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Hey everybody , welcome to the Herd Fit Podcast

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with Dr Sam Rhee and myself , Coach

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David Silverson . His podcast is

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aimed at helping anyone and everyone looking

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to enhance their healthy lifestyle through fitness

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, nutrition and , most importantly

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, mindset . Alright

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, welcome back to the Herd Fit Podcast . I'm Coach

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David Silverson . I'm here with my co-host

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, dr and Coach Sam Rhee . We

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had a big news drop from CrossFit

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HQ this past week in relation

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to the 2024 CrossFit

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game season and

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it's been a major talking point

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at this gym . It's been a major talking point

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in the community , in the CrossFit

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media and

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A . It's kind of like a dry time of year with CrossFit

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. We haven't had the CrossFit news in a while or

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something to really chew on and engage

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with , other than Legends , which we did a couple

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episodes on getting the Masters

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games . But the changes that

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were just recently released

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by the CrossFit Games team in terms of

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what to expect this year . There

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are still some details that

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need to be ironed out locations and dates

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and whatnot but we have a

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pretty clear path . I would say we have about 90%

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of the necessary information to take

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on the 2024 season and

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the format of this . I want to make sure we

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get the objective information out first

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, like what's going

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on , what are the dates

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, what are the changes from last year ? You

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know , because I know some of you guys aren't as like glued

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into this stuff , you might not understand what

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the changes are and some of them are very

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significant . And

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we'll try to be quick with that because I think really

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the most interesting part of today's

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episode is just going to be some of the feedback

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that we have , some of the feedback that I have

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from other people I had

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I don't know how many conversations you had . I had a good

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probably dozen conversations with

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different people , different walks

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of CrossFit , different competitive levels

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, and you

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know the opinions are all over

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the place , which is honestly

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kind of cool , which could make this

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conversation that we're going to have a

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little bit more interesting . So , before

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we get into the actual changes , sam , where

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, where did your head immediately go ? Right

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, and we'll get into like , what we actually think about this . But

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where did your head immediately go when you

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heard that CrossFit was making some significant

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changes to some of the numbers and dates and whatnot

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?

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You could take a pretty cynical approach and say , here

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we go again . More changes . Every year it's

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always something different . If you look at

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the social media space or the

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talking heads which we'll get into , you could see

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how more

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vitriol and

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anger can be directed towards

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CrossFit . I

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wanted to look at these changes and say

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, if we think CrossFit

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is good and we think they're not stupid , then why

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? I would look at it with that

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approach Like are these things

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they're trying to help make things better

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? Are these things going to make things better ?

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There are really three

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perspectives that matter the

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affiliate owners yes , for sure

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the most .

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that might be the most important actually .

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CrossFit athletes including us I'm

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not talking games athletes including every single person

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that comes to the show , and that's kind of the open and

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CrossFit HQ . Those are the

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three perspectives and if you're capable

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of looking at this from all three of those

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perspectives , then I'm going to respect

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your opinion . But if you can't , or

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if you neglect to not going to respect

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your opinion on the subject . So

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let's get into the

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actual objective changes . Again , I'm going to try to be

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quick with this . So the open

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is in March . I know it starts February 29th , but

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it's a leap year . Basically , just for

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your mental sake . The open is

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the first three weeks of March , not

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that far away I like

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100 some days maybe . So

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it's going to be three workouts three weeks long

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Team

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quarterfinals that is , two men and

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two women from your gym . They are

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going to be April 3rd and April 8th . So

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that will be the first quarterfinal stage , which

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is going to be about two weeks after the

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open is complete and

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we'll go over . I can tell you right now , if

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you're unsure what that even means . Your

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gym has to sign your gym up as

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a team . We're already signed up as an affiliate

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. We have to pay an extra 25 bucks to

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have a registered team and

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anyone in the gym can contribute

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to those scores . So even

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if you're not a great CrossFit athlete but there's

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a 100 max deadlift , you can contribute

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to your gym score . But

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to move on to quarterfinals , your

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gym has to decide who it is . The

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top two men and the top two women take

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on a series of workouts which

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is April 3rd to April 8th . The

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next quarterfinals are individual , and

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when I say individual I mean everybody

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that's competing as an individual masters

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, teens and open

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division . Same time , same

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workouts , april

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17th to April 22nd

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. Then

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we have semifinals . The location

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and actual dates are to be determined

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, but they're going to be in May and

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this will include the top

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40 men and women

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from each region . For

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those that don't know the regions , I don't want to go through them all

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right now , but if you're listening to this and you're from

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across the Bison or you're in the Northeast

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, there's North America East , which includes

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Canada , right , and I believe I'm

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not sure where Mexico falls in there . They might be West

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, but basically the eastern

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half of United States and Canada . You

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have to be one of the top 40 men and women

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from that entire region to

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move on to the semifinals For

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the age group . Yeah , that was 18 to 34

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. Sorry , that was open division For the

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age group . If you're top 200 in

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the world , you move on to

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semifinals , which will be virtual . That

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also will be in May and

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there are no regions with masters

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. It's just where do you rank in the world within

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your age group . If you're top 200 after

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the quarterfinals , you move on

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to the semifinals . So same with teens , right

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, yep , same with teens . So what

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are the differences ? The elephant in the room here

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is to make quarterfinals

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, you need to rank top 10%

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For

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masters , top 10% in the world For

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open division 18 to 34, . You

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have to be top 10% in your

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region to move on to

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the quarterfinals . Now

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it is top 25% , so

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a lot more people are going to be moving

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on to the quarterfinals . Over

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twice as many will have the opportunity to

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move on to this quarterfinal stage . The

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individual semifinals spots . They go down

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over 60 last year from North America

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East it goes down to 40 . And

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that is a big deal . I actually think that's the one

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big negative that I don't necessarily

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agree with . We'll get into it , but just keep

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in mind that is a huge deal . A third

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of the semifinal athletes will not be moving

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on and there were games , athletes

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that technically would have not made semifinals

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last year . Masters

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semifinal spots they go up big

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time . So I

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made it a couple years ago and there was 30 of us

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that made it . There's now 200

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. So I mean that percentage

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increase is enormous . It's

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at 500% 600% . So

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it's a huge , huge jump . And who gets

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to move on to the semifinal stage ? And

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I think one of the biggest deals here is it's dual

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registration . So if you're a masters

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athlete and you make individual , you

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can do both . You were always allowed to do both

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, but there were different workouts , different weekends

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and you had to pay 50 bucks two different times for

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the quarters , for the quarterfinals . If I

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want to compete in quarterfinals this year , I

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pay 50 bucks and I am now

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going to be in the leaderboard of both individual

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and masters . We have a

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couple people . Yeah we have a handful , I

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would say that , and now

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probably even more with the top 25% . Yeah

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, that's right and we'll get into why

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that's significant . And the master

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spots and we already knew this because we

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had Joe Linton here from the Legends Championship a few

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weeks ago . He said there are going to be more athletes

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that qualify for the games than previous

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years . Previous years it's only been 10 . All

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right , so now it's going to be 40 for the

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first two age groups and it goes down to 30

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for the next two age groups and down to 20 and , I think

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, down to 10 for the final . Simply

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put , a lot more masters athletes are going to be

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qualifying for the games . All right , so

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, and that will be that time

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, date , location everything has not

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been established yet , but

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according to Joe , it sounds like they're going to do it after

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the game season , which is August 8th to 11th

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. So I guess you have to kind of look at that

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mid to late August timeline . All

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right , so those are the changes . That's what you

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should be expecting . When it comes to dates

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, boz said on the CrossFit Games

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podcast it's kind of simple

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. Now it's hey , opens March , quarter

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finals is April , semifinals is May

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, games are in August and

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no matter what stage you're in , that's the truth . So

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how we get there and what we do once

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we get to these certain stages will be different . But

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I think the first thing that needs to be talked about

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is the fact that CrossFit

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is moving the top 10%

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to top 25% . We did a podcast

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on this . I want to say two years ago , when

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CrossFit first came out with this hey

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, if you're in the top 10% , you get to move on

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to the next stage , and we praised

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it . We thought it was awesome , we thought it was very attainable

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for a lot of people If you really put

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the work in . After seeing it for

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a couple of years , you know

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I didn't feel as strongly about

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that . I didn't feel it was as attainable

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. If I come in and wad hard and work

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really hard , there's

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still some you can call it natural gifts

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experience levels , lifestyle

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situations that really can prevent you from getting

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over that hump , and

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you and I both have said the

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people that have made quarterfinals in the past

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versus the people that were on the bubble

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that did not make it . There

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were still several capable athletes

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that just missed quarters

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that you could make a case should have been

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there Absolutely . And

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so this is where

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that top 10% number it kind of came

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a little . It was a little aggressive

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in my opinion . It could be more aggressive . It

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could be top 5% , move on . I would be fine with that

10:35

as well and I'll get into that later . But

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why do you think ? Sam

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CrossFit said you know what top

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10% is a little too exclusive

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. It's too unrealistic

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for a lot of our CrossFitters

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out there that are giving us money to sign up

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for the open . We're going to make this a

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quarter . The top quarter of

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CrossFit athletes that sign up for the open are moving on . Why

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do you think they did that ?

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Well , if you listen to the talking heads , it

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was a cash grab , cash

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grab , and that

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I don't know if that's true or not

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. What I can say is , having

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gone through and seen the

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quarters and you know , competing

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as an age group athlete

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, that top 10%

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depends on a

11:25

lot of things . First

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of all , there's only three weeks

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, so there was a lot

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of debate . Does those three weeks

11:35

actually test

11:37

a broad range of fitness for everybody

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? And any variation

11:42

that particular year could

11:44

ease in or ease out

11:46

a fair number of people , depending on what your strengths are , because

11:49

if they can't as comprehensive

11:51

as CrossFit tries to make those three workouts

11:53

, they're not fully comprehensive , and

11:56

we've had a couple people who

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they lined up with their strengths and they made it , and

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then there are a couple

12:02

where those three didn't really line up and

12:04

they didn't make it , and so I feel

12:06

like it's fairer

12:08

. The other thing is is I myself

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barely squeaked in last year and the reason I did was

12:14

literally one or

12:16

two movements that I barely

12:19

made . Like had I not made one or two ring muscle ups

12:21

would have been out had I not gotten on

12:24

. I forget which ladder it was where you had to go .

12:27

You got to the tritium stand push-ups . Yes , that was a big

12:30

separate Right .

12:30

Yeah , like there were just a couple things

12:33

that really eased someone

12:35

in or out and I could have easily have been out , just

12:38

depending on the day . You know , it

12:40

was so balanced on a knife edge for a lot of people and

12:43

I feel like that made

12:46

it really hard . Now , does

12:49

that make it less of an accomplishment to

12:52

make quarterfinals ?

12:54

Yes .

12:54

There's no doubt . If you take 25 versus 10 , and I

12:56

have heard of people who

12:58

just missed say , well now

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, well now , what does it mean ? It means nothing

13:03

. I don't believe that and

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maybe we can talk about that why . But

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for me , I am very positive about

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the fact that it that more people and Boss said

13:12

this more people can play . Yep

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, I think that more people should play

13:17

and I think that the top 25

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are very capable of taking those quarterfinal workouts

13:22

and

13:24

doing better than what you might expect

13:26

. I don't think that the top 10% are going to necessarily

13:30

be the top . You could take

13:32

a top 15 athlete or 20 athlete

13:34

and they could really complete and they could really

13:36

crush the quarters and you could

13:38

see them doing

13:41

better than , just , say , someone that was

13:43

in the top 10% .

13:44

Yeah , I mean I will put money on this right

13:46

now . Someone that will not

13:48

finish top 10% in the open will

13:51

make semi-finals , okay

13:53

. So what do I mean by that ? Someone that and

13:56

this isn't a three week open . It's a good point that you

13:58

brought up the three week open and

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I always trust CrossFit with open programming

14:02

. Yes , some years it's heavier , some years it's more

14:04

gymnastics , but they are balanced tests

14:06

. Three workouts you

14:08

can get really unlucky with

14:11

three workouts and if you had five to

14:13

make up for some of those unlucky ones , you'll

14:16

probably still end up where you should be . But

14:18

if you only have like one more or two more , that

14:21

really that weakness workout can really kind

14:23

of keep you out , can keep you on the outside looking in , and

14:26

that I can think of a couple of people I don't want to get specifics

14:28

right now , but I can think of a couple people

14:30

right now that have not made

14:32

quarter-finals or did not make quarter-finals last

14:34

year , two years ago , that if they did

14:36

make it they would have beat several athletes that

14:39

beat them in the open . It's their harder

14:41

tests , they're heavier , they're more skill

14:43

, there's more capacity required . You

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got to do a lot of work in just a few days rather

14:47

than spread it out over three weeks Now

14:50

, because you have

14:52

. Now you're going from the open into the

14:54

semi-finals . There's usually five tests

14:56

. I've seen six before , so now in

14:59

the quarter-finals . So now you really see

15:01

like , all right , the more tests there are , the more

15:03

truth there are in the results , right

15:05

? That's why I love a complex legends . There's

15:07

10 or 11 events , so even if you have a bad one , hey

15:09

, that's okay . You have nine or 10 other ones

15:12

to really show what you are , and that's where the truth

15:14

is exposed . So you're

15:16

going to have athletes that

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probably deserve to a

15:20

shot at semi-finals more

15:23

than the people that finished top 10%

15:25

. So you have some of these guys that don't finish

15:27

in the top 10 , they deserve that shot

15:30

to the semi-finals more than the others , and that's

15:32

why I my first stance on this

15:34

is I'm totally cool with

15:36

this in terms of them putting them , letting

15:39

them play as well , and , based

15:42

on numbers , only about half of the people

15:44

that qualified for quarter-finals last

15:46

year did it . Interesting

15:49

, so this

15:51

I mean . So you really think about 5%

15:53

of the people that signed up for the opener actually doing quarters

15:55

like , let's get that number up , dude , all right

15:57

, this is coming from someone that I

16:00

usually have a harder time advancing

16:02

when I'm against more people , because my personal

16:04

weaknesses are really bad One right , max

16:06

snatch , high volume pistols , right . So

16:09

if I have more people to compete against , I'm going to have

16:11

a harder time moving on . So I'm coming from

16:13

like that perspective that I , as a

16:15

competitor , don't want more people . But

16:18

as a gym owner , as a coach , and

16:20

looking at the amount of people that bust their ass

16:22

, I definitely can see

16:24

the advantage and the reason why behind

16:26

this . Now , who does this actually

16:29

hurt and who does this help ? Okay

16:32

, I'm going to get into the affiliate owner last I want

16:34

to talk about . I came

16:36

up with this example driving here this morning and I don't

16:38

know if it's good , but I'm going to run with it . All right , all

16:40

right . We have a lot of athletes in our gym

16:43

that have been , you know , seeing

16:45

red going after that top 10%

16:47

. They haven't gotten there yet , or they were there . Now they're

16:49

not . That's the goal . That's the goal

16:52

. Now , all of a sudden , they're like oh , by

16:54

the way , it's top 25% now . Does

16:56

this make making

16:58

quarterfinals less prestigious

17:02

?

17:05

Yes , it does , for sure . I

17:07

know people who have been training for the open , but

17:11

the thing is is that it makes the

17:14

overall rankings

17:16

better . So if you made quarters

17:18

like I made quarters last year I was just like

17:20

, ooh , I made quarters , I'm good

17:22

. Now , since

17:25

more people are gonna make it , there's

17:27

more pressure on me to do better in

17:29

quarters . I caved no two

17:32

Fs about how I did in quarters . I was

17:34

just like I just admit , you're right , I didn't . I

17:36

made it , I don't care , I'll just run through the workouts

17:38

just for fun . Now it's

17:40

like , boy , there's

17:42

gonna be a lot of people I'm competing against . It

17:45

doesn't matter that I made the quarters

17:47

as much . Now I gotta see how I do

17:49

in quarters and those

17:52

are more challenging workouts . So , and

17:54

the people who had to train to get into the

17:56

top 10% , they had to train specific

17:59

to the open , which is kinda sucky , cause you're training

18:01

a lot of dumbbell stuff , a lot of accessible

18:04

box work and capacity

18:06

over maybe a 15 minute period

18:08

and body weight stuff . Now

18:11

that's out , and those are things that

18:13

I wasn't so bad at . I'm not so

18:15

big , I'm not so strong , but

18:17

I can handle a dumbbell and do some

18:20

box stuff for burpees or whatever .

18:22

Now it's like F that

18:24

Cause you know you're gonna make it now You're gonna make

18:26

it . So now you gotta start prepping . For what did we do in the

18:28

quarterfounds last year ? Double dumbbell , overhead

18:30

lunges , rope climbs , bench press 185

18:33

, 125 for reps .

18:34

Those were real like workouts

18:37

and now I have to care

18:39

about those workouts and

18:42

I see the people who just

18:44

missed by a sliver because their

18:46

strengths didn't line up with that

18:48

kind of open workout now chomping

18:51

at the bit to really sort of chase after

18:53

it in the quarters and they're gonna kick some ass .

18:55

So here's my example , because I

18:58

always try to do this when I'm like not always

19:00

seeing eye to eye with someone or a situation

19:02

I don't know much about . If you

19:04

are , you and your girlfriend

19:07

, boyfriend , spouse , whatever you guys are saving up to buy

19:09

a house , you don't have a lot of money and you're like

19:11

you know what ? We really wanna own our own home

19:13

For five years straight . We're

19:16

not gonna go on big vacations , we're

19:18

gonna get lesser cars than we want , we're

19:20

not gonna go out with our friends and out

19:22

to dinner a lot . We're just gonna save every dime

19:24

we can . We're gonna work two jobs

19:26

. And then you get to that

19:28

five year mark and the day before you

19:31

put that down payment on that house , the

19:33

government comes out and says hey , everyone

19:36

, we're gonna cut down your down

19:38

payments for your house by 80% . It's

19:40

on us . And now

19:42

you're left with all

19:45

this money that you saved up . But

19:47

now you have a bunch of people that

19:50

weren't responsible with their money for

19:52

the past five years . They went on all those

19:54

vacations . They had the nice cars , they

19:57

had the nice clothes , they went

19:59

, they were out to dinner every other night

20:01

. They , those people

20:03

, are getting almost like the best of both worlds , because now

20:05

they're getting the same result you're getting

20:07

. You're getting this house that you worked your ass

20:10

out for . Now they're getting it too

20:12

, even though they didn't put the work in . And

20:14

this is where I feel like , hey

20:17

, you know what ? You still get your house . You

20:19

still earned it . But , yes

20:21

, there are now a group of people that

20:23

are getting the same result as you and

20:26

they didn't put that work in . And that's

20:28

why I do empathize for

20:30

the athletes that and

20:32

I don't think anyone has , like any ill intentions

20:35

or judgmental . It's

20:37

more like , hey , I've been sacrificing a lot

20:39

to make this top 10% , to

20:42

make quarter finals really not even top 10%

20:44

, but you could still aim for top 10% , obviously , but

20:46

I was aiming for quarters . And now

20:49

I have people that have been , you know , eating

20:51

pizza and drinking beers three night a week and

20:53

because they have a couple of muscle ups they can lift , they're gonna

20:55

make in quarter finals with me , should I

20:57

like ? And I can see like , yeah , I would be a

20:59

little upset in that situation Now

21:02

. But look at it from the other way

21:05

too . If

21:07

I ever let's say , let's make

21:09

a pretend , if I ever make the games and I

21:11

come in 40th place in the semifinals in

21:15

my ? Are the top 10 athletes in

21:17

these in the games allowed to look at me and be like

21:20

, yeah , I guess they're letting anyone in now Because

21:22

that is , it is the same . I'd be pretty

21:24

offended if someone said that and then

21:26

I would go kick their ass at the competition . All

21:28

right , but

21:30

that is where the perspectives

21:33

like your ability to look at it from different perspectives

21:35

you need to see it . So if you're someone

21:37

that's now has a shot at

21:39

quarter finals because now they're

21:41

letting 25% in , you

21:44

should be a little empathetic towards the people that

21:46

have been working their ass off to get the top 10% . But

21:48

you shouldn't feel bad about it . I don't feel

21:50

bad , you shouldn't the top 10% people

21:52

you're allowed

21:54

to be like , wow , I guess I put all that work in

21:57

and I kind of didn't need to because

21:59

I could have made it without all that extra

22:01

work , without all that sacrifice

22:03

. But at the end of the day

22:06

it doesn't affect you

22:08

that much . If

22:10

you really think about , like , staying your lane , don't complain

22:12

. Like it's pretty easy to just

22:14

look at this like , hey , I put a lot of work in , I'm

22:17

gonna make quarter finals now a little bit easier . I

22:20

still deserve this result because

22:22

I put the work in . Here's the question

22:24

. I said this to a few people that have had this opinion

22:26

if you don't make top 10%

22:29

, don't do quarters . Make

22:31

that your rule . I

22:34

don't want you to do that because if you come in 11th percentile

22:36

and you don't do it , you're gonna be upset . But

22:39

those are the kind of like self-responsibility

22:41

outlooks you can look at this from , is

22:43

there's more than

22:46

just your perspective . Neither one of you are

22:48

right or wrong . By the way , quoting adorbs

22:50

in there . There's multiple ways so look at this , and

22:52

none of them are right or wrong , but you should

22:54

be capable of looking at them from both perspectives .

22:57

If you were someone who ate pizza and beer and still

22:59

got into quarters , great

23:02

. More power to you . More power to you . Let's

23:04

see how you do in quarters . Because there's

23:07

way more emphasis now on the quarter

23:09

final rankings because of this . If

23:12

the open is more , if the quarters are more inclusive

23:14

just means you have to look more carefully at

23:16

what those rankings are . And I

23:18

like this because quarter finals is more

23:20

classically CrossFit . You have more toys

23:23

, you have more movement , you have more skill

23:25

. So I never

23:28

really thought that the open judged

23:31

how great of a CrossFit athlete

23:33

you were or how good you were in

23:37

terms of your CrossFit experience . It

23:39

was sort of a fitness test

23:41

, but it was a very general

23:43

fitness test . Now let's

23:45

see how good you are in quarters . So

23:48

and it still makes it harder

23:51

, like if you didn't make the top 10

23:53

and you were like I'm never going to make

23:55

top 10 , so why do I even bother ? No

23:58

, more people have a shot . Well , maybe

24:00

I can make the top 25 . So it gives a

24:02

broader population incentive

24:06

to work to get to quarters and

24:09

I don't think that that's a bad thing . I think that's all

24:12

good . I think if

24:14

you are someone who worked so hard

24:16

to make quarters and you never

24:18

got it by the skin of your teeth . Dude

24:20

, kick ass in the quarters

24:23

and you will have justified the

24:25

fact that they broadened it out . It doesn't matter

24:27

whether you were 11th , 12th , eighth

24:30

. Now you can prove yourself and

24:32

no one will say boo to you . Oh

24:35

, you only were 20th percentile

24:37

, dude . Did you see what I did in the quarters

24:39

? That's where it's going to be .

24:40

Yeah that's awesome . That's a good point too . And

24:43

you start saying more movements

24:45

, more toys , and this is where my

24:47

skin starts to crawl a little bit . The

24:51

person that gets screwed the most

24:53

and I say screwing in quotes , okay

24:55

is the affiliate owner . Yes , we

24:58

had 24 athletes qualify

25:00

for master's semifinals last year . One

25:02

of them was kind of like a 10 packer that

25:04

comes every now and then , but whatever , 24 was the number

25:06

For quarters Yep , for quarters , sorry

25:08

, okay . And

25:11

we had basically three days

25:13

to get these workouts in and

25:16

we had a lot of help from judges . All

25:18

right , you had 10 to 12 judges and

25:20

a few rotated in . We had a few athletes

25:23

that offered to do both

25:25

workout and judge

25:27

someone after them . And

25:29

I also did not compete last

25:31

year because I was recovering from an e-injury , so

25:34

I really was able to go all in

25:36

on the support side and

25:39

set up and schedule and heats and all that setting

25:41

up the floor , the idea

25:44

I did some quick looking at our leaderboard

25:46

, ash , just like don't do this to yourself . I

25:49

went and looked at how many people we would have had

25:51

last year masters and

25:53

individual , because we're now the same weekend

25:55

and if I think I'm right

25:57

, it would have been 47 . So

25:59

let's just say twice as many or

26:02

close to it . That

26:05

made me very nervous and this is where

26:07

I've had people reach out to me . Jr from the

26:09

Savon podcast , who I like a lot in respect

26:11

he said

26:13

the same thing . He goes this is gonna be miserable

26:15

for five days and it's an

26:17

extra day too . I don't know those dates that

26:20

we gave you . It's Wednesday to Monday

26:22

. Now it was basically Thursday

26:24

to Sunday at noon . So

26:27

it's gonna be a long few days . But

26:29

here and I will empathize

26:31

with any owner that says we're screwed

26:33

, because if you don't have a

26:36

lot of ropes , ghds and those things

26:38

are in there , and Kettabells and all this stuff and

26:40

floor space 25 feet down , 25

26:42

feet back , people videoing it

26:45

might actually be logistically

26:47

impossible to do .

26:49

This is the one point . So Hiller talked

26:51

about this In his podcast episode

26:53

CrossFit . Things Were Stupid , which again

26:56

, so clickbaity . Everything he says is clickbaity . I

26:58

disagreed with a lot of what he said in it

27:00

, which we might talk

27:02

about point by point . But the one thing he

27:04

did say is and that's exactly what you

27:06

said is you're gonna have , as an affiliate owner

27:08

, 50 athletes over the course

27:10

of four days doing fairly

27:13

complicated workouts in

27:15

my estimation , if

27:17

the previous quarters had anything to do

27:19

with the future quarters and

27:22

you're running classes at the same time Like

27:24

how is that going to happen Logistically

27:26

? Super , super complicated .

27:30

If we had this jobs on us like a month before , I'd

27:32

be pretty upset with

27:34

CrossFit . But it is

27:36

what's it ? November 13th , right now . November 12th

27:38

, yeah , okay , 12 . One

27:41

, two , three , yeah . You have five months

27:43

to figure this out . You're

27:47

not allowed to own a business , especially across

27:49

the gym , if you're not a problem solver . You're

27:51

just not gonna do a good job . So

27:54

you have five months to figure it . I already have

27:56

multiple ideas . I'm gonna share the examples

27:59

with you . I almost want a chronicle because

28:01

I'm telling you this right now , sam , I'm

28:03

competing in quarters next year and I'm going after

28:05

it and I'm gonna run it and

28:08

I'm gonna show you guys , it can be done , but

28:10

you have to plan it out , you have to be a little selfless

28:12

, right , and you have to communicate

28:15

and ask for help . So this is what

28:17

I'm already . I have two things that I'm considering doing

28:19

, one of them I've already decided on . Any

28:21

athlete that wants to participate in

28:23

quarterfinals at CrossFit Bison has

28:26

to pass the judges course , because

28:28

you are going to be required to judge . Adam

28:32

Ranzin brought up a really good point . A lot of some

28:34

of the athletes that love quarterfinals

28:36

Dave Lancelotti , for example right

28:39

, he's probably gonna make it . So

28:41

we're not gonna have him judging 18 heats

28:43

in three days . Yeah , cause he's so selfless

28:45

about helping and judging and I know

28:47

for a fact he's still gonna offer to judge , because

28:50

that's who Dave is . But we have other athletes

28:52

that are gonna compete

28:54

and we have to allow and permit them

28:57

to warm up , get

28:59

their video set up . For those that want a video , get

29:03

everything set up , train

29:05

, work out not and this isn't gonna be a class

29:07

situation where you judge and then work out . Like I'm gonna

29:09

make the rule that you work out , but then you will judge

29:11

the heat after you . And if you can't do that , I'm

29:13

sorry . You can't do the quarterfinals here and

29:16

you're gonna have to commit . What's

29:18

one thing I do with the athletes every time quarterfinals

29:20

comes around , the zoom call right

29:22

and it is like guys , I'm a nice

29:25

guy , I've earned that right

29:27

to say that over the past 10 years . The

29:29

quarterfinals . You are now in the sport . This

29:31

is how it's gonna be . If you can't

29:34

play by X , y , z rules , like

29:36

, hey , I need this schedule because

29:38

I have kids , well , so does everyone else . So if you

29:41

can't make the sacrifices in it and find

29:43

someone to watch your kids , and maybe even

29:45

I don't know . Some of you guys get at work

29:47

early , take a day off work . If you can't do that

29:49

, because there are specific windows in which

29:51

this needs to get done and you're one of 40

29:53

people that I'm not gonna make special accommodations

29:56

for , you're out , you can't

29:58

do this . And these are things

30:00

that you can do ahead of time , where

30:02

you just make it as objective as possible

30:04

that everyone's on the same page . And

30:06

if someone shows up and doesn't know

30:09

the workout , doesn't know what the zone is supposed to look

30:11

like , doesn't know the equipment , doesn't know the standards

30:13

, then you know what You're gonna suffer the consequences

30:15

yourself . Yeah , we've had that , and

30:17

that's on you and that's not on anyone

30:20

else . So this is where

30:22

communication . You have five months to communicate

30:24

this and I'm gonna write this in an email

30:26

soon , and the judges course , it's not

30:28

even available yet . All right

30:30

that you're gonna have to pass that

30:32

thing and it's annoying as hell . It's 10 bucks , but

30:35

you know what you're doing . You're helping the gym out and

30:38

you're gonna make the situation better for those around you , because

30:40

you can't come to quarterfinals at

30:42

CrossFit Bison and be thinking only about yourself

30:44

. You're not allowed to do that . All

30:47

right , and if that's not your cup of tea , you just gotta go somewhere else

30:49

for them , and I'm sure there's a gym out there that'll help you out . But

30:52

here's another angle to it . I'm

30:55

considering closing the gym two

30:57

nights a week . For that , so

30:59

Thursday and Friday night , I'm considering no classes

31:01

. What ? From what time ? Probably

31:04

5.15 on . So I'll have a 4.15 class and

31:07

then there's no more classes , because it will

31:09

take three , four hours to get everyone in . It

31:11

will take three . And I was thinking that . I was like

31:13

, are you gonna run heats until like 10 o'clock at night

31:16

? I mean I will , but I'm not gonna do

31:18

that with the class . And this is where , hey

31:20

, you shouldn't be affecting the gym . And

31:22

that's where I'm still thinking about this .

31:24

But it was kind of a mess because we did kind of

31:26

run classes in some quarters last

31:29

year . It was this very suboptimal

31:31

experience for the classes .

31:33

Let's just put it that way it is and it

31:35

happens every year in the open , Just the open . Yeah

31:37

, just the open , just the open Thursday . Hey guys , 7.15,

31:39

. You're kind of in the corner , can you get out of the way ? You're

31:42

kind of have music and these

31:44

11 people with judges , so the 22

31:46

people in the gym are gonna take over the gym , and

31:49

is it the best way to handle something

31:51

like that ? It's not . But

31:53

if it's communicated correctly

31:55

and you build a culture

31:57

here that every now and then you're

31:59

gonna have to give a little to others . You

32:02

know . You know and I know we

32:04

don't put the competitors on a pedestal here

32:06

. You know I don't give them like whatever they

32:08

want whenever they want , but there are

32:10

specific situations where

32:13

it's kind of needed to have a very

32:15

small window of time space

32:17

to get it logistically done

32:19

.

32:20

You don't do this very often . I can't think

32:22

of Once a year . Yeah , I don't think you've

32:24

ever done it where you've actually shut down the gym

32:26

. Even when the open announcement came

32:28

, you figured out how to get people to still take

32:30

classes and work out , absolutely .

32:32

I mean , I'm always gonna look out for the gym as

32:35

a whole , and part of

32:37

this is me looking out for the gym as a whole

32:39

. You might not be

32:41

on the beneficiary

32:43

of that decision , but I can guarantee

32:46

you you've been on the beneficiary

32:48

side of other decisions . I

32:51

do try to be as fair as possible , but

32:53

I know that if we have windows like you gotta

32:55

get workouts done by a certain time . It's

32:58

not gonna be possible for us to start at eight o'clock

33:00

. You know we're gonna be at one in the morning . I'm

33:03

not gonna do that , so you

33:05

know we Okay . So that's just like the biggest thing Communicate

33:08

what your solutions are to these problems . So

33:12

the last thing I wanna say about why I think they

33:16

went from top 10 to top 25 is they want

33:19

their numbers up , right . They want their numbers

33:21

up in the open registration . They

33:23

want more people cross-fitting . This

33:26

does easily make

33:28

it much more realistic for

33:30

your average Joe athlete that

33:32

works out four days a week to eventually get there . Not everyone

33:35

, again , you're never gonna

33:37

make everyone happy with it , but

33:39

it it really does

33:41

get . It makes it more inclusive and

33:45

I think that's important . As a gym owner

33:47

, as a coach , I think that's really important . How much

33:49

do they charge for the quarters ? I

33:51

forget 50 bucks .

33:53

Yeah .

33:54

Money grab . Let's get into that . Where

34:00

is this money going ? They are going to make

34:02

more money and so

34:04

if they have another , I don't

34:06

know , 40,000 people do

34:09

quarter finals . Right

34:11

, You're looking . I think I saw numbers like they're going

34:13

to make an extra million or $2 million on this . Okay

34:16

, Didn't

34:18

we just deal with people complaining

34:20

that the Masters are not getting enough attention

34:23

and media coverage ? Did

34:26

we not just have that ? Yes , If

34:30

Masters athletes want

34:32

a better games experience

34:35

, there has

34:37

to be money coming in from somewhere . It's

34:40

not going to appear from thin air , so

34:43

you can't talk out of both sides of your mouth

34:45

here . If you want coverage , more

34:48

attention , more love from CrossFit

34:50

, there's going to be a lot of money

34:52

that's needed to come in . This is

34:55

a lot of money , so why

34:57

wouldn't you be celebrating this ? This is

34:59

probably going to come back to you Like

35:01

, I think the Masters games athletes

35:03

, semi-finalists you guys should be

35:05

the loudest people in the room right now cheering

35:08

. What do you think about that

35:10

? Is it because you're bringing up the money grab argument

35:12

?

35:12

Yeah , I think the

35:15

issue is that some people probably don't

35:17

know what CrossFit is going to do with the money , and

35:21

so you're trusting CrossFit that they're using

35:23

it in some way to make things better . And

35:25

if you know Dave Castro , if you know Bosman

35:28

, if you know the guys who run the

35:30

games , if you've known Nicole

35:33

Carroll , if you know all

35:35

of the people who are the stalwarts at CrossFit

35:37

, do you think this is just going

35:39

to go to the venture capitalists or do you think this

35:41

is actually going to be used to help bolster

35:44

and make CrossFit better ? If you do

35:46

believe this is going to make CrossFit better , that

35:48

these people care about CrossFit yeah

35:50

, listen , if you 50

35:52

bucks , if you pay for a CrossFit gym

35:54

membership at your gym , that's

35:58

a lot of money , now it is . So 50 bucks should

36:00

not be putting you out for anything

36:02

Like . It shouldn't be like . Oh , this is a

36:04

hardship for me , dude , if you go to a CrossFit gym

36:06

, you're paying a lot . Yeah , so shut

36:08

up . Yeah , you shouldn't be going to CrossFit

36:10

then , yeah , if you're that poor , a

36:13

second of all I trust them

36:15

to make this better . So

36:17

do they need money ? Sure , they need money

36:19

. Everyone needs money . Are they going to use this

36:21

money well . That's

36:23

your choice to believe or not believe , and I

36:25

choose to believe yes .

36:26

And I think we put that pressure on CrossFit . Like

36:29

, crossfit shows what you got . You're about to get

36:31

a lot more money . Let's see an improvement to

36:33

some of the processes that you guys have been putting out there

36:36

. Yeah , because I don't want them to just be like up on

36:38

the cloud and we're down here and like , hey , tell , like minions

36:40

, like tell us what to do . You guys need to do a better

36:42

job now with all this extra money that's coming in . Yep . Here's

36:46

the biggest negative the video

36:48

process review . Mm Sorry

36:52

, the video review process is

36:55

a complete disaster and

36:57

Hiller has made a name for himself

36:59

by exposing how many people were getting away

37:01

with stuff and maybe it has

37:03

or hasn't , put pressure on CrossFit . I have to imagine

37:06

it has put some pressure on them to

37:08

make things better . But I

37:11

can guarantee you right now and if

37:13

someone from CrossFit wants to reach out and say

37:15

, dave , you're wrong , I would love to hear it there

37:18

is no shot that all

37:20

200 athletes in Masters divisions are

37:22

gonna have their videos reviewed from

37:24

quarter finals . Yeah , no shot , yep

37:27

, and maybe they pick one workout

37:29

to watch , but I still

37:31

don't think all two there ain't watching 200th

37:34

place athlete . They're

37:37

. You know , 24.4 video

37:39

in quarter finals . There's no way it's happening . Good point

37:41

. So what's the plan

37:44

here ? Because to make

37:46

, I remember when I made semis , I had

37:48

all my videos watched to

37:50

be top 30 . That's pretty easy to do , though You're

37:53

multiplying that number by an immense amount

37:55

and you have all these divisions

37:58

. There's just no way you're gonna

38:00

be able to logistically do that . I just don't even think of

38:02

the time , let alone the manpower . So

38:05

what's the plan there ? Crossfit , how

38:07

are you actually going to police the

38:10

people that say they got what they got

38:12

? Because , if not , you know human

38:14

nature . People will lie about their scores

38:16

If they start to hear and see like , oh

38:18

dude , look , look , nobody . My YouTube video no

38:20

views , no one's watching my videos

38:22

. So fuck , this next year I'm

38:25

lying about every single one of my scores so

38:27

that I can make semi-finals .

38:29

There is this . This could be

38:31

a point of weakness for CrossFit , because I

38:33

could see Hillar going a crap

38:35

over this . Oh yeah , like posting

38:37

video after video of , like looking for people's

38:39

videos that you know have horrible form

38:41

, cheating or miscounting reps

38:43

or whatever you know intentional , non-intentional and

38:46

just hammering them look who made it

38:48

into semi-finals . So yes , they

38:50

have to .

38:52

This could be a point of issue for them Know

38:54

what they used to do and I would love to see them bring it back . They

38:58

used to . When you , they

39:00

can make you submit videos , no matter what okay

39:03

, but they used to have this ability

39:05

for if you pass the online judges course , that

39:07

you can watch everyone's videos and give it

39:09

thumbs up or thumbs down , and that

39:12

isn't gonna prevent someone from moving on

39:14

, but it can red flag . It's

39:16

like it's like crowdsourcing , like you can like

39:18

hey , this guy in

39:21

Zimbabwe has 87

39:23

thumbs downs . We should probably look at his video

39:25

where , if no one has

39:27

any thumbs downs or like hey , like just a couple

39:29

here , probably don't need to spend our time looking at it , because

39:31

we had a lot of people look at it . Forget about .

39:33

Zimbabwe . How about Midland Park , New Jersey ? We've

39:35

got plenty of people here who might

39:37

not qualify . That's true . That's

39:39

true . Their movement patterns are so horrible . We got to work

39:41

on some of these people here .

39:43

So let's go into these talking heads because

39:45

I don't want to get too long here , but

39:48

I don't know why I feel a need

39:50

to do this . I always do . I

39:52

guess it might be loyalty to CrossFit

39:55

and I don't have like

39:57

a deep relationship with anyone at the top

39:59

, so it's not like I'm defending my buddy

40:01

here , but I'm gonna say this

40:03

people are gonna complain about top

40:05

10% . People are gonna complain about top 5%

40:07

if they want the other way , people are gonna complain about top 25%

40:10

. That's human nature . That's the way our world

40:12

works right now and I hate it . But

40:15

no matter what , I want you to ask yourself

40:17

this does this have a negative impact

40:19

on you ? All

40:21

right . The only people that this negatively

40:23

impacts really is the gym owner , all

40:25

right . And the coaches , because the coaches

40:28

do take on some extra work

40:30

voluntarily . Most of them don't get paid for

40:32

it . So and this is

40:34

more people , right . More people , more problems . If

40:37

you're not a gym owner and you're

40:39

not a coach , or you're not someone that's really

40:41

gonna be putting a lot of time into helping

40:43

people out with quarterfinals , you

40:45

don't need to have an opinion about

40:47

that , you don't need to share an opinion , you don't need to be complaining

40:50

about it because it doesn't have an impact

40:52

on you , and I think that that's really

40:54

, really important to understand . But

40:59

, coming from gym owner perspective , I

41:01

sign up for this and if I

41:03

can't handle , I'm humble enough

41:05

to say I can't handle this anymore . I

41:08

gotta hand this thing off to somebody else . And

41:10

maybe that's the truth for some of you bitter old

41:13

school CrossFit owners or former CrossFit

41:15

owners that no longer own a box , that have a YouTube

41:17

channel , right and think that you're still on the

41:19

inside of all that what goes on at five am

41:21

up to nine pm in a gym , right

41:23

, that maybe you're just

41:25

not cut out for this , maybe you're not good

41:28

enough at running something like this and

41:30

I guarantee there's someone out there that is so

41:32

maybe you should give up your gym , your business

41:35

, because you can't handle something that's too hard .

41:39

I wanna say Andrew Hiller said a

41:41

couple things in his video that I wanna

41:43

refute because because

41:45

I think they're wrong or they're not wrong

41:47

, they're just his opinion , which is not

41:50

necessarily true

41:53

. The first thing is he said nobody wants

41:55

to do three weeks , they want five

41:57

weeks in the open . He's strong , strong disagree

41:59

there . Yeah , I was like , hey , strong disagree . He

42:02

was like it's so much . It's fine for affiliate

42:04

owners . I love doing five weeks . I love doing five weeks

42:06

. And I'm like dude , you're in the minority

42:08

. I don't know where you're coming with that perspective

42:11

. Our gym loves three weeks . Yeah , like , and

42:13

he had nothing to say other than CrossFit

42:16

thinks we

42:18

should be doing three weeks , and that's wrong

42:20

. Five weeks is fine .

42:21

And I'm telling Hiller no , you're

42:23

wrong dude , and we're coming from the gym that

42:25

has the most people signed up in United States

42:28

of America and one of the top five in the world . Yeah

42:30

, the credibility's there .

42:31

So that's his personal opinion . I

42:34

strongly disagree and I don't think he

42:36

has any proof to show otherwise

42:38

. The second thing is and

42:41

I mean , let's see

42:44

, what would the reason be to do five

42:46

? If you think more people are gonna sign up for the open

42:48

, if it's five , weeks by all means

42:50

. But if you really think more people are gonna sign

42:52

up for the open if it's five versus three ? If

42:55

you don't think that , then leave it at three , for God's

42:57

sakes . The other thing is is yes , it

42:59

is true that it's gonna be hard on the affiliate owners for quarterfinals

43:02

, but

43:04

I think he thinks that CrossFit

43:07

is ultimately

43:09

just he

43:12

looks at it from such a cynical perspective

43:14

and it really bothers me because I

43:16

think they're trying to do these four good

43:18

things . The thing I like about semis

43:20

, about being 200 now , and

43:23

we talked about it briefly is that's basically

43:25

what the old age group age

43:29

online qualifier was the age group

43:32

online qualifier . So you went from the

43:34

open . You did if you

43:36

got in the age

43:39

group like yeah

43:41

, that was basically . You had to be top 200

43:43

in the world to get to the next step and

43:45

then they went to the games from there and then from there

43:47

was either 10 or 20 from the

43:49

AGOQ and to get

43:52

into the AGOQ was such

43:54

I mean Tracy McGee , maybe only

43:56

a couple other people , I think Kathleen

43:59

like very few , and I

44:01

did it once and it was the

44:03

biggest accomplishment I've ever

44:05

had in my life Yep

44:07

, yep , and remember that those days so well and

44:09

that was such a challenge and

44:12

I think for people to see

44:14

, to get to semis that they

44:16

expanded it to 200 , it's

44:18

going to give people some goals

44:21

and aspirations . You

44:23

have to be really effing good to make

44:25

it at this point . It's much harder now than

44:28

I think it was , but

44:30

if you got it you might be able to do it

44:32

Like I'm thinking , maybe

44:35

if now I'm like , ooh , maybe if I age

44:37

up , like the following year , do I got

44:39

a shot at top 200 ?

44:41

You know it's funny . I commented I'd almost never

44:43

do this . I was like home on a

44:45

Wednesday night and I was commenting with

44:47

someone I don't know that was complaining

44:49

about oh well , they're just letting anyone . And it was one

44:51

of those lines when do they draw the line 30%

44:54

and 40% ? And I said I was like I guess it's time for

44:56

you to try to make semi finals . So I said , because

44:58

like that was his goal , make quarter finals

45:01

and he probably already

45:03

know , hey , I'm going to get there . It's very attainable . But

45:05

now , in typical CrossFit fashion

45:08

, we're going to push the threshold . So

45:10

now you don't need to worry about the

45:12

quarter finals anymore . You're in bro , go

45:14

for semis . Because if we're not pushing

45:17

thresholds here , you're kind of not really doing CrossFit

45:19

anymore and

45:21

don't you want ? So you're saying , you're

45:24

saying something I completely . I've written down right in front

45:26

of me I want more people doing CrossFit

45:28

, okay , I want more people

45:31

seeing a reason to push themselves and

45:33

I want more people to feel that feeling , that feeling

45:35

that you have Huge accomplishment

45:37

. You barely squeaked in . You had those five days

45:40

. You crushed the workouts too . You had a couple of really good workouts

45:42

that weekend the ring muscle point , like I'll always remember

45:44

that right , people screaming at you

45:46

your daughter is here . You have 30 people

45:48

here showing up on a Saturday morning Like

45:51

that . Those are the moments

45:53

when I look back on CrossFit by a

45:55

send . There's so many moments , but when it comes to

45:57

sport , open . This is why I

45:59

say it's the best time of year for our gym , because

46:01

it ties us all together . Yes , are some

46:03

people put on a pedestal and others are not ? Yes

46:05

, but that's not what I'm talking about . I'm not

46:07

talking about Sam on top of the rings . I'm talking about

46:09

the fact that his daughter is here watching him go through

46:12

this . All right , I'm watching that . His wife

46:14

is here and our friends are here . We're all just showing up

46:16

literally only to watch you work out . Right

46:19

, I want more people to feel that

46:21

and now that they're opening the door

46:23

to 25% , they're

46:25

going to feel it . There's going to be so many people

46:27

making quarterfinals next year that

46:29

did not have a shot at top 10%

46:31

and they've never felt this feeling

46:33

. And guess what ? Your time is now

46:35

here . This adds

46:38

so much why to what you're doing

46:40

throughout the year with training . Do I need to go

46:42

to the gym tonight ? Tomorrow's kind of a weird workout . We're

46:44

just doing deadlifts , like I'm going to stay

46:46

home , eat and watch TV . No

46:49

, I have something to train for now

46:51

. And when you get that feeling of accomplishing

46:53

all after something , all this hard work

46:56

and sacrifice that you've made , it

46:58

brings you to another level . Like , why are we not

47:00

wanting that for more people ? Like

47:02

, why are we only talking about the people in

47:04

the top 10% and the people that just

47:06

missed it ? Why are you not talking

47:08

about the people that were 30th percentile

47:11

last year , or 27th ? Are

47:13

they not good enough for your attention ? Like

47:16

, why are you not talking about that ? You should be ashamed

47:18

of yourself , hillard , for not bringing

47:20

that up . You

47:23

know , are you really a crossfit ? Are you into the cross-examined

47:26

, or are you just like hey , you

47:28

know , I used to be a really good athlete and

47:30

only these people that are on my caliber should feel

47:32

this feeling . Fuck that . Seriously

47:35

. You should be ashamed of yourself for saying stuff like that , because

47:37

there's a lot more to this than the top 10%

47:39

, and that's why I think this is

47:41

a good thing . All right , do

47:45

we have anything else left to say about this ? No

47:47

, I couldn't have said it better myself . All

47:49

right , thank you guys , I can't

47:51

wait for the open this year . So , after

47:54

my personal opinion , it is going to be harder for

47:56

me as a personally , but I think it's going to be better

47:58

for the crossfit community

48:00

and that's why I think

48:02

it's a good thing and we should

48:04

get behind it , we

48:06

should support it and we should ask

48:09

what else we can do to support it . And

48:12

that's why this stuff will work is

48:14

, if you have that mindset , what can you do

48:16

to support this new change ? Thank you

48:18

, thank

48:21

you , everybody , for taking the time out of your day to

48:23

listen to the Herdfit podcast . Be

48:25

on the lookout for next week's episode .