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Clint Russell | The Athletes of the 2024 Legends Masters CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  I was born to kill it.
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  I was meant to win.
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  I am down and willing,
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  so I will find a way.
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  It took a minute,
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  now it didn't have to ride away.
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  When it get hot in the kitchen,
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  you decide to stay.
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  That's how it winners me.
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  Stick a fork in the hater on my dinner.
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  What's 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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  I'm the Clydesdale.
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  We are here highlighting the
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  athletes of the 2024
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  Legends Masters CrossFit Games.
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  And I have with me Clint Russell,
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  Masters athlete,
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  40 to 44-year-old division,
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  giving us a glimpse into
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  the real life of a Masters athlete.
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  What's going on, Clint?
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  Hey, how we doing, Scott?
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  Good.
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  Good.
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  Yeah, thank you for having me on.
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  Really appreciate what
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  you're doing with the Masters athletes.
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  It's super cool to get to feature us.
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  I'm at a birthday party,
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  one of my daughter's friends,
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  and I've got my
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  four-year-old son with me.
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  So like I said,
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  I apologize for any interruptions.
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  It's just kind of how it had to work out.
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  I didn't want my wife is
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  going to work out with one
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  of the other ladies in the gym,
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  as well as got our other two kids.
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  So this is real life.
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  Yeah,
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  so what's cool about these profiles are,
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  as a Masters athlete,
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  you have to live a real life.
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  You're the father of four kids.
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  Yes, sir.
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  You're married.
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  You own two different businesses,
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  at least.
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  Yeah, so.
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  You're living life trying to
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  get everybody to get fit.
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  Yeah.
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  So, like,
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  I'll tell you the thing that is
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  the hardest thing for me.
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  So I have two businesses,
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  CrossFit Coronado and One
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  Life Physical Therapy.
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  Wife's a nurse.
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  She's also a nurse in the Navy Reserve,
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  which she joined last September.
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  And she was gone for five
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  weeks during semifinals.
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  The thing that I struggle
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  with the most is not necessarily training,
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  but
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  feeling like I'm maybe not
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  spending as much time on
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  ultimately things that are
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  a higher priority than fitness.
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  Uh, and so, so sometimes I gotta, you know,
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  I have an awesome team around me though,
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  that tells me to knock that
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  off and just do my thing,
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  which is really awesome.
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  Yeah,
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  I've talked to a lot of athletes who
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  feel like they have a lot
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  of buckets that they have
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  to take care of.
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  And they feel like it's a
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  hard time being great at any one of them.
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  They're just kind of average at all.
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  And that's a feeling and a
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  guilt that they have being
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  a Masters athlete.
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  You know, what usually...
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  Like for me,
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  it's like so I can set my own
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  schedule with business with
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  my business and I could
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  back off and train more.
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  But for most of the year,
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  I don't so that I could do that now.
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  Yeah,
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  that's kind of how I like the way
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  that I'm training.
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  I could not do that year round.
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  There's no way like my
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  business just life would fall apart.
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  But I kind of don't do that
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  year round so that now when I need to,
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  I can't.
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  So you're, you're CrossFit OG.
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  Like you started back when
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  there were very few
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  affiliates in the world, 2008.
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  We were, uh, I think pre rogue,
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  if I'm not mistaken.
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  Yeah.
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  You actually went to three
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  regionals in what?
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  10, 11 and 12.
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  Uh, yes, sir.
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  It was, uh, it was a long time ago.
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  Um, it's very different now.
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  Um,
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  But yeah, that was just,
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  it's amazing to see how
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  training has improved as
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  well as just how much better everyone is.
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  Like the Masters now,
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  probably in the 45 to 49 division,
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  at least would smoke those regionals.
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  I mean, people are just so much fitter.
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  It's insane.
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  Um, and it really, it really like,
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  it's exciting to see like
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  what the possibilities are going forward.
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  Um,
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  and then this is kind of getting a little,
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  you just made me think like
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  with the master's division, um,
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  I think something that the
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  master's division does is there's a,
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  there's a,
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  there's a lot of people that
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  that kind of gives them
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  something to be excited about, you know,
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  and there's, uh,
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  Maybe it's not as big as the individuals,
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  but I know for me, training for this,
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  I don't drink alcohol,
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  at least not when I'm training for this.
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  I tend to eat a lot better.
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  I tend to sleep more.
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  It tends to get people doing
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  a lot of things we want
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  them to do in the gym that
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  are ultimately going to
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  make them better at life.
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  And all those things set an
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  example for your clients, your kids,
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  your friends,
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  Do you ever think about that,
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  that all these things
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  you're doing are setting a
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  major example for the people around you?
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  Yeah.
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  I was just talking to my
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  daughter about swimming.
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  My 8-year-old wants to start swimming,
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  and she does gymnastics.
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  And I was just talking to
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  her how what you're really
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  learning when you do those things is,
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  like, you have to get – like,
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  you've probably seen that
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  Instagram post from Tom
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  Brady where he's like,
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  everybody should play
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  football because getting up
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  early and training is hard.
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  Like the ability to just like wake up,
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  set your mind to something
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  and get it done.
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  That's such a valuable skill, you know,
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  that translates to
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  everything else you do in your life.
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  To be accountable to
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  yourself and to your
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  teammates and whatever your
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  responsibility is just to
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  go out there and make it happen.
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  And that's sports does such
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  a good job of teaching that.
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  When you started CrossFit in 2008,
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  first of all, how did you find it?
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  I'd gotten out of the Navy,
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  or actually I was on my way
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  out of the Navy,
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  and there was a guy that I
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  knew from the Navy, Andy and Steve,
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  Andy Stump and Steve Mitchell,
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  they owned CrossFit Coronado,
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  so I just went there and
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  started working out, and that was kind of
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  Something I noticed about it
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  is at the time, I'm not anymore,
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  but at the time I was a
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  pretty good runner.
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  But there were these hills
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  kind of where my wife now,
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  we were dating at the time,
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  and it would take me, I don't know,
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  20 plus minutes to get up to him.
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  I don't know how far it was,
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  but I had to walk.
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  I couldn't run the whole time.
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  And then I started doing
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  CrossFit only twice a week.
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  And it went from taking like
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  20 minutes to like 14 minutes.
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  because I was able to run
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  the whole time and I was like, Whoa.
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  And I like, I hadn't been running and I,
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  and that's that, that sold me on this.
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  And it wasn't that you were
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  falling more in love with your wife.
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  And so you just got fatter.
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  Hey, she, she hates running.
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  So I'm on my own in that, but no.
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  So it only took you a year
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  of doing CrossFit to then coach CrossFit.
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  Yeah.
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  So, uh,
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  Andy soul,
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  like Steve took over the gym in 20, 2009.
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  So they needed another coach.
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  Uh, I got certified.
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  Um, I started coaching.
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  Um,
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  and then this was obviously a very long
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  time ago when I would say
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  nobody really had that much experience.
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  There wasn't that much experience.
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  Um, and then I, uh, I took over the gym.
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  in August of 2010 is when I bought it.
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  And kind of the rest.
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  Yeah, it's like,
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  it's such an amazing community.
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  So you've been an affiliate
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  owner for almost 15 years now.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, we it's a long time.
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  You're also a physical therapist,
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  you hold a doctorate in physical therapy.
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  Yes.
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  how do you balance running
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  two businesses and do you
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  do any of that physical
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  therapy out of the gym?
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  So we do all of it out of the gym.
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  Okay.
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  Um,
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  in 2014 I went back to school and I got
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  my doctorate in physical therapy.
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  Um, and then I kind of,
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  Let's see, started like it was,
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  I also had to work.
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  So it was online, took four years.
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  So it was done in 2018.
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  I kind of started my
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  practice like November, 2019, but like,
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  I didn't really,
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  I mostly just worked at the gym.
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  I'd see a patient every now and then.
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  My wife worked full time as a nurse.
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  We were good.
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  You know, we were happy with that.
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  And then COVID happened, gyms closed.
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  You know, that was pretty rough.
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  Uh,
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  so I got where I had the idea that if I
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  could accept TRICARE,
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  which is the military healthcare,
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  being that we're in Coronado,
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  most of the people at our
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  gym were in the military, uh,
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  as well as there's a lot of
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  people in the island,
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  it would remove the
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  financial barrier to entry
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  and it would basically save
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  us from COVID.
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  And I was hoping that I
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  could like do that and
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  maybe see like 10 people a week.
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  And that would allow us to survive, uh,
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  during COVID.
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  Um, but fast forward to now, uh,
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  we have myself three other
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  therapists as well as the scheduler.
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  Um, all of us are military spouses and, uh,
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  it's, it's something I'm really proud of.
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  Like the people working for
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  me are able to set their
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  own schedule and also make
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  more than they would, uh,
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  at the surrounding places.
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  That's awesome.
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  So I asked this of all physical therapists,
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  when you're being the athlete,
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  when you have your physical
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  therapist on you, you,
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  your physical therapy hat
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  on one side and you,
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  the athlete on the other side,
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  while you're working out,
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  which one do you listen to more?
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  You know, I kind of like, you know,
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  I was a strength and
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  control coach first and coaching was,
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  like I I'm a physical therapist,
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  but I think like a coach.
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  And so what I like to think about, like,
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  so if we're doing say bar muscle ups,
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  I'm thinking about the
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  technique of the movement,
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  but like a physical therapist,
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  if that makes sense.
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  Okay.
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  So I'm like, no,
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  I have to make sure I keep
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  my like scapula engaged and
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  push down the bar here
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  because that's going to
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  give me the greatest transfer of force.
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  So it's almost like I'm a, yeah,
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  like I'm a,
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  coach who happens to be a
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  physical therapist so now
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  say you have a twinge in
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  your shoulder who do you
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  listen to um I'm gonna
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  think about what that
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  twinge is why do I have
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  that twinge are we missing
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  internal like what can I
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  like is this like a rotator
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  cuff problem or like you
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  know is maybe my collarbone
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  not grinding right I'll
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  more try to think about why
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  is this happening
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  Yeah, so in that part,
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  the physical therapist
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  takes over because he wants
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  to solve the problem.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  I will tell you, I don't know.
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  I think probably being a
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  physical therapist would be
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  an advantage if you were
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  one of the younger athletes.
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  But to be brutally honest,
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  it's a massive advantage as
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  a master's athlete.
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  Understanding what you can
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  push through and what you can't.
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  And then being able to ask
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  other physical therapists
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  what they think about it.
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  You know, and yeah,
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  being able to kind of fix
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  yourself is a pretty big,
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  that's a huge advantage.
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  I know some of the younger
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  ones have always said
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  during the off season,
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  they listen to the physical
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  therapist part of their brain.
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  In a competition,
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  they tell that person to shut up.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, that's kind of,
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  I think I'm thinking like a
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  physical therapist during
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  the warmups and stuff,
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  but definitely not during
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  the actual event.
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  I like to think we're using
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  physical therapy to maximize performance,
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  not necessarily just to treat injuries.
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  So you've been at this since 2008.
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  What?
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  That's a long time.
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  Yeah.
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  And you are going to your
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  first CrossFit games.
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  Yes, that's correct.
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  So almost 20 years you've been at this,
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  and you're heading to your
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  first CrossFit Games.
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  What is the excitement for
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  you heading there this year?
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  You know, I am really excited.
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  It's kind of hard to put
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  into words because it's
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  taken a lot of work over a long time.
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  But I think I'm mostly right now.
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  Honestly,
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  I don't know if you've ever heard
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  the term like porthole mentality.
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  Like I'm thinking about the
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  training piece that I'm
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  going to do tomorrow and
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  just kind of focusing on
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  doing the best that I can
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  one day at a time at the
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  things that I get there.
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  And then once that gets into my circle,
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  then we're going to focus
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  on that first workout and
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  then the second workout.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Yeah.
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  I try not to get either too
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  excited or too down on myself.
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  Either way, instead,
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  focus on what do I need to
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  do right now in order to
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  set myself up for success.
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  Would it be safe to say that, you know,
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  as an affiliate owner for 15 years,
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  are the people around you
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  that have been along this
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  journey with you more
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  excited than you are at this point?
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  I'm definitely excited.
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  I think I'm just too
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  distracted by the amount of
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  stuff that I have to do.
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  Right.
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  You know, that's, you know, uh, but yes,
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  the people around me are
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  extremely excited and, and very, you know,
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  uh, yeah, they're,
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  they're incredibly support supportive.
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  What, what is their support meant to you?
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Like, you know, like, uh,
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  Like, one of my, like,
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  a couple of therapists,
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  all three of them actually, Alyssa,
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  Melissa,
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  and Krisha have all helped me
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  with my shoulder.
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  You know,
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  both Desiree and Margaret have
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  helped cover classes so I
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  can get workouts in or, like, you know,
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  like, it's the world.
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  It's not,
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  it wouldn't be possible without them.
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  It just simply wouldn't happen.
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  It means the world.
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  So I saw a post you made
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  where you get up every
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  morning at 4.30 a.m.
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  to start.
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  Basically,
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  you've created a habit where you do a set,
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  a number of exercises every
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  morning to get ready for your day.
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  Yeah,
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  so I will get up now based on the
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  time I get up changes a
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  little bit based on where I
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  got to get the kids to camp
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  and what training I have to
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  do and schedule, but yes.
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  I wake up I Walk into the I
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  mean my basically exact I
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  was wake up I go to the
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  bathroom Walk to the
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  kitchen toss my coffee in
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  the microwave my coffee is microwaving.
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  I'll hit a bent knee soleus
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  stretch Kind of make my
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  coffee while I'm doing that
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  and I'll do that for about
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  two minutes go to the
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  in the hallway,
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  world's greatest on each side,
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  couch stretch on each side.
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  Then I'll sit with my,
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  in a squat with my back on
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  the wall and kind of turn and reach up.
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  And I'll hold that for a
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  couple of minutes on each side.
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  And I do that seven days a week.
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  Um, you know, and then there's,
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  there's quite a bit of
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  other stuff that I'll do, um,
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  throughout the day, but that,
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  that's kind of the, the, um, the,
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  the minimum, um, that I'll do every day.
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  Um,
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  And I do that first thing when I wake up.
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  When did you create that habit?
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  I mean,
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  I've been doing that for not
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  necessarily those stretches.
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  The stretches that I've done
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  has kind of changed just
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  based on my body and what I
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  feel like the needs are.
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  But the waking up and
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  hitting kind of some mobility, oh, man,
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  it's been a long time.
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  And now it's just what you do.
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  You don't even think about it.
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  Yeah,
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  I'm kind of like it's almost like I
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  like have to do that before
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  I can do anything else.
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  You know, I it's yeah,
• 17:32
  that's just it's just kind of autopilot.
• 17:34
  But like one thing that I
• 17:36
  wish I could impart on
• 17:37
  people is like like when we
• 17:39
  do those exercises.
• 17:40
  Right.
• 17:41
  People think that.
• 17:43
  You know,
• 17:43
  we're kind of doing them to
• 17:44
  prepare for whatever it is
• 17:45
  we're about to do, which that's true.
• 17:47
  Yes.
• 17:47
  I want to be kind of
• 17:48
  loosened up and have good
• 17:49
  range of motion for the
• 17:50
  stuff that we're going to do,
• 17:51
  but that's not the main reason.
• 17:53
  The main reason is that
• 17:54
  we're trying to remodel
• 17:56
  tissue over the long term.
• 17:58
  Like a cell lives 90 to 120 days.
• 17:59
  And if you think of a cell, like a block,
• 18:02
  you know,
• 18:03
  your body's always replacing
• 18:04
  these blocks from the day
• 18:05
  you're born till the day you die.
• 18:07
  And so how it arranges the blocks though,
• 18:10
  is according to stress.
• 18:12
  If you sit around and don't do anything,
• 18:14
  like for example,
• 18:15
  your foot's in a cast and it's stuck,
• 18:17
  the body remodels the tissue,
• 18:19
  but it's what's called
• 18:20
  dense irregular connective
• 18:21
  tissue where the blocks are
• 18:22
  not lined up any particular way.
• 18:23
  Just think of like a bird's
• 18:25
  nest when you go fishing.
• 18:26
  It's just all everywhere.
• 18:28
  And so it's not designed to
• 18:29
  resist stress in any one direction.
• 18:31
  But if we're constantly
• 18:34
  doing things to maintain
• 18:35
  that range of motion,
• 18:36
  it's not going to go away.
• 18:38
  And it works very akin to
• 18:40
  compound interest.
• 18:41
  you know, we, we gotta, you gotta,
• 18:43
  you gotta put enough effort
• 18:44
  in to get that matching on your 401k.
• 18:46
  And that's kind of how this works.
• 18:49
  I like the way that it is
• 18:50
  setting yourself up for retirement.
• 18:52
  Yeah.
• 18:55
  Yeah.
• 18:55
  The older we get, the more we need those,
• 18:57
  everything put in the right place.
• 18:59
  Exactly.
• 19:00
  And if you,
• 19:01
  if you kind of start at a certain point,
• 19:04
  you don't ever stop doing it.
• 19:07
  You'll continuously get better.
• 19:10
  Uh,
• 19:11
  I don't know what the ceiling is,
• 19:14
  but it's so important to
• 19:17
  just do a little bit every day.
• 19:18
  There's so much value that
• 19:19
  can be gained from that.
• 19:24
  Is your plan to try to
• 19:25
  compete for as long as you can?
• 19:28
  You know, I'll always sign up and do it.
• 19:33
  What's going to change, though,
• 19:34
  is how much time I can put into it, like
• 19:40
  there's a lot of changes
• 19:41
  happening with my business
• 19:41
  this year and I'm going to
• 19:42
  have to really focus on that after this.
• 19:45
  Um,
• 19:45
  it doesn't mean I won't compete next
• 19:46
  year.
• 19:46
  I'll always sign up and do it, but I don't,
• 19:48
  I just don't know how much time, you know,
• 19:51
  with four kids,
• 19:52
  my schedule is not getting, uh,
• 19:54
  not getting freer, but like I will,
• 19:58
  I will always compete and
• 19:59
  do the best that I can, you know, uh,
• 20:03
  even cause I want,
• 20:05
  I want to make sure this,
• 20:06
  I want to support it
• 20:06
  financially cause I want to
• 20:07
  make sure it goes.
• 20:09
  Because, like I said,
• 20:10
  I guarantee you there are a
• 20:11
  lot of people that eat better,
• 20:13
  don't drink alcohol, do more mobility,
• 20:16
  blah, blah, blah.
• 20:18
  A lot of things.
• 20:19
  And we all have to support
• 20:21
  this for that to continue.
• 20:24
  How old are your kids?
• 20:26
  We got a 12, 9, 8, and 4.
• 20:29
  Okay.
• 20:30
  So you're just getting into
• 20:34
  the busy season.
• 20:36
  Yeah, I feel like we've kind of...
• 20:38
  Yeah.
• 20:38
  We've, we've been busy for a long time.
• 20:40
  You know, when my daughter hit high school,
• 20:43
  like we went into overdrive
• 20:44
  for like busyness.
• 20:45
  It was crazy.
• 20:46
  And I only had one.
• 20:49
  You know, it's okay.
• 20:50
  I mean, it's good though.
• 20:52
  You know, we want them to,
• 20:53
  we want them to get to do
• 20:54
  all kinds of stuff.
• 20:56
  Yeah, of course.
• 20:57
  She's 23 now and doing great.
• 20:59
  And now I have all the time
• 21:00
  in the world and wish I had
• 21:01
  more time with her.
• 21:03
  yeah, it's, uh, that's,
• 21:05
  there's going to come a
• 21:06
  time when they don't want
• 21:07
  to hang out with us anymore, but yeah,
• 21:09
  hopefully not for a long time.
• 21:11
  But so, uh,
• 21:13
  who all's heading to Birmingham
• 21:14
  with you right now?
• 21:17
  Just my wife.
• 21:18
  Um, and then say, I wanted to,
• 21:23
  I wanted to make sure when
• 21:24
  we're talking about the people,
• 21:25
  I mentioned Cragger training, uh,
• 21:27
  and Mary Solson,
• 21:28
  they've been coaching me
• 21:29
  and I've done a really awesome job.
• 21:31
  Uh,
• 21:32
  I don't know if they're going to,
• 21:33
  they're going to make it or not.
• 21:34
  Cause it's a ridiculously
• 21:35
  long way for them.
• 21:37
  But, uh, yeah, I know.
• 21:40
  Uh, definitely my,
• 21:41
  definitely my wife going,
• 21:42
  what's up buddy.
• 21:47
  I'll be, I'll be done in a minute.
• 21:48
  Okay.
• 21:49
  Just go play.
• 21:49
  Don't worry.
• 21:50
  We got an hour, another hour to play here.
• 21:53
  Yeah.
• 21:56
  So are you,
• 21:57
  are you the only Krieger masters athlete?
• 22:00
  I know that they,
• 22:00
  they've hit it pretty hard
• 22:02
  team and elite.
• 22:05
  You're the first masters
• 22:06
  athlete I've heard going with Krieger.
• 22:08
  There's, they had two more,
• 22:11
  but I don't know if they registered.
• 22:14
  Okay.
• 22:15
  I don't know.
• 22:15
  I, it's a long way for them.
• 22:19
  Uh,
• 22:20
  I was talking with my coach
• 22:21
  after semifinals.
• 22:22
  I was like,
• 22:23
  he was complaining to me about
• 22:24
  how it was like really hot in Norway.
• 22:26
  I was like, he,
• 22:27
  he told me what the
• 22:28
  temperature was and it
• 22:28
  equates to like 75 degrees.
• 22:30
  And I was like, Oh man, uh,
• 22:33
  have you been to Alabama?
• 22:34
  He's like, no.
• 22:35
  I was like, Oh dude.
• 22:37
  Yeah.
• 22:38
  You're going to a rainforest,
• 22:39
  but that's all good.
• 22:41
  Um, yeah, I think I, I, I'm not,
• 22:44
  I'm not sure if,
• 22:45
  if they're going or if the
• 22:46
  other two are going or not.
• 22:49
  What are your expectations this year?
• 22:55
  You know, I don't know.
• 22:58
  You know,
• 22:59
  it's kind of like you obviously
• 23:03
  want to win,
• 23:04
  but I can't control what
• 23:06
  everybody else does.
• 23:08
  Like,
• 23:09
  what I want to do is go out there and
• 23:10
  execute on each event to
• 23:14
  the very best of my ability
• 23:15
  and feel like I could not
• 23:16
  have done anything different.
• 23:19
  Yeah.
• 23:20
  Yeah.
• 23:21
  It sounds good.
• 23:21
  Um, I know you,
• 23:24
  you've got a lot going on right now,
• 23:25
  so I don't want to keep it too long.
• 23:27
  I want to thank you for
• 23:28
  taking the time out.
• 23:30
  We're going to be in Birmingham.
• 23:31
  We're doing a documentary
• 23:33
  behind the scenes.
• 23:35
  Uh, so we're going to be backstage,
• 23:37
  Ellie Hiller,
• 23:37
  myself talking to all the athletes, uh,
• 23:41
  and trying to capture the
• 23:43
  magic of what the master's divisions are.
• 23:46
  Yeah.
• 23:46
  I hope, um, that's,
• 23:47
  that's really nice of you to do that.
• 23:49
  Um,
• 23:49
  Because I think this has the
• 23:52
  potential to be a big thing
• 23:53
  because it's all... People
• 23:55
  can relate to us.
• 23:58
  Don't get me wrong.
• 24:00
  We love watching all the
• 24:02
  younger dudes snatch 315
• 24:04
  and do all this crazy stuff.
• 24:05
  But I don't have anything in
• 24:08
  common with them.
• 24:11
  And I think most people don't either.
• 24:12
  But we still think it's super cool.
• 24:14
  But with the Masters athletes, you...
• 24:19
  people have a lot more in
• 24:20
  common with them.
• 24:21
  Um, and I would,
• 24:24
  for anyone that says that
• 24:24
  they don't CrossFit doesn't
• 24:26
  make money off the masters athletes, just,
• 24:28
  uh, me being a businessman, I would,
• 24:31
  I would challenge that
• 24:32
  thought process just based
• 24:33
  on the open registration.
• 24:35
  Cause if you were to lose,
• 24:37
  if you were to lose the
• 24:38
  masters like games to think
• 24:41
  that that's not going to
• 24:42
  affect the open registration is,
• 24:44
  it's just an unrealistic,
• 24:45
  that's just not a realistic.
• 24:48
  I agree.
• 24:48
  thought process.
• 24:49
  Like it might not affect it
• 24:50
  that much the first year,
• 24:52
  but it would kill it in the longterm.
• 24:54
  My,
• 24:55
  my stats and info person did research
• 24:58
  from 35 to 54.
• 24:59
  The masters athletes have a
• 25:02
  combined 3 million
• 25:03
  followers on Instagram.
• 25:06
  Yeah.
• 25:07
  Like,
• 25:08
  and there's a lot of good we can do
• 25:10
  with this.
• 25:10
  You know, I mean the, the,
• 25:14
  Think of it inspires
• 25:15
  somebody to get moving get
• 25:16
  off the couch start taking
• 25:17
  better care of themselves.
• 25:18
  I think your masters athletes Definitely,
• 25:22
  especially when we see like the older,
• 25:24
  you know,
• 25:24
  like the 60 plus year old women
• 25:25
  doing bar muscle-ups That's
• 25:27
  freaking cool Yeah, that's really cool.
• 25:31
  I mean that's really cuz
• 25:31
  like then other people see
• 25:33
  it and they're like whoa
• 25:34
  and you know that motivates
• 25:35
  them to hopefully get to
• 25:36
  the gym and Take good care of themselves
• 25:40
  Yeah,
• 25:40
  and we just need to give you guys a
• 25:42
  vehicle to be able to show your story.
• 25:45
  That's what we're trying to do.
• 25:47
  Well, you're doing awesome, man.
• 25:48
  Really appreciate it.
• 25:49
  Well, Clint, thank you very much.
• 25:51
  And nobody can relate to you
• 25:53
  more than the world who has
• 25:56
  sat at a birthday party
• 25:58
  with their kid trying to
• 26:00
  get something accomplished.
• 26:01
  Yeah.
• 26:05
  So with that,
• 26:06
  thank you very much for
• 26:07
  taking the time out.
• 26:08
  Thank you to everybody who's listening.
• 26:10
  We'll see everybody next
• 26:11
  time on the Clydesdale Media Podcast.