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Makenna Enslin-Mell: The things injuries can't take from you - E.409 · Misfit Podcast

• @misfitcoach: Good morning, Misfitts. You are tuning into another episode of the Misfit Podcast. On this week's episode, we welcome Misfit athlete McKenna Anslin Mel. I definitely had an agenda going into this one and it exceeded my expectations. McKenna went to semifinals in back-to-back years, and then, as you'll learn in the episode, suffered back to back season-ending injuries leading into the open in 2025 and 2026. And Again, no spoilers here. I want you guys to to dig right into the episode, but really just blown away by by her mentality and how she's worked through all of this. So I hope you guys really enjoy that. Before we get to it, a little bit of housekeeping. Almost all of you have gotten started already on phase zero, but you can still get started by going to Strivey or Fitter, the link in bio on our social media, get signed up for phase zero. You get the first week for free. 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McKenna, welcome to the show. How we doing? Makenna Enslin-Mell: I'm really excited to be here. Long time listener, obviously. but I'm excited to yap @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: with you guys. @misfitcoach: So we're gonna do the whole origin story. We're gonna lay the groundwork for the theme of the day, but there are two or three hundred people that listen to this podcast every week that either have an actual relationship with you or a virtual relationship with you. So why don't you update the people on what life is like right now for you? Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, so right now I definitely am experiencing a little bit of an identity shift. spent the last like three years or so really trying to make that athlete identity my number one out of all of the other roles that I play in my life. some of them including physical therapist, wife, daughter, friend, etc. So right now I am back to working full time in the clinic and a private practice as a physical therapist. so I do that about 32 hours a week, so like almost full time. still allowing myself to have a good amount of time to focus on some training and some rehab. but it's been really it's almost like humbling to try to almost like level out these identities now where I'm not really allowing that athlete mindset to be like number one. I'm allowing myself to kind of live a little bit, have some fun with fitness, at least be grateful to move my body again, saying yes to things that I usually don't say yes to. so yeah, that's really what I've been up to. took a new job within the last like two months or so. So that's been a good adjustment. But no yeah, recovery so far has been a slow trajectory, but just trying to hang in there. @misfitcoach: And you just did we're you're do you're dabbling in phase zero. I kinda have your weeks split up into like what's @paige_semenza: you @misfitcoach: the progression we're on, what are we trying to get into, and then not like full FOMO where you don't get to go in there. and you just did Cleo, everybody's favorite workout. one of the easier misfit benchmarks. and you were within Makenna Enslin-Mell: Okay. @misfitcoach: you were within forty seconds of your top time. Now when you spread forty seconds out over thirty five, thirty six minutes, that's a pretty big deal, especially with you being able to to maintain your ski pacing. because we know that you kind of naturally gravitate towards being able to to stay tough on the machines. So to be able to get that kind of feedback probably feels pretty good. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, I mean like I I always have like just identified with being a powerhouse on the @paige_semenza: you Makenna Enslin-Mell: machines. There's just something about putting your head down @paige_semenza: you Makenna Enslin-Mell: and just seeing that work right in front of your face and just embracing the suck. for some reason, even back when I first started CrossFit, I I really enjoyed that. @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. Makenna Enslin-Mell: which is kind of a little bit sadistic to say, but that's besides the point. @misfitcoach: Mm-hmm. Makenna Enslin-Mell: So I mean, the last couple of months though, I've just been really craving like that intensity. we've had to really hold back the last few months and be very intentional about getting back into training, which can be a little bit frustrating sometimes, especially when you're kind of itching to bring that intensity back again. And You you know, you miss having those days where your heart rate's in zone five for like 30 minutes straight. there's just nothing like it. You can't replicate that. but I mean, @misfitcoach: Ha ha. Makenna Enslin-Mell: we can we can go into it a little bit more. but there's just something to not allowing yourself to set yourself to have expectations going into something that you haven't done in a few months. For example, I haven't touched a skierg, besides just doing some warm-ups probably since January. so going into Cleo today, you know, you kind of start doubting yourself, like, I'm not gonna be able to hold pace with like what I used to do and I'm gonna tire out. And you you tell yourself all of these stories. But if you allow yourself to just do the damn workout, let loose a little bit and see what you can do and what you're capable of. Most of the time you can really surprise yourself. And I really I experienced that a lot with my ankle recovery last year. so to get some of that experience under my belt of recovering last year, and now I can apply it to this new rehab, it's really beneficial. @misfitcoach: We'll get into a bunch more of the mentality stuff, but I think it's funny and not a coincidence that we we spoke with Kyle Molin recently and he had a similar feeling about a lot of the machine work. and I think most people would assume that they know whether it's chicken or the egg, but it's actually very important to point out that you Having the confidence and the willingness to go hard is part of the reason why you're able to continue to progress on progress on machines because people have negative associations with stuff like this, and it really takes over their mindset and it really kind of dominates where you're at when you're on the machine. and like just for me personally, when I'm really in a machine progression and I feel like I'm progressing, there's like this extra added thing. This, like I go two steps at once because of how. how I feel mentally. and I think a lot of people would probably think, it must be nice you know, for for you and Kyle and other people @paige_semenza: you @misfitcoach: who who do well on machines. But I continue to program them for you and you continue to have to put yourself into the hurt locker for God knows how long to make progress. and I believe that the willingness to do so is a huge part of it and not just like, it's a machine person, it must be nice. Cause like I know plenty of athletes that have shied away from that, that maybe had the body type or the energy systems for it, and they fall off a little bit and they have a tough time kind of getting back into it. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, I mean, Paige has seen me many mornings sell my soul. on whatever machine that we have for the day. It's it's not fun. It it's not. Like I mean it's you see the scores and you would think like, okay, yeah, like, machines must be pretty easy, but it's the furthest thing from that. It actually gets harder the more that you do it, which is a little bit scary, but also kind of fun to see like, @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: Mm-hmm. Makenna Enslin-Mell: what what are we capable of? @paige_semenza: Yeah. Am I muted? @misfitcoach: Yeah, for sure. @paige_semenza: Yeah. mean, even, even at the high, like even people at the games, like when you're good at something, like, you know that you have to like level up to that fact. Right. So it's like, you know, you make it look easy, but the feeling is far from it. And usually like when we would train together, if we were doing our whole session in, in one go, which not sustainable for a long period of time, but we did it anyway. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Mm-hmm. @paige_semenza: we would have like, you know, if she had a rough conditioning piece like metcon or interval, she's like, well, I got my bitch work coming up. So I'm good. And I'm like, damn, here we go. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Yeah. that's great. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Redemption. @paige_semenza: Yep. @misfitcoach: so normally I would say I'm gonna Tarantino the episode, but I'm watching Breaking Bad right now and they do those black and white intros that are like either the end of the episode or the end of the season. So that's my that's my analogy. we're still gonna do the Makenna Enslin-Mell: Is this your first time watching Breaking Bad? @misfitcoach: full origin. No, no, no. This is like my seventh @paige_semenza: Yeah @misfitcoach: time watching Breaking Bed. I as a yeah, Makenna Enslin-Mell: I was gonna say, like that's kinda crazy. @misfitcoach: yeah, yeah. As a as a dad, I've found re-watching shows where I don't have to pick anything and I don't have to maybe I don't pay attention for a certain period of time. Like when Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah. @misfitcoach: it hits 8 30 p.m. and I have my hour, I don't need to be figuring anything out. so I just literally re-watch my favorite like 10 shows over and over. so Makenna Enslin-Mell: Sorry, continue. @misfitcoach: We're gonna do the origin story, but we're gonna do the end first. We're gonna set the stage for the theme of the conversation. February 22nd, 2025. Text message. Hey Drew, I'm on my way to the hospital. I rolled my ankle coming down from a rope climb, and I think I broke it. I will keep you posted. 25.1 was announced on February 27th, five days later. February 17th, 2026. 4 12 p.m. Slap tear confirmed 48 hours before the open announcement. When you hear that, what comes to mind? Like how do you feel about all of that currently? Because obviously you there's like 20 different directions you could take it, but what's like the first thing that pops into your head? Makenna Enslin-Mell: I mean, like, even just hearing that like makes my like heart sink still to this day. Like even with the ankle @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: I have anxiety. I have I currently have the chest I have the chest feeling anxiety of of screenshotting those things and putting them into the document. Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah. Similar. no, I mean the first thing that would come to anybody's mind is just it just seems cruel. Like the timing of it all is almost funny. Like, of course it would happen like weeks before or days before the season starts. so you know, first first reaction is always, why me? Why did this happen to me? And to kind of take like the backseat of thinking that like, the the universe is against me. Like whatever higher power doesn't want me to compete. Like that's just especially the second year in a row, I I think having that happen was just really more less of like a upset reaction, more of like a disappointment. Just like, you know, just gearing up to really prove myself and see what I can do. it was just almost like a well Like maybe it's just not meant to be. Maybe my body's just not meant for this. but you know, initial reactions are just initial reactions. They're they're a part of the emotional roller coaster that you go through. So hindsight's always 2020 though. So looking back, you know, months down the road, now I'm a year and a half after the ankle. it's all about how you can really come back from. that initial shock and see what lessons there are that lied in that road that you went down. So that first injury was really more of a shock to me than anything because it was so acute and traumatic. You know, I was just in a regular training session and Paige was there. I just had a slip up and just landed on the rope that was on the ground. And in the blink of an eye, the season was over. But the second time around it was more of a ticking time bond situation where I was managing, managing, managing for a while. And then it was just finally the straw that broke the camel's back. So but living through all of this, I've really learned to just reflect back and see the good that comes out of it and how much I've grown as a person, more so than an athlete. and really getting to hone in these mental skills. and they're not perfect. I have days that are terrible and I'm upset with the world and why me. But then we reframe, wake up the next day, control the controllables and and go on. So that's really what how I have learned to shift that from that initial like really emotional reaction to now hindsight's 2020 and what look what I can do with this new found experience and perspective. @paige_semenza: Yeah, I mean, looking at, let's just take the first injury of the ankle, knowing the story past it, like the year after the surgery and the recovery and the amount of like focus you put into healing and getting better and like using your knowledge within physical therapy as a PT yourself, like my initial like, you know. anxiety that came from your injury. Like I look back at it now, I'm like, I'm incredibly proud. Like the way that you showed up for yourself to heal and get better and get stronger. And you know, like the things that you did during recovery, like not a lot of people can handle that. And then you put a second year on top of that of a different injury. And it's like, you learned a lot in the first one and you're continuing to like show up for yourself through the second one. Like, and you know, We don't talk every day now since I've moved, like, I see it. I see it in the way that you talk about it and the way that you are showing up and putting things on Instagram. So it's like, not many people could do what you are doing right now. You know, it's, it's pretty, it's inspiring. Hopefully, you know, people will look at this and be like, holy shit, know, injury is not fun. Ever. @misfitcoach: Alright, we're gonna go to the beginning now. It's time to go to the beginning. CrossFit origin story. Tell us how, why, when you got started doing CrossFit. Makenna Enslin-Mell: so my parents and my aunt and uncle, they saw this whole CrossFit thing online and I want to say it was probably like circa what is it now, 2026? So it's probably circa like 2012. They would follow dot com and do it in the basement of my aunt's house. And they made kettlebells out of concrete that they filled with like old soccer balls. They made their own boxes. they were flipping tires down the street, slamming the sledgehammers into the tires. and it just looks like so much fun. And my aunt actually was able to build an affiliate from kind of the ground up. So she partnered with another woman who still currently owns the gym. and they opened their own affiliate where my both my parents were coaches at too. So it was definitely more of a family affair. I would kind of just passively do it as some conditioning, especially in the off season. I was a competitive cheerleader. So that required a lot of time and practice working on technique and stuff. So I would go about two to three times a week and just Jump into class, have fun, and then leave. and did that off and on through my high school years. And then I actually tore my ACL, my senior year of high school. So that took me out of tierleading for the full year. But it was fun because I was still able to go to CrossFit and modify a lot of things. I was obviously not squatting, but going on walks and still doing kettlebell swings and push-ups and pull-ups and all that fun stuff. So and then I remember I did my first open workout. I didn't are I didn't sign up, but I just did it as part of a class. It was the thruster bar facing burpee, 21 to 3. Is that right? Yeah, that was a yeah, that was like the first @misfitcoach: Ugh. What a start. Makenna Enslin-Mell: like dose of like really like high intensity like RX CrossFit that I did. So that was 2016. Started college and I needed something to just keep me busy. I was used to the structured routine of the cheerleading season. So that way I could go to class. My dad would pick me up from school and then we would go to CrossFit together and then he'd drop me back off at the dorm. So it was really fun. So definitely a way to connect with my family, make new friends. so my first open that I participated in was 2017. So that kick in the face workout of the dumbbell snatch and burby box jump over. That was quite the haze. @misfitcoach: Ooh, that was the first time, wasn't it? Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, first first time with the dumbbells @misfitcoach: Yep. Makenna Enslin-Mell: my back was sore for six days. so that was that was good. but then I just fell in love with @misfitcoach: My back's still sore. Makenna Enslin-Mell: the open. @paige_semenza: you Makenna Enslin-Mell: I just fell in love with the open and competing. I was just really able to express myself with that competitive itch that I had with not doing cheerleading anymore. So would just do local comps from there. and just have some fun with the affiliate. And then the first year of quarterfinals, I want to say that was 2021. Does that sound about right? @misfitcoach: Yes. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yes, okay. first year quarterfinals, I was like, okay, this sounds pretty cool. Let me just sign up. And I did accidentally way better than I was expecting. I mean, I I had no business doing all of those GHGs and pistols, but still, whatever we made it through. and after that was that @paige_semenza: The rope climb one. Makenna Enslin-Mell: was finished, I was like, Well, let's just see what like taking this a little bit seriously, how that would go. So Started doing some competitive programming, not with Misfit initially, but just wanted to get my dip my toes in the water. and then in November of twenty twenty two, Paige approached me and was like, Hey, why don't you join on to Misfit? We're starting a new phase, like just see how it is. and got to train with her a little bit. And ever since then I was hooked. So yeah, that's really like the very beginning of the story. And then that's kind of where my I'd say my more of my ath athletic identity came to the surface. @misfitcoach: So twenty twenty-two you finished one thousand five hundred and twenty-third in the open. and then you found this incredible program and finished sixty-second in the world in twenty twenty three. Now we know the reality of how all of this works. I did not sit in my office and snap my fingers. what happened in that year? Like what changed about the way that you approach training, really, really all of it, because like I love showing people their progress by looking at their games page and looking at it over the years, but that's that's a jump. That's a really big jump. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, yeah, that was that was such a shock to me. But I mean, not only was the switch to misfit, I think really did play a big role. but a lot of other lifestyle factors played in to that. So I was still in grad school at the time, and Coincidentally there was a big shift in the amount that I was going out partying and drinking, from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. So yeah. So, you know, like we were having @misfitcoach: huh. Yep. Makenna Enslin-Mell: fun in the first couple of years of grad school, you know, like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, you know how it is. That's just the culture. but then when you realize like, okay, this behavior doesn't really match with the identity that I want to be, let's let's stop doing this and see what happens. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: And I think that was really the game changer. obviously the nutrition was improved too with that. and then just the adherence to the training itself, not cherry picking a piece when I didn't feel like it or skipping because I thought I was gonna be too busy with my studying when my studying was really just sitting at my desk and looking at my phone. I found that. allowing myself to have a really structured day and like kind of look in my Google calendar and say, okay, from this time to this time, I'm gonna study. I'm gonna close the book. I'm gonna go to the gym, get my good training in, eat dinner, go home, open the books again. I found really played a role in like my ability to show up as an athlete, but then also as a student. @misfitcoach: And then the jump from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four, you went to your first semifinal in twenty twenty three. Always want to shout out any of the athletes that actually listen and follow Hatchet, to get themselves to the place that they're trying to be before they add. Obviously, execution of the thing is more important than what the thing is written down on the paper. so you jump from fortieth in your first semifinal to twenty third the next year, and that includes my one of my Mount Rush more of worst judging experiences I've ever seen in my entire life. we we we simulated you into the top 20. So top 40 to top 20. what were the changes there? What's the evolution of kind of learning year over year from how things are going, how you're training things outside of the gym to be able to make a jump like that? Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, so I would say the number one thing that changed was signing up for the remote coaching. I really I knew that if I wanted to feel like I belonged there and make sure that my programming was well rounded enough for me and address my needs, that that needed to be a change. so we signed up going into that twenty twenty four season, which was a huge help. Additionally, Paige and I were really good about helping each other train too. So we kind of sat down with each other and we're like, hey, like, let's let's try this whole training thing together. I needed to train in the mornings exclusively because of my job at the time. so she would get her ass up and go to the gym with me. And I think having that @misfitcoach: Little @paige_semenza: Worth @misfitcoach: eye roll there. @paige_semenza: it. Worth it. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Getting that intensity from having your training partner there every day, you just cannot replicate that. And having almost an example every single day of, well, someone's someone's racing you, someone's racing you, because at the end of the day, like when we compete, it is a competition. You're racing other people. So to have little micro doses of competition every day, I think really brought the intensity portion to the surface and Allowing myself to have those days where like maybe I did edge out Paige that day. And then the next day there was like Paige would edge me out. So it was just kind of like that back and forth, a really good balance. and I think another thing that played a role with I'd say both the remote coaching side and the training partner side was unlocking the mental game of the sport. So I think for a long time I was in the camp of If you just ignore it and you don't talk about it, well, then you don't have anything @paige_semenza: You Makenna Enslin-Mell: going on mentally. And I kind of use that internalization as what I thought was a strength. And although it is good that I show it up every day, well, sometimes I would have bad days and not really acknowledge that. And those bad days really played a role. And if I didn't talk about it, it would just boil over into the next day, into the next day, into the next day until Boom, big volcano explosion. so having a remote coach to discuss some mindset tools with, unpack why I'm thinking the way that I'm thinking, some strategies to help improve that, and then also having Paige there, and then sometimes why there on the weekends to just kind of be that little buffer to make training a little bit less serious and a little more fun. Just help keep the energy up. And if I was having a bad day, and the two of them could read my my mood instantly. Like second they see my face, they know something's wrong. So force me to talk about it and say, Yeah, I didn't like that there was luggers rope climbs in this workout. And I didn't like that my grip blew up. and then just kind of move on to the next piece. that helped me a ton with just continuing to show up every day. And not kind of put myself into like this category of like, well, I am gonna always perform like this because I am a power athlete and a strength athlete. I'm not a gymnastics athlete. and just kind of breaking those barriers down. all of that I think really allowed me to improve and make me feel like I belonged, truly belonged to compete @paige_semenza: you Makenna Enslin-Mell: at semifinals in twenty four. @misfitcoach: Can you guys tell me a little bit about how you were able to navigate the training partner thing successfully? Because I believe there is this Goldilocks zone of like, I don't think the answer is training alone. And I don't think the answer is like competing every second, especially if you don't have the right relationship with your training partner. So if you guys could speak to that, I think that would be really helpful for people out there because I think a lot of a a lot of athletes have a tough time navigating those relationships. @paige_semenza: I think a big part of it is like, set intention with every conditioning piece that we do. And our intentions can be very different. So take a triplet. My focus is to try to go bigger sets on, say, strict handstand pushups. McKenna's is to break them up, do this, do that. When there's different movements within there that are strengths and weaknesses or vice versa. for either of us, like there was always intention and like her focus on a workout could be drastically different than mine, even though we're still trying to compete head to head a little bit. More of the competing head to head just allowed us to keep our intensity up, but the intention of the workouts could have been different. So like at the end of the workout, whether, you know, I beat her, she beats me. It's like, well, did you focus on the thing that you were meant to focus on? Or did you let your ego @misfitcoach: Mm. @paige_semenza: get in the way and just try to race each other? And I think for the most part, we were able to stay on track unless we were given the freedom to be like, all right, we're just head to head in this workout because @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: low barrier to entry, you guys can just go. So like, I think we just generally had a good balance with that. And I think just allowing ourselves to have the grace to be good or bad at a workout was a big part of it too. Like, you know, @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: I'm in a, I've been to the games, have the experience, but Kenna is learning from that and I'm also here to help guide her. And that's given me purpose and I really enjoy that side of it. I think the balance of relationship just worked really well. I think that's really what it came down to is we were at different parts of our careers when we were competing with each other, which I think helped too. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, I I think definitely like we were on the same journey but like different paths, if that makes sense. So I don't know, we were just kind of framing it as a way to really just motivate each other and just keep showing up every day and bring that intensity. But I really do think that valuing like the relationship and the friendship was important for us too. And at the end of the day, like we are friends. Like we don't want to be assholes to each other. Like and I think we're both people that like don't like to be mean to other people. So it's like I don't know, it was just a good dynamic. so @paige_semenza: A little bit. Makenna Enslin-Mell: and then also I I'd say what really helped too was just having those like couple minutes on like the cooldown walks to kind of break down like what happened in the workout and just kind of converse about it, talk about what went well, what didn't go well. I think just allowed to kind of break down that barrier a little bit from like competing to more just like, okay, I'm doing this workout like with you. so that really helped. And then I would say too, like getting some other people to jump in on pieces. So it wasn't just the two of us all the time. Like that was always really fun. Like getting some people like who just finished up like @paige_semenza: Yeah, for sure. Mark. Makenna Enslin-Mell: class workout, just be like, hey, you want to do this? Like we'll write some scales up for you. just made it a lot more fun. and just kind of like broke up the monotony of it. @paige_semenza: Yeah, for sure. @misfitcoach: I love the random hate mail from people who are like, I jumped in with so and so at my gym, what's wrong with you? I'm like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, take it easy. @paige_semenza: We actually are one of our he's one of our long standing coaches Mark at vertex. He He knew how to bring intensity really well. So he would coach the six to seven AM class. And then like, that's when her and I would start getting ready for a conditioning piece. And he'd be like, all right, give me five minutes to warm up to 225 squat cleans and I'm good to go. We're like, all right, let's go. So he would jump in with us a lot. He was so great. And honestly, Makenna Enslin-Mell: And he's a maths at masters athlete. @misfitcoach: You need a meathead every once in a while. We know we know when to insert ourselves into the conversation. Yep. @paige_semenza: he trained with her a ton. Like when I... you know, kind of was taking breaks and stuff like he jumped in with her all the time. So he got really fit in the process as well. He does. Makenna Enslin-Mell: He loves the machine pieces. He loves he loves cube test. He loves Clio. He does Clio like once every like two months just like to do it. but he's he's @misfitcoach: Sico. @paige_semenza: Which is crazy because like... Makenna Enslin-Mell: a really fun like training partner. @paige_semenza: Yeah, like that gives her on the things that she's really good at, like we said earlier, like that you know that you got to hurt on these things. Like you have company on them and that's really awesome. Sometimes that's all @misfitcoach: Right. Yeah. @paige_semenza: it takes. @misfitcoach: And I think the Gears matrix is probably helpful too, right? Like when you see McKenna's Echo Bike paces, you're not like, sick, I'm in. And when you see Paige's run paces, @paige_semenza: Hahaha! @misfitcoach: you're not like, why don't I try a five forty-five mile for round one @paige_semenza: You @misfitcoach: and just see what happens. but the idea of the shared suffering and we're doing this together and we're both pushing each other, Makenna Enslin-Mell: Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: I would always at the affiliate, if it was one of those days, if it was one of those machine days, I would change my schedule around. I'd move meetings around to go do the 330 class because it's just different being in proximity to another human with 175 beats per minute heart rate, and we're both in it, and this sucks. And @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: I'm probably 10 seconds per 500 slower than everyone around me, but hey. We're we're making we're making adaptations here. We're getting after it. Makenna Enslin-Mell: That's all right. @paige_semenza: Yeah, I mean, I think it's a testament to like 20, 2024 was her best year at semi finals. 2024 was my best year at the games and that was the year that we trained together all year round. Like that just @misfitcoach: Yeah. Yeah. @paige_semenza: that's proof right there, you know. @misfitcoach: So McKenna, you listened to the podcast and you've certainly listened to me plenty one on one talking about @paige_semenza: you @misfitcoach: general physical preparedness. you have I think been fully indoctrinated into GPP. Your phase zero scores in twenty twenty five were almost all PRs after your surgery and rehab. And I think this year with in CrossFit when your upper body is taken out of the equation, you would think that there'd be a lot on the table, but a lot is actually taken off the table because of things like jumping and jogging, and you know, you're not trying to kind of move things around that shouldn't be moved around. you are like Here's here's what's fun about this. My perspective, it's super easy for me to see. Like, n I don't think anybody else is gonna get 35 minutes in change on Cleo. for you, I love the fact that you like you were like, I was able to hold my ski pace, that's amazing. But there's this little part of you that's pissed whether it's justified or not that you were 30, 40 seconds slower than you were last year. which is great. You gotta have both sides as a competitor of that coin. But you were nervous about what your zone two run pace was gonna be, and that fell, you know, right back in line. so how do you feel about all that? Because obviously we have objective data for what GPP does because you are the type of athlete that's gonna continue to work in whatever way is possible, but then you got that itch at the same time. So, like, how do you feel about all that? Makenna Enslin-Mell: I mean it's it's almost like human nature to think that you're the exception to everything. Like you hear you hear Drew talking about the magic of GPP and to trust it, but there's a little bit inside you that's like, I don't really know. Is it gonna is it gonna work? I don't know. Because it's one of those things that you don't n you don't feel @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: it pay off until it's done. So until you're done with the month's worth of worth of Just those intervals where you're just focusing on building back your your engine and then you do your first MECON and you're like, wow, I'm really surprised those burpees didn't feel that bad. yeah, it's it's just one of those things where you like it's not sexy. You know, it's it doesn't seem like it's specific enough. Like that's that's what would stress me out is like, I don't think I'm doing enough. I don't think I'm biasing this system enough. I don't think I'm biasing this movement enough. I can do this. Why isn't Why aren't we programming this yet? But it's just one of those things, like it's almost like a delayed gratification thing where you have to hold yourself back mentally and the work will will express itself when the time is right. my phase zero last year was unbelievable. Like I, I will never forget, like I think it was, I don't remember if it was the run cube test or the run Mount Doom, but like @paige_semenza: Mount Doom. Makenna Enslin-Mell: It was like I just felt like I could just run forever and just not stop. And I've never felt like that running ever. Yeah. It was @misfitcoach: I do remember that now, yeah. Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: it was crazy. So like if anybody out there is dealing with something or you're coming off of comp prep in a competition and you're kind of biasing that GPP, like just know like if you just stick with it, don't get stressed out and like it will express itself when the time is right. And I'm sure that I'll have some moments like that this phase zero. I mean this this rehab's a little bit slower, so it's not like I'm back to doing like everything yet, but when I can express it, like I feel like we're gonna we're gonna have a good phase zero coming up. @misfitcoach: So one there's there's I wanna ask you a question, but there's something very important to point out here, and it's that I can't write Cleo or Mount Doom on this sticky note right here and stick it under my pillow while I'm rehabbing and have the osmosis GPP come up through my pillow and into my body. You continue to work very, very hard and the brand of what that hard work is is different, but you always continue to work hard and What is interesting and unique about you is you hold those feelings of being nervous about it. You hold those feelings of uncertainty and you do the work anyways. And I've watched a lot of really tough, dedicated people let the uncertainty stop them in their tracks. They're up, they're down, they're not doing this, they're not doing that, they're back all the way, they want more volume, they can't do the volume. It's it's really just this crazy roller coaster ride. What is it about you or your mindset or what you've learned in the last year and a half that allows you to just always keep working? Makenna Enslin-Mell: I mean, it's it's funny, like I think every season I work hard but in different ways. where like let's say 2023, I worked hard physically, and then 2024, I feel like I worked hard in a mental way, and then 25 it was Like a little bit of mix of like rehab and mental work. And then this year has been all rehab. and I would say it's just like setting those high standards for myself. Like, I mean, I feel like even as a kid, I've always been like a high achiever. and I just I really like that feeling of delayed gratification and just knowing that if I work at something, the results that will come after are gonna be awesome. It's so much better than a quick fix @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: and just getting that quick dopamine rush. Like that doesn't really fulfill me much. so whether it was like me as a kid like trying to like make the highest level on the cheer team or get great grades, like or whatnot. I just really try to keep that like pursuit of like if you would call it excellence and just apply it to like different parts of my life as I live a little bit more and gain some more experience. So but I mean I've had those moments in my career of CrossFit now where I get to see where the hard work pays off and just that that gratification that you just feel, that rush, that joy and just knowing like, wow, like I I did it or I was able to improve on this and see that hard work pay off. It's kind of like, I don't know, you plant your garden in in May and you plant the seeds and you put the soil and the mulch and all that. And you don't get the flower until like July or August. But when the flowers bloom, they're so pretty and we love it and we love to look at them. So it's kind of it's kind of like that. Like it's just you get that little taste of that delay gratification and you just kind of like crave it a little bit more and more. @paige_semenza: I ain't got nothing. I mean, no, I mean, you, @misfitcoach: You got nothing, Paige? She stumped us. @paige_semenza: we've also like. I'd say my seasons were plagued with injury too, right? And then it's like, well, I'm gonna keep showing up. Like what can I do? Right? So you're kind of surrounded by that. And even like, you know, for example, we have a hard training piece. It's like you get emotional about it. All right, let's go walk it off. Let's go back inside. Let's hit the next thing. Right? So it's like also that goldfish memory, that short term memory that allows you to turn around and come back for more and show up again for yourself. So it's like you've... probably since you were a kid have built that in you. So like that's something that you've developed over time and have been able to really kind of hold close to your chest. Makenna Enslin-Mell: I'll never forget seeing you do those sled pushes almost every day when your back was in severe pain and just the how that translated over to the games, like that's like burned in my memory. so I yeah. @paige_semenza: That was wild, right? And like I couldn't have asked for a better game set either. Sandbag, sled, perfect, no barbells? Cool. Just from a confidence perspective, yeah, right. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Perfect. Yeah. @misfitcoach: Karma. Yep. @paige_semenza: But yeah, mean, the uncertainty is like, shit, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to pull the deadlift on Linda that year. And you know, it's just, I'm gonna go out and try. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. Like you've surrounded yourself by that for so long. @misfitcoach: So you and I, McKenna, had a conversation, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, but it was I think it was pretty close after your surgery. And it was a bit of a like big moment, like, can I still do this? Like, can I still accomplish my goals? Is it possible? Should I, you know, change my focus, change my goals, reset my expectations? and My question back to you was if you wanted to keep working and keep working really hard. Because what again, what stops people is losing that desire. It's not the injury, it's not the judge, it's not getting, you know, just like a a full-on like weakness weekend handed to you, you know, with the programming. Those things are all incredible teachers if you allow them to be. But I've worked with enough athletes over the years that have gotten to a point where they're like, I don't want to hurt anymore, or I don't want to do the work anymore. I'm just not sure if I want this anymore. And they again, a lot of roller coaster rides, a lot of like they'll watch semifinals and then be shit, we gotta go back. and then that kind of dies out and it's not quite the right fuel. and I don't know, I just don't feel like you've ever voiced or exhibited any doubt in I will do the work. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, I and I think that's really what I need to find comfort in is the ability that I I know that I can show up and I can do the work and find the intensity in something, whether I'm rehabbing or doing monostructural work or getting back to strength. like that has never been a doubt for me. So I feel like as long as I can control those controllables, kind of like the GPP conversation we just had, like the work will express itself. And you know, like it's it's almost like that whole conversation of like the destination versus the journey. It's like, well, do I want to make the CrossFit games because like it's a status thing? Like I'll get more Instagram followers, or do I want to make the CrossFit games because it it's like an ex it's an expression of my hard work and my dedication and perseverance. So just really trying to get down to like the root of like your why. got a little bit blurry, I'd say, after surgery when I was in a sling at home, not working, sad, watching quarterfinals. you know, you have those moments, you have the the voice in your head that that creeps in and says like, hey, like maybe this isn't for you, but you know Again, just shifting that perspective was really beneficial, really good conversation to have. @misfitcoach: I get I'm extremely lucky to have worked with all of the athletes and had all of the experiences that I've had over the years because I can help athletes with realistic expectations, but I've also seen the most remarkable things that athletes have done and overcome. And when someone asks me a question like that, I think about Austin Spencer, who finished point zero five two seconds outside of qualifying for the games, so less than a tenth of a second. And he didn't qualify for five more years. He qualified five years later. and how was that possible? He trained for five more years. He kept Doing the thing. He kept showing up. He kept training. He trained before work. He trained after work. And the work is the only way that it's going to happen. It's the only thing that's going to make it happen. And once that is done, of course, you know, it's still work, but we can dig into the mental side and we can get into the nitty-gritty of the way somebody moves or what the program is exactly. But without the most simple baseline thing that people can't seem to grasp onto for long enough, like it's just not possible for it to happen. So I feel lucky to be able to have enough perspective and history to know for a fact that if you want to work and continue to work, that you're gonna be able to accomplish what you want to accomplish if that stays true. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, and I'm and I mean it's you hear a story like Austin's and like you find so much comfort in that where it's like, okay, it's it's possible, but it's not gonna happen like next month, right? It's gonna be a year, multiple year-long journey. @misfitcoach: Right. Makenna Enslin-Mell: right. So it's like You know, when you're so fresh into this new like status, like fresh off of surgery, you're only a couple months in, like almost like knowing that it's gonna be a couple year long journey seems really scary, but then you hear of other stories where there is success in just doing the work every day, month after month, and those those little sessions just add up to be so powerful. So again, like hindsight is 2020. Like you are gonna be pretty sensitive at first, like when you have this new thing going on. But @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: it's acknowledging those thoughts and talking about them and almost like you say it out loud and you realize that it sounds ridiculous. Like that, that is also a powerful thing too. So if you're having these these mental things, @misfitcoach: yeah. yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: just write it down, say it to your significant other or a friend and most likely you can probably break it break down some of that and find the truth in your statements. @misfitcoach: Yeah, you leave it deep down and it's gonna stay there. It's gonna stay part of the narrative. @paige_semenza: Yeah. Yeah, I think a learning part of that too is like the awareness of like, okay, if something traumatic does happen, it's pretty normal. just in human nature to want to feel like you have to drastically change something. I in, you know, when, when, when I broke up with my ex boyfriend and I moved out and I was like, I don't even know if I'm going to compete next year. I've I'm such a mess at this point that like, I don't know what's the right thing to do. And it was like, just show up the next day. Like just, you know, it's, it's having the enough support around you and enough patience within you to like not make those impulse decisions right away. And that's a learning point too, I think, with what you're going through with the last two years. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, and like I don't know. @misfitcoach: Page I will never forget at the camp. Sorry, McKenna, go ahead. Makenna Enslin-Mell: I was just gonna say, like I would say f coming off of the ankle, you know, a very traumatic and acute thing that @paige_semenza: You're motivated. Makenna Enslin-Mell: again had it in the split second and a lot of emotions came with that. And I know Drew, I had a like a conversation like two days after it happened with you, very emotional. and over the years I've come to realize that like I needed to like seek a therapist to help with some mental health and some tools there and had a conversation with her and I was just like why is this happening? Why is this happening? Doomsday, like this is the worst ever and why am I feeling this way? I'm usually so strong. And she was like, Mekana, you're grieving. Like you're going through the grieving process. And when that was like said to @paige_semenza: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: me out loud, I was like, wow, like that's Crazy. Like and I literally like go looking back was going through every stage of grief as if as if I just lost a loved one because I lost an identity. So of course you're gonna be thinking those rational thoughts and saying them and so yeah, just bringing that awareness and again just having those people in your corner to have those conversations with really important. @misfitcoach: One hundred percent. Yeah, there's the the the memory that comes up every time with that is Paige at camp. Paige was taking camp and we had all of our other games athletes in the QA panel. And a question that we get we used to get at every camp. Someone would ask, I'm having a rough day. Like, I don't know what to do. Like, do I go in and train? What do I do? And the answer was always Hey, sometimes you gotta give yourself some grace and you gotta, you know, back off and and take a day off. And while in a specific context, that can be a helpful answer for people who like over train and you know feel guilty about skipping it. And Paige raised her hand in the crowd and said, I just go train anyways. And there was more to it, but that is is like such a moment @paige_semenza: He @misfitcoach: because What is the difference, right? What is the difference between somebody who goes to the CrossFit games one time and someone who goes a bunch of times? What is the difference between in and her follow-up was like, I don't have expectations when I go, I just go, right? And like a lot of times I just work myself into being able to execute, but I still just go because a lot of times it's actually what I need to get out of my head and into my body, that sort of thing. So I think I think I understand. why you two are close. I think you guys share some core values that I think are are pretty rare. so it's just it's cool to hear you talk about that, McKenna, and then think about young Page in the audience at camp being like, I do that shit anyways, dog, what's up? @paige_semenza: Hehehehehe @misfitcoach: So good. I love it. All right. before we do, coaches and athletes are people to, we gotta come full circle now. We talk about, we, we, we try to make that journey from why me, which is a perfectly healthy first reaction to like how many quotes are there? You know, the obstacle is the way, smooth seas never made a skilled sailor. You know, these things are so fucking hard to understand until you're on the other side of them. And like the hardest times in my life ended up being the most important times in my entire life. You learn about yourself, you learn about, you know, the universe and you know, you're not gonna get things handed to you, et cetera. So Where are you most days on that journey from why me to the obstacle is the way? Like this thing is in front of me and I'm gonna overcome it. Makenna Enslin-Mell: I'd say the the closer I get to feeling like my normal self, the the more positive I am. and I'm seeing those those days pay off and kind of happen a little bit more frequently, but you know, the really frustrating why me days still get sprinkled in there. but they are happening less frequently, @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: so that is a win. but you just have to allow it to come. And just accept it. Don't push it. Don't push it away. Don't fight it. Don't bury it deep down. Express it. Tell someone, write it down. but still just keep showing up anyway. most of the time you can really like reframe and spin it into a positive day, find find the good in the day, be grateful that you're, you know, moving your body again. And like even the days where I was still in the sling and I was on the stairmaster for like An hour and a half at a time. you know, you're just finding finding those days where you're you're grateful to be moving your body. You're grateful that you are able to get your heart rate up and just kind of telling yourself, like, you know, I I get to do this. I don't have to do this right now. so just kind of changing that perspective. But as each day comes, we're getting we're getting a little bit better and better. So that's all that matters. @misfitcoach: It's funny too for the for the listeners, when I log in to look at McKenna's scores, I will see her machine paces as she's progressing back onto starting with machines. And I'm like, holy shit, she's flying, like paces I cannot do healthy. And then below it's like, pretty slow. Like I'll get back to it. And I'm @paige_semenza: You @misfitcoach: like, damn it, McKenna. That's faster than everybody else. It fell a little rusty. @paige_semenza: Felt a little rusty. @misfitcoach: I I held 158 on the rower for four hours. It's like, dude, @paige_semenza: You @misfitcoach: come on. I can't do that for a 3K. Right. Yes, yes. And again, Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, but I used to be able to hold a one fifty seven, so @misfitcoach: I think that's that is a good place to to wrap up the conversation. Is those two sides to that coin. The competitive element of I'm not trying to be the same, let alone a second slower. I want to be faster. trusting the process, still putting the work in and still having the desire to push yourself forward. I think all of that kind of mixed together is why we're we're only telling the beginning of the story in this podcast. And I've got a feeling we'll have more stories in the future. @paige_semenza: Yeah, I think it's like having, working with a remote coach and having the relationship that you guys have built. Like I remember back when McKenna started and I think about when I first started with Gabe, if I could change the way that I started with him, it would have been that I would tell him more things earlier on. So when you two started working together, McKenna, did you tell Drew? Did you tell Drew? Did you talk to Drew about @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: this? Like that was like a constant like get that relationship Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah. @paige_semenza: built because that's only gonna that foundation is gonna set you up for a lot more success. And you get to like from Drew's perspective, perspective, he gets to figure out like what kind of carrot he can dangle in front of you that's gonna keep you growing and keep you progressing without taking a bigger injury step back. So that's, you know, That's what I see from where you're at is like, you're hungry enough to keep going for that carrot that's dangled. And that is why your mindset is partly why your mindset is still staying in that growth mindset and in that like, I love what I do, I'm gonna keep doing it. So like that passion can stay there because there's, you're not forcing anything that's not ready or, you trying to add too much volume too early on. Like you guys have such a smart approach to the way that you're going about your training. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, and if we can do it once, we can do it again. But anyway, so @paige_semenza: Amen. Makenna Enslin-Mell: I mean, I would just say like, you know, there has been a lot of identity shifts as these past few months have happened. And even if if anyone is going through an injury themselves or coming back post op, just know like You can still identify as an athlete even if it doesn't look exactly the same. you can still choose to prioritize some things that'll allow you to succeed in the future, whether it's, you know, the first like say two weeks, I was post stop, I was focusing on sleeping 10 hours a night and getting a nap in every single day. That was that was my hard work. And then making sure I'm eating enough carbs and enough protein and getting my collagen in and That was where my intensity was at the time. And as time has gone on, I'm finding different ways to bring that intensity to other aspects of my life. So now I get to express that intensity in getting back on the machines again, doing some Metcons again. and it's just that constant pursuit of better, no matter what it looks like. It doesn't look the same for everyone. Everyone's on different journeys, even if you're on, you know, the same injury. It's been fun to talk with fellow misfit Gus. He tore his bicep a few months ago, a couple months before I had my surgery. And just getting to connect with him and express my frustrations, but he gets to share his wins with me a couple of months down the road have been super helpful. so, but yeah, that's kind of my my final thought, I'd say, is just keep that identity true to your heart, even if it looks a little bit different than it used to be. @misfitcoach: Amen. All right. We're going to finish up with coaches/slash athletes. Well, you're coaches well. Coaches are people too. I will start next week podcast is going to be CrossFit Games programming breakdown, and I will sprinkle in some of my thoughts about the CrossFit Games and my experience at the age group CrossFit Games. so I'm not skipping over that, but Huge moment yesterday. my son got his first baseball @paige_semenza: You @misfitcoach: glove. now Makenna Enslin-Mell: Well. @misfitcoach: immediately reminded that he's three years old. he stuck his fingers out of the hole instead of up into like where your fingers go in the glove. He threw it at me, he put it on his other hand. Every time I tried to get him to turn it palm side up, he would run away and throw the glove and then I would he'd throw @paige_semenza: you @misfitcoach: the ball at me. Luckily all of the ball that he balls that he has now are soft. but I can say that he does have the Crandall genetics with his arm. I feel like I'm gonna take a baseball to the face here sometime pretty soon. @paige_semenza: Perfect. @misfitcoach: so milestone moment automatically reminded that I have a threenager and that I need to tread lightly. they they know how to cut you deep the these little ones especially boys my goodness. @paige_semenza: It's so cute. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Just let him do whatever he wants with it, all right? Allow him to have that good positive association with it. That'll keep him coming back. @misfitcoach: yeah. yeah. Yep. @paige_semenza: I had a busy two weeks. I went and competed at Metcon Rush. I think I talked about that in the previous one. I finished third place. I haven't talked about the finish. @misfitcoach: You haven't talked to us about that yet. 'Cause we we we didn't get to talk about you competing because we we did both of those before, remember? Yeah. @paige_semenza: that's right. Okay, got it. Finished third place to Elena and Caroline, which is pretty awesome to see like a whole little misfit reunion on the podium. Jenna Michelotti was @misfitcoach: Yeah. Very cool. @paige_semenza: there. It was fun to see her. And I knew like as soon as they announced that Caroline was going, I'm like, oh, here we go. She's got some @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: fine workouts for her. I'm going to try to keep up. But it was a ton of fun. We had a blast. McKenna was there with me for the weekend. We had some other friends come. The Ramos family who I live with, they came for a day. My parents and then, you know, some just are really good friends, our best friends. And it just reminded me why. I love competing again. You know, like it brought me back to that feeling. And I really needed that. So that was awesome. And then came home, coached a couple of classes, and then went to the beach for a couple of days, drank some tequila on National Tequila Day, which is my birthday. @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: I turned 35. So masters, here we are. Pretty cool. So @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: we did the Impossible Mile at our gym on Saturday, and I'm still sore from that. @misfitcoach: Ooh. @paige_semenza: So yeah tequila impossible mile. Uh, yeah, you do like to You can put two and two together there. Yeah, it's pretty bad Yeah, @misfitcoach: Is it as bad as it sounds? Yeah. @paige_semenza: honestly the burpee broad jumps like they really do suck right in the beginning. You're doing like nearly 200 or more @misfitcoach: Shit. @paige_semenza: And then the lunges not too bad, annoying, like, you know, legs are pretty conditioned for that kind of stuff. And then the bear crawl is you actually like not only your shoulders, triceps, but like your traps. You feel like you're pushing a sled in your glutes. Like that's, it gets, yeah, it gets really spicy. And then you just feel like a baboon running for a 400 meter at the end. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: What was your split, like fifty five seconds on that last four @paige_semenza: But very, Makenna Enslin-Mell: hundred? @paige_semenza: Yeah, basically, that's what it felt like. No, very slow post tequila day, know, not my best. Not my worst, not my best. But very, very cupful kind of week, two weeks. @misfitcoach: An old CrossFit MF benchmark was called 50 meters of Go Fuck Yourself. And we we wrote GFY on the board, but I think everybody knew what it meant. Yeah. @paige_semenza: I was gonna say GFY. @misfitcoach: 50 meters of GF GFY. And it was just like lunge down, run backwards, back, like burpee broad jump. It was all these things. And the 50 meter sprint to end in a affiliate settings, the funniest shit you'd ever watch. Like the wildest running form you've ever seen. Yep. @paige_semenza: Love it. @misfitcoach: Fantastic. Makenna Enslin-Mell: I just want to touch on how much of a gamer Paige Cemenza is, okay? She hasn't competed in months, right? But going into that final @paige_semenza: you Makenna Enslin-Mell: event, she's in fourth. She need to do everything that she could. She has strict handstand push-ups. I'm like, Paige, what are we doing for these strict handstand push-ups? I don't @paige_semenza: Not my favorite. Makenna Enslin-Mell: know, maybe like 10 to 12. We'll see how I feel. She comes back in from that run. She kicks up on the wall. She keeps going. I don't even know how many she did. It @misfitcoach: Yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: had to be like 20. I'm just like, is she gonna come down? And then she comes down and then @paige_semenza: It was. Makenna Enslin-Mell: she gets out and she finishes. And then she just had some front squats to finish. And instead of just like cheering and saying like go page, you're doing great, sh screams just came out of me. Just a just a scream, a continual scream. I didn't know what to do with my with my body. I just needed her to just be that gamer and be that dog. It was awesome. I was I was so pumped. @paige_semenza: Hahaha! @misfitcoach: Yes. Battle cry. @paige_semenza: I tried so hard. @misfitcoach: Amazing. Makenna Enslin-Mell: But yeah, she did everything she could. It was perfect. @paige_semenza: It was fun. Guys, you don't lose your fitness that fast. You know, I'll say that. No, you don't lose that dog. @misfitcoach: And you definitely don't lose the dog. That ain't going anywhere. that's amazing. Makenna Enslin-Mell: I'd say so for mine @misfitcoach: McKenna, you got any you got any personal anecdotes for us? Makenna Enslin-Mell: Yeah, so I mean kind of a nod to the old Snack Chat. I discovered Drizzlicious this weekend. @misfitcoach: Hell yeah. Makenna Enslin-Mell: how have I how have I not @misfitcoach: yeah. I mailed those to Caroline @paige_semenza: Kids favorite. It's a staple. @misfitcoach: back in the day when she moved. Mm-hmm. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Wow. Incredible. Like that is probably gonna be in my grocery @paige_semenza: What flavors? @misfitcoach: Truly. Makenna Enslin-Mell: staple. So this is budge brownie. And then you know those like cosmic brownies, like with like the little like colorful like pieces on them. They have like those on top of them. So it's just like chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, everything. and I do portion them, I do measure up my 28 grams. @paige_semenza: Guys, she is a chocolate lover. Makenna Enslin-Mell: So it's not like I'm just sitting there eating the whole bag, you know, we're we're mindful. @misfitcoach: But the macros are incredible. Makenna Enslin-Mell: They are. And they're gluten free. I checked. That's that's pretty sick. and I know that there's like @misfitcoach: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep. Makenna Enslin-Mell: a lot of other flavors too. So I do like most of my shopping at Sam's Club, which is Ooh, @misfitcoach: The cinnamon one is elite. Makenna Enslin-Mell: okay. I'll have to add that to the list. I heard the French toast one is really good too. So I wanna try that. But but yeah, that was my big discovery this past weekend. Pretty life changing. @paige_semenza: Love it. You @misfitcoach: I'm just thinking about Drizzy Lishes now. @paige_semenza: True. @misfitcoach: and I d I eat the whole bag every single time. I don't think I've ever @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: not had the bag because at the bottom all of the like frosting pieces are stuck down at the bottom and if I'm alone I just I I'm doing the like a bag shake upside down. I do that like on airplanes, and my wife is like, what is wrong with you? I'm like, there's a bunch of @paige_semenza: You Makenna Enslin-Mell: An animal. @misfitcoach: crumbs in the corner. I can't I can't get them out with my fat hands. I gotta @paige_semenza: Ha @misfitcoach: I gotta do it. It's fine. It's not a big deal. All right, McKenna, thank you very much for for joining us and reliving all of that and sharing your lessons. it was it was super fun to have you on. We'll do it again. Makenna Enslin-Mell: Thank you so much for having me. I had a blast. @misfitcoach: Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Misfit Podcast. And thank you to our show sponsor, GorillaMind, GorillaMind.com forward slash Misfit or use the code word misfit at checkout. 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