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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 | Podcast586. Gary Gaines and Austin Malleolo | The Future of Being a CrossFit Affiliate
There's never been a better time to be a CrossFit Affiliate than now. With new leadership in place, we're talking with Gary and Austin about what the focus is…
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585. Jason Ackerman and Markus Gerszi | Affiliate University | Why You Are Stuck In Your Affiliate
We're discussing the uncomfortable truth that the single most important differentiator between box owners who win and those who fail, is that those who make…
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584. Jason Fernandez | World-Class Affiliate Health
If we take the models of health and fitness from CrossFit and apply them to the health of your CrossFit Affiliate, you can uncover the deficiencies and form a…
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583. Ashleigh VanHouten | Muscle Maven | All Things Nuts and Guts
We're talking all things nuts and guts and breaking down the stigmas behind building muscle as a female and eating what Ashleigh VanHouten calls "nose to…
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582. How To CRUSH It With Multiple CrossFit Affiliates | Max Isaak | CrossFit Tilt
Almost every Affiliate Owner who tries to open multiple locations FAILS. But Max Isaak of CrossFit Tilt is crushing it, and we're here to chat about his…
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581. Jason Ackerman | More Money With Just One Move
By doing just this one thing, you can bring more money into your Affiliate and afford to upgrade equipment or even hire another Coach. _________ SUBSCRIBE to…
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580. Steph "The Hammer " Roach | Driven
Adversity in our lives can often lead us to growth, new opportunities, and maybe even our greatest potential. We're chatting with Steph "The Hammer" Roach…
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579. Melody Feldman | CrossFit MPH | Charge What You're Worth
If you aren't charging a bare minimum of $150 per month for memberships at your Affiliate, you are either too scared or you just don't know what you don't…
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578. Lisa Ray | CrossFit Seminar Staff | Get Back To The Roots
CrossFit has had so much growth since it's creation. And along the way, some things have shifted, off-shoots were born, ideas evolved. But we have to get back…
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577. Mark England | Enlifted | How To Separate From The Victim Mentality
We're talking about the Stories we tell ourselves, the sneaky, confidence-sucking power of Soft Talk, and how to differentiate victims from The Victim…
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576. Brandon Powell | Wim Hof Method | Enlifted | The Power In Your Breath
Control your breath, control your life. There's so much power in a single breath. Whether creating space to have a deeper thought or deescalating a stress…
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575. Jason Fernandez | Creating A World-Class Affiliate
Virtuosity means doing the common, uncommonly well. It means a constant and relentless pursuit of excellence. CrossFit teaches us the models that help us…
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574. Ben Smith | CrossFit Krypton | Keeping It Old School
Ben Smith learned of CrossFit from his dad, consumed every Greg Glassman publication and video he could as a young man, and rose in the sport to become one of…
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573. Karianne and Bill Anthes | Between The Ears
For many, hitting the gym day is a way to relieve the stresses of the day. But are we actually paying attention to and working on why those stresses are there…
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572. Ryan Fischer | CHALK Performance Training | Being Bad Ass At Your One Thing
The life of a competitor is not always glamorous. Ryan Fischer was broke, sleeping on strangers’ couches, and training hours and hours every single day to be…
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571. Dr. Nathan Jenkins | RP Strength | Getting Your Nutrition Dialed In
Should everyone be eating testicles? How about the intra-workout shake to send your fitness skyrocketing to the moon mid-AMRAP? Nutrition is so contentious and…
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570. Should You Buy An Affiliate?
There's never been a better time to be an Affiliate Owner. But is buying an existing one the way to go? You need to know what questions to ask, what things lie…
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569. Nick Mathew | 2022 CrossFit Games Rookie of the Year
He's a CF-L1 Coach at CrossFit Minnetonka. He prefers all of his shirts half-sized. And he lit the building up when he repped out crossover double unders in…
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568. Lindsay London | CrossFit Hampton Roads | Making The Affiliate Your Own
You love CrossFit, you love coaching, and the opportunity presents itself for you to become the Owner of an existing Affiliate...AWESOME! But what are some of…
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567. Hewitt Tomlin | TeamBuildr
Whether you are programming workouts from scratch, taking your program paperless, collecting better data or providing higher-quality programming, TeamBuildr…
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566. Denise Thomas | CrossFit Seminar Staff | Being a Better Coach and Leader
Clarity is kindness. Whether it's bringing a new person into your community, taking charge and leading your class, or helping to develop your Coaches and…
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565. Adrian Bozman | Testing the Fittest on Earth
In a global sport like CrossFit, paring down the participant pool of hundreds of thousands of people to a single male and female winner at the CrossFit Games…
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564. Trish Evangelista | Babylon CrossFit | The Seasons of Affiliate Ownership
You love CrossFit and helping people. You want to work for yourself. You decide to open your own Affiliate. But what are some of the things you may encounter…
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563. CEO of CrossFit | Don Faul
CrossFit has a new leader at the helm. As the CrossFit Games were wrapping up for the weekend, we had the opportunity to talk with the new CEO of CrossFit, Don…
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562. CHRIS HINSHAW | CrossFit Mayhem | Building A Powerful Aerobic Engine (Part 2)
We get the tips and tricks from Chris Hinshaw himself on how to train hard, recover fast, and keep performing at the highest level throughout an entire…
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561. CHRIS HINSHAW | CrossFit Mayhem | Building A Powerful Aerobic Engine (Part 1)
Just lace up your shoes, go for a run, and breathe hard....that's how you get a better engine, right? Wrong. There's much more that goes into crafting a…
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560. The Hot Ones Challenge
We're taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you some SPICY entertainment! Who's going to bow out first?! _________ SPONSORS This…
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559. The Standard Is The Standard
In coaching, it means everybody squats to depth, everybody locks it out at the top, everybody plays by the same rules. In business, it means the quality of…
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558. American Weightlifting
When you think about CrossFit, it's hard to not see a visual of an athlete performing a snatch or a clean and jerk in your head. Greg Glassman knew the benefit…
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557. Forging Elite Retention
What’s the difference between an expense and an investment? Both cost you something, right? Maybe it’s time, maybe it’s money, but it’s definitely something…
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556. From Power Snatches to Power Bombs
Three words. CrossFit. Wrestling. Entertainment. Josh Gallegos knows a thing or two about all of them. He's the MC of the CrossFit Games for 10 years running…
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555. The Mayhem Superhero
As far as CrossFit Affiliates go, it's hard to do much more than what is happening at CrossFit Mayhem. But how do you keep all of those gears in line, oiled…
Best Hour of Their Day | Podcast554. Brick by Brick, Play by Play
CrossFit still works. Group classes aren't dead. Group classes aren't dead...again, for the people in the back. And there are bullies everywhere, waiting for…
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553. Is the BBQ really that good? Yes. Yes, it is.
Do you want the recipe? Hours and hours and hours of slow-cooking... Repeatedly basting it with the secret sauce... Occasionally taking a look at it to admire…
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552. A Master of the Dry-Erase Marker
Push the Earth Away, Meet the Bar, Squeeze the Oranges… What do these all have in common? They are cues that have been sketched by Karl Eagleman, Founder of…
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551. Unlock Everything About YOU | Jimmy Hensel - Mayhem Mindset
Who you BE? That's the question Jimmy Hensel is out to help you answer. If a person or team or Affiliate can clearly define themselves and know who they are…
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550: From Modeling to Mountain Biking to Mayhem Nation
This week we talk to the sexiest man in all of CrossFit, and this guy has done it all – from modeling for Abercrombie to old-school Seminar staff and CrossFit…
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549: Even After 10 Years, You Can Still Grow Your Affiliate.
Just because you’ve been around the block a time or two doesn’t mean you’ve got it all figured out. There is always room for improvement. There are always…
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548. How to Accidentally Become a Thriving Business
From powerlifting to mortgages and motorcycle gangs to one of THE MOST prominent apparel brands in the CrossFit community, we chat it up with Roy Mangrum from…
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547. Adrian "Boz" Bozman
We made some calls, pulled some strings, and secured the details. Tune in to get a SNEAK PEEK at the first workout for the 2022 Nobull CrossFit Games! Will it…
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546. The Big Announcement
This is it...the big announcement is finally here! Listen in to learn all about what Ackerman, Fern, and the Best Hour team have been working hard towards…
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545. Preparation is the name of the game | Gym Lawyers
From waivers and contract renewals, to 30-day notices, to the difference between W-2 and 1099, Fern and Matt Becker of Gym Lawyers discuss all things legal…
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544. You don't know what you don't know | Max Isaak, CrossFit Tilt
Two OG Jewish CrossFitters, talking OG Jewish CrossFit stuff. Tune in today as Ackerman speaks with Founder and Owner of CrossFit Tilt, Max Isaak. What is your…
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543. Debunking the myths of CrossFit
Matt Clum, CrossFit affiliate member, helps us debunk 4 common myths of CrossFit. Taking us through his personal weight loss and fitness journey, Matt outlines…
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542. Talk less, move more
Be more intentional with your lesson planning. Talk less, get your athletes moving more. At a bare minimum, have a drop dead start time and start the WOD on…
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541. The sport of fitness is not CrossFit
The sport of fitness is not CrossFit. Your job as a coach and affiliate owner is to educate your athletes on what that means...which is that CrossFit is…
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540. Fluffy__Duck
Tune in today to hear Ackerman and Josh Pirtle, AKA Fluffy Duck, talk all things CrossFit, social media, and of course, some other random stuff along the way…
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539. The value is not in the lesson plan, it is in the lesson planning
Novice and experienced coaches differ by degree, not kind. Whether you are L1 and been a coach for two weeks, or L3 and been a coach for years, do you show up…
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538. Shoot your shot
In case you wanted to learn a little bit more about Best Hour's first employee, Katy, tune in to today's episode. Ackerman and Fern ask Katy some questions…
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537. Unleash your Inner Grit
Learn how to unleash your inner grit by tuning in to Ackerman's interview with the founder of Pure Grit Fitness, Cassandra. _________ Subscribe to our YouTube…
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536. Show up on time. End on time. Make it fun.
Do the small things really well. That is how you ensure a great class experience. Tune in today to hear our discussion on the topic. _________ Subscribe to…
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535. From PT to Group Classes
Connection is connection. It can either be deep and meaningful, or it can be shallow. Whether you focus on PT or group classes...just ask people questions…
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534. What is your why?
Know your values, know your why. The stronger you are attached to your why, the easier life becomes, because it can guide you through your decision making…
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533. The Secret to running a great CrossFit Box
Continually push your own margins to become great at what you do. Uphold the standard, because the standard is the standard. Care, care, care, care. Listen in…
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532. You do not need to see the end state
You are standing at the edge of a forest and you can't see to the other end of the it. But you can see one step in front of you. So just take a step. You can…
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531. "The beauty of CrossFit." | Meagan Bakhtiari, The Phoenix
A lot has changed since episode 103 of the Best Hour Podcast, which just so happens to be the last time Meagan Burns (now Bakhtiari) was on the show. With a…
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530. CrossFit Always Works | James Hobart
It never not works. Even when it's done poorly...it still works. In out last Colorado interview in this series, Ackerman and Fern talk all things CrossFit and…
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529. The business of choking people out | Amal Easton, Easton Training Center
"A belt only covers an inch of your a*s, you have to cover the rest." On one of our last stops in Colorado, we had the chance to sit down with Ackerman's BJJ…
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528. "Try to tell me I can't." | Kevin Ogar, CrossFit WatchTower
The episode you've all been waiting for has arrived: where Fern and Ackerman do smelling salts live on camera with Kevin Ogar. Talking all things Adaptive…
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527. "One of the most dangerous things you can do is believe your own bulls*it." | Brian Chontosh, Crooked Butterfly Ranch
CrossFit is not only in the business of developing exceptional coaches, it is in the business of developing exceptional human beings. In this exclusive…