CrossFit Open 24.1 Recap and Looking Ahead to 24.2

We John John's got the waffles, so it's time to go live, that's for sure. Here I am about to say something terrible and you're like, we're live. Go for it. Almost caught you. Almost got you so close. Welcome guys, to the spin. It is March 6th. We are another day away from the start of 24.2. We may have a special guest here shortly, but we're going to go ahead and I guess first I was going to talk about and wait for 24.1, but I want to hear how it

went for you guys. Well John, go first 'cause you were the first one to tell us your score, which I I do not expect you to do. My first score. Yeah. So first time I did it, first time, and I came out a little hot. I thought I was pacing it. I had like a pace for 8:40. That was what I paced. I paced for. I don't know why I had that number in my head. I got A and I don't know why. I thought I was fit enough to do that. I probably should be and I and I

wasn't. So I did the 20 ones at whatever pace that would be and and I the first burpee into 15 I was like oh man, you have made a mistake. You are you are not fit enough to hold this. And and then I just knew it was going to be 6 minutes and blow up land and just kind of sat there in my suffering and and yeah yeah, like and there was nothing there's nothing you can do. I'm like, I'm just going to be here for the next 6 minutes and it's going to. Be there.

It's cool you didn't quit though. And like, yeah, I fucked this up, so I'm going to back back off. Well, I knew I was going to redo it, so I'd have paces to go off of. Like, OK, you were here, you need to be here. And then I and then I paced for sub 10 the second time and I got 948. Yeah, Well, our special guest is here, Colton Mertens. There he is. How's it going? Colton, not. Too bad just hanging out in the hotel, getting ready to eat dinner and get rested up for tomorrow.

We were just talking about how impressive my 24.1 was. Yeah, I think we were not even close to being done by the time you you finished that up. When you saw that workout announced. I mean, you've called your shots before, was that you just know that you're going to set the the world record time on that? I knew we would have a really good time and probably a good chance of being, you know, top five. It's just really hard to get a

top time in the open. So and I wasn't like certain I would win even after I did it and knew that my score was really fast. I wasn't sure kind of how it would hold up because in the open I always think I have a really good score. And then you start seeing other people scores come in and you're like, oh shit yeah, no, I I tried to saw Taylor's time. Then I was a little bit more confident I was going to win just because he had the top time for a while and I was quite a ways ahead of that.

So did you do it way up? Wait, we can't hear you spin. And you went out to Nashville to proven right the new, the new headquarters there. How was that? And then how was it doing the work out there? Yeah, that was it. Was a lot of fun being there. It was nice to see Nick and Tia, Chain and all the whole crew. We got to do it. I did with Louise Oscamora and RJ, couple other proven athletes. And yeah, it was nice to kind of have just people around to do it

with. Yeah, it was a good environment. Had some good tips from Shane before he started. And yeah, we we did it. We were facing away from the clock, so I didn't know my pace at all. So I think that helped too. Just keep on, keep a hard pace and instead of trying to just be whatever the top current time was, we did it Friday morning like 10:30. Yeah, yeah. What kind of tips are there?

You just go as fast as you can. That's all you did was just went as fast as you can all the way until it was done. What kind of go hard is that? Is that what the tip was? But we can't discuss like step up versus jump up and just like stepping up's easier cardiovascularly, but it's a little bit more time under tension in the push up position and then also like you know what's gonna hurt. So just kind of get to that point quickly in the 20 ones and

write it out. Have you with your top score? Have you sent all everything into CrossFit? Have you heard back from them yet? Yeah, I sent them in my video I think last night, last night, yesterday evening. Haven't heard back from them yet though. OK. And what when did you get into, I guess Boise, did you get into that or? I got here yesterday, like midday around 1:00 probably, and got off the plane, found a gym and worked out a little bit. Felt absolutely terrible.

And then it's like I have a little bit like a stuffy nose. So during the plane, like the pressure changes. My ears are popping the worst. Yeah, And I couldn't hear out of my left ear at all yesterday. So I was trying to talk to people and I just couldn't hear them. Like, at all. But she had some gum Gum. Gum helps out a lot. I just chewing a lot of gum. I tried gum. I tried yawning. I tried doing that thing where you hold your nose. Blow out. Yeah.

Yeah, you see, that works. But I think I got boogers stuck up in my ear. That was just talking it up, But it's pretty it's pretty much all good today though. Good. Have you done anything at the Tread Shed yet or have you just kind of been doing your own thing and? No, no. We did some media stuff this morning that CrossFit canvas and then worked out there for a little bit. Ali and I did, and now we just got some got our Go Rut gear to wear tomorrow. But yeah, I haven't seen the

shred shed yet. I had to stop by over there to pick up my the go rut clothing and there's like just tons of cars there and people getting things set up and things ready. How you like it. Have you ever been out to Boise before? No. Yeah, it's it's not bad here. It's pretty nice. Yeah, I wonder like, I like, I I like it out there. It it's a little bit more mountainous. You're from Flatlands. So I always wonder what that's like for people who are used to that.

So I had heard that the Golden Barbell throw down series, the two extra workouts was not happening. Is that accurate? Has that changed? Sorry, they haven't said anything to me about it. So it's not on, it's not on. All right. Changing right or anything so? So you just got to win the one that's the. Only thing I was looking forward to Brian. Oh my. God, to see the two extra workouts that confused everybody. Yeah, so I'd heard that.

So I. Don't know what did you what was your thoughts on like the collusion of the athletes? OK, do do you want to speak on it or no? It's a it's a tough subject. I could promise you I would not have. Agreed to do that. Just do one extra round. Just. Tell them, tell them yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, I did 31. My bad. I'm just thinking. I'm just thinking of Fakowski guys, the PFAA, and thinks it'd be safer if we all just did. This together. So what's your plan for

tomorrow? Do you have last last week they had rehearsal at like 6:30 AM and you're kind of just hanging around the whole time. Do they have the same kind of schedule for you, or do you have some time to relax? Yeah, I think we have for rehearsal at like 8:30 tomorrow and or something like that, and it's supposed to last like half an hour. Then we have a break from like 9:00 to 11:00-ish or something like that.

So I'll probably do like a little workout just to kind of wake my body up and eat and then we'll get ready to do the do the thing. And then jumping ahead the next week, you're out to CrossFit Charlotte facing Taylor three weeks in a row, 3 three times traveling is does that bother you, like, I mean, being on the road that many times or is it just, you know, all good, just keep going? Yeah, it's hard. Definitely been feeling it earlier this week. Like a lot of zombie, yeah.

But yeah, part of the reason I agreed to this schedule during the open is because I think traveling for competitions is something I need to work on. I need to kind of be able to deal with the different, like getting my food managed, my sleep and everything like that and winning different practices to kind of like wake my body up after the travel and those type of things. So yeah, yesterday I felt really

bad getting off the plane. Today feel pretty good and I feel like one more good night's sleep and one more good day of nutrition and I'll be ready to go tomorrow. I saw a comment on there, What's for dinner? We just have some beef and rice. Pretty important. You're going to have some late night pizza like Michael Jordan. You've done well the last couple opens, I think. What was it, third and 4th the last two years? How much value do you place on the open?

There's a lot of talk about the open doesn't matter, like just get through it. But I mean, you definitely have to be trying to get top five, two years in a row. Yeah, I mean, I try hard when the workouts come out, you know,

just like everybody else. I'm not necessarily peeking for the Open. I mean, last year I did the Open. I was straight out of the hospital, so I was just getting back in a CrossFit during the Open. And yeah, everybody likes to kind of say, like, yeah, I'm not peaking for the Open. So, you know, my score's like, whatever. But like, if none of the top athletes are peaking, then I don't really understand, Like, people are trying to use that as

kind of an excuse. It's like if we're both not peaked, then neither one of us has the advantage there. But I also think a lot of athletes underperform because they're just not willing to put them themselves in that discomfort and pain during the Open workouts.

And if you're at a if you're a high level Crossfitter, the Open is can be the most painful competition you do all year, even more so than semis or the games, Just because there is, there's very few limiters and it's just how bad do you want to hurt. I think a lot of these guys just aren't willing to do that to themselves at this point this season. Yeah, you you walked away. You walked away from 24.1. Just you walked down to the back

of the room, walked off. Taylor was about ready to die. Did you have more in the tank? Yeah, you need to work harder, Colton. I mean, it looked like that after 24.1. You clearly weren't trying. Yeah. I don't know, maybe, maybe I could have got 5/15. John, did you have a question? I was just going to piggyback off of what Colton's I'm pretty sure Fraser has said the worst workout of the year for him is the first workout of the Open. Like the most painful workout

for him. Because he's either have been training for one week or two weeks and then and then he just sends it or whatever, like, and just trust that he has it. And he still won the Open when he was competing, and it didn't matter then, either. Yeah. And then last time I saw you at Water Palooza you were you'd just been announced to be a working with Proven obviously you were there a lot this past week. How has that been over the last couple months?

It's been really good. So we started training together right when I got home from Water Palooza and been working on, you know, a lot of weaknesses, working on running from working a lot on developing power in my Olympic lifts with like the power snatch and power clean, things like that or a couple things we've been working on and been seeing a lot of improvements there. It's just kind of crazy, just like how much better those movements feel, how much

stronger I feel. See it's been really nice, kind of have targeted programming and a one-on-one coach with Joey. And also does not do not have to worry about adjusting my programming at all, just pull it up on the app, throw it up on the white board and get going. So it's been really nice. I've been enjoying it a lot and I'm excited to see where my fitness is at. Come semis and games, Yeah, what's the. Like because you you've not had a like a dedicated coach before, right?

Yeah, I did. I've been a part of the Kilo trained programming for basically the entire time since I started CrossFit, but never been doing like one-on-one stuff. Are there are there things that you've you've really learned from the situation of of having

a dedicated coach like this? Yeah, just it's just like a lot of small adjustments to things like basically they take like the template that proven has and they'll adjust things for to make them more specific to me and what I'm trying to work on and I'm on. I'll be on like different strength progressions and sometimes a lot of stuff will be just like a new workout in general, just depending on like what I need to work on. So obviously for me it's like

I'm doing a lot more like ruin intervals, running intervals every week, a lot of wall ball work, which I'm sure like the base template athlete is not working on those things as much. I think that's been helping a ton. Do you ever, Do you still go out on your own and say I'm not gonna do that, I'm gonna do something else or you stick to the program pretty well? I've stuck to it. I've stuck to it. Yeah, Joey, I'm sure is listening. Last question, some new puppies.

Is that right? Yeah, we got 4 new puppies. Either gonna be silver dapples. I was thinking, they're gonna be chocolate, 'cause the mother is chocolate, but I guess Otis's DNA is just too strong. Burns through, Yeah, I asked. I messaged Ally and I said we want to reserve one so we're hopefully we're in line early enough, but that was awesome to see that some new puppies. So appreciate you taking some time. Colton let you get rested up and we'll be watching for you tomorrow.

Good luck out there. Thanks man guys, good talking to you. There you go. That's awesome. You're going to have one of the Wiener docks. I hope so myself. So what? Are you going to name it Marty? I don't know. I don't know. We have a bulldog named Eva and a Basset Hound named Scout. So we'll see. You can name it Wally. You could have Wally and Eva. Sorry, that's what I first thought. Of but I heard Eva.

Eva. That's what I That's what I thought of. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll pass it off to the wife and see if that I'm not so sure, but we'll see. That'll be a tough one. All right. I know we started 24.1 talk. We'll get to that in a second. We'll get back to our regularly scheduled program and now that Colton has has joined us, viewer comments, it's kind of

interesting. This past week, all of it was pretty much focused around Mao. Yet a lot of the comments were like, why are we still talking about Mao so? There we go. Why are we talking about this? I have about 9 burner accounts and I commented on. All that's what happens. See that might be the case. So I picked out a couple of them. We'll we'll address them at SPM 40. Alex and Kotler seem very pleasant. Thanks for having me on. Well, I now understand some more

detail. I still don't still don't understand the big picture about this golden barbell. Why is it on? Why now in the run up to the open, Is there a clear signal that literally no one cares about the open? Why is it marketed? If it isn't publicized then why are they doing it? Many questions. Any insight is appreciated. I think. No insight, sorry. I I think this answers it right here. Wad Zombie RIP Golden Barbell 24 to 20. Four, I don't even think. Years, I don't think.

Years is is real, so bad. What's that? I hope that e-mail is real so badly. By the Golden Barbell. No, just about the people that marketed the Golden Barbell I. Don't know what you're talking about, Will Branstetter. Yes you do. Don't know what you're talking about. Will Branstetter Golden Bar, Apparently the Golden. Barbell God, you you're completely derailing this. I'm sorry. Stick to the script, John.

The barbell is only planned to happen the first week for the athletes, so. Oh, so it's part of the plan? Part of the plan, I feel. Like they just they just came up with that rule after they cancelled it. Yeah, Well, we only that is just for Week 1 that's. Y'all didn't know that. I feel like we've been telling people. I really thought it was for all three weeks, but I don't. Know as bad, as as bad as it was communicated and we understood what was going on and everybody

was confused. Surprise, we don't. It makes sense that we would have thought it was 3 weeks if it was supposed to only be one back. I think they've said that on one of his weekend reviews. Nobody watches those. I I don't know. I don't know. All right at says EU. He also loves Ghazan and Kotler. I think what Alex said about Mao's situation is a lot of us, a lot of us are thinking, I do feel sorry for Mao, that she is so young and experienced a big burnout and is probably feeling lost.

But also do not get the whole you are so brave. Comments also just by two cents and not underestimating how great she was an athlete, but I think Mal is occupying too much CrossFit media space right now for whatever she is or is not doing. She was the 2nd coming. I mean like it makes sense to me why she's occupied occupying so much space. We we had a lot of faith in her to beat Tia and now and now she. Y'all had a lot of faith in that. I I mean, like, contend against

her. We thought she was going to be the next. Tia was walking away and Mal was the heir to the throne. Like, I'm not sure we thought we were. She was going to ever beat Tia, but. Right. Maybe I misspoke, but that that's sort of what I meant. And for her to turn, turn tails, probably not the way to say it, but to turn like this is is pretty big news, especially when you think about Haley and everything else. So. Yeah, I mean, I think you definitely have to talk about it.

Yeah. She was one of the biggest in the sport and she walked away, so all right. Can I can I ask you guys a question then? Of course. Is it? Is it on topic or are we going to be going on? Topic. It's on topic. It's on topic. It's on topic. How much longer are we supposed to talk about it? Can you give me a deadline whenever we we stop talking about it? We'll see if there's any comment viewer comments this week, so if you have any. Give me a day. And then I That's the way I

know. OK, we're going to talk about Mal until this day and then it's over. I can almost guarantee we'll be talking about her in two weeks. So if you watched Mal's most recent video, she said that she has something coming up here soon. A. High rocks race. Yes. Guarantee it, Guarantee it. Hardy. Hardy in here first. She said she had to get her legs under her.

She was doing some longer endurance training and lo and behold, there's a high rocks race in two weekends, I think from now in Houston, and I believe that's where Chris he's. Going to Houston High rocks. Again, this is all speculation. She could be doing something completely different. She could be making baking cookies or something, but Tyler

probably come. Come. Down let's let's do it. John Young, after not wanting to talk about Malory at all, is on the scene with a camera in Mal's. Face No, no, no, we're going to do it. Like, let's do it. Just come down and we'll do the same high rocks that Christy and Malorat. Yeah. And both of us will finish in six hours. So Christy Aramel O'Connell is doing Houston's High Rocks. That's cool. My complete guess is that she is going to be jumping in there and doing that as well.

Team style or individual? You think individual. Dude, if I got to interview Mal Mal, I see that you got dominated by Christy. How does that feel? Do you think so? Rocks, yes. I think it'd be a really good match. It's. It's all running, man. No, I don't think so at all. I think Christy will beat her by 10 minutes. Oh. It's it's it's an it's running. It's all running with a couple of athletic things like and Christy is the best. One of the best runners in CrossFit field, Mal was middle

of the pack, maybe upper middle. There's a huge gap there. And Christy? 'S been training for it. And the woman that won the 24.1, she was a very high level. She was in the Elite 15 two years ago, I think it was in high rocks and she was one of the worst runners in the group. And I think that's why she kind of phased out and decided to go a different route, is because you have to be a great runner, like you can't make it up on the elements enough.

And that's what makes Hunter so great is 'cause he's the fastest runner, pretty much, and then he dominates everybody else when they can't move properly. Hunter runs like a 15 minute 5KA1555K like that's that's how fast you have to be. And and you watch him and I he he starts out strong and faster than everybody else but then he does the first I think it's a ski I think is the first one and he gets back on the run and. All the machines and and the obstacles.

But he's not the best runner. He's actually like like the eighth worst, like the 8th best runner. There's a whole bunch of runners better than him that they're all small. Well, they have to go slower because they get destroyed on the on the actual part of the workout. That's. That's my point. They're all they're smaller people. They're not 622 like he's, you know, kind of a. He's a big boy, he's. Big you know, yeah. Yeah. So I'll think about when you can't talk about Mal anymore,

John, I'll let you know. But for now, we will continue to monitor the situation. Different topic. Emma Lawson. This is who Sean Hamlet Emma Lawson is flying under the radar coming into the season, lookout for the silent assassin. I don't think she's flying under the radar. I think she'll be third place.

Yeah, she's right in the radar where we thought she would be to me. I mean, fly, she doesn't give it get as much publicity as everybody else, but like, she also steers a little bit clear of those things, so. She does. It's not. She doesn't put a ton of stuff out there and the stuff she puts out there is just normal things. She's not AI Think Emma Lawson. I think the way Emma Lawson's whole camp is, is, is is

beautiful. I think the way they are handling her or, you know, the way she's going about her business is like people should take notes on this is what you should do. If you're a younger athlete, you know, she even got a boyfriend or he's into the same stuff and like, you know, both of them hiking, doing what young couples do. Like it's not. I mean, I just, she doesn't need to be on the radar. I don't think she wants to be on the radar and she's about to

steal the podium. She's one of the fittest women in the world. What I think is interesting about Emma is and if you go on her Instagram like you'll see that she definitely is advertising podium and two poot and stuff. But like, I don't think of her as marketing to me. She's not a billboard, right? Right. Like. She's doing it in there, but like you just see a post of her doing a workout or she's doing squats or something else, and then it's like, oh here's podium.

I don't feel overwhelmed, like all she cares about is sponsors. I'm sure she's doing what's obligated, but I don't know if she has the same commitments as others, which I think is. Yeah, I mean, Tia feels like Shaq almost with all of her sponsors. Like what? Is she going to have some like Papa John's franchise, you know? What? I mean, doesn't she not feel like that? Like everything's a different thing? Like like she feels like Shaquille O'Neal and all of his commercials.

Somebody was talking. About Speaking of others like maybe Mal. Every other story is something about her. You know, her sponsor. Yeah, somebody was talking about Brooke Wells, and it's like if you go to her Instagram it. I can't remember who said this to me, but it basically just feels like a billboard. There's no human content there. It's just an ad. Yeah, yeah. And I think this is ESC sounds. Emma has a great family around her.

Emma Lawson. Yeah, I think we talked about this a little bit last week, like teen athletes going to camps and then you have the Olivia Kurstetters, Emma Lawson's who stay at home, have their life and then also just kill it on the competition floor. And then the last last comment from Karen Bainbridge, so buzzing for Rogan, Scotland, It's going to be insane and it will definitely sell out. It's a bonus too if we bump into

any of you there. So again, sign up for a membership, Maybe we can raise enough money to send John over and head out. Scott the. JY Foundation. Yeah, my foundation. Send them to Scotland. We need, we need to keep track of the John Young businesses. So those are the viewer comments. If you're watching, throw out any comments from the show, any questions you have, and maybe we'll answer them next week. All right, back to 24.1.

John, you crashed and burned. Did not hit your hit, your goal, You had to go, what, 845 and he finished at? I paced for 8:40 thinking if I blew up I'd be able to like you know, just be a little over 9. You know, like that's what I thought might happen or maybe I'd be, you know, maybe I could hold it and then and then that didn't happen was 10/17. And then I I paced for 10 minutes and then sprinted at the end and got 948 and it's still going to be my worst score of,

you know, probably the year. I'm pretty sure week one in the open has been my worst like, scored workout. Even in all the competitions, like all like everything. Week one in the Open is my worst. Same. Performance. I'm going to say like, Tyler, this was your shot too. To beat me, you should have redone. It Well I did beat you on the first go round and then you pull some BS and redid it. I don't blame you for redoing it

but I wasn't going to redo. I actually had like a a come to Jesus moment during and then well after 24.1 so I got I got ten O 3. Tied Dawn, Fall. Yeah, Tied Dawn Fall. I paced it too much. I was really afraid in the round of 20 ones I was going to blow up and then get in the fifteens and then do it. John did it. Just freaking eek through it and I should have. I should have kind of just hunkered down and went through the fifteens. I went back and watched my videos way too slow.

But then after I mean sort of during I knew I was like, you need to turn it up and that it would just wasn't. I just didn't want to And so it's it. It actually like I had to have. So Taylor's kind of coaching me at the moment. I had to have a call with Taylor and I was like, dude, I think I'm, I'm done training like this and he was like, Are you sure? And I was like, yeah, I I've been doing CrossFit for 12 years. I think it's I think it's time to hang it up.

I've been training like a mid level quarter finals athlete for years, probably like 8 years have been doing 2A days and it's just like I'm done. I want to get stronger and I want to be able to run faster or longer and that's what happened after 24.1 for me. So if if the goal is pain, it was pain. So but I'll be. Honest with you though, that might not be the wrong call for you just to get stronger or a faster run, you know what I

mean? Because you like, you know when you when you get to quarter finals, that's where you're held up. Yeah, I told Taylor, too. It's like, I still want to do like Crossfitty stuff, but I was like, I just don't want to do like that that type of hurt, like the 24.1 type of hurt. And it's like you have to do that basically every single day, if not multiple times a day when you train that way. And it's like, I would just kind of want to do alternating imams and shit like that.

I don't want to do this anymore. 5 by 5 and some imams. Yeah, some long runs. So it was. It was good though. It is exactly what it needed to be as far as hurt goes. You know what's bad Tyler? Is I freaking kill myself running all the time. And I bet you just dancing around doing 2 long runs a week and then you're I bet you end up improving, improving your running like so much more than me. And it's just and I can't help you know, our body bodies are

different, right? They improve at different speeds and it's going to be so frustrating. I was actually a really decent runner before I started doing CrossFit. I was sort of on the football team. I was known for being really fast and then I started doing CrossFit. Oh, I'm kind. Of real slow. We get past 40 yards. When I get slow. It's not. It's not, you know, I'm real fast. I'm 40 yards. But go ahead, spin. How'd you do?

So I paced it. I don't know if you want to say perfectly or too much, but basically every round that I did was identical. That's good. I finished in 10. On your face the whole time, 10:50. Two I did I I looked at the number of what was it seconds per Rep and I started out like 3.43 point 93.3. So nice. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't have a Chase Ingram moment where I'd completely died. Nobody had that moment. Chase Ingram is like that. His video is so good man.

And he said he this morning, he thinks he has wrapped up because like it's just getting worse and worse for him every single day, like his lats. And it's just because like he didn't do really anything because of his shoulder and then just sent it like. Booked it, yeah. So I I hadn't worked out all week.

I had been dealing with sickness, my knees been bothering me, and so the last time I'd been in the gym was Sunday, doing anything legitimate, and then jump in there on the following Sunday to do this. I made a mistake. I opened up the garage doors. It was humid. And so the floor started getting kind of like that Glazer, like moisture. And so, like my feet were sliding back on the burpees. That can help sometimes. Some somewhat that did.

But then the the dumbbell started getting slippery on the second round of 15. And so that was I just you know use extra just to try to hold on to that thing but got through all the dumbbells snatches unbroken. And yeah, I tested all the different jump up, step up. I ended up going to a knee every single time and then stepping up and then jumping over basically to control and not get just

obliterated. And I I timed myself doing 10 of each and I knew I wasn't going to make it if I did the jump up. The step up. I was like maybe I do it for the 1st 21, but I was very nervous that I was going to get to that 15 and then just have like completely implode. So plus my wife said do not go full dummy and not be able to do anything the rest of the day because I have done that before

and I finish a workout. Then I literally on the couch the rest of the day and she's like, you're an idiot. So I was able to be functional the rest of the day. So in my old Man Group, I was top 25%. I think it was maybe top 20, top 20%. I'm happy I'll get through. We'll see how the strength piece works 'cause that might be my 2024. Goal. That's going to be your make or break this, this, this next one. I, my wife, my wife got to the knot. She finished the 15th and she

was in bad shape. Like it was like like she tried to pace it. She's just been a crazy crochet lady lately and has not been. Yeah, she got into crochet and I broke. Don't let your wives get into crochet because. My mind went to that face. Get. Addicted and like she freaking crochets like 5 hours a day. I saw her post a bunch of stuff

on there. All she does, like if she's either like if she's just work, if she's home, she's crocheting, like it's it's it's a thing and hasn't been working out. And then you know, it's still in the CrossFit though, right? And then she does the open workout, she has a goal and then she finishes the 15th and she goes, she's at the nines, right?

Or no. She finishes her first set of nine, has one set of nine left, and then goes to get chalk on her hand and you and and and like you can hear me in her video, which I don't think she uploads it on YouTube. But you can. Hear you can hear me in the

video. I'm like you don't need freaking chalk grab it up and like like I sound like you know you said husband so badly in this video because it it it just mind boggled me that she went to go get chalk for not last nine snatches and she pulled it together though it was all right like everything came everything was great. But I. My wife made me afraid she came out booking it, so she she got 7 O1 and I was like she's going to

get 630 or something like that. And so it was almost like I it was the opposite for me, John, where I didn't want to say anything because I was like, I don't want to distract her. Like I don't want to break whatever trance she's in.

And so she comes over to judge me after she goes, and she goes, you just buy time in the round of 21 and I just go, no. Yeah, I had a buddy that did it and he finished my buddy did it and he did it like the 1st 20 ones he did in 415 and he ended up with like 12O2 or something like that twelve O 3 and I was like you just completely blew up. So I had in my head like I do not want to have 8 minutes of death. So yeah, I I knew I could have gone out really fast. I think I went out like 440

something, the 1st 20 ones. But then I just held it the rest of the way. Yeah and and I knew that was kind of the case. I I didn't. I wanted to be somewhere in the 11 twelves and I'd be broke. 11 so. Yeah, that's good to be. Yep. I was happy. As for those who actually are pretty solid at CrossFit, obviously we had Colton Mertons there. You look at this leaderboard top ten, I mean Colton Bailey will are the only from the games who made it to the top ten.

Do do you put any weight on this whatsoever or is it just get through it? I don't care if you finished in 540 or 7 minutes. Yeah. None I like. It's it's very impressive what Colton did but like, and it's very impressive what Taylor did. But it means nothing as far as like the CrossFit Games. I won't say it means nothing like their speeds are crazy and that speaks to overall capacity, but then like once you get past 6 minutes somewhere, it's just like that doesn't really matter.

See, I disagree, because I think if everybody in the field can go unbroken at pretty much as fast as they can, it means nothing. Yeah. I I just you know I know that Colton wants to push hard and have a. Report and when I'm broken the whole entire time. Right and. I like, like, never stopped and never stopped. And he talked about it in his video like, he was like, I got to a point in the fifteens, I was starting to jump up and I did 3. And I was like, I'm good, I'm good.

I'm just going to step up, do this and be done. I wonder if you, if, you know, you're not going to beat Taylor Self or, you know, had an idea that Colton was going to beat you like you push hard. But is there something in the back of your mind where you turn it off a little bit and you're just, I'm OK with my 620? Like, it's still probably top 200 in the world. I'll be tired, but I'm not going to be throwing up a perfect bar afterwards like.

I think, you know, I think, you know by the round of 21 if you are going to be Taylor or not. And so it's at that point it's like, OK, what do I do? Like, you know, there's probably a good portion of people who are also like, I want to see what I can no matter what. You know, even if it's not Colton, because he's like, you know, he knew he would could probably win. Like you just kind of want to burn it down and see what your body does and how it reacts and

all that stuff. There's probably a good portion of that people. But besides that, it's like, yeah, just do it. You know you're going to do well. Yeah, the women's side from last year's games, Jamie Simmons. Sayer Kaya Fee Segafi. So again, just a handful in the top ten. Kristen Holta nine months after having a baby, goes, goes crazy. Julie Hannaford, She's maybe the real female side of Colton Burton's. Yeah, she may be stronger. Yeah, per per her Division, I would.

I think they're both that way, but maybe Julia might be the better of the two. I could see Julia going to the games this year. She's out of Oceana, She's training with Benny, Gerard and Ricky. She won the the snatch complex at Tierrawatapalooza so she has the strength. She obviously can do burpees. She's short, short one so. If you want to see an interview with her, we just dropped our first YouTube video on Heat One app. We had a good, probably 15 minute conversation with her. She's.

And you have a heat one YouTube channel. OK, I'll try to pull that up here in a bit. Yeah. So that yeah, she's she's seems pretty cool. And for all of our Australian listeners, you know 80% of you guys probably very familiar with Julia. Oh, I I looked through all of the actually the top 100 athletes that went through it. Really the only person that stood out of not really being competitive was Ella Wunger. And so she didn't do well.

She only did 21 dumbbell snatch. She actually has a stress fracture and I think in her tibia and she's going team so. So she just has to. Complete it. She just has to do the movement get post a score above 0 and then let let her teammates do it. And of course Jackie Dahlstrom was her backup. So it's like C23 CrossFit, the program or something like that. And so it's pretty good backup. It's kind of like when Tia or somebody had Brooke Wells or whatever was on the proven.

Roster or whatever. And then Oslo did that a couple years ago too. They had, I think Lena was hurt or something. And so it's. A weird rule, but it is the rule, so why not use it? Do you Do you like that rule? I feel like if you're going team, you should just declare it, put your six athletes on your team and be done. That's how I feel.

I yeah, that's how I feel. It sucks because it's like people are probably missing out on their chance at semi finals, even just barely in. Even though that those are the teams at the, you know, closer to the bottom. It's like that's huge for them and it's you're getting bought in because you have somebody who's just going to knock a couple out of the park. Sort of not fair. I that and I think a lot of times the affiliates just create

one team. Yeah. But if you forced everybody to be on their own team, there might be actually some competition between, in my opinion. So like create teams of six, make them their own team and then within your gym you can have some teams that go. I like I mean CrossFit Oslo has I don't know how many 1010 teams from their gym trying to go through and so that would be my recommendation.

If you have a large gym like you always do like the you know pick them teams or whatever like that like why not just create your own teams of 6 and put them in there that way. So something to think about if you are running a running the open next year, anything else on 24.1? It doesn't. I mean, it's done, it's over really. No surprises. It's. Happy to move on and get to the

next one. From the affiliate side, I know that my affiliate owner and then the the team that my wife is on, he owns one of the guys owns an affiliate and they really appreciated not having to do the lines and do the equipment and have to put a bunch of stuff back up. It was like pretty much everybody's cleaned up after the the last heat spray go home. Yeah, Which they said they weren't going to have very much tape, but I think some people interpret that as there will be 0 tape.

Yeah, so. Why do you think there'll be some tape? Yes, I think there will be some tape at some point. Handstand push ups, baby, let's go. I I think. There will be push ups, bench. Press, I think there will be something that has to get you upside down. I have a shot of being a top scorer. That's OK. That was the workout. I bet I could beat some games. People at just the if it's.

Just those two. Yeah. So moving on to the current news, I guess since we last talked Emma Carey also has stepped aside, so. Screwed the hell out of my bracket. Idea. Yeah, that's. That's all Tyler thought about. Man, we were. Scrambled, why did you do this to my bracket? Or oh. You know good for her or or you know or you know whatever, like. Everybody talking about religion I didn't think about. Not at all. Gosh Dang it imma carry. My we were.

Scrambling to get the get the replacement in heat one which I think Daniel Brandon was a good ad but. I think so too, yeah. So as you see up there in the in the upper right hand corner, Seth Rollins, WWE Heavyweight Champion is giving the announcement tomorrow live from the Shred Shed. I guess initial reaction first, John, do you like having somebody like Seth Rollins do the announcement? Yeah, he's fine.

He's fine. I don't know why you pick him to be in the smallest venue you're going to have. I feel like, I feel like a lot of people would want to come out and see Seth Rollins. You know I'm sure he has a lot of fans so why would you not like you know maybe he should be announcing the third workout like well like just the workout that's not in the garage. Right. I got I I don't know I don't have a ton of opinions on it but

like I guess he's fine. I I would rather cash from make all the announcements but you know it's it's it's fun it's still fun. You know like that's all my opinion is. I have. I don't really have. That time, Tyler. Jocko like how does that make sense to me? We have connections with Jocko. It seems like that would have

been a better. Yeah but but Rollins to Rollins defense, He's been doing the the Open the last 12 years I think it is. I think since 20/12/2012 or 2013 he's done their Open every single year. So yes he's he's been doing CrossFit. I I'm with with John, I like Dave doing it. We'll see how it's delivered. I don't think we've had one guest come on and do an announcement justice, like a lot

of times you're opening. What if he like, what if there's a table and then he climbs the a ladder and then jumps on the table and then like it's going to be a a clean ladder because. He has that. He's. Like, yeah, yeah. He's like, Nope, do it again. You did that wrong. He's a showman, though. The thing about the Is it WWEWWF now NWO which one is it? Wrestling. Yeah. So he it's it's a show and he so he's a showman. So I do hope that that plays off.

The thing that I really thought first was that it's a good market grab do. You think so? People who do WWE, this is going to sound really bad, but they're the people that I come from, so I'm going to speak right to you. People who who watch wrestling, let's talk about stereotypes like they are strength or conditioning aware, but probably not the healthiest folks and people who you could get into

the gym. So it's like if you're watching Seth Rollins and you're like, hey, I kind of, you know, I'm interested in strength conditioning to some degree, Maybe it'll get you in the door. Do you think they're really into strength and conditioning or just the idea and watching guys throw each other around? Well, I mean, that's that's a frat boy. Like I look at this and it his post got 16,000 likes and it was shared between CrossFit, CrossFit Games and. Sets, yeah, that's.

Announced saying that he was going to do this. I go back to this one here. That's similar, right? It's just him. He know he's going to say something. You gotta look 60. 1000. 160,000 likes. Are we seeing any crossover like I? I hear you. Yeah, 16,000 crossover, what are you talking about? Those are all Crossfitters. Those are all from the CrossFit Games account that saw that. Like, I feel like anybody, anybody that just watches him and watches WWE is like just

keep scrolling it's. Going to be even worse when they see him in a shed. You know, you know, I think Spin's probably right. But to be fair, his showing it is has the possibility of showing CrossFit to people who wouldn't have seen it otherwise. And yes, I agree. I don't think it's going to convert many people, but if it converted 1000 people that would That's 1000 more than it would be if Castro did it again. This thing had a million views so far and 16,000 likes. All right, It's just OK.

You're right. Everything sucks. Trying to look. Just trying to be optimistic. I'm sorry. You got to play it real fast for somebody trying to be optimistic. I don't. I just don't think it's going to have the the translation. I I don't know. I mean it could be cool. It could be great. Like he'd go out there and it could be entertaining. I do agree he probably should have been saved till Week 3 at Proven. When there is, I don't know how many people are going to be there.

I hope to be there, but have a crowd versus. I can't imagine they're going to let anybody other than a handful of people around, Justin sure kind of be there so. Definitely not Hitler. So yeah, probably not. So maybe we'll see. Money of Andrew showed up to the announcement. Just just tried to walk in and like Justin has some kind of a bodyguard. Be like, excuse me Sir, you're not allowed to be, you're not allowed to be in the premises. Or something like that.

I'd watch that that that showdown between Hiller and Seth Rollins, though. That'd be cool as hell. Hiller come down. Dress, Dress in the back. Now that would be good if you get if you got Hiller and Seth to go do some little skit. They fight each other. Seth does. Or they go against each other. They're the undercard to Justin and Colton. I think Hiller would destroy him. You probably, but it'd still be fun to watch. It would be fun to watch, which I'll tell you what.

Putting those side to side by side videos together for the Open. Awesome. I mean, yeah, like that. No, they're great. May I think that's what that's why we want to see videos be public, right? Like it. It actually adds some. I know people watch the Chandler Noah one because it was out so early, but it also it it adds like more excitement to it. Like oh, these guys are across the country, they're within a second or two of each other. They're friends. I can watch it versus just

waiting for the open to happen. Like it it adds something to watch. And the same thing with you guys doing the underdogs comparison, like people want to see that hear from them, hear what it was like, you know? So I I think it adds some new element to or a different element to the open that kind of makes it exciting to watch to to some degree. As for the the new hint, a chess piece getting hit over by a shuffleboard weight. John, you gave some some insight into your prediction.

Get with the program this afternoon. For those who didn't watch, what was your prediction? I think my prediction was it's going to be a gated workout. It's going to go like every 4 minutes. You have to complete a certain amount of work in a certain in that 4 minutes. And I think I said like 15 Cal row, 20 wall balls and then 15 cleans at a 95 lbs, one 35 and then it'll go 15/20/13 cleans or 12. I think I said 12 so it's go 1512963.

It would end at 3:15, 2:15 for the ladies and that that would be the workout. It's just completed in this given time and reason why I said rowing is Chase brought up a really good point. Like it's a sliding, it's a sliding shuffleboard, you know, and that's remissness of a rower And so that made sense to me. It might not be wall boss. I think there's a chance it could be double unders. But I do think rowing and cleans like we're on the, you know, Bill thought that, Chase thought that.

And I think that too. And I think we're, when all three people think it's something like, I feel like it has to kind of be close to that, right? Maybe not. Maybe we're really, really, really wrong. But Bill called it freaking. It'll be a clean. Movement for movement, you know what I mean? So that's I definitely think it's going to be weights in some fashion, probably cleans in an

escalating fashion. Yeah. Yeah, I guess real quick before I go to J Rs comment, Kenneth, the lap which has more likes Dave's hint or Seth Rollins announcement, we know Seth has 16,000 likes, how many does Dave's hint have? Oh, I bet it's like, I bet it's around 40K. It has 3.7 million views compared to the million. That's because it was like quarter of a fraction of a second, yeah.

You could watch. I watched it like 6 times before I. It has 29,000 likes and he and CrossFit Games collect on it. Jr. Howell, Best case scenario for some nerd talk 17.1 Dumbbell snatches and burpees 17.22 dumbbells with Lunges No barbell at Regionals. And What If 24.1 dumbbell snatches and burpees 24.2 dumbbells with lunges? I'd be more inclined to agree with him if we had five weeks

and not three. You gotta think 17.3 was heavy snatches, 17.5 was thrusters, 17.4 there was deadlifts, 22055 deadlifts of 225, right? Like there's only three weeks. So like that that's I'd be more I. Don't think he's saying it's only dumbbells with lunges and

it's the exact same workout. I think it's is dumbbells with lunges like a a step back lunge would be one of the elements and I think you guys talked about it on get with the programming is lunges would be one of the movements potentially like I when I think about. I I don't. I don't disagree. Without the lunges, I just think there's going to be a. Barbell. Yeah, no, no. I just think there's going to be a barbell and that will be the separator.

It's not going to be an amrap of lunges and it's just another cardio workout. Yeah, I I do think it's going to be heavy if for my guess, I I did watch the Justin Medeiros video he put out yesterday. I think it was where he's kind of talking about everything. Their pull up rigs are opposite sides of the floor and so like their camera guy was like, I pretty much can't get the entire gym in one shot no matter how wide I go. You have to have a fisheye.

You have to have a fisheye lens to be inside the gym and still get both of them at the same time. That doesn't set it up very well to watch a race if it comes down to toes, the bar or anything on the on the on there or even wall balls if you have those targets on the opposite side. Now if it was the repeat of was it 14219 two or fourteen one. Yeah 14219 two. The. 16.2. 1916 two, yeah. Yeah. I think that was repeated in 21.22. I don't think they'd repeat it

again. They've done it three times, yeah. Like, but what my point is like the toes to bar aren't really, they're inconsequential. So like everybody's focused on the clean. So you can just kind of go back and forth don't worry about the race and then you go watch them do the cleans if it. If the toes to bar are an important factor, I don't see it

being in this one. So yeah, I you know, if you and if you go back and watch like it with the programming episode, like they bring out cap programming and CrossFit affiliate programming and I and I think when you look at that stuff, that's how you can really make a good guess and they have hell, they have Helen with knees to elbow instead of pull ups on Wednesday. So that makes me think there's

not going to be any toasted bar. They have chest to bar on Saturday. That makes me think there's not going to be any chest to bar. So I don't think there's going to be any rig movements. I think it's going to be cardio, cardio bunnies, Week 1 weights big boys, week two and then Wednesday or week 3 will be very crossfitty but with a gymnastics barrier, right. It'll be you know and probably escalate up to bar muscle up so you can really, you know it's like it's more higher skilled, right.

They've they've done that a lot and I think they like doing that. Yeah, that would be a that'd be a good one. If you did pull ups. Chest to bar muscle bar muscle UPS is kind of a progression in that last week. And I agree with Jr. on this. I think it could be rowing cows and then 50 double unders and then cleans. I don't think it'd be snatches just because there's dumbbell snatch on Saturday too, and we already did dumbbell snatches. I just have a hard time seeing

snatch and. Then could it be? Could it be a deadlift or? Front. Oh, week one. Week one was all hinging, you know what I mean? There's. Not front squat. That's a good point about the hinging. I can see front squats, but week one was all hinging. So like, I just can't see two of the three weeks be high hinging and that's the whole that's the open because you need gymnastics in Week 3 right until there's no squatting. You know what I'm saying?

I so that's why I don't know. I don't think it's deadlifts. I do like the double unders in row paired with the heavy barbell, even though be barbell will bury me and I won't do very well, but that's fine. You've talked me out of my guess John. I mine was 15 point or a play on 15.1 which was the deadlifts, toast to bar and snap that was at the same weight. I think that they would do ascending weight across, but now like I said snatches.

To me, the dumbbell snatch is different than an actual snatch, but like a clean makes a lot more sense. Jr. Howell 2017 Four weeks hinging in a row, so it wouldn't be unprecedented. If you if you think squat snatches are hinging, which 'cause when I hear see squat snatching, I think that's more squatting than hinging. Other than that, you're right.

Carolyn Prevo, You can also look at the following week's programming of Cap. It helps paint the picture even more front squats next week after 24.3, so I think squatting is this week. I agree. And I I could see front squat. You know, we haven't had front squats in an open workout. We've had, we've had dumbbell squats but not like with the barbell.

And I could see the exact by the exact workout I just said but with front squats with the last weight being 3:15 for 3:00 and 2:15 for three for the ladies rather than cleans. And I think that would be really cool to have front squats because that's that's something that you can like accidentally go way too fast on and now your. Heart's through the roof. Yeah, so you're you're thinking you're thinking of a a gated workout, a 4 minute gate or something like that?

I don't disagree with you, Jr. I just think it's more squatting than hinging when you're doing squat snatches. I. I don't. We got to take John's comments away. You've been put in, time out. If there are front squats, no thrusters in the open. Yes, yeah. There's no thrusters in the open. That would be wild. I don't think you could if you did front squats on Week 2. I think it's time we see front squats in the open. Jr. likes the heavy idea. The idea of heavy front squats. You will.

Come on, Jr. you got a lot to say. We can give you a link. Region's exemptions came out Tuesday. TA clear to me, North America, East, whoa. I don't think that was much of a surprise, but Catherine, David Sawyer and a whole bunch of others that I don't think will make it to the games. They may make it to semi finals. A lot of people go into Asia. I think a lot of that's for Dubai more than anything.

I guess the question I have is oh does like we talked about Oceana last a couple months ago where they could actually gain a fourth spot. Tia now makes it 1 less person. Do we think the team, Emily Deroy's Kara Saunders, Jamie Simmons, will do the individual quarterfinals and get a fourth spot for Oceana, or do we think that is passing them up? I hope so. I mean, you would. You would, you would think. I've had several people reach out about that. It's like it's just such an easy

bar. Just sign up. Well, they probably not. I don't know why I think that, but probably not. Yeah, and I look at the the I did. I looked at the top 100 worldwide rankings and it's not any Git with the Programming Current style, but it's like using the current system. It appears that North America East is poised to maybe get 12 spots instead of 11 this year if Oceana does not get a fourth. If it does, it'll actually come out of North America East based

on the current current ranking. So you could add Tia, add Haley, and get the exact same number of qualifying spots out of North America East. If Oceana ends up doing what they need to to get that fourth spot, 'cause it's gonna most likely come out of North America East, which that's that's a tough region at that point. That's tight. Yeah, I mean, it's tight. It's tight over there, so. T Bird Reed Chase's They. Do that there were front. Squats in the open and we're missing one.

We're not talking about 95 LB Front squats the whole freaking time Chase. We're talking about escalating front squats, right? Just like like the thruster went up weight 95135 one 85, I only went up to 185 one 15135 that one year. We're talking about escalating heavy front squats, OK, where the front squats are 225 plus. The first squats also weren't the limiter in that workout. They weren't. No, they weren't. It didn't matter. Almost. We're saying that's the weight escalation.

That's going to be the crux of the workout. If you can't keep up chase, then stay on your own show. What do you know anyway, Chase? There you go, T Bird. I'm sure Chase thinks you he'll he'll probably been with you that 219. Canadian. Yeah, WAD Zombie 351 starting to watch. So appreciate you guys joining. If you haven't been here before, if you have or have not yet subscribed, go ahead and do that

now. Earlier, I guess it was yesterday I wrote an article 11 women from the games last year are not competing as individuals. That was actually this morning I wrote it. I can't even remember what what day it is. It's Time's moving. Fast now it's wild. So yeah, I went through the 40 women. Eleven of them are not competing this year.

Last year there were 11 rookies that made it to the games, and now we already know that there will be 11 new athletes competing next year, that we're not there last year. So Emma Carey, she just God called her to not compete any Thor's daughter's pregnant. Jamie Simmons's team. Kelly Baker, Shirley is trying to get pregnant. Christine, Colin Brander and Alexia Williams are both injured. Matilda Garnes and Ella Winger

are going team. Michelle Baznay and Shahad Buddebs did not register for the Open. I don't know why either of them did not. And then Emily Deroy is going team. That's a lot of turnover do I mean I think we we we know obviously Tia coming back. Haley's probably going to come back but you also have Brooke coming back. Brooke Wells, I think we're going to see, first of all, going back to the number of athletes who qualify out of North America East. I just named 3.

Coming back in North America East. You also add Bailey rail. She's gonna she's now in the North America East. She's not in the West anymore. Freya Mooseberger is also in the East, if I recall correctly. So like the East is stacked and they are not going to get that. They're not going to get more than one extra spot unless something goes crazy in the top 100 and you have all these athletes coming out that are going to be not going

individual. Like it's going to be a completely different field than it was last year, which I think it's kind of. That's how you it's not looking good for my pick of there will be the same 50% that goes to the games. No, it will not be. It will not be. Definitely will be different. And then on the men's side, there's only three Chandler, Noah and our boy Jason Smith out of Africa, so. Your your boy. That is it.

So I thought that was interesting. 11. I've I've also heard rumblings that there might be somebody, some other woman going team. I've not been able to figure that out yet, but. We'll see. We'll see, but yeah, we'll see. You'll know it here first, folks. That's right on the barbell. That's all I had for the news. Anything else sticks out If you guys have not watched it go to coffee pods and wads. He did a great 24.1 video couple days ago.

We put put that out there and then get with the programming has their own system for how they think the games allocations that go and that was this afternoon. That'll be really exciting week two to watch. John was on there, gave his insight with Pedro along with Jason. Bill, I think we jumped the gun of what that's going to look like. I think John's right. It's going to change significantly in Week 2. Not even close. So. It is fun to look at.

Just the fact that if it ended today, the women in the West would only get 5 slots is crazy. And the fact that like and I know it will balance out, but the fact that like it swings like that, if this was the case, the the Open would matter. Like that's the thing. Everybody wants to know if the

Open would matter. Dude. If you see that everybody is trying as hard as they can and that work out, it's not like they're going to maybe they don't redo it, but nobody like, you know, Rich was like I thought about jumping up, but then it was like I just don't want to. That wouldn't be anybody that's that's trying to go to the games. You know what I mean? That would. Not Yeah. You want that extra spot. Prerogative, right? Yeah. And then you have the hardest thing I see about all that I

love. That scenario is how CrossFit actually manages it, right? Like how many people would try to start gaming the system thinking that they weren't going to get caught on the open workouts? Oh, that's a great point. Right, like we we saw plenty of burpees that were not to the standard. Like mean for the open to matter, you sort of have to risk that, don't you? Right, right. I love it. I love how it really pushes you.

Like look at North America West. I think it was what 6 would only come after the first work week and you got Maderos, Velner, Fakowski. Kwan, it was seven. It was 7 and like seven. Yeah, and Bill made the greatest point ever. Like 7 guys got to go out of the West after this workout and the guy that doesn't get to go now is Colton Mertens, the guy after this workout. This workout's the reason Colton does not go to the games and he set the world record in this workout by over 20 seconds.

Yeah, yeah. Seven for the men, Ella West, and five for the women, that is. I'll be curious to see how it plays out the rest of the time. I know that they went back last year and looked at it and like you can kind of see how the season has progressed and kind of expect it Like this year you it's more interesting as you watch it week by week to see what that's going to look like in real time and you see those athletes who are. Maybe we paid a little bit more

attention. Again, like I know it's not the official way to qualify, but you know, go check out those athletes in the top 100 and ten 90th to 110 and just think about how important it would be to have a great workout in 24.2 and then how much more it would be in 24.3. Get with the programming. We talked about it the whole show, Chase. We all agreed on what it was going to be and that's going to swing everything.

Look, America is strong. We are not as fit cardiovascularly as your as Europe. But we're freaking strong and the rest of the world is weak. We proved that in every World War. OK, just wait. May have this chase F John's number every time. Well guys, it is now time for the next edition of the Blind Rankings. What? I don't. I don't sell out. What are you talking about? I wore. That yesterday, and it was so clutched I took a nap at 3:00 in the in the.

In the middle of the day. Yeah, on my couch, and it was pitch black. Man's asleep. Go check them out. We'll have your discount code for you here very shortly, I can promise you that. Here we go. Blind rankings. Let me get it pulled up here. All right. Any guesses on what we're going to be talking about? John Young's most famous quotes Stop. It stop it. You saw it on one of the the 20 the in the in the news the last cover photo you had John Rollins. Now the question is who should

announce 24.3? Seth Rollins. Yeah, back-to-back. Just do it. I I already know my number one. I think we're going to agree on #1. So we're a Save him, OK? I don't know the number one. Oh, we so agree on #1. They are CrossFit people. Just, I mean, he's going to say the names. Could be anybody. Could be anybody They I will give you this hint they they touch CrossFit somehow. OK, so it's not it's not going to be Rich Froning. I will tell you that right now.

Here we go Post Malone 5. He would have great exposure. I would say I'm going to say 4. I'll I'll seed 4. It would be great if. He He's a good friend of Dave's, so. You're telling me if freaking Nikki comes up here, we're not? We're going to put her above Post Malone? No, I'm going to put her on five. Oh shit, I didn't think about that. You. Know what I'm saying? Like POST Malone 4. All right. You 4 you good with that, Tyler.

Yeah, you guys hedging, hedging in case somebody else is worse than Post Malone, Rick Ross, Oh, it's. Like a two. It'd be terrible PR for us given his history, but it would be great. Wait, how does he how does he touch? CrossFit. The video was sev on. He started CrossFit. It was like 2017. It was when Garrett Fisher was. He was. Garrett Fisher moved to Miami, trained him, made him lose, got him to lose like what, 50 to 100 lbs.

And then Savon went out there made a a video for it and then I think Rick Ross gained all the weight back and. The most Garrett stopped. I'm. Sorry, I I I. Didn't know about it. Ruined Garrett's career, yeah. It was. I'm going to say 3. It was good content for CrossFit and then yeah, and now he made the most announced 24.3. The most uncomfortable you've ever seen Savon in his entire life is in that house with Rick Ross. You have to watch the video in some.

Ways more uncomfortable than the lunar the lunar guy. Oh yeah, Sevon handled that. Like Sevon handled that guy like a champ. But Rick. Just let him talk. Sevon got gummed up. It was, like, weird. You could tell he didn't know. Like how to act. Ross fit. Yeah, Ross. Fit. That's right. Let's let's go with three because, I mean, there's got to be good people. Like there's has to be good people.

He had a nutrition three's good, He had a nutritionist, and it was hilarious because she was making stuff and she was explaining it all and he goes, she'd be making me eat pears and shit. He had never heard of a pear. Yeah, you guys have to go back, go to, go to the YouTube, go search Ross fit. And it is a great, great video. All right, next one. Max Greenfield. He shot me for all you all you New Girl.

Should he come back? I I would say 2. I I would almost say one because he's so animated. Who? Beats Max Max Tyson Beijing beats Max Greenfield. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Max Max Greenfield beats Tyson. I don't think so. New Girl is way bigger. Max Greenfield is way more animated. New girls? No one knows. In the NFL, he's not nearly as big as Schmidt is in the world. Period. I I agree with you. I agree with you because. Yeah.

God, but if you have not seen New Girl, you don't know who. This guy, you have no idea who he is. Then watch Freaking New Girl. OK, OK. Hey, hey, hey, hey. I honestly, I love New Girl. I've watched the whole thing twice. But here's what I'm going to say. I bet you in the CrossFit community, more people know Tyson Bajan's name than Max Greenfield. I OK. What did you say too? Well, I didn't too. Fuck it. Too. Now if Tyson doesn't come up, I apologize because. We screwed ourselves.

We got A1 and A55. Here we go, Donald Trump Junior, The best, best politician to ever do Murph. We have to do 5 because CrossFit would be shut down immediately. This also this would never happen. Could not, Would not. Emily would roll over in her grave if Donald Trump junior he approached her. Wait immediately at people would be reaching out to CrossFit trying to revoke their their open sign up #1. I agree with you. I agree with you. I agree with you. I I think we have to go 5, which

puts us in a corner. It's like the worst list of all time he. Screwed us over. He screwed us over. I I I can feel it. Come on, Tyson. Come on, Tyson. It is not Tyson. Oh God. This person was around CrossFit back in 2017. Is this the RAW of Earth Guy the? Guy It is the only. Butthole. That would be a great. Open. No, no. She dated another guy who liked CrossFit, who was a different athlete. Emily Abbott. No, Miss Danica Patrick. Oh, good, that was not. Bad.

I'm fine with that, GoDaddy. Go get it, GoDaddy. Here's in the GoDaddy car. Yeah. Yeah. Would you? What would you change? I would put Max 1st and then and then. No respect. I get no respect. Mitchell, Matt. Wealthy, Wealthy. This is an awful list. And then I put, I put Dan a second. I think I put POST Malone third. Rick Ross at 4:00. And then wasted Post Malone Rick Ross. Five. And then Donald Trump, junior four. Do you like Post Malone?

Do you listen to him at all? Yeah, I think he is. I like. I like his songs. I think listen to like 2. I I have fall apart in my like 5K list and I always run really fast to it because he's he's telling me, he's telling me I'm falling apart and I am falling apart and it makes me run faster. And I love playing it in the middle of workouts because everybody's dying and then they listen to like you know that song and they all go slower and I start getting faster.

It works out great. How about this one? Would you rather have Taylor Swift just for the views? Taylor Swift. No, the amount. Of #1. Listen here, the amount of people that Taylor Swift would bring to CrossFit, that that should be #1. It doesn't matter what you think about her. It doesn't matter what you think of Travis Kelsey. If Taylor Swift did an announcement, the amount of people it would bring into CrossFit would be unlike anything unlike anything we've

ever seen. Who would Taylor need to start dating to bring them in the Swifties into CrossFit? I wouldn't wish that on anybody, CrossFit, even Nikki. Who would Taylor? What do you mean? Who would Taylor have to date? To get the same same kind of Travis Kelsey thing, yeah. Who would she date? Yeah, I'm trying to think of somebody worthy. Conn Porter. That'd be a wild That's like Katy Perry and oh freaking what's his name from? Bray. Russell. Bran. Yeah, Russell Bran.

That's like when they were together. Who? Who do you think? I think Taylor and Conn make a good couple used. To be I I agree with Lynn here. James Newberry. Which is all. Also, how old is Taylor Swift? She's like 30 something. Zero clue. Because I was thinking James Sprague, but that would be a little odd. He just got engaged, so I don't think. I think he's off the market. Well, I mean, I'm just speaking off. You're just just in general. Yeah, 34.

OK, it's got to be older. Josh Bridges. That would be a cute couple. Taylor Towers over Josh. Are you kidding me? I don't know. Josh would still get more camera time than Taylor. I think he'd get out in front of it. Like Josh has to get on his tip toes to give her a kiss. You telling me like, Sevon would eat that stuff up? Oh my goodness, that's it. Josh Bridges and Taylor Swift. That would be the power couple of all of CrossFit. We we know he's married. Everybody's married but.

Everybody's married. This is our fake, hypothetical, fake, fake, hypothetical way to get Swifties doing CrossFit. There'll be a lot of drop insurance for like, CrossFit gyms in Nashville with all The Bachelorette parties and stuff. Yeah, that's good. We're doing that. All right, there you go. Blind rankings. You guys weren't weren't so hot this time. Sorry, dude. You. Gave us like some trash people though, like we didn't have a lot to. Choose from I liked I liked a

lot of them. Last one bet with the boys. We will have a tally next week to see how we're doing, but until then we are going to go play along with the Heat One app. So 24.2 voting is now open. You can go make your picks, go out there and play is Will Branson are still first place. He is. Man, that's crazy to me. Dude, he is on one man. I don't know what he's. Doing this game's different because like usually I'm not doing that well and I'm in 3rd right now. I my favorite game so far.

This game, this game stays. For sure it's early, it's only been one week, so yeah. But the bulk of the points will come from Week 1. Because it dwindles down each week, we're not going to add in a bunch of. Stuff. Oh, it should be worth more points as you get to the finals, just like March Madness. Should should double it up. Yeah. I think I think it should be worth more and more as as you go on. Oh, each selection that that could be cool. That's how March Madness works.

Adam, Adam is yelling at you as we are less than 24 hours away from it. It could be cool to do like the same amount of points each week, but they get dispersed across less and less pieces. Let's basically what happens when you double it. Yeah, yeah. Adam, if you're watching, go ahead and change it. Aaron, go do some video it gets. To. Work at all the points. Acting like you do some stuff. Gosh. Right. What zombie Can we submit blind ranking categories? Yes. Oh, please do I I would love

that. Yeah, send them, send them to my to mine. Because I do not share these with Jon or Tyler at all. They have zero idea what the topic is going into it so they have zero chance to prepare. So just send it to if you have it to the the barbell spin and I'll and I'll see it. So yeah, I may pick the the five things just to throw them off, but you know, ideas are. Good. Just let them be able to. Submit the five things too, and then if you like it. I could pick. I could pick and choose.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, send, send, whatever. We'll see what, what, what's good? I'm sure Wad Zombie will have some. Oh, he'll have good ones. Interesting ones about. 8/8 of them we can't talk about, I'm sure. Right. Do some some touchy stuff and spins over. Here, yeah, we'll see. We'll see. We're edgy. We're edgy, TMZ style. Burnout. Biggest burnout? Is the TMZ style news so? Rick Ross is still on the top of the biggest burnout. Right, right.

Here we go. First one you can bet on the Heat one app is 24.2. A repeat Tyler. Smart money says no, but I'm going with a yes John third bro. I'm going to say no. I agree with John. It is not going to be a repeat. I think it may be a playoff of one we've seen before, but I don't think it'll be a repeat this year. Next one Taylor Self or Jason

Hopper? John. It's since we think it's going to be waits, I'm going to say hopper and we think it's going to be rowing, at least like you know I and chasing Bill does, I'm going to say hopper. Blind. I'm saying, Taylor, if it has squatting, this is where it's like I pull the John Young and I wait for the announcement. If it's got squatting, I'm I'm playing Hopper, is it? I mean that's. If it's just, does it have to be A and not just block means?

Yeah. Does it have to be a high weight or is it just any squatting like if it was? Any squatting? I don't know that. Maybe if it were, if it were 95, I'd be OK. But I know Taylor. 'S good all the way up to like 225. I know he's going to be protective of his knee and that's going to eat in the back of his mind the whole time. So yeah, that's the only reason I would bet against Taylor. Yeah, that's a tough one for him, especially if it starts getting heavy squat cleans.

I'm going to say there aren't squat cleans, so I'm going to go with Taylor, even though the minute that the workout announces, I could be wrong. But for now, for the official event with the boys, I'm going with Taylor. All right, now we're back to the brackets, which mine was busted pretty early. Ricky got beat by Dallin. That one hurt. So I think, I think Dallin had the, the benefit of going against Taylor.

Yeah, like having somebody to pace you go next to have the audience cheering for you, and then Ricky just did it as. Yeah, that's fine. That's the only reason you lost you're. Good it is 100%. I did call Jay Crouch and Roman Krenikoff in mind, but they both now face off in the second round. Jay Crouch or Roman Krenikoff? Jay Blind Jay. I'm. Going to say Roman. I'm sticking them with my bracket. I'm going with Roman as well. If there is rowing, Roman's got

them. Yeah, I'm going to change it if there's rowing, but like, dude, Jay's so good at the Open. Plus, it's 140 points over 90. I can't. I can't. I can't beat that deal. That's a damn. You get it wrong if you get it doesn't matter if you get it wrong, you still get 0. So there is no difference on that on one of the most interesting picks, Koski, Velner or Pepper.

What happened, Tyler? They tied friggin I I am so disappointed that there wasn't a tie break that they didn't post a tie break as part of your submission score, which they easily should have done so. Who are you more disappointed in, Velner or Koski? Neither. It's a good score. 6 O one's fine, yeah, I wasn't disappointed. Where you? I thought. Koski would be faster than. I thought Koski would be faster than Mountain Mountain. I think Mountain's burpees are tier one.

He's so bouncy like any any like jumping over and over like Pat's one of the best ones. Like he's every single like any open with burpees, any CrossFit games with box jumps. Like any kind of jumping Pat is just top level. Yeah, so he got Tyler. I'm going with Dallin every day of the week. Keep going with him. All the way he's going to the end with me. You didn't go with Dallin last week, but that's OK. That's against Taylor. That's a different thing.

It's not in the bracket. I'm going with Dallin. I believe in you, Dallin, Unlike these other fools. I'm going with Dallin as well, man, that one's a it's a wash just like we did. We we did 24.2 couple weeks ago. We all picked Colton against Maderos. So those are sticking Danielle Brandon, who beat Laura Horvath, or Emma Lawson. I'm going with Emma Lawson. I'm going with Emma Lawson. I'm going to go Danielle Brandon. All right. Is that a? Is that a brute pick or is that?

It's not a brute pick. If it's heavy, squat cleans like you said. If it's not squat, cleans, and it's just cleans. I said cleans. I think Danielle Brandon will power everything and she's one of the best power lifter. Like, you know, power cleans, power snatches in the field. If it's squat, I'll change my pit. If squat. But I'm, I'm like, blind. I'm going to say Danielle Brandon. I also should have talked about

the percentages. So only 30% of people think that it's going to be a repeat 49. So essentially 5050 Taylor versus Jason, 46% for Jay over Roman or well, so I guess Roman takes the over 54%, Dallin takes 45% of the votes, Pat, Pat has 49 and Kowski only has 2% of the votes right now. Oh man. Oh. That's like the lowest I've seen. It how many points does. Kowski get if you If you pick

Kowski, how many points did. You 130 pepper gets. 120, that is he like, you need to move that to like 250 into yeah, yeah, yeah, get people to start picking them. Danielle Brandon has 22% of the picks right now at 140 points for her. So she's getting beat pretty bad by Emma, yeah? And the last one? A early matchup of 24.3 Ariel Lowen versus Tia Claire Toomey or. Which do like if if Tia only if we only gave Tia her first do, like our first attempt. Which score? You know who's winning?

I'm going with Tia, sorry. I'll. Go with Ariel. I think I'm going with Ariel too. Why everything we've talked about? Who had The Who had the better 24.1 time? By a lot. Who doesn't want their wrist to get worse right now? By a lot. Right. Like if you're doing heavy squat, cleans. All right. This is 24.3. Like. This is gymnastics, right? Or is this 24.2 or 24 point? Two, this is this week 24.2. It's just the early matchup of the two. I I just think that. I don't.

I'm like, oh I. Don't even know what we're talking about. I thought we were talking about 24.3 on that one because that's the announcement, right? Yeah, this is this. They they match up in the bracket a week earlier. It's hard to pick against squatting with TF. I think I'm going to pick TF. So you're heavy on the protecting yourself. I am, yes. All right. I might change my mind too. It makes a lot. She was not great. I will say.

I don't think. She gets 100 over Tia getting 80 so. It's not a lot. It's not a lot. I was hoping for 1:30. And like, again, just getting it right matters. That's all that matters to getting it right. You're right. You're right. You're right. I'm going to roll the aerial. I'm going to roll the aerial. Yeah, I'm sticking with Ariel. She beat her in the first workout.

She could do it again. I get the the squatting piece of it, but if she has to hold that to a front rack if there is front squats if it is heavy cleans. It'll slow her down. Could it? Could it slow? Could she just be slower? Maybe she doesn't finish it if she doesn't have to. Yeah, she really doesn't have to, right? Like she could literally get to the one or two bars before that and still hit top 25% and just move on.

So something like that happens. It is definitely going to Ariel and Ariel could still I think Peter potentially anyway depending what else is in there, so. I didn't change any of my boats last week. Basically everything that I picked before I I didn't change. This week is totally opposite. I will be heavy thinking about the matchups and all that. I guess the. Only I I did not change it. Probably should have, but I stuck with all what I'd already picked.

Well, that's it. Tomorrow was it. 1:30 Central Time, 2:30 Eastern, the live show begins. And then 30 minutes later at 3:00 PM Eastern noon Pacific, the workout announcement by Seth Rollins happens and we'll find out if we are right or wrong, what what the chess piece was before we head off. John, any anybody to brag about on JY Barbell? Nope. Nothing. Just just working. Everybody's working, yeah. It's mid cycle.

Yeah, we're, yeah, no, we're just starting up, starting back up with a lot of people and it's open quarter finals time. So we're kind of taking a break from a lot. A lot of my people are taking a break from lifting that, focus on that. And after quarter finals, we'll start a new cycle. Oh, this is breaking. Hold on, hold on. Will Branstetter is picking Tia, so if you want points, follow his lead. Number one in the Heat One app right now.

And also, if you also pick Tia and you both miss, you both get the same amount of points too. So I think it's maybe a little bit of strategy there of trying to convince you to pick the same as him. Yeah. Do you listen? Do you listen to Will at all this week in his analytics or is it all is it all to dupe you? Right. Yeah. He just wants you to match. If you all match him, you still score the same amount of points. That's it. It's a trick. That's a beautiful. Strategy. Honestly, it is.

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So just go play. So go out there, Heat one, go follow their Instagram, go check out their YouTube channel, go check out their Watapalooza near the scenes and go play Heat One. Maybe you'll win a Go Wad prize package. Yep, amazing prizes. So there you go. You'll actually get them. Whitney Davis would see you watch it. If Taylor Swift did it, maybe she's maybe she meant would not watch it. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, probably not. Probably.

Not such a liar, Whitney. You would watch it so hard. 100%. Don't lie. Don't lie, Whitney. You would watch it and you would be singing the songs, OK? Vindicate's asking who the T-shirt winners were. It's you. We're pulling those now. Those are random, still got to pull those. So thank you vindicate. There we go. Get those out ASAP. The shirts by vindicate, so go check out vindicate.com. I think there might still be some barbell spin shirts too.

So there are. So go check out, see if go clear that inventory out. Maybe we'll make some more. Linda, Jerry Holyish. That's a really good prize. So there you go. You can't lose if you don't play. That's not the right way to do it. But all right guys, we'll be back next week recap 24.2 and take a look at the final week of the CrossFit Open. Bye, bye.