Latest / Misfit Podcast / Kyle Moline: Learning to Love the Work - E.402
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- @misfitcoach: Good morning, Misfit. You are tuning in to another episode of the Misfit podcast. On today's show, we are interviewing a very, very special guest, Misfit Athlete Kyle Moleen. If you know Kyle, IRL, or via Telegram, or any of the other places that Misfit athletes frequent, you know he's just a great dude. ⁓ he's also incredibly fit. So he is coming off the heels of his first individual semifinal. All right, gang, thank you for tuning into another episode of the Misfit Podcast. Thank you to our show sponsor, GorillaMind, GorillaMind.com forward slash Misfit or use the code word misfit at checkout. You save on your order on the best supplements in the game, and we get a kickback and you support the podcast. Please get signed up for the comp bundle if you're on one of the old things for fitter. Let's get everybody onto the same leaderboard. Thanks again. See you guys next week. Moline, welcome to the show. Paige, how we doing this morning? How's your camera working down there? You alright? ⁓ Yeah. Yeah, looks super crispy. Yep, fantastic. @paige_semenza: It's good now, it looks crispy, huh? Perfect. Yeah, we're good over here. My shirt, of course it is dotty. making an appearance. Me McKenna were supposed to do, what was it, Fittest of the Coast, and she has my other cat on a shirt. Yeah, Kyle, I totally forgot that I knew I wore this shirt for a reason. @kylemoline: Wait Paige, can I see the shirt? Is that a cat on your shirt? @misfitcoach: Does it so we wanted to talk to him about all things, ⁓ know, training and community ⁓ what that experience was like for him and how he got there ⁓ you know, over the course of the last few years. So really excited to to dig into the interview with Kyle and we will get there ⁓ very Just a few pieces of housekeeping to start. off-season block two has ⁓ gotten underway here just in the last couple of days, and we are gonna leave the free trials. @kylemoline: I had I would have worn my cat shirt. @misfitcoach: Yeah. @kylemoline: So good. Yeah, it's just the energy, I like it. @misfitcoach: ⁓ Kyle, how's ⁓ how's recovery from North Albin? @kylemoline: week was rough. ⁓ was ex I was exhausted all week and I was hardly working out. but it didn't help getting home ⁓ like ⁓ Sunday, to catch the last flight, and then we flew to New York for ⁓ forty hours ⁓ on morning. So ⁓ did did that to myself. ⁓ @misfitcoach: open for this week only. So you listen to this interview ⁓ hear how Kyle made it from ⁓ know getting started in CrossFit to semifinals level and competing at the NorCal Classic and you want to see what he's been up to, that free trial will stay live. ⁓ And you find that in the link in bio on our social media. This episode of the podcast and all episodes of the podcast are brought to you by Gorilla Mind. my one one Whoa. @paige_semenza: What'd you do in New York? Why didn't you tell me? @kylemoline: I was there for I sat on the board for a non profit ⁓ a couple girls from my high school started ⁓ we attended this gala ⁓ like Wall Street Wednesday night, we flew in Tuesday and then flew out Thursday. So it was a quick trip, but ⁓ it was New York's a cool city. I don't like the traffic though. ⁓ Can't do traffic. ⁓ @misfitcoach: of energy drink flavors right here. This is the white frost if you're watching on YouTube. it was coffee ⁓ still coffee because I love coffee, but forever it was coffee and then trying to find the right nootropics. you know, for someone who's, you know, parenting, running a business, trying to get, you know, you know, ⁓ healthy lifestyle know, moments in my walking, my exercise, my lifting, my cardio, all that stuff. @paige_semenza: Yes it is. Welcome. @misfitcoach: It's like I don't know what it's like it's like where you grew up, Kyle, but for me being from Maine, it just even now I've been like to all kinds of cities all over the world. That place is just ⁓ the like it's like buzzing at all times. This is like such a different vibe than than how I grew up. Crazy place. @kylemoline: ⁓ yeah. grew up in ⁓ Mercer Island. Very community. Yeah. @misfitcoach: And to be able to just have efficacious doses of caffeine and nootropics are really a game changer. So if you go to gorilla mind.com forward slash misfit or use the code word misfit at checkout, ⁓ you'll save and you'll support the podcast. Last but not least, before we get to the interview, if you are on Fitter and your current subscription is under either Masters, MFT, or Hatchet, please go to the link in bio on our Instagram. I feel like it's probably the same as suburb @paige_semenza: went and spent Saturday with Tony and Ryan McKay, just hung out by the pier ⁓ and it very like chill laid back, but also like you're still buzzing. Like you're still just like, there's so much going on around you, but it still chill somehow. It is, yeah. @misfitcoach: I feel like that's inescapable. Yep. Yeah. Yep. right, Kyle. ⁓ so we like to start these conversations with the like athletic background CrossFit origin story. Like, what did you grow up doing that was physical and how did that end up eventually transitioning into CrossFit? go to you know click on the the the fitter button sign up for programming on fitter and get signed up under the comp subscription after this programming block there will be no programming the subscription of mft masters or hatchet comp has all of those things built into it it is the same price we are trying to get all misfits onto the same leaderboard if you need any help with that feel free to email me coach at misfitathletics.com @kylemoline: my main sporting background is swimming. I'm sure most people know that. Swimming and then soccer was like my second sport put ⁓ sophomore year high school put you know, hung up the cleats and went all in on swimming. and then swam division one for four years and maybe a or so after ⁓ or maybe year and a half after college got into CrossFit. ⁓ two hundred butterfly. ⁓ yeah, that's ⁓ @misfitcoach: Please cancel your old account, sign up for the comp bundle. let's get everybody onto the same leaderboard. ⁓ I think it's just gonna make for a better, a better product that we put out there and a better experience for you guys all together. Without further ado, Kyle Moleen. What was your event? Two. How long does that take? @paige_semenza: Oof. Geez. @kylemoline: ⁓ depends on how fast you are. just under two minutes, ⁓ one forty nine was my best time. So ⁓ but it yes, it and it's yeah, it's the hardest event in my opinion. I'm sure some people will disagree with that ⁓ say like four hundred I am, but two hundred fly is pretty brutal. but so ⁓ @misfitcoach: ⁓ d So it hurts. Two hundred meters or yards, whatever it is, two hundred yards for me in any style is tough. So doing that butterfly that would be rough. @paige_semenza: Same. @kylemoline: Yeah. Yeah, it was a pretty sad day when my club coach in high school was like, Kyle, I know you love the hundred fly, but you're a 200 flyer. And I was like, Damn it. And then I got to college and my coach was like, Yeah, you're doing the 200 fly every single meet. And I was like, sweet. @misfitcoach: What would one length down be? Fifty? @kylemoline: in ⁓ this is my pet peeve in CrossFit is everybody says meters ⁓ swimming ⁓ they program or like put in events and it's if you're in the US, ⁓ nine percent chance your pool is a yards pool. ⁓ so ⁓ down is just twenty five yards. ⁓ it's eight lengths, ⁓ guess would be a two hundred. @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: Is that an event? 'Cause that would have been my event. He would have said, You're not a hundred yard guy, you're a twenty five yard guy. @paige_semenza: 25. @kylemoline: In I used to swim summer league and coach it and through the age of ten you could swim the twenty five yard fly. And that was one of my favorite events when I was younger. @misfitcoach: I wasn't fast at all when I was ten, so I dn my history would have been @paige_semenza: like I didn't even bring my head up above water. @kylemoline: ⁓ I think my ten year old time would probably be faster than yours. @misfitcoach: ⁓ that's mean. all right, so ⁓ takes you to a year after college. What happens between then and you getting started with CrossFit? Or was it then? @kylemoline: no, it was it was sort of like after swimming, it was we Caroline and I were like, let's do Caroline's my wife for those that don't know. We ⁓ got into like bodybuilding training and so we just went to kind of like your standard commercial gym and found a bodybuilding dot com program. ⁓ and we just kinda like go do that. Caroline was the first one to get bored of that and found a CrossFit gym like that we would drove by every morning to @paige_semenza: Amazing. @kylemoline: to go to our commercial gym. And she signed up and two months in was like, I'm signing you up. You've got your intro class on Sunday. she's like, I'll come with you. But then she didn't end up coming with me. So I went by myself. and for the first couple months wasn't totally it. but fortunately I started in like November. So the open started obviously in February and signed up for open ⁓ and had ⁓ Drew good friend I had never met him before But he judged me. And Caroline was like, You should have Edge Judge, he was super nice and he just screamed in my ear for twenty minutes doing seventeen point one. @misfitcoach: I feel like Ed would be your friend the second the workout ended if he was your judge. You would immediately become friends with Ed. Yeah. That's how it was meeting him at the trail run. Mm-hmm. @kylemoline: ⁓ for sure. I got some great pictures of him. Yeah, he was just yelling at me. ⁓ I blacked out for sure and barely finished that seventeen point one dumbbell snatch burpy box over workout. Had never done a dumbbell snatch and my back until next open workout was not in a good spot. ⁓ But ⁓ made through ⁓ got that competitive and fortunately my gym's like group @paige_semenza: Oof. Yeah. @misfitcoach: Ooh, what a lovely place to start. @paige_semenza: Yes. @kylemoline: they followed the Misfit blog at the time. So I weekends and you know weeknights that I could actually make it to their training sessions, I would try to jump in with them like right after the open. ⁓ really do much, but it was fun and I was looking for more than just like your standard class. @misfitcoach: What did you think of this is like a like a selfish question, but what did you think of the bodybuilding world being in the setting that you were always training for swimming? Like what was that like for you? @kylemoline: It was different 'cause I didn't breathe very hard. Where it was like I had just come from this like totally endurance based sport. and like I feel like when you're in a speedo, you're very aesthetics focused too. So there was like some similarities there, but it was like hey, I'm like building in in the spots that I want to as opposed to like whatever a swimmer body looks like. so was it was interesting, it was different. ⁓ and obviously like enjoyed it at the time. but eventually @misfitcoach: Yeah. Yeah. @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: Okay. Yeah. @kylemoline: you know, got that competitive itch. I actually thought I was gonna go back to just doing bodybuilding stuff a few months in, but then once the open started and I got that like competitive bug and I had all these, you know, fifty year old moms and dads kicking my butt, I like was like, okay, I'm I'm gonna get better at this and, you know, try to do a little bit better next year. @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: Yeah @misfitcoach: It's just so weird for me coming from team sports to like I'm like in this gym by myself and like you're trying not in the same way. Like the effort that you bring to bodybuilding style training is like @kylemoline: Yeah. @misfitcoach: And and back then I don't know if I was strong enough to really like push very hard and like eking out the last few reps, like that sort of thing, just didn't feel the same as being in that in that team setting. So it was just a like CrossFit for me worked as a transition from traditional sports just because I I there was like the other people were part of it. like had something to do with with me and obviously the competitive aspect. Like being a meathead, it just it fit so quickly and so easily. But I remember trying so many different times. Like I always had something else on the side. I was like surfing or snowboarding or I got into boxing for a couple of years. Like I just couldn't fully commit to like like what am I what am I doing here? Like what exactly like what's the and I've never @kylemoline: Yeah, yeah. @misfitcoach: I've never been like locked in on aesthetics. For some reason, being stronger than someone else was always more interesting to me. Like cause cause in sports, you have like people who look bad that are great, and you have people that look fantastic that aren't good at all. so maybe that's kind of where that came from. ⁓ like just that competitive element of it was really like. @kylemoline: Yeah. So @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: the only thing that I could try to draw on if I went to the gym with other people. @kylemoline: Yeah, and I was never gonna step on a bodybuilding stage. So it was literally like there was no end goal other than like, okay, let's get through this eight week program that I found. Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger bodybuilding dot com program and then we'll repeat it or find something else. So ⁓ think not having like a carrot to dangle out in front of me also resulted me trying to find something different pretty s pretty soon after. @misfitcoach: I was told by an old bodybuilder that I couldn't be a l bodybuilder because I had a low clavicle. And he was mad at me because I was stronger than him and I was small. where that conversation came from. He's like, ⁓ you bench quite a bit. Where's your chest? And I was like, What? And like, You sh you haven't developed your chest and he was like, ⁓ low clavicle. He's like, You could never develop your chest. And I was like, ⁓ okay. Thanks. Good ⁓ @paige_semenza: Yeah @kylemoline: Yeah. @paige_semenza: science. @kylemoline: Yeah. @misfitcoach: ⁓ so twenty you said twenty seventeen first open? @kylemoline: That was my first open, yep. @misfitcoach: And you started doing Misfit stuff fairly, fairly close to getting started with that? @kylemoline: Yeah, and it was it was like sprinkled in maybe like once a week. Saturdays were usually the only day I could actually get in with everybody. the old school blog. ⁓ yeah. Yep. but th there was a big group of people at our gym that followed it. and so it was pretty easy to like jump in and, you know, scale where needed and ⁓ then from there it's for the most part just been falling misfit blogs still. @misfitcoach: Okay. @paige_semenza: the old school blog, post. same. @misfitcoach: What's do you feel like you became kinda part of the community? Like at what point did it feel like more than just a program? @kylemoline: I think probably to a camp. ⁓ first camp I came ⁓ was it was twenty twenty two ⁓ quarterfinals ⁓ and 'cause was like obviously had like my local community and and whatnot, but didn't really chat with anybody that was ⁓ kinda like virtual misfit, virtual training buddy. And then now ⁓ that's like like all I talk to is people that are, you know, virtual people that I've never @misfitcoach: Okay. Okay, yeah. Sure. Yeah. @kylemoline: met before or like have only met once or met at a camp and so I definitely think making those connections and you know spending forty seventy two hours inside the the Misfit Portland gym with a bunch of like minded people is when I was like, Okay, ⁓ these like this is my community, these are my people. and I think that's been been really cool. And obviously like it helps it keeps you in the program. and you've got to share scores with or share training. @misfitcoach: Sure. @kylemoline: stuff with or, you know, here's this goofy clip of me failing something and like that that's probably the the point. That's why we ⁓ try to come back to camps and stuff 'cause it's always good to like meet a new ⁓ wave of fresh faces. So ⁓ you haven't been to a Misfig camp you should you try to go to one. @paige_semenza: sure. @misfitcoach: Yeah, it's those camps I think are what solidifies so many of the relationships that start in the in the setting in somewhere like Telegram or Discord where people start to get to know one another. and then I would say like if we called it Misfit 2.0, honestly, which probably started pretty close to to when you came to camp, Kyle, I would say less intimidating. ⁓ @paige_semenza: Okay. @misfitcoach: characters potentially you show up ⁓ you can really just tell like like you know I would use maybe you and Tony as an example like like you two ⁓ I would say you a little bit a little bit more than Tony but like in person for sure misfit mayor kind of a vibe ⁓ and of you are like @paige_semenza: Yeah @misfitcoach: intimidating personality-wise. Both of you are intimidating ⁓ if you if you look at your legs. My goodness. ⁓ but like I just think when someone shows up and they realize that there isn't like if if we just went based on scores on the leaderboard, I think there would be an intimidation factor with a lot of the people that show up. But then you show up and you see the personalities and it's like @paige_semenza: Yeah. You @misfitcoach: ⁓ this is just a group of regular people that are obsessed with this like super niche thing that they do. and that can kind of take it to a new level. And obviously we're trying to accomplish a bunch of things at a camp. but think that might be the most like powerful piece. Like when we ⁓ realized people were there to see each other and not us, it was just so funny to think about that. but it's but it's definitely true. I mean, it seems like you guys have an absolute blast at camp. even outside of camp actually happening. @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: Definitely. Yeah, it was it was cool. Like Tony and I like probably barely chatted during the first camp. I think we shared a barbell during the clean and jerk rope climb workout that we did and didn't I mean didn't talk too that too much, but then after that just connected on and, you know, stayed in touch, saw each other at water blue the next year and then it like, Hey, are you going to this camp? Hey, you go into this camp and just of like ⁓ always to like cross paths wherever we could. @paige_semenza: Yeah, I think that's a, I think it's fun when come into it and you're like, am I here to like show out? Am I here to try to impress people? And it's like, no, just here to have some friendly competitions of good banter ⁓ and some good conversations outside of it, getting to know each other. ⁓ that's the fun part about those camps too, right? It's like, it's not, you're not a kid anymore where it's like, you're super shy or, like, you know, everybody's so quiet, they leave and they go with their parents. It's like, you get to, @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. @paige_semenza: kind of put yourself out there and just make friends. And I think you guys are, you know, some pioneers as far as like in our telegram of showing that it's okay to be open about your scores and, you know, kind of like Drew said, like you look at Tony, he's a beefcake. He's tatted up, he's bald and like he could be intimidating. And then like your size, like, that stuff's intimidating. But when you guys are talking on @misfitcoach: Ha ha ha. @paige_semenza: Telegram, it's like your personalities do shine. I think that's really cool. I think that's what our community needs as far as getting other people to kind of fall in line with that. ⁓ It's fun to watch, especially this year. Drew and I talk about it so much of how much Telegram has just blown up. And you guys are big parts of that too. You've had that impact. @kylemoline: Yeah, it's it's scrolling a lot, I feel like over the past few months, maybe like around core finals prep. But it's like, dang, I gotta scroll super far back up to like find like the last red message. @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. Yep. It's brutal. @misfitcoach: Man, if if if you come off a like a like a three, four hour solo parenting block and you got 400 messages from midlife crisis ⁓ ⁓ fitter chat ⁓ then ⁓ possible channel, it's just it's a lot of ⁓ a lot you gotta make up. ⁓ one the things I think that's powerful about this type interview, Kyle, is people wanna know. ⁓ @paige_semenza: overwhelming. @misfitcoach: How do you go from your first quarterfinals, 1965, to at NorCal? what happens in that period of time? So I'll I'll read your I'll I'll read basically kind of the four in a row here. So we have the 19, si 1965th, 380th, and then you qualify for NorCal. and ⁓ That macro view is something I use all of the time with athletes because the like day-to-day can be tough, man. You have your ups and downs, you have your, you know, couple steps back to go a bunch of steps forward, all of these different things happen, but you've had a very sort of steady rise in your fitness, and you've gone from a very relatable place to a lot of the listeners of the podcast to competing at your first semifinals. How? How do you do that? How did it happen? @kylemoline: It was a f a few things. I there were obviously conversations with people like Vic or when I was at Watapalooza with Darren and Sam, they were like, Hey, you like ⁓ trust your you're actually like pretty good at this. So like having other people tell me that like I was actually pretty good at this. I've got that imposter syndrome. So sometimes I'm like maybe I'm just you know got lucky or, you know, I'm not as good as I think I can be. having them, you know, kind of back me and tell me, like, hey, you should ⁓ think you could actually make this this step up to the next level, I think was really important. and me to actually get a coach. and so you can probably connect the the time that I'd made ⁓ my biggest jump was I started working with Kenzie back in twenty twenty three, like September twenty twenty three. It was coming off of twenty twenty three quarterfinals. I was like, ⁓ I was like, you know, closer than I thought I would be to whatever the cut line was that year. I was like maybe if I, you know, kind of like double down and took it a little bit more seriously, and somebody telling me what to do as opposed to always doing biker machine mach @misfitcoach: Yeah. @kylemoline: intervals when I clearly don't need to do that. was super helpful. also like having a @misfitcoach: We'll get to that. @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: really consistent training partner too. I mean Adrian and I have probably trained together five days a week for the last two and a half years and it it kind of like lines up along with that ⁓ remote coaching timeline as well. And so I don't really miss sessions anymore because I know I'll get nagged about it if I if I do. So I think it's ⁓ used to train alone and that is challenging. So if you can find ⁓ in your community to @paige_semenza: Love that. @kylemoline: keep you keep you showing up and keep you consistent or even just like tell you like, hey, this is a good time to back off too because you know, you seem beat up or stressed. I think that's super important having just another set of eyes. @misfitcoach: Do you love to train? @kylemoline: I do. I would say yeah. Sometimes I like Yeah. It was funny because like some like I showed up to NorCal and they didn't release any of the workouts beforehand, which was nice. Like I loved that. ⁓ then the second all ⁓ workouts got released and I'm like scrolling through my phone, ⁓ was like @misfitcoach: Yeah. I kinda I kinda get that vibe. @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: Do I still wanna do this? Like is is this actually what I like want to do? And so I think getting the first workout done got all those jitters away and I like, okay, this is fun, like I like being out here, but there are moments where I'm like, do I just do I like just like to work out or do I actually like enjoy competing as well? And so it's a balance, but you have to love the the training side of it. ⁓ just 'cause the competitions don't come super frequently. @misfitcoach: I would say talking with you and Adrian at the competition at NorCal, that was the thing that stood out to me the most because I always want to know the the answers to those questions. And a lot of the stuff that you're doing, of course, is is stuff that Paige and I are are writing. and we do the podcast and we talk to you guys on Telegram. But there are still these these little things that we get to learn from someone like you, someone like Paige, ⁓ and that like I I like to train is that's a big deal. That's a really big deal. Cause we have these athletes that come in a lot of times have like that really, really high ceiling and have these like ⁓ mountainous put on them. ⁓ And only thing they're thinking about is can I that level that people expect me to reach? @paige_semenza: huge. @kylemoline: Yeah, yeah. @misfitcoach: And when that's the like fuel that's going in the tank, your training is just up and down and up and down all the time. And like you probably learned a lot from the swimming community. Like I hear about you guys' workouts and it's like, ⁓ my goodness. Like they don't even sound possible. They're like those emams where it's like, well, I'm not finishing any of the minutes, basically. Yeah. so you probably learned a lot of it there, but I just think people ⁓ to fall in love with the process ⁓ @paige_semenza: No rest. @misfitcoach: so massively important and like kind of an overlooked thing. @kylemoline: Yeah, definitely. I think having like putting yourself in the right community and environment to like actually show up and like enjoy it every single day is super important. Otherwise, yeah, then you just start to think about why you're doing it and, you know, all the expectations and whatnot, as opposed to like really appreciating, you know, even just like warming up and cooling down, like some of those goofy things that know that like out of camps would we'd I don't remember the was it the cooldown crew where people are just like posting their cooldowns on Instagram and it's like this is so boring but it's like there's ten of us doing it and we're continuing to do it for like several weeks and so just finding those like I guess little nuggets that you can enjoy and it doesn't make it feel like there's a whole bunch of pressure and you're actually showing up to the gym because you want to be there. @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: ⁓ huh. @paige_semenza: Yeah, I think a big part of that too is like, if you have this high expectation or you have this high ceiling, but you don't love to train, it's very easy to want to like look for shortcuts, right? Like think about our toast of our progression. For example, it's like, I should be at X number already, but I'm not there. And I'm going to make these bigger jumps throughout training throughout the weeks of training, that are actually unrealistic. ⁓ like, I'm going to make this small incremental improvement each week. Right? It's like, if I love the train, I'm going to go and make those small incremental improvements and additions. like, that's where you start to really stack the bricks. but yeah, I mean, that's, that's definitely a huge ⁓ to getting to where you are. Like you just trust that process. You took those little nuggets and, just continue to stack them. @kylemoline: Yeah, and that's the tough part too, is like A lot the times you're doing weakness stuff and it's like this doesn't feel good nor does this look good. And so that can be really defeating if you're just going to, you know, every single day you're doing something you don't want to do or you don't feel like you're good at. But it's ⁓ important to, you know, either have somebody ⁓ your corner that's reminding you like, hey, you were doing ⁓ reps last time and now you're doing ten. ⁓ and so having somebody that can ⁓ back and you know see the progress that you've made, ⁓ sometimes you can get so caught up in the @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: You're also not doomed if you're listening to this and you're like, shit, that's me. Like, it's a mindset shift, is what it is. It's like get obsessed with your training and the details of your training on a day-to-day basis and ignore @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: everything outside of the current like training block you're in. That's the mindset. And it's also very freeing. You can just go in and do what you got to do. So it's not like, okay, there's this kind of person. Kyle's the kind of person who loves to train. So he's over here. Kyle Kyle learned how to train and found the right gym to go to and the right training partner. And you create the world where that mindset is possible for you as an athlete. @paige_semenza: Yep. @misfitcoach: If the outcome, if the thing that kind of sits over off to the side is what you're obsessed with, you're just not gonna be able to execute on the things that are in front of you. It just seems incredibly frustrating to to do those things because it's like, why am I not, you know, out there competing or why am I not already where I need to be? So it's always important for us to just let you guys know that like we have these conversations with people to sort of show you the way, but also like It's very possible to have a mindset shift. It's just about no, it's definitely not black and white at all. @paige_semenza: Yeah, it's not black and white. @kylemoline: Yeah. I did not always love training. Like when back at the end of college, especially like like swimming. I mean, it's obvious a little less variation and it's like my time's not better, so I'm not improving. And that's not obviously true. ⁓ but like I know Carolyn and I had conversations like, Are we gonna do our senior year? Like, is this actually what we wanna do? But it was and it really came down to like the @paige_semenza: Heh. @kylemoline: our team and wanting to like be there for our team and show up for them too. That was kinda like the deciding factor. Like, yeah, I am we're gonna stick it out for for our senior year. And so doesn't always work. It's just like put yourself in the right environment that keeps you showing up and @misfitcoach: Comp prep. How was that? How was sem how was your first full semi finals prep? Com just compared to other training in general? @paige_semenza: Hehehe. @kylemoline: It was It was fun. I don't know. I I love volume. Maybe s parts of my body don't love the volume, but like I personally love it. Especially because at least with semi prep I got to like a lot of the added volume was like the machine stuff. So it was like stuff I was good at. And it was like, okay, this, you thruster Matcon just ⁓ ruined world, ⁓ but gonna go sit on a C2 bike and that one pretty rough. there's also there's a tone setter at the beginning of the ⁓ @misfitcoach: Yeah. Yep. Yeah. You thinking of that last sprinterval? @paige_semenza: Hahaha! The thrust, yeah, the thruster burpee box jump over that interval. I remember that. @kylemoline: Wester RP box. ⁓ yeah, I still have ⁓ Yeah, still have har hard feelings about that one, but was good because I got, you know, there's because like the GPP approach to it, you're gonna touch something that you're good at. And so ⁓ you like you take your licks on the on the tough stuff and then you get your wins when it comes up and it just kind of keeps you showing up and even though the volume's a little bit higher, it's ⁓ I don't it was fun. @misfitcoach: ⁓ so it's like bookends. Well how weird. Who would have thought to do that? @paige_semenza: Yeah @misfitcoach: Yeah. @kylemoline: Towards the end I had like a little back tweak on a a deadlift workout that kinda scared me and carried it into NorCal but didn't have any issues at the event and feel okay now. I feel better now. But ⁓ no it was fun. ⁓ was ⁓ it was good like chatting with Lindsay too on some of the workouts and like how we were approaching things just because we're on the same same program and most of the people that well, most of the people in in the Misfit community I talk with are were on like the age group semis prep. So it was like for, you know, ten weeks we were on we were doing completely different things and I was like it felt like I was a little bit on a island. And so having like the NorCal prep group was fun 'cause you just got to ⁓ scores with some people that were prepping for the exact same thing as you @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: Isn't it funny how you talk about bitch work as like, ⁓ I get this like gift given to me off to the side? Like in Paige, I know you would identify with this, like wherever your wheelhouse is, is the place where it's like guaranteed intensity, stimulus, pain, but there's something about like licking your chops as an athlete and being like, I'm gonna go. @paige_semenza: Get out of here. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. embracing it. @misfitcoach: Yeah, I'm gonna go crush that. It's just so funny to me because like for me personally, your anaerobic, aerobic bitch work is like the worst thing possible for me. And just hearing somebody be like, ⁓ yeah, well it's extra volume, but then there's just this lovely snack off to the side where I'm like in zone four, zone five guaranteed. But that's that's kind of the athlete's mindset and it's fascinating. And I can I can relate to it when I see something, you know, traditional CrossFit, you know, couplet, triplet that's, you know, two to four minutes long. I do the same thing, even though those are the ones where like you can taste blood in your mouth for like forty-five minutes after the workout. ⁓ all right, let's let's let's get to NorCal. So Macro View, how was that experience for you? First semifinal, of old school vibe, outdoors, late workouts. Maybe you were split jerking into potholes, maybe you weren't. ⁓ maybe we get to that. ⁓ But ⁓ was it like? What did you think? @kylemoline: Minor divots. Yeah. ⁓ it was it was good. It was it was fun. ⁓ definitely like the imposter syndrome crept in when you were like, ⁓ Pat Bilner's gonna be at this event, or like all these people with games experience, and it's like, Do I actually belong here? so there's some of that, but then like you know, after the first event, and I was like, ⁓ I think I took like thirtieth or something out of forty-five. And I was like, okay, like didn't like lay an egg on that first event. And you know, maybe I do belong here and and I think that helped calm the jitters. But it was like it was funny, I went out for my first run ⁓ on first event and boom, Pat V only runs out for the run as well, like right in front of me. I was like, ⁓ what going on? Like this doesn't feel right. ⁓ but it is Yeah, and I @misfitcoach: You saw his back muscles obsessed. @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: ⁓ you man, go ahead. Like I'll I'll clear the way for you. there's some of that where it's just like you're kind of there's like a little doubt creeping in. But ⁓ I think once you get that first workout in, 'cause that was easily like the ⁓ the stage that I had been on. and it of like reminded me of my first like Desert City was my first individual travel competition where, you know, I did their online qualifier but then they invited like ten semifinals level athletes and I was like, I've never competed against people of this level before and you have this imposter syndrome and but then you have you know, maybe you have some workouts that don't go well and but then you have some where it's like, okay, I you know, I my spot here. I do belong. I'm, you know, falling around ⁓ of these people that I used to put on such like a pedestal. @paige_semenza: did you feel? How did the intensity to like, let's say desert city, right? Where you're against semi-final athletes. Now you're at NorCal ⁓ and you're up against games athletes, other semi-final level athletes. How did you feel three, two, one go? Like is the intensity much higher? Like is the, does the effort starting out feel a lot different than, ⁓ you know, just being at a @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. @paige_semenza: Comp that's maybe a level down @kylemoline: Mm. Yeah, that first workout, like I felt like my heartbeat was like in my throat, like up here the entire time. and there was definitely that factor. I think having, you know, I think that that was my fourth big like individual in person competition. I think having a few under my belt kind of built some confidence and taught me to like stay in my own lane. Cause I think if that had been my first one, I would have looked to my right and saw the guy rowing faster than me and been like, I'm a good rower, I should be up there too. And I would have, you know, lot my plan would've gone out the window and I would have @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @kylemoline: Then like that one guy that went out too hot and finished towards the bottom. Drew Pai knows who I'm thinking about. but think having that experience allowed me to be like, okay, this is these are the nerves, like @misfitcoach: Mm-hmm. @kylemoline: This is running in double unders, which is already gonna blow up my heart rate. So, like this is how it's supposed to feel. I just need to stick to my plan on my pacing and ⁓ kind of trust that the work that I've done has prepped me for this. So there's definitely an increased intensity when you're like lining up with those people. And I think just having some experien prior experience to like stack leading up to that really helped me not freak out and not kind of like lose my cool ⁓ like the runs or just like start tripping on the double unders, because that's usually @paige_semenza: you you @kylemoline: huge weakness for me is like on for double unders and not just being a mess and getting tangled in my rope. So but it was okay. It was bet I think it went better than ⁓ maybe would have thought it would. @misfitcoach: And that's I mean, starting with that one too is it's it's very traditional, it's very straightforward. but I I tried to to warn you before it started, however fast you think people are going to run, it it will be faster. The the that that is the one thing where like @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. It will be, yeah. @misfitcoach: Sometimes I would agree that like Echo Bike is similar. Like when when an athlete at a high level sees another athlete, maybe that's bigger than them on an Echo bike, you can just be like, you're holding how many RPMs in this 20-minute workout? But with the running, it's ⁓ faster than in training. Like that's that's that intensity is ⁓ so, so high with the running. And thought you did a great job because ⁓ there's @paige_semenza: Always. @misfitcoach: Two things that can happen in competition, and only one of them can happen in online competition. An online competition, if you bomb a workout, you're screwed. Like you're absolutely screwed. If you bomb a workout in an in-person competition, it doesn't matter in the same way. You don't get assigned this crazy point total, and you know, and you're trying to get the lowest score possible. So it makes sense in non-wheelhouse workouts to kind of play it safe in an online competition. If you play @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: A tr like a medium duration triplet safe in an in-person competition, you will come in last you will come in second to last to the person that went out too hot. Like you really just can't do that. And then at the same time, we plenty of people because you went from in your heat ⁓ something 10th to 9th to 8th to 6th or something like that. Like you made your way back down through those people that started out a little bit too hot. So you have to live in this Goldilocks zone of like, I'm in this really uncomfortable territory, but I'm not pushing too hard early and I'm not holding back enough that I can't catch up. Cause again, if you if aga if you dial it back in that first round and you see that people are 150 meters ahead of you, you just know, like, maybe I'll pass one person by the final round. and I've had the opportunity to watch you for years. Talk to Kenzie about, you know, how you execute on things. And I felt like NORCAL was your best representation of your strategy and your fitness kind of coming together. Because you've had different periods of time where one is better than the other and they're kind of catching up to one another. So with being higher stakes first semifinals like how do you feel like you were able to do that? 'Cause I feel like it was probably the best execution that I've seen you do. @kylemoline: Yeah, I would agree. ⁓ I'm not sure. It is kind of just like going back on the experience and obviously like I talk about my first Desert City where it was just like ⁓ wracking. I couldn't sleep like two weeks for the f two weeks leading up to it just 'cause I was thinking about events and ⁓ like it's it's the it's a machine queen problem apparently. @paige_semenza: Okay, McKenna. @kylemoline: But yeah. And so and then last year I went to ⁓ the T FX invitational and I just like signed up for the RX division, but there were still like some pretty fit people there. And I ended up winning, which like I wasn't, you know, expecting. And so I think just recognizing that I could go out and like hit some home runs or win events or against like some people that I would consider like pretty fit. and that confidence that, ⁓ you my strategies ⁓ are good and they're coming together and my fitness can support it. I used to. Adrian will tell like, I used to be the person that would just go out super hot and fade and she would just at me. When we were training together, but I've definitely worked on that like found like where I can like really push push like my ⁓ my threshold and not and not like red line. so I think it's just like recognizing that stuff while you're in training or sometimes it ⁓ you just do go out hot in ⁓ a workout and see what happens and see if you can actually hold on. ⁓ know that first open workout this year, I was like, I'm just gonna do bigger sets, even though everyone's saying to like ⁓ it up on the wall balls. I'm gonna hold on for the first ⁓ sets to like go either unbroken or go big. ⁓ I paid the price, ⁓ it was sort of like a is my fitness ⁓ @paige_semenza: You @kylemoline: Like where's my fitness? Let's let's test it in like the most like meathead way possible and just see what happens. And if the wheels fall off, the wheels fall off, but you learned something at least. @misfitcoach: She basically said that she would let you get a lead because she knew she would always catch you by the end of workouts. @kylemoline: Yeah. Yes. Well that's that's also like her the way she she's like a big like save up I call her save up Sally like back half negative split. And so I've been working on I was like, you actually need to do the opposite of what I'm doing. And so ⁓ it's just kind of funny because we're you know, we have some similarities in terms of like our, you know, background and swimming and whatnot and like what movements we're good at, but then like I am just this like come out way too hot and she's ⁓ out too slow. And so there ⁓ workouts where, you know, maybe I did go out hot. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Sure. ⁓ huh. Yep. @kylemoline: But she just didn't go out fast enough to catch me. And but we've been trying to like s switch and, you know, trade places every once in a while. It's it's hilarious. @paige_semenza: I was going to say, biggest thing that I have noticed just within Telegram, obviously don't work with you. You with Kenzie so much. But athlete IQ, I feel like everybody's really kind of evolving their athlete IQ, especially this year as we went through the Open and we did all the worksheets and ⁓ went quarterfinals. you find yourself in training taking more risks to learn these things? What's that been like for you? like you're saying, Adrian is kind of the opposite. Are you guys like actively talking about those things and going into training pieces together saying like, Hey, I'm going to try this. I know this isn't like the right strategy for me, but I need to find out if it is, or, you know, things like that. What's that been like for you guys and for you specifically. @kylemoline: Yeah. Maybe not like every day, but there are definitely some pieces where it's like, Hey, this think there I remember there was a sprinter bowl once where it was like biking, power cleans, and like thirty chest bar and there were like three rounds. And I was like, I'm gonna do the first round of chest bar unbroken and we'll see what happens. And so there there are points where I'm like, Yep, this is where I'm going to like do something ⁓ maybe a reckless and just see what happens and same thing with as like, Hey, like Well just, you know, see if you can hold on for your biggest set of muscle ups ever. so it is like there is definitely some risk taking. And I think it's really important because sometimes you'll take the risk and it'll pay off. ⁓ then it's just validating that, you know, what you've been working on or like your fitness level is maybe higher than you would expect it had expected. or just like for us, for her and I, like double unders aren't very good and and we like we both trip up and so Although we got ridic I got ridiculed at January camp for my jump rope and quickly bought the RX smart gear one and made her buy one too. But I feel like over the last couple months it's like, hey, I know you would typically break ⁓ set of ⁓ ⁓ like thirty-five, fifteen, but we're just gonna go for unbroken. And if you trip ten times in a set, you trip ten times in a set, but the ⁓ goal is gonna be unbroken double unders and we're gonna just prove to ourselves whether we can do it. and it's kinda funny 'cause some I she tripped less than @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: I did on that first Norkel workout, which is normally not the case. Like usually she'll trip up more than I did, but it's @misfitcoach: It didn't look like she was going to trip less, but she tripped less. @kylemoline: Yes, yes, I reminded her that too. But ⁓ yeah, so it's good that like it's like, Hey, let's put ourselves in harder situations in training that way when you get to the competition floor, you're like, ⁓ I've you know, I've I've played around with this a few times and proven to myself that I can do it. It's like actually feels easier to do it in competition because you've b you've had so many reps in training ⁓ you for that. So definitely recommend that. ⁓ @paige_semenza: It also, yeah, it also gives you like if I'm close to somebody, you know, to cross the finish line and I know that I have that in my back pocket and I have that that experience, it's like I get to use that experience to go beat this person to the finish line. So that's kind of like what I was getting out there of like, how can you use that to really kind of compete? You know, like that's confidence, that's experience. And like that's that's really, really like, you know, @kylemoline: Yeah. Mm-hmm. @paige_semenza: That's invaluable type of information to have. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. Absolutely. I think old me would have tried to go. So the workout at NorCal had eight sets of fifty double unders. I think I probably would have, you know, maybe a year ago or a year and a half ago tried to do four sets unbroken and then break to avoid trips on like the back four. But this time I was like, no, I'd like I know I could do fifty. And if I trip, I know that I can get going again really, really quickly. So like The trip is gonna usually trips trips used to like really mess me up and my double unders would go bad would get really bad after them, but I've gotten to the point where I'm like, Okay, it's just a silly trip and I know why I tripped and I can stay composed and like change where my hands are to make sure that I don't do it again. And so I think I only trip like three or four times during that workout, which was good for me for four hundred double unders. @paige_semenza: stay composed. Yeah. Yeah. @misfitcoach: I can speak for Kyle a little bit, Paige. Him and and and Adrian have those conversations that you're talking about. Like leading into workouts, after workouts. They have that mind. honestly, the the basis for where the idea of athlete IQ came from. So the pre 2022 training camps, you'd have the workout and then you'd have this pod ⁓ ⁓ @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: anywhere from two to six or seven CrossFit Games athletes and they just be breaking down the workout on their own, no prompt from a coach in detail. That just really blew my mind. And then the other groups are, wow, that was hard. I didn't realize this was going to happen. Like the what they were talking about were two totally different things. And it's like, wait a minute. That's the CrossFit Games athlete group over here. And then this is the group of people that want to to get to that level. just listening to them talk, it's like that's one of the ways you can level up. You're just given so many, ⁓ if you love to train, how many opportunities are you given to like figure out how to strategize these things? so it it was cool to see that and just another kind of checkbox of like, okay, this this makes sense. @kylemoline: I think it's over here. @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: Like some people are just a little bit more invested in this way and it shows up when they go out there and get after it. and then one one funny thing, Kyle, I you, ⁓ and were not talking to one another in a group. But I was speaking to you. I was speaking to Kenzie. You were speaking to me. You were speaking to Kenzie. And it was funny when the competition started, she was just like, don't let him go out too hot. Don't let him go out to hot. Well, what's what's his rope pace? What's this rope pace gonna be? And like it's funny because she's doesn't go out too hot. ⁓ she also is not a double under sympathizer. I think she could do a thousand with Tudor. so like it was just funny to to see that. And I was like, okay, I think this. ⁓ @kylemoline: Yeah, yeah. @misfitcoach: I think his athlete IQ, semi finals prep, me being here with like a slight nudge and then his conversations with Kenzie, I think we can kinda bring all of this stuff together and get it to that point. Because you had a little bit of a reputation, whether it's new or old, of like, let's let it rip. And you actually added three hundred cals per hour to your first round row goal pace within like ninety seconds of us talking. @kylemoline: Yeah. @misfitcoach: You you were like, I'm thinking twelve hundred and whatever, and then you're like, I I I love rowing, I can go fifteen hundred and I was like, What the what you just what we just did @paige_semenza: Hahaha! @kylemoline: I think I started like fourteen fifty and the guy next to me was like seventeen hundred. I was like, okay, I'm not doing that. Like that seems like the wrong idea. And then it was like the middle rounds were probably thirteen hundred, mid thirteen hundreds, and then I actually picked it up on the last one. I was like, even though I felt terrible, I picked it up on the last one. So I was like, okay, this feels right. Like it hurts in the fourth round, but it's just the fourth round. And so, yes, but gotten better at not going out too hot. I'm glad I have a reputation. Maybe not, I'm glad maybe not glad. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Yep. Yep. @paige_semenza: You @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: But what you're saying right there is that's the intensity that I was talking about of like, all right, let's say you practice an event at home and then you get to the event in person. It's like. you kind of know, like your gut's already telling you that you're going to have to go harder in person. Like that's just the way it goes. finding that fine line of like what's reckless and what's the right level up is really hard to do. ⁓ And where I think like you continue to get the experience that you're getting at these competitions. Like that's how you build that. Because you don't know what ⁓ that level of competition is until you get there. We talked that with McKenna quite a bit in her first semifinal. have that experience under your belt of going into it the second time and being able to stay more composed and more mature and learn that you can do 10 legless rope climbs and you ⁓ kind of surprise yourself. it sounds like that's kind of you with the double unders a little bit. I'm sure there's going to be other events too that you want to talk about that I'm sure you have surprised yourself quite a bit. @misfitcoach: Let's talk about Kyle, do you remember what event two was? Kyle, what was event two? @kylemoline: Nor Calso four rounds of seven muscle ups and then forty thirty twenty ten thrusters ⁓ one thirty five ninety five. And that ta that time cap cap came in ⁓ nice sweet after ninety thrusters. ⁓ @misfitcoach: Listen, everyone, I watched a lot of thrusters. Kyle's might have been the best. I'm just saying. That round of 40, great Yeah, you know, great leg involvement. yeah, I mean, that workout in that setting, that heat, was ⁓ I think 10 most fucked up things that I've seen in fifteen, sixteen years. @paige_semenza: Not surprised. @kylemoline: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. @misfitcoach: And that is not, there is no exaggeration at all. It was so funny. So, like, you're thinking about your strategy. We're talking through it. You have expectations of of what how the workout's gonna go. You're standing in the tent and you're watching Pat Vellner down ⁓ a Yeti cooler during the workout, full on, like parked there. Does that change? @paige_semenza: You @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: Anything for you, your mindset, your strategy, what I'm about to get into. Like, what was it like going and standing there and seeing the other guys dealing with that? @kylemoline: It immediately gave me permission to sit down during the workout if I needed to. And I did. I sat on a chalk bucket during one of the during a break on the muscle ups. but we everybody in the corral were like, ⁓ shoot, ⁓ sitting, like what are we about to walk into? and I know that before kind of going back to my going out too hot, we had talked about I was like, ⁓ I could probably rip seven muscle ups ⁓ and in first round and then I'll break it in the second. ⁓ @paige_semenza: Ha ha ha ha. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Yeah. @kylemoline: And Drew was just like four three or five two. And I was like, okay. And then I saw Pat and I like, Four three. Like I'm I'm breaking these muscle ups because if he's there, like I don't want to know where I'm gonna be. but yeah, that workout was dirty. The first set of forty felt amazing, and then yeah, then the rest of the workout happened. Sets a little bit smaller, bar got a little bit heavier, quads cramped a little bit. I think I could have been better about like @misfitcoach: Is is that on your Mount Rushmore of like hardest comp workouts you've done? @kylemoline: I honestly thought it was gonna be worse than it was, but I think it's because I it early and often from the beginning. I think if I had ripped ten and then try to drop to like sixes or fives, ⁓ I have been in a worse situation. But ⁓ having seen everybody else go, I know like Adrian did like fives the entire way and was like, Okay, like you know, I kept moving. I was like, Okay, fine, I will I will that and I will, you know, take @misfitcoach: Yeah. @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @kylemoline: that advice to break it up and that definitely like paid off 'cause I felt like I was able to ⁓ the most part ⁓ moving. but @misfitcoach: All right. We talked a little bit before about this just tasty little side dish of disgusting bitch work that Kyle got to have as a treat. @kylemoline: Okay. @misfitcoach: That the idea of what confidence can do for an athlete is we're gonna put this on display here. So Kyle had NorCal Su upwards of 80 to 100 thrusters at 135 pounds after the running, rowing, and double unders. The next morning, Kyle had a 20k bike. and 20 minutes in had to move the damper up to 10. Kyle not only ⁓ @kylemoline: Okay. @misfitcoach: Said it wasn't gonna be that bad, said it was gonna flush his legs, basically smiled through the whole thing, held a pace that I cannot hold in my eighth gear sessions for 30 some minutes. He got off and he shrugged while everyone around him is doing the bacon sizzle on the ground, just absolutely cooked. That the best part was the guy next to you because he was the one trying to catch you. @paige_semenza: you @kylemoline: Yeah. Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: And his RPMs were so fucking high. And he was like, he had this, we we said he was doing ⁓ butterfly pedaling, cause he was doing this thing with his legs to try and pedal that I've never seen before. Like his knees were going in and out, and he's just trying to find, hey, is there like a muscle or something back there that's gonna help me? you get to see on your screen how close he is. So whenever he got within, it was pretty obvious, whenever he got him, whatever 50 meters, you would just go faster. ⁓ @kylemoline: Mm. Yeah, @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: And he falls off the bike right after you and is just in the most like torturous state. And you just say it wasn't that bad. you were in zone for ⁓ most of this workout, and then you had what five-ish minutes in zone five, maybe somewhere in that range. @kylemoline: Yeah, sure of being you know. @paige_semenza: Body language. @kylemoline: Yeah. Yeah. It's like twenty in zone four and ten in zone five. @misfitcoach: Okay. So that's not this is so important for people to like latch onto this concept. That's not easy. But you like the bike, you have confidence in the bike, you know what paces you can hold. You didn't go out too hot, but you didn't let yourself kind of sit back and then have to, you know, really stomp the gas pedal. Like that's really hard, challenging work, but you were in a fantastic headspace and you just kind of locked in and did it. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: ⁓ so I don't know that there's a question anywhere in there, but I'd just like to hear what that experience is like for you. Also fuck you, but go ahead. @kylemoline: Hmm. Part of me, like Yeah. well, for that, the my pace was 143.4. So if you need another a gear eight target, there you go. I did the concept two time like pace calculator, and that's what it was. ⁓ yeah, it was okay. yeah, of me is like looking back, like did I ⁓ tr go enough? Like could I have @paige_semenza: Hahaha! @misfitcoach: I'm gonna try and find my last eighth gear. You keep going. It's not gonna be good. @kylemoline: emptied the tank and s n like, you know, eked out a couple more positions 'cause I went back to the leaderboard and I think Tudor who won was only like twenty two seconds ahead of me. So it'd have seven other people @paige_semenza: Wow. @misfitcoach: Well, that was my whisper. That was the only thing I had to say behind you is don't forget about the next heat. That's one thing. That's another. That's just you learn through that. You don't learn from the guy who's sitting at a sixty heart rate behind you whispering in your ear. You learn when you're like, ⁓ maybe I left a little on the table next time I won't let that happen kind of a thing. @kylemoline: Yeah. @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. ⁓ yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I to I definitely did that 'cause I was looking at my screen and I could see the guys in first and second were like eighty to a hundred meters in front of me and then the guy behind me was eighty meters and I was like, Okay, I'm just gonna sit here because it's gonna take a lot and they kept like increasing their lead. I was like, It's gonna take a lot if I wanna catch them and I wasn't thinking about all you know, the twenty other guys that were going me. but it was funny that ⁓ That guy next to me started to make a move like three K out and I was kinda like hanging out. fortunately he was right next to me 'cause I could just like ⁓ over and like, ⁓ you're going one thirty seven? I guess we're going one thirty seven and then he would like gas out for a little bit, like one forty five. I'm like, Cool, we I could chill it one forty five. ⁓ so any time he tried to pick it up. @misfitcoach: Body language was pretty damn obvious who was gonna who was gonna take that. He was hurtin'. It could be good for him, but he was hurtin'. @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: Yeah. ⁓ yeah. Yeah. And it did feel good to like kinda like look up and around at everybody and I'm like, I'm okay. I'm not going to ruin the rest of my weekend by going too hard in this and it was just kind of like seeing some other people in ⁓ absolute misery on the floor or even just like still biking while I was ⁓ the bike. And so I think like confidence wise it helped me like realize like which is cool 'cause I don't I mean, I don't do that much bike erg stuff. Kenzie doesn't let me do that anymore. So I had people coming up to after they're like, You spent a lot of time on the bike erg? I like, Not anymore. Like my coach doesn't let me. ⁓ and so like it's cool to see that you can like neglect, but you can like intentionally like avoid some of your strength stuff and then ⁓ like the rest of your game. ⁓ @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: 'Cause yeah, that ended up being my I was looking at my placements. That was ninth place was my best one and that. And then the rest of them were it was twenty one through th twenty first through thirty first. So I was like right in the middle of the pack everywhere else and it's like, okay, cool, we're you know, I didn't have any like stinkers that I dropped where I was like forty plus or even, you know, thirties, so it was cool to see that my placements were consistent across the board. and that strength are still strengths are still my strengths. ⁓ So ⁓ @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. Did you have a goal going into this weekend? Placement wise or just even mentally, emotionally, any kind of goals? @kylemoline: That's the other thing, isn't funny and I was like and didn't really think about it until like the day before, but I was like I don't really have like a placement goal. ⁓ Like goal was to get here and maybe that sounds kinda lame. but I have like a placement goal. I had like an expectation. I was you know, fortieth or something in the qualifier. so I actually got an invite, you know, I was one of the last couple of people invited in and then they invite, you know, games athletes in, so ⁓ tried to fill out a field of fifty. So I was expecting, you know, like bottom ten is ⁓ I would live. ⁓ so ⁓ up finishing twenty seventh was obviously like a lot better than I expected. ⁓ it was funny too, 'cause ⁓ Brian Friend posted ⁓ his ⁓ he had ranked people for everybody, and was in fortieth on his ⁓ @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @kylemoline: ranking for NorCal. And so I was like, okay, cool. Like that's where maybe expected me to be, so it was kind of nice to ⁓ end up there and end up, you know, a bit higher on the leaderboard. ⁓ @misfitcoach: Paige and I are shocked that he didn't know where you were gonna finish, right, Paige? @paige_semenza: for sure. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. @paige_semenza: Always. stand that man. His ⁓ @kylemoline: I was just happy I made the ⁓ board 'cause he only did through like forty or forty one people. @paige_semenza: Ha ha ha! @misfitcoach: in their infinite wisdom we have 100 thrusters or 20k bike, and then we go into ⁓ clean jerk. Right? Then go into four three two one clean and jerks. We have for you two forty-five, two ninety-five, three twenty-five, three forty-five. What was your one rep max clean and jerk put together prior to the competition? @kylemoline: three fifteen from a couple of years ago. @paige_semenza: Whoo. @misfitcoach: So what did you did you feel about that? Like what was that what was that like for you to to see those weights come up before it you actually did it? ⁓ @kylemoline: three forty five was like, whoa. ⁓ that would be like a huge jump. Three twenty five I still felt confident about. ⁓ I had cleaned three thirty five. I think it was back in January. And then as part of the qualifier I had jerked three fifty five. And I know that like if I clean it I can jerk it 'cause my jerk is my best lift. I knew that two ninety five would be challenging but doable and then 325 like if I gave myself enough time I could I felt pretty good about it. still obviously like putting it together was it wasn't something I had done ⁓ So there's always like that kind of like question in the back of my head, like can I actually do it? Like I know I have the two of the pu puzzle but sometimes ⁓ you them together and they don't actually like play out. So Yeah, I was obviously like I was pretty happy with that one and I think had I had a little bit more time, maybe could have taken a whack at three forty five instead of just doing like the one inch deadlift and laughing it off at the buzzer. @misfitcoach: mean ⁓ PR for a double. Yeah, ⁓ that's big deal. And that's like that with the way you explained it is exactly why it's my favorite competition lift. Just the that you accomplish something ⁓ big and ⁓ by the way, ⁓ now it's your chest and you can't breathe. @paige_semenza: So that's a PR, yeah, right. @kylemoline: Yeah. take it. ⁓ @misfitcoach: And your midline and your legs are starting to chirp, why don't you put it over your head and then recover it? Like there's just something special about that lift, in my opinion, in a in a competition setting. So it was super cool to to see you do that. Was that that was event three, right? Sandtrap was after? Or was Sand Trap before? @kylemoline: ⁓ that was the fifth that was the fifth event. Event three was the bike, event four was Sand Trap, and then the s clean jerks were Saturday night. It was event five. @misfitcoach: That's right. Yeah. so sand trap, we have 100 sandbag bare hug carry, three one and a half rope climbs, another sandbag carry, two rope climbs, sandbag carry, one rope climb, sandbag carry. this one was either your second or highest finish, correct? @kylemoline: Second best. It was ⁓ twenty first. @misfitcoach: Yep. so walk us through that. What was what was this one like for you? 'Cause obviously a little bit more like fast and furious. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it was wasn't I I think if I had like looked at the entire weekend, I don't know that I would have this will be my second best finish. Like I might have actually expected that to be the first workout just because it's more aerobic. but ⁓ my ⁓ Gangly arms finally paid off. unless there's a swim, like they're that's n they're not gonna pay off anywhere else. ⁓ so ⁓ long arms helped with the sandbag carry and I've gotten pretty comfortable with the two hundred recently. so I was excited about that. And then the rope ⁓ @misfitcoach: Ha ha ha. @kylemoline: obviously helps having a little bit of a reach. like the one and a half technique was don't know, I thought it was kinda fun. And if you're like not good at clamping ⁓ on ⁓ like could be really dangerous or like really, you know, taxing. ⁓ And the rope at our gym ⁓ is a it's like one of those speed ropes or like like it's slippery. So ⁓ @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @kylemoline: If we don't if we don't have a good clamp on this rope, you're not doing very well on rope climbs. And so I think having, you know, training under, you know, less than ideal conditions makes it so like my rope climbs are pretty solid. I think I could have done better in terms of like, you know, two pulls versus three pulls, but I see some other people that just did not have their clamp down and were sliding and just like taxing their upper body. And I mean that was entirely like a ⁓ like upper body like pump workout. I think I finished Caroline was like, ⁓ my gosh, like look at your arms ⁓ because it was just like a four minutes of holding on to the sandbag or holding onto the rope. but no, that one was fun. It was faster than I thought it would be ⁓ and up being a really good placement. So ⁓ @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: That was like the epitome of slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Cause there were people like Vellner, specifically everyone was like, Velner's gonna win this, and you didn't I don't think you s got to see him go, Kyle. It was he shot himself out of a cannon in the kind of way where like he shot himself twice as far as he was supposed to go out of the cannon. everything was just too much. I a and I think at the that point in his career, like @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: He isn't doing as well in the competition. I don't even know what his goals are. Like he's just like let me go put on a show, sort of a thing. ⁓ but there was definitely an element of like, I'm gonna stay super smooth here and that's going to allow me to go fast. That's that's what it felt like watching you. you didn't you you never took your time picking up the bag or anything like that, but you also weren't sprinting back. @kylemoline: Yeah. Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: or like jumping right back up in your rope climbs and the people who did that early on you could just tell like didn't have the juice anymore. @kylemoline: Okay. Mm. Yeah, that was the goal. It was smooth as fast and 'cause I didn't wanna you know, the rope was it didn't like hit the floor necessarily, so you don't want to like kick the rope too too far when you're trying to clasp on that first jump, ⁓ and then just start dangling there. so it was all just about like make each movement like really intentional. and long as you don't slip up, you're not gonna like lose a whole bunch of time. So ⁓ that one where ⁓ old might have had some issues, but ⁓ @misfitcoach: Yeah. @kylemoline: New new and improved, smarter, Kyle did pretty well. Yeah. @paige_semenza: 2.0. @misfitcoach: It's important to state though that the opposite is a real problem. If someone doesn't want to be in pain and hurt and go hard, they're not going to be able to learn how to just take this like tiny step back. And like the speed is honestly not that much different. It's body language, movement awareness, like those kinds of things. You smooth those edges and then it becomes possible to use the fact that you like to kind of get after it a little bit in an event like that. @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And this was and this is like a for the whole like semifinal in general was that that was like kind of a new movement to everybody. and so you only had so much time to like figure out what your technique needed to be. which I loved. Like I I was so glad that they did not release workouts until Thursday night because in my opinion, like, that's part of like that athleticism factor where you don't get to do this workout three times before you actually do it on the stage. Like you are strategy and your ⁓ and ability to like act and learn on the fly ⁓ really tested because your your first attempt is your only attempt, ⁓ I @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @kylemoline: think is how it should be. so ⁓ think that just like falling back to like those practice sessions and stuff and just being able to like pivot ⁓ learn and like have really sound technique played my favor 'cause you see you just saw people that couldn't figure out ⁓ how am I supposed to drop to get halfway my hands halfway back down and then reclimb. And then when they drop they lose their footing ⁓ and that they can't reclamp. And so I that something I enjoyed about the event in general was that they didn't release their workouts. @misfitcoach: So we ignore the bike, is there an event ⁓ you think you could have gone ⁓ in? Which which event do you think you could have done better in? ⁓ I do want to disqualify the final because we'll talk about why we'll we'll talk we'll talk about that separately. But is there an event where you feel like you you could have gone ⁓ faster @kylemoline: Yeah, okay. @misfitcoach: Specifically. @kylemoline: ⁓ maybe partially the rope climb one. I would say the sixth one, the lopsided one. I think I could have just sucked it up on the dumbbell. Yeah. @misfitcoach: I tried to tee that up as as as as best I could. That was one page where it's like you do it, it's about five minutes long, you execute really well, and then you see everyone else's scores from the other heats, and you're like, shit. Cause you executed so well in that workout. There's just there were there were probably and and I don't know, you're the one who who did the workout, so like I don't know where you feel like you could have done it, but you just @paige_semenza: Yeah. Yeah. @misfitcoach: did so well with the squat snatches, the dumbbell squat snatches, that it was like, where else, you know, was it the burpees? Was it how you broke up the lunges? Like what do you think you would have done differently if you got to do that again? @kylemoline: No. I think at least going into the finals. So every it was twenty burpees of a dumbbell, hundred foot right arm lunge with the seventy pound dumbbell, hundred foot left arm, and then thirty hang dumbbell squat snatches with the seventy. But you had to advance it twenty five feet every ten reps. So you would do ten, advanced and and I think where I could have gone faster, at least on the last set of ten, is I carried it, I advanced it, and then I set it down and then I waited. picked it up and I did my last ten. my buddy next to me carried and he's just this tank and he just went right into it ⁓ into last 10. ⁓ And I my cycle speed was faster than him. ⁓ So was like, okay, I can let him get like one or two ahead of me. and I let him get three ⁓ and he me. and like I went back and watched my video. I was like, I was fine. Like I could have walked ⁓ that final twenty-five ⁓ and just dropped into the hang and done ten more. ⁓ @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: that is definitely like if was gonna change something I would have just sucked it up because I think I would have been fine. ⁓ And just maybe was like, Okay I'll let him get it and I'll catch him as opposed to just like beating him. @misfitcoach: Twenty-four seconds faster was top ten. @kylemoline: Okay. @misfitcoach: Yeah. So this and and again, like it's what's so important here is like the wrong mindset is like, damn it, why didn't I do that? And the right mindset is, ⁓ wow, I'd really good execution there, but maybe there's like just that like I could take a little bit more of a chance because I literally right now could go get like a top ten score, which is a cool thing to think about. but yeah, that was that was one where ⁓ I had the hindsight feeling as well. I watched it and I'm like, hell yeah. I just like left, walk back to the warm-up area to talk to Lindsay about, you know, strategy, how it was going. And then I saw the scores come in. I'm like, hmm, maybe the execution was too good, you know, like that kind of thing. @paige_semenza: Yeah, I mean, just listening to that, sounds like one of those workouts where it's like, if I went faster in the front half of it, is it really going to change what I do on the back half? Or would that have been pretty similar? Like the dumbbell hang snatches probably wouldn't have felt much different had you gone half a second faster per rep everywhere else, right? @kylemoline: Yeah. Yeah, I think it was one of those where it was like @misfitcoach: Yeah, and that like that's one thing, Paige. We you and I talk about this a lot of like the workout written out oftentimes looks so bad. And then you realize those forced transitions and forced set breaks. And we talk about like, hey, I actually think you could @paige_semenza: Yeah. @misfitcoach: Hold on here. Like you could, you know, ha you know, hold on to the dumbbell or hold on to the barbell or whatever it is during that transition, or you could go right back into it and it's, you know, yeah, it's fifteen and it's heavy, but it's actually, you know, three sets of five or something like that. that's where, you know, knowing from the briefing, like @paige_semenza: Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: 'Cause that's what that was funny about watching Adrian on that workout. She's just like walk like waddling with the dumbbell between her legs and then dee dee dee dee, just back to like doing her back to doing her squat snatches. @paige_semenza: Great. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. I think I told her I was like, You'll be fine. Like I don't feel like I did anything just now. Just go moving. There's no there's no reason to really stop. so she she was like, like I guess that was a workout. And she won, so I was like I was like, see you were fine. @misfitcoach: Mm. @paige_semenza: That's how you know then, for sure. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Yep. All right. The final. I'll read it. It's I'll it in a really confusing way. Round one and round three were ten deadlifts ⁓ at sixty-five, thirty-foot backwards handstand walk, twenty toes to bar, thirty-foot forwards handstand walk, and then the middle round was twenty deadlifts. handstand walks the same ten bar muscle ups. you Did you y you ripped or had a blister or you 'cause you got to a point where you were on the pull up bar it looked like you were being zapped by electricity. ⁓ it just wasn't happening holding on for sets. You looked very pissed. ⁓ lovely. ⁓ @paige_semenza: sucks. @kylemoline: Yeah. I had four blisters. Yeah. My hands were just like yeah. was rough because it wasn't like a fitness thing. It was ⁓ gloves and the heat just ruined my hands and then, ⁓ know, I've never really failed far muscle ups like that. or like had to do singles like that ⁓ and ⁓ @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: Just by the time I got there, I could not hold on to the bar. And then I think I got to the last set of toes to bar and was just doing singles and then ended up hitting the cap. I think under, you know, different conditions I could have finished that workout pretty ⁓ e easily. just I like hand sandwalks ⁓ and toe to bar volume wasn't that much. The ⁓ Bar muscle at volume wasn't that much. And even though I was kinda like concerned about my back on the deadlifts, like the deadlifts I was able to move through, but all of that like in like I my gloves were slipping ⁓ on grips, and my grips were slipping on the bar, and my hands were slipping inside the gloves because they were just like hot and sweaty ⁓ and I I felt like I would jump up to the ⁓ the and almost just like fall off. ⁓ But yeah. @misfitcoach: Yeah. @kylemoline: ⁓ well, everybody else was under the same conditions, so it's like it's not like it was a unique excuse for me. It was just my hands couldn't keep up. but otherwise I thought like the workout was fun. Well handstand walking backwards is ⁓ a fun little circus trick that I've ⁓ like played around for the past like five, six years with ⁓ to actually do it in competition was kinda cool. ⁓ @misfitcoach: The funny anecdote from that. @paige_semenza: than the jumping double unders he had to do last year. @kylemoline: ⁓ my god, I'm so glad those didn't come up. @misfitcoach: you notice who above you by one on the leaderboard after ⁓ the final? 'Cause I felt like you're the final with you with the way that it was going, you're probably like twentieth roughly, somewhere in that range. and I just I noticed. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I did see that he beat me. I was like But was I did look and I was the fittest Kyle there. ⁓ 'cause there's ⁓ one other Kyle and then I was the fittest Korean there 'cause there were two guys from Kir from Korea that had made the trip over and I was like, okay, I was like I I guess I beat some people, but yes, I did notice he got me by ⁓ five @misfitcoach: Hell yeah. @paige_semenza: You gotta find your wins. @kylemoline: ⁓ well. @misfitcoach: Yeah. I just ⁓ like after our conversations there about pacing, I thought that was a funny name in that in that spot. so yeah, I mean th the final is interesting. It's it's another one where it's like, okay, if if we know that they're probably gonna make us handstand walk and gonna be on those mats, like like what do you think you get a redo, what is the play there? Like how how could you learn from that? Because 'cause it just wasn't really indicative of like your fitness level, your strategy in the workout was good, like you mitigated the deadlifts really well. You were good on the handstand walk. Obviously you like the polling gymnastics. Like what what could you or what would you have done differently to to kind of deal with because that was just kind of a weird circumstance. @kylemoline: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, maybe trained in the gloves a little bit more often. ⁓ 'cause I like bought them and wore them to make sure that they fit my hands and that was about it. ⁓ so they were probably still pretty like slimy or whatever, just 'cause they're like brand new. maybe by the time I got to like the rig ⁓ @misfitcoach: Yeah. @kylemoline: maybe just pull them off, use my grips, put them back on right before the handstand walk, just 'cause I was gonna take that extra second before I kicked up anyways, just to just 'cause obviously like the gloves and the grips make rig and the barbell thicker. ⁓ as somebody who like grip fatigue is probably one of my bigger weaknesses already. it's maybe something I should have anticipated. So ⁓ that's the changes that I would made if I still had to like handstand walk on, you know, degree stall mats, but @misfitcoach: Right. True. Yeah. God, what a throwback. It's a throwback to to ⁓ 2012 or 2013 regionals at Reebok where everyone's were peeling the ⁓ I think it's on video. Castro put his hand down for like three seconds and was like, it's fine. Go ahead. ⁓ out put all of your body weight upside down on your hands and go for ⁓ ⁓ @paige_semenza: wild. Yeah. blistered. It is on video. you @kylemoline: Yes. @misfitcoach: It has the potential to be a little bit of an issue. That was just absolute carnage for for misfit athletes. There were there were a lot of there were some, honestly, that looked like we knight might need to go to the hospital. Gabe was was one of them. Gabe had a bubble on his hand that was like this far off. It was disgusting. It was so gross. Yep. @kylemoline: ⁓ yeah, Adrian got one too. @paige_semenza: Nasty. @misfitcoach: Yep. Good times. All right. So, Kyle, you listen to the podcast. You know how we end this bad boy. ⁓ we will extend this segment out to not just coaches are people too, ⁓ but coaches and athletes are people too. we'll just throw in an anecdote about life that's potentially not CrossFit related. I will go first We just had the naked weekend for parents out there. You know what I'm talking about for listeners who are not parents. You ⁓ to potty train, basically you stay home for an entire weekend ⁓ the kid doesn't get to wear pants or underwear ⁓ he just gonna piss on your carpet and then you're gonna tell him that he needs to do it in the toilet, and eventually he starts peeing in the toilet. so We had I would say the funniest anecdote was he was in his room standing behind his crib and he was peeing into his crib and he was laughing so hard. It was my job to pick him up and run him to his potty as fast as possible. And Maya's job, ⁓ because she doesn't trust me, to clean the pee to the extent ⁓ that she thinks is necessary. ⁓ Saturday ⁓ ⁓ @paige_semenza: You @misfitcoach: Fine, it was the first day. Sunday, unbeknownst to us, he started to get the flu, started to get a fever. So we were rocking potty training. Where's my diaper? Where are my pants? He's got a fever. He doesn't want to eat anything. And like at first it was just like, ⁓ you know, he's frustrated. This is like a new thing, and then it turned out that wasn't the case. ⁓ hasn't been ⁓ @paige_semenza: ⁓ man. ⁓ my gosh. @misfitcoach: pee in his pants and he hasn't been peeing on the floor, so we're moving in the right direction. ⁓ but I did not do a whole lot this weekend because the two or three times I walked away from him he just started peeing on the floor. ⁓ so you're supposed to leave him alone but it's g it can be challenging. ⁓ Yep. I don't if you guys can top that ⁓ the naked weekend. What you got Paige? ⁓ @paige_semenza: Pretty wild. the ⁓ gosh. Probably not, yeah. We got a couple birthdays coming up. So we got just some weekends of being by the pool or just going out and doing something fun. But I didn't realize how easy it was to get up to Tony, like into New York City. So that'll probably be something that happens a little bit more frequently. I didn't go train with him and Ryan, but I think like going forward, I will, it takes like 35 minutes to get into the city with the train. @kylemoline: Definitely not. @paige_semenza: So that's kind cool to figure out figuring it out on my own. was like a little nervous, but it really isn't that bad at all. @misfitcoach: Sounds it's easier to get there than it is from the airport. to take me an hour ⁓ get to my went to grad school in in Manhattan. it used to take me an hour to get from the airport, flying into New York City to her apartment. And again, just being from Maine, I'm like, This makes no sense. They also go to brunch and ride trains for an hour and a half. I'm like, I'm gonna drive to Boston for breakfast. What are you people doing? Anyways, keep going. ⁓ @paige_semenza: yeah, definitely. ⁓ yeah, dad. @kylemoline: Anyway @paige_semenza: Hmm. Yeah, I mean, nothing really crazy. They announced the workouts for Metcon Rush, so I'll probably just practice those for a month and then go have some funsies there. ⁓ But nothing that I'm putting any pressure on, yeah. I don't really know. I didn't really say anything on here, but I basically have been fighting. @misfitcoach: Hell yeah. @paige_semenza: Not fighting, but trying to decide the entire year of whether I wanted to do this competitively or actually take the year to take a step back. And really, it took up until for semifinals prep to start for me to be like, ⁓ I'm just going to take the step back. But I figured Metcon Rush would maybe just be a fun little, I don't ⁓ time off. taste, like see if I still am enjoying it and all that. yeah, coaches are people too, but I still am an athlete ⁓ heart and I just can't get away from it. but just some, ⁓ yeah, the most part, ⁓ it does feel good. @kylemoline: And I think I don't get so much. @misfitcoach: Uh-huh. @kylemoline: In there. @misfitcoach: Are you healthy? @kylemoline: Yeah, ⁓ yeah. @misfitcoach: Does that feel good? I mean, you kinda went through the ringer for a few years there. @paige_semenza: Yeah, it does feel good, I'm not gonna lie. Toning down volume was a big part of that too. So I think that's ⁓ part of just letting my stress levels come back down and go through a big life transition of moving and all that. So things are starting to kind of level back out. So we'll see. Yeah. ⁓ it's in Maryland. It is the weekend before my birthday. So July weekend. @kylemoline: Good. @misfitcoach: Yeah. Yep. Nice. When and where is Metcon Rush? Okay. Week before the games. Yeah. Yep. @paige_semenza: ⁓ And then I'll come home for like a day. actually, yep. I'll come home for a couple days, coach some classes, and then go to the beach for a few days too. So, kind of works out nicely. Yeah, I'm turning 35, guys. I'm gonna be a master's age. missed the cutoff this year by 10 days. ⁓ So, we'll what that means. @kylemoline: Yeah. @misfitcoach: Nice. Sweet. @kylemoline: And then Level one master. Congratulations. I said a level one master. @misfitcoach: Nice. @paige_semenza: Hmm? Except I'll be the oldest in my age group. towards the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just based on the cutoff. But that's okay. ⁓ @kylemoline: ⁓ okay. Gotcha. ⁓ huh. @misfitcoach: Kyle, you got any ⁓ non CrossFit anecdotes for us? @kylemoline: next couple weekend or like this like this past weekend and this weekend are pretty chill, ⁓ because Caroline's got a grid league match. I don't know if that counts as CrossFit talk, ⁓ in ⁓ near Tampa ⁓ ⁓ not this weekend but the following weekend. so we're traveling again. ⁓ And actually found I actually realized that she's got a match in New Jersey ⁓ in ⁓ @misfitcoach: Nah. @paige_semenza: Yeah. Ayy! @kylemoline: early August and I I realize it's like fifteen minutes from your gym. and so I'll I'm gonna try to make the trip for for that one as well. It's Mat at American Dream. ⁓ I don't know if you know where that is, but yeah, like the mall. And so we'll be in your in your neck of the woods early August. but yeah, that's mostly what our @paige_semenza: Hell yeah. Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, at the mall. Mm-hmm. Cool. Yeah, maybe we'll plan something. @kylemoline: Our travel is for the next few months is grid league stuff, which will be exciting. ⁓ and I think I'm gonna do a qualifier that starts next week, maybe. But chatting with Kenzie, Desert City again. ⁓ as well go try to win a swim event a again. it's it's always ⁓ @paige_semenza: for what comp. Okay. she basically yelled at you to not work out last week? Like actually take time off? ⁓ @kylemoline: ⁓ she just doesn't give doesn't say like doesn't give me anything and so but it was also like perfect because I was traveling and so I was like I didn't really want to go work out anyways. Like ⁓ Caroline set up a workout with some of the coaches at universities Union Square CrossFit, which is like one of the gyms Tony goes to. and they all did like a coach's workout and I sat on a C two bike for ⁓ forty five and then I went to the farmers market. I like @paige_semenza: Yeah. Good. Mm-hmm. @misfitcoach: Wow. That a boy. @paige_semenza: Good for you. ⁓ @kylemoline: ⁓ actually I went to a farmer's market and I went got cookies. So I was like, see you guys, have fun. Like they were writing some gnarly partner workout down and I was like, G I'm going before I get roped into anything. yeah, so it was good. Got to ⁓ around New York City in the sun and ⁓ know, step away from the gym. ⁓ like it's like f I think I'm finally like feeling like I could get back into some intensity stuff, but ⁓ definitely like after a big competition need some time. ⁓ @paige_semenza: Perfect. @misfitcoach: Nice. Ha ha ha. @paige_semenza: Yeah Yeah, good. like to hear that. ⁓ @misfitcoach: All right. So final thoughts. I had like a like basically before an interview, I'll just like jot down like ideas of of places to take the conversation. ⁓ one of them I realized was not an actual question, but more like just a thank you for the way that you participate in the community. I think it's a really big deal that athletes your caliber. ⁓ open up to other athletes and let them know, you know, you know, hopefully this interview helps with that as well, but just let them know that like kind of put your head down and grind and be part of the community and over time, you know, kind of just kind of that incremental growth you know, lead you to a place that's that's pretty exciting. So I just really appreciate the way that you lift up other people in the telegram. ⁓ you know, you stay commenting in there, even if you're on a comp prep, that sort of thing means a lot I think to everybody in the community, but Paige and I as well. So hat tip to you. @paige_semenza: Yeah. @kylemoline: Yeah, of course. I'm excited to get back into off season stuff because I can get on the same program as everybody. It was like tough tough being on something different and just seeing like everybody complaining about you know or like, you know, complaining about how hard this workout was or something like that. So I'm excited to like jump back in and actually like have something to add. But no, thanks for thanks for ⁓ you know. @paige_semenza: Yep. Hell yeah. @kylemoline: welcoming me into this community. I think having the the camp experience was super special. And then I know during like the summer camp that I came to, had a good chat about like remote coaching and whatnot. And I think that was kind of like the final kick in the butt that I needed to ⁓ commit and do it. So I appreciate it. @misfitcoach: Yeah. For sure. Got anything else, Paige? @paige_semenza: No, I mean, I like, I appreciate the conversation about imposter syndrome. I think as you're getting into that level of like semi-finals territory, that kind of stuff can very easily creep up, but being able to ⁓ about it, identify it, you know, I'm sure you're talking about it with your coaches, but also just proving to yourself that like you belong out there is a really, really, you know, huge impact for confidence, for getting you ⁓ you know, excited for the next season or the next challenge that's coming your way. ⁓ So I, you know, having been through probably all the emotions that you had gone through last weekend at your first semi-final experience, just ⁓ having spoken to McKenna multiple times about stuff like this, you know, ⁓ you aren't on an island when it comes to that kind of feeling either. being able find the relatability with other athletes ⁓ and being to talk about it and share those stories is really valuable to a lot of other people. So. keep up that kind of impact. @misfitcoach: Did we do it? @paige_semenza: We did it. @misfitcoach: Cool. Thanks for joining us, Kyle. Appreciate it. @kylemoline: Yeah, of course. Thanks for having me.