And he's like, well,

I think it'd be funny if I

was on the toilet.

And so we do a shot and he's like, no,

you can still see my underwear.

Let me roll it up more so it

looks like I'm not wearing any underwear.

So he's like full on leaning

into it and I love it

because it's so goofy and it's him.

It is.

And like that was one of the

coolest reels I've seen in a long time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And so creative.

And the fact that you get to

do that together and

everybody knows who Dylan

is has to make it all that much better.

It does.

And as goofy as it is,

it's building a brand of like, hey,

we're a team.

We win together.

We live together.

This is what our life looks like.

On Instagram, people love that.

But in real life,

like that is what it is too.

Like I had someone,

I've been getting a lot of,

the more I'm growing,

the more comments you get, of course.

And I had one comment like,

you do everything in the house.

It's 2024, like time to step up.

And I was like, no, no, he works hard.

He owns a business.

And I get to stay home and

sleep in and take care of the house.

Like we have two different

roles and that is okay.

Uh, Amy Labarge says we love Dylan.

I love his silliness and he

loves you so much.

He's so sweet.

That is one thing I,

people can see the love.

And I mean, I feel the love every day.

So it's super sweet.

I love AB.

So let's talk about the new

gym because Dylan's a big part of that.

Yeah.

He's the head of construction.

That's right.

And he's getting his own

office out of this.

Kind of.

Kind of.

So I'm actually,

I'm going to try and post a

YouTube video over it.

I've shot the stuff.

I just have to edit it together.

The shell of the building is

done and he actually caught,

he could do it himself, but you know,

Dylan Scott,

it would have taken two years

because he's going to do it

right when he has the time.

So he hired it out.

It got done in two weeks.

ridiculously fast so the

shell is done now what he

actually just finished

today he welded up stuff

and framed out the rooms

that are going to be in there

So we'll say 60% is his,

where he can put all of his material,

his scissor lift,

whatever he needs to do.

Then the other, no, I'd say 40% is his,

then 60% is mine.

So he framed up,

we'll have an office there

for people to come check in.

We'll have storage, we'll have a bathroom,

we'll have a shower,

cold plunge sauna area,

and then just an open gym

where we can work out in.

So his job this past week or

so was to frame out those rooms

And then, I mean, he knows those steps,

but that was step one.

Step two is we're in works with trying to,

to like email back and

forth with rogue about

potentially getting a custom rig.

So the next step would be to get that in,

put that up and get

flooring and all that.

Yeah.

So, so his business does get 40%.

Yes.

And he absolutely needs it.

If I showed you, we have three car garage.

One is the gym.

You guys know that one is

where my car parks.

And then the other is where

he stores all of his garage doors.

And there would be days it

would be piled to the

ceiling and he would come in angry.

Like he never cusses,

but he would just come in and like,

I'm trying to run a

business and I can't even

store any of my stuff.

How am I supposed to be successful?

So he'd have a stack of garage doors.

And then of course the

garage door he needed was on the bottom.

So we had to move all of

these to get this one out

and then install it.

And so now when he first put

his garage doors in the back shop,

he looked like a little kid

on Christmas morning.

He was just like,

I officially feel like a business owner.

And I can store stuff and

have space to walk and move

and put my trailer in.

He was very nice to make it bigger for me,

but let's be very clear,

the shop is for him.

So the fact that he was like,

you can have a little bit,

we'll make it a little bit bigger for you,

was very nice of him.

But I think he's secretly

really excited for it.

Well, he has to be right.

It makes his life better,

but it's shared success in

your accomplishments in the

CrossFit world that made that a reality.

Right.

Absolutely.

And you couldn't do it without him.

He couldn't do it without you.

And that's what makes it so cool.

Yeah.

And what's also nice too,

is we own the land.

We own the building.

Eventually when I retire,

obviously that will be my

main source of income to

like help contribute to the family.

So we don't have to worry

about paying rent on a facility,

having max amount of

members so we can afford

our landlord payment.

Like we own the building.

If we want to make it profitable, awesome.

When we're ready to transition,

it'll be there waiting for us.

If not, no worries.

So Denise asks,

how many roll-up doors will

there be in the new gym?

So there's two different

types of garage doors.

One's a roll-up door where

it literally rolls up.

And then one's like the flat

door you see on a house.

We don't have any roll-up doors,

but we do have two glass garage doors,

of course, in the gym.

And then Dylan on his side

has the best of the best

beautiful black garage door.

So it'll be two.

It'll be two.

And I heard you say on Savant,

I think it was that your

plan is to still work out

in your garage most of the time.

Yeah.

This is a separate thing.

Yeah, this is a separate thing.

And I don't know if I'm

ready to let go of my garage yet.

The garage is very special

because of what happened last year.

And it's also connected to the house.

So if Blakely's inside,

like today she needed me,

she just walks out there and grabs me.

I I'm not comfortable leaving her inside.

and I'm, let's say, 50 feet back there.

She'd have to open the door,

put on her shoes, run back to the shop.

My mama heart isn't ready for that yet.

And that's perfectly fine

because it works.

It works, exactly.

It will be awesome come quarterfinals.

I don't believe it'll be done, but

that I could have the space

to do a rope climb and

handstand walk and not have

to go to a different gym.

That I will definitely

accept with open arms.

So I heard you say that

because of the cold plunge

and the sauna and all the

stuff that you're adding in,

this is going to be like a

high-end CrossFit gym,

like a premier place to be.

Yeah,

we're only going to accept 50 people.

because we only want 10

people per class to make it special.

Like I don't want to have a

gym where people can't even

do back squats because

there's so many people that

there's no room.

We want it to feel small.

We want it to feel

intentional with our training,

with our space for our members.

So like we're going to

accept 50 people and then

we'll have a wait list and

if people want to get in.

So I heard Siobhan give you

a bunch of suggestions on

what you should do with this.

And I just have one myself.

Yeah, do it.

I think that you should

model the train with Rich

and have weekends where

people can come see how you do it.

Yeah.

And do it with you.

Right.

Not like a class type workout,

but this is how Ariel does it.

And you can,

you can come along for the

ride on this weekend.

I think that's a great idea.

My only hesitancy is, you know, me,

I would be like,

would people even sign up?

Would they care?

But I think it would be great.

And what I've noticed train

with Rich that he always

does is they work out and

then he feeds them when

it's all over some Saturday.

And I love that idea because

I'm big on hospitality.

Yeah.

I think it's right up your

alley as like a host.

And it also gives people

like Judy who said, yes,

my husband already said

he'd send me to a train with Ariel.

That'd be awesome.

So I already have one person,

so I can't say nobody would come.

Right.

I know you have one.

I have one.

How cool is that?

We do want to do a soft opening.

So ideally we would love to

have it done come June and July.

So like Ricky Gerard,

we've already had a

conversation with him.

Hey,

you want to come acclimate to the

Texas heat?

Nobody will be in there but me.

It's your own space.

We'd love to have a soft

opening and give it some

respect and be like, hey,

this will open up in September.

But right now,

Ricky Gerard is in here training.

This will open up in

September for you guys to sign up.

But right now,

Spiegel said she wanted to

come acclimate to the Texas Heat.

So I think it'd be super cool.

So we're kind of hoping it's

done so we can welcome all

the games athletes with

open arms to train and

acclimate to Texas in the back home gym.

And that was really my next question is,

in addition to the train with Ariel,

would you have a train with

Ariel with other games

athletes leading up to a competition?

That'd be awesome.

It would just be if they're on board.

I would hate to be like, Spiegel,

I know you've never come before,

but let me take advantage

of you and charge all these

people money to see you.

So it would just be if the

other person is open to it.

Because I would never want

to lose a friendship over...

using them.

Yeah.

Um, yeah, I think that,

I think it's super cool and,

and I'm excited for both

you and Dylan that you get to do that.

Exactly.

That we get to do it.

That's a great way to put it.

It's,

it doesn't feel like a burden right now.

It feels like this is cool.

Well, and you are an OG.

You have a history of not

just being a games athlete,

but being a regional

athlete and fighting that

fight and the struggle.

And I think you have a lot

to bring to the table for

other athletes who go through that.

Thank you.

And I appreciate that

because my approach is different.

So I do feel like I have

something different to

offer than Proven or HWPO

because I'm training two hours a day.

Gabe's training might be three hours a day,

but that's nothing compared

to what the norm is for the

people in the CrossFit space.

Yeah.

So, Denise,

I don't know if you know who that is.

She just won Legends in the 65+.

Wow.

Congratulations.

And so she goes,

how about Masters going to

Birmingham trying to

acclimate to the heat?

Oh, okay.

That's a good idea.

And that would be in August.

So I would be done with my season.

Yeah.

They, they go Labor Day weekend.

Man, that would be great.

A whole different.

See,

I don't even think about them because

I never see them.

Unfortunately.

Open it up to pastors.

Yeah.

Cause I think she's Northern California.

So it's going to be,

it would be a whole different,

different heat.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So there's that too.

That is good.

Got all these things on my mind.

So the next thing I wanted

to talk about is, and again,

with you being an OG.

Thank you.

There is a behind the scenes

that comes out that we have

missed for five years.

And so you never got to be a

part of behind the scenes,

which was a staple in the

teens when you were trying

to make the games.

Right.

Now it comes back.

And you are the star.

You are one of the stars.

In the Savan one?

Yeah.

That's funny because we

watched all of them.

I subscribed so we could watch them early.

And I told Dylan when it finished,

I was like, man,

there's so much they missed

out on because I feel like

we were barely in at me and Dylan.

But so much happened that

was not in the behind the

scenes to where I had the opposite thing.

I was like, man, they missed out.

Like Dylan wore the same

shorts all weekend because

they were his good luck

shorts and he's

superstitious and he's a baseballer.

Like so many things that I'm like,

if they would have followed

us a hair more,

there was so many little

funny things that happened.

But it's not all about me.

I can't have a camera crew

following me all weekend.

So yeah, I felt like,

and this is not being

critical of Sivan because I

think it's natural in

filmmaking and he didn't do the editing.

So other people did the editing.

I thought by the end of the series,

it focused on the same athletes.

Right.

Because the story kind of

lent itself to that, right?

Yeah.

Here's you coming pretty

much out of nowhere,

never top 10 finisher,

and you're going to podium.

So you get more camera time

towards the end.

Right.

Alex getting more.

Yeah.

Because she comes from 20th to fourth,

fifth.

Um, and then, and then of course,

Pat Velner, um, Jeff Adler, Roman,

all that kind of stuff.

So it,

it lent itself to kind of narrow

down to that kind of top group.

Um,

i wanted more of everybody

but but but it's it's a

long week and you're you're

you're editing it down to

our episodes yeah and it's

40 men and 40 women you

talk to each of them for

five minutes like you can't

even do that yeah so uh

braylon tender says uh did

he sell their shorts at the

end of the weekend

He should.

No, honestly,

when we come back from the games,

the laundry is astronomical.

Cause I'm not one of those

people that pays $50 for

them to wash two things at the hotel.

So they got washed with

everything else that was in a pile.

But I just thought that was

so funny because I didn't

even know Dylan was superstitious,

but it got to where like

day three came and I was like,

why is there chalk on your shorts?

And we just started the day.

What have you been doing?

And then he's like, don't worry about it.

And then by the end of the day, I was like,

oh, okay.

I know these shorts.

He's like, yeah,

they're my good luck charm.

And I'm just like, you're so goofy.

So funny.

So Denise is right.

I wanted a 30 episode series.

Oh, that's so sweet.

Yeah.

And I did my own that I'm

still working on with just four people.

And even cutting that down

is like really hard.

I believe it.

There's so much stuff.

So yeah.

Um, so,

so there's that Dylan is a star in

it just as much as you are.

He probably got as much

FaceTime as you did,

which I thought was super cool.

Yeah.

Um,

My favorite part from that,

for those who have seen it,

was I think it was before

the intervals workout and

all the coaches were giving

strategies of like,

go over the burpee like this,

now go faster, now turn.

And then they panned to me and Dylan,

and I'm like, Dylan,

don't eat my fruit snacks.

You know, it's just like,

that was just us and that's how we are.

We don't need strategy.

We just want to like have fun.

And I'm like, okay, good.

They got a little taste of our, okay,

we're about to step on the floor.

What does Aaron and Dylan say?

Like leave my snacks alone.

Well,

and his response was last year I got

in trouble for that.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Last year he,

I stepped off the floor and I was like,

man, I'm not hungry.

I'm not going to eat that right now.

And he heard it as I don't want the food.

So he ate it.

And then five minutes later I was like,

okay, I'm ready for my food.

And then he had eaten it.

And I was like,

Okay, let's have a talk.

You cannot eat my food.

So I also noticed you have

these little fruit snack

pouches with you.

And sometimes you're on the floor.

Where do you hide those?

I make sure.

This is one thing I've told Dylan.

That's his job.

When I finish my workout...

He's there and I'm like,

I want my fruit snacks and a Gatorade.

And so like,

I'll literally hug him at

North Park and he'll hand

me these things.

And I'll tell you this,

I don't eat fruit snacks.

I only eat them at

competition because I need

the quick sugars to recover

and get stuff in my system.

So when it's game time, his job is,

as soon as you see me,

even if I don't want it,

just make me eat some food,

get it in my system to

start the recovery.

Which that was new this year.

And it played a big

difference because I never

had that moment of like, wow,

I am exhausted.

I'm dead.

I'm fatigued.

Like I felt pretty good all weekend.

So at the end of the behind the scenes,

there's, I think, Spencer Pancheck.

I can't remember who he's

sitting with on the steps

underneath the Coliseum.

And I think they're asking,

can we get you some food?

Siobhan's asking,

can we get you some food?

Yeah.

It's over, and I don't have to fuel.

And I'm so glad I don't have to fuel.

Do you get that feeling at

the end of the weekend?

Like,

I don't want to force eat anything

anymore?

No.

Competition weekend is

really fun for me because I love eating.

So for me,

it's like as bad as I want to

say food guilt,

the food guilt goes out the

window and it's like, just eat anything.

The thing I do enjoy when

the games is over is that's

usually when I'll introduce

more greasy foods,

like a burger or pizza.

So I know by the end of the night,

I have that to look forward to,

but I mean,

I will eat and I will always eat.

So for me, it's not a,

gross if I was eating

chicken and rice absolutely

like I see some athletes

like Bukowski was eating

that but I know myself if

you tell me to eat that

competition not a chance

I'm touching it I need good

food so I'm eating yummy

food all weekend but like a

normal Wednesday afternoon

yeah I'll eat chicken and

rice every day but

competing you have to eat

food that tastes good

for me.

So did you learn anything

about yourself this year in

your podium finish that was

different than other years

that you'll take forward?

Or did you just have that

great year last year?

I had a great year last year.

So I learned who I need in

my corner and who I don't.

I learned my trading partner, Joelle is,

uh, invaluable is valuable and

I don't know the right word

I'm trying to say,

but I need Joelle to show

up every day and help me.

I need my strength coach.

His name is Brian and I need my husband.

I need three people.

That's all I had last year.

And I knew each workout,

my mental game changed a lot.

I knew each workout.

If I did my best,

I could get a top 10 finish at the games.

Some events I didn't do my best,

like on the handstand walk one,

I fell and I mean,

Stuff that wasn't great.

But I had a mental shift of like,

I know if I give it my all,

I've done the work preparing for this.

Like I'm very confident in

what my strength coach gave me.

Very confident in the cardio

pieces I've been programming.

It was the first time I had

the mental shift of I am so prepared.

I know if I give my effort,

it'll be a good finish.

what, what blows me away.

And I, and I've said this to you before,

when, when I'm,

when I'm talking to you at

an event like this year,

you were so at ease at everything,

semifinals games.

You just,

you had this piece about you that

was so cool to see in person.

Thank you.

And I,

Like I told you,

one of my favorite moments

was from the West semis and

you just leaning on the

barrier and us having a chat, no cameras,

no mics,

just having a chat after one of

the events.

And you were so at ease.

I had peace this year.

Well,

there's a whole bunch of things that

went into it.

It's hard to just put it in one word,

but I worked on my inner

strength as well as my

outer strength this year.

And I'm not talking inner

strength like meditating, visualizing.

I'm talking like while I'm

doing my strength training,

I'm listening to worship music.

So regardless what happens on the floor,

I have peace about who I am

and who I'm made to be.

So it's stuff like that

where it's like if I don't

qualify for the games, my life goes on.

But I've prepared enough and

I've trained hard enough

that I have peace knowing

that I've done all I can to

just leave it out there on the floor.

hard to put into words but

this year was so special

because everything was new

in my mental training my

out my strength coach

joelle and I got third

place so like all of the

unknowns it's like it

worked and I'm very

confident in all the changes I made

So the last thing I'm going to ask you,

and I think I know the answer,

there were an unprecedented

amount of cameras at the games,

like in the warm-up area.

Did any of that affect you,

or were you just as at

peace as when I saw you at

different moments during the season?

I honestly felt like there

weren't that many.

As weird as that is,

I never felt like they made

an effort to come up and talk to me.

Only a handful of occasions.

I tried if I saw them to

make an effort to talk to

them just to be like super

selfish to get my name out

there and grow the brand.

But I've never been

overwhelmed with people

wanting to film me.

I'll put it that way.

I kind of always feel like

the underdog who will go

out there and work hard.

And if I do good in an event,

Guess what?

There's cameras there and

they magically want to talk to me.

But I'm like, guys,

I've been here all week.

Do you randomly want to fill

me the final day when I'm in third place?

So no, I didn't feel overwhelmed.

And I honestly like that

stuff because me and Dylan

do have a different approach.

And I like to show people that like,

it's not all serious.

It's not all stressful.

You can have fun and do this stuff.

Yeah, and I love that.

It's fun.

We'll see.

This year might be different.

Now that I got third, I might be like,

recall this conversation.

Be like, get the cameras away.

I cannot imagine that for you.

But here's something really interesting,

Scott.

The Monday before the game,

so we have check-in Monday

where they give us all of our gear.

The game started on, was it Thursday?

Wednesday?

Wednesday.

Monday, they actually, CrossFit themselves,

pulled me aside for about a

45-minute interview.

Just me and the camera

talking before the games even started.

And it's, oh, it's gold.

Dylan was there too.

I'm talking about what

changed in my season,

how expectant I am that

this is going to be a good games.

And I got emotional like 20 times,

told what I changed this past year.

So CrossFit has this

interview of me somewhere

Monday before the game

started of me saying,

basically being a baby

crying about like how great

this year was and how

thankful I am and how great

this game is going to be.

And then I go on to have the

best games of my career.

I don't know where this footage is,

but they did make a point

to pull me aside and have a

one-on-one conversation with me.

That was after I saw you and

you were uploading Emily's documentary.

Do you remember that?

I do.

So somewhere out there,

there's this amazing video

that I would personally

love to put on my YouTube,

but I don't know who to reach out to.

So I think what I was told

is there was a third party

documentary crew on site

that CrossFit hired.

They're putting together

some kind of documentary.

It's supposed to be

different than what they've

done in the past because

they hired someone from outside.

Interesting.

That has not released.

I've not heard anything else

about it since the games.

Interesting.

So you think there's still hope for it?

I do.

My guess is if it's on pace

with like the other documentaries,

it wouldn't come out until

later in the season.

Which is interesting because

my thoughts were always

that they did those after

the podium so you could

like walk through each event.

But this was Monday before.

Yeah.

Again, follow up after.

And I just randomly expect a phone call.

This was a crew that didn't

even know about CrossFit.

Like they brought in,

like you've seen the things

on Netflix with like full

swing with the PGA tour.

Yeah.

There's a formula one thing.

Like it's something like that,

that they brought in a complete.

I could be on Netflix.

I don't know where it's planned to go.

We were just told in our

media intro or orientation

that there was going to be

a documentary crew walking

around and they were third party.

Interesting.

So I don't know what's come

of that or what will come

of that because I, again,

have heard nothing since

that orientation.

That makes me feel better, though.

It's not just lost in space.

It might be used.

And I think that Siobhan

filmed some of them doing

the work during the behind the scenes.

You just don't know that

they're the third party documentary.

It's just a guy asking questions.

Yeah.

Whereas you knew Siobhan,

you knew Craig Ritchie, the buttery bros.

Yeah.

Interesting.

That'd be cool.

Yeah.

Here's something fun.

I haven't talked about fun stuff.

Give me a second, Blakely.

The open announcement with Tia.

Yeah.

The next weekend, I'm doing a competition.

Me, Dylan, my husband, and Dylan's cousin.

We're called the Average Bros and a Pro.

It's a little local competition.

It's going to be so fun

because it's so different

from me going from Fit Fest

to the games and all that.

Dylan is working on

Butterfly Chester Bars.

There's a workout that has

20 bar muscle ups in it as a team.

And we've already said like, okay,

we can't do bar muscle ups.

Ariel, you're doing all 20 bar muscle ups.

So it'll be a very different aspect,

but it's with family.

So I think it'll be really fun.

And I'm really hoping to get

some videos of it just

because like to do a

partner competition with

Dylan will be so fun.

That would be awesome

content for your YouTube channel.

Okay.

I agree.

And so I'm going to try and I don't,

I need help,

but I'm going to try and just

do it myself and get

somebody in the crowd to

film a little bit.

Anytime a husband and wife

are competing together,

you're going to get pure

gold at some point during the weekend.

Yeah, I agree.

And there's going to be actually,

we have to max out a two

rep max hang clean.

And so my goal is to do the

same way as Dylan.

Okay.

There you go.

I'll keep you updated.

We might have a recap where

me and Dylan can come on

and tell you about it.

But that's the next fun

thing I have on the menu.

It'll be very serious with Tia,

very serious with Open,

and then we'll have some

fun throw down here locally.

Before I let you go,

there's something I have to

talk to you about that I

saw in another podcast.

It was not with you.

It was with Emma Carey.

Okay.

On the Mayhem Athlete podcast.

Really?

I don't know if you've seen it.

No, I have not.

So in that she tells a story

and she's very much like

trying to find her voice as,

and more than just a voice,

trying to change her mental

attitude to give everything to God.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

And a lot of this podcast is about that,

like her journey to get there.

Right.

And she talks about the struggle of that.

Yeah.

She tells the story that she

had always said, like, God is first,

God is first.

And when she was at the Granite Games,

she was going into the last

event in first place.

And you were like in third or second.

We were tied for first, believe it or not.

You both are in the corral,

and she says that you looked at her,

and I think you told me this,

so it was really cool,

but you said to her, you got this.

Yeah, I said, go get it.

Go get it.

You got this.

She said that intimidated

her so much that you were

that nice in that moment.

That's hilarious,

because she's very serious.

And she couldn't believe...

that someone could be in a

competition and be that,

that open to like, this is God's plan to,

to tell a competitor.

Good luck.

That's hilarious.

No, I didn't hear that.

And it went from,

she was so intimidated in that moment,

but now she's striving to be like you.

Oh, that's so sweet.

Yeah.

And so I wanted to get your

reaction to that because it's,

it's one thing to say it,

but when your actions match what you say,

right.

And we've, you know,

we've known each other now, three years,

four years now, whatever it is.

And like,

you've always walked the walk and

it's something that I respect about you.

Thank you.

And so I just wanted to get

your impressions from that.

Um,

Because it was really a

testament to you and your

faith and you walking the

walk and how you impacted

another person's life.

That's huge to me because

that's my goal in all of this.

It's not to make the most

money in the world or have

the most Instagram followers.

It's to see people and love people.

And so for her to remember

not what we did on the competition floor,

but a moment where I saw her

Like that's huge to me

because that's what I strive to do.

And there's actually an

amazing lady I'm in contact

with from Australia who we

connected at the games who

like needed to be seen and loved.

And I'm still in communication with her.

And those are the most

powerful for me because

that is my goal and that is my mission.

And so to hear that is just

like warms my heart more

than any medal or trophy

could because that's real.

Sorry,

I have a little dry spot in my

throat all of a sudden.

It's good.

It's good for the camera.

But it made me proud to know you.

Thank you, Scott.

So I'm glad I got to share that with you.

And you now know it's out there.

I'm glad you did too,

because I didn't know that was out there.

And I know I remember seeing

them teasing it on Instagram,

but I haven't watched it yet.

It's towards the end of the episode,

but it's, it's just pure gold.

Thank you.

Because I've known,

I've known Emma since she was 16.

Wow.

To see like two people I've

known pretty well kind of

collide and have this

moment is really good.

That's awesome.

And she, I mean, just like that,

she had her time.

She shined at Waterpalooza.

She killed it.

So I wanted to finish with a

couple things.

Rogue moving to Scotland.

Oh my gosh.

How much of that is a

driving factor in you

qualifying for Rogue this year?

I'll say this.

If I don't qualify,

I will do the qualifier.

I have no shame in working

for a spot to go there.

Like it was cool that it was in Texas,

but to go to like,

that's just legendary and

to be the first group of

athletes that get to go there.

So whatever I have to do,

if I'm healthy and able to like,

I'll do it.

Well, and rogue takes care of travel.

Usually for travel,

they take care of hotel.

They eat.

pay out every athlete,

regardless if you get first or last,

of course the pay varies,

but it's very much not as

big of a financial burden

as the games is.

Yeah.

And what an opportunity, right?

Would you go?

Um, if I could afford it, I would go.

Right.

This is actually something hilarious.

This past year for Christmas,

my sister got my dad a lordship.

So what that is in Scotland,

you can buy like a square

foot by a square foot of

land and it officially

makes you a lord in Scotland.

So if I go,

I'll try and find wherever my

dad is a lordship over and

like stand in a square and

take a picture with it.

That is so cool.

And it was so funny because

all weekend when he got it, he was like,

you guys might not

understand this because I'm a Lord now,

but I was reading this book.

I just like loved it.

So to go to Scotland would be amazing,

but to also like take a

picture with that would be pretty funny.

Would you want to go though?

Oh, I,

I think like the only place in the

world I want to go more

than some place in America is Ireland,

Scotland.

Hmm.

So it's perfect.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, rogues just down the street.

If I can just get them to pay for my way,

just jump on the plane with

Katie and Bill.

Yeah.

That easy.

Yeah.

Well, I've kept you an hour already.

I could talk to you forever as always,

but I respect your time and, and we'll,

we'll save this for another day.

Love it.

Yeah.

I haven't mentioned it yet,

but I actually have a new

role this spring.

Blakely is in soccer and

you're looking at the

assistant soccer coach for her.

wow so this is a big year

but I mean I'll be honest

the only thing I know about

soccer is I went to a

soccer game in london so I

know nothing about soccer

but I know how to act and

handle five-year-olds

because I have one so I

have to tell you assistant

soccer coach I have to tell

you this story real quick

so my daughter is now 22

but when she first started

soccer my wife had a sit

down with me like you're

not going to be that dad

that's yelling from the

stands and doing all the

stuff and you're not going

to embarrass me at this at

these soccer matches so we

go to the like the first

match my daughter gets put

in a goalie and she runs

out and she covers the ball

and a girl kicks her oh my

wife was a third of the way

out onto the field

yelling at the ref that they

let this girl kick my daughter.

Oh, no.

So she was the person.

I'm the one you were worried about.

Yep.

After that, you'd be like,

we need to have a sit-down talk.

I don't want you embarrassing me.

Yeah.

Don't mess with Mama Bear by

kicking her daughter.

How old was she?

Do you remember?

Six, seven.

Okay.

So like the same age almost.

Yeah.

Wow.

That'll be fun.

crazy I know so we'll see

what happens out there

sounds vicious yeah yeah

yeah she got she got on a

really good team right off

the bat like they didn't

lose a match for two years

wow um but we were very

lucky in that but yeah it

got aggressive at times but

Well, we'll let you go.

And I can't wait to catch up

with you this season.

And we will see everybody

next time on Clydesdale Media Podcast.

Bye, guys.

Bye.