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And we are back with Blake Schaub and the CrossFit kids about to go live downstairs.
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So if you hear any clanging and banging, it's them.
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So this has been a lot of fun with.
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You know, blake's son, logan, is downstairs getting after it, but this gave us an opportunity to really to really talk about, you know, not just the crossfit, pittsburgh, crossfit, iron city history, right, but crossfit itself, because I think, you know, between the two of us we got like 30 plus years of crossfit experience, a long time, and, and you know, what's neat too, I think, is um, and that's what we want to start to get into a little bit more today.
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Blake brought up, right before we started to record, you know, was thinking about what makes a good CrossFit athlete, what makes a good, you know, crossfit coach.
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As a coach, what kind of athlete do you?
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You know what's your ideal athlete to train, you know this type of thing.
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So I think that's some really, really good topic for conversation.
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You know what's your ideal athlete to train, you know this type of thing, so I think that's some really really good, uh, topic for conversation.
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You know, yeah, I agree, I think that you know.
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It's funny because, like you said, I mean really, if you put numbers to it, it's probably, it's probably close to 40 years of combined crossfit experience, right?
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Um, and you know even more than that in terms of coaching in.
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You know some aspects or another, you know, and in the almost seven years that we were open in Iron City and the however many years before that that I was three or four years that I was coaching here before that, and everybody since, like I've coached every different type of person, right.
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And.
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I'm sure you've coached every different type of person as well, and, um you know, my favorite people to coach are not the people that get it right away.
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Yeah, you know like yeah.
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I can remember there's a uh.
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There was a guy that came in uh across the country.
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Yeah, maybe remember there's a uh.
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There was a guy that came in uh to cross the iron city.
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Maybe within the first year that we were open and you know I remember we were doing, did fundamentals with him right and going through like things like the overhead squat and there was just like, first off he was tall, he was like six, three, six, four, so normal length pvc.
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There's zero chance that him you know, like his arms just wouldn't do it right right uh, couldn't, couldn't keep that bar, you know uh, anywhere but in front of his, in front of his head, it was impossible.
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And you know we, uh, you know we always modify, okay, we're gonna, you're gonna front squat, right, you just it's.
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It's a waste of time for you to overhead squat today because you know it's just not gonna get the stimulus, it's gonna be too difficult you're gonna do you know you're gonna be able to do whatever, so we always substitute.
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But every day he would come in and he would work on it his warm-up and that was his thing, like he was just doing it and do and do it.
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Even if it was, you know, he didn't care you can see him in the corner, kind of like struggling through it as he, as he kind of did his own thing before we warmed up or whatever.
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Um, and then you know, I can remember, uh, very vividly, the day that he that we had overhead squats in the warm-up or in the workout, and and there he was, he was, you know, I'm gonna try it and he picked it up and it was an empty bar and and his hands were, you know again, six foot three, six foot four guy.
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Like his hands were all the way to the sleeves right, and maybe even one or two fingers on the sleeve but like, but he overhead squatted.
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You know, and you know that kind of person that and you know kind of what we talked about.
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That kind of person that is driven enough to want to do something right and, and you know, it's very coachable.
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Coachability is is something that I think sometimes we take for granted, but it's great.
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You know, honest to God, and it's funny too, because at the I don't know, I guess I am one of those people that should just have a fucking disclaimer at all times.
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It certainly don't mean any offense to anyone, it's not the point.
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But you hit it right on the head and you and I have been together for a lot of it and then separate and it's still the.
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That piece does not change, it's a variable.
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Who's walking through your door at any given time and there are times that you look and again, this is kind of a little bit of a tangent, but not really.
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Scotty Pape we talked about him the other night is one of our original members and a good guy, fun guy, like fun to train with.
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He's always in there to give it his best and and all that.
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And I'll never forget I was.
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I was still at the agency, but for about six months I was running operations stateside.
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So largely I would, you know, telecommute from home to Northern Virginia maybe three days a week down there in the balance, but again, it was a 24-7 operation.
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So really, like you know, I had guys in Iraq and Afghanistan and I'm, you know, juggling I've got my board who's where, this and this.
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So this particular day I was like, all right, I'm leaving, I'm coming home, it's a Thursday and I timed it right.
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So I'm like I'll get home in time, a little relax and then get to the gym for a good workout, because otherwise, you know you make, do you work out where you, where you can, you know, where you have.
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So, just for no reason whatsoever, just happened to be Jen didn't know what time I was coming home.
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The kids were having burgers and I was like that sounds great.
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You know, after a three and a half four hour drive I'm like burgers sound great and I had time before class.
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So I throw down two, you know, big, like not quarter pounders, right, but two like big.
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You know what do you get?
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Like 93.7 or 90.10,.
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You know lean, lean burgers, right.
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Throw down two of them and I crack open.
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I look at the refrigerator, I open it up and I'm like well, there's cold water and then there's some Corona.
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I pop open a Corona and I drink that after my burgers, right.
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A couple hours later we go.
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I don't remember what the workout was, but it was one of my best.
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I mean, it was just a great workout.
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It's a great workout and I said something to scotty and I was like now the way he repeated it was hey, you know, mike says the best thing about crossfit is you can eat whatever you want.
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He had two cheeseburgers and a beer before his workout and he crushed it.
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Well, he said it to jen, jen's, my wife and you know our, our best coach, and you know she's like what the hell are you telling people you can eat cheeseburgers and drink beer before your workout?
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And I'm like all right, that's, that's was, that was the point.
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But it wasn't.
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It's not how I meant it, you know.
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So that went sideways real quick.
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But but I, I think you know, interestingly enough, we've seen everything, every size shape we had, uh, one morning early, early on, in our original box, which you know, you remember, like you said, you know, we remember it so well, we get like the heebie-jeebies talking about it.
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But, um, and I love you, you're like yep, that's why I never went in.
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Once it became a brewery and then another brewery.
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Never had the need anything, any food product, to drink product beverage that would come out of that place.
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No, no, you're gonna get some kind of botulism and mad cow does it.
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Whatever you get it all, you'll get it all.
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But I remember one morning, bright and early, I'm opening up and this young man shows up like right behind me.
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I'm like, just unlocking the door, there he's standing right beside hey.
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And I'm like, hey, he goes.
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Hey, yeah, this is crossfit, right.
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And I said, yeah, he goes.
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Well, I'm here to work out.
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And I kid you, you not, this was right when Reebok came on board, like the Reebok CrossFit.
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You know, merge, not Merge, what do you call it?
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Like the brand deal, or whatever they had.
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Yes, and you know, again, I've only had one coffee and I'm opening the door and I'm ready to get in there, get the board ready.
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And he's early, which was great.
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He's like I'm here to work out, and, and he's early, so, which was great.
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He's like I'm here to work out, and I'd like to check him out from head to toe.
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And if reebok made it, he was wearing it shoes, the socks, the shorts, the shirt, the, the, the headband, you know the.
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I'm like, well, you're certainly, and all I can think to say he's like I'm here to work out, I'm like, well, you're certainly dressed for it, you know, and, um, you know again, sometimes the funniest part, and there's, no, no barometer for this.
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I don't think, at least I've not found one.
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You get folks who come in and they are like head to toe, whether it's, you know, reebok or, or noble, whatever the brand is at the time, crossfit, they're head to toe, all in.
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I want the unlimited membership, but I want two of them, because I want to maybe come twice a day.
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Well, it's unlimited.
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So you know, no, no, but I want to keep coming and everything, whatever you have, I want, right, great.
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And you know, just one stands out in my mind this young lady.
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She comes in and she's all in, like, jumps in the deep end, and her attendance was really sporadic, and that is something that you know.
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Each box has its own op tempo, I suppose, but there have been times when you just get a feeling you know and hey, everything all right.
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Like reach out, you know, you see the attendance, like, hey, everything okay.
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You know, because I'm sure you did the same, like as an affiliate owner, one of the things that I love being able to do is, you know, hey, is something wrong, is everything okay?
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I haven't seen you in a little while.
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Oh well, you know I did this and it's going to be a while.
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Now.
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They haven't asked to stop their membership, pause their membership, anything like that.
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So you reach out and you go well, look, you know you haven't been here, so let's just place this on hold.
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You know, come on back when you're feeling better.
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If you tweaked your back, twisted an ankle, did something like that, this young lady is the exact opposite.
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She sends us a message and she was like, yeah, I'd like to cancel my membership.
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This just isn't for me.
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I don't feel like I'm getting enough cardio.
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So I'm going back to fitness boxing.
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That's a simple answer.
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Okay, like you, you're not getting enough cardio, I can assure you.
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This is why we brief the workouts the way we do in the.
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You know, the pre-workout, the warm-up, is tailored to the work.
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I mean, this is your intended stimulus, right, right, if it's supposed to be a sprint and you turn it into a stroll, if it's supposed to be a heavy day and it's relative to the athlete, you know.
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But I mean, I think those are the things.
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I'm not even sure that type of uh, individual, I'm not even sure that that's coachable or uncoachable.
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I just don't believe it's the right fit.
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I think they thought it was going to be something else, right, and and what that is, I you know, I don't know.
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Maybe you know I mean to that point.
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There's.
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The great thing about CrossFit in my mind is that, like you know, the workout for the day might be 10 minutes long.
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It might be Murph and it might be pushing 45 minutes, or it might be Chad, where you're doing a thousand step ups for an hour, or whatever.
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It might be Murph and it might be, you know, pushing 45 minutes, or it might be Chad, where you're you're doing a thousand step ups for an hour, or whatever it might be right and you know, like all those things are intended to, to hit a certain stimulus right and do a certain thing, and it, and it's a way for, you know, for coaches and programmers, to make sure that and it's a way for coaches and programmers to make sure that you're not doing too much, right?
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Because, as you know, like that person you just talked about and you know I can I know that we had lost athletes that said, hey, we're going to go to a different gym because we don't feel like we're getting enough.
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You know and it's just like if you do everything that you're asked in a given class, right, you do a warm-up that's, let's say, 10 to 15 minutes long, right, and you're sweating and you're.
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You know, the old mantra of our warm-up is your workout type thing right, even that original CrossFit warm-up right.
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Three rounds, 400-meter run, 10 pull-ups, 10 push-ups, 10 sit-ups, 10 push-ups, 10 sit-ups, 10 squats, 10, 10 samson stretch right, you do three rounds that and and tell me that you're not properly warmed up.
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Then I'll tell you that you're not doing it hard enough right and you're not pushing yourself enough and you know you do all those other things and, yeah, sometimes you, sometimes you look at it and you're like wow, fran or Grace or Isabel, right, like I know.
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You know, when I coach Grace, I tell people I'm like you really should be no more than six minutes.
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Right.
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Like six minutes is you've missed the point.
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Right, right.
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And really even at that six-minute, maybe next time, you know, if you push, you know you beat six minutes and you get like four minutes, okay, well, if you didn't do at the prescribed weight, you know, then increase the weight next time right because you will ultimately get better.
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And it's not really always that exciting that like, oh well, because people want to compete, like, oh, but I, I was, you know, I was the last one to finish.
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Okay, well, maybe if you were the last one to finish and you, or like you, missed that, that stimulus, you missed six minutes right and it took you seven to finish.
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Well then, next time, lower the weight and go fast and if you think your weight is too low, the easiest way to look at it is say like, okay, well, who's the?
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Who's the person in this room that?
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Or?
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Or the person in the gym that has posted their score that's the fastest prescribed, or the?
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Or the person that you normally you know kind of work, work with, or whatever, and if you're crushing the times that they're doing, then it's too easy.
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You know what's fun for me talking with you every example we're bringing up.
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All of a sudden I'm just like ting ting, ting ting, I'm firing off time place person.
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We talked about this on Monday.
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You and I Fight Gone Bad.
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Okay, and Fight Gone Bad was a.
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It was, it is.
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Arguably it's a hard workout and I love the origin story BJ Penn.
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It was his time in the UFC.
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He was, I mean, he had already arrived and I just don't recall had he already won his championship belt his first one.
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But he was at the original CrossFit HQ with Greg and hey, you know what?
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Let's put something together that you could use.
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You know like that would simulate an MMA fight.
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So they modeled it like three rounds, three five minute rounds or the five minute version, and a minute break in between, and then it's.
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You know calories on the rower and, if I'm not mistaken, I know box jumps.
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But was that not one of the first ones we ever saw when it was like step-ups are allowed?
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Yeah, because, like in the middle of a fight, you can't stop and be like well, I can't, I can't do this right now.
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Well, you can keep moving.
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So it's like well, step-ups are allowed, push press empty bar, push press right 45 pounds.
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No, no, no, 75.
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75 pounds yeah, that's part of the story.
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And sumo deadlift high pull right With the same weight, same weight and wall balls right.
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So I was like, oh my God, like, like, oh my god, like that's again, you know that that's crossfit.
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I mean seemingly like.
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You know, you got five movements that any one of them by themselves not too bad, but in context, that's evil, that that's just evil.
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You know you're like, oh god.
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So, okay, super.
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And I think, let me.
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The first time we did it, it was like a punch in the face.
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It really was, but it would come around every so often, or we would, we would program it deliberately every so often.
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And there was a guy in our gym good dude, I mean, I can't say anything bad about him, good guy.
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However, he was one of those not uncoachable but just sort of and polite, like that was the thing, like you couldn't even really be pissed off because he was courteous and polite.
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But at the same time, I'm like OK, here's the news.
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You don't know more than our coaches.
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You certainly don't know more than Jen and Blake.
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You know, I'd throw my name in there too as, like I was probably the least disciplined coach we had as far as like and you know what.
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It sounds very, very ignorant to say it now, and I was in a different, uh, headspace back then.
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But you know, between deployments my thing was I'm like look, I don't work with guys that I need to motivate, you know, and when they train, it's like you just get out of the way, you know, and and as you said, training training guys who want to get better, who to to push as hard as they can, that's you get spoiled.
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You really do get spoiled.
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But then I think that challenges you more as a coach.
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When you come away from that and you do come back to hey, I've never tried this before, but I've heard good things about it, super, now you have that like that old, like hey, man, it's like it's, it's clay and I could shape this, and I have the ability here or the, to shape this into something that's going to impact this person's life or turn them against it.
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So be careful, because you've got something there pretty important, and it was 300.
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I'll never forget it, and this guy was not a bad guy but always knew better.
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This was a guy and when I say this, I know, you know you're gonna know who it was show up for class, always late for the warm-up.
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But then his argument would be like a day like today, hot, 90 degrees, sweltering, humidity, oh, I'm already warmed up.
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I had the heater on in my car on the drive over.
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I'm like and, and he was a professional, like academically smart enough to know that, like you know, there's a difference between, like I am feeling warm and I am warmed up.
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You know I'm like, oh, dude, I don't even understand.
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And then the bad side of me back then was like, okay, like, fuck around and find out.
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It's gonna be like, all right, well, go ahead then, super chief.
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Like you're ready, stop.
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No, you know, fix it.
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But we did partners, we partnered up, we scored each other.
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Um, and I believe this particular day I want to say it was dangerous dave.
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I was paired up with him again and it would be like, okay, you know, they'd call out like you were in that heat, heat, jen would be putting the scores on the board.
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Remember, we did everything on the dry erase board back then and she'd be like Blake.
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Well, then your partner would call out your score because he's got the score sheet right.
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So, whoever it was, you know, mike, and this was when you and I were probably both like in the I'm not sure if any of us had yet broken 300.
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Right, you know, in the I'm not sure if any of us had yet broken 300, you know, and it was that, like I referred the other day, it was in the high twos, enough so that you'd look at your score sheet and go.
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You know what.
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All I had to do was one more here, one more here, one more here for every round.
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So calls out the score, like, let's say, it was like 287.
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It was like close enough to piss you off.
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You know, it wasn't like hey, I'm almost there, it was like you gotta be kidding me.
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Or like a 297, where you're like really, really.
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And then it goes around and she calls this individual's name and he's so excited he doesn't let his partner call it out, he calls it out himself 4-17.
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I swear to God, I think I just like stop, you know.
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And again, childish, yeah for sure.
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But at the same time I'm like brother, you've been doing this too long.
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And then, of course, I did double check, you know, double take, looked at his workstation and I'm like my god, I mean he's using an empty barbell for the push press he's using, and this guy was big and strong and fit and I'm like, okay.
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So again right back to coaching.
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One oversight on our part as coaches should have never.
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What's the point?
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There is no point.
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You know, if you can score that high and scale that severely, you totally violated the, the intended stimulus of this workout and you did yourself a disservice you never get to that muscle failure, right portion of it, right I mean?
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right.
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I'm sure eventually you would, but not in three rounds most likely.
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Absolutely.
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And that's you know.
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I think, while you were saying that, it made me think, like one of the things that I have, my philosophy has changed slightly over the years is that like when I write programming for people now I don't put weights?
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in like I tell them like hey, this is what I want you to be able to do, or this is a number that I want you to be able to do, like you know, let's say it's it's grace or whatever, but like here's the rep scheme that I want you to be able to hit.
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So, in order to be able to hit that, like obviously you know, for me, when I do grace now, I always do seven, six, five, four, three, two and then three singles at the end right.
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So it's like you get those big sets out of the way quick yeah and you just set it down just long enough to you know, take a breath and do it again.
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Um, and I'm like I you need to be able to do seven unbroken and be and to be able to like, do a touch and go pretty quickly.
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And because I think that gets that, eliminates those things, because the people that I have found to be sometimes the most difficult to coach look at quote, unquote prescribed weights and they're like well, that's the weight that I have to use.
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Right, and then like all that intended stimulus talk.
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Right out the window like in one ear and out the other ear and and you're?
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You're then fighting a battle that you're never going to win, right.
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But instead, if you said, hey, you know, this is the, this is the intended stimulus, you know, fill in the blank for the weight, I've found that people ultimately will push themselves more than they would or allow themselves to kind of scale down more than they would if there's a number on the board.
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Right.
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And I even think that with the CAP programming, right.
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I think they do a nice job with that now because still prescribed weight but it's like look, we have a prescribed weight and then you know, for the RX, and then we have intermediate and then we have beginner.
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So now you have, you know, those three things built in already.
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And you know same thing with movements, like, okay, well, I can't do chest of our pull-ups, or I can't do muscle-ups, okay, let's look at the next scale of it.
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Right, and it doesn't make you any less of a person, it just means that, like you know, like if I said to you, hey, we're going to do nasty girls, you know, and you're like, oh, cool, what's that?
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And I tell you, okay, well, you've got to do 50 air squats, 10 hang power cleans at 135 pounds and 7 muscle-ups for three rounds.
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And you're like, cool, I can air squat, I can't hang power clean 135, and I can't do a muscle-up.
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Okay, and I said to you, okay, well, what I want you to do is I'm going to give you a 20-minute cap and I want you to get through as much of that as possible, but I'm not going to let you scale any of it.
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And then, like you know, 15 minutes later they're laying on the ground with the bar on top of them because they tried to hip, thrust it and reverse, curl it or whatever.
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Exactly right, and it hit them in the face.
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You give me a 20 day cap If I can't move the 135, I can't move it.
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Or you said to somebody you're like, okay, well, fine, what we're going to do is okay, okay, well, you're, you can one rep, max 95 pounds.
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Well, let's, let's make it 65 pound hanging power and you can do.