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Best Hour of Their Day | Podcast
Hosted by Jason Ackerman and Jason Fernandez, Best Hour of Their Day is a podcast dedicated to helping the CrossFit community. We cover all aspects of fitness including coaching, training, competing, starting and growing a business, and everything in between. Regular guests include world-class athletes, some of the best Coaches in the world, fitness entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and more. Follow us on all socials! BestHourofTheirDay.com
Episodes
- Best Hour of Their Day | Podcast
300. Fern and Ackerman reflect on 300 episodes
Hard to believe just over a year ago when Fern and Ackerman decided to launch the "Best Hour of Their Day" podcast that they would get to 300 episodes. In…
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299. Ryan McKenzie | Still hates selling
Ryan McKenzie is back on the podcast after tremendous feedback and a demand from our listeners. Turns out what he said resonated with the CrossFit world...we…
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298. Trident Mindset with Chriss Smith
Chriss Smith is a Box Owner of CrossFit Trident for more than a decade, a former Navy SEAL, an expeditionary racing enthusiast, a serial entrepreneur as well…
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BHOTD - Audio Book - Chapter 7 | Be Grateful
***Check out the Own Your Eating Certificate Course*** We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best…
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297. Drew Zaro | Finances and Fitness
Drew Zaro is an avid CrossFitter as well as a coach. Andrew began his career in the finance industry in 2018 after a very successful career in the Marine Corps…
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296. Karl Eagleman | Celebrating Two Years of Whiteboard Daily
Sometimes things are just serendipitous! Karl and Jason were chatting and realized it was actually two years to the day when he put his very first post up on…
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295. MDV | Eating while coaching
MDV is the Chief Fitness Officer for NC Fit and has some great insights as to what makes a solid CrossFit coach. In a recent IG post, his hot take was that if…
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294. Andy Bradbury | Active Start Up
Websites are important. social media and your website (where your brand lives digitally) are how you communicate and get people to consider opting in to your…
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BHOTD - Audio Book - Chapter 6 | Fill Your Cup First
***Check out the Own Your Eating Certificate Course*** We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best…
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293. Bring a Friend Week
In today's episode, Todd, Fern, and Ackerman, have a heated debate over the merits of Bring a Friend Week at your affiliate.
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292. Wheel Pay
Every great invention is born out of a personal need that isn’t being met. Today we get to hear from John Prescott and Nathan Head, 2 of the 3 owners of…
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291. Corey Coleman | The Gym Solution
If you have ever been frustrated with gym software this is a fantastic conversation. Corey Coleman is one of the founders of The Gym Solution and The Gym…
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290. CrossFit's Mount Rushmore
Todd, Ackerman, Fern, and guest Cassidy take a stab at creating CrossFit's version of Mount Rushmore.
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BHOTD - Audio Book - Chapter 5 | Simple - Complex - Simple
***Check out the Own Your Eating Certificate Course*** We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best…
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289. Adam Tar | Carnivore Diet
Adam Tar is the owner of CrossFit Northport and has been a strict follower of the Carnivore diet for over six months. In this episode Ackerman chat with him…
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288. Chuck Bennington is Back!
Chuck Bennington is one of Best Hour's most requested guests to have back on the show. It's most likely his contagious positive energy along with a truly open…
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287. Determining Time Domains for Workouts
Check out all of the Own Your Eating Nutrition Challenges! In today's episode, Todd, Ackerman, and Fern take a look at three recent CrossFit.com workout and…
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286. Clay Godfrey | One Fellowship Fitness
Check out the Own Your Eating Nutrition Challenges! In today's episode, Ackerman chats with Clay Godfrey. Clay recently purchases his box, One Fellowship…
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BONUS - Naked Sunday Episode 1
Ackerman has a new podcast out with long-time friend Caleb Nelson. Hosts Caleb Nelson and Jason Ackerman have dedicated their lives to inspiring others to live…
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BHOTD - Audio Book - Chapter 4 | The Rule is the Rule
Check out the Own Your Eating Challenges!!! We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best Hour of…
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285. Jess Fuller | New York Fitness shut down indefinitely
***Check out Own Your Eating's awesome challenges*** Overnight Jess went from a booming entrepreneur in the fitness world to completely shut down. Her five…
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284. Ryan McKenzie | I hate selling!
Check out the Own Your Eating Challenges!!! Ryan McKenzie is a Fitness Business Consultant from Orlando, Florida where he has worked with some of the best…
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283. Pat Cummings | Questions for CrossFit's new CEO
Check out the Own Your Eating Challenges!!! In today's episode we chat with Pat Cummings, an OG CrossFitter and co-host of "Chasing Excellence" with Ben…
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282. Is CrossFit still a disruptor brand?
In tomorrow's episode, you'll hear Fern and Ackerman talk with Pat Cummings. On his instagram @pscummings he recently posted 20 Questions for CrossFit's new…
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BHOTD - Audio Book - Chapter 3 | Life is a series of Dips
We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best Hour of Their Day" and for the audio book he took a…
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281. Coty Bradburn
Coty Bradburn is a former Regional athlete and is a three year affiliate owner. He and Fern discuss some of the struggles and challenges involved with…
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280. Yuri Feito | Minimizing Injury
How many days a week would decrease your athletes chance for injury??? Dr, Yuri Feito is an associate professor of Exercise Science in the Department of…
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279. Athena Perez | Lifting the Wait
Athena Perez is the best selling other of "Lifting the Wait" her story of how she lost over 225lbs. and changed her life. Check out her book here.
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278. Todd has Covid-19
True story, Todd had Covid-19 and he's fully recovered. In today's episode, we discuss.
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BHOTD - Audio Book - Chapter 2 | We fail at the margins of our experiences
We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best Hour of Their Day" and for the audio book he took a…
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277. Ari Bargil | Defending free speech and coaching nutrition
Ari Bargil is leading the crusade for free speech, specifically in helping others with their nutrition. In Florida and many other states it is actually illegal…
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276. Lindsay Andrew | CrossFit L1 Scholarship Seminar
Lindsay Andrew is one of the most tenured and decorated member of the CrossFit seminar staff as well as former competitive athlete and owner of CrossFit Max…
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275. Jamison Price | How to measure culture at your box
Jamison Price is the owner of Mossy Creek CrossFit and has put together a comprehensive Affiliate Operating System. This 45 page book provides best practices…
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274. Quality Assurance
What would Quality Assurance look like in the CrossFit Space? Who would determine the standard? What aspects of the Affiliate would be scrutinized? Would your…
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BHOTD - Audio Book - Chapter 1 | Go All In
We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best Hour of Their Day" and for the audio book he took a…
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273. Should I Buy A Gym with Nick Spagnol
Should you buy a gym during Covid? Should you open your own? Should you wait? Fern and Nick talk through his though process for considering opening up a gym…
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272. Help, my box is deaffiliating, what do I do?
In today's episode we answer a listener question from two coaches whose box is deaffiliating. We navigate how they can potentially handle this massive change.
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271. Top 10 Mistakes as a gym owner
In this episode Fern dives deep in a solo podcast and talks about 10 of the biggest mistakes he's made over the last decade as a box owner. Most gym owners…
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BHOTD - Audio Book - Introduction | Before CrossFit
We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best Hour of Their Day" and for the audio book he took a…
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270. Coaching busy classes II
Fern and Todd do a follow up on our previous episode about coaching large classes as well as some things to consider as reopening happen and covid cases see an…
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269. Dr. Sean Pastuch | Active Life Pro Path
If you want to learn more about the Active Life Pro Path, shoot us an email besthouroftheirday@gmail.com
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268. Best Hour Book Club
Much to Jason's surprise, a few "Best Hour of Their Day" book clubs have sprung up around the country. So, when one based out of San Fransisco asked Ackerman…
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267. Luis Lopez | Judging the 2020 Rogue Invitational
Luis Lopez owns CrossFit MDI in Orlando, Florida and regularly travels the country judging at CrossFit events. Recently he had his first experience judging the…
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266. CrossFit's new CEO
Fern, Ackerman, and Todd discuss the news of Eric Roza taking over as Owner and CEO of CrossFit.
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265. Ken Andrukow
"My goal is to make my wife’s dreams come true." That is really all you need to know about Ken Andrukow. Anyone that lives with that mantra in mind deserves to…
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264. Coaching busy classes
What do you do when you have a 20 person class or even a 30 person class? Fern, Ackerman, and Todd discuss best practices, including using your assistant coach…
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263. Michael Michalowicz
Fern sits down with Best Selling author Michael Michalowicz of Profit First, Surge, Pumpkin Plan, Clockwork and Toilet Paper Entrepreneur to discuss his new…
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262. Onboarding new members
Fern, Todd, and Ackerman talk about different protocols they have used over the years to assimilate new members into classes. From the show up and go model to…
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261. Eric Malzone | Savvy through Failure
Eric’s professional experience stems from a decade in the corporate sector. Starting from the bottom to eventually leading nationwide sales teams. Being an…
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260. 2020 Rogue Invitational
The 2020 Rogue Invitational was this past weekend and we break it down from a logistics perspective.
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259. Affiliate Identity Crisis
Affiliates are in a strange spot, some are staying with the CrossFit brand, others are jumping ship. We have Caleb Nelson, owner of Purebred Athletics on…
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258. Alyssa Royse | Rocket Community Fitness
Alyssa Royse was at the center of a lot of controversy with her letter to Greg Glassman and his response. In today's episode Ackerman (@thejasonackerman) sits…
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257. Brady Lynch asks Ackerman how to run a successful box
The roles are reversed on today's episode as guest Brady Lynch asks Ackerman how to run a successful box and how to get on the CrossFit seminar staff.
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256. Should you deaffiliate?
Tough times call for tough conversations. Fern, Ackerman, and Todd shed a little light on this topic.
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255. Geoff Westmoreland | Signing your lease
Fern and Geoff are back for round two about the tenant/landlord relationship. In this episode they discuss pretty much anything you would need to think about…
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254. Functional Movements
What makes a movement functional? In today's episode Todd, Fern, and Ackerman breakdown (or argue) about why certain movements are considered functional and…
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253. The State of CrossFit
Ackerman, Fern, and Todd struggle to put into words their feelings over the recent events.
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252. Black Lives Matter
Ackerman and Fern are taking this topic on with full force. We recorded today's episode before the events from Saturday and Sunday, but this is still very…
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251. Syn Martinez and Merle Mckenzie
Ackerman, Syn, and Merle have an uncomfortable and real conversation.
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250. Nathan Holiday
Nathan and Fern talk about different ways affiliate owners can use virtual assistants, how to identify important roles in the business and discuss how The…