2022 CrossFit Games Stage 2 Quarter Finals Hits a Little Different

Just one week after the CrossFit Quarterfinals, our Host Chad Mueller sits down with Adam de Jong for a recap on how our LP Athletes stacked up against the best in the world in Stage 2 of the 2022 CrossFit Games Season. 

Chad and Adam recap the 5 high skilled and demanding workouts completed by the Athletes in 3 days, how each workout took a toll on the athletes, and how the LP Athletes stayed fuelled and ready to bring their A-Game to each workout over the course of the weekend. 

Finally, Chad and Adam talk about the online and in-person competitions that they are excited to compete with the LP Members throughout the next year. If you are excited to get involved with Team, Partner or Individual CrossFit Competitions then you have to tune in for this episode for the inside scoop. 

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Transcript

Chad [0:06 - 0:30]
community of members, coaches and professionals working as a team of like minded individuals in constant pursuit, connecting this exclusive group with the tools and resources they require to live a high performance lifestyle, conquering what life has thrown at them. We are living the fit life. Welcome to the living in Finland podcast, episode 49. I'm your host champion and I'm joined by coach D. J. What's up buddy? How's it going on this friday?

Adam [0:30 - 0:45]
Hey man, things are good. Yeah, friday afternoon. Almost a week after the quarter finals ended and just in a little recovery, we're trying to physically and mentally recover from the onslaught of training last weekend.

Chad [0:45 - 1:40]
Yeah, no dope. Yeah, today is gonna be a fun little short, most likely short. We'll keep it short compared to what our usual talks are on the crossfit quarterfinals. Um not sure when we're gonna release this, but Crossfit Quarterfinals were just at the end of March and it's basically Um, the second stage of the Crossfit Games, five workouts released online, You have three days to do 05 and they have sort of a segmented time and so we had some of our rock star cross fitters at the gym, we had Ali Eddie yourself and brought qualify for the quarterfinals. Unfortunately brock was sick and he didn't get a chance to do them in the actual competition, but I believe he's still doing them as we speak. So he's getting sort of a mock quarterfinal trial, which is fun, so excited that he's still got to do

Adam [1:41 - 1:42]
exactly.

Chad [1:43 - 1:58]
Um, so yeah, so the crossfit quarterfinals, everybody knows what the crossfit open and I think a few years ago crossfit decided to create this sort of second stage. Um So the crossfit open is like a very uh open type of

Adam [1:58 - 1:59]
qualifier,

Chad [1:59 - 3:42]
it's like the biggest sporting event in the world or something like that. I think I heard um three workouts workouts are fairly um very L. P. S. Right, like a lot of people from L. P. Would easily be able to do them easily. They were definitely easier than an L. P. Class on a Tuesday or thursday I would say. And then from crossfit open the 10% in the world make it to the quarterfinals. So the if we talk about the crossfit games athletes, they are like the 0.01%. So the quarterfinals have a 10% of the world. And so ali, Eddie Adam and brock Made it into that 10%. Not a really huge surprise. And so the quarterfinals then go to the semifinals which gets even tighter. I think the semifinals in North America, I think only 100 and 20 men and women go and the quarter finals, I think to give you an idea, I think it's probably four or 5000 Men and four or 5000 women in North America. So it's a pretty big group and it gets segmented harder and harder as you go. So they were called today too, jump into quarterfinals and kind of talk about the workouts and see what Adam feels like how he did and how he feels and even uh we'll talk about some of the other athletes that did it. Um I think I love this conversation, I think everybody knows that. I love talking about crossfit competition, I think um there's lots of competitions, also online competitions. Um it's always fun to participate in them, even whether you're judging, coaching a fan or just doing them, it's always kind of fun to kind of just test yourself in one of these camps against another group of people. So it's pretty, pretty cool. We had a pretty good uh turn out to some of the workouts too, right, So

Adam [3:42 - 3:44]
great to have some L. P. Members

Chad [3:45 - 3:45]
back in the

Adam [3:45 - 4:03]
building cheering us on. I mean the ultimate was when we had you know 20 or 30 LP members doing the workouts and cheering each other on and screaming. But it was great to at least have fans back there and made it a lot more fun and enjoyable for the open and the quarterfinals, so it's cool.

Chad [4:03 - 4:16]
Yeah, we'll get back to that. I think that was like 2018, I think I got some pictures that showed up on a memory of my socials and it was like that was a huge group of people that did the did the open and a huge group of people kind of just hanging out, having some pizza and beers and just hearing

Adam [4:17 - 4:18]
we

Chad [4:18 - 4:25]
gotta get back to that. That's a goal. I think we all this community, yes, this community can rally

Adam [4:25 - 4:26]
and get back to that

Chad [4:27 - 4:33]
because I think there's a lot of people at the gym whether you're deep in across it or not. I think um

Adam [4:33 - 4:34]
there's

Chad [4:34 - 4:39]
a lot of people in the gym that are more than fit to go toe to toe with some of these workouts.

Adam [4:40 - 5:23]
Yeah, I think you did and I think crossfit has done an awesome job and you did an awesome job explaining like the open, the way they've set it up with the quarterfinals. It allows the Open to be a lot more accommodating for everyone and the workouts, although they're very punishing and very tough. This the skill based, you know, so many LP members have the skill to do them and to do them well. Right, So it makes the open a lot more fun. It's only three weeks. So three workouts, three weeks and then it's over for most people, which when it used to be five weeks that like dragged on people by the 4th and 5th week, they were like, oh man, are we doing this again? Three weeks is fun.

Chad [5:24 - 6:05]
Yeah. And then now there there's a bunch of qualifiers like water appaloosa and rogue and a few other really fun uh, competitions that you've been a part of, they have, they have sort of created a really fun online qualifier to write, like sometimes they do just a weekend or sometimes it's just two weekends you have two workouts per weekend. So I think they all try to get more and more people involved and not so taxing and not so um, logistically like difficult, right? Because you're right having five weekends in a row to train and be mindful of what you're trying to accomplish. It's, it's a lot to ask for the sort of corporate athlete. Yeah,

Adam [6:05 - 6:43]
exactly, exactly. And it's Covid helped with that I think because the whole thought of the garage gym came into play and making workouts accessible almost for everyone, which then kind of dummied down even the in gym logistics set up and mindset of that. That so yeah, excited to get back to um, getting more members involved, like you said in some of these online fun competitions and even some in person competitions this spring and summer and fall and then that'll kick off next year's a little ramp up to the, to the Crossfit Open, which will be cool.

Chad [6:44 - 7:38]
Yeah, for sure. And this is definitely the season of like in person competitions right? Like the spring and summer, there's always a few in Ontario within like easy driving distance to Kitchener. So like we've talked a little bit about the element comp in Toronto happening in May. Um, that's a team competition. So there's a lot of fun like team competition, right? You don't have to just like if you're intimidated to go by yourself. Um There's a lot of team competitions and all these competitions are very accommodating, as you said, like there's like an Rx an elite which might be for someone like ali or or adam or Eddie and there's usually an Rx like like intermediate, which is kind of like you can dabble in the skills a little bit, but it's not like a huge requirement, you're not doing muscle ups, you might not be doing strict handstand pushups or handstand walks, but you might get a chance to do some kipping handstand pushups or something like that. Or some chest to bar and then there's obviously scale which is very much the most accommodating sort of level

Adam [7:38 - 7:39]
of, you know, you get

Chad [7:39 - 7:58]
some weights, you get some exercise, you get a good sweat on, you push your sort of boundaries and if anybody's intimidate, that's a really good way to kind of get into something like a live competition just to get your toes right a little bit. So definitely if anybody's interested uh reach out because uh I think there's a lot of people that are interested in. Maybe we just need a little bit of an L. P push.

Adam [7:59 - 8:26]
Yeah, I agree. It's uh in the last two years it's taken away the opportunity to do it and we have such a competitive group of members that love to just not not compete against each other but just love to push themselves And it's such a fun, rewarding way of doing that. And the team competitions are and partner competitions are sometimes even more fun from that perspective, so it'll be cool to do a combo of both.

Chad [8:27 - 8:56]
Yeah, my first, my first I just I just did an L. P. Class for the first time in a long time and I did the partner working on thursday, so I was like that partner stuff is awesome, it's just such a fun welcoming way to kind of get some good fitness and so yeah, it's pretty awesome, pretty awesome. Sweet. Yeah let's talk crossfit quarterfinals. So let me think workouts were released, sort of Wednesday or thursday and you get the

Adam [8:56 - 8:58]
work, there's

Chad [8:58 - 9:46]
afternoon, okay? And you get five workouts, they give you a floor plan, they give you the workouts and then they tell you sort of workout workout to or do Work at 100 worker to our due sort of the next day by 12 o'clock and then work out three and four do the next day by 12 o'clock and then work out five is due the following day. So you have sort of you know how to do all five right away, You have a little bit of strategy to kind of decide which workouts you want to do in which order, but there are some some very tight submission deadlines as some people in the crossfit world have found out. Um And so yeah so it's pretty fun. I guess my question, my first question for you was knowing that you made the quarterfinals, what was your preparation, like sort of, you know, one or two weeks ahead of the quarterfinals because I think that was the difference right? The open was like,

Adam [9:47 - 9:47]
and the

Chad [9:47 - 9:52]
Opening quarter fans were only like two or 3 weeks separated is pretty close together.

Adam [9:53 - 9:56]
Yeah, I mean the, the crazy part of preparing

Chad [9:56 - 9:57]
for the

Adam [9:57 - 10:57]
quarter finals because they crossfit really steps up the difficulty level from the open to the quarterfinals, like all of a sudden there's strict handstand pushups, rope climbs, muscle ups, heavy barbells, very high skilled movements. So like not something you can learn in a short period of time. So for Those go who know, they're going to qualify in the top 10%,, You kinda like your training is focused around the quarter finals, where you know, there's the other athletes that is focused on the open and then there's that kind of like in between athletes who Wants to break through and crack that top 10%. So like if you're, if you know, you're just doing the three open workouts, you don't even have to worry about the crazy high skills. If you're the athlete who wants to crack that top 10

Chad [10:57 - 10:58]
percent,

Adam [10:59 - 12:14]
then you need to make sure you have those skills, but they're not like the primary focus of your workout training and I think what, you know what we realized again this year, more important than anything is like a solid base of strength and conditioning is the minimum buying, Like that is # one, all the skills in the world don't over uh overcompensate for strength and conditioning. So you know, that that's the big thing to get through the open to the quarters, they're essentially just testing your strength and your conditioning in the open and then once you get to the quarters then they're testing your skill, strength and conditioning, kind of like those three main components per se. But yeah, so training, you know, the open, those three weeks are are somewhat taxing, but nothing crazy. Um and then another tough week of training right after the open and then a little taper uh into that week of kind of, it's like a quarter finals week really?

Chad [12:14 - 12:15]
Yeah, I want

Adam [12:15 - 12:40]
to go into that thursday night, fresh, usually you do one workout thursday night, Then two on Friday and two on Saturday. Um you have sunday until lunchtime to get the fifth one in, but usually you want to get it done before the delayed onset muscle soreness kicks in too much, that's what happened this year, for sure.

Chad [12:40 - 12:53]
Yeah, Cool. No, that's not, that's cool breakdown and insight into the training, I think, I think it's a good point. So Thursday night work out one was, let me just uh

Adam [12:54 - 12:58]
just a whole whack load of lunges and handstand pushups,

Chad [12:58 - 13:30]
50 dumbbell walking lunges, 30 handstand pushups, 40 front rack, walking lunges, 20 deficit handstand push ups, 30 overhead walking lunges and then 10 strict handstand pushups. The time cap was 15 minutes, the ladies were using £35 dumbbells and a two inch deficit, and the men were using £50 dumbbells and a 3.5 inch deficit. So a ton of lunges, ton of handstand pushups, that looks like, I mean, we can all talk about this at the end of the end of the apartment, this looks like the worst workout on, on the whole weekend,

Adam [13:30 - 13:59]
I think that, you know, and and it did, it set you up for like a weekend of sore muscles and that was kind of like the craziest part of it is 100 and 20 walking lunges with £50 for the guys and 35 for the ladies. Like the handstand push ups are the difference maker in terms of like what your score is going to be, but the walking lunges, you know, you're our glutes and hams were just mangled for the whole weekend. Yeah, mine were um

Chad [13:59 - 14:00]
so,

Adam [14:01 - 14:02]
so yeah, that

Chad [14:02 - 14:03]
you and ali went toe to toe,

Adam [14:04 - 14:17]
Yeah, we went toe to toe and and that was kind of the theme, like, like I said, so the lunges were The 50 regular lunges, we were essentially, we did, I think we did 30 and then 20

Chad [14:18 - 14:18]
Mhm

Adam [14:19 - 14:42]
And then the handstand pushups. We were pretty equal. Then we went to the front rack, that was 40. I think we did 20 and 20 if I remember correctly or 2010, 10. And then we went to the deficit kipping and I think that's where Ali started pulling ahead a little bit on me. Um And then we went to the overhead lunges which

Chad [14:43 - 14:44]
brutal

Adam [14:44 - 14:44]
super

Chad [14:44 - 14:45]
good

Adam [14:45 - 15:13]
overhead strength and stability. Those weren't too bad. Right? So that was like the deceiving part. Ali did three sets of 10 I think I did five sets of six. So that's where she started pulling away and then still She did I think two sets of strict handstand push ups for 10 and I did 10 sets of one. So

Chad [15:13 - 15:14]
like

Adam [15:14 - 15:29]
insane how the fatigue set in and the shoulder that the handstand push ups were truly the difference maker in terms of like she finished a minute ahead of me. Um But it was the lunges that just beat you down.

Chad [15:30 - 15:31]
Yeah,

Adam [15:31 - 15:32]
that was cool.

Chad [15:32 - 15:43]
And yeah, even even Eddie like I noticed like he's a pretty like a pretty strong lower body athlete in the lunges for the first part we're fine. But as soon as that weight went overhead it was like

Adam [15:43 - 15:44]
okay

Chad [15:44 - 15:59]
That that was sort of I think a difference maker for a lot of people was once you have to do 50 handstand push ups because you have the skill Then now you have to put weight for another 30 plus another 10 at the end. That's that's asking a lot. Yeah.

Adam [15:59 - 16:37]
Yeah and that's that was kind of like the separator, that final round is usually where it's like joes versus pros, where the pros, they just like keep moving at the same pace, where you know the weekend warrior, average joes, they get stopped in their tracks, right? So it was cool. Yeah, like Eddie the powerhouse, he's he's getting super good at handstand push ups. Um And he actually, you know, I would say he paced it and broke his sets up really smart because he he stayed pretty strong through the end of those strict handstand push ups. Um The overhead lunges just kind of got to him from a mobility standpoint.

Chad [16:37 - 16:45]
Yeah. Yeah, he was you finished in like 906, he finished 12, so

Adam [16:45 - 17:23]
and then brought it up this week and like totally different athletes than me and totally different than than Eddie. Similar to ali where like has the mobility and the skills, but even the overhead walking lunges for brock, we're super punishing and he can get them into like such a solid strong position um and it still beat him down pretty good, he stayed strong Um and he ended up crushing the strict handstand pushups so I think Ali was like yeah seven in a bit uh no,

Chad [17:23 - 17:25]
7 55.

Adam [17:25 - 17:31]
Yeah. Right, just under eight, I was just over nine brock was just over 10.

Chad [17:31 - 17:33]
9:38 30.

Adam [17:33 - 17:37]
Okay, just under 10. And then Eddie was, what did you

Chad [17:37 - 17:38]
say? 20

Adam [17:38 - 17:47]
12, 20. Yeah, so we were all under the time cap, everyone finished. Um and everyone was kind of different strengths and weaknesses on that one. So that was cool.

Chad [17:48 - 17:57]
And actually a shout out to a local crossfit elite Emma Lawson. Uh she crushed that workout and she came first place in North America,

Adam [17:57 - 17:58]
she

Chad [17:58 - 18:32]
had a first place and she, I mean she obviously quarterfinals is something that she like you said is she's an athlete that's looking to get through quarterfinals, not fairly easy, but get through it and then focus on semi finals. Um she did an absolutely amazing job after day one, she was first place I think in North America. So yeah, she, I mean it's super cool having some local athletes and even Jack Farlow, He did, he put up some amazing numbers too, so super cool for the both of them to be both of them. I think we're top 10 at the end of the weekend. So it's like super incredible.

Adam [18:32 - 18:49]
Yeah, they're so they're getting so well rounded, which is so cool. They, and they, I mean, not that they had weaknesses in their games, but weaknesses relative to the other big dogs and now they just, you know, got it all and putting on a show. But yeah, that's it, that was amazing.

Chad [18:49 - 19:08]
Yeah, super cool, super cool. And yeah, so there's a night workout one punishing workout next day. Am next day. The plan is on friday two workouts right AM workout two and PM workout three was that was that was no sorry uh PM you guys did work out for?

Adam [19:08 - 19:16]
Right? We went pistol squats, ghd sit ups and ring muscle ups in the morning. Then we did friday night lights the big lift off

Chad [19:16 - 19:45]
At night. So the airlift was three rounds, 30 alternative pistols and then 30 G. H. D. S. So that's obviously something that they can't do in the open when most most gyms only have one ghd if any and then 10 ring muscle ups. So a bit like obviously a very high skilled workout. Not really quite not the grunt work kind of worker that you're you're used to enjoying. Yeah but obviously high level skill lot of core.

Adam [19:46 - 19:47]
Yeah.

Chad [19:47 - 19:51]
How did you feel uh waking up and and doing that workout?

Adam [19:51 - 21:01]
Yeah I think this is where like the compound effect of those lunges you wake up the next day and you're already sore, shoulders are taxed legs are already super stiff And then you got to do 90 pistol squats. Um And then 90 ghd sit ups which is compounding and then ring muscle ups which is like huge core kind of hip drive to do the ring muscle ups. So this is where just like that first workout like it was more strategic. Um Then just like all out so everyone again had a totally different strategy. Ali super strong in the pistols and G. H. D. S. And then you you were there she did 30 singles on the ring muscle ups And it was like so well executed and she finished under the 15 minute time cap and like it took her a minute to do the pistols a minute to do the ghd and then like 2.5 minutes to do the 10 ring muscle ups and she just stayed on pace for all three sets and got it

Chad [21:01 - 21:02]
done.

Adam [21:02 - 21:03]
Eddie

Chad [21:03 - 21:08]
is still human, she is an amazingly proficient in everything right?

Adam [21:08 - 21:12]
Exactly. She has some areas of opportunity.

Chad [21:12 - 21:13]
We

Adam [21:13 - 21:21]
said like what a breakthrough like to do muscle ups in a workout was to not break down,

Chad [21:21 - 21:22]
watching

Adam [21:22 - 21:30]
Eddie was super fun on this one because he's just such a powerhouse and the ghd s kind of show that off

Chad [21:30 - 21:31]
so

Adam [21:31 - 22:04]
He essentially breezed through the 1st 2 rounds kind of like without breaking a sweat per se. He did he broke up I think his pistols 10 10 10 for 30 broke up his G. H. D. S with a little break 10 10 10 for 30 and then Super comfortably just did five and 5 ring muscle ups And he he did that for all three sets. Um And it was just like clockwork so that was Fun to watch him work through that one.

Chad [22:05 - 22:13]
Yeah he definitely is very comfortable the rings you can just see like just there was never a level of like doubt or

Adam [22:14 - 22:14]
ah

Chad [22:15 - 22:15]
yeah like

Adam [22:15 - 22:19]
instability you know like Yeah

Chad [22:19 - 22:21]
So he probably could have done 10.

Adam [22:22 - 22:22]
Yeah.

Chad [22:22 - 22:36]
Um Maybe he borderlines you know blowing up at that point. I mean totally fine to do five and five. But yeah the comfort level for sure during a workout like that I think that's the work of it. He would say he would enjoy it for sure.

Adam [22:36 - 22:42]
Yeah right. He he had a smile per se on his face the

Chad [22:42 - 22:42]
whole time

Adam [22:42 - 22:46]
getting his pump on it as he likes to say.

Chad [22:46 - 22:47]
But

Adam [22:47 - 23:11]
Yeah he he played that game plan all weekend. He just executed so well from a strategy standpoint like he's he's now like three or maybe even four crossfit seasons in and he knows where he can push the pace and he knows where he just can't. So he did that in the open and then he did it again in the quarters and it was cool to watch.

Chad [23:12 - 23:13]
Yeah, for sure for sure.

Adam [23:14 - 23:33]
And then what I watched brock do it yesterday again like told me and brock had a similar strategy on this one. Um We did 30 pistol squats kind of like at a smooth pace. We knew that wasn't like an area where we were

Chad [23:33 - 23:34]
gonna

Adam [23:34 - 23:52]
uh we kind of had to make up time on it. Um And then Ghd is just a nice smooth 30 and then the rings he went he went I had done it already before. So he went 433,

Chad [23:52 - 23:53]
kind

Adam [23:53 - 24:37]
Of like at that 4-5 rep range. It turns into it's like you're up on the rings for like 30-40 seconds, turns into a little conditioning. So his goal was to keep his heart rate down To manage all three sets Where I went six and 4. Um and then in the 3rd round, As you saw in mine, I had to drop to four and my goal was three and three, but then I ended up failing the third, the 10th rep, the third rep. Um So then it was 432 and then a single to finish, he ended up going five, 32 on the last

Chad [24:37 - 24:39]
round. So

Adam [24:39 - 24:45]
he had a little juice in the tank to kind of almost like kick it up a little on the last round, which was good,

Chad [24:45 - 24:46]
You

Adam [24:46 - 24:50]
paste it well too. I don't know the exact times on that across the board, but

Chad [24:50 - 24:52]
you're all pretty close. Yeah,

Adam [24:54 - 24:56]
I think the old dog took that one.

Chad [24:56 - 24:59]
Yeah, you took it, you got it, you got it, you got it

Adam [24:59 - 25:05]
was 10 minutes Who is next was brock around 11 and a bit.

Chad [25:05 - 25:09]
And Adam was just uh he was just around that to they

Adam [25:09 - 25:13]
were like almost the same on that workout and then Allie was 14 and a

Chad [25:13 - 25:13]
bit

Adam [25:14 - 25:19]
everyone under the time cap again, which is cool. I thought crossfit did a good job with time caps this year

Chad [25:19 - 25:20]
where

Adam [25:20 - 25:27]
You kind of had to suffer through the end of it, it wasn't like a 10 minute cap and hardly anyone finished. It was, it was cool.

Chad [25:27 - 26:16]
No, for sure. And then yeah, so like then taking a little bit of a break during the day and then we moved up workout four to do on the friday night and moved work out three to do saturday morning because we still have the time. So work out four was called the other total, it was A time cap of 30 minutes and within 30 minutes you've got to do a max clean max bench rest and max overhead squat in that order and your total pounds or kilograms total weight successfully moved would be your total score. And so obviously everyone's thinking like when it comes to total is like £1000 is like, you know the number and obviously the elites elites were definitely over £1000 um which was super cool to see. But yeah, so

Adam [26:16 - 26:17]
like clean

Chad [26:17 - 26:25]
Bench pressing overhead squad three, quite different movements than we normally do totals on, I think Cross that usually does like a dead lift, a squad

Adam [26:26 - 26:26]
kind

Chad [26:26 - 26:29]
of thing. Um Yeah, super cool workout.

Adam [26:29 - 26:59]
Well the things like the power lifting total is squat bench dead and you can get 1000 on that, it's considered like a big feet, like you're a strong lifter and the best guys in the world were getting £1,000 total on clean bench and overhead squat, like just £400. Clean was like kind of the norm at the top of the game. And then like a 350 overhead squat and a 300 bench.

Chad [26:59 - 27:06]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's cool across the, because the clean represents the dead lift, overhead, squat represents the squat and so it's kind of

Adam [27:06 - 27:07]
a little cheeky

Chad [27:07 - 27:25]
I guess crossfit that kind of go against the powerlifting world and kind of say like, hey, like we have people that can lift some pretty heavy weights with doing much more technical movements than just picking something up off the floor. No offensive powerlifters, I mean they're beasts. Um you know, some para listeners are trying to squat £1000 so

Adam [27:26 - 27:32]
£1000 but like the normal everyday joe is trying to hit £1000 total,

Chad [27:32 - 27:33]
you know,

Adam [27:33 - 27:34]
squat bench dead.

Chad [27:34 - 27:40]
Uh yeah,

Adam [27:40 - 27:56]
we wanted to do it friday night because we knew we'd get the most fans if we're going to get fans. We had a good, we had a good turnout and we all went at the same time, which was super fun from a hype standpoint, watching everyone hit big lifts and then trying to match it.

Chad [27:56 - 27:58]
Yeah, yeah.

Adam [27:58 - 28:01]
We uh, we started with the clean right,

Chad [28:02 - 28:03]
yeah, clean this first.

Adam [28:03 - 28:30]
So Ali went 185 clean, just missed 1 90. Ah Who is next? Oh, I was next. I missed 3 15 twice and then hit it the third attempt belted up and got my three slabs of beef as I called it 3 15. And then that means three blue plates. Blue plates are a slab of

Chad [28:30 - 28:31]
beef. And

Adam [28:31 - 28:46]
then Rock was next he was in he was 3 19, he was in kilos. So 100 and 45 kg is 3 19 brock. Sorry like brock next time going from like latest

Chad [28:46 - 28:47]
happiest three

Adam [28:47 - 28:49]
19 and then

Chad [28:50 - 28:50]
brock

Adam [28:50 - 28:53]
went for 1 50 kg which is three

Chad [28:53 - 28:54]
30.

Adam [28:55 - 29:00]
To forget if he missed it. I think he just went for it once and he didn't he he caught it and then couldn't stand it

Chad [29:00 - 29:01]
up.

Adam [29:01 - 29:11]
And then Eddie crushed 100 and 50 kg, £330. And then we egged him on to go for 1 55 and he took two really good attempts

Chad [29:11 - 29:12]
at it.

Adam [29:12 - 29:17]
It was almost just like uncharted territory for him. So he didn't really know what to expect. But

Chad [29:17 - 29:26]
Yeah, the 150 was easy. He made it look that was his that was a great lift. So hopefully he keeps that video, watched that one on repeat.

Adam [29:26 - 29:27]
You got that

Chad [29:27 - 29:33]
there's a good lift and then yeah you strip your strip your weights and then you get on the bench and

Adam [29:35 - 29:35]
it was kind

Chad [29:35 - 29:45]
of cool. Like how did your body feel like did you notice any sort of differences between the lips? Like were you getting tired after hitting all these lips or was it kind of quite different, but it didn't feel so much

Adam [29:45 - 30:01]
adrenaline is going. Yeah, there are totally different movements, but there is a compound fatigue that's adding up. I actually noticed it watching brock do it later. I didn't notice it so much when I was going, but like I went through

Chad [30:01 - 30:01]
like

Adam [30:02 - 30:20]
a water, a full water bottle during the lifts. Um You know my my heart rates up the whole time. So yeah, like there's this onset of fatigue that you're not really thinking about. Um I would say it kicked in most for the overhead squat at the end, just trying to stay focused

Chad [30:21 - 30:22]
under

Adam [30:22 - 30:23]
fatigue.

Chad [30:23 - 30:23]
So

Adam [30:24 - 31:24]
the bench was fun that the trick with bench was that we don't do this enough, but I think it's a rule, I was talking to Garth of course the bench king. It is a rule in the powerlifting world too, that your body has to stay on the bench. So the power lifters do that crazy like arching their back and like set up. But he says they do that because there but is on the bench and it can't really move up because they're at the full extension already. Um So we had never really worked on that. So it was kind of funky, I would say we all hit about like £10 less than we can actually bench because we were used to kind of that hip drive um coming out of the bench but what an alley hit 155 Brockett to 42. Ali I mean I think Ali hit 1 65. I just think we said her butt lifted too much so she didn't

Chad [31:24 - 31:25]
she couldn't

Adam [31:25 - 31:44]
on it. Um and then brock hit 2 42 just missed 2 53. I feel like He has that in the tank. I think it was kind of like the butt lifting a bit Eddie smoke to 75. I forget if he even went for two.

Chad [31:44 - 31:47]
No, I think he called it quits pretty quick

Adam [31:48 - 31:48]
in

Chad [31:48 - 31:55]
the overhead squat because like like you said right that overhead squat probably requires the most amount of work. So you probably one of the most amount of time and it's at the end of the workout.

Adam [31:56 - 32:01]
Exactly. So that was smart. I was probably the most dramatic on

Chad [32:01 - 32:03]
this one. I

Adam [32:03 - 32:22]
hit 2 75 like that's somewhat comfortable for me and then I'm like I'm going to 300 I want 300 then I missed 300 missed 2 90, missed 2 85. So I had three wasted lifts when I should have been getting ready for my overhead

Chad [32:22 - 32:23]
squat.

Adam [32:23 - 32:29]
So that was pretty hilarious. Not at the top after the fact. Yeah,

Chad [32:29 - 32:44]
Because because you have 30 minutes totaled obviously before the workout starts. Like you're pretty close to your clean weight. Like you're at 90% already so you only get, you only have a few attempts there, bench press, you know, you have a few, but you, it's not very heavy so you're probably only a few reps there and overhead

Adam [32:44 - 32:45]
squats,

Chad [32:45 - 32:46]
you know, by that point, like you said, you're

Adam [32:46 - 32:48]
taxed, you're

Chad [32:48 - 32:56]
deep into the workout. You probably want 12-15 minutes, Justin Squats, probably have to work out just enough so you're not worried about it.

Adam [32:57 - 33:05]
We literally all went down to the wire. Like it was like we were all doing our last, I think in the last minute like it was

Chad [33:05 - 33:16]
Yes, yes, you're right. Yes, you're right. You, I think You have 10 minutes left by the time you got to over a squad. I think Eddie was, I think Eddie and Ollie already had their bar stripped and they already had a rehearsal.

Adam [33:17 - 33:19]
I wanted to adrenaline to be high so I just wanted to be in a

Chad [33:19 - 33:27]
hurry. Yeah, squad. I mean super impressive to watch people over as squad because like obviously you can rack it. Um

Adam [33:28 - 33:28]
and then

Chad [33:28 - 33:43]
obviously some sort of split jerk or something like that. And like the folks, like you said, like the stability of that movement is like after you've just maxed out your clean max out your bench now you have to be stable enough to lift something super heavy overhead.

Adam [33:43 - 33:55]
It's such a precise movement. Like, you know, you, you explosively press it up or jerk it overhead and then from there it's like the slowest

Chad [33:55 - 33:56]
descent

Adam [33:56 - 34:02]
essentially, you're just trying to get down to the bottom in a perfect position.

Chad [34:02 - 34:03]
Do a

Adam [34:03 - 34:10]
pause squat because you can't really bounce out of the bottom because you'll lose stability

Chad [34:10 - 34:11]
so

Adam [34:11 - 34:37]
then you're like pause and then it's not heavy enough that you shouldn't be able to like stand it up because your legs can lift that much. It's more just like keeping this shoulder stable and keeping the arms locked out. And so I think we all overhead squatted more than we expected. Quite frankly. We maybe don't overhead squat enough like we we olympic lifts snatch a lot but not like specifically overhead squats. So

Chad [34:39 - 34:40]
I think

Adam [34:40 - 34:42]
What did Ali hit? 1 75 I think.

Chad [34:43 - 34:46]
Yeah I don't have the numbers right now. I wrote him on a piece of paper and

Adam [34:47 - 35:07]
65 I hit 2 75 and this one is kind of in Brock's wheelhouse, there's a little discrepancy on his uh His final rep but he hit 297, had a little bit of a bobble on that lift but it was more of a lack of focus just finished

Chad [35:08 - 35:14]
like he said, stability right like at any moment if you're not dialed in like it just moves a hair to the front

Adam [35:14 - 35:16]
right

Chad [35:16 - 35:17]
and

Adam [35:17 - 35:20]
his his right arm literally buckled

Chad [35:20 - 35:21]
just like

Adam [35:21 - 35:36]
the very, it was like the fatigue of the whole workout added up and his arm just like he lost focus for half a second. So if it was an official review we wouldn't give it to him but

Chad [35:36 - 35:43]
depending on the judge it might be a brew up, depending on the totally the judge might call you, call you back on that one.

Adam [35:43 - 35:47]
What I found fascinating was that me brock and Eddie

Chad [35:47 - 35:48]
out of

Adam [35:48 - 35:52]
all those three lifts. We all came down within £7 of each other

Chad [35:52 - 35:53]
like that

Adam [35:53 - 35:56]
fascinating and all totally different lifters.

Chad [35:56 - 36:02]
Yeah it's super cool. It's really quite interesting. You guys are at around eight think 8 50

Adam [36:02 - 36:03]
8 60

Chad [36:03 - 36:04]
five.

Adam [36:04 - 36:05]
That's

Chad [36:05 - 36:07]
and then ali 50

Adam [36:07 - 36:09]
55

Chad [36:09 - 36:10]
Over £5. Super

Adam [36:11 - 36:12]
cool. And

Chad [36:12 - 36:15]
so for the girls I think like she was like seven

Adam [36:15 - 36:17]
20

Chad [36:18 - 36:18]
so

Adam [36:18 - 36:22]
towards the US you know it's unbelievable.

Chad [36:22 - 36:28]
Yeah it's crazy right? Yeah so so yeah, that's super cool. Super cool.

Adam [36:28 - 36:34]
The top girl would clean probably. Well I think Amanda Barnhart clean to 75. Did she not?

Chad [36:35 - 36:36]
I believe that's what she did. Yeah

Adam [36:36 - 36:56]
And then overhead squat the top number would be I would assume around 250 and then the top bench press I think was I think Bench was maybe where it was a little more like of a discrepancy guys too like it's all about 100 to like 202 05-10 was

Chad [36:56 - 36:56]
like

Adam [36:57 - 37:04]
the girls bench and I guess that's similar to the Guys are like 303 05, 3 10. Yeah.

Chad [37:04 - 37:10]
Yeah Jack. Um he got some cool cool attention because he cleaned 400 lb.

Adam [37:10 - 37:11]
He looked

Chad [37:11 - 37:11]
easy to

Adam [37:12 - 37:20]
unbelievable. Yeah, like £400 clean. I think he's 3 50 overhead squat and £300 bench. Like

Chad [37:21 - 37:22]
might have even

Adam [37:22 - 37:26]
been more on the overhead squat because I think he hit the £1000 mark.

Chad [37:27 - 37:31]
I think so too. He's a monster.

Adam [37:31 - 37:35]
Oh yeah. Okay. That makes sense. Cool. Yeah. So cool.

Chad [37:35 - 37:36]
Yeah,

Adam [37:36 - 37:39]
he's 2020 two I think.

Chad [37:41 - 37:42]
Yeah. 1085 is what he got.

Adam [37:43 - 37:44]
1085 Right?

Chad [37:45 - 37:46]
That's for a young kid.

Adam [37:47 - 37:49]
Amazing.

Chad [37:49 - 38:09]
Good. And then yeah, so friday. So saturday morning Final Day obviously have Sunday to release workout five. But like you said, the longer you wait the maybe more you go through. So waking up saturday morning you have two workouts to go, what's the body feeling like saturday morning? Yeah.

Adam [38:09 - 38:15]
Your your past for me at least I was past the state of uncomfortable.

Chad [38:15 - 38:17]
It

Adam [38:17 - 38:51]
was more like survival. We the fourth, the fourth workout. No, the third workout I guess. But the one we did 4th Saturday morning like had running in it and my legs were so sore that like even the shuttle runs on the turf were uncomfortable. The wall balls were, I was so stiff like so the mainly for me and my core, the core from the Ghd sit ups. So it was like that my traps from the heavy lift like it was

Chad [38:51 - 38:51]
everything

Adam [38:52 - 38:57]
head to toe, literally, my big toe hurt from, I don't even know

Chad [38:57 - 38:58]
at that, my gosh,

Adam [38:58 - 39:00]
like overboard, so this

Chad [39:00 - 39:01]
is hilarious.

Adam [39:01 - 39:07]
Maybe, maybe Madison doesn't let me recover quite as good as I used to in my zen garden, but

Chad [39:07 - 39:23]
I have to ask cause I mean you don't normally, you're not normally uh well, I mean at least you can't see this when you're competing, like I would never have been able to, no, this was how much pain you're in, but compared to one of your live Lollapalooza competitions where you have like five workouts in a few days or even

Adam [39:23 - 39:24]
more,

Chad [39:24 - 39:28]
would you say this is a similar feeling or would this be a little bit different for you?

Adam [39:30 - 40:24]
I would say similar. Um I would say I wasn't as prepared from a training standpoint with like the volume of those high skilled movements that I would have been at water pollution, Like my my training would have been very last year's quarterfinals, like I think I was just sore from the G H. D. S, you know, like there was only one thing last year that kind of caught me by surprise where this year was like my legs were sore and my core was sore, my my upper, like I wasn't really, so I think from that standpoint it was more of like, I wasn't 100% prepared, I don't think, I don't think ali and Eddie, we're really, like, I was pretty dramatic, but I don't think they were really that sore.

Chad [40:24 - 40:31]
No, I don't think they were actually and I think they look good and they felt, they seemed like they felt good pretty much all the way through. Um

Adam [40:32 - 40:32]
like

Chad [40:32 - 40:40]
then again, right, you're transitioning endurance and they've been still focused. I mean you might be right, like just the type of training leading up to it. Um

Adam [40:40 - 40:57]
My Jan feb March um was slightly different as a new father. No, I still train a lot that Michelle will not let me get, I trained a lot, just not as focused as it has been in the past.

Chad [40:57 - 41:05]
Right? Exactly. Exactly. Like obviously in the past it's only been focused on those events. So I think we understand what you're saying. Yeah,

Adam [41:05 - 41:43]
well we were joking around like uh it's like if you run a marathon and you're fully prepared and trained for it, you're not really sore the next day. If you ask like a marathon or oh man, you must be sore and dead today. Like no, I feel fine. Like my long runs every weekend are 30 K right? Um So that was kind of like me if I was fully prepared and ready for that. The pros, I think their tax, like physically and mentally, like from a nervous system standpoint and like mentally drained but I think physically like yeah,

Chad [41:43 - 41:47]
they're not big days right there training more than than this right on any given weekend.

Adam [41:47 - 41:48]
Yeah,

Chad [41:48 - 41:59]
totally, totally. Yeah, so work out three was, I thought this was a cool workout, It was wall ball shuttle runs and rope climbs and the rep scheme was kind of like uh a

Adam [42:00 - 42:00]
and

Chad [42:00 - 42:39]
then you do eight wall balls, four shuttle runs, one rope climb, then you do 16 8 and then to 24 12 you climb the mountain, go down the mountain and um you the ladies and men both had 10 ft targets for wall balls. Um Same height of ropes for both ladies and men. Uh Only difference uh used a £14 and the guys used £20 and the shuttle run was not like it was only 15 50 ft. So it was It was 25 down and back, so it was really really close. So a lot of lot of stopping and turning right. Um So yeah, it was cool. It's kind of a different workout for crossfit to kind of release. Cool though,

Adam [42:40 - 42:48]
totally, totally like cardio based workout um On long 25 minutes time cap I

Chad [42:48 - 42:48]
think

Adam [42:48 - 43:10]
Like 15 to 20 minutes on that one. Um And like you said, those stops and starts, beat your legs down like you couldn't really get up to speed before you had to start accelerating and stop and go again. But yeah, this was a fun one. this one our our celebrity judges did in between

Chad [43:11 - 43:11]
and

Adam [43:11 - 43:20]
they actually both did, they scaled the rope climbs a little bit they just did one rope climbing between each set but they put on a little show they did great.

Chad [43:20 - 43:28]
Yeah we went sub 20 we scaled the rope climbs. Didn't want to do that many rope climbs so we just decided not to and we use it as a

Adam [43:29 - 43:29]
as

Chad [43:29 - 43:32]
a zone to cardio workout if you will.

Adam [43:32 - 43:35]
Right it was a fat burning zone to cardio session but

Chad [43:35 - 43:49]
it seemed like with the celebrity judges and the elite athletes the common there was two strategies On broken wall balls or split the wall balls into sets of eight and it seemed

Adam [43:49 - 43:49]
like

Chad [43:51 - 43:54]
uh there wasn't necessarily a clear winner I don't think.

Adam [43:55 - 43:56]
Um

Chad [43:56 - 44:02]
But like Eddie being the powerhouse and wobbles being something quite easy for him. Um He went unbroken

Adam [44:03 - 44:03]
through the whole

Chad [44:03 - 44:17]
thing the road climbs. I mean you just go up and down. There's no such thing as really unbroken. Ali obviously with the really really tall target she went sets of a sense of a U. N. Unbroken. Yeah

Adam [44:17 - 44:26]
honestly though in hindsight like I think going and broken than I ran slower. So it was like it was a catch 22 a little bit where I feel

Chad [44:26 - 44:27]
like

Adam [44:28 - 44:33]
unless you're like a big dog big dog and you know pushing the pace the whole time. I feel

Chad [44:33 - 44:33]
like

Adam [44:34 - 44:52]
The point in holding on for 32 wall balls kind of silly if you're going to run you know super slow after that. So I thought everyone like Eddie, I think he played his game plan perfectly because wall balls aren't super taxing for him

Chad [44:52 - 44:54]
and neither

Adam [44:54 - 45:26]
is running, but his rope climbs were slightly longer breaks in between each rope climb. And I'm talking like slightly, but um where brock, he broke the wall balls, eights all the way through. Ali broke the wall balls, eights all the way through, I think Ian broke them eights all the way through. But then ali, you know, she's running harder and she's trying to push the pace harder on the rope climbs, right? So it's like that was again, that one was like, you had to play your own game. Yeah,

Chad [45:26 - 45:29]
for sure. And yeah, like Ali and Eddie went together.

Adam [45:29 - 45:30]
Yeah.

Chad [45:30 - 45:44]
And like obviously ali like literally is jumping for the wall balls versus Eddie's not like a very tall athlete, but he's a tall athlete for sure. And he was much more comfortable in that movement. And some of the real quick road climb, right? Eddie only

Adam [45:44 - 45:44]
takes

Chad [45:45 - 45:50]
three. Yeah, like three sort of ways to get up and allies, you know, five or 6

Adam [45:50 - 45:51]
hand

Chad [45:51 - 45:52]
over hand. So

Adam [45:52 - 46:15]
the boys from top to bottom finished faster than the girls on that one because the taller ropes because of the taller wall balls, I think the fastest guys in the world were like Mid 13 minutes and the fastest girls were like yeah, yeah, a minute and a bit slower. Yeah,

Chad [46:15 - 46:20]
like before anybody starts yelling, the reason why crossfit does

Adam [46:20 - 46:21]
have

Chad [46:21 - 46:35]
they, this is like the, maybe the second year they've done this and they've been wanting to do it for a long time, but the average height of a female cross fitter and an average height of a male cross fitter, especially at the elite level, is pretty much the same. So like

Adam [46:36 - 46:42]
5, 5, 5, 5-5, 8 is the height of both for all the athletes,

Chad [46:42 - 46:48]
like Amanda Barnhart and Brent Falkowski I think are tall athletes and they're not tall,

Adam [46:48 - 46:51]
Like Kosi is six ft

Chad [46:52 - 46:56]
Yeah, six ft is the tallest athlete

Adam [46:56 - 47:03]
and he looks like a tower compared to like know Olsen or, or whatever, like,

Chad [47:03 - 47:19]
so it makes sense that they, that they've done it. Obviously it's a little unfair for the corporate athlete. Uh yeah, but definitely, I think it makes sense from a sport perspective. So if you're ever in the LP Jim, you want to hit some 10-foot targets, try it out. Just go lighter on the wobble and try it out.

Adam [47:19 - 47:21]
It is a different stimulus for

Chad [47:21 - 47:22]
sure.

Adam [47:22 - 47:30]
Got like Ali was doing like, you gotta almost, you know, jump and accelerate like a into each wrap.

Chad [47:30 - 47:54]
That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. And then, yeah, so um, hit that workout and the celebrity judges, hit that workout is somewhat of a halftime show for the elites, a little bit of circus animals to give them a break and recover and get some fuel. Um, I guess I guess I should ask though before quickly, what was like nutrition like for the, for the weekend,

Adam [47:54 - 47:55]
was it just like, just,

Chad [47:56 - 47:59]
you know, just basic stuff. Just keep feeling the body wasn't anything.

Adam [48:00 - 48:12]
The thing you learn about competition day is you never really crave like a meal. So if you're going to work out in a day, it's just a bunch of life snack based meals, lots

Chad [48:12 - 48:13]
of tons

Adam [48:13 - 48:17]
and tons of like fruits, uh,

Chad [48:17 - 48:19]
um,

Adam [48:19 - 48:25]
bars, protein like recovery shakes very

Chad [48:25 - 48:26]
easy. Yeah,

Adam [48:26 - 48:34]
easy, quick digestible carbohydrates is like the key, little bit of protein, but more like right after your workout,

Chad [48:34 - 48:34]
hammer the

Adam [48:34 - 48:50]
protein and carbs and then leading up to the next, it's like lots of sugary car based foods that I just quickly but give you that boost of energy. So yeah, I mean, yeah, you try to eat a really good,

Chad [48:50 - 48:50]
you know,

Adam [48:51 - 48:58]
dinner and and recovered great. But during the day it's a very simple snack.

Chad [48:58 - 48:59]
Cool.

Adam [48:59 - 49:00]
Cool.

Chad [49:00 - 49:30]
Yeah. So that you guys did that work out saturday morning. I think it was like 10 ISH and then a little bit of an entertainment slash recovery slash fuel. And then obviously this is the last workout, The last work was really, I thought the last one was really cool. It was the 30 cal row, 20 Burpee box jump overs and 10 snatches snatches were pretty heavy. The men were 1 85 and the women were 1 35 and at a time cap is seven minutes. So this work, it was just straight through. Not a lot to it. A super fast sprint. Like the

Adam [49:30 - 49:31]
top

Chad [49:31 - 49:36]
Dogs were well under five minutes, well under like, I think four minutes and so

Adam [49:36 - 49:38]
like, like,

Chad [49:39 - 49:43]
like fast, like lightning speed and so like obviously,

Adam [49:44 - 49:44]
I think

Chad [49:44 - 49:55]
there's a little bit of like jitteriness or anxiousness to like just get done right. Like you got the first word go done. It was a little bit long, slow and then you have an hour to kind of just, you know,

Adam [49:56 - 49:57]
yeah, get

Chad [49:57 - 50:02]
back in the mindset. And I know that Eddie and Ollie both were like, they're ready to go. They were like, the

Adam [50:02 - 50:07]
old dog was like, oh man, I gotta buy like two hours at most two. They were like,

Chad [50:08 - 50:08]
you

Adam [50:08 - 50:11]
guys finished and they're like, okay, we're ready. I'm like, yeah,

Chad [50:11 - 50:25]
I think me and Ian inspired them honestly. Like when we came out, we showed them what workout three actually should look like. I think they're like, all right, all right. And I mean let's just say this to like Me. And it also did work out five right

Adam [50:25 - 50:26]
after

Chad [50:26 - 50:31]
We scaled it, £235 snatches, but we did the rest and we did it under,

Adam [50:32 - 50:32]
that was five

Chad [50:32 - 50:38]
20. And even I think it was like 5:40, something like that. So yeah, it

Adam [50:38 - 50:46]
actually was nice to watch you guys test drive it because we learned you guys paste it well you guys did,

Chad [50:46 - 50:47]
wow,

Adam [50:47 - 50:54]
realized that like the workout is not going to be won or lost on the rower and the burpees at the end of the

Chad [50:54 - 50:55]
day,

Adam [50:55 - 51:00]
right? Like for the big dogs. Yeah, they got a hammer, all three components. But for us

Chad [51:00 - 51:00]
like

Adam [51:01 - 51:08]
the 1 85 1 £35 snatches, that's if you miss a couple of those

Chad [51:08 - 51:09]
workers

Adam [51:09 - 51:14]
wanted lost there. Not as you did your burpees faster, right?

Chad [51:14 - 51:28]
And then a similar work out to this last year for the final workout too. And I know Ali was she wasn't looking forward to the 1 £35 snatch because that is close to her max. 1 85 I think for you. And Eddie isn't necessarily a max but

Adam [51:28 - 51:30]
90% maybe.

Chad [51:30 - 51:43]
Which is Pretty high, right? Like when you're doing 10 reps or something, as fast as you can. Anyably, anything 85 and above that's pretty heavy. So a super fast workout. So like um and you guys crushed it though. You guys were all under

Adam [51:43 - 51:44]
six

Chad [51:44 - 51:47]
Minutes. I'm sorry ali took the whole seven minutes.

Adam [51:48 - 51:59]
Yeah, we were all like super close. Like I was just under five brock was just over five. Eddie was just over five brock

Chad [51:59 - 52:03]
was five minutes on you were under five, five

Adam [52:03 - 52:05]
20. You and him were like the same.

Chad [52:06 - 52:10]
Yeah, I beat him, I beat him by four

Adam [52:10 - 52:18]
seconds. So yeah like and then ali remember she did twice.

Chad [52:18 - 52:19]
And yes ali did twice.

Adam [52:20 - 52:42]
So she did the first time with Eddie and then Yeah, like she she missed like five reps At 1:35 and hit two. So I looked at him like ali just do it again and at first she's like what? No way. Like not a chance. And then she thought about it for like less than two minutes. She's like all right I'm doing it again.

Chad [52:42 - 52:56]
Yeah, because really for her it's 30 calories in the rower which wasn't at a hard pace. And the Burpee box jumps like you said you're not blitzing those box jumps, you really wanted to make sure that you're somewhat controls that when you get to the snatches, your first rep isn't like oh ship

Adam [52:57 - 53:00]
right? You wanna not exactly not miss

Chad [53:00 - 53:02]
it. And she and she did it

Adam [53:02 - 53:03]
like

Chad [53:03 - 53:04]
yeah,

Adam [53:04 - 53:05]
it's so

Chad [53:05 - 53:29]
crazy cause it's not just such a like you said like a technical movement, it's not the capacity for someone like for you guys at all right? For ali especially when she's looking at a weight that's near her top capacity. It's really just the technical side of it. Just making sure that If she executed perfectly she could get all seven the first time right? But as soon as you missed one you missed two then it's like it's hard to get

Adam [53:29 - 53:33]
your playing playing head games for sure. Yeah,

Chad [53:33 - 53:34]
that was fun,

Adam [53:35 - 54:00]
very cool. Like the pros, honestly, they were they were literally done the workout because we We paste the rower and the burpees just to salvage the snatches. They were done the workout before we finish the Burpee box jumps. That's how fast they were done the road, done the burpees and then they do 10 snatches go. Yeah, so

Chad [54:00 - 54:00]
it's like

Adam [54:01 - 54:24]
2 35. I think they're off the burpees at two minutes And then 30 seconds to do 10 cent. Like it's just so well this that that was last year and this year was like a separator that really showed like again, weekend Warriors versus the pros and they're doing a better job of example on that every year, which is awesome.

Chad [54:24 - 54:38]
Yeah, for sure. And like, I mean, I think throughout the whole weekend, like at some point you and Ali were both ahead of some elite elite top athletes in the leaderboard. Um But by the end of the week, it flushes out right? Like

Adam [54:38 - 54:40]
always does. It's so cool.

Chad [54:40 - 55:01]
Like it's no offense to anybody. Like obviously I don't think you're ali went into or anybody from right now, like you guys are the 10 And I don't think anybody went into this weekend thinking you were the 1% right because the 1% gets to semi finals and then like the .1% gets to the games. And so it's a huge accomplishment. Ali finished 460

Adam [55:01 - 55:03]
eight in

Chad [55:03 - 55:04]
north America out

Adam [55:04 - 55:05]
of I

Chad [55:05 - 55:08]
Want to say like I said four, like 3 or 4000

Adam [55:09 - 55:10]
woman

Chad [55:11 - 55:22]
of the 10%. 20 2800 out of the 10 like the most. Right. So amazing for her, amazing for her. And then you finished

Adam [55:22 - 55:24]
for

Chad [55:26 - 55:32]
4 10 and out of 4, 10 out of 3400.

Adam [55:32 - 55:33]
Very smart.

Chad [55:34 - 55:44]
Eddie finished 1060. Yeah, almost Top 1000. And

Adam [55:44 - 55:50]
that would be, what do we say? 3400. So like top 25% of

Chad [55:50 - 55:50]
10%

Adam [55:50 - 55:55]
1%. So what is that top core,

Chad [55:56 - 55:56]
How

Adam [55:56 - 55:58]
do we do that? Somebody help

Chad [55:58 - 56:07]
You? Like yes, like your top 5% in the world, it's gotta be top 5% I think. And then brock was Like in the seven hundreds unofficially unofficially, unofficially,

Adam [56:07 - 56:09]
unofficially, unofficially

Chad [56:09 - 56:10]
unofficially but

Adam [56:10 - 56:11]
In 700. Exactly,

Chad [56:11 - 56:16]
but that's amazing. I mean that's like super incredible to see like a few

Adam [56:16 - 56:19]
In the top, we're all in the top two

Chad [56:20 - 56:21]
two

Adam [56:21 - 56:32]
percent in the world for crossfit athletes and that usually shows after the open and after the quarters, like we're pretty similar.

Chad [56:32 - 56:33]
Mhm.

Adam [56:33 - 56:34]
Both which is cool.

Chad [56:35 - 56:36]
Yeah,

Adam [56:36 - 56:45]
the next level, it's like, you know, it's so funny but like our weaknesses across the board like are we have to get our totals up

Chad [56:46 - 56:47]
strength

Adam [56:47 - 57:00]
strength. Yeah, exactly. That one rep max strength so that's a weakness across the board. That would have been our lowest, all of our almost all of our lowest workouts on the leaderboard and then

Chad [57:00 - 57:01]
um

Adam [57:03 - 57:06]
the last workout because of the heavy snatches,

Chad [57:06 - 57:07]
like the

Adam [57:07 - 57:42]
Total and the snatches were my two lowest workouts. Um you know, skills, all of our skills are decent, alley needs to improve her skills, the high end skills a little bit, but we all need that, that extra strength, we all have decent engines, brock's gonna be working on his engine hard this year. Eddie's going to be working on his back squat and his pump um and I'm gonna be working on my triathlon game, I think,

Chad [57:42 - 58:23]
I think it comes down to like different parts you left here, like, like the reason why we see such success with some of these young athletes like Jack and Emma and so many other young athletes is because they're so focused on strength right now, right? And it's proven that at a young age, strength is what you need to do, right? Because at our ages, strength is very difficult to gain significantly, right? Like it's very hard to gain strength as you get older. And so the smart people in the world have decided, you know, these young athletes and if you have any young athletes at home, like strength is a really big part of a young athlete, right? And Jack is and down and Pepper, there's a few athletes that are just so strong, they might not be great from an insurance perspective, but endurance can be taught

Adam [58:24 - 58:24]
later,

Chad [58:24 - 58:29]
right? And that's why I think a lot of young athletes are just like jumping into the scene because they're just so strong. Yeah,

Adam [58:30 - 58:42]
Like 16, 16 to 20 years old By 20 years old. They've, they've reached their maximum strength but maybe not even maximum, but they've reached like an elite

Chad [58:42 - 58:43]
strength

Adam [58:43 - 58:46]
potential At 20, which is incredible

Chad [58:46 - 58:55]
given someone like Haley who's not a very strong athlete has a huge engine. But in like a year she made such significant strength gains

Adam [58:55 - 58:56]
and

Chad [58:56 - 59:01]
that's always going to be the difficult part for her. But she's like pr in like every year

Adam [59:01 - 59:02]
significantly

Chad [59:02 - 59:03]
and so like

Adam [59:03 - 59:04]
20 ish. Yeah.

Chad [59:04 - 59:08]
Yeah. And she's obviously not built as a strength athlete. But

Adam [59:08 - 59:09]
um, yeah,

Chad [59:09 - 59:33]
super cool. So it's crazy to see what we see in the gym with ali and you and brock Kennedy and obviously there's a lot of people impressed and like by all means like it is impressive watching you guys work out in the fitness that you guys put on display and then it's like just like, I guess hockey players, right? You're always impressed by what you see and then all of a sudden you saw professional, you just see how

Adam [59:33 - 59:33]
much better than

Chad [59:33 - 59:39]
how much like devotion and just how much better they are. It's crazy. It's crazy

Adam [59:39 - 59:42]
impressive cool thing. It's like to talk about the quarter finals

Chad [59:42 - 59:43]
and you

Adam [59:43 - 60:44]
know, we We are the top 2% right? And You don't have to be the top 2% to have fun and compete and you know, throw down with your friends and do online competitions and do in person competitions and just Do it for fun. Not 80, you know, 80, of the world, 95% of the world are doing it just recreationally for fun. And that's what we're excited to keep building back into our community because we work so hard every day on our strength and conditioning and why not have some fun with it and like make it, you know, in the triathlon world races every weekend and in the crossfit world there's many fun competitions every weekend and it's so fun to put your fitness to the test and it's celebrated and it's rewarding and it's super cool. Yeah,

Chad [60:44 - 60:46]
I would I would be confident to say that

Adam [60:47 - 60:47]
every

Chad [60:47 - 61:01]
member at LP is Like the 20 Fitness level in the world. For sure. Like there's some people that are the 2%, some people are 10%, but I bet you everyone is within that 20% that top 20%

Adam [61:02 - 61:29]
right? It's just what L. P. We don't focus hard at all on on the technical skills, we focus on building good strength and conditioning. Um and in the open that's in most local crossfit competitions. You know, if, if you can do the basics really well and you have good conditioning, you're gonna do great, you're gonna have so much fun because you're gonna realize how how fit you really

Chad [61:29 - 61:30]
are.

Adam [61:31 - 61:32]
Yeah,

Chad [61:32 - 61:47]
this, yeah, this summer is my mantra is having fun with fitness this summer for sure. So I'm jumping to the Spartan race. Love to do a live crossfit camp will likely do an online crossfit comp. Uh, maybe I'll do

Adam [61:47 - 61:48]
troops.

Chad [61:48 - 62:20]
Yeah, let's go. If anybody wants to have some fun this year with some fitness, you let me know because I'm in, I'm in. Right? That's right. I love it, awesome dude. It's been fun longer than probably we expected, but this has been fun. Thanks for the recap. It's never too short Anyway, it's awesome. Thanks everyone for listening. Got some really cool episodes coming up soon. Uh, we're celebrating our 50th episode with a special guest. Really looking forward to that one. Uh, hopefully everyone's enjoying the podcast and yeah, we'll see you guys at the gym.