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Cam Crockett | The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't have to ride away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how a winner's made.
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  Stick a fork in the hater on my dick.
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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to the Clydesdale
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  media podcast where we are
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  highlighting the athletes
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  of the 2024 crossfit
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  semifinals and I have with
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  me the one and only cam
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  crockett what's going on
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  cam how are you I'm good
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  I'm good this is three
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  years in a row now man yeah
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  or when did you start doing
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  these um 21 or 22 21 21 so
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  this is the fourth fourth year then
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  uh make that 22. okay yeah
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  this is our third year yeah
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  it's a cool little like
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  tradition now yeah yeah um
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  So yeah, I've known you for a while now,
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  knew you even before this series.
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  Yeah.
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  Because during the COVID year,
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  I was a judge at Rogue for
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  one Mr. Saxon Pancheck,
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  and you happened to be
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  there kind of rooting him on.
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  So that's where we met for the first time.
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  Before I get into anything full detail,
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  I have a huge question for you.
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  yeah so I was doing some
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  research on you and I
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  pulled up your information
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  and this was your profile
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  picture yeah um I don't
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  remember when I made that
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  my like or background or
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  profile picture whatever it
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  is for uh crossfit.com but
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  Yeah, I just thought it was funny.
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  Everyone else had either no
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  picture or something serious,
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  so I was like,
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  I'm just putting some
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  chicken nuggets up there.
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  Yeah,
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  and they look like a McDonald's
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  chicken nugget.
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  Yeah, they're just like McNuggets.
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  Yeah,
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  they got the figure eight shape like
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  a good old McDonald's chicken nugget.
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  Yeah, I probably did that back in 2018,
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  2017, something like that.
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  It just never changed it.
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  Yeah, just had to keep it.
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  Yeah, I had Jack Rosema on last night,
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  and his profile pic is his
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  freshman college wrestling picture.
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  Oh, that's funny, yeah.
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  And no facial hair,
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  like the serious wrestler stare down.
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  Yeah.
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  It's hilarious.
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  Yeah, Jack's a good dude.
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  Yeah.
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  And any affinity for Chicken
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  Nuggets or just trying to be funny?
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  I just kind of thought it was funny.
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  Didn't know if anyone was
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  going to see it or not,
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  but I just thought it was funny.
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  Here we are in 2024.
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  Someone saw it.
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  Yeah.
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  And now the whole audience gets a chance.
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  Yeah.
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  Awesome.
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  So, um, so yeah,
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  so we've been doing this a while.
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  Um,
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  You came in to last year in
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  the best seating you'd ever done before.
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  Yeah.
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  And it didn't kind of play
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  out that way at the
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  semifinals on the floor.
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  Yeah.
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  So what did you learn in
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  that moment last year when
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  you were going through all that?
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  Um, I mean,
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  definitely learned what some
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  weaknesses were.
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  I always kind of knew that like the heavy,
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  because I feel like a lot
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  of the workouts last year
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  was just like kind of heavy,
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  like brute strength.
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  And we had that sled pull in
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  event one that that was
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  just so like the second I
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  would try to pull it,
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  my feet would just slide
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  out from under me.
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  And it just took like so
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  much effort just to get that sled moving.
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  And in practice,
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  the sled was like not a big deal at all.
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  Like I thought it was all
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  about the machines.
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  then in the in reality the
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  machines kind of meant
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  nothing and the sled meant
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  like everything um and then
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  work out too those ruck
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  muscle ups I had a hard
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  time getting them like when
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  they announced it but I was
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  able to do them
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  But in the process, like,
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  I just kept – because it took me a bit to,
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  like, finally get them,
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  that I was just hammering them for, like,
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  the whole, like,
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  week or two leading up to semifinals.
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  And that just blew up my shoulder.
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  Like,
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  my right shoulder just – anytime I – even,
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  like, in the warm-up area,
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  after doing one,
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  my shoulder was just on fire.
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  And, like,
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  I couldn't really do much with it.
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  So I just kind of sat there
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  in the event and just kept
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  trying to get as many as I could.
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  Didn't get a whole lot, and that kind of –
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  Made the rest of the weekend a lot harder.
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  Like when we had the heavy
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  dumbbells for Linda,
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  it just made it like those
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  – like it was my right arm,
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  my right shoulder that just kept failing.
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  So I like really had to like
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  slow down and break it up.
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  then we had that one rep max
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  snatch and like every
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  single snatch I did it felt
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  like my right shoulder was
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  just going to give out and
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  overhead squats and
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  handstand push-ups and that
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  didn't make it any easier
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  so I tried taping it up
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  getting it worked on as
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  best I could I was still
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  proud like how I did in
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  semi-finals but it was like
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  if you wanted to program a
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  competition for me to do
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  bad that was it like shoulder or not like
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  It was everything I was bad at.
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  So was the shoulder injured
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  or were just overuse?
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  I think it was just overuse
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  because I didn't do
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  anything to rehab it or anything.
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  Just like took time off
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  after semifinals and it's fine now.
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  Okay.
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  So...
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  So that brings me to an
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  interesting question, right?
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  The workouts are already out.
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  They came out, leaked out, came out early.
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  I don't think they intended
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  to release them that soon.
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  I don't think so either.
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  But now the athletes have
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  them in their hands.
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  And how do you not do the
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  same thing this year that
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  you did last year and not
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  overdo it on what you know?
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  Yeah, well, this year,
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  these workouts are actually
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  pretty good for me.
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  It's a lot of things that I'm good at.
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  And thankfully, at least as for right now,
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  they haven't announced any
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  like weird gymnastics or
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  like stuff like that.
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  What I love about it is it's
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  all pretty like simple workouts.
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  It's like kind of pretty classic CrossFit.
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  There's nothing like –
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  there's no pirouette like
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  handstand walks.
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  There's no like sled.
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  And there could be.
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  Who knows?
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  Yeah, as far as I know,
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  it's not – they're not weird.
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  There's no ruck for
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  muscle-ups or anything.
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  There's no like sled that we
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  have to pull on the ground.
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  That was like a weird cloth,
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  like nylon sled too,
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  so it just made it even worse.
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  So far, there's nothing weird.
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  It's just all pretty straightforward,
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  like just kind of classic CrossFit,
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  which is what I really like.
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  I don't know if you saw Boz
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  on the barbell spin the other night.
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  No.
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  He did give some
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  clarification to some of the workouts.
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  Okay.
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  Where the lunge with the
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  dumbbells is a farmer's carry.
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  perfect that's what we
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  that's what I practice and
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  it's hard enough but the
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  farmers carry that the run
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  is not on a machine yeah I
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  saw that that it's gonna be
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  like it they're doing like
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  laps on the floor I think I
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  don't know exactly how it's
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  gonna work but they're
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  they're setting it up as a
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  run somehow may go outside
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  the venue in some places um
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  so it's gonna vary from place to place
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  And then they asked him
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  about the handstand walk
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  and he would not give any clarification,
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  meaning that there's got to
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  be something to it.
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  Yeah, that makes me a little nervous,
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  but yeah.
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  That is not a clue.
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  I can, but like, yeah, gymnastics,
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  high skill gymnastics has
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  always kind of not been my
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  strongest thing.
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  But, yeah, we'll see, hopefully.
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  And thankfully we're week three this year,
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  so we'll find out what
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  they're doing week one and
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  be able to practice it a little bit.
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  But not overpractice.
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  Yeah, not overdo it again.
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  I think it was just that ruck.
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  Because I was not the only
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  athlete that had problems, like,
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  injury-wise with that ruck.
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  Like, Alex Caron,
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  suck what happened to him
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  because he got kicked out for it.
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  But he just stood there
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  because he heard it practicing it.
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  And I think there was
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  another guy in the East that, like,
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  had problems with it too.
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  So, like,
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  I was not the only one that had
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  some sort of injury issue.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, Alex had that peck,
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  and that took him out pretty hard.
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  Yeah, that sucked.
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  I think the only reason I didn't get, like,
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  withdrawn,
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  like CrossFit didn't withdraw
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  me is that I kept trying.
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  Like, because he just didn't even try.
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  He just stood there.
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  And I kept trying to do muscle-ups,
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  and it just wasn't happening.
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  It was like my shoulders
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  would not allow it.
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  But I got a few of them, not a lot.
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  But I think because I kept trying,
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  they didn't withdraw me.
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  So you said you've looked at
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  the workouts and you're
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  definitely happier this year than last.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  The way they look.
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  It's very much classic CrossFit.
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  We've talked about this with
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  a lot of the athletes this week.
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  And it's like you could drop them in 2015.
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  Yeah.
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  And it still would fit.
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  Yeah.
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  The older regionals workouts
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  are like some of my
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  favorite workouts that I've done.
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  Like I love those workouts.
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  So yeah, this reminds me a lot of that,
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  which I really like.
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  So before last year,
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  you were really trending in
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  a good direction of like
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  climbing the leaderboard.
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  Do you feel this year now
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  you have that shot again?
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  So this year is a lot different.
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  I've made a ton of changes this year,
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  like just in life.
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  I'm a firefighter now.
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  So I basically took like
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  four months off this summer, fall,
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  winter kind of.
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  like barely training or not
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  training CrossFit at all.
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  Cause I was in the fire
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  Academy for a few months.
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  And then after that I was in
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  EMT school for a few months
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  or a little over a month.
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  So like that whole time I was there,
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  I was not really training
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  like CrossFit at least like fire school.
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  It's,
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  it's plenty of hard without doing
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  CrossFit, like all the stuff we do there.
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  So that was good.
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  But like EMT school,
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  was just six weeks in a classroom all day,
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  every day.
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  So not a whole lot of physical activity.
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  So I graduated from EMT
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  school the day of the Open
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  starting this year.
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  So I was not in very good
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  shape in the Open,
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  and I didn't finish very
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  well on the leaderboard.
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  But I didn't even think I
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  was going to qualify for
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  semifinals this year,
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  and I was kind of okay with it.
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  Like, I'm going to do regionals.
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  I'm going to try.
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  Part of me didn't even want
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  to do regionals because it was just, like,
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  stressful.
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  But not regionals, sorry, quarterfinals.
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  But I still did it,
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  and I was completely surprised at myself.
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  Like, I thought I was, like,
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  I'm either not going to
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  make it or I'm going to, like,
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  barely squeak in.
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  And I ended up, I think,
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  19th after all the penalties and stuff.
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  So I was very surprised with
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  how I did in quarterfinals.
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  And this year, like,
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  last year I went to Mayhem
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  to do quarterfinals.
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  This year, I was completely on my own,
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  just like some friends of
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  ours at the gym were doing it.
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  I was doing the workouts and
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  I had no idea if my scores
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  were good or not.
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  I was texting Amanda and I was like,
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  do you think this is good?
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  I have no idea.
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  Should I redo this workout?
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  And then when the first two
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  scores came out and I was
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  sitting in the top 20, I was like, oh.
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  yes,
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  I am doing pretty good and I'm in
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  pretty good shape.
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  So yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And then I was like, I'm not like,
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  because I haven't really
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  been able to train as much this year.
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  Like I'm not,
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  I haven't trained nearly as
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  much this year as I did in
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  previous years that I was like,
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  I'm just like,
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  not even gonna put any
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  pressure on semi-finals.
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  Just,
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  like do the best I can and everything.
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  And then the workouts got announced.
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  I was like, damn it.
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  These are actually really
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  good workouts for me.
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  So that kind of put a lot
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  more pressure on training
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  and everything since then.
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  So now that you're through school, are you,
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  you're working as a
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  full-time firefighter?
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  Yeah.
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  Working full time.
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  I'm actually not done with school.
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  I'm only done with fire and
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  EMT school in our department.
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  Everyone has to be a paramedic.
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  So I start paramedic school
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  end of June and that's a full,
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  a whole year.
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  Oh wow.
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  Yeah.
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  But thankfully it's,
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  it's local for fire and EMT school.
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  I had to go down to the
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  state fire Academy in
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  Columbus and like we stayed
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  in dorms down there Monday
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  through Friday and then
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  like come home on the weekends and
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  didn't drop by for dinner or
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  say hi no I should have but
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  it was when we weren't in
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  class it was study you
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  probably drove by my house
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  on the way home man I
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  probably did it's in
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  reynoldsburg right yeah I
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  know you're in reynoldsburg
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  I'm not I'm not I'm
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  actually north of the city
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  okay the players area okay
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  yeah so I definitely drove
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  drove through there
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  Yeah.
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  To get back on 71,
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  you definitely went past my house.
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  Yeah, I probably did.
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  But yeah, Reynoldsburg, it's funny.
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  When my daughter was born
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  and she was young,
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  which was many moons ago,
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  that fire academy used to be a drive-in.
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  Really?
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  Yeah.
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  So we used to go down there
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  to the drive-in theater
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  when she was a baby.
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  So my wife and I could watch
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  adult movies and she would
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  just fall asleep in the backseat.
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  oh that's funny yeah and
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  then they they closed it
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  down to to build the fire
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  academy yeah yeah it's a
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  it's an the fire academy is
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  awesome it's a really cool
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  place yeah lots of land to
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  do a lot of cool things
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  yeah they have a lot of
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  cool stuff there like
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  departments from all over
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  the state go there to use
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  the stuff they have so uh
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  always been a dream to be a firefighter
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  Um, I mean,
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  my mom's pulled up a bunch of
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  pictures now of me as a
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  little kid dressing as a
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  firefighter or like her
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  birthdays and stuff like
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  firefighter theme.
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  So I know it's kind of
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  always like in the back of
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  my mind to at least like
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  look into it or like maybe
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  like something I would want to do.
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  Um,
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  especially if like the army didn't work
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  out, which I'm not in the army anymore.
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  So it kind of didn't work out.
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  And then, uh,
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  actually it's kind of funny
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  how it happened.
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  So there's a few,
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  there's been multiple
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  firefighters in our gym.
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  I'm sure every CrossFit gym
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  has a bunch of them,
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  but there was one that I
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  just texted and I was like, Hey,
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  I'm thinking about going to
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  the fire Academy.
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  Like,
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  just want to know if I could
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  like call you sometime or
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  meet up and talk about it
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  he's like actually our
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  department is hiring and
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  the deadline where we're
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  like sending people with no
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  certifications and anything
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  through all the school and
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  like paying for it and all
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  that and the deadline is
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  tomorrow so like if you
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  want if you want to do it
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  get your application in so
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  I got my application in and
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  then uh did all the
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  interviews and um
• 15:20
  ride-alongs and stuff and then got hired
• 15:24
  really cool end of july last
• 15:26
  year and so when we were
• 15:29
  talking to schedulers you
• 15:30
  work that like one day on
• 15:33
  two days off yeah 24 on 48
• 15:35
  off yeah yeah which is
• 15:39
  actually pretty it's pretty
• 15:40
  awesome yeah I can imagine
• 15:43
  and then when we talked
• 15:44
  last year you had like just got married
• 15:47
  I think we were about,
• 15:49
  we got married June 9th last year.
• 15:50
  So I think it was a little bit.
• 15:52
  Yeah,
• 15:52
  we got married like a few weeks after
• 15:53
  semifinals.
• 15:55
  And it was actually funny.
• 15:56
  I got married on Friday.
• 15:58
  The next Monday was a ride.
• 16:00
  I do a ride along for the department.
• 16:03
  It was like right after our wedding.
• 16:04
  But yeah, we got married last summer.
• 16:07
  That's quite the honeymoon.
• 16:08
  What do you think of that?
• 16:09
  That was pretty good.
• 16:12
  We haven't gone on a honeymoon yet.
• 16:13
  We just haven't been able to.
• 16:15
  You got to do the ride-along.
• 16:16
  She didn't get to come with you?
• 16:17
  No.
• 16:20
  No, she's hung out at the station, though,
• 16:21
  a couple times.
• 16:22
  She already knows some of
• 16:24
  the people that are at the department.
• 16:26
  It's kind of weird.
• 16:29
  Almost half of the
• 16:29
  department has had some
• 16:31
  affiliation with Cadre,
• 16:33
  the gym I go to at some point.
• 16:36
  So she already knows a bunch of them.
• 16:39
  So the Amanda you mentioned,
• 16:41
  and this was kind of in my notes,
• 16:43
  is last year she was your
• 16:45
  training partner,
• 16:46
  and that is Amanda Barnhart,
• 16:48
  CrossFit legend,
• 16:50
  multiple-time games athlete.
• 16:52
  She had an off-season where
• 16:53
  she was injured and not
• 16:55
  able to really do a lot.
• 16:56
  Yeah.
• 16:57
  You took kind of an off-season off,
• 17:00
  and now she's back healthy
• 17:03
  and doing pretty well
• 17:04
  through the process as well.
• 17:05
  Yeah.
• 17:06
  Have you guys linked up to train again?
• 17:08
  Yeah,
• 17:08
  I actually just got back from her gym
• 17:10
  like an hour or so ago.
• 17:14
  So just like an old sock,
• 17:16
  it just fit again and you
• 17:17
  guys are back at it?
• 17:18
  Yeah, it kind of worked out kind of weird.
• 17:20
  She didn't really train.
• 17:21
  We were kind of in the same boat.
• 17:22
  She didn't really get to
• 17:23
  train a whole lot during
• 17:24
  the summer and fall because
• 17:26
  of her injury.
• 17:28
  And then I didn't get to
• 17:28
  train a whole lot because I
• 17:29
  was at school.
• 17:30
  So we were kind of both in
• 17:31
  the same boat a little bit.
• 17:33
  as far as like just being stressed,
• 17:35
  not knowing if how
• 17:36
  quarterfinals or the season
• 17:37
  was going to go.
• 17:38
  I mean, but so far it's going pretty well.
• 17:41
  And yeah,
• 17:42
  she's seemed super fit right now.
• 17:44
  So,
• 17:45
  so what's it like having someone like
• 17:47
  that as a, as support when, when you're,
• 17:51
  when you're both anxious in this time,
• 17:53
  because you haven't been
• 17:54
  able to put in the work
• 17:57
  that you have in years past.
• 17:58
  Yeah.
• 17:59
  It's actually, it's been super helpful.
• 18:01
  Like,
• 18:02
  basically knowing that like
• 18:05
  when it's like when you're
• 18:06
  super stressed or beat up
• 18:07
  and you're thinking like it
• 18:09
  sucks looking on instagram
• 18:10
  because then you see people
• 18:11
  that are like they're
• 18:12
  crushing this and they're
• 18:13
  doing all this you're like
• 18:14
  well I'm not and then she's
• 18:15
  like it's okay like that's
• 18:17
  perfectly fine like no one
• 18:19
  is 100 all the time like a
• 18:23
  lot of times you don't feel good like
• 18:26
  You're maybe not... You have
• 18:27
  a whole list of stuff.
• 18:28
  You have six things you want
• 18:30
  to do that day and you only
• 18:31
  have enough energy or time
• 18:34
  to get through three of them.
• 18:35
  That's perfectly... It happens.
• 18:37
  It's not ideal, but it does happen.
• 18:41
  It's okay.
• 18:43
  Instagram comparison is just...
• 18:46
  Yeah, it's, it, it sucks.
• 18:47
  That kind of, that sucked when I was at,
• 18:49
  like when I was at a fire
• 18:50
  and EMT school and not
• 18:51
  really training and I was
• 18:52
  like seeing all the stuff
• 18:52
  people were doing.
• 18:53
  Like, yeah, that was,
• 18:54
  that was not fun to kind of look at.
• 18:58
  So yeah, it's,
• 19:01
  it's comparison is a thief of joy.
• 19:04
  You know,
• 19:04
  I know that's a famous saying and,
• 19:06
  but it is so true.
• 19:08
  And especially in this era
• 19:10
  with everybody posting
• 19:11
  their highlight reels on,
• 19:13
  on a social media.
• 19:14
  Yeah.
• 19:15
  And even like just comparing,
• 19:17
  like both of us were kind
• 19:18
  of going through it,
• 19:19
  comparing our own selves to
• 19:21
  where we were last year.
• 19:22
  Cause last year we were both like insanely,
• 19:24
  we both finished top 10 in the open.
• 19:26
  We both had really long quarterfinals.
• 19:28
  We both just felt really fit last year.
• 19:30
  And then this year we don't like,
• 19:32
  even though we are still fit,
• 19:33
  we're just not as fit as we
• 19:35
  don't feel or whatever as
• 19:37
  fit as we were last year.
• 19:38
  And it's like,
• 19:39
  that's another thing that
• 19:40
  can cause you to like kind
• 19:42
  of doubt yourself and like,
• 19:43
  a little anxious and freak
• 19:45
  out a little bit so it's
• 19:47
  kind of nice to have like
• 19:48
  have someone else tell you
• 19:49
  that like that's like it's
• 19:50
  fine now you're just
• 19:52
  pouring salt in my wound
• 19:54
  dude because when I when I
• 19:56
  had my back injury in 2017
• 19:57
  and like for the next
• 20:00
  couple years all I did was compare yeah
• 20:04
  today's Scott to the old Scott.
• 20:06
  And it, it never worked out well.
• 20:08
  It wasn't until I realized I'm a,
• 20:11
  just a different Scott now.
• 20:12
  And I have to go down my new path.
• 20:15
  Did I find happiness again?
• 20:16
  Yeah.
• 20:17
  My cat is getting in the camera.
• 20:20
  That's another change for this year.
• 20:21
  We got a cat.
• 20:24
  It's all good, man.
• 20:25
  Yeah.
• 20:26
  My dog's been barking at
• 20:27
  every prime driver as we've been talking.
• 20:29
  So I've been petting my dog
• 20:31
  the whole time.
• 20:31
  Cause he's anxious.
• 20:32
  Yeah.
• 20:33
  So, um, so that, that,
• 20:36
  that lends itself to a
• 20:37
  really interesting question.
• 20:39
  I know in years past we've
• 20:40
  talked and you've had
• 20:41
  really focused goals on
• 20:44
  trying to make the games
• 20:46
  and you had a belief in
• 20:47
  yourself that you were able to do that.
• 20:50
  Now with all this other
• 20:51
  stuff on your plate,
• 20:53
  do you have different priorities?
• 20:54
  Oh yeah, for sure.
• 20:56
  Like now the priorities kind
• 20:58
  of shifted that like, I mean,
• 20:59
  we just got married and
• 21:01
  we want to eventually have
• 21:02
  kids like save up for a
• 21:03
  house and all of that.
• 21:04
  And like,
• 21:07
  all I was doing last year was
• 21:08
  pretty much just like coaching CrossFit,
• 21:10
  like as much as I could
• 21:11
  make as much money as I could.
• 21:12
  But like,
• 21:13
  that's not really like a good
• 21:16
  financial future or something like that.
• 21:18
  So now that, uh, like I have a good,
• 21:22
  like I have a career that like,
• 21:24
  I'm going to do for the next 25,
• 21:27
  30 years.
• 21:27
  Like, who knows?
• 21:28
  Like,
• 21:29
  that's kind of been a little
• 21:30
  bit more stable and like
• 21:33
  just different and it's
• 21:35
  been a ton of fun it's
• 21:36
  almost like getting like my
• 21:37
  mind off of training and
• 21:39
  like just something else to focus on like
• 21:42
  starting else something new.
• 21:43
  Like I'm focusing on
• 21:45
  training to be like a good firefighter,
• 21:46
  to be a good paramedic,
• 21:48
  like once I go through
• 21:49
  school and everything.
• 21:50
  So it kind of does keep my
• 21:52
  mind off of competing for a little bit.
• 21:54
  And like,
• 21:55
  I kind of almost wrote off this year,
• 21:57
  like in next year,
• 21:58
  cause I'll be in paramedic
• 21:59
  school next year that like,
• 22:01
  it's okay if it doesn't happen right now.
• 22:03
  Like there's other things
• 22:04
  that are more important.
• 22:06
  but I was still able to
• 22:07
  qualify for semifinals this
• 22:08
  year in a pretty good spot.
• 22:10
  So it's kind of nice to know
• 22:11
  that my whole life doesn't
• 22:14
  have to revolve around
• 22:15
  training and CrossFit to
• 22:16
  still do well at it.
• 22:20
  How old are you?
• 22:20
  26 now.
• 22:23
  So you actually still have some time.
• 22:25
  Yeah, I know.
• 22:27
  My wife's reminding me of that too.
• 22:28
  She's like, it's okay.
• 22:30
  It's like the next two years
• 22:31
  don't go well.
• 22:33
  You'll be 28 at that point.
• 22:34
  There's plenty of games
• 22:35
  athletes that are older than that.
• 22:39
  So let me ask you this.
• 22:41
  With these different
• 22:42
  priorities and the sole
• 22:44
  focus not being on training
• 22:46
  and you have all these other obligations,
• 22:49
  You look at someone like Ariel Lowen,
• 22:51
  who when she was the sole focus,
• 22:54
  she couldn't make the games.
• 22:55
  Yeah.
• 22:56
  When she did it for fun and
• 22:58
  it wasn't really the focus
• 23:00
  and she just wanted a cool
• 23:01
  sign for a garage,
• 23:03
  she's become one of the
• 23:04
  best CrossFitters in the world.
• 23:05
  Makes the podium at the games.
• 23:07
  Right.
• 23:08
  Yeah, I think there is an element of that.
• 23:09
  Last year I put so much
• 23:12
  worth and pressure on
• 23:13
  myself to try to make the
• 23:15
  games and everything.
• 23:17
  And basically I was like just super,
• 23:19
  like that's all I did all
• 23:21
  year was just train and
• 23:22
  then think about training,
• 23:23
  think about competing.
• 23:24
  And like now I'm not.
• 23:26
  And yeah,
• 23:27
  it's almost like kind of turned
• 23:28
  out better.
• 23:28
  Yeah.
• 23:30
  It's funny.
• 23:31
  I, you know,
• 23:32
  it's funny that you work out
• 23:33
  with Amanda cause I think
• 23:34
  the same things with her.
• 23:35
  She has so much more in her
• 23:36
  life right now.
• 23:37
  Yeah.
• 23:38
  And not that good or bad or indifferent,
• 23:40
  whatever.
• 23:41
  It's just,
• 23:42
  she has to focus on different things.
• 23:44
  Yeah.
• 23:45
  I wonder if that takes some
• 23:46
  of the pressure off and she
• 23:47
  actually does better this year.
• 23:49
  Yeah, maybe like we'll see.
• 23:51
  I mean, it's still hard enough.
• 23:53
  I think he's a Kingston's five now,
• 23:56
  like raising a five year
• 23:59
  old is definitely not easy by any means.
• 24:00
  Like, right.
• 24:01
  Even like on her days off from training,
• 24:04
  like she doesn't really have a day off.
• 24:05
  Like now she's like,
• 24:06
  has to be a mom and kind of
• 24:09
  just like thrown into it.
• 24:10
  Like there's no,
• 24:11
  there was no buildup or anything.
• 24:12
  Just like, here you are like,
• 24:14
  here's a five year old.
• 24:16
  Yeah,
• 24:16
  and we actually had her scheduled for
• 24:18
  yesterday, but those things pop up.
• 24:20
  Yeah, she told me about that.
• 24:23
  Yeah.
• 24:25
  And she promised to come on later,
• 24:28
  and I'm super excited to
• 24:29
  talk to her and catch up.
• 24:32
  But, yeah, I've been a dad.
• 24:33
  I know what it's like.
• 24:35
  You think you're going down this route,
• 24:37
  and all of a sudden, nope,
• 24:38
  we're going over here.
• 24:39
  Yeah.
• 24:40
  Yeah.
• 24:41
  Yeah,
• 24:42
  so that's a whole other set of
• 24:44
  challenges that –
• 24:45
  I don't have yet.
• 24:46
  And like, we'll see when we get there,
• 24:48
  when it's like, I'm sure it's way,
• 24:51
  no matter what anybody says
• 24:51
  about having kids, it's,
• 24:53
  you don't really know until you do.
• 24:56
  Do you can,
• 24:56
  do you still consider yourself
• 24:57
  a mayhem athlete?
• 25:00
  So that's another change
• 25:01
  that we've made this year.
• 25:02
  Um,
• 25:04
  because I started training
• 25:05
  with amanda and she's hwpo
• 25:07
  like last year I would do
• 25:08
  whatever she did like when
• 25:10
  I went over there to train
• 25:11
  with her and then I would
• 25:13
  do like mayhem stuff when I
• 25:15
  was on my own and that just
• 25:17
  got too it was like too
• 25:19
  much and too complicated
• 25:20
  trying to like oh well we
• 25:20
  did wall balls yesterday
• 25:22
  and mayhem wants wall balls
• 25:23
  today like how do we want
• 25:24
  to scale that or like when
• 25:26
  I would go train with her
• 25:26
  it's like I already did
• 25:27
  that yesterday so I need to like
• 25:29
  figure out something different.
• 25:31
  So I decided like to switch
• 25:34
  to HWPO for this year.
• 25:37
  Um, it's kind of like,
• 25:39
  it's kind of bittersweet.
• 25:40
  Cause like, it's cool.
• 25:41
  Like it's a good,
• 25:41
  it's a cool change to be a
• 25:43
  part of like a different
• 25:44
  training camp or a company,
• 25:45
  especially a younger one.
• 25:46
  That's like up and coming
• 25:48
  and mayhems like very well
• 25:49
  established and mayhem was great.
• 25:52
  Like couldn't have asked any
• 25:53
  more from them.
• 25:55
  Like they were awesome.
• 25:56
  When I went down there a few times, I did,
• 25:57
  they like,
• 25:59
  were nothing but like super
• 26:00
  kind and polite welcoming
• 26:03
  so it was like in I
• 26:04
  followed like rich was one
• 26:06
  of the reasons I got into
• 26:07
  cross like wanted to
• 26:08
  compete in crossfit and
• 26:10
  like so mayhem's always
• 26:11
  kind of been a part of like
• 26:12
  my crossfit like journey
• 26:14
  like just following what
• 26:16
  they do and then competing
• 26:18
  under them so it was like
• 26:19
  it was kind of hard to like
• 26:22
  decide to kind of leave
• 26:23
  mayhem and go to somewhere else
• 26:28
  So that brings up another question for me.
• 26:32
  How much different are the programmings?
• 26:35
  They're really, like, not a ton different.
• 26:38
  I mean, there's, like,
• 26:39
  there's small things here and there.
• 26:42
  Like,
• 26:42
  and there's things I liked about
• 26:46
  Mayhem more.
• 26:46
  There's things I liked about HAPO more.
• 26:49
  I think it's completely just
• 26:50
  personal preference.
• 26:51
  And I've heard athletes say this before.
• 26:53
  Like, the training program you do really,
• 26:55
  I mean, it matters and it doesn't matter.
• 26:58
  I mean, if you don't put in the work,
• 26:59
  you're not going to make it.
• 27:01
  It's like, if you work hard, like,
• 27:03
  you can make it.
• 27:03
  It doesn't really matter exactly.
• 27:06
  which program you do.
• 27:07
  Like there's people who have
• 27:07
  made it to the games
• 27:08
  multiple years in a row.
• 27:10
  And in the favor,
• 27:11
  like go to the games five times in a row,
• 27:13
  they might be with three
• 27:14
  different training programs
• 27:15
  in those five years.
• 27:16
  Like it matters, but also kind of doesn't,
• 27:19
  it's kind of just whatever you, you like.
• 27:21
  And it just fit for me to do it.
• 27:22
  It just made sense and fit
• 27:24
  for me to do HWPO because
• 27:27
  like it was what it did
• 27:28
  just made everything
• 27:29
  consistent with training with Amanda.
• 27:32
  Yeah.
• 27:32
  My, my old gym,
• 27:34
  we used to do comp train and it, for me,
• 27:37
  it just felt like less fun.
• 27:41
  Like it was,
• 27:43
  it was designed for a
• 27:44
  competitor and I'm not,
• 27:45
  I'm there to get fit in an
• 27:47
  hour and go home.
• 27:49
  Right.
• 27:49
  And a ton of like dumbbell work.
• 27:51
  Yeah.
• 27:53
  Now that I'm at Polaris with Christie,
• 27:57
  like theirs is all interval
• 27:58
  work and I could not love it more.
• 28:01
  Yeah.
• 28:03
  Yeah.
• 28:04
  I mean, different pro it's always like,
• 28:06
  it is completely personal preference.
• 28:09
  Like some people just love
• 28:10
  one type of training more than the other.
• 28:12
  Like my affiliate cadre, they,
• 28:15
  they're a mayhem affiliate.
• 28:16
  Like they do mayhem class
• 28:18
  workouts and they're fun workouts.
• 28:20
  The coach, like I,
• 28:21
  it's definitely working.
• 28:22
  Like people are getting fit.
• 28:25
  So it,
• 28:26
  Yeah, my old gym switched to Mayhem.
• 28:30
  And some of my friends from
• 28:33
  there are still co-hosts on
• 28:34
  different shows I have here.
• 28:36
  So I get a flavor of it,
• 28:38
  and it seems great.
• 28:38
  Yeah, they're super good.
• 28:42
  Even for the coaches,
• 28:44
  they give notes and all
• 28:45
  this stuff on how to help
• 28:47
  run the class or the goals
• 28:48
  or stimulus or scaling options.
• 28:51
  So they definitely know what
• 28:51
  they're doing for
• 28:53
  programming for classes and stuff.
• 28:57
  So you go to Cadre.
• 28:59
  Mike Richardson's there, right?
• 29:01
  Yeah.
• 29:01
  And Mike Richards is actually,
• 29:03
  he's my lieutenant at the
• 29:05
  fire department too.
• 29:07
  That was where I was going.
• 29:09
  Yeah.
• 29:10
  He is a CrossFit floor announcer.
• 29:12
  For people who don't know,
• 29:13
  one of the most famous
• 29:14
  voices you'll hear at
• 29:17
  semifinals in the games, walking around,
• 29:19
  doing his thing.
• 29:20
  And he is a firefighter in Ohio here.
• 29:24
  And so he's your lieutenant.
• 29:26
  Yeah, he's my lieutenant,
• 29:26
  so he's technically my boss.
• 29:28
  He's in charge of me.
• 29:30
  Did you know him before
• 29:33
  going into the fire department?
• 29:34
  Oh, yeah.
• 29:35
  I've known him since like
• 29:38
  2015 when I first joined Cadre.
• 29:40
  So I've known him for a really long time.
• 29:42
  Never thought I'd be working
• 29:43
  for him or with him.
• 29:45
  But, yeah, now I am.
• 29:46
  So it's actually kind of cool.
• 29:47
  And actually,
• 29:48
  someone else that's on my
• 29:49
  shift is Joe Weigel.
• 29:52
  He went to the games in 2011.
• 29:55
  Him and his wife were on the
• 29:56
  team that got second in 2012.
• 29:58
  He went to regionals in like
• 30:00
  2013 and 2014.
• 30:02
  And then he was kind of like
• 30:04
  doing his own thing.
• 30:04
  But yeah, he's also on my shift.
• 30:07
  Oh, wow.
• 30:08
  So is it possible that Mike
• 30:11
  calls your action in Knoxville?
• 30:15
  Yeah, I think he is doing syndicate.
• 30:19
  So your boss could be the
• 30:20
  one on the floor calling you
• 30:24
  yeah action going up is a
• 30:26
  possibility it's kind of
• 30:30
  cool I've asked him I was
• 30:31
  like is that like a
• 30:31
  conflict of interest like
• 30:33
  is that bad but he's like
• 30:38
  it doesn't it doesn't
• 30:40
  affect the outcome right
• 30:41
  yeah it doesn't unless he's
• 30:43
  telling you like unless
• 30:44
  he's yelling cam pick it up
• 30:46
  let's go yeah in front of
• 30:48
  everybody yeah yeah
• 30:51
  No, he hasn't.
• 30:52
  Yeah, he hasn't told me any.
• 30:53
  I don't even know if he
• 30:54
  knows anything about the
• 30:55
  events or anything, but yeah,
• 30:58
  he said he won't reveal anything.
• 31:02
  Yeah.
• 31:03
  Yeah, he's a really good dude.
• 31:05
  One of my favorite people to
• 31:08
  see when I'm out on the road.
• 31:11
  Yeah,
• 31:12
  he's a fun guy to be around for 24 hours.
• 31:16
  Yeah.
• 31:17
  Is he hard on the group or
• 31:18
  is he pretty supportive?
• 31:20
  He's pretty supportive.
• 31:21
  I mean, everyone on my shift,
• 31:23
  we kind of tend to know
• 31:25
  what we need to do and we
• 31:26
  all get it done.
• 31:27
  Like he doesn't have to like
• 31:30
  yell at us or anything all that much.
• 31:32
  So you said going into this year,
• 31:36
  you didn't have like high
• 31:37
  expectations of semis.
• 31:38
  Then you saw the workouts and you're like,
• 31:40
  oh, shoot.
• 31:41
  Good for me.
• 31:43
  Did that change your perspective?
• 31:45
  And do you have a goal?
• 31:46
  Yeah,
• 31:47
  it definitely did in like maybe not a
• 31:49
  great way because now I put a ton of more,
• 31:51
  a lot more.
• 31:51
  We were just talking with
• 31:53
  Amanda about this earlier today.
• 31:56
  But it's like I have way
• 31:57
  more stress now than I thought.
• 31:58
  I've almost like more stress
• 32:00
  this year than last year
• 32:02
  because I know that like
• 32:04
  I can, I have a, like,
• 32:06
  I have a pretty good shot
• 32:07
  and these workouts are like
• 32:08
  very good for me,
• 32:09
  which like last year I knew
• 32:10
  the workouts were going to be,
• 32:11
  so thought I had a shop.
• 32:12
  I knew the workouts are going to be rough.
• 32:14
  And then this year I'm like, well,
• 32:16
  damn it.
• 32:18
  Like I kind of didn't want
• 32:20
  to have like a ton of
• 32:20
  pressure and now I do.
• 32:23
  Yeah.
• 32:24
  That's crazy.
• 32:24
  Yeah.
• 32:27
  I definitely think I have a
• 32:28
  shot this year.
• 32:30
  Well, Cam, as always, man,
• 32:32
  it's such a treat catching
• 32:33
  up with you every year.
• 32:34
  Yeah.
• 32:35
  Glad to hear everything's
• 32:37
  going well in your personal life,
• 32:41
  and you're still killing it
• 32:42
  out there on the competition floor.
• 32:44
  Thank you.
• 32:44
  Appreciate it.
• 32:46
  An old guy is asking this question,
• 32:48
  and you probably get the reference,
• 32:50
  but any relation to Sonny Crockett?
• 32:53
  No.
• 32:54
  I've heard that multiple times,
• 32:56
  either that or Davey Crockett.
• 32:59
  Yeah, I'd take Sonny over Davey.
• 33:01
  Yeah, I mean, people call me Davey.
• 33:03
  I didn't hear Sonny until, like,
• 33:05
  I think until I joined the Army,
• 33:07
  but pretty much my whole life,
• 33:08
  people called me Davey.
• 33:11
  Yeah.
• 33:13
  Sonny got to drive the Ferrari.
• 33:14
  Yeah, that's pretty cool.
• 33:16
  Davey was in a coonskin hat
• 33:19
  and climbing in the mountains.
• 33:21
  Yeah, he did some cool stuff, though.
• 33:23
  Yeah.
• 33:24
  As Corey says,
• 33:25
  he was the king of the wild frontier.
• 33:26
  Yeah, that's pretty cool.
• 33:29
  so um oh man old man humor
• 33:33
  is just so uh with that
• 33:36
  dude I think I'm gonna be
• 33:39
  in I think I'm gonna be in
• 33:41
  uh knoxville yeah uh so
• 33:43
  we'll be rooting for you as
• 33:45
  always man you know I'm a
• 33:46
  big fan and we will uh
• 33:49
  we'll be rooting you on
• 33:50
  dude yeah thanks thanks for
• 33:52
  doing this every year it's
• 33:52
  also it's always really cool
• 33:54
  Yeah, and everybody in the chat,
• 33:56
  thank you so much for being here.
• 33:58
  We'll see everybody next
• 33:59
  time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
• 34:02
  Bye, guys.