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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
what is going on everybody welcome to
lunch time yep we're getting some lunch
today with the clydesdale good to see
everybody it's up a trained olive amanda
uh amanda says when you pause sunday night
clydesdale to move over to lunch with the
clydesdale that is an addiction that we
approve of one hundred percent yes
Natalie and doing it, doing it as well.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Last night show was awesome.
Really so thankful that Jamie was able to
sit up long enough to get through ninety
minutes.
She said it was the first time she'd
sat up like that for that amount of
time.
And so really stoked she was able to
do that.
um and contribute which she did
tremendously um and a lot of good feedback
from those two um and there was a
lot of news going on so we're going
to continue to follow that throughout the
day um andrew stan five a.m squad club
mark moss jody joseph corey all in the
house already what's going on guys so um
what are we gonna talk about today
first thing I'm going to talk about is
I went got some new glasses yesterday I
don't know if you guys can see and
these ones actually have that like
transition to sunglasses.
So when the sun's out,
they'll actually turn into sunglasses.
Um,
I just had to start wearing glasses
probably two and a half years ago.
And, um,
I find that driving idle out with the
anti glare,
it's easier to drive with the glasses.
Um, but then when it's sunny,
it's really hard, um, to do that.
So anyway, um,
So I got these to kind of do
the drive.
My eyesight hasn't changed tremendously
from one to another,
but my insurance pays for a nice chunk
of it.
So I went ahead and got these,
but I can switch back and forth between
the two and have like a pair that
go to sunglasses when I need to drive
those long trips.
So super stoked for that.
And I kind of like the way these
look.
So I like the vanity aspect of it.
So anyway, cool.
Eric Mackey,
tell me you're old without telling me
you're old.
I'll tell you what's making me old is
this.
Whoever's idea it was to do a fantasy
football league in this Clydesdale media
world.
I am Owen three, man.
I'm Owen three.
I have not won a game yet.
I got smoked by Jeff Baco.
He's been bragging about it in every chat
under the sun that he beat me this
week.
i don't know man i thought i knew
football and this year it just is man
i i cannot find a wide receiver to
score me points to save my life um
yeah but whoever's idea it was good news
is caleb looked good this past weekend
caleb looked great this last weekend um
That flea flicker pass,
sixty five yards in the air,
longest pass in the NFL this year.
He looks amazing.
There is somebody at my door.
Just check in real quick.
So.
I don't.
Oh, okay.
Neighbors dropping off some stuff.
All right, cool.
Um,
hi friends only finished listening to
Sunday,
Monday night CrossFit talk and finally
catching the live show again.
Good to see you, Lito.
Um, I know it's not a fireman.
My wife is not here cooking,
so we're safe.
Um,
So there you go.
Eric Mackey, it's a long season.
It is.
I need to look at the waiver wire
today and figure out some stuff.
But yeah, yeah, I just,
Baco's just making it impossible because
he's bragging in every single chat room
under the sun that he beat me.
That's what I just need to get over.
But what I want to talk about is
partnerships.
Last night,
we kind of touched on this subject that
it was announced over the weekend that
Waterpalooza and CrossFit are going to
partner to do the announcement for twenty
six point three at Waterpalooza, Miami.
and dave in his week in review also
said that he went to waterpalooza and
dylan walked him around showed them how
they set up the footprint and all of
the things they were doing there dave has
never gone to waterpalooza that was his
first time ever and the fact that he
was willing to go and learn about how
they set up that footprint
I think is a huge step in the
right direction, um, for,
for CrossFit and for what a Palooza for
that matter, uh,
for them to partner together,
what a Palooza has been around almost as
long as the CrossFit games.
Um,
If you're going to partner with someone,
they are a long-established and standing
competition in this world,
and it's the right person to do the
partnership with because there are things
that Wadapalooza does that CrossFit does
not do.
And the first thing is,
and I see Vindicate in here,
considering doing a booth at Waz in Miami
next year.
The Wadapalooza Vendor Village is way
better than any competition,
even the CrossFit Games.
It is much bigger.
It is much more vast.
When you go to Wadapalooza, Miami,
in the old,
because I've not been to the new location,
the Vendor Village was huge, huge.
And on one of the days,
they let people in for free.
so people can walk into the park and
they can walk around and go to all
the vendors and watch all the competition
on the first day for free and what
that does is it gets foot traffic in
the door for the vendors so that they
can sell to these people plus you're
selling the idea of crossfit
to these people who are walking in who
may not even know what it is but
it's free so they walk in it's a
nice day in the park they want to
go walk around they see this competition
and who the heck knows maybe they're like
what is this i want to try that
um
it it it's amazing what they do and
if you look at the way they set
up their bleachers and their stands
especially in the miami one i've not it
because it is much bigger in miami than
what i saw on the broadcast for socal
you can get a lot a lot of
um
A lot of people in a little space,
and Wadapalooza has kind of mastered that,
and they have a problem that other
competitions don't have.
Wadapalooza's biggest problem up until
last year was they couldn't fit everybody
in that wanted to be there.
Imagine that.
There are more people that want to be
there and buy tickets than you can fit
in the space.
If they're doing that,
what are they doing differently that
you're not doing to attract people?
Yes, the location is Miami,
but CrossFit can think about that too.
What are the locations we can make to
do the exact same thing?
Albany is not Miami.
Albany is not awesome.
Why would you put a place there?
I know their hands were probably forced,
but we have an early details on the
season.
How do we figure that out so that
you're in a location that makes sense and
is very much
like the footprint of Waterpalooza,
and you figure out how to get people
in the seats.
And the more people you get in the
seats, the more vendors want to be there.
The more vendors want to be there,
the bigger the revenue stream.
It just makes sense.
And I'm so glad, I'm so glad that
They have opened up their minds to go
to to Wadapalooza and check those things
out.
Look at the footprint and see what's going
on.
Vindicate SoCal Wadapalooza vendor village
was free all weekend.
Tons of foot traffic traffic from people
who had no idea what was going on.
Yes.
Learn those tricks.
Learn those tricks.
I know in Fort Wayne, Fort, yeah.
No, not Fort Wayne.
Fort, whatever.
The Dallas, Fort Worth, Fort Worth.
The vendor village was off-site,
but the line to get in was so
hard.
They had to go through metal detectors,
and the line was down the street.
People couldn't even get in the door.
You need to make it available for people
easily.
Yeah, I know, Corey.
I'm old, so I switch things up.
Probably bigger this year because they're
combining that fitness thing they got a
grant from.
Vicky,
are you talking Waterpalooza or are you
talking the games?
You guys are not picking good places to
go.
Louisiana in August is not delightful.
Not at all.
Canada in the winter is not awesome.
Waza, Miami.
I hope so.
I mean...
I think, hopefully,
by moving it from January to March,
you're out of the rainy season.
When I lived in Florida,
the rainy season was relentless.
It rained every single day at three p.m.
when I lived in Florida.
If they can get out of that rainy
season and have a more dependable...
a more dependable schedule and not factor
in rain and bad weather.
I think that's going to be huge for
them just making that two month change.
And now,
now that you can go to Guadalupalooza and
do your open workout on the third week
of the open,
or if you're competing at Guadalupalooza,
it will be part of the workout lineup
for you to do that weekend.
I think that's going to be awesome.
what a Palooza got a grant from Miami
city.
Didn't they?
Yes.
Yes.
Miami is doing a huge fitness,
fitness push for about a month at that
time.
That's incredible.
That's awesome that a city is getting
behind fitness like that.
So,
so I'm really happy that they have decided
to do
to do these partnerships and open their
mind to see what other people are doing
and hopefully learn from them.
Um,
And it's okay for Dave to go look
at another competition and see how they do
it, especially the footprint,
especially the overall.
How can you set up the footprint that
makes more sense for the community,
for a festival feel?
I think that that's what Waterpalooza has.
It is the best festival feel that we
have right now.
And...
And that's what CrossFit needs back is
that festival feel at the CrossFit Games.
And how can they do it where it
makes economic sense?
And maybe if you partner with
Waterpalooza, you can share resources,
you can share equipment,
and you can get that done in a
way that makes sense.
Corey says, is it a fitness tush push?
Vindicate says, show up, Corey,
and you might get lucky.
There you go.
Right there for you, buddy.
So, so that's that.
And then this is a good transition for
me.
Do they have a high rocks down there
next year?
That I do not know.
I don't follow a high rock season.
Not that I'm a hater,
just I hate running.
So it's never going to be something that
I care about.
Um, so I don't know,
but last night on our show,
we talked about the air national guard
becoming a new sponsor for, uh, the, the,
the presenting sponsor for the,
the CrossFit open.
And in that, um, and in that announcement,
there was,
there will be eight activations done
throughout, uh, the season by, uh,
presented by the Air National Guard.
My hope was that that was a way
for CrossFit to kind of start their own
High Rocks event.
High Rocks already is a CrossFit workout.
And it's kind of being,
the idea is kind of being stolen from
CrossFit.
They're off doing their own thing.
And they have these events where a
community comes and supports each other.
And I think that's cool.
But why doesn't CrossFit start their own
with a less monostructural biased thing
and they can do it on their own?
And last night when I brought this up,
the naysayer women of my co-hosts told me
there's no way that's what it is and
there's no way that CrossFit could pull
this off.
It's too expensive, blah, blah, blah.
What I'm going to say is I think
they can't pull it off.
And here is,
here's what I'm going to say.
Eight activations around the world.
And you go do this CrossFit event.
You have a worldwide leaderboard for these
eight events.
And,
but you make it the old school grassroots
CrossFit.
Think, think NorCal on the road.
Nowhere where you have to go get a
big venue, nothing like that.
Think of what can we do outside in
a park somewhere around throughout the
year around the world,
have a couple CrossFit athletes show up to
work out with the crowd and figure out
a workout that you don't need to be
this, um, homogenized, um,
clean high rocks thing right clean is like
in in this arena with all the fancy
flooring with all the fancy rig with the
rep counters all that kind of stuff
and this is more grassroots like almost
like a crossfit fantasy camp come work out
with rich froning and angelo and maybe two
others uh hailey adams and whatever and
come to cookville and we're gonna find a
park and we're gonna do this workout as
a group we'll send you through just like
a five k would we'll have a um
We'll have a worldwide leaderboard,
and you can see where you can stand
in the world.
And you come together as a community,
and you have some vendors there that set
up a little tent,
and you do some things just like NorCal,
right?
And I like these suggestions,
like similar to what the ranch was
exactly, like a hill run,
like different things like that that you
can do outside as an event for the
community to rally around.
High school football stadiums,
that's another option.
Someplace cheap.
I don't want it to be this clean,
generic thing that High Rocks is doing.
Let's go in the other direction.
Let's go to a thing that's gritty and
dirty and dusty and do CrossFit the old
school way around the world in these
activations.
And if you're doing it publicly in a
park,
people are going to be walking around
going, what is that?
What is that?
Well, let me tell you what that is.
That's CrossFit.
That's how I lost two hundred pounds.
That's how this guy staved off heart
disease.
This is how this person beat diabetes,
blah, blah, blah.
And then have people at boost that can
talk about what it is.
But you're doing it publicly in front of
the whole world in a park and you're
doing it for a competition.
You're bringing the community together and
people can see what it is at its
grassroots level.
And I think that that is the romantic
part of what CrossFit is.
Think about the old school days.
We do CrossFit in a box that's not
well furnished.
It's just an open slab of concrete.
Maybe we put down some rubber tiles and
we, we lift some weights.
We jump on boxes.
We do some pull-ups.
We do some things like that back to
the grassroots.
And when I was at my first CrossFit
gym,
we worked out outside as much as we
could in the summer.
We would go out in the parking lot
with whatever we had,
take some jump ropes, take some, uh,
barbells out there to you know whatever we
wanted to do and it we eliminated the
machines from it because you didn't really
want to take them outside at the time
but you could do the whole workout outside
why not do some kind of grassroots hyroxy
thing only it's you you did this first
yes megan
you proving you can do CrossFit anywhere
with whatever equipment you have.
Perfect.
Yes.
We are the machines.
Yes.
Maybe that's what you call this event,
right?
This is CrossFit.
We are the machines and we're going to
go around the world and we're going to
do these workouts in a park.
We're going to do these workouts in a
high school football stadium,
whatever it is.
Um,
And we're going to have a good time
as a community and we're going to share
what it is that we do.
Uh,
Kaya has anyone checked out the functional
fitness thing in Scandinavia and how it's
run.
They have a TV deal and are making
money with it asking because they're not
on YouTube because of the TV deal.
Um,
I didn't even know of that.
I'll start looking into that.
So, but I just think like
High Rock stole this idea from us by
taking a workout,
making it like the little five K that
you sign up for or the four miler
or the five miler or whatever it is.
And you go do it as a community.
Why can't we take that back and go
grassroots back to the old days of we
are the machines and you go out in
the park and you figure it out.
know and you figure out a workout that
you can do and take from town to
town without a large footprint right maybe
you fill a trailer with a little bit
of equipment that you can go from town
to town um maybe some dumbbells maybe some
sandbags something like that show up at a
park and and have a good time as
a community
I think that would be epic because it
not only gets the community back together
and fires up the base,
but it also does it publicly where new
people can look and go,
what are they doing?
And why are they having so much fun
doing it?
And how do I become a part of
that?
And then you have local affiliates come
and hang out there to talk about to
people about what CrossFit is and how they
can get signed up.
And it's all presented by the Air National
Guard in their eight activations around
the world.
Now,
maybe this is too pie in the sky.
Maybe I'm thinking too big.
I don't know,
but I think it's something that has been
proven to work when HIROX takes this from
convention center to convention center
around the world,
and they get thousands of people to sign
up,
why couldn't CrossFit do the same thing in
a more gritty, dusty way?
You know what I'm saying?
Ken Walters,
it's a shame Scott hasn't put any thought
into this.
I know.
We...
we talked about this on our show a
while ago and we actually came up with
workouts that could be done gauntlet
styled, like,
like what a Palooza Miami does where
people can come and sign up and do
the gauntlet for an hour.
Um,
But if you do it more grassroots,
you'd have to figure out a programming
that you could do where you travel with
a load of stuff in a trailer and
just dump it into a park and let
everybody do it.
Frida,
plain old body weight can be enough to
get anyone floored.
I agree.
I agree.
but I think like if you had like
some sandbags or maybe some dumbbells,
it just adds the like intrigue for the,
for the methodology a little bit more.
Um,
Jonathan affiliates can sign up for
fitness conventions like strong New York.
Yeah.
I know those are around.
This is something I want.
I think that CrossFit should do as an
organization to attract people to what we
do to not just cater to the base.
It does cater to the base,
but it also lets people see what we
could do and that we're having a good
time doing it and that make them want
to be a part of it.
so anyway that's all i have to say
about that um maybe someone will listen
maybe not i think it's just it's just
a cool way to spread the word of
what crossfit has done for so many people
in the world um we'll see
Last thing I want to kind of share
with you is about a little over a
year ago,
I formed a partnership with Ishmael
Garcia.
And he has been at events taking pictures
and video for me.
And it has worked out really well.
I just want to brag on him.
His stuff is so good and so artistic.
Here's some of the stuff that he has
done.
I love his angles.
I love what he does.
tries to accomplish with his photos and He
gives us a presence at so many different
events I'm just really happy that we
formed this partnership and if you aren't
already Please go check him out Here is
his Instagram Eastma captures
Go check him out on Instagram.
He does an amazing job.
And really,
really love the stuff he puts out.
And like I can text him and say,
hey, I need a picture of this.
And he sends it to me to use
in thumbnails.
But here's some of his stuff from Tear
Cup this weekend.
And what I really love is he didn't
just do elites.
He did a whole series here of the
RX and the,
the community divisions of people working
out.
I thought this was really cool.
so make sure you go check him out
here's some more from the community
division or this is ellie turner uh so
that's all ellie turner this one these are
really good um i love the the shooting
ones i mean that picture came out really
well
But anyway,
make sure to go check him out, please,
because he's just really good.
The Erg shoot was dope,
and they have an AR, too.
It's cool.
Yeah, I'd like to try it sometime.
Like we said last night,
I think that would have been a really
cool event.
except for the broadcast,
you could not see the colors of the
light.
So you couldn't tell if they hit or
missed.
You're just kind of guessing.
And my one little criticism with the tear
cup was the rep counters were not doing
a good job on the broadcast.
those needed to be better.
So it was really hard to see who
was in the lead or not because you
couldn't see the lights turn red or green.
Um,
but at the Olympics they have like a
dedicated camera right for the target.
And it's usually in a little box in
the lower corner of the screen.
And then you can see like,
did they hit or not?
Um,
So I think that if they did something
like that,
it would be an epic event where the
broadcast could actually see if they hit
or didn't hit.
So, yeah.
I missed all that action.
It would have been like two or three
a.m.
for me.
Yeah,
that's why you do what I do and
just go to sleep and then wake up
the next morning.
And that's what I do in the morning
over my breakfast.
Joseph Ramirez,
we used a version of it for op
training a few times.
That's cool.
That's really cool.
Chris Beesterfield, I need a ding sound.
Like a ching, something like that.
Like bullet hitting metal.
That'd be cool too.
Uh, I just, yeah,
something to indicate that they hit or
missed.
I think,
I guess from people that were there,
I heard that the lights were much easier
to see.
You could tell green or red.
Um, but on the broadcast,
you could not see that light at all.
Um,
so it really just was someone like
pointing and you didn't even know they'd
pulled the trigger or not.
Um,
So, yeah.
But again, if you go watch, like,
I think it's the biathlon in the Winter
Olympics where they ski and then shoot.
They have a little dedicated box in the
lower corner of the screen that is the
target.
And you can see if they hit or
didn't hit.
And then above that,
they usually have like.
however many targets they have to hit,
like five, I think it is,
they leave them, they're blank,
and then they're either filled with an X
or they fill in a hole if they
hit or missed.
If they hit it,
it fills in a hole.
If they missed,
it's an X in that little spot.
And then in that sport, if you miss,
you have to do a penalty lap.
So there's a little small circle that you
have to go around each time you miss
the target.
And that'd be a cool way to add
that into a CrossFit event.
You have five shots for everyone you hit.
You're clean for everyone you missed.
Maybe you do a muscle-up or maybe you
do a burpee or something like that.
That would be cool.
or even, you know,
remember the one year at the games,
every time you broke your muscle ups,
you had to run, um,
a lap around the rig.
Um,
that was back in Carson in the day.
So they actually had penalty laps, um,
back.
I think it was like,
it was like Noah's rookie season, like,
uh, if you broke your muscle ups,
you had to run a penalty lap around
the rig.
And that was,
that added a lot to the event.
Um,
So yeah.
Burpees if you miss.
Perfect.
Shanna, hopefully they aren't colorblind.
Yeah.
Yeah,
there's ways to do it without using color,
but I just wish it was something for
us to understand.
Sometimes you had the judge in the picture
and he would throw his arm up if
they hit.
And so that made it better for that.
But the judge wasn't always there in the
picture on the broadcast.
Yeah.
But I think it's a cool event for
something like this.
I don't think it would ever be at
the games,
but I like it in these types of
events.
And again,
what I said last night is I thought
that the tier cup was very watchable and
one of my favorite events from the year.
I love the trash talking.
I love the back and forth.
Um, I love the events.
I thought they were fun to watch.
The only one that I really had a
hard time was the erg shoot just because
you couldn't see if they hit or missed,
but like I tell you that burpee deadlift
workout,
which I would never have thought was cool,
looked like art when they were
synchronized.
Um,
When you look at Dallin and Alexis
synchroed so much,
and even Pat and Danielle,
they were just on fire.
And it looked so cool.
It was very, very watchable,
very fun to watch.
And I really enjoyed it.
And maybe we can learn something from this
for the teams going forward to make them
more watchable.
Cause I like the concept of the team,
but man, it's, it's,
it's hard to watch when there's so many
people on the floor.
I wish we could figure that out,
but that is for another day.
I want to thank everybody for being here.
Tomorrow we do Cook and Cajun with Corey.
So he'll be on tomorrow with me.
And then, yeah, we'll finish out the week.
Lito,
thoughts on Alexis Raptus and her injury
conditions.
Is she the new Bethany Flores?
So here's what I'll say about Bethany.
She's one of the toughest people I've ever
met in my life.
What she fought through all those years to
finish top ten at the Games twice was
amazing.
I don't think she ever reached her full
potential because of the injuries,
and that's sad to me.
and the year that she tested positive for
covid at the games and couldn't compete
makes me very sad I watched her at
West Coast Classic dominate dominate a
very tough field beating Carrie Pierce and
Danielle Brandon at that event and crush
them um
So while, yes,
she had a lot of injuries, and yes,
you never knew if she was going to
be able to make it through the season
or not, when she did,
she was phenomenal in what she pushed
through.
But it's sad to me that she never
reached the full potential of what she
could have been on the floor.
If you talk to her,
She's really,
really wrestled with it and gotten to a
place where she understands it.
And there are bigger things in her life
now than that.
And I need to have her on the
show again and talk to her about that.
But when it comes to Alexis,
I think Alexis is just struggling to
figure out what her body can and cannot
take.
She has that condition where her digestive
system
goes wacky on her and i'm sure the
stress of a competition adds to that and
i don't know what the cause of the
echo fran issue was whether it was her
digestive system or whether it was just
her hitting complete fatigue um or
complete dehydration or whatever it was
but
it just seems like the one thing holding
her back is figuring out how to feed
and fuel her body during a competition
week where it doesn't upset her body.
And I just, I, I,
is she going to be the next Bethany
Flores?
She may be that.
We just don't know if she's ever going
to be healthy in that moment that she
needs to be.
Um,
So, yeah, I think it's a valid question,
Lito.
I just don't know the answer yet because
it was my understanding that she had
figured it all out and that she was
going to be able to – she figured
out what the fuel needed to be for
a competition weekend.
So I hope she can figure it out.
Shanna, our resident medical expert,
probably a combination of both.
Crohn's is autoimmune and stressing the
body isn't helpful.
I've had a few athletes on, uh,
from the semi final level and they fight
autoimmune all the time.
And it's really like,
it takes a lot of work to figure
out what you can push,
what you can't push,
how you can relax more in those
situations.
So you don't get a flare up during
the weekend.
Um,
and so I have the utmost respect for
people who are able to compete through
those,
those issues and try to figure it out.
Um, and,
and I know a handful of them through
conversations with them over the years.
Um,
and it just amazes me what they're able
to do.
You know, here I am, I,
a little bit achy and I'm complaining at,
uh, um,
I'm a little bit achy and I'm a
workout and I act like a baby sometimes.
And these people are trying to figure out
like way bigger issues.
Didn't Colton have an autoimmune too?
He did.
And I think if you asked him,
he had a hard time figuring out things
as well.
Now he hired, um,
he hired a nutrition expert to help him
out.
And he says that has made a world
of difference.
And I know that that is a thing
too, with autoimmune,
if you can figure the right diet to
support it, uh, it can,
it can help alleviate some of the symptoms
and some of the flare ups that come
with that.
So, um,
So I know when I've talked to Colton
at events,
he has really given a lot of thanks
to, I think her name is Amy,
who has helped him with his nutrition
because it's made a world of difference
for him.
So, yeah.
It's crazy what they go through and what
they're willing to do to compete in this
sport while going through all that.
It's crazy.
And Colton's flare-up was really serious.
I think he lost his eyesight for a
little bit of time.
So it's no joke.
I'm glad he's been able to figure out
a way to not flare up as much.
With that, guys,
I'm going to get back to work.
You knuckleheads,
you better get back to work too.
But we'll see you tomorrow for lunch with
the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.