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Misfit Podcast
Open Program: Season Structure - E.341
The Misfit Podcast dives into a crucial episode filled with laughter, reflection, and actionable insights for athletes and sports enthusiasts alike. In the show, we start off with life updates from our hosts, showcasing a relatable sense of camaraderie and familiarity. These updates serve as the backdrop for discussing our missteps regarding Super Bowl predictions, where we openly admit our failures. This honest dialogue not only entertains but also underscores the importance of humility in sports.
As the conversation progresses, we shift our focus to the Fittest of the Coast competition. This event serves as a gateway for discussing fitness programming and athlete paths. Our insights into how competitions are structured will prove invaluable for those preparing for future events. We analyze the workout programming and the expectations for both Hatchet and Masters athletes. Providing listeners with a clear understanding of what to expect enables them to tailor their training appropriately. One of the standout moments in this section comes from our analysis of what constitutes effective programming—especially in the context of competition. Here, we explore the significance of longer workouts versus quick, stamina-building sessions, emphasizing how important it is for athletes to have well-rounded capabilities.
Furthermore, the episode tackles the challenges that arise from competition realities. We discuss how competitions often favor particular skill sets, specifically the prevalence of pulling gymnastics or short workout formats. There’s a push for event organizers to create a diverse range of workout styles, allowing athletes to showcase their full physical capabilities. This segment highlights the ongoing conversation around equity in fitness and the experience of varying levels of competition.
The episode wraps up with a discussion on programming schedules, emphasizing the shifts occurring during the Open season. Listeners can look forward to practical advice on how to manage their training throughout the Open, including how to maintain peak performance. The relationships built within the Misfit community are echoed in our advice to balance competition and personal practice, allowing sports enthusiasts to grow and thrive effectively.
Ultimately, this podcast episode is a testament to the vibrant spirit of the Misfit community—fueling passion, enhancing fitness, and sharing experiences. The team encourages listeners to stay connected, sign up for programming updates, and above all: keep the misfit spirit alive. With insights on everything from sports predictions to competitive programming, there's truly something for everyone in this jam-packed episode.
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Speaker 2:Biggest bunch of misfits I ever said either podcast. On today's episode we will go over our horrendous Super Bowl predictions We'll be obviously a week behind because of recording. Talk a little bit about Fittest of the Coast, go through our open programming schedule, what you can expect on our Hatchet and Masters programs, and then a little bit about what your path will look like as a hatchet or masters athlete for the rest of the season. Uh, before we get into that, as always we start with life, chat, hunter, seb. What's going on?
Speaker 2:I bought the irons yeah, you did, yeah, you did. Come on, of course, yeah yeah, that's and that's.
Speaker 3:That's my life chat and that's my life do you?
Speaker 2:did you get to take him to the simulator yet?
Speaker 3:Did I no, so there, uh, I don't remember exactly what was no, so it wouldn't have been. So here's the timeline. Uh, last Tuesday, which is two Tuesdays ago, on recording, but last Tuesday after work, I went to a local fitter named Club Champion, which is like one of the better places where you can go get a fitting done for golf equipment. But, as I learned, it's also one of the best places that you can potentially waste a shitload of money for something that you don't necessarily need to, because after so it's an hour and a half and they they do a lot more than you would typically do at like golf and ski or god forbid like dick sporting goods, something like that. So it's actually like a pretty thorough process. They have a lot of like custom things to choose from, things like shafts and, um, they can make adjustments on the fly. So so they're not just kind of guessing what you're you know you need. They can actually make adjustments that other places can't. So there's an advantage there.
Speaker 3:At the end of it, the dude's printing off the purchase order, which I have not committed to, but is printing off the purchase order. Oh, fun fact, he went to Scarborough. Kid I worked with went to Scarborough High School. How old, which, for the listeners, I think he was 2013,. So he's even younger than me Fuck off.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he prints it off and is going over line by line kind of item. It's like here's the cost for the club heads, here's the X, y and Z and this and I'm looking, looking, I'm like what is this number? So? So that's, that's three zero, that's that's more zeros than I expected. There's three zeros behind that one. One thousand dollars and it, I'm looking at it and it's like one thousand dollar customization fee. I'm like okay, like uh, what can you go on. And he's just like, yeah, so like the like you could, so you could take the specifications here, go directly to TaylorMadecom and you could input them into the. I could, basically I could give TaylorMade these specifications and that is part of the price for tailor-made. Like they don't charge, upcharge you for a customization if you, if I can input it. So I need shorter shafts because my long, my arms are long, I need a little bit of a lie adjustment, a loft adjustment. So there's a couple of tweaks that need to be made.
Speaker 3:But he's, the justification from club champion is that, well, we build these clubs by hand, one at a time, and so we can guarantee the tightest tolerances, like based on what, what you're, you know you're, we're going to guarantee that you're going to hit the exact same thing that you're swinging today? We can't. You can't guarantee that with like from the manufacturer. And I'm like, and I'm like oh, like, ok, so you're telling me TaylorMade is going to send me fucked up shit. Like, if TaylorMade sends me fucked up shit, I'm going to, I'm going to contact TaylorMade and tell them they sent me fucked up shit. And it's like yeah, but like the we, we just like. We make sure that. Like, it's what you're paying for and I'm like this is this is one thousand dollars to assemble these clubs here, as opposed to zero dollars from taylor made and I'm still gonna take the clubs somewhere to get, like to make sure the measurements are actually correct.
Speaker 3:And you can actually you can take clubs somewhere and have them bend, you know, to adjust the lie or just the loft because realistically, like sometimes custom orders, like even though they're custom, they will be off by like a degree or two, which doesn't sound like much, but actually which kind of matters. But it's like I could take the entire set to golf and ski and they could adjust every single club for $40 total, which is effectively nothing when it comes to the how much you're paying for the. You know the total set. So I happily paid for the fitting, took my specifications and ordered directly through TaylorMade and, um, I'm going to believe the UP or the FedEx tracking info that says they're here this week. My heart says I probably won't see them until next week.
Speaker 2:Dude, that's like the level of. As a kid you ordered your Charlotte Hornets starter jacket from JCPenney and you're just like God. Will this thing show up? You know how fucking cool, I'm going to be at recess. You've got to get this thing here.
Speaker 3:I cannot wait to promptly shoot 110 with those things. Yeah, I was talking to will one of our members about that, uh, this morning and he he saw me like looking at my phone after we finished class and he was like they're not gonna get here any sooner if you keep hitting refresh I'm like they might you know yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't do uh the check shipping information on too many products anymore as a grown adult, like I did as a kid, but but this one, uh, yeah.
Speaker 2:I got that I like buying snowboards, um, so there was an amount of times that I had to go again before I was allowed to buy it, and it was the same thing I was just like come on get here, which is crazy because, like you don't just like strap that bitch on and like go off onto the lawn like right, yeah, you got to plan your next time to go, but I just had to have it there, get the bindings on it stare at it yeah, yeah, sleep, take a nap with it.
Speaker 3:Cuddle, cuddle up with it. Get a couple of dry swings in the uh in the apartment, yeah, Fuck yeah.
Speaker 1:What you got Seb Um dude. It's baseball season, you know. After the.
Speaker 3:Super.
Speaker 1:Bowl. It's it's. It's time to watch the Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3:It is not baseball season. No, it is it is.
Speaker 1:There's nothing getting me through sports-wise on TV on Sundays now, so I have to live for the Dodgers when they start.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a big baseball guy but, much to the happiness of Seb, the Red Sox trading Mookie was close to the final straw for me. Like, yeah, the fact that you could get rid of a guy like that, I just I still can't wrap my mind around that. And he and seb gets to have him on his fucking all-star team out there. So I I think the new yankees.
Speaker 1:The first week I started working here it was uh or no, it or no, it was. It was. I was, I hadn't started, but we were talking about the world series Cause it was about to start. And you're like, just so you know, I'm rooting for the Dodgers because, like I hate the Yankees and I was like, I was like cool, and then at some point you're like, but you owe me your life for Mookie Betts, and I was like I was's, like I do, but you know, like I, I'll just I'll work, I'll work, you know, my entire time here in debt to you and mookie bets.
Speaker 2:Yep, yeah, every performance review will have, but have you surpassed mookie bets? Oh, um, I got, so you stopped me if you guys have heard this story before, but, um, last night was a pretty good travel adversity training situation and it was one of those ones where there were like signs. You know how, when travel like something tiny goes wrong, you know that's the beginning of something really fantastic, yep.
Speaker 2:So we get on the plane. I flew from Charleston, south Carolina, to to LaGuardia. Um, get on the plane at LaGuardia and the guy's like there's someone parked behind us and we can't, we can't back out. It's like all right, it's like it's only going to be a couple of minutes, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 2:Like a sedan, or like a yeah, yeah, someone with a handicap sticker is parked behind you In his van. And then it was one of the knobs was broken and once you, the pilots are allowed to fix it, but then someone has to put a sticker on it to say that it's fixed. And he literally told us he goes, the knob doesn't do anything, like I don't want you guys to think there's something wrong with the plane. The knob does not do anything at all. And I'm like well, okay, great, um, then we're sitting there for a while, which isn't weird.
Speaker 2:At LaGuardia, like when you fly from, uh, new York city airport to Portland Maine, it says like an hour and a half or two hours and it's like a 45 minute flight because you, just you get stuck in those places, flight because you, just you get stuck in those places. So in this long line of planes, and he comes out and he's like there is a radio outage in new york city, all flights are grounded, we, no one is leaving. What he's like, yeah, that they like, and there's like he was like air traffic control.
Speaker 2:They can't talk to anybody. Yeah, and he's like we're trying to work out a situation where we're allowed to fly lower and go through, like fly over Boston instead of Burlington, vermont, and I, and he's like, but everyone's going to try that tactic, so we'll see what happens. Like we're working on it. And he, he didn't have like the greatest, like bedside manner, because he goes. We're allowed to sit here for three hours, so we're fine, and everyone's like. It's like, dude, don't say that. And then he goes. Oh, and also we have like the, the the crew has like nine hours, so we're going to Maine tonight, no matter what, and everyone's like on the plane, the fuck. So we sit there for a long time. Then he comes back on and he's like radio's good to go um, but we're, but five minutes, like the.
Speaker 2:That's how long you have to let the plane fly away. Before, and we were number 10, so that's an extra 50 after sitting there for however long and this happens all the time we get to maine at whatever one something in the morning. It's supposed to get there at 10 30 and there's no one to. There's no one there to like let us into the airport. So we just sat there for fucking ever to finally get there. Like plane just sits there. Um, the worst part of this hasn't happened yet, by the way. Um, so finally get in, get into the airport, and I'm walking outside and I see the parking lot and I remember that there have been two snow storms since we left about a I don't know a foot and a half.
Speaker 2:Like it was a lot hunter, you would know better than me, but like there was a lot of fucking snow I mean, yeah, you got the two, it wasn't all all at once.
Speaker 3:But yes, yeah, there's not zero snow out there and they didn't plow around your truck, whatever.
Speaker 2:Half of yeah, exactly half of the cars are snowed in. So I get over to mine and none of the cars next to me had left yet. So, like, up, like just below the knee, I'm wearing my fucking air max 90s, my fucking joggers, holy fuck, pushing, I'm pushing my suitcase through the snow to try and like create a little bit of a and I'm doing the thing where you like you've got your like right foot in a hole so you put your left foot on the like railing and try to like, like pull yourself into the car um and it was two degrees.
Speaker 2:So getting the ice and snow, because it it all, all of that snow had frozen like ton of ice. So I was there for another I don't know 30 minutes, getting all like just being able to get, and and honestly, the way that I drove from my parking spot just out into the open so that I could do a little bit of a better job was very unsafe, it's like it was like you can't see six inches of visibility, but then the frozen snow on my hood was like like super high, holy fuck.
Speaker 2:It's fucking, it was good times. It was good times. You gotta fucking love it.
Speaker 3:How, what? I don't understand. What do you mean? Like they lock the airport, like yep, no one's coming. Like shut down. Has that happened to you?
Speaker 2:yet when you get there when you get there, when you get there beyond, so they obviously keep staff there, but beyond when the scheduled flights are, that place is a fucking ghost town, so like yeah, I mean, I know multiple, if multiple situations like that happen, there's no one to bring the jet bridge out or to wave you in or any of that shit and like they do not let you like, just based on like aviation standards and shit. They don't, they don't let anything slide with that stuff.
Speaker 3:So the pilots just fucking sit there.
Speaker 1:Yes, jesus christ just just kept going radio and just like get fucking bob to bring the jet bridge over here and like oh, holy fuck yeah.
Speaker 2:Damn.
Speaker 3:So you well, at least you got a parking spot at the airport, or was this the long long term lot?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3:I no garage space though.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, I wasn't smart enough to to do that, yeah.
Speaker 3:I probably was. It was like Definitely not Get my wasn't smart enough to to do that.
Speaker 2:I probably would it was like definitely not get my ass in there. Yeah, yeah, yep. And then and to, to make a long story like way longer for no reason, I finally brought a carry-on on the way there instead of checking does. Yeah, it doesn't want me to. They checked my fucking bag at at at JFK. They were like we've already put 24 bags on the plane. Once we put 24 bags on the plane, we have to check the rest of them.
Speaker 1:Does Delta board by groups?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a straggler, See, I didn't know. Like that's part of the game. If you want to, if you want to carry on, you gotta be ready. You gotta be ready to rock. Nah, nah, dude Fucking Hunter goes full marine mode. He shows up in a fucking ninja suit with a baklava over his head. He's not holding anything. He's like yeah, I have everything I need. You're like the fuck. You're going away for a month and you've got a backpack month and you've got a backpack.
Speaker 3:I do not fuck with checked bags like I just don't trust it. I don't know why. I just assume it's not going to get there. It's going to take six hours for it to spit out at the airport that it gets mad, not not pulling it out.
Speaker 2:Pulling it out last night and being able to leave immediately to then fill my shoes with snow and ice was that was nice. That was nice because, like that moment, because, for for the listeners, when you fly into portland, maine, if you don't want to spend a thousand bucks for a flight to fucking charleston, you get in at 11 or 12 pm every fucking time. Um, so being able to like that brought me back around a little, but on the way there I was pissed, and part of the reason I was pissed is because the woman who was explaining it to me wouldn't respond to me. I think she had had enough of human beings that day. I was like so so I I can't just go see if there's a thing? And she just stared at me. She didn't say a word. I was like what is? Why isn't she responding to me? The guy's like I'm fucking out like all right, good stuff, love this butter and rice.
Speaker 3:Oh, you guys are too polite.
Speaker 1:I just walk in when they're like yeah, I was gonna say I don't like I'll give it back.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm not. Yeah, you don't have an option. Like you're not. You're not taking my bag. Like that's not how this works.
Speaker 2:Like I'm always like I'm a binary guy. I'm either very polite or a real fucking problem, and I haven't been a real problem in a very long time. I was a real problem for the first like 16, 17 years of my life, so I just I've put enough of that out into the universe. Um, so I'm like extremely polite but I can be if I'm nudged over the edge. I think I'd probably end up on fucking tmz or something.
Speaker 3:I'm. I'm similar, but I'm reversed. I was. I was very, not a problem for the first 18 years of my life.
Speaker 2:So as I've gotten older. There's a problem by default, and if you're nice to him, he'll be nice back correct.
Speaker 3:Yeah, basically that's kind of how it works, oh that's good.
Speaker 2:I love that. Uh, boys, we didn't do so well in our super bowl predictions that big ouchy boys, big ouchy for.
Speaker 3:Uh, that was fun. I actually watched most of the game too yeah, you chose the wrong one to watch I mean, there was like there's, there's some.
Speaker 2:If you're like a, if you're a football person or you like watching offensive and defensive line play, like some of that was great. But just yeah, 34, nothing in the super bowl. It's like this really. I was on the, I was on the fucking gram. I'm fucking sitting in my hotel bed just scrolling like okay, cool yeah it's great I'll let.
Speaker 3:I'll let you guys yuck it up about the actual football play, but interested in your takes on the broadcast play, but interested in your takes on the broadcast the commercials and the halftime show.
Speaker 2:I mean I can start too, but I don't know I I wasn't as engaged because of how the game went. I feel like the commercials um didn't hold my attention that well. There were a couple of them where I like chuckled a little bit. Um, but part of part of what I'm doing is texting other degenerate gamblers um during during the break. Um the broadcast I felt like was fine at what. You really could tell that brady liked what was happening. You really could tell that it's like this, this right here will be known as the greatest at least shorter term dynasty ever. And then he's just like ah, turns out this guy sucks so yeah he'd fucking.
Speaker 2:There was a vibe for sure shit yeah, through the occasional show yeah, I'm either the exact right or wrong person to talk to about this. I fucking love kung fu kenny and I felt like that halftime show was for me, right. So, like, who is kung fu kenny?
Speaker 3:is that kendrick?
Speaker 2:kendrick lamar nickname okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, um like silo green it felt, honestly felt like the performance was for me and other people who, like, for instance, he played mostly stuff from GNX, which semifinals prep was written with GNX on loop, so like, yeah, I don't even know if I can get into on here. There's some political elements attached to this and there were some takes online that were so fucking funny to me just because of, like, all I'll say, all I'll say is you people are way too fucking predictable. It bores the hell out of me, like, like you fall in like party line in every possible scenario.
Speaker 2:That you can scenario that you can. So to see the responses from certain people, um, was not surprising to me at all and just further cements my like, like, do you have a single like brain cell, that is, you know you personally control, or do you need your opinions given from other people? Here's what I will say for the general public. I don't know why they never turn their fucking microphones up. I that, like that, and it happens almost every year. Like I'm sitting there, my, my wife get like, likes the halftime show. I normally tell her like hey, you need to be rooting for, you know, travis Kelsey anytime.
Speaker 2:Touchdown things of that nature. I try to keep her involved. Touchdown things of that nature, I try to keep her involved. Um, and I just feel like I remember so many times in the last like five years. What did they say? Like can they turn the mic up in relation to the music? So that was a little bit of a problem. And then the argument that I think is totally fine is when you have rihanna, fucking lady gaga, any of these other, bruno Mars, any of these other people, people can, everyone can kind of play along Like you get excited when you hear a song that you know what it is Um, and that's, I think, what the Superbowl halftime show is supposed to be, or at least that's the expectation of what it is Um. So I do get that side of it like if you tune in like kendrick lamar was almost too niche.
Speaker 3:Like to reach like the broader, not only too niche.
Speaker 2:But he could have played seven other songs that way more people, especially people here at the gym, for instance. There's there's songs that play here of his all the fucking time. But you gave someone who wanted to, who regularly makes political statements and you know, uses his platform for a specific reason and also is like, very like, like he said it. He literally like opened with it like this is the. What did he say? This is the the right time.
Speaker 3:But you picked the right time, pick the wrong guy yeah yeah, and like they chose him they fucking chose I think it's funny that I think the like the political side that you're like. There I saw funny claims of like yeah, you couldn't hear what he was saying because fox, like the fox network, deliberately like turned down his like microphone or whatever it was. And I'm like he's, they, he's still performing on the single biggest televised event like of the year.
Speaker 2:But, um, yeah, I thought I hate the stop hate thing with the Fox thing, with him dedicating an entire Super Bowl set to like fuck you Drake was a so funny to me. There was a lot. There was a lot going on. There's a lot of moving parts there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought the I think, the broadcast thing. The only reason I brought that up is because when I turned it on and to be fair, I like to use, don't like to, I choose to use an illegal stream. So I'm not like watching on YouTube TV and I almost changed like the stream because I was like, is this, is this quiet? Because I'm used to hearing like first off I didn't realize that Joe Buck wasn't doing it this year I'm used to hearing like that kind of that voice, like it's the World Series voice, it's the World Series voice, it's the Super Bowl voice, and I felt like usually the audio from the stadium is louder, but the broadcast was turned down to the point where I was like, is nobody making noise in this building? And it just became clear that the audio wasn't great for the game or I didn't feel like it was great.
Speaker 3:I was not a fan of the commentary to start start, but Brady honestly kind of grew on me. I thought he did. I thought he did a decent job for especially his first like first time and it's the fucking Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:he's gotten a lot better over the season he had like he still fumbles over his words a little bit, but like he's, he obviously knows way more than almost anybody else. Like him and Romo are the guys where you can actually learn something about football if you want to yeah, yeah, and I thought I thought this.
Speaker 3:I thought that you're not the only person. I think I'm in the minority when I said I thought this. I thought a lot of the commercials were fucking hilarious, like seal being a seal ben affleck and ben affleck and matt damon like doing like matt damon did the callback at the end of the thing where he was, like you know how famous are you like? Like Matt Damon famous, or like Ben Affleck famous? Like I thought that was fucking hilarious.
Speaker 2:Jeremy Strong doing the method acting coming out of the coming out of the coffee, like I know they had already teased that, but that I hated that.
Speaker 3:I just hated the visual of that guy's head coming out of the coffee. I was like this is.
Speaker 2:I just can't believe he agreed to that because he's the type where, like, if you made fun of the way that he does that stuff and the way that he like turns into the character he would like get upset. So I thought it was great that he was willing to do that. Just him fucking like Apocalypse Now popping out of the coffee I love it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Did you guys like apocalypse now hopping out of the coffee? I love it. I thought there were a ton of good. What are you going to say, Seb?
Speaker 1:Well, towards your point of the Duncan commercial. Do you see coach Belichick and his girlfriend in the background of? That was so good. That was so good.
Speaker 3:They. I mean feel like there were, there was a who's who of celebrities and commercials, but and then, I thought again similar.
Speaker 3:I feel like I'm in the minority. I suspected you would like the halftime show, drew, just because I know you like Kendrick Lamar and like well, I probably don't agree with a lot of the insinuations of the political statements that were made. I thought the performance was fucking great. Like I thought he performed really well. I thought all of the like choreography and the dancers were super talented. I thought it was like again messaging aside, like serena williams doing the crip walk, like again with like so good, with seven or eight layers of drake right, yeah, that's why and she got in trouble for doing that at like, yeah wimbledon or whatever tournament she was in.
Speaker 3:So, like, politics aside, I thought the performance was great. I like kendrick lamar's. You know music. For the most part I'm very much a like if, if the, you know, if the beats good, if the music's good, if, like, if the rhythm's there, kind of like I like. I like the music. I don't always listen to like the messaging or you know, fucking half of my playlists have 90s and 2000s punk rock of like anarchy against the government. Man, it's like, it's like my my mindset's changed a little bit. That doesn't change the fact that I like the music. So I thought, and I thought the performance was fucking really good. It was super tight, he was really good. Um, say what you want about the messaging, but I mean that's what you get when you hire somebody who's outwardly like that to perform at the super bowl. Like fuck you expect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean he has one of his last big performances he did on top of a burning cop car and like supposedly it's been like scrubbed from the internet. So it's like, really, I they obviously knew what was going on there and were willing to just be like he's. You know, after the beef he's the biggest guy around right now, so we're gonna get as many eyeballs on as we can, but I, I gotta, I, I gotta. I'll say a sad chuckle. Um, from reading the reactions, from predictable sources.
Speaker 3:It's just like we're arguing about this thing and the fact is that, like it's not only like allowed, but perfectly acceptable that you have a celebrity of that magnitude with someone like samuel jackson who, again, politics aside, I thought he was hilarious, but it's like, when you can have, it's so good like yeah it's just like like zero, he, he's.
Speaker 2:How could you be that comfortable on that stage, like yeah, like so crisp, like perfect, sam, no, no, no, no, less ghetto, and I was just like I fucking love Samuel L Jackson.
Speaker 3:But it's like man, you're in a. You're in a country where it's like that performance happened on the biggest stage, on you know network television, where millions and millions of people are watching. It's like you can argue you can argue and bitch and complain about the politics, but the fact is that that occurred and a lot of people watched it and a lot of people fucking loved it and it's just like that's fucking America.
Speaker 1:I got a qualm with the Super Bowl from a graphics perspective. The score bug dude like I'm, that was weird. Scorebug dude like I'm, that was weird. That took me a minute. The what it the scorebug here. I can pull it up real quick. Is that like the? The graphical display that that was.
Speaker 3:That was part of the broadcast thing. That confused me. I'm like am I watching the right illegal stream? For this or like am I getting? Am I getting the antigua? Yeah, like that confused the shit out of me and like, dude, it's like the music wasn't the same, it didn't have like that, the Super Bowl like orchestra.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it just feels like for a Super Bowl, like did the systems crash on them like two hours before they went live and this is like what they came up with, Like previous years. There's so so much nicer looking in this.
Speaker 3:Is that what it's called? The score bug?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yep, okay, nicer looking in this, is that what it's called the score bug?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah yep, okay, I was like trying to figure out what the name is, but I was like I don't like it. I don't know, it was weird like it was weird, for sure I like brady.
Speaker 1:I think he announced as well right for the first year, like he's definitely, like you said, drew, gotten better, um, but I think he's got that romo syndrome where they kind of always have to like bring it back to like what they would do when they played.
Speaker 2:And sometimes I'm like you're the greatest, not everyone's going to be able to do that thing that you were so good at doing yeah, I I've always thought that like, can I have like a broadcast that's only brady and romo and like matthew mcconughey can talk to the general public or something, because it is the Super Bowl, right, like it's? However, many million, hundreds of millions of people are watching this and the more like niche you get with that stuff, the less people are going to like it. But it's like there are I don't know a few million like diehard football fans that want to hear that shit, because, especially with the angles that they show, like they they get to see all the different screens, they get the bird's eye view, like they get to tell you what's going on. And I'm sure the networks don't always love it.
Speaker 1:But I mean Greg Olson, like I think it's like world class, yeah, yeah. I think he might get his job back. I don't see. I hope staying doing that. I don't know, but I hope he. I hope he gets to call big games again.
Speaker 2:I think he's really good at what he does um, I am currently wearing the rogue fitness Tyson Bajent hoodie. It says silence the haters on it. Tyson Bajent is like I think has to be a little bit of a hero for those of us who make outrageous claims that if we had found CrossFit sooner, that we would be professional athletes.
Speaker 3:I 100% make that claim.
Speaker 2:Yeah absolutely, my hands were twice as big, um and so. So he is sebs pulling up a picture right now if you're watching on youtube. He is the backup quarterback for the chicago bears. Son of uh og crossfitter og crossfit announcer, travis bajan, the greatest arm wrestler of all time. Um, I got to meet him, uh, actually a few times, but I got to meet him at the at the, at the CrossFit games.
Speaker 2:um back when he used to announce in the like VIP area and he is a fucking character. He is like like 10 out of 10 on at all times, like putting on a kind of show. So his kid um started, so he's I believe he's like 23, 24 years old, is that right, seb? Yeah, I don't know if there's a um. And he grew up doing crossfit like as a little kid um and they had a dream together that he was going to be an NFL quarterback and he went to 24 years old. He went to Shepherd, which I believe is either division two or like one of the, the FBS schools Is it D two? I probably won't say there Um and broke like every passing record, like national passing record.
Speaker 2:Um got drafted. So he's basically like like you know, you look back and you're like okay, am I six foot three to 15 and can throw a football 60 plus yards with accuracy? No, I'm not and maybe I never would have been. But like this dude was doing 21, 15, nines and friends and burpees and all of that stuff and I think still does it, even though the bears don't want him to when did he start.
Speaker 3:Did you see Like little kid said that.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, so like literally his entire life, like I remember the I remember him fromcom videos way back, um, and there are, there are like people that have have like documented his whole journey. Um, there are some videos online that that sort of show it. But, um, he's, he's like it's cool because he's probably the fittest football player in the entire NFLfl, like you would assume, um, based on you know kind of what he can do. So, um, he posted on instagram that rogue was making him a hoodie and I was like dude, I gotta have it. He's like the fucking. He's like all the way up on that pedestal of like see, I fucking told you, I told you I don't have the genetics of the greatest arm wrestler ever again, nor am I six foot three, um, but that just it, just might hit that girl's spirit.
Speaker 3:I'm still hoping for it, right, yeah, I'm coming, I can feel it.
Speaker 2:First of the coast recap. Um, this was a extremely well-run competition. This is like reminded me of hunter, if we ran a major competition but didn't have other jobs like okay, just like judges. Like every every heat, like clipboard up at a specific interval to show that they're ready at the like 15 second mark.
Speaker 3:And then a standby. Don't get me turned on like that Standby. Take a knee same knee, but you look in the same spot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it was. It was extremely impressive the way that they ran the competition Um a lot of attention to detail. Um, I mean I, I, I think I might have met the person Um a lot of attention to detail. Um, I mean I, I, I think I might have met the person Um I, I, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know if it's like an affiliate down there.
Speaker 2:It's just a, it's just a. A few dudes Kyle Oland Assistant, yes, director, yes, um, and he's right there too. So, like the swim event event. I think he was the one announcing the like um, get back in the pool. Like, you've got your one minute reset. Um, when one of our athletes had a question at check-in, he was right there, shook everybody's hand.
Speaker 2:Um, so really impressed with the way that the competition was run and I started there and I don't blame one competition for the epidemic. But can we get longer workouts anywhere that isn't the CrossFit Games and can we get workouts that don't have a ton of pulling gymnastics or a competition that's just solely predicated on, like, grip muscle endurance? Um, now, one of the things that we've said on here before that is really important is in a vacuum. There's nothing wrong with that programming. Um, maybe the no long workout is is a problem. Um, but way back, regionals used to bounce back and forth from these like polarizing programming styles and I felt like it was really cool, because if you paid too close attention to the previous years programming at regionals and locked in on that for the next year, you would be in trouble at the following one, like I remember, I believe if I have my years correct I think it was like 2012 was super heavy and then 2013 was like literally almost a body weight, like competition. It was crazy.
Speaker 3:It was just um. That wasn't the dumbbell year. Yeah, that was after.
Speaker 2:Um, and what was again. What was cool about that is is you were brought back as a programmer to hit your energy systems, use variants, hit all the lifts. We're not trying to guess if it's going to be a snatch or a clean and jerk or whatever. You need to have your athletes ready for anything. And it was a very good lesson, I think, for a lot of people. Just sort of like how the open was Pre-open. If you were around in CrossFit, too many competitions were pistol muscle up fit. Too many competitions were pistol muscle up like short workout, super heavy, because it was fun to watch, like it was, you know that sort of thing. And then the open rolls around and the very first open workout was very much like you better have your gas tank in fucking order, um. So there were lessons sort of sprinkled into the to the way that you should program.
Speaker 2:Recently, the amount of short to medium workouts and pulling gymnastics in competitions just blows my mind Like very little pressing um, oftentimes not enough of an opportunity to to show off potentially how strong you are. Um, and or what to me is more important is the, the um, the lack of the long workout. Now, from a logistics standpoint, I don't know if there's a specific reason. Um, like hey, we're not going to do a 20 minute workout because that's 20 minutes multiplied across 30 divisions or something like that and that adds too much time. But they're just like. The workouts were not like. One of the things I wondered is if they thought the swim workout was going to be longer but that was only in the pro division that had a 17-minute time cap.
Speaker 3:That was a four to six, six minute workout for almost every athlete, so um the longest time cap I see, after that is 13 minutes, like 17 minute time cap for the swim, and then longest out there was 13 and then they capped almost every athlete in the muscle up devil's press lunge workout.
Speaker 2:Um, I do understand the time cap being a little aggressive on a workout like that, because do you want to leave athletes out on the floor that can't do muscle ups or um, or move? The? You know the 70s and the 50s on the devil's presses is, you know, pretty heavy. Um, so the, the, the programming again in a vacuum. I don't want to. I don't want to go at these people, especially after them putting on a good competition, but it's like we gotta.
Speaker 2:We gotta involve just a lot of muscle overloady type it was it really really just felt like just fucking muscle stamina yeah yep and honestly even event two um and we can get into, and we can get into a little bit of how to not make that like at the higher levels. That's not a muscle endurance workout at all. Um yeah, but one of the things that was really interesting to to talk with athletes about was the ramifications of so I I'm going to pull up. Hunter, do you have event two up?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do, I'm going to read what that is. Four rounds for time. 200 meter run, six snatches, 185 slash, 125, three rope climbs to 15 feet, 13 minute time cap.
Speaker 2:It was a good workout for sure, like it was a really good workout, like it was a really good workout gas tank test for the elite well. So here's what's interesting the entire the pro division. I didn't watch any of the men, but the entire heat for both round one, two minutes, around two, two and a half minutes, which like obviously are they running outside runners?
Speaker 3:no, there was definitely a little bit of that like having to kind of weave your way through a little.
Speaker 2:You know how sometimes they have to do that inside.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's tough for 200 meters in a lot of workouts like this. Um, because muscle endurance does become involved, you do have to run hard at the beginning because you just don't get that back. You don't't get that time back, but 30 seconds. A 30 second difference in split on a 200 is not the same, as you know, talking about, like Helen or something like that, where you've got to go run for, you know, 90 seconds to two minutes, that kind of thing. So one ramification here that was very obvious to me was when you are frantic and the rope isn't the exact same one that you use and maybe you're not taking the time to chalk up or you don't have the hidden chalk in your shirt or your shorts or whatever, if you don't climb that rope efficiently and you're going to do five to six events in two days, you're actually making the rest of those muscle endurance workouts significantly harder by trashing your grip and your forearm in that first workout because you've got so much pulling going on the rest of the competition basic, basically all pulling for the most part and I just thought it was interesting to watch A lot of the athletes, like we see across the board and we really try to work on with people were climbing that rope inefficiently and under that level of intensity, when it's so challenging to clear waist at that heart rate, you can put a lot of poison in those forearms, climbing that rope the wrong way or, you know, over pulling in your snatch, that sort of thing, and it was definitely something that I saw. I think a lot of the athletes were surprised at how they felt, because a lot of times when you test workouts, you test them in a vacuum. You're not testing them all you know, sort of jammed together like that, and they go a little bit differently than you would expect. Right, like one workout full 24 hours rest or 48 hours rest before you do it again, that sort of deal. So that was that was something that that was interesting to me.
Speaker 2:Um, but yeah, it was a again again super well-run competition. Um, I just and this is again, this is like across the board, like I was talking to another um coach about this of like a super high level athlete, like top 10 in the world, and they're not fantastic at pulling and they're like just everywhere we go, it's like every competition we go to, this is pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull. You know it's, it's deadlift and power clean and power snatch and you know toes to bar, bar muscle ups, ring muscle ups, like rope climbs, legless rope climbs, that sort of thing. And again like like there's, there's part of me that's like get your fucking athlete better at those things. But the same could be said to us.
Speaker 2:If our, if our athletes struggle with that stuff and went into a competition that was programmed like that, um, and they should be ready for the years where it does skew in that direction, I just don't like that. It's all. It seems to always be skewing in that direction. Like I need events that show off how fit you are, like that has to be such a large part of what these things should be and I like the skills to be there to be part of the test. But for them to completely take over, like that can be a little bit of a bummer when you see that trend being like other people see how you know event a, b or c programs and they're like, oh, that's how I'm supposed to program, like that's what this should look like.
Speaker 3:So yeah, I don't have a whole lot to add on that other than just kind of looking at the events themselves and you get a pretty good idea of where the limiting factor is and tough, tough go for event organizers to try to program stuff like that. But I just like I mean at the, if that happens at the, like that happened at the Masters games, like we spent an entire podcast shitting on the Masters games for programming that sucked good, that glad that the event went smooth. But yeah, you could see like the probably get an 8 out of 10 excellent event Logistics. Maybe not so many points for for programming. This was a two day event or three, so Saturday, Sunday Um, so they did, they didn't overlap.
Speaker 2:So, like you did, if you did individual and partners, you would do like one and a half days. One and a half days, that kind of thing. It was funny seeing the athletes like absolutely hooked from that final with the D ball and the double unders and the squat cleans, and like half of them are like, oh my God, like you know, get to, you know, get to go have a meal and a drink or whatever, and then the other half being like I got another competition now yeah, man that's gonna be fucking brutal from the floor.
Speaker 3:Pull, pull my body weight. Pull my body weight.
Speaker 2:It is real heavy so, if you like, pulling, now's a great time to compete apparently um all right.
Speaker 3:Fifth place like you got to give a shout out to mckenna for that oh yeah, for sure and and we had.
Speaker 2:Uh, we had a bit of a separate goal, ulterior motive there, um, and that was like truly like letting it all hang out, like really go get after it. Give yourself permission to be confident and to to to like really get after it, because there's a, there's a scenario at some of these. This isn't a local comp and this isn't a smaller comp, but, compared to who she's usually competing against, it's possible to go in and get on the podium but still play it safe, like that kind of thing. And she did not do that and that's kind of what we were going for there. And then, yeah, she took the dub in the final with the heavy squat cleans.
Speaker 2:That was super fun to see and for that to be like her at that point I believe she was in like eighth place going into the final, um, and you know, probably first, second or third fittest person there in terms of like if they all got together and trained in the gym together, um kind of a thing, um, but obviously there's a whole nother aspect of of going out and putting it together on the floor.
Speaker 2:So for that to be the final and her to feel like good enough to to stomp the gas pedal was was like very telling um, and then big shout out to, to pages, pages, remote athlete peyton. She took first overall in her division and her first like bigger competition, which was great to see. Um, we joked around a little bit after she's. She's kind of person who like has the nerves before and then goes and like wins the event, um. So she was in first place overall and she had just had another great event and I walked into the back to give her a high five and it looked like the look on her face was more like she was in last um, so I didn't really dare to give her a high five and I told her that afterwards and she's like I'm sorry, I wasn't really doing that bad, it's just the way that I looked that's great in that, uh, that same division we had.
Speaker 3:uh, well, shout out, she's um one of our members at the gym, kendra, her daughter-in-law, uh she saw Kendra there. Yeah, so she was down there for, for Taryn, I think, and she took third. So just two, just two behind Peyton. So that's pretty fucking cool.
Speaker 2:All right, one of the things that I wanted to.
Speaker 2:We'll make sure that there's some kind of schedule or graphic that gets emailed out, put on social, that kind of stuff as well.
Speaker 2:But I wanted to let you guys know what the programming sort of schedule or, I don't know, battle rhythm, as Hunter would put it will look like during the open. So for the majority of people, what we are looking for is two days on to begin the week, um. So for a lot of people, that would be monday, tuesday, train, um, and we can get into how important that is during the open. Afterwards, wednesday, we're going to do a mixed machine, low end, zone two, um, so you're going to be able to choose three machines, completely up to you. Um, no running, uh, we don't want that on our active rest day, especially during the open, um, and there are instructions on how to make sure that that you are truly in zone two, and some of you might flirt a little bit more with zone one if you're super fit, um, but we're just making sure that it treats itself just as much as a flush as it does, you know, working on that sort of back end aerobic system, um, and not, you know, putting any poison into the legs or the grip or the midline or something like that. So, um, very specific drawn out instructions for for how to execute on that, so don't worry about that. Um, so that would typically be a Wednesday.
Speaker 2:If, if you're, if you're, open day is Friday. Um, thursday is primer day. A lot of misfits know what that is for anybody new to the program or thinking about joining the program, primer day, um, um, it's kind of up to you whether it opens with a short burner metcon or, uh, a power snatch or power clean to push jerk emom. Um, some athletes like to be sort of greased up for the lift and some athletes like to like to lift first. You know, before lift the heavy thing and then go lift the lighter thing in the metcon. So that's completely up to you guys, as long as the the warm-up's fantastic.
Speaker 2:But um, an example would be emom, 10 minutes, two power snatch at 70 to 80 percent, um, looking for that to be really snappy, heavy enough to let the nervous system know that you're trying to get some shit done, but fast enough. Um, again, that you're priming movement and not like truly testing or training. And then you're always going to see a short AMRAP, almost always going to be a triplet, probably going to have a monostructural element, a weightlifting element and a gymnastics element. And what we're looking for in that workout is you to very quickly go through zone one, zone two, zone three, zone four, potentially zone five, depending on, like, if you're me, you're gonna, you'll, you'll see zone five and if you're real fit, maybe only see zone four because it's short and light.
Speaker 2:Um, but we want to get to that point and push the blood, push the oxygen out, get the heart rate up and then stop be done. And the way that we do that in person is a little bit different. So, like, if I'm down at Fittest of the Coast and we're at the gym the day before the competition, I'll tell the athlete that it's probably going to be between like three and five minutes, but I'm going to tell you when to stop, when I start to see that breath go a little bit. So the way that the instructions work when we can't be there to watch you is you sort of work it in reverse. So you're paying attention to your round splits.
Speaker 2:Let's say it's a four minute AMRAP and the rounds are roughly a minute long. When you see that there's about a minute left and you haven't really gotten there yet. That's when you would stomp the gas pedal a little bit, really, kind of get yourself up to that high heart rate. But again, we want it to sort of stop at that point and all those instructions are always going to be there on Fitter when you're reading your program. But over the years we've found that getting to that heart rate is very important, but staying there is something that we don't want at all. Um, and then, last but not least, I'll pull it up. So I don't actually I don't know if you have any comments on on any of the primers primer day stuff hunter no, I like to that.
Speaker 3:Was you just trying to?
Speaker 2:fill uh dead air for me while I get the sprint.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just saying like, after that, after that metcon, so you do your lift, you do your metcon. I'll tell a remote athlete to spend 20 to 30 minutes just cooling down, so like just flushing um, and then another 20 to 30 minutes of mobility type stuff and obviously, if your time constraints limit you a little bit, you know a 10, 15 minute cool down and then some mobility is good. But we're we're kind of finishing the finishing the session with your normal cool down and then, especially if you're somebody who has severe mobility limitations whether it's shoulders, hips, t-spine, whatever it is um, that's when, like, take advantage of warm tissues to try to mobilize that stuff, but that's kind of how that that primary day rounds out and that's what we have advantage of warm tissues to try to mobilize that stuff, but that's kind of how that that primary day rounds out and that's what we have to.
Speaker 2:To go back to the active rest day, in the instructions it will say like you just gotten off those three machines is a pretty good chance that all that you're like in the best you know state physiologically to go in and hit some more of like the static stretching type stuff to move the needle, and then on primer day, the cool down and you can extend this as much as you want. But we basically have 40 minute machine flush slash mobility. So five rounds of a machine flush for five minutes and then a three minute mobility. So you would choose your, you know your, your, you know greatest hits. You know whether that's your, you know your, your, you know greatest hits. You know whether that's you know getting into a couch stretch or a pigeon, or you know, you know that you know smashing your t-spine or whatever it is. So you basically rotate through different machines and modalities. So again you're getting blood flow into the right areas and then you can pop down into a position um, and again like, one of the reasons why it's 40 minutes is because this is the hatchet program and there's an insinuation of how much time this is supposed to take you. Um, but if you have more time. Definitely lean into that, like that's going to be super helpful.
Speaker 2:Friday um, you have the open workout will be our number one thing. Make sure that during the open you're paying attention to changes. From like Thursday morning to Thursday night there could be completely different workouts and movements, and all that on the blog. So those are things that we have the placeholders in there for you guys to be able to see in your week in advance, but they're kind of written in pencil because we don't know what the open movements are yet. For instance, in that week one of the open, you would have the choice after you got done, if the movements lined up and we didn't change them, to either do a positional front squat or positional deadlift and then we have an aerobic run in there. So I was going to be an aerobic piece on that day and then we still have some practice in. But a lot of it's going to kind of be based on feel Like. If you, if the adrenaline, like you, were just like completely shot adrenaline wise from the open and you think that another you know 40 to 60 minute mobility and stretch is the right call for you, that's totally fine. Um, and then part of it will be you auditing whether you think a redo is kind of around the corner or not.
Speaker 2:Um, saturdays, super straightforward. You'll have um the opportunity to do one lift in two conditioning pieces and a a practice thing. Anyone listening? Example of practice six rounds for quality. One smooth set of bar muscle ups row 250 meters to flush. One smooth set of farmers step ups row 250 meters to flush. It's a way to get movement exposure under low intensity.
Speaker 2:Um, but back to the beginning of the conversation. These monday, tuesday and saturday if that is your rhythm, um are incredibly important. We've seen it for years, um, we've seen it basically since the beginning of the open. People get scared to train during this period of time. Um, they don't want to breathe heavy, they don't want to lift heavy, they don't to do, you know, a muscle endurance piece, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Um, and unfortunately, it would be very obvious to any coach or athlete that if you just sort of mailed it in and took it easy and didn't do much for three weeks, at the end of those three weeks you wouldn't be at peak performance.
Speaker 2:Right, like when we're training. There are these weird pockets of the right intensity and volume that could be right, smack in the middle of a phase where you feel the best um, it's almost never, you know, after a big chunk of rest or at the very beginning of a phase, that sort of thing. So we really try to harp on and we'll talk about it during the open. We'll continue to have these conversations but, like I would say, at the very least three days a week, trying to pretend like you're just going in and doing your thing like you normally would, is incredibly important to keep you in a state where you can execute on the workouts for three weeks straight yeah, I think you just have to remember, especially when it comes to like considering extra volume, like after that open workout, it's like that's a very small portion of misfits.
Speaker 3:I would say that like rate to do additional work after the open workout, like part of it is like if you've got the juice to do additional volume in the open workout, either one of two things is true you didn't go hard enough in the open workout or you know for a fact that the open is almost irrelevant for you. You do your workout and then you almost you need to treat Friday kind of like a training day because your Super Bowl, you know, is not until online semifinals. So I would generally err on the side of like do the open workout, get a good cool down and get a good flush. In best case scenario, that was the best you got. You're not going to improve and then you've got a whole another week of training to to work through before the next open workout, or you you know you made a strategic mistake or something like that. You're thinking forward toward a redo on Sunday or Monday, whatever day of your schedule works for you.
Speaker 2:When a remote athlete comes to you and says I need to do you know, maybe they're overseas, I need to do the workout on Thursday, or I need to do the workout on Saturday because that's when our gym does it like that kind of thing what sort of advice do you have? Or how do you adjust the structure?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just try to shift it to be the same. You can kind of back plan we have a, we have an article too, said we probably should, we could publish that. But um, just just back plan. So it's like the day that you have say saturday is your open workout, that means friday is your primer day, that means thursday is your um, your mixed machine low end zone two day, and the previous two days are training. So just shift the schedule by the day, back plan off of the open workout, don't just do a wholesale swap of, you know, friday for Saturday or something like that.
Speaker 2:And it's very obvious what to do.
Speaker 3:And it's very obvious what to do.
Speaker 2:I think when you have a schedule like that in weeks, two and three can be a little weird in week one because you're like what do I do on kind of the Monday and the Tuesday discordgg forward slash misfit athletics, that's where you can talk to other misfits. Um, get signed up, chat with us about this stuff. So, um, that's what the open um program schedule looks like. Um, so I don't want anyone to be alarmed when they see their active rest day is on wednesday. Um, something that we've been doing for years. But just wanted to give people a little bit of a heads up. Um, I don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves here, but I know some people are like what happens now that there's no quarterfinals? Um, that sort of thing. So the hatchet program, hatchet off season one will start on march 24th. Um, and that's where you be, you, where you will be able to decide once again for the first nine weeks of the entire 18 weeks of of the off-season programming, whether you want to do the strength or the engine bias. The one benefit I will say of a longer stretch from your season potentially ending now until the fall is we get the nine week phases to do the things like really working into linear progression on the machines, doing your volume. Squatting a few extra weeks on things like Texas method can be incredibly helpful, but we'll obviously have an entire podcast on that. And then, last but not least, I just want to reiterate I went into the to the masters channel channel on discord and sort of struck up some side conversations via dm with athletes. But there are three potential paths for a masters athlete this year and normally there are only two. So I just want to once again, like four people listening, try to make this as clear as possible. Um, if your number one goal is to see how well you can do in the open so you can either jump in placement or maybe make it to the the age group virtual semifinals, um, then what you are doing on the masters and teens program is exactly what you should be doing right now. Um, and that's actually the same for if you're trying to peak for the games there are almost all of our games athletes are in a remote coaching situation, so they have the the benefit of of, you know, working with their coach on what they should be doing right now, since the games are so far away. Um, but if you are, you know, you know the kind of person that sort of does their own thing. Um, then then continuing to peak for the open is is a great idea and then you you would just jump on to semifinals prep afterwards. If you are peaking specifically for online semifinals, you should actually be doing semifinals prep right now and there are athletes that are already on it.
Speaker 2:If you're listening to this and you're not a subscriber, it is for sale on our storefront on Fitter. It's just its own program. It's not like a monthly thing. You can go in and purchase that right now.
Speaker 2:If you are a master's subscriber and you haven't heard us talk about this yet, if you haven't said anything in discord or aren't in discord, um, definitely get in touch, because just send you a discount code, um, and at the very least you can. You can go in and take a peek at it and ask questions, that sort of thing, um, but it's. It's interesting because the like semi-finals prep, you know, starting on february 10th is new and different. You know them pulling it so far forward and not having it lined up with the individuals is is something that we haven't necessarily dealt with before, um, but we have a, an age group um semifinals prep and you can either buy it or you can get in touch with us and I'll send you that discount code so you guys can can get logged in, or uh, so you can go in and check that out. I don't know if you have any comments on that hunter.
Speaker 2:Really just a bit of a like a psa. Yeah, making sure that that the athletes in the different divisions know that we are, um, we don't prioritize the any specific division. We look at all of them individually and try to figure out, um, what's going on there. And then I don't know. I honestly don't know how misfits like our community specifically feels about, like, how many of them are, you know, not signing up for the open this year as, like a statement.
Speaker 2:I still think you should do the open workouts and make a fake leaderboard, basically, um, to see where you're at, because the opportunity to compare yourself to that many people just doesn't show up all that often. And then maybe I'm wrong maybe people will be really interested by the like community cup and that's something that we can do a podcast on later on. Yeah, I'm honestly not really sure. We'll kind of see how that goes and how people feel about that. But if that's something that you want, you know, specific instructions on on how to be ready for and how to pause off season one will be will be happy to help yeah, the the deciding to sign up for the open or not, like just it put your, put your personal opinions on crossfit aside.
Speaker 3:One is that you know that that money goes, at least in part, to the athletes who are going to take it seriously at the CrossFit Games, which includes some misfits, so that's a good reason to sign up. But the other reason is like it's like you can think about it from a more like what am I getting? Like $20 gets you. It's actually like a pretty big pain in the ass, like the literal.
Speaker 3:The actual construction of the CrossFit Games leaderboard and, for all of its flaws, like to rack and stack tens of thousands of people accurately from a points perspective, that's not nothing. And to be able to see exactly where you fall on the leaderboard in real time compared to thousands and thousands of other people, and then also be able to go into your profile and see your year over year stats because you're right, you definitely could wait until Tuesday when scores close figure out your score, figure out your points and figure out where you would have found yourself. I'm sure some of you, like me, have been doing this for like over a decade and it's kind of cool to see like a consolidated view of your stats from opens past. So for fucking $20, you get a whole lot of, at the very least, objective data about your own fitness and it's like I'd say that's a pretty reasonable price to pay, regardless of what you think about the politics of crossfit.
Speaker 2:So take my objective viewpoint as a consideration for for signing up um, obviously kind of bounced around a little bit in this episode, so final thoughts probably don't exist, so I'm going to give you guys a little bit of a recap. Um, I went to bed with four4.38 in my gambling account and I woke up with over $500 in my gambling account because I picked two really dumb next-gen stat props that were like plus $900, and I won $25. That Xavier Worthy would be the fastest ball carrier based on the chip that they put in their shoulder pads. That's incredible, dude Saquon. I was surprised by this and maybe it's a thing where it just doesn't happen as often with running backs but most yards after the catch on a single play, I was like can you see him taking a screen? Just like a fucking mile? Yeah, come on. Like a lot of the receivers get a lot of their, they get the air yards.
Speaker 3:Um, so I won both of those and I won the over, and tails never fails, because obviously tails I was gonna ask do you do you bet on like dumb shit like the length of the national anthem and like? I don't do that? No, I used to. I did bet on the gatorade color. I bet on like dumb shit like the length of the national anthem and like the Gatorade color. I don't do that. No, I used to.
Speaker 2:I did bet on the Gatorade color. I bet on a Chiefs color. A lot of my bets were Chiefs centric. Like most of my budget was lost on the Chiefs, but then I got all of my money back because of those stupid fucking props.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'll tell you what Ain't nobody ever bet on green Gatorade. All right, just say that, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:What was it? Was it?
Speaker 3:yellow or clear, I have no idea. I was asleep.
Speaker 1:Yellow, it was yellow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. If I thought the Eagles were going to win, I would have chosen that, especially because Lane Johnson told a podcast that I listened to that their favorite flavor is yellow, yellow, so it's like hell yeah. Um, fittest of the coast. You guys are awesome. That was a fantastic competition. Um, I would love to program it next year, just kind of you know, putting that out there. Um, keep your eye out for for more information on the open program schedule, but making sure you guys know that you can expect wednesday as your active active rest day and Thursday as your primer day to get started.
Speaker 2:Hatchet OS 1 starts March 24th. It will be nine weeks long. It will be two off-season nine-week chunks, which is cool. And then, if you are looking for Masters semifinals prep, that is for sale on Fitter right now, or if you are already a subscriber, that is free. If you send me a message, I will get you that discount code. That's all I got. Boys, we did it. Woo. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Misfit Podcast. You can head to teammisfitcom to get signed up for our affiliate programming Two weeks for free on StreamFit, sugarwad, pushpress, or you can get signed up directly on our website and, of course, misfitathleticscom or the link in bio on any of our socials to get signed up for the programming that we talked about today. See you next week Later.
Speaker 3:Thank you.