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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Inside the Mind of a Fat Man · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Lunch with Clydesdale.
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It's the time we take a
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little break out of our workday, hang out,
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take a breath, do our thing.
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Still fighting this sinus infection.
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Bear with me today.
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I'm hoping I can get through
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this unscathed.
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But yeah, we'll get through some stuff.
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I'm going to throw a dart first.
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Here we go.
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Ah, geez.
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I just need to give up.
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So, yeah,
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we got Craig and Jody already in
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the chat.
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Good to see you guys.
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It is CrossFit Games Week
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for the age groups here in Columbus.
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It's crazy all the DMs I'm
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getting asking for referrals for gyms,
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for food, for things to do.
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It's been a lot of fun kind
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of reconnecting with some
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of my Masters friends, especially,
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but really fun.
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And I can't wait to see everybody.
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Later this week.
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Last night,
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we had a lot of talk about the
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programming for the age
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group CrossFit games.
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Hiller put out a video, gosh,
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about an hour ago,
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giving his feelings about it.
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And they were not good.
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The thing that's crazy about
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this every year.
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They put out the programming.
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Hiller says it's bad.
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They get defensive.
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It's a back and forth,
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but every year we end up in
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the same spot.
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Every year we end up in the
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exact same spot.
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We were the year before
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where you have this programming.
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That's not finding the fittest.
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It's very biased.
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And, and then here we go.
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We got to fight through all this stuff,
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right?
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Hiller said in his video
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that this is the heaviest
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programming he has seen at a major event.
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What is one of the biggest
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problems we have in the age group games,
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especially the Masters, is PED use.
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If you continue to program heavy,
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what are you going to
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continue to see to combat the heavy?
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You're going to continue to
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see more PED use, more PED cover-up,
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and more sketchiness as to
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whether this person truly
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is or is not the fittest in
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the world for that age group.
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It's one thing to have a
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competition like Legends,
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And you can program it however you want.
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But when you're talking
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about the CrossFit Games,
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you're trying to find the
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fittest person on earth.
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And with that comes a
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responsibility that the
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programming should be
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non-biased and more
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balanced to be able to find
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the best people for each age group.
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John George, the programming is bad.
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CrossFit needs to take it over.
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Why can't Dave kick someone
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to follow or mimic what he programs?
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Yeah,
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I actually said this to Carolyn and
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Jamie this morning on our text string.
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Why don't you use that to
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build a bench of programmers?
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And that way you keep the
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connection with the CrossFit Games.
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And maybe Boz does them for a year.
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Then maybe the next year, Boz does half,
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and you bring on a new
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person to do some of that.
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And then you have people
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that can be elevated as
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people leave to program all
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of CrossFit in different
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capacities instead of
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having just one programmer
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for everything.
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We have one year where Boz did it,
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so we have someone with
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experience other than Dave now.
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But for years, we really didn't.
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Why not use the age group
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games or the adaptive games
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as a way to build your
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bench so that in the future
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you have someone to take
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over those things?
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That only really makes sense to me.
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And why can't you kind of
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mimic what's happening at
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the elite CrossFit games
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for the masters and the age groups?
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Why can't you take the
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workouts that were done in
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Albany and take eight of
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them or nine of them and
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then scale them
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appropriately for each age group?
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And that way,
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then the same test is being
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given to all levels.
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I don't know.
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Maybe that just makes too much sense.
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I don't know.
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Shanna says,
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I love the games Boz programmed.
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A lot of people looking back
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are looking back on that
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very fondly that he did a very,
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very good job.
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I think he's remembered for
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some of the crazy stuff he did,
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like the crossover double unders,
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which we brought back this year,
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different things like that.
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But I really think, yeah.
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Yeah.
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John George,
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age group programming has been
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trending toward a strength
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bias for years.
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Look at the athletes.
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They're typically bigger and
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stronger with some clear mobility issues.
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Gymnastics is sparse.
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Yeah,
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I think that's exactly what Hiller said.
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Almost to a T. You and him
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are right on the same page.
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So there's that going on in
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the space right now.
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At one thirty p.m.,
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Bob Jennings is going to be Eastern time,
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one thirty p.m.
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Eastern time.
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Bob Jennings is going to be
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on with get with the programming,
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talking about the master's programming.
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We'll see what happens there.
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We'll see if they push back
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on him at all with the
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programming or if they just
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let him speak and give his
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reasonings for.
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Shanna,
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the games this year is a reflection
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of Bob.
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I truly think that he
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programs games that he would be good at.
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Bob is a former games athlete.
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I think he programs these
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for what he would be good at.
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Jody Lynn,
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I didn't realize PEDs were
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rampant in Masters.
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All of the positive tests
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came from the masters last year.
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Um,
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and there were others there that it was
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quite obvious they were
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using and somehow got around the test.
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Um,
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It's a hard thing to capture
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in the master's group
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because there is an
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allowable amount of
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testosterone that men with low T can take,
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and it's okay.
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So at what point is okay,
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you have a line that can be blurred.
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That's the best way to put it.
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But the guys that popped
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last year were using like
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the whole pharmacy.
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They weren't using just testosterone.
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And if you go back into my
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behind the scenes,
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three of them I interviewed
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before I knew they popped,
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then they popped,
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and then they look
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ridiculous saying what they
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said after it was found out
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that they had popped.
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Aaron Fraser says,
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machines have made all
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programming skew toward bigger athletes.
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Well,
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I think you have to then balance it
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with gymnastics,
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and there are no gymnastics
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in this year's age group CrossFit games.
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Maybe one workout out of the
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eight is a gymnastics workout.
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So there it is.
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I don't want to go on about that.
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We hit that pretty hard last night.
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We'll see how it plays out this week.
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But it's very disheartening
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for my two co-hosts where
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Carol Prevost is one of the
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most well-rounded athletes
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in the CrossFit space at
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the elite level and really
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should dominate the
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CrossFit games at the age group level.
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And it's iffy because of the
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programming where she's
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going to be in this whole mix.
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So that's going to be crazy.
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And Jamie's admitted that
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she is more of a gymnastics
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endurance athlete.
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And this programming is not good for her.
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And we'll see.
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She is so fit that she'll
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probably overcome some of that.
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But who knows at what level
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that will happen.
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So.
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Tune in, find out this week.
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I'll be down there all weekend.
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I'm going to try to do lunch
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shows from there if I can
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find a quiet spot to kind
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of perch up with my iPad
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and at least talk to you guys for fifteen,
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twenty minutes,
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maybe a little bit longer
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if I can while I'm down there.
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So that is the plan this week.
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Jose, Bears looking good last night.
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They looked really good last night.
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As a Bears fan, long-suffering Bears fan,
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I don't know if we've had
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an offense ever that looked
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as good as they did last night.
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Having an offensive
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coordinator and a head
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coach who knows what he's
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doing is amazing.
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Both Caleb Williams and
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Tyson Bajent looked phenomenal.
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The way Tyson Bajent looked last night,
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I wouldn't be surprised if
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teams are calling,
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trying to get him on their
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roster to possibly be a starter.
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It's going to be an interesting year.
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I'll leave that at that.
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But as soon as the show was
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done last night, I went up,
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fast-forwarded through the
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first half so I could catch
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everything I could.
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And I had goosebumps.
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I was so giddy.
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But I've been there before.
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We'll see how it all plays out coming up.
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So now to the main topic of the show.
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And...
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This all kind of started last week.
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I was driving home from my
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doctor's appointment,
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and I was listening to the
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Outside the Box podcast
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with Caitlin and Mesa,
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and I got all triggered.
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so it started there and then
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friday night I started to
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watch the netflix
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documentary on fit for tv
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the biggest loser story and
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all of that just made me
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think about the
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misconceptions people have
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about fat people so if you
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don't don't know my story
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started this whole thing at
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somewhere over five hundred
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pounds probably five twenty
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five five thirty um I
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walked into a crossfit gym
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back in two thousand eleven
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I didn't walk in I was
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brought in by my next door
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neighbor who owned a
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crossfit gym brought in
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Murph was on the board.
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We did Murph and that day
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changed my life forever.
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I, and
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ended up losing well over
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two hundred pounds got down
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to two sixty um was living
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life great I think I
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probably wasn't doing it
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right but I was living I
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mean I was really living
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life I was playing flag
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football with
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twenty-year-olds at in my
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late forties I was playing
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softball I was doing a lot
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of stuff that I hadn't done in forever
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And then the back injury
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happened and everything
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went off the rails.
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And we'll talk about that at some point.
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I don't know if today's the day.
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So I was that person who
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everybody says is too
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intimidated to walk into a CrossFit gym.
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And what got me started is
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I'm listening to Mesa talk
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about the new CrossFit
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marketing campaign and that
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Forging Elite Fitness and
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Pukie the Clown were too
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hardcore to allow diversity
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into the CrossFit gyms.
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What I want to say to that
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is I don't think people
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understand the mindset of a fat person.
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They think they need to be coddled.
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They do not.
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They do not.
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Plus, we're all different.
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We all have different views of things.
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It'd be just like saying
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that a black man would be
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intimidated to walk into a CrossFit gym.
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No, some would, some wouldn't,
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depending on them and their
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character and their
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upbringing and their personality.
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It's going to vary.
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A fat person is the same way.
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The greatest thing that ever
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happened to me was walking
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into a CrossFit gym.
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And nobody coddled me in that moment.
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They loved on me.
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They said I could do it.
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but they didn't like make it easy for me.
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When you're fat and you're
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looking for an answer,
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you don't want a watered
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down version of the answer.
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You want the elite version of the answer.
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So I don't understand why
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forging elite fitness would
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intimidate people from
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walking in the door.
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I'm five hundred and twenty
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five pounds and I need an
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answer and I'm looking for answers.
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I want the elite answer.
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I want the best answer.
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I don't want a watered down
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version because you think I
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can't handle it.
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That's.
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That's the stuff that got me fired up,
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right?
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And I don't know how pukey
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the clown keeps someone out of there.
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Let me ask you,
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if you've ever watched an
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episode of The Biggest Loser,
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everybody throws up on the first episode.
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You know,
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that's what Peaky the Clown represents.
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Everybody throws up on the first episode.
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Go to a casting call back in
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two thousand five for The Biggest Loser.
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And the lines were around the block,
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knowing that you're going
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to come on the show and
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they're going to make you throw up.
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fat people were looking for
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an answer and they were
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willing to put themselves
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through that through that
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to get the answer so to
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tell me the CrossFit's new
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marketing campaign which is
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very much like the old
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campaign is keeping people
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out of the box you're out
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of your damn mind
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fluffy fit agreed.
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We don't want to be coddled.
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We want to be part of the
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solution like everybody else.
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So, so, so much.
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It wasn't that it wasn't that I,
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I didn't know what the
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answer was when I was five
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hundred twenty five pounds.
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I didn't know what CrossFit was.
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I needed someone to say, hey,
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I'm doing this on Thursday.
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Would you come into the gym, meet me there,
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and I'll show you what it is,
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and we'll go through a workout,
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and we'll do it.
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It wasn't watered down.
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It was scaled appropriately.
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It was, this is what we're trying to do.
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This is why we're doing it.
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This is the stimulus you're
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going to reach.
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And this is going to change your life.
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And that is why it works.
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T-Bird says, some do, some don't.
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So she is right.
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That doesn't appeal to all.
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Not every fat person will
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feel the same as you.
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I said that when I started this, T-Bird,
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that it's just like any
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other group of people.
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There are going to be some
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people that feel that way and some don't.
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But I am telling you,
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a fat person doesn't want a
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mediocre version of fitness.
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They want elite fitness.
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They want an answer.
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To say that...
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come for fun and happiness
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that doesn't work um jose
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reina preach john george is
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this the doctor from the
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barbies in the biz the show yeah
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If so, not shocked.
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They have motive and hope of
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CrossFit failing.
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I don't know about that.
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I do think they bring up some good points.
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I don't think the show is great yet.
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I think they're trying to do this.
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T-Bird,
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why would you shortchange yourself?
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Why wouldn't you want elite fitness?
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Don't we all want the best
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that we can get?
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Like, I don't go to the store and say,
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well, I just want the okay version.
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I want the best.
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Matthew Murphy,
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it's fun and happy because
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you do something hard with your friends.
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Agreed.
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And I don't want to be lied to.
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Like the new marketing
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campaign that CrossFit is
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the cure and it's going to
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be hard and you're going to
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have to go through some
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stuff is just the truth.
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I've tried to lose weight
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since my twenties.
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And every easy way is fake
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and not real and doesn't work.
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You have to put in the work.
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It's just what it is.
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And then I watched this
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documentary on Friday night.
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I watched all three episodes.
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I binged it all.
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And just to be frank,
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I've watched every episode
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of The Biggest Loser when they were on.
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It was hope for me for a minute.
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Not realizing that it wasn't realistic.
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I thought it was inspirational,
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but what they were doing wasn't real.
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It was for TV.
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But the fact that
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Her name was, I'm terrible with names,
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Tracy Yukich.
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That's season eight.
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The first competition of the
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show was to run a mile on the beach.
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And she gave herself for Abdo.
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And that the producer of the show said,
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we couldn't believe that
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someone was willing to push
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their body to that level.
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well, you're underestimating these people.
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They're looking for an answer.
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They're willing to do
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whatever it is to stay on the show.
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And she pushed herself so
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hard because it was the
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only option she had that
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she thought could get her to lose weight,
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that she pushed herself
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beyond her limits and into
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rhabdomyolysis.
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And after the doctors even said,
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you should probably go home, she said, no,
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I want to stay.
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I want to see this through.
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That is insane because that
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is the mindset.
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People are looking for
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answers and it's not easy
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and they can't be thrown
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into one bucket that I do
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agree with T-Bird.
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Not everybody's going to
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push their body to that level,
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but they're different
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buckets and they need to be
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treated differently.
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Going on that show,
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they were going to force you to throw up.
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They were going to give you
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temptations that weren't even realistic.
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Locking you in a room of cake.
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Locking you in a room of sweets.
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And try not to...
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try not to eat anything
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that's not realistic that
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those aren't the real
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demons that a fat person
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goes through you know it's
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when you go out with
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friends and they're doing
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something and you want to
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be a part of it that's the
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real temptation then they
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would put you through these
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embarrassing tasks that
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we're going to make fat
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people look stupid
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And then some of them overcame that.
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And that's why it was great TV.
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Jody, I've never thrown up doing CrossFit.
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Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
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I've thrown up too many times.
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Maybe I'm just weak stomach.
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Actually,
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most of the times I throw up is
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when I was doing team
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competitions and I didn't
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want to let down a partner.
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That's where it gets me.
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But yeah.
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But people signed up for
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this Biggest Loser because
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they thought it was their only answer.
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When I was asked to come to CrossFit Gym,
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I'd never heard of CrossFit.
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I didn't know what it was.
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I was brought in and shown...
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in two thousand eleven what
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it was and I was walked
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through it and it woke up
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something in me that
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nothing else ever did all
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the times on a treadmill
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all the times on an
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elliptical thinking I had
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to do five hours of cardio
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to burn enough calories to
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get through whatever was
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not working and um
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And CrossFit gave me a love
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for something again.
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And it gave me a community
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that really supported me and loved on me.
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And that affiliate will
25:25
always have a special place
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in my heart because those people, like,
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they truly, truly cared about my success.
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And that's where the real victory came.
25:41
Now,
25:44
T-Bert says, I love the show too,
25:46
but not a lot of them kept a weight off.
25:48
I agree.
25:49
What we find out in this
25:50
documentary is it wasn't real.
25:54
It was caffeine pills.
25:57
It was drinking lemon juice
25:58
instead of eating meals.
26:00
It was under calories by way
26:02
more than is suggested by
26:05
anybody from the medical field.
26:08
It was a competition to lose
26:11
a lot of weight in a short amount of time,
26:14
and it didn't stay off for most of them.
26:18
And you find out at the very
26:19
end of the documentary that
26:21
those that you see now who
26:23
look like they've kept the
26:24
weight off are using other
26:26
things to do that.
26:32
And that is, I mean,
26:34
they're using the Ozempic.
26:35
They're using the GL-P ones.
26:40
They're doing that to keep
26:42
the weight off because they
26:44
are looking for any answer
26:46
to be in better shape.
26:51
And it's sad.
26:55
But what I thought the
26:57
documentary showed is the desire
27:01
that fat people,
27:06
the desire that fat people
27:07
had to be better.
27:12
What they were willing to
27:13
put their bodies through to be better.
27:19
That's what it shows.
27:21
The mindset of that fat person.
27:26
And it struck a chord with me.
27:28
Now,
27:29
what I did through that time from two
27:30
thousand eleven to two
27:32
thousand seventeen ish when
27:34
I had my first back injury.
27:37
I was not living a balanced life.
27:40
You know,
27:40
we talk about balance and a lot
27:41
of different things.
27:43
And during that time,
27:45
I was losing a tremendous
27:46
amount of weight,
27:47
but I was living a very
27:49
extreme life by eating a
27:52
lot of healthy food and
27:55
going to the gym a lot.
27:59
And I wasn't the best father
28:01
and I wasn't the best
28:03
husband that I could be
28:04
during those times.
28:06
I thought I was because I
28:08
was able to do more with them.
28:10
Like my daughter and I would go on hikes.
28:12
My wife and I would go on walks.
28:15
We would do all of those things
28:17
And I thought I was being better,
28:19
but because I was focused
28:20
so much on myself and so
28:23
much on my meal prep,
28:24
so much on my meals that I was eating,
28:27
so much on being at the gym
28:28
a couple times a day,
28:30
because of all of that, I wasn't.
28:33
And now I'm having the
28:35
hardest time finding the
28:38
balance between the two.
28:40
Like, how do I get the weight off again?
28:45
Because I've gained a hundred pounds back.
28:50
And I want to get that off again.
28:52
But how do I do that and not
28:55
be a shitty husband?
28:59
I mean, my daughter's off on her own now.
29:02
But how do I do that and not
29:04
be so obsessed by it that I
29:08
stay to being a good husband?
29:14
Right?
29:16
And so that's where my struggle is today.
29:19
Because I want to find the right answer.
29:21
And I'm back in that mindset
29:23
of find me a solution.
29:27
I'm willing to do whatever
29:28
to be to get there.
29:31
And I love CrossFit.
29:34
And I want that to be a part
29:35
of the solution.
29:37
It's how do I find that in a
29:39
way that makes sense for me and my wife.
29:49
Biggest loser method was
29:50
lock you away for six months,
29:52
consume five to eight
29:53
hundred calories and burn
29:54
six to eight thousand.
29:56
That is fine when you are filming,
29:58
but setting you up for
29:59
failure in the real world.
30:01
True, true, true.
30:04
John George,
30:05
it was truly a boot camp with
30:07
zero training or education
30:08
on real life health and fitness.
30:10
I thought Bob nailed it.
30:11
It's an addiction and will
30:13
always be there.
30:14
You have to learn to live with it.
30:17
Ken Walters' answer to
30:18
everything is ribeye.
30:22
Jose Reyna, in the later seasons,
30:24
the trainer Bob Harper of
30:26
Biggest Loser started
30:27
utilizing the CrossFit
30:29
methodology himself and
30:30
with the contestants.
30:31
He did.
30:32
He did.
30:34
He was part of Brick CrossFit in L.A.
30:39
with...
30:43
can see her her husband is
30:45
jesse uh yeah and he had
30:49
crossfitters on the show uh
30:52
teaching some of the stuff
30:54
I also had the privilege a
30:56
couple years back uh holly
30:59
mangold is from here in
31:00
columbus she was on the
31:01
show she was the olympic
31:03
weightlifter uh that worked
31:05
with bob throughout the show
31:08
And she it was really eye
31:10
opening because some of the
31:13
stuff we saw on TV isn't
31:14
actually what she went
31:16
through while she was there.
31:20
And when I talked to her,
31:21
she had gained back almost
31:23
all of the weight she had
31:24
lost on the show.
31:27
But it was really,
31:28
really eye opening as to
31:29
what she had kind of gone
31:30
through during that time.
31:40
Um, John George,
31:42
you have to be selfish for health.
31:44
Having a heart attack or
31:45
poor health will leave you
31:46
loved loved ones having to
31:48
take care of you in the future.
31:50
Be selfish.
31:51
Just my opinion, not obsessive,
31:53
just committed.
31:56
Yeah, I think I can do it with balance.
31:58
It's just finding it again.
32:00
Um,
32:02
But my personality is if I'm
32:05
going to do something,
32:06
I usually dive in headfirst, full bore,
32:10
all in.
32:14
And that's where I've got to be careful.
32:18
I can do it with one class a
32:20
day and I can do it with eating.
32:27
Yeah, yeah.
32:29
I do believe I do believe
32:30
bob is dead on with the
32:32
addiction part and it's
32:33
always going to be there
32:35
because when I got down to
32:36
two sixty I told myself
32:38
never again will I be never
32:40
again will I be and sure
32:43
enough I was and um and
32:54
it's hard it's really really hard uh
32:59
And I feel like I'm at a
33:00
point in my life where if I'm not perfect,
33:05
man, the weight comes back on so fast.
33:08
So fast.
33:10
Um, so, um,
33:25
Megan Bauman,
33:26
you hit the nail on the head.
33:28
Mom of five here, two have special needs.
33:31
Balance is crucial,
33:32
but I still struggle with it.
33:34
It is.
33:36
I think that's the hardest
33:37
part is I don't want to
33:41
make excuses of metabolism
33:45
or habit or whatever.
33:49
But what I do want to say is
33:56
like I really have to be dialed in.
33:59
Like it has to be dead on,
34:02
almost no exceptions for me
34:04
to have success.
34:09
And if I'm not,
34:10
so then I start teetering
34:12
back to that obsession.
34:15
And that's really where I
34:17
struggle a lot is finding
34:21
the line between
34:23
that makes life okay,
34:25
as well as fitness okay.
34:36
Shanna, that is my new life challenge,
34:39
is to find balance.
34:41
I'm not saying I'm not looking for it.
34:43
I'm just saying it's hard.
34:44
It's very, very hard to do.
34:50
But all things great are hard.
34:54
Like, life wasn't meant to be easy.
34:59
But yeah.
35:03
But I really,
35:03
I just wanted to focus on the fact that
35:06
watching these shows and
35:07
hearing what people are
35:08
saying is that if I feel
35:11
like they just lump fat
35:13
people into one bucket and
35:15
that they all feel the same way.
35:17
And I don't think that that
35:18
is the case at all.
35:20
Um,
35:23
And I think if you watch
35:24
this documentary and you
35:26
see the veracity at which
35:29
these contestants wanted to
35:30
be on this show,
35:32
it shows you that there are
35:34
all levels of people and
35:36
their desires to get healthy.
35:45
But at the end of the day,
35:46
I think the true success is
35:48
loving on one another.
35:51
And that's what happens in a
35:52
CrossFit affiliate.
35:53
Go in, love on one another,
35:56
support each other,
35:58
help you through the tough times,
36:00
get you through.
36:01
And that's why CrossFit is awesome.
36:03
That's why the affiliates are awesome.
36:06
And the coaches that own
36:07
affiliates are awesome.
36:13
So,
36:19
T-Bird,
36:20
I think that's what Mesa was trying
36:21
to say.
36:22
I don't think that's what
36:23
she was trying to say.
36:27
I think that she...
36:30
in some aspects wants to
36:32
water down what CrossFit is
36:35
and thinks that will
36:36
attract more people to the affiliates.
36:40
And I disagree with that.
36:41
I think that it's okay to be elite.
36:44
It's okay to be hard.
36:46
It's okay to be a gym,
36:48
but it has to be combated
36:50
with the love of the owner
36:52
of the affiliate and the
36:53
love of the members to
36:55
build a community to support people.
37:03
So I think she has that last
37:06
part in her dissertation,
37:09
and the first part is different.
37:19
So anyway.
37:21
Okay.
37:24
that's my little monologue
37:25
on the biggest loser it is
37:27
a it is a good um an
37:30
eye-opening documentary it
37:32
went by really fast each
37:34
episode it's only three
37:35
episodes each one's maybe
37:37
thirty thirty five minutes
37:39
maybe somewhere in there uh
37:41
it goes by really fast it
37:43
was really a good watch um
37:48
And it got me fired up.
37:49
And hopefully that leads to
37:51
some things getting some
37:54
more balance in my life in
37:56
the upcoming weeks.
37:59
So I think we're going to
38:02
end the show there today.
38:04
Um, don't forget tomorrow.
38:07
Uh,
38:08
I'll be back here and then I'll be
38:10
releasing the Hattie Cano
38:11
episode one tomorrow afternoon.
38:15
And then from Wednesday on,
38:17
I'm probably going to be downtown, uh,
38:20
at the masters and teenage
38:23
CrossFit games.
38:24
Again, I'll take my iPad pad with me.
38:27
If I can find a quiet spot,
38:29
we'll launch the show from there.
38:31
Um,
38:33
Who knows?
38:34
Maybe I'll grab some people
38:35
to hop on with me.
38:37
We'll see.
38:42
There's that.
38:44
And can't wait to get down there.
38:46
Hopefully this sinus
38:47
infection is all gone by
38:49
the time Wednesday rolls around.
38:52
Megan Baumann, love when you get fired up.
38:57
Wish my wife said the same thing.
39:00
Anyway.
39:03
Craig Pasley.
39:04
Cool.
39:05
Yep.
39:05
All right, guys.
39:07
I'm going to let you guys
39:08
head back to work.
39:10
I'm going to head back to work as well.
39:12
And we'll see everybody
39:12
tomorrow on lunch with the Clydesdale.
39:17
Bye, guys.