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Tudor Magda - The Clydesdale Media Semifinalist Series · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
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My name is Scott Switzer.
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My co-host Jamie Latimer is
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with us for this one.
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And we're so honored and
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privileged as we are
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highlighting the athletes
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of the 2024 CrossFit Games semifinals.
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We have Tudor Magda with us.
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What's going on, Tudor?
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Good, good.
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Thanks for having me on.
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So I've been super excited to have you on.
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I've been following your
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career since you were a teenager.
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My first question to you is,
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what's it like being a
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champion in the teen
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division and then leveling
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up to the elite division
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where you're just like
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another athlete in this big pond?
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Man, I mean,
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I think it gave me some
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experience being in the teen division,
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but it's different.
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I mean,
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It seems like everything
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kind of speeds up.
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You hit the elite division.
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It takes a bit mentally to
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kind of slow it down around you,
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competition to competition.
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And that's what I'm doing
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right now is just getting
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the reps in the elite
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division to continue moving forward.
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But, yeah,
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it did give me some experience
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for sure in teens and winning that.
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I think understanding myself
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and how I compete
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So when you were a teen,
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you're known for your strength, right?
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Were you the strongest kid
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in the teen division?
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Not particularly starting out.
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I think I was probably
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middle of the pack in
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strength when I just
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entered the teen division.
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So like the first 14, 15 rank.
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And yeah,
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and then eventually I started
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getting stronger in 2018.
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That was my second year.
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and just kind of improved
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from there I think my body
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grew into itself a little
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bit and you're the same age
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as dylan and james sprig
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right I think yeah almost
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um I am almost the same age
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as them but I have a good
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birthday a year younger
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than them chronologically
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what what a hot bit of
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talent in the pacific northwest
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I know, man.
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We have – who else do we have here?
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Cole and Sam,
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both trained with both those guys.
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The dude's really awesome, guys.
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And obviously, lots of good guys.
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Justin as well.
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Yeah, it's crazy how, like,
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the country has these
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little hotbeds all over the place,
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and the Pacific Northwest
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is becoming a big one.
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Yeah, sure.
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So last year at West Coast,
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or I keep calling it that.
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It wasn't called that last year.
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North America West.
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Jamie actually had the honor
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of interviewing you after the run, snatch,
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snatch, run kind of double.
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And I'm going to play that.
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And then I want to use that
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as a segue into some other questions.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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I'm here with Tudor Magda,
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just finished test four and five.
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Started with Linda today,
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went pretty well for you.
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Yeah,
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I think I got stuck in my heat and I
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made that push at the end, so.
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You were hungry today, I'm assuming, yeah?
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Yeah, definitely, yeah.
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325.
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Yeah.
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Does the limit exist?
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I hope not.
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I hope I can keep climbing,
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but I'd love it if the
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other stuff could climb with it.
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We'll work on that.
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So that's the part I really
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wanted to get into is Jamie
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asked you about your 325 pound snatch.
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And then you immediately said,
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I wish everything else
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would climb with it.
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Yeah, correct.
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So I know you've made some
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coaching changes before last season.
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Yeah.
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And this season,
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when we watch you in the
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Open and quarterfinals,
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it was obvious you have
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made significant growth in
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those other areas.
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What happened with that change?
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First person that said that,
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thank you so much.
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What?
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Yeah, thank you.
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We've been talking about that.
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Definitely.
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probably but like um no what
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change what changes have I
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made is that what you were
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trying to go for yeah yeah
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yeah um so basically um
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I've been working with a
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running coach his name's uh
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rich and uh he I kind of he
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joined the team after rogue
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last year and I feel like
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my my engines has gotten a
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lot better since working with him um
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Obviously,
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I'm proud of my efforts in the
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opening quarterfinals,
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but I'm really pumped to
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see how it'll translate at
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a live competition where it matters most.
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You know,
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sometimes the nerves get to you
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if you have an event that
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previously you haven't done too well at.
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And so I want to see how I
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manage that moving into
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this semifinal next week.
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So Jamie and I have a show
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on Sunday nights with
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Carolyn Prevo where we just
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talk about the news of CrossFit.
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And Jamie and I both picked
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you as one to watch this
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season after your open performance.
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Thank you.
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And the reason I say that is
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you were doing things in
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the open that you're not
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typically good at very well.
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It's not about your overall placement.
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It was about he's taken
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things that were once a
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weakness and he's crushing them.
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How did that make you feel?
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I think it gave me a boost
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of confidence going into
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training and continuing to
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push it in training, push the intensity.
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Honestly, it's hard to tell in the open.
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You can't really put too
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much stock in it because
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you don't know where other
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people are at in their
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season and what they're
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working on at that point
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because they're working
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Because some guys can just
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run a few weeks and then
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get back into tip-top
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running shape heading into
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a live competition.
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But I was proud with the
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movements that did show up
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that I was able to hold my own.
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I feel like I was able to
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hold my own on...
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fast cadence burpees uh
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rowing you know a moderate
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pace for a long time domain
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as well as like thrusters
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and pull-ups like really
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spiked heart rate being
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able to move through that
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which all three of those
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would have given me trouble
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in the past jamie I'm gonna
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let you follow up if you
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have anything here yeah I
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mean for me like
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watching you and I and I
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wish I knew like more of
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like your specific
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performances in your teen
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life um it's easy for me to
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like get behind you and a
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lot of people because you
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are capable of those home
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run hits with the strength
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you're great on your hands
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and that so like knowing
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someone's gonna walk out
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and probably be like top
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two in a two in a workout
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you're you know it's easy
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to cheer for you um
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And for me in the past,
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and I was like with Rogue, I was like, oh,
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this one's going to suck
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for him or whatever.
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And I was really excited
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once I saw the open.
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So I guess what I don't
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really know specifically is,
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because he can see I'm walking,
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you're great.
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So would you say it's like,
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is that the only gymnastics
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movement that you're
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greater or do you have like,
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specific gymnastics things
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that you're incredible at
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or have you always been
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incredible at rings um
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because we know you're
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great with a barbell yeah I
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mean it's it's hard to know
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you know until you step on
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that competition floor
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honestly the handstand
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stuff I've always been good
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at handstand walk handstand
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push-up um even on the
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competition floor um
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because I did spend so much
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time on my hands growing up,
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like just for fun at the gym.
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I've been, you know,
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in the CrossFit gym since I
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was nine years old.
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And that's kind of what I
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love to do is those skills.
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For some reason,
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being on my hands was just
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the most fun for me.
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I remember I was walking up
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the parking lot in my apartment complex,
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which is like an incline, very
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low uh small angle incline
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up on my hands all the way
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up and you know making
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little challenges like that
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but um other other stuff
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like rings um I've been
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working a lot on sometimes
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it was easy for me to just
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muscle through those
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movements at the scene and
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not worry about them too
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much but the higher volume
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is something that I've been
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working on as I'm in this elite division
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Yeah.
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I mean, cause you took 10 in the, um,
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in quarterfinals with,
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with a lot of gymnastics in there,
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the strict handstand pushup,
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the rope climb, the ring muscle up.
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Um,
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and that was your best performance in
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quarterfinals.
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So like that scene,
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that is super exciting as a fan of yours.
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Um, and like you said, the burpees, um,
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would you,
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would you say typically the
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shorter high power quick
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workouts were better for
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you as opposed to like a
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long grindy 20 minute?
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I think in the quarterfinals, yes.
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In the way that I felt like
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the burpees kind of were a
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shock for me a little bit.
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I think they were for people
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too towards the top.
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It just was more of a grindy
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workout than I expected it to be,
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more of a lower leg burner.
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And so I didn't do as well
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as I'd hoped now.
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But I think that I was even
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– regardless of the –
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you know the first round
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second round that that
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feeling kind of crept up on
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me but I was still able to
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finish strong so I'm I'm
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proud of my effort there
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and I did make improvement
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if they had like 150
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burpees burpee box jump
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overs last year in quarters
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probably would have been a
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huge detriment for me but
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this year was a little
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better so improvement all
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is all I can ask for
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For sure.
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I think I'm super excited to
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see you do workout one of semis,
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especially hearing that
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you've been working with a running coach.
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Like I feel like that that's
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going to be like the true test for you.
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It gets your barbell cycling in there,
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but can we run and keep that up?
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Yeah, I agree.
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And regardless, you know,
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that's just event one of the weekend.
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So being able to show up after that,
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regardless of the outcome,
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I know that I can, oh, for sure,
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improve from what I was
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last year in the first event,
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the long event last year at semifinals.
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And, you know, if I see improvement there,
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you know,
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and then I'll move on for the
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rest of the weekend.
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Are you happy it's a foot
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race instead of a machine?
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Oh, yes.
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I'm excited for that.
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I think it'll play out
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better for me in a
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competition to where I can
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see athletes around me moving.
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And I think I thrive off of
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that more rather than being on a machine.
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I think it was a couple of
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years ago at Zalos is when
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you kind of announced that
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you had a new coach.
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Is that who you're still with today?
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Yeah, his name's Ed.
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And yeah, I'm still with him today.
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I I've seen him at events
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and I don't think there's a
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more active coach.
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Maybe him and Justin Cutler
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both like could race around the,
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the event floor as much as they move.
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He also seems like a great hype man.
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Like it encourages you when you need it.
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Is that something you need in your,
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in your circle?
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I mean, yeah,
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he's filled that role to a T
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as a great encourager,
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and he works a lot as well
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on analytics and programming,
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just as much as he's
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putting in a lot of effort
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working with other specialist coaches.
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Like another coach I have, Zach, who is –
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is a part of conjugate and
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works with me on like accessories and, uh,
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power lifting.
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But yeah, he,
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he brings the whole team
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around me and I'm super grateful for him.
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So other than like programming,
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is there anything else you
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had to dial in in your life
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to get better at this sport?
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Um, like off the floor?
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I mean, to be honest, yeah,
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I'm still dialing in the
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balance aspect and, and, um,
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just my mentality
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approaching the sport in
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general and not being as
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all or nothing and trying
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to have more longevity in
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how I approach my training
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and the sport in general.
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And I'm still working on that.
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I'm nowhere close to like
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being at optimal right now,
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but it's just a process of
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trying new things and
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improving between the years.
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Are you a full-time athlete?
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Are you in school?
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Right now, I'm basically full-time.
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I'm taking one class at school,
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and I'm just chipping away.
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CrossFit is my first love,
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but I'm also chipping away
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at an engineering degree.
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So no small feat there either.
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Well, I mean, I'm going pretty slow at it,
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so it's grinding,
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but I'm taking a math class.
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It keeps my mind a little
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bit off of being stressed
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out for semifinals and stuff,
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just to have one thing to
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do throughout the week.
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Does it help you be able to
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add plates fast?
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I don't know about that, but maybe.
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Yeah.
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So Europe went this morning on event one.
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Did you get a chance to look
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at them at all?
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I kind of scanned through
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the live stream a little bit.
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But yeah, I think I like that.
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I hope they have a ring like
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they did there where we all
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face each other.
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That'd be pretty cool.
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Yeah,
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there's a lot of rumors out there for
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West because you're at that
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iconic location.
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And Boz said on Barbell Spin,
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I think a week and a half ago,
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that the run was going to be iconic.
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And Carson's known for that berm.
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If...
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I've heard rumors of a hill.
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That's what I've heard.
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I don't know how accurate,
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but I've heard rumors of an
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out and up and then back down.
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Does it matter to you?
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Um,
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I think it matters in my approach on
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the on game day,
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but you can't simulate here
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in training like you can't
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simulate what the course is
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going to feel like or what
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it's going to be.
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But I have trained on hills
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before so I know how to
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kind of shift my strategy around that.
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Jeffrey Birchfield asks,
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how many hours a semester.
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hours a semester per um I
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think if if he's referring
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to classes uh it'd be
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probably three hours right
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now it's quarter the
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quarter system where I'm at
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um it's only like two and a
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half months of school for
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this quarter uh yeah three
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hours on a weekly basis
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last quarter I think a lab two six seven
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eight eight hours uh eight
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or nine hours per week so
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it's not that it's it's not
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a full course load at all
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it's just uh like I said
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chipping away yeah uh
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jeffrey's a teacher in
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texas so that that's why
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he's all into that awesome
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yeah um so so you've
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changed coaches in in your
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circle what who are you
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taking with you to carson
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uh I think all my coaches
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are going to be the
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Yeah, all of them.
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Ed's going to be with me in
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the warm area and then I'll
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have them hustling around
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the venue and I'll get to
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meet with them before
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events and stuff like that.
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Family?
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Yeah,
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both my parents and my little brother
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will be there too as well.
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Yeah.
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I've heard from the people
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at the pit that your family
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are super supportive.
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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I couldn't do this without them.
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Yeah.
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They're, they're really supportive,
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especially with school and,
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and training and stuff.
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And you know,
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I'm just helping me follow my
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dream and hopefully one day
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I can give it back and an equal measure.
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Does your family CrossFit?
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Yeah.
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All of them.
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Yeah.
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Do you live at home?
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I do, yeah.
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I live home right now.
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I lived on campus for a while,
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but then I moved back home.
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And I'm sure you guys know
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that I was in Iowa.
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I lived there.
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Okay.
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So this year,
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we were all excited about
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your open finish,
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and then we saw you got the penalty.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Was it good to get that in
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the open just as like
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training the mindset that
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that's just one setback and
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you have to be able to move on from that?
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Exactly.
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I would rather it happen in
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the open than in quarters.
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And I think that...
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It taught me a lesson that
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could have been pretty
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costly if I didn't learn
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that lesson in the Open because it was,
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for me, it was a hip extension.
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It was the same thing on the
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step-ups this year for some athletes.
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And, you know,
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I have sympathy for that
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because it's tough because
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you want to go fast.
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And I really had to slow
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myself down on the step-ups.
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But, yeah.
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Like,
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I think I was blessed because the penalty,
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it didn't seem like that at first.
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A little bit frustrated.
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But I did know that my abs
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were pretty on the line.
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Like,
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I totally pulled hard to leave the
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penalty,
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but I was just kind of bummed out.
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It worked out in the end.
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Yeah, that's tough.
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I mean, we saw...
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Lots of videos that probably
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had very similar reps here.
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So it's in,
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but it's a great perspective to
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just take that hit there
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and move better moving forward.
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Cause yeah,
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it could have been way more
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costly in quarters.
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Yeah.
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I mean, ending a season because of is,
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is tough.
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I'm sure all those athletes
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will bounce back.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I'm just happy that,
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that it happened.
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I did.
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Yeah, for you, it just cost you the win,
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which would have been a
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nice little check in that event.
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But your season got to keep going.
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Exactly, exactly.
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Yeah.
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And I like the fact that you
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had to face that little bit
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of adversity going into the
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year just to kind of test
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all the stuff you've
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learned in the offseason.
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Yeah.
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yeah yeah and and adversity
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is something that I've uh
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you know worked on trying
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to how to face it you know
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uh sometimes in the past I
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was a little bit hesitant
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to to do hard things and
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the workouts that came
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naturally to me like the
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events that I was naturally
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good at like a handstand
20:28
walk I was I was confident
20:30
in them and then other ones
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I lost that that confidence
20:33
heading into them and
20:35
because they were challenging and new.
20:37
So having that little bit of
20:40
adversity is always good to
20:42
get those reps in for when
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it matters most.
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So when you look at the semifinal workouts,
20:49
at the very end of the weekend,
20:51
you have two things that
20:53
would be typically a tutor workout.
20:57
Like we don't know the
20:57
details of the handstand walk,
20:59
but we know you're great on your hands.
21:01
And we know that you can snatch a barbell.
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yeah are you more excited
21:08
for those two events or are
21:09
you more excited for the
21:10
other four to see how far you've come
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Um, I, I would say the latter,
21:16
I I'm excited for the other
21:17
four to see how far I've
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come because I know that, um, those,
21:22
those two workouts you just
21:23
listed will be a home run.
21:26
If not, you know, if not top five,
21:29
but like really good finishes for me.
21:30
Like, um, so, but I'm,
21:33
I'm excited to see how all
21:34
the other stuff has progressed as well.
21:37
How do you – and I'm sure
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you and your coaches have a game plan,
21:41
but knowing that you get to
21:43
finish the weekend with two home runs,
21:45
how do you keep your mind
21:48
in the game on the four
21:50
that might be a little bit tougher?
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I mean, you just take it one at a time.
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And, you know,
21:58
if you receive some
22:00
adversity where you're in
22:03
or whatever's happening in
22:04
the back of your head, you've got –
22:08
two things that are lined up
22:09
really well for you at the
22:10
end of the weekend
22:11
historically and uh you
22:14
know just moving moving
22:15
forward with that that
22:16
thought in mind and how are
22:19
you on an echo um I've
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gotten better I would say
22:22
uh last year I i was pretty
22:25
uh middle of the pack in
22:27
those events the last last
22:29
year I took 18th I think
22:31
and um I would say improved
22:33
from that where I was there awesome
22:38
If you had to name one thing
22:40
that you got better at the most,
22:43
what would that one thing be?
22:44
I would say rowing, to be honest.
22:50
For some reason, the whole season,
22:52
my rowing splits and the
22:54
workouts that I've been
22:55
doing on that have...
22:56
have been way better than I
22:58
would have ever expected them to be.
23:02
And not to say all the other
23:03
stuff hasn't progressed,
23:04
but I'm really proud of the
23:06
work I've put in that, for sure.
23:10
So you've never had the
23:11
opportunity to compete in Carson.
23:15
You missed it by one year.
23:17
Are you excited to go to
23:19
Carson and compete on that floor?
23:21
I mean, like I said,
23:23
I've been doing CrossFit
23:24
since I was nine years old,
23:25
but I've also watched the
23:26
game since they were on
23:28
ESPN back when Rich Froning
23:31
was winning in Carson.
23:33
So, yeah,
23:35
I'm super excited to kind of see
23:38
the nostalgia aspect of the
23:41
sport and compete there now.
23:43
So that's pretty cool.
23:46
Will it be hard to contain?
23:48
I talked to one athlete a
23:52
couple days ago who said
23:53
he's so afraid on that run
23:54
that he's going to blow it
23:56
out right off the get-go
23:57
because he's going to be so
23:59
excited to be on the tennis
24:00
stadium floor.
24:01
Do you have any fears like that?
24:03
Yeah, I mean, for sure.
24:06
I think that the excitement
24:08
can sometimes hurt you,
24:10
but you just got to breathe and just...
24:14
Take in the sights after the
24:15
event is done.
24:17
Don't worry too much about
24:19
what's going on around you
24:20
until you got the work done.
24:23
Then you can appreciate where you're at.
24:27
That's really cool.
24:30
What is your realistic goal
24:31
for this season?
24:34
I think I want to qualify to the games.
24:37
I want to punch my ticket.
24:38
That's my goal, number one.
24:40
And, you know, train hard for the games.
24:43
I think that I want to show
24:46
that I can be a mentally improved
24:54
Do you have – you said – I
24:56
think you broke up a little
24:58
bit when you said it,
24:58
that you've trained a
24:59
little bit with Sam and
25:01
Cole at some points in the offseason.
25:04
Is that something you do regularly?
25:06
I have in the past,
25:08
but not this past year.
25:10
I did train a little with James Craig,
25:13
though.
25:14
Okay.
25:14
Yeah.
25:15
Does that help break up just
25:17
the monotony of training?
25:19
Yeah, yeah, I mean,
25:21
whenever I do see him every
25:22
once in a while,
25:23
it's probably a little bit
25:25
in the offseason too much.
25:26
But it does, it helps to kind of, you know,
25:31
see where a close caliber
25:35
athlete to you is at in their training.
25:38
And, yeah, yeah.
25:43
So my last question before we let you go,
25:45
and I'll open it up to Jamie,
25:46
is you have someone like
25:48
James who is like a machine master,
25:51
right?
25:52
And that's something that
25:53
you've improved on this year.
25:56
Is it good to get to compare
25:57
yourself against him on
25:58
those types of things if
26:00
you train together for a day?
26:02
Yeah, absolutely.
26:03
I mean, if anything,
26:04
it'll humble you to work
26:06
harder to get as close as
26:09
you can to whatever you're putting up.
26:13
And I'm totally okay with
26:14
that and bringing that data
26:16
into my own training.
26:21
Jamie?
26:24
I'm just excited to watch you work.
26:27
Like, I know for me,
26:29
workout one would be
26:31
stressful for me because I would want to,
26:34
like, run with the pack, but also, like,
26:38
also run my own race.
26:39
And like, I think fortunately for you,
26:41
you've had quite a bit of
26:42
competition experience, but does that,
26:44
does that like,
26:45
does that kind of stuff make you nervous?
26:47
Cause like redlining too early,
26:49
like blowing up too early
26:50
in a workout like that just
26:52
is one of my like panic
26:54
modes when I go to comps.
26:56
yeah I mean I think that's
26:58
the workout that I've run
27:00
through my head the most um
27:03
and just different ways
27:05
that I'm gonna talk to
27:06
myself and make sure that I
27:07
stay in it for the entire
27:09
20 plus minutes of work um
27:13
I think that you know
27:15
historically in those
27:17
longer events there's a
27:18
point where I either in the
27:20
workout I either
27:22
it's like a precipice where
27:24
I start to like snowball
27:26
downhill or or I just
27:28
continue on and it actually
27:30
I get a second wind and I'm
27:33
I get to push push hard to the end.
27:35
So I think that make sure
27:39
that I stay in my own lane
27:41
for the beginning and then
27:42
finding that second wind
27:44
towards the end will be
27:45
really important for me for
27:46
my performance.
27:49
yeah do you like to chase or
27:51
be chased um I mean I I
27:56
think I would in that event
27:58
I would probably chase at
28:00
the beginning and uh and
28:02
try and push the pace on
28:03
the clean and jerks but uh
28:06
yeah I mean going into
28:08
strategy yeah that's kind
28:09
of what I was thinking but um
28:13
Being chased would be a privilege for me.
28:16
I think if you're good
28:18
enough to start at the
28:20
beginning of the pack and
28:21
then continue on and just have a lead,
28:24
that's cool.
28:28
Well, Tudor,
28:29
I want to thank you a ton for
28:30
being on with us.
28:32
We love doing these semifinal series,
28:34
and I'm glad we finally got
28:35
you on the show.
28:37
Thank you.
28:38
Thank you, Jamie.
28:39
Appreciate you guys having me.
28:41
And good luck, Carson.
28:42
We'll be rooting for you.
28:44
Thank you.
28:45
Thank you to everybody in
28:46
the chat for being here.
28:47
We'll see everybody next
28:48
time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
28:51
Bye, guys.