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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
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what is going on everybody
welcome to the clydesdale
media podcast where this is
attempt two to go live um
and this one seems to have
worked well we are
continuing our series on
highlighting the athletes
of the 2024 legends masters
crossfit games and I'm so
pumped so honored to have
with me tammy saunders
tammy how's it going
It is going really good.
Thank you.
I'm honored to be here.
This is super cool.
Well,
we're honored to have you because and
what I'm learning is the
Masters community is just super cool.
We're all right.
We're a pretty cool bunch of
guys and girls.
Yeah, for sure.
It's been fun getting to know everybody.
Because to be honest,
we've all lived lives longer, right,
than the elite division.
We've been through things.
We have cool careers.
And we're doing all this
with balance and all that through life.
And it creates a better story.
For sure.
I agree.
So let's get your story.
So did you have an athletic
background growing up?
Not really.
I did gymnastics from maybe
second grade to like middle school.
But it's an expensive sport.
And I come from not a family
with the means.
So by eighth grade,
when it started to get like
super competitive,
and it was more like club type stuff,
I wasn't able to continue.
But I always did like,
I like tumbling and stuff like that.
But that was about it.
Not athletic.
I found a testimonial that
you wrote when you were at one gym.
I don't think it's where you are now.
Where you talked about
putting together a
slideshow for your brother's wedding.
Yeah.
And you went through old pictures.
Yeah.
And so can you,
you didn't have the big
athletic background and
then you got yourself in a
position that probably
isn't where you wanted to be.
And what was it that shook
you out of that?
Gosh, you know what?
I think about this often.
What was it about that period in time?
What was it that made me
make that step into going
into a CrossFit gym?
My brother had started going
and was talking about it.
And I think really I was at
a place in my life where I
was just really feeling stuck.
I was feeling unmotivated, unfulfilled.
I was about 40, a little over 40, 41,
42 years old.
And I was like,
this can't be all there is to life.
Um,
my mom then passed away and then it
just really kind of shook
some things in me where I was like, uh,
this life I'm living can not,
this can't be it.
Like there has to be something more.
And so my brother had been
asking me to go to a
CrossFit gym and it was very culty to me.
And I was like, I don't know what, like,
it's just weird.
And we'd go on vacation and
he'd go do a drop-in and I
didn't know what that meant.
And it was just very strange to me.
But my daughter wanted to go.
So I went with her.
We went to a, like a foundations class,
a trial.
And
I don't know what it was.
But when I walked in,
there was there was
something about this group
of people there was I don't
know what it was,
I can't put my finger on it.
But whatever they had,
I just knew in that moment, I was like,
I want that.
And I'm going to keep coming
back to this place till I have that.
And it, it wasn't fitness, it was this
this sense of joy.
They looked like they had purpose.
They looked happy.
They looked fun.
They looked like they had,
they had community.
They had all the things that
were lacking that was lacking in my life.
And I don't know,
it was like from that first workout,
I was like, this is it.
So in this testimonial,
you talk about having smoked,
you talk about having an eating disorder,
but most importantly, you talk about,
there was a voice in your
head that you had to attack.
Yeah.
So yes, all of those things are true.
I think that I
There was a story that I
told myself that like I
didn't belong or I couldn't
do it or I wasn't good
enough or there was this
whole narrative that I had in my head.
And I don't know what it was,
but I was just like,
we're going to go for it.
We're going to see like how
far we can take this.
And truly, when I started,
I just wanted to survive the class.
Like, let's be honest,
I had no aspirations.
I am the most unlikely
CrossFit head coach or games athlete.
It's still weird to say that
out of my mouth that I'm a games athlete.
But I really just wanted to
survive a workout.
And the early ones, I'm not I mean,
I cried every time I left the gym,
because it was just so hard.
And I didn't do hard things.
I would walk up to that line
of hard and I would quit.
I was I was afraid I had
given up on myself didn't know.
I didn't know how to get
myself to do the things I wanted to do.
If any of that makes sense.
Totally.
I think the one thing that
almost everybody can relate
to is the voice in your head.
And it doesn't matter who you are.
Everybody has one.
And it just comes up in
different situations.
And you could be the most
elite athlete in the world.
And at a critical moment in
a game or a competition,
that voice comes up and you
have to attack it.
Am I going to give in or am
I going to overcome?
Whether you're starting your
journey or at the end of your journey,
everybody faces those voices.
Right.
So I think it's the most
relatable story that anybody could tell.
Yeah,
there are truly days where I look at
myself and I try to step
back from myself and look
at myself from someone
else's point of view.
Because when I look at myself,
I can't really remember
that person that I used to be.
I do, but it seems so surreal.
It's like, who is that?
I can't relate to her anymore.
Uh,
she was a girl who smoked two packs of
cigarettes a day.
She had a raging eating disorder.
She didn't know how to like
functioning was hard for me
on the outside.
I looked like I had it all together,
but on the inside, it was like,
there was anxiety.
There was like worse issues.
There were just a lot of stuff.
um and so what I realized is
the further I went in my
crossfit journey of just
like showing up for myself
doing the hard thing
listening to some really
great people that I
surrounded myself that they
the it just started it
didn't get easier but it
became more like that was
just what I did I just got
really used to doing the
hard thing and now I do the
hard thing all the time
because that's what I make myself do
I think the analogy I use
most in doing anything now
is you got to put in the reps, right?
Whether I'm doing a podcast,
whether I'm doing CrossFit,
whether you have to put in
the reps so that it becomes
just what you do.
Yeah.
I think that it was just
really easy for me to quit
if something got a little bit hard.
I didn't understand that
what I was actually looking
for was on the other side of that heart.
The change that I wanted to see in my life,
the things that I wanted to
come to fruition, they all really,
I was my own roadblock.
They were there.
They weren't not for me.
I could have them if I just
leaned in a little bit to
that really uncomfortable space.
And I think that
We get as people to this
uncomfortable space and
it's hard to make yourself lean into it,
right?
And be like, I know,
but I know on the other
side is everything that
I've been asking for is all
the things that are going
to make my life feel better
or more complete or give me
purpose or give me direction, right?
So does that overcoming the
hard thing become addictive?
Because now not only did you
get yourself back on track
and start CrossFit,
but now you coach CrossFit.
I do.
You live CrossFit.
You are a CrossFit Games athlete.
Is it just leaning into more
and more hard things
because of what you do now?
I think so.
I think I tell my members here, so I work,
this is kind of a sideway.
I don't know if this is a
good time to talk about it,
but I work in a gym that is,
it's a CrossFit affiliate
and we serve only people
who are in recovery.
So to be here,
you can have a free membership,
but you have to identify as
someone with a substance
use disorder and you have
to have 48 hours of sobriety.
And then it's a free CrossFit class.
I think that
having to do the hard thing
and lead people like I have
to kind of lead from the front, right?
Like they're not going to
believe me and they're not
going to do what I say is
good for them if I'm
leading this crazy lifestyle.
So I think that it,
it has kind of become my life.
I don't think that it gets easier,
but I think that it just, I know that it,
I know that that's where the work is,
right?
Like I have to do that if I
want something.
So it does kind of just
become how I do life now.
Like,
I don't know that I even think about it.
I think I get up and I just
do hard stuff because I
don't know what else to do.
Did you suffer?
Yeah, so everybody,
all of our coaches in our
gym are in recovery.
So some of them identify as
alcoholics or addicts.
Some of them choose not to
use those words.
They carry a really big stigma.
Some simply say, yes,
I identify as someone with
a substance use disorder.
So for myself,
I wasn't an everyday drinker,
but I would drink to excess.
So anytime I drank,
like I thought about this a lot,
anytime I've ever drank,
it's always been to like blackout.
It's always been to like some really bad,
not good decision.
I come from a family of
addiction and alcoholism.
And so
It's while it's very normal to me,
I'm realizing it's not
really normal to everybody else.
So things that I just were like,
that's just how my family is.
I didn't know that everybody
didn't live like that.
So, yeah, so yeah.
All of our coaches are in
recovery and we actually
develop them from within.
They have to be members for
three to six months and
then they show promise and
then we work with them and
we help them find a job and
they work for us or they
work in another place.
But yeah.
Midlife CrossFit journey.
That's one of my athletes.
Hi, Ed.
It's so wild like how
how small this CrossFit community is,
but yet it's big, right?
You know,
I talked to Carly Matthews like
two weeks ago.
She runs a recovery program
out of her gym.
Oh, really?
You know, and then here in Ohio,
we have Dale.
Yeah, Dale Kings.
Yeah.
Who's running a recovery program, right?
Yeah.
Do you ever like reach out
to other programs and share ideas?
Yeah, so I actually, I live in Phoenix,
and Dale last year was in Scottsdale.
I don't know if he comes here often,
but he was here.
There's a woman who was on our staff.
She is a professor in social work,
and she actually helped
write the grants that got
our gym our initial funding.
And she was in conversations with Dale,
seeing about like researchy
kind of data-y stuff.
And she's like, hey,
I'm going to this breakfast
with Dale King.
You have to come with me.
And I was like, okay.
So I got to sit down with him,
which was really cool.
And just talk about the program he runs,
the program we run, like what works,
what doesn't work, what have they found.
It's super weird.
I was in Hawaii at the Mana
Games that the NorCal
Classic put on this year.
And three of the women who podiumed, um,
in a couple of different age groups,
we were chatting and we were,
we were like, Hey, I'm, I'm in,
I'm sober.
And I don't even know how
the conversation came up.
It wasn't like, hi, I'm Tammy.
I'm sober.
But in our conversations,
we had realized that we all
are sober and we like live
a sober lifestyle,
which it was just crazy.
Like it's a huge community,
but it's a really small community.
So yeah, I think that, um,
For our members here,
and I think for myself,
like learning that I'm not
alone and learning that
there's more to me than
like whatever labels I put
on myself or that like, oh, my people,
they're amazing.
Daniel Roberts says,
that's our head coach.
That's what he calls me.
I have many, many nicknames.
But yeah, I think that that.
That sense of community.
I think that that's what
makes like programs like
12-step programs or AA or
Alcoholics Anonymous or NA,
Narcotics Anonymous work is
that feeling of I'm not alone.
And so I think it's very
similar to the CrossFit community.
We're going through all this
hard stuff together.
Like, right, I've been there,
I've done it.
When I first started CrossFit, in fact,
one of the girls had smoked
and I had walked into the
gym one day and she was
doing the burpees.
And I'm like,
why are you doing extra burpees?
Who does that?
And she was doing a burpee
for every day she hadn't
smoked for a year.
So she did 365 burpees and I was like,
wow, if I,
cause I still smoked when I
started CrossFit and I was like, wow,
if I could quit smoking,
I'm going to do that.
And so now here, 12 years later, um,
this year I dedicated the whole year.
I'm on day,
I think three 26 of doing a
hundred burpees every day
just to celebrate what my
body can do now.
And then not forget where I came from.
That's amazing.
And I'm a little off, a little,
a little off, but.
So how many,
how many classes do you run a day?
So we have three classes in
the morning that are just
regular CrossFit classes.
We have two in the afternoon.
So we run five CrossFit classes a day.
And then in the middle of the day,
we have billable classes.
So a sober living house or a
residential treatment
facility or some
organization will bring their folks here.
And we're actually part of
their treatment plan.
So we are on somebody's treatment plan.
Because we are in recovery, we're also,
we're peer support specialists.
So we can actually bill for
those classes under a
behavioral health code.
So CrossFit is being prescribed.
It's like part of someone's
treatment plan.
They come here.
Actually, we're doing peer support.
CrossFit is the vehicle
we're using to do peer support.
So yeah, so we run two of those a day.
And then we run like
sandwich or bookend the
regular CrossFit classes.
very very cool it's crazy I
if I could not believe when
I came here I worked um
long before I came here
when I first started
crossfit in my old gym back
in iowa I remember um
People would,
I'd been there for a long time.
So people, they knew my story.
They knew I had a journey.
I lost weight.
I quit smoking, all of these things.
So they would just start
asking me for like, how do I do this?
And how do I get better at that?
My head coach and I decided like,
let's get your L1 and like,
let's see what we can do.
So I did, I started coaching there.
When I started coaching,
I worked for the school district.
I was actually a life coach
with at-risk kids.
Um,
cause I get at risk kids cause I was one.
Uh,
so it was like one of the best jobs I
ever had.
I got to sit around all day
and talk to kids about life and like,
how do you life and how do
you make better life choices?
Uh, and then I coached part-time.
So come here.
had a friend who lived in Arizona,
I wanted to change I had
never done any competitive
CrossFit except for the open.
Until I moved to Arizona four years ago.
I'd never done legend.
I'd not nothing.
I didn't even know any of
this stuff existed.
Like my goal was to get to
the online qualifiers.
That was like my big life goal.
So what flipped that switch?
I you know what I got here.
And so I left Iowa.
I have two grown kids.
They were both doing really well.
They were in their late 20s.
One lived in Colorado.
The other one was living in Florida.
And I have siblings there.
But I was like,
I don't really have
anything tying me here.
And I've never been anywhere
outside of the safety of Iowa.
So anyway, I came here.
I was working at a gym.
And someone said, have you ever...
heard of this Legends thing,
because it had been in
Arizona the year before I moved here.
And I was like, no,
I don't do any of that.
And they're like,
I think you should really try out for it.
You're really good.
I think you could make it.
And on a whim, I did, and I qualified.
And that was the first year
I qualified for the online
qualifiers as well.
You know when you just don't
know what exists until you
know it exists?
And then your eyes are like, oh, wow.
OK, maybe I could do this.
So I don't know.
I just kept trying.
Once you did that first one,
did it become that itch you
needed to scratch?
Um, yes,
but I probably wouldn't have
admitted it out loud.
Um, I don't know.
I felt like when I showed up there,
what's really weird is the
other day you had someone on the,
I think a gentleman
yesterday I was listening to,
and you were talking about how,
when you go to these competitions,
you really become friends
with these people.
You spend like four days with them.
You develop these friendships.
I never thought that I would
develop friendships,
but I still am very close
to women in my age group.
We, we have a group chat going on,
on Instagram.
We communicate with one another and,
And I,
I showed up there thinking I don't
belong here.
Like that imposter syndrome,
like they've made a grave
mistake and I am not going
to do well this weekend and
it's going to end really badly.
And it was a lot of learning, um,
And I actually had I had a heat win,
which was so surreal
because there's Annie and
Bill and Sean and they're
commentating and they're
commentating about me.
And I watched it back afterwards.
And they're like idols of mine.
Right.
They're people that I grew
up like come up in CrossFit
watching and then they're
commentating and they're saying my name.
And that was super cool.
You mean this guy?
Yes.
I had to come cheer on my bad ass.
Um, so fast forward, he's now my coach,
which is, it's, I can't even, I don't,
I don't know if anyone else
wakes up and is like,
how in the heck did I get here?
Like, how do I get to,
I get to live this life.
It's, it's pretty freaking cool.
So he was an idol of mine.
My quick,
quick and dirty Bill Grundler
story of meeting.
Oh, please.
Yes.
I want to hear it.
So I was a volunteer at the
2014 regionals in Cincinnati.
Okay.
And it was the first time
I'd ever volunteered for a
CrossFit competition.
So I had no clue what I was doing.
And I didn't really know.
I hadn't dove deep into who
all the players were, right?
Right.
So I'm just standing in line
with this guy that looks like Wolverine.
I love it.
getting my,
getting my rice and beans and chicken to,
to go sit down and eat and
having the greatest
conversation I like ever.
And then someone goes,
you know who that is?
And I was like, I really don't.
And, uh,
And they're like, that's Bill Grundler.
He's calling this whole thing.
And I was like, no way.
And then Bill just became
one of my favorite people ever in space.
I love that.
Like he was so down to earth.
I didn't even know he had
anything to do with what was going on.
I love it.
Another volunteer.
I love it.
That is so cool.
Yeah,
I have been working with Bill for the
last two years.
Like I said, when I moved to Arizona,
I did before that I did
classes in my gym.
I was I would always stay
and do extra stuff because
really my mind gets really
loud and it's just really good,
cheap mental health therapy for me.
But so I'd always do extra stuff,
but I never had like
one-on-one programming.
I just, I didn't like,
I never thought it was for me.
Like I thought that that was
this different set of people, but not,
I didn't have that.
I didn't think I had that skillset.
Like I wasn't on that level
where I would hire a coach.
It just didn't dawn on me that I would.
I moved to Arizona.
I started working at this
gym and my boss here, he's an athlete.
He's a master's athlete.
He's a very good athlete.
And we started doing some
workouts together and he was like,
you're going to the effing games.
And this was three years ago.
And I was like, what?
I thought he was just giving me like,
you know, pep talk was like, oh,
you're going to the games.
Every single day he saw me
when I came in the door to work, he said,
you're going to the games.
And
I'm going to the games.
It's crazy.
But he was like, you should get a coach.
You really should get
someone to give you some guidance.
I had a guy I was working with for a year.
It was great.
I learned a lot.
I wanted a little something different.
And I just randomly reached out to Bill.
And I was like, hey,
I don't know if you're taking any clients,
but
I'm interested in seeing if
you would do some
one-on-one stuff with me.
And I had seen him at
masters or no at the NorCal classic.
He was calling that one.
So I had like saw him a little bit.
Um,
and we were like Instagram friends or
whatever,
cause I probably Instagram stalked him.
Cause I'm just a weirdo.
And like,
so I see people that I think are
interesting and cool.
And I'm like,
I must find out more about them.
So anyway, um, but now he's, he's, um,
he's, he's my coach and he's, uh,
the keeper of all this crazy stuff.
so what kind of improvements
have you seen since hooking
up with bill um you know
before I started working
with him I asked one of his
former athletes about
working with him and he's
like you're gonna get
effing strong like you're
gonna get strong and I have
I've gotten a lot stronger
um I uh I think a lot of my
changes it have really been
in my ability to push myself
harder than I have,
because he would just give
me these like crazy, ridiculous workouts.
And I would be like,
he either thinks I'm a real BA,
or I can actually do this, or he's crazy.
And he's trying to kill me.
And I was never sure which
one of those things were true.
But I just in my head, I'm like, okay,
if he put it on there,
I must be able to do it.
And some days he would even like,
put the wrong weight or put
a weight like that would
like he would he would like
kind of like mess something up.
And I would try it one day I
did this whole workout with a vest on.
It was supposed to be a mile run.
like 75 wall ball or no a
hundred wall balls,
a hundred pushups and a
hundred something else.
Only the run was supposed to
be with a vest on,
but I did the whole thing with a vest on.
And I was like,
why would you have me do 20
pound wall balls with a 14 pound vest on?
What is wrong with you, sir?
And he's like, Oh shoot.
I didn't,
you weren't supposed to use the
vest for that, but you did it.
I was like, I did.
He goes, all right,
guess we know you can do it.
So yeah,
I think a lot of it is my mental game.
He,
He's really good at making
sure that I know that I can
do the things that I need to do.
And he's helped me work the
things that I have not
historically been good at
and maybe not become the best at them.
But where I can be like, all right,
this is not going to take
me out of anything like you can do this.
You just you have to like
just keep grinding through it.
So you mentioned early on in
your story that like your
brother was going to CrossFit,
your daughter was going to CrossFit.
Do they still CrossFit?
Yeah, so my brother is an L1.
His wife is an L2 and a
CrossFit kids coach.
My daughter is going to a
CrossFit gym in Colorado
and she is shadowing to do her L1.
My niece goes to CrossFit.
I haven't gotten my son to come yet.
He just kind of pats me on
the head and is like, oh, there, there,
old woman, you're so cute.
So his girlfriend has done
CrossFit and she's like, you know,
your mom's a really fit person, right?
And he's like, sure she is.
He still sees me as like his mom,
not like as this fit person, but yeah.
Are you going to be able to
bring anybody to Birmingham?
Yeah.
So my sister and brother are
coming and my daughter is coming.
And then I have these amazing,
crazy friends from Phoenix who,
Uh, some of them have done legends, uh,
and a couple of them, uh,
have volunteered with, uh,
Joe and Bob before.
Uh,
so I have about six or seven people who
are coming with like this little posse.
And I was like, God, that's a,
that's a lot of people.
Like I I'm not asking that's expensive.
I'm not asking anyone to come,
but they just show up for me.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
I'm, I'm,
I I'm living in gratitude for sure.
What are your expectations?
I knew you were going to ask
this because I listened to
all the other ones and you
asked everybody.
And so a couple of different things.
My goal this year,
and I had said to Bill at
the end of last year,
this before like the structural changes,
my goal was to make it to
semis because I had never done it.
I'd gone to
So first I want to say,
I asked this question of
everybody knowing that
nobody wants to answer this question.
I know.
Nobody wants to give me a
number and that's fine.
I want to hear how you get
out of and what you want to
tell me about the bigger goal.
Yeah.
That's why I asked this question.
Gotcha.
So my original goal was just
to get to semifinals
because to me that would have been a win.
I hadn't made it there before.
It was just a bonus that
they took 30 people.
I ended up in 17th, which I was like, okay,
it wasn't like I barely skated.
Like I had some really good,
I had a top three finish
and I had a not so good finish,
but it was, I was consistent enough.
I look at the games as like,
the cake, like I got my cake.
So anything else is just extra frosting.
Um, but for me,
I want to show up and
attack every workout the
way bill thinks I can.
I want to get that into my head.
I want to do the hard thing.
I want to make, um, I'd like top 10.
God, I don't want to say that,
but I would like that.
That would be, I would be happy with that.
Um,
But if it doesn't happen,
I'm not going to beat myself up.
I really want to celebrate
and showcase all the hard work I put in.
Because I have worked, like all of us have,
my butt off and have sacrificed.
And I have said no to a lot of things.
in order to say yes to this.
So I really wanna soak in the experience.
I have some friends who are
CrossFit athletes and I
would go to regionals back
when there were regionals
and I'd go be pit crew with them.
And it was super cool.
And I remember Street Horner,
I don't know if he is listening to this,
but his mom and I are very good friends.
And I was there when Street
made it to his first games.
And I remember him saying to me,
I saw him this summer and he's like,
just soak it all in.
Just enjoy it.
Be in the moment.
Don't worry about where you place.
Don't worry.
Like you do your best.
Do everything you did in training.
Do it as perfectly as you can do it.
Know that mistakes are going
to happen and just roll with the punches.
And so that's really my goal.
I just want to,
I want to make myself proud.
I want to walk away and be like, yeah,
that one kicked your butt,
but you really did good on that one.
That's kind of my thing.
Corey Leonard says, I love expert.
Right.
Right.
Only if it's cream cheese frosting.
Well, cream cheese frosting is the best.
So yes, I, I agree.
Um, so yeah, I think that, um, I think,
you know, I would like to, I don't,
I I'm really, for me this year,
it's the experience.
I'm in a place where I
didn't think I'd be able to go.
This year has been crazy.
I got my L three after my second try, um,
which is insane.
Uh,
that thing is so hard it's
so hard um and it I will
say that after I took them
never take it away from you
no and I remember it's so
crazy I took it the first
time and I walked out
feeling super confident
like I was like oh I think
I did really well and it
was a day after my birthday
and I was like almost like
a birthday birthday to you
and then I got my results and I was like
oh this is not happy
birthday to me and I
started to not tell anyone
and then I was like no this
is just some things that
happen your members need to
know that your members need
to know that you don't
always win that things
happen and how do you
recover from that what am I
gonna do am I gonna be sad
am I gonna cry am I gonna
like be oh poor me no I put
my head in a book well in a
computer and I just like
nerded out for like six
months and then I took it
again and I passed so that
happened I made it to the
games my kids are happy healthy
i have a great community
here so I'm just trying to
have fun but I'm super
competitive so I will try
to do some work for that
top 10 finish I'm looking
for it I am yes so we'll
see a lot of people don't
know this who've been
watching this series that
we've been but we're coming
to the end of it okay the
games are next week I know
like running out of time oh
Yes.
So the guy, the guy I put up,
Corey Leonard, who loves frosting.
Yes.
You,
the athletes to know what you mean to
him.
He is in the journey to make
the CrossFit games.
He's trying to set himself
up to get there.
Okay.
Every one of your stories,
it's inspiring him.
Oh, I'm going to cry to get there.
And he texted me that last night.
And, and so I just want to share that.
Like it, it's been awesome.
I've enjoyed this series so
much getting to know each
and every one of you,
but then to find out that, you know,
here's this guy in the chat
putting in the work every
day and then listening to
your stories and giving him
that little bit of push.
And then like, as he said,
and it lets me know I'm on
the right path.
Dude, you are so on the right path.
It's here's what I've
learned is that I had to
see someone who looked like
me or came from a place
like me or who had a
similar something like me
to doing it to let me know
it was possible.
And so I swear I not a lot.
I mean,
I had a slight gymnastics background,
so I can't stand stuff.
I love that.
That's like my jam.
But for for real, I lived a really,
really not healthy lifestyle.
And if
I swear if I can do it and
you just keep showing up
for yourself and every
decision I would make, I would say,
does this serve the life
I'm trying to create for myself?
And if it didn't, I had to say,
it's not for me.
And it's hard.
It's really hard.
And it's really lonely sometimes,
but Corey, you can do it.
I'll be your biggest cheerleader.
Is he going to be at the games?
Is he going to come and watch?
I don't think so.
Oh, Oh, I do think he's going to be.
So I know his next goal is
to go to Legends.
Oh, I can see you there, hopefully.
Yeah.
That would be super cool.
I know that's the next
checkbox on his list of
items to get knocked down on his plate.
So fingers crossed, praying hard.
I'm excited for him.
If that happens.
Yeah.
I want to say, I didn't even get, you know,
the workouts were announced today.
We didn't get to talk about that.
Yeah.
I'm not mad about them.
Yeah, but they were released.
Make sure you go out to IG
and check those out.
When I was on with James earlier today,
they announced them while
we were on the air.
So we did pull them up and
go over them if you want to
check them out.
I'm going to be in Birmingham.
We're going to be doing a
behind-the-scenes.
Ellie Hiller and myself will
be backstage in the crowds,
in the warm-up areas,
just capturing your
conversations with your competitors,
with your friends, with your coaches,
all of that kind of stuff,
and putting it into a
multiple-episode
documentary that will come
out after the games.
So cool.
That is so cool.
Thank you so much.
You guys are crushing it, crushing it.
so well thank you you're
welcome and I think
sometimes masters are are
like feel overlooked
sometimes and so you doing
things like this uh with
everything that's going on
in the landscape right now
I noticed I'm like no one's
really talking about that
there's still some games
left like there's still
some people yet to go so I
love that you guys are
doing this I think it's
fantastic with everything
that's happened we have to
find a way to move forward
And what better way than to
go watch the athletes that
demonstrate what the
original methodology taught us,
that we don't want to go
into older age in decrepitude.
You guys are flipping what
it means to be a certain age on its head.
Isn't it crazy?
It's wild.
My friends call me Benjamin Button.
They're like,
how are you aging in reverse?
I'm like, I don't know.
I just keep going to CrossFit.
So it's the perfect thing to celebrate.
Let's go back to our roots.
Let's look at the population
that are fighting age with
both hands and killing it
and celebrate that as a way
to move forward as a community.
I love that.
That sounds awesome.
So that's what we're doing.
We're going to go celebrate.
We're going to do wrap up
shows every night from there.
We're going to, you know,
do all the things we do.
And Corey,
just to legends is his first check marks,
then TFX.
Nice.
I'll be cheering for you, Corey.
And with that, Tammy, you're the best.
Oh, thank you so much.
This was a blast.
Thank you to everybody in
the chat for being here.
Yeah.
I can't wait to meet you in person.
Thank you to everybody in
the chat for making this a fun,
fun little episode and tune in next week,
next week, next one week from today.
Crazy.
I'm cheering for you, Tammy.
Oh, thank you so much.
With that, everybody, thank you so much.
We'll see you next time on
the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
Bye.