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The Purple Mountain Throwdown with Preston Shepard - E.349
What does it take to create a fitness competition that challenges athletes while building genuine community? In this revealing conversation with Preston Shepard, director of the Purple Mountain Throwdown, we explore the journey from concept to execution of Colorado's premier CrossFit competition.
Preston shares how his military background and passion for testing personal limits led him to fill a void in the Colorado Springs fitness community. "The impact that going to competitions, pushing myself, and proving that I can do something has really formed me as a human," Preston explains, highlighting why creating meaningful competitive experiences matters beyond just the leaderboard.
The episode dives deep into workout strategies for the 2024 event, with detailed breakdowns of the programming. From the seven-round triplet featuring echo bike, rope climbs and dumbbell snatches to the grip-intensive test of burpee bar muscle-ups and heavy dumbbell box step-overs, athletes will face classic CrossFit elements with strategic twists. Hunter and Drew offer invaluable coaching insights on pacing, movement efficiency, and mental preparation that apply to any competition scenario.
What truly distinguishes this conversation is the behind-the-scenes look at competition organization. Preston candidly discusses the challenges of bootstrapping a first-year event, the burnout risks of trying to control every detail, and the lessons learned about delegation and flexibility when things don't go as planned. These insights provide a masterclass in event planning for anyone considering creating their own fitness competition.
The Purple Mountain Throwdown (June 21-22 in Colorado Springs) represents more than just another competition—it's a gathering point for the Misfit community and a testament to the power of putting yourself to the test in a supportive environment. Whether you're a potential competitor or simply curious about fitness event organization, this episode delivers practical wisdom and inspiration in equal measure.
Register by April 15th to secure your competition t-shirt, and use code PMTMisfit25 for a discount available exclusively to Misfit Podcast listeners!
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Good morning, misfits. You are tuning into another episode of the Misfit Podcast. On today's episode we have a special guest Misfit OG and director of the Purple Mountain Throwdown, preston Shepard. Before we dive into all the good stuff the live chat, checking in with Preston talking through why the hell he would want to run a crazy event all that good stuff just a tiny bit of housekeeping here. Um, we got a seven day free trial um to jump into off-season block number one. Um, you can find that in our link in bio on social media or by heading to misfitathleticscom um and clicking your way through onto fitter. Um, also in the kind of uh, misfit affiliate phase right now, that would be the friendliest, I'd say, to jump in at any point. So we've got a 14 day free trial on sugar wad stream fit and push press for misfit affiliate um, so make sure you jump into that. Um, we're we're still, you know, at the lab here. Misfit jim Portland, seeing PRs left and right, people coming out of the open. All that good stuff. So, um, definitely the the kind of programming that that keeps morale high. Post open before we jump into any biases. Um, all right, shep. So we, we do, as you probably know we do live chat here. Um, to open the podcast.
Speaker 2:Uh, we'll give you some examples that will probably be all over the place but probably related to sports and golf, that no one wants to hear, and then we will move on to the meat of the episode. I think I'm going to start with the Misfit Athletics baseball preview. Baseball preview I'm the kind of person that gets very excited about opening day and then forget aside from the notifications my phone sends me that baseball season is happening for a while and then we kind of jump back in, which is probably a good thing, because the Red Sox suck and Raphael Devers has more strikeouts in the first handful of games than Tony Gwynn had in an entire season, with 585 played appearances. I thought that was a pretty solid stat to open up the season and the Yankees are cheating, so all is well here. I don't know, seb, if you've got any Dodgers updates over there.
Speaker 2:You guys aren't cheating yet but, like you, probably only have a few more years of good faith. You've got it from me because of mookie. I love dave roberts. Um, I appreciate you donating walker bueller once his arms stop working. Um, that was really friendly of you, but, uh, but yeah, I don't know how long the dodgers can stay America's sweetheart. Maybe it's the palm trees, I don't know what it is but if you guys keep spending $10 trillion a year, I don't know how long you're going to be everyone's friend we've always spent a lot of money and we've always come up pretty short, other than the Mickey Mouse world series we won back in 2020.
Speaker 3:I don't consider that a world series, but I think the difference between like a Yankees and I know if Kyle's listening to this, he's going to be mad but like, the Yankees fan base are just obnoxious, right, like they'll never watch the Yankees all year. They just tune in for the postseason and then everybody claims a ring. I think with the Dodgers is like you know, it's like they're battling with the Lakers, you know, and I think it's the Dodgers are our good team because you have, like you said, dave Roberts and Shohei Otani, and it's like what's not to love? But I think like if we become obnoxious like the Yankees, then it's like we'll be hated pretty early and we're 6-0, right, so we're doing pretty well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're not 6-0. Hunter, you got anything?
Speaker 1:I bet you got a serious baseball preview here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, big baseball preview. No, I mean, I grumbled about 24 hours ago about the fact that the golf course that's directly across from my window was covered in snow, but the weather has made it such that that is not the case anymore. So I am like 43 percent less irate than I was 24 hours ago, which is good, good um progress. I'm not all that happy that, uh, we're getting like two inches of rain allegedly, which will, uh, keep the old course soggy. But I mean, yeah, I guess beggars can't be choosers. At least it's not the fucking another snowstorm.
Speaker 2:So I keep telling my son like the snow's not coming back, and then it comes back yeah this like we have this spot where basically, like l-shape of trees blocks one area from getting melted. Yeah, so he just sits up and points because he wants to go down there and crunch his feet on it.
Speaker 1:He goes down and walks around, says crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch sick, yeah, and it just keeps coming back yeah, we are two weekends away from uh major season though the masters, masters and under. Well, I guess now little little under two weeks. So I'll, uh I'll definitely have a thoughtful and eagerly awaited by all of the listeners recap on the masters when we uh shoot that podcast.
Speaker 2:So stay tuned how does scotty lose on a public course? What happened there? Come on, come on, scotty, I mean he didn't lose.
Speaker 1:Min wu lee just played really well. Uh, decided to, decided to get it, get it going. But I mean, when the number one player in the world is finishing in like the top five in most place times that he competes, uh, you don't want to, you don't want to look out when the course gets hard.
Speaker 2:So this is a kid's show. What are you pulling up here? Every hole with Scotty Scheffler.
Speaker 1:What the love that love that step-by-step guide what?
Speaker 3:dude, did you guys see Scotty's menu for the masters? It was it's awesome.
Speaker 2:I do like, though I don't know if you heard last year the old guys, the tortilla soup hurt their tummies so he took it off the menu. This year, too spicy.
Speaker 1:People were like shit, damn it at dinner. That's funny I actually didn't see what the menu was.
Speaker 2:It's great, it's it's got a real. It's got a real like bro vibe to it. You can tell Scotty likes to go to Chili's Fuck.
Speaker 1:Thank you guys. Scotty likes apple-beast yeah.
Speaker 2:Tortilla chips and salsa.
Speaker 4:Big tortilla. What you got. Oh man, I kind of feel like I'm in the dead zone of sports right now, just because I'm a huge football fan the second that football season ends like every other sport, like I kind of get hyped for, like March Madness a little bit, but like it's not the same.
Speaker 2:You're almost forcing yourself, right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm just like I have to watch something. Like the other day we were cooking dinner I think it was like a Sunday and my wife tried to get me to like, put some sports on. I was like there's nothing but hockey going on right now and newsflash.
Speaker 2:I'm not the hugest hockey fan in the world.
Speaker 4:Are the Avs good this year? You know, honestly, the only hockey team I can tell you about right now is that I got into Colorado College the college team here. That's actually pretty good and we got hyped up. I went to a game and then they ended up losing to Denver University, so that was a huge letdown as well.
Speaker 2:Another good hockey school there's also an excellent program.
Speaker 1:No, da's pretty good. From what I hear, abs are third in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I'm going to have to be it I mean they have two of the best players in the NHL on their team so they have two of the best players in the nhl on their team, so that's usually helpful.
Speaker 4:The biggest thing I've noticed about hockey is that, like if I'm in person.
Speaker 2:I've gone to like two av games and those are fun, but like I, just watch it like sport live and you can take people that don't really know, like maybe we'll, maybe we'll cover two line pass and offsides. You know things of that nature, but like like you don't have to really explain too much and it's so impressive to watch and like the places go nuts with the goals. Yeah yeah, you got anything going on in life.
Speaker 4:Oh you know, it's Colorado, so, like our weather, decides to be like nice during the week, and then the second you want to go outside on the Saturdays decides to snow or hell or sleet on you. So I'm trying to get into some more biking this summer and every time I want to go on my long rides it's just Colorado's like no, how similar is Colorado Springs weather to Fort Collins Probably a little warmer.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it is a little warmer. I mean, you have to go all the way to. It's crazy the difference between just just like Colorado Springs, like Pueblo, um, but like I think the same would be said from like Colorado Springs to Fort Collins. So, yeah, we're going to be a little bit warmer. The snow might be a little nicer to us.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right Um, I wanted to ask I don't remember how you got started with Misfit Athletics.
Speaker 4:What's your Misfit origin story? Yeah, so like back in 2016, 2017, I was in, I was employed not employed but I was stationed at Fort Polk, louisiana, at CrossFit Leesville, and at the time I was kind of helping run their competitive fitness team, like their competitive CrossFit team. So like I was doing like the coaching for our competitive athletes, and one of the members of that team suggested to me that we leverage Misfit Athletics. So they were following it for like their daily programming. I was only programming for like two days out of the week. They would just come and get, like we would just bury each other and like workouts.
Speaker 4:But he like lived and breathed by like the fact that this was like this crazy program they started following and like it was helping him reach a whole bunch of gains. So I uh decided to try it out because I've never been a um, a gpp guy like I've never, even though I coached and and did everything. I was just always the type of person where I was either doing my own thing or I was following a program. I don't know if it's just like in my nature to do so, but I started following Mr Athletics back in like 2000, late 2016, early 2017. And I've never like looked back, never been like a program hopper. So like I got on it and it just kind of fed to my soul so I just started following.
Speaker 2:I like it, yeah, and you, you definitely immerse yourself in the community. I don't know, um, my my memory for specific dates and whatnot are not great, but you definitely, you know, started showing up at camps, um, and where you know one of the people and you know you get your little like camp posses or everybody you know starts to, you know, starts to rent Airbnbs together and go out in the evening and whatnot. Um, how did you so? So we'll we'll give a little bit of background here. I'll read some of my, my, my stuff.
Speaker 2:So, purple mountain throwdown CrossFit competition June 21st and 22nd in Colorado Springs. Website is the purple mountain throwdowncom on Instagram purplemountain underscore throwdown. You can find all of the stuff that you would need on Instagram through the link in bio. Signups are live through the end of May, but if you want a t-shirt, get your ass signed up in the next two weeks. Basically, april 15th is what you're looking for for people to get signed up. Right, like April 15th is what you're looking for for people to get signed up. So, purple Mountain Throwdown this is year two for you. I think you pass a major test when you throw a larger scale competition and then decide to do it again for the second year. So I want to know A what made you want to do it in the first place?
Speaker 4:And then what went into the decision to do it again the second time? Yeah, no, those are great questions. So for anyone that doesn't know, I was in the military for a long time. Considering my life, for a long time, ever since I graduated from college, I commissioned as officer into the military and at the same point in time I started doing CrossFit and throughout my time, having to move a lot and being kind of like a singular bachelor guy, like competing in CrossFit gave me a chance to not only kind of like fellowship with people, but really just kind of experience, like achievement.
Speaker 4:I was thinking about it earlier like the, the, the impact that just go into competitions and pushing myself and proving that I can do something to myself has, like really formed me as a human and I wanted to figure out a way to be able to give that back to people.
Speaker 4:Cause as you progress in like fitness and as you progress in like a CrossFit, you know there's there's there's barriers to on like what level of like what level of achievement you're going to be able to reach as a, as an athlete right, we talk about that a lot at camp Like if you're not willing to send it all to be like a games athlete then, like, you're going to hit a ceiling eventually where, like, what are you doing? Why are you doing CrossFit? What are you going to give back to this community? That's helped you out, and for me, I felt like I was uniquely structured as a person who's been organizing things since he was like 23 years old and connected in enough ways that, like there was no large scale fitness competition here in this community in Colorado Springs and even in like Colorado in the Eastern part, there was only one competition that tried to do it for two days and as I reached out and talked to the different gyms in the community, the only barrier to entry was that people didn't want to take the time to do it. And if that was it, then I was like, okay, like I can do that.
Speaker 4:Like I can connect with people. We can try to bring something where people can have the same experience that I had when I had a chance to compete at waterpalooza or when I had a chance to go down to beach, brawl and like and just really put their everything that they're working so hard in in the gym to the test, like. I feel like people people shy away from testing all the efforts that they give in the gym and a lot of times that's because it's it's scary or it's foreign. You have to travel to go do it. Like. If we can just give these guys opportunities to test themselves like they're going to get so much more out of their training, so much more out of the reason why they're doing fitness in the first place, which is going to keep them in it and that's kind of what we want holistically as a community.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean so hard to to create those environments for people, um, and I think it's cool that you have the divisions that you do, because you provide a little bit of like a roadmap to get to the point where you might trust yourself enough to go individual right. So you've got the scale division, you've got the team division, um, and I think those are really good ways to get a person to a point where they're like, yeah, I can go out there and execute on an individual level 100%.
Speaker 4:Like, I know at least three different athletes in this glide path that they used to perform out and throw down for. Last year, you know, we had a younger aspiring athlete who's trying to figure out if they are in fact a RX individual athlete yet figure out if they are in fact a rx individual athlete yet. So they, uh, they went on the rx team last year with a stronger uh teammate just so they can experience what it's like to be out there on the competition floor. Uh, we had a pretty advanced athlete who's uh, who wanted to push her chances in the masters category this year. Uh, she used the permount throwdown as her first competition rx to make sure she was on track and then went out to waterpalooza and, like, podiumed in her division.
Speaker 4:Uh, you know, um, and we had plenty of athletes try their first competition for the first time on a two-day competition. Uh, because it was a, it was a good environment for them. Right, it was, it was in their community drove out of their house, they went to the venue, uh, and they competed in it. And I feel, like you know, especially, I have a big heartstrings for the Colorado Springs community, so, like, I want them to have that chance to do it. It's Olympic City, usa. Why can't they compete in their own backyard? Why aren't we hosting something like that and then opening that up to the world, you know, bringing everyone in from across the states to come celebrate? Yeah, hell, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, Hell yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, the the um, um. So there's basically a void there that, like, someone else wasn't going to be willing to fill and maybe there's, you know, in-house throw downs or things of that nature that are around, but obviously you took on something much larger scale. It's not in a CrossFit gym. There's an actual venue. It's a multi-day, which I'm sure I've never. I've never ran a multi-day competition, Um, or at least if I did, it was 10 years ago, Um, and inside of my gym. Um, I'm curious what things happened last year at the competition that you learned from that you were able to take into this year, like anything that was you know, cause, cause, like I'm telling everyone out there like even just the smaller stuff that we put together. It's a challenge for sure. It's not an easy thing keeping shit organized and running well.
Speaker 4:For sure. I think there's probably three big things. The first one is going to be for anyone that knows me but if you're listening to this podcast and maybe you don't know me quite as well some people think that, like this is what I do for, like my job. It's not. I have a full-time job and we try to work with all the volunteers to still make this event happen throughout the year. With that being said, it's a lot of stuff like you were saying, and when you're last year it didn't exist.
Speaker 4:It was a, it was an idea on our whiteboard in the back here and we bootstrapped it and created it into existence. And when you do that, you have to start from scratch, from zero, for everything Any documents, any volunteer packets, any athlete packets, any scorecards, any frameworks for what the floor plan layout looks like, any timelines for when people should show up to what space, what does athlete control it like, when people should show up to what space, what does athlete control it like, and when it's your idea and if you're not working on it, nothing's happening. Like that takes a lot of time and we tend to like want to hold our baby in and like not share it out to other people that want to support you and you can really easily reach burnout like that no-transcript two day event. Uh, maybe ensure that, uh, you know for your logistics plan if you're moving in six gyms worth of equipment, uh, maybe hire some movers and not just try to do it yourself in house. Uh, because my buddy, my, my best man at my wedding, mac, who's my operations director, uh, he, he, literally, uh, him and like one other person, moved six gyms like worth of equipment to the venue and then helped me adding a third person out of the venue, and it all night.
Speaker 4:We were just, we were just moving and staging stuff. Um. And then I think the last one is to remain flexible. Right, last year we had two kind of things that happened that we were able to adjust and overcome. The first one is funny to me because so, like I said, we have been moving all night and this includes like stall mats. Guys, like I didn't have, I don't have anything. Like we got stuff now but like we didn't have anything before. It's a bootstrap thing. So we budgeted enough to get 20 stall mats and then we pulled 60 from my home gym. So we're physically pulling these stall mats and moving them out.
Speaker 4:That's a rite of passage starts at seven and the only thing that had me going was my delivery of like barrier gates was supposed to come in at like four o'clock and that like would complete what my vision was for the floor Right, and that would like make me feel better as like an event director. And then I get this call at four o'clock that the guy overslept and he wasn't going to make it in time to actually set up these gates that we paid for. And he called me and he didn't even come make it in time to actually set up these gates that we paid for. And he called me and he didn't come up with an excuse, he just said hey man, sorry I overslept and yeah, I just don't think we're going to make it in time. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Speaker 4:I was like are you crapping me right now? Are you kidding me right now? You called me to tell me that you're not going to show up to establish this event that I paid you a couple of K's for. Like that's has, like you know, 150 plus athletes showing up to it. Like you're not just failing me on this one. Like why are you talking to me about this right now and then having to kind of bounce back mentally because it destroyed me.
Speaker 4:I was like no one's gonna take this seriously. There's not barricades, like it's not going to happen. But it went great. And then we also had the athlete village outside at the beginning on day one because we thought that made sense logistically. But the traffic flow just didn't work out and the vendors came up to our experience director at the time and talked to her about it and talked to me about it and then we moved them all inside the next day and it was like a game changer. It was so much better, the flow was so much better, and staying flexible, I think, is like the biggest thing that we want to carry over.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean your ability to do that when you are delegating, like this time around, because there's, you have to remain open because there are these like tiny little events that happen that you are uniquely qualified to respond to, and if you're doing 17 other things, then that moment becomes the thing that the like in our case, the members would remember like oh, they didn't have this part figured out, or whatever, but it's like no, if each person has their like thing to do, then they're able to respond within that. So I think I hope for you that you'll find that, when you do delegate, that you then have the opportunity to deal with the things that make it a really good experience for the athletes.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a hundred percent, a hundred percent. And I like, I want to shout them out too, because my, my staff are key event leaders, so we have floor leaders for each floor, the rotating floor schedule that goes on. Like they crushed it, they like took it over and that was their child, like each day, whatever event they had. And then our event experience coordinator, our head judge, my, my wife, uh, abby, uh, she crushed it, handled all those issues and questions so that Preston could sit like a zombie, uh, staring at things until, uh, preston needed to go deconflict something. So I'm thoroughly blessed.
Speaker 2:I like that you've disassociated from the version of yourself. That's the event director.
Speaker 2:You already know that that's not you. That's good, 100%. So, one of the things that we've said on this podcast before and it's the kind of thing that would take time but it would also take that first wave of people I would really love for your event to be a place in time where misfits from all over the country like came together. It's just a really cool place to be. You know, I'm obviously a big fan of the state of Colorado. I've talked about that before on this podcast.
Speaker 2:But, um, knowing that we could recommend something that we, that we put a bunch of time and effort to into with the programming, um, and have it not just be all 12 minute pulling gymnastics workouts like every other fucking competition, sorry, um, like, I think it would be really cool for that to happen.
Speaker 2:So it's just another call to the misfits out there to say, like, listen, if we get, you know, a group of misfits that want to go out, it doesn't matter if it's scaled RX team individual, um, you know, and and, uh, I would be stoked to come out and hang out.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, bring, bring Seb along and, you know, point the camera at you guys and get to know you a little bit better in person. Um, those are the things that really help solidify the community. So, um, I don't know, you know sort of what that looks like, you know right now, um, but it's just another call out there to the to the people in the Misfit community that like just another call out there to the to the people in the Misfit community that, like, if you're going to travel to a comp, I can tell you right now Colorado in June is is pretty awesome, um, and I think the workouts are pretty good. I'm a little biased, um, but I think it would be really fun to have that sort of thing, because it was always fun when, when that event was like Wadapalooza or something, but also really easy for like those types of meetups and things to get lost in the shuffle because of how crazy it is and how many things are going on all at once.
Speaker 4:I agree. I think the unique thing about the prospect of having the Purple Mountain Throwdown be a meeting point for all misfits is that when you have a waterpalooza it's this huge, huge, huge event're just trying to walk around and just like interact with people and you know we want to grow as a competition and get to that larger scale. But the beautiful thing about having a larger scale competition is not quite at the size of like Wadapalooza is that you really do have that community aspect in the sense that you do kind of get to know your competitors, you do kind of get to know your community, you do kind of get to know, uh, the staff that's running out there. And I think it would be a beautiful thing for you know all the misfits uh listening to this podcast and in the fall of the program, to be able to come together at something that's not as big a threat as like water Palooza and just really kind of enjoy each other and like validate our own training and see our own progress and ensure on each other in this environment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, totally agree. So we have three workouts so far that have been announced. Hunter, you're going to jump in here and maybe help the people out a little bit. So you're listening to this podcast and we're going to give you some insight. Hunter, you can go with strategy, you can go with. Here's what you should work on in the meantime, like that sort of thing I'm only looking at.
Speaker 1:I'm only seeing two right now on the website. Are we staying part a?
Speaker 2:okay, I'll read them to you, don't worry. All right. So event three seven rounds for time 16 12 calorie echo bike two rope climbs, 20 alternating dumbbell snatch with the 50 slash 35. What?
Speaker 1:would you do to strategize and or train for this event? I mean like so, when I was kind of reviewing, looking at some of the workouts, it's like the first one the first thing that I would want to do is figure out, like what is what the general time domain is probably going to be for me, and then what, like maybe the stimulus looks like Sure, and when I you know, I obviously saw this workout a while ago said like OK, I'm looking at in the neighborhood of a minute on the bike to rope climbs, take somewhere between like 15 and 20 seconds, and this obviously depends on Preston's floor layout and stuff like that Dumbbell snatch 20, hopefully unbroken reps, for what I have to assume for most of those athletes will be is in the neighborhood of like 45 to 50 seconds, and that that puts you in like a 14 to 16 minute kind of time domain, with you know there's there's obviously some some leeway there, but the point there is more or less less to be like OK, I'm going to finish this in 14 to 16 minutes and think about it more as like OK, this is not a come out hot sort of workout, it's seven rounds. It's like I think the there will eventually start to be a minor grip factor, like between rope climb and dumbbell snatching for some people. Other people will not have that issue at all, but you're going to spend the most amount of time of any single movement on that bike and so learning, I'd say from a training perspective, learning what a sustainable bike pace is for that workout is probably my number one priority. Pace is for that workout is probably my number one priority.
Speaker 1:And you think you could think to yourself well, it's what is that? 70, 112, 113 calories of total, you know total time spent on the bike. Um, you're probably not at any point sprinting to to get out ahead on that thing. So I'd say, like you would benefit heavily from learning exactly what the appropriate sort of 15 minute ish bike pace least you know, theoretically, kind of at the top of the competitive arc. And then the dumbbell snatch again, if it's 20 unbroken reps, the arguably the only thing that's going to dictate a time change or a variance in time is literally how tall someone is, how far the dumbbell has to travel. So very much a like know your pace on the bike sort of thing, assuming that we're moving pretty consistently on the rope climb and, and more than likely unbroken dumbbell snatches from through throughout that workout and if you have the, you know we're recording this on april 1st and this competition's in june.
Speaker 2:Um, I like I just had this conversation with an athlete who in the past hadn't tested events, like I would really need an athlete to have a one hell of a case as to why they weren't going to test a workout. It just seems insane. And maybe you're just going for vibes and like thumbs up to you, get after it, do your thing. But like I consider this a level up from a merry-go-round style open workout where it's like you know, the row were a little bit better. It's much, I don't know. It's much more fair to more people than the echo bike is. And then the rope climb obviously is a very manageable dose, but it is still 14 rope climbs and I was just at a competition fittest of the coast where man people climbing the rope inefficiently not only screwed up their workout and shut their heart rate through the roof, it's my favorite watch I actually think it fucked up their weekend.
Speaker 2:I think I think that adrenaline, adrenaline just through the roof and pulling, with your forearms and your biceps being that jacked up and doing that, I think it affected people for the pulling gymnastics the rest of the weekend. Like that, that seemed to be really obvious to me. And it's the kind of thing where, like, maybe you're not cooling down properly or whatever, but like there is some element of like, like that might be the most slow, as smooth, smooth as fast movement that there is. Like, chill the fuck out, you don't have to jump as high as you possibly can. You don't have to, noah Olson, and put your feet on your hands and then somehow find a way to fit your body back up the rope, like you don't need to do those things.
Speaker 2:And then, honestly, when it comes to the echo bike, it's like you, really, that, to me, is the machine that people are the least precise on and have to be the most precise. People's like intuition on that thing is ass backwards from, because, honestly, 300 Watts, 275 Watts, is going to feel dumb at the beginning of that workout and then you're going to pass everybody, yeah, and like, maybe, if you're, you know you're a bigger athlete and that's 350, 375 Watts. Obviously we've got a range here. But like there's something so weird about that machine with the resistance level being where it is, like yeah, you get the. But like there's something so weird about that machine with the resistance level being where it is, like yeah, you get the, you know the. The graph, you know, goes way up when you start going faster. But it just ruins you. It absolutely annihilates your body and and it's obviously very upper body dependent as well. So going to those other two movements is not going to be very fun. Yep, preston, thoughts on this workout.
Speaker 4:Man. So I I loved, uh, I loved watching the testing for this one, um, when we were testing athletes cause, uh, shout out the CrossFit mobile for for doing our team testing on it. And then, uh, we had some athletes here in Colorado Springs, uh, test out the individual version of it. Um, and, like you highlighted the, the biggest difference was people who could stay patient and controlled and be efficient on the road climbs and not like, not go out of the gate trying to like prove something to somebody, were able to stay calm and then sit on the bike and bike in a in a manner that helped them stay fast throughout the entirety of the workout.
Speaker 4:I feel like you know three, two, one go for this one, especially since the floor plan is going to have them moving down a little bit to the rope, not like a terrible distance, but moving to the rope. Whenever you have other athletes moving, like you immediately start thinking you need to go faster. Right, like it's going to be this feeling of like, oh man, I got to get off this bike Cause like three more people just got off this bike and they're already doing road climbs, which seems like a very fast movement. But I'm interested to see what athletes have, that, that, that athlete IQ to stay in, not stay in their lane, but like stay focused and and commit to their plan so that they can like do this workout the most efficient as possible.
Speaker 1:I mean with the number of rounds and the. You know it's a triplet the number of rounds. I again in the in in my head, kind of visualizing a floor layout of having to move, like from a bike forward to a rope, from a rope forward to a dumbbell and then from a dumbbell back to a bike. You're looking at 21 transitions. Three seconds per transition is already just a minute added to your time, just of of nothing. And it's like if, like, you can walk that or you can jog it and like you can just find a free minute of time in in that, in that workout, so um.
Speaker 4:I mean you look at it, it's like is my estimate right.
Speaker 1:Estimate right roughly as far as testing went.
Speaker 4:Preston as far as it's time for transitions between no, him saying it was 14 to 16 minutes.
Speaker 1:I was saying like 14 to 16 overall, yes, yes, so in order to complete the workout.
Speaker 4:Generally, athletes finish at some time between, I would say, 15 to 16. Uh for for for testing 14 would be tough like that's moving, and that's the end of that.
Speaker 2:And that's the trap. Right, like a two minute round wouldn't be that hard to do and it's like, yeah, you got that's. That's, you got seven the math.
Speaker 1:The math checks out the. The transitions aren't really factored in, but yeah, I think it's definitely doable, but okay, yeah good to know this next event was actually supposed to be at.
Speaker 2:Well, one portion of this event was supposed to be at a competition that we had, and hunter and kyle voted this, this version of the workout, out, um, so anyone who's mad about four minutes max calorie row into a lift, um can thank actually can thank Hunter and Kyle, because it was supposed to happen to our members. Um, now I will say it wasn't voted out cause we thought it was bad. It was like this is a community event and we want people to like have fun and more opportunities to, you know, do X, y and Z also one day, one day competition. So event four, part a, is a four minute max calorie row, which is just giggity giggity for me. Anytime we have this like it's calories.
Speaker 2:So people don't know how fast to go, even though they could look it up, um, they don't know how fast to go. There is a little bit more um, like you get more bang for your buck again that you know more exponential curve versus you know the linear, you know when it comes to distance, um, and then it's a weird time domain, right, it's not a 2k and it's not a 1k and it's just kind of an odd thing now if you're a misfit, um, you know a one round of the the cube test feels like. So you have some sort of context there. But you better be going harder than that in this. But how hard do you go? You have a one minute transition into find a two rep max touch and go snatch um and that is in five minutes.
Speaker 4:Correct, I didn't write that five minutes, yep, five minutes yep, okay, hunter coach.
Speaker 2:What do we do?
Speaker 1:well, I mean, like this is it I? You gotta out of curiosity, I was gonna say is it two, scores both you got it out of curiosity. I was going to say is it two scores, both worth the equivalent of a workout, like saying, is it like 50? Yeah, so I mean I, I think that is like as much as I don't like it's a hundred points right, preston it's a hundred points yeah.
Speaker 1:Two full events. Each one's worth 100 points. It's weird. As much as I like, I don't like to.
Speaker 1:Where it's like you have to, you potentially have to game one before the other, like I think you do, and I think it. Obviously it depends on your, your proficiency with the snatch, for sure that I think that kind of dictates how hard you go, because the difference between man like, across such a small window of rowing, like a 10 calorie difference, is pretty substantial, like, but if that, if that difference is like oh, I can find 10 additional calories by rowing a lot harder, but I can't, but I lose like 15 or 20 pounds on a snatch or I'm failing snatches left and right. It's like where's the, what's the cost benefit to that? And that's where it's like are you a proficient like? How well do you move? I like, I do like that element. I think anytime that you force an athlete to express athleticism and, um, like, movement proficiency under fatigue, you, you, really you get the, you get the. You get the best athletes that you know that are on top of the leaderboard.
Speaker 1:Is it a? Is it a dictated squat snatch or is it just touch and go snatch?
Speaker 1:anyhow, touch and go snatch anyhow I would have made him squat snatch.
Speaker 2:but I mean jokes on anyone Like if your pull is still around for the party, then I don't know. Yeah, also, fair enough, right? It's like there is the element of that too.
Speaker 1:You have to know, like, what does that pulling hard on the rower do to your ability to pull the bar off the floor? And I guess it doesn't really matter, but it's still going's still going to challenge the, the movement efficiency component of how well you do the most complicated lift in the world. So, yeah, there is a. It is like, unfortunately, in a way not like you can't just absolutely send it on the row Right. But I mean then again, like I don't know, maybe is there is there an athlete who is extraordinarily proficient at rowing but not good at snatching? Like, is it a small like, is there a?
Speaker 2:well, see, you're getting into now the reason you can talk yourself out of it is because there's gamesmanship here where you don't know, like if this was at semifinals of the crossfit games.
Speaker 2:You're 100 right because, those athletes are jammed so close together that, like first and 20th is more points than 10th and 10th. You know we've had that conversation a bunch of times and so if you think about it from that perspective, maybe you do do it that way. But if you're in a battle like if there's like like in a lot of times in these competitions, there's only two to five people who really have a shot at the top, yeah, and if you dog one and you lose the entire event because you did that?
Speaker 2:but then again, there's so much gamesmanship to it which is what I was hoping to have there because, like, okay, so the the best scores that we have on the cube test people are in the neighborhood of 1500 calories per hour. I don't think anyone's hit 1600 for an average. So you're looking at a essentially 100 calories in a window. Um, I think plus or minus 10 will be a band. That makes a whole lot of sense. You know 90 to 110, something in that range and like maybe you want to find out before what 90 feels like and what 110 feels like they don't feel similar. I'm gonna throw that out there. Yeah, well, that's what I was like, and what 110 feels like they don't feel similar, I'm gonna throw that out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, that's what I was getting at, right, like the swing, just the effort required to get 10 more calories is like right, that's that's, that's a non-trivial increase in effort. That might be that might result in like someone who could say, try to snatch 225 or something. It's like that's a, that's all, that's maybe 205, that or that becomes 185 as a safe lift and I hope I can get 205 over my head. And then it's like, maybe, maybe it was a five calorie difference and you could confidently hit that, that 205 number, something like that.
Speaker 1:So definitely a bit of gamesmanship, uh, along with strategy, tall and aerobic would be your best bet I was gonna say, I was gonna say that that is a big, you could toss a coin, big coin girl yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:What do you think about this one seb not seb preston?
Speaker 3:seb, what do you? Think about this one dog I can't do any of these, so they're all hard.
Speaker 1:You can row for four minutes.
Speaker 4:Everyone can do a four minute. I think that's the most beautiful thing about it is that, like you know, while it looks daunting, like everyone can in fact do this workout, it's the same workout across all divisions right divisions right and the beautiful thing is that like, unlike unlike some competitions where there's no cost to lifting, when it's just like a one rep max, you know the the winners kind of just decided by who shows up.
Speaker 4:You know, like you, you can't magically gain 100 pounds in your snatch to catch up with someone who can snatch 100 pounds more than you.
Speaker 4:But in that same breath, the way that it's been set up this year and even in the way that we did the lifting workout last year with MicroBrew you have to pay a tax in order to show your athleticism in your lift, and in this year's iteration of it, the tax is worth 100 points, right, so you can't hold back because you know you're gonna like be able to rip and grip on the barbell, um, because you might lose, you know, a whole entire event to somebody uh that you don't want to lose it to. And I'm also happy that it's a snatch, uh, I think a lot of times, like we just see cleans like all the time in competitions and and I think, giving people the chance to to show what they've been working on the snatch and and make keeping it open so you can power snatch if you want to, uh, I think we're going to have some really fun uh moments during this workout.
Speaker 2:Oh, hell yeah, for sure all right, um, I don't know this. Next one hunter could you take the fucking, could you take the w on this bad boy? Could you show up at the Purple Mountain Throwdown and win four rounds for time? 10 dumbbell box stepovers with the 60s slash 40s over 24 slash 20 inches. 50 foot farmers carry six burpee bar muscle ups 50 foot farmers carry this has got your name written all over it.
Speaker 1:We went four rounds on that.
Speaker 2:Yep Four rounds. I got a little squirrely after three.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw four to five rounds in the sheet and I was like, okay, this is what we're looking at. Yeah, I mean I like it. I'm super biased. I like stepovers, I like grip. Grip is something that I favor. Burpee bar muscle-ups are fun.
Speaker 2:I figure you like burpees burpee pull-ups, so you should be one of those weird movements that like kind of let almost like.
Speaker 1:uh defined my early crossfit days like man sealfitcom love 150 burpee pull-ups gonna say 8 000 for time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, run three miles 150 burpee pull-ups.
Speaker 1:run wear was going to say 8,000 for time. Yeah, Run three miles 150 burpee pull-ups.
Speaker 2:Wear a gas mask.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wear a gas mask backwards in your ankle weights and and a and a bulletproof vest. Um, yeah, um, I mean, I'll do the like. A similar kind of deal here, like I like this is going to have a much bigger spread, I think. I mean, I guess that the first one too, with it being seven rounds like, is going to naturally spread people out. But, but similar here, just the, the metabolic demand of the step overs and the burpee bar muscle ups like man. Round three, the, the fastest and slowest burpee bar muscle up are going to be like, I don't know, like 14 or 15 minutes apart you know, has the potential for that to be the case.
Speaker 1:But Preston is the 50 foot lane, a continuous lane. Is this, like you know you've got your boxes, you carry across to a rig. Do the rig stuff carry back to the boxes? Sort of deal.
Speaker 4:Yes, the lane will be 50 feet for the, for the carry continuously, no turning around.
Speaker 1:Beautiful at anywhere from like probably 30 to 60 seconds. 30 is pretty quick, 60 seconds, uh, once sadness kicks in, that's kind of like a later round sort of sort of time. Um, and then it's like there's a bit of the strategy of like do I in fact just hold on, like finish that 10th step over and just cruise through? I I I have to imagine people are going to do that and then burpee bar muscle ups are really kind of your pacer in this movement. Like you try to do those too fast.
Speaker 1:Like that next set of step overs are not going to be very much fun sort of situations where, like later on I do my burpee bar muscle ups, I farmers carry to the box and I immediately get, say, six of them done. I set the dumbbells down, shake out the grip and then I do four so that I can just like finish that fourth one and immediately do that farmers carry. So I had like 20 seconds of farmers carrying total in the round. So like 10, basically like 10 seconds kind of per 50 feet and then again six burpee bar muscle ups.
Speaker 4:That has that has a that has a that has a.
Speaker 1:That's 30 seconds when you're fresh and giddy, and that's a minute and a half minute and a half a minute and a half when you're. When you're sad. No-transcript.
Speaker 2:Time caps 12, right.
Speaker 4:Preston 12 minutes for the time cap.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So yeah, eight to 10 minutes with the 12 minute cap sounds about right, but there are going to be. It's probably closer to like if you crack 10 minutes, you're probably looking in the maybe the top five, you're probably looking in the maybe the top five, and then there's going to be a lot of folks who are not done at 12 minutes. How's my, how's my timing on that with testing?
Speaker 4:Oh, you're good. You're good, most people. So we had our individual tester. Nate is like the perfect avatar for this competition. He's like right there with like all his skill levels, but not like so good that he's going to put out some crazy score that like I can't really base it off of. He finished it in around like 10.05. So like he was good, or actually no, he's finished at sub 10, like nine. It was a high nine that he finished it in.
Speaker 4:Uh, because he was very smart about when he broke up his uh dumbbell box tip overs. He did in fact start doing it uh towards the the back end to complete the the four rounds. Um, he was able to stay very smooth on his uh burpee bar, uh, burpee bar muscle ups. But like you could see the sadness in 4k, like each round, like it just got kind of sadder and sadder and sadder and we were testing it. Like I said, we were testing up to five rounds and so when he got on his fifth round, I just felt really bad for him because I knew, I knew in my head I was like, yeah, we're gonna stop this at four, but I just need to see him finish this real fast just to make sure I'm not crazy on this time cap deal, um, and if you, this is an interesting workout to me because it's a, it's a great amount of rounds and I like it's one of my favorite movements.
Speaker 4:Like anything with a bar muscle up, I love uh with one of my most hated movements, which is a box step over, like. Like, I cannot stand a box step over Uh. So I know, for me personally, it would be something where, like, my strategy would probably have to be to break it from the beginning. That way I can do that directly from my second set of box step overs into the walk and then, like, try to be as efficient as possible in the bar muscle ups to get the best time possible. I'm interested in this one. I'm super interested in what the team version looks like, because this is a almost fully synchroed iteration for the teams, where they're stepping over the same times and they're locking out the top for their bar muscle ups at the same time. So that's going to be fun to see what happens.
Speaker 1:Oh man, that's such, that's such a sneaky like just adding that I'm under tension like that is, that'll be spicy, for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's. It's funny this, this one begs to be practiced, like, at least twice. Because upper body endurance is such a weird thing, right, like there's multiple things to take into account. So like there are athletes who are incredibly aerobic, that don't have good grip strength, which puts them in a weird position in this type of workout.
Speaker 2:Um, and when I think about it, it's like okay, you do need to be smart, you do need to pace it, but the upper body doesn't do great with like everything's even and broken up in this nice cute like okay, we're going five and five and then you know we're doing this and if I step down, I'm gonna be okay here in my burpee, whatever it is like the upper body typically, like we always talk about negative splits, the upper body likes positive splits. It's like, use me when I'm fresh and then be smart at some point, but that line is so fine. Yeah, like, like, I think it would. Honestly, I think it would take me because I'm not aerobic and don't have grip strength Like I think it'd take me three times through practicing this to figure out, like what the best thing is to do.
Speaker 1:There's really only like.
Speaker 2:The thing that I can say from the coaching aspect is on the farmer's carry and the stepovers, move faster, don't move exactly that's one of the reasons why people don't?
Speaker 2:run with those fucking dumbbells. People don't like stepovers because they hold on to the damn things for too long and they move slow, like move your ass and then set the dumbbells on the box, like that's what you do, like, but people don't. They're like I'm gonna settle in, this is heavy, I don't need to, you know, go crazy fast or whatever. And it's like, hey, making the step over slower fucks your legs and obviously holding on to that dumbbell any longer than you need to is a problem. So, um, I think it would feel weird for people to do, but exactly like.
Speaker 2:My first thought was the like, the whole dt thing of stopping a rep or two or three early, like Hunter said, to then pick it up, do that quick thing and then go straight into work on whatever is next for a amount of reps, that sort of thing. But I could see someone doing well in this workout with three sets on the stepovers in rounds three and four, where you walked back and did a few, set them down, did your middle set, made sure you were ready for another farmer's carry where you walked back and did a few, set them down, did your middle set, made sure you were ready for another farmer's carry did like two and bomb down like that sort of thing. I could see something like that working for someone who really had to game this type of workout.
Speaker 1:I, yeah, and I mean you got to like if you haven't practiced with those dumbbells either, like I kind of honestly keep glossing over the fact that that's, you know, 20 heavier than what you're most people are used to, right with 50s and 35s, you're. It's like that is a non-trivial, like weight increase and and I think that's probably like by math on the fast end is like that's that's probably not realistic. It is probably more like that 10 to 12 minute range for most, like sub 10, and you're, you're top five, top three in that workout. 10 to 12 minute range for most, like sub 10 and your your top five top three in that workout. 10 to 12 for most, 12 plus for some. Um, yeah, yeah, 12, 12, maybe 12 plus for many, but uh, yeah.
Speaker 1:I, I definitely, uh, definitely like a test, a test workout sort of situation like figuring out the right burpee bar, muscle up cadence that can save you a little bit, especially with, like your kind of longevity and your grip, but it sucks. Like your the positive split thing like absolutely agree with with the upper body, but like there's almost like only there's only one fucking opportunity to do it and it's like that first set of 10 and it's like okay then I gotta carry.
Speaker 1:Now I got burpee bar muscle ups. Now I got a farmer's carry and now it's like, okay, that didn't take very long for the metabolic demand to sink in and my grip is fucked Like is it, is it right into, is it unbroken? Then it's two sets and then it's three sets. Three sets, you know be. I think athletes should be open to that and kind of going by, going by feel in that grip component. Because, again, if you just think about it's event five, two.
Speaker 2:That is a whole different thing than testing yeah, exactly, um, yeah for sure.
Speaker 1:So, uh, yeah, yeah, 60s. I don't know about all that. No, I think I can still hang I think I could still hang. I'm not winning, but that does look like a fun workout.
Speaker 2:What, uh, I'm going to put you on the spot, Shep. What are you comfortable with? Teasing for the, for the uh chipper, Hmm, Hmm, it can be nothing, that's okay. I just after the testing, I was like man.
Speaker 1:Give me a hint as to which the final One were okay, yeah.
Speaker 4:I think you know if it's just me, if it's just me teasing I think there was an element last year of movement that there's there's a huge list of movements we weren't able to do, but there's a very classic movement in crossfit, um, that we're very excited to bring to the throwdown this year. Uh, that wasn't able to be included last year, um, and when we're going to test it in such a way that you know you're really going to be able to show either your proficiency at that movement or it's going to show you where maybe you should go back and keep training. You know what I mean, and I think that's going to be a very pivotal part of this chipper and I think it's going to be a great, great event to witness and participate in.
Speaker 1:The tail end of that bad boy is going to be interesting.
Speaker 2:Here's what I'll say about this. I won't say what any of the movements are, but I will say that you have to game the shit out of this workout. If you go into this workout with your chest puffed out, you will crumble at the end, even if you're good at the movements, which I think is fun. I just need to have that element as part of the test somewhere and also the drama of what could happen with certain athletes being in a certain position, going into that and having something entirely different tested, especially at that point in the weekend.
Speaker 2:That's a whole other part of conversations you have to have with athletes. It's like, hey, a lot of times these events will kind of one at a time and we're testing as we go, but normally we put it first in the day, Maybe it's after a rest day. You know it is lovely warm up and it's your playlist and there's no judge and there's no transition across the floor and so you think you know what you're getting yourself into and then you go to do that first set of something and it doesn't feel the way it did when you were fresh. Weird, like six workouts at that level of intensity in two days is no joke.
Speaker 4:No, it's going to be. It's definitely going to be fun, even when my um so my wife was the one that tested this and she's a pretty good athlete Um, and I don't think you know, I, whenever we test, I never I asked the athletes what their strategy is, but I never like tell them what to do unless.
Speaker 4:I think it's going to completely mess up the workout. I'm just like, okay, yeah, that sounds good and they can usually tell by like how much I kind of nod my head whether or not I think that's a good idea. But she just went like straight into it and it caught up.
Speaker 2:She's also good at the movement.
Speaker 4:She's also very good at the movement Hinting at. Yes, very good at the movement Be a trap. Yes, All the confidence in the world just flattened. But she did great. She did great because you might listen to those she did.
Speaker 1:Amazing has been. I was gonna be my question if it has been tested or not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been tested yes individual and team okay, what about event one? What, what, uh? What users can we put out there for event one?
Speaker 4:if you've ever been to a competition, that we have programmed yeah, yeah, I would say that, like, that's the biggest thing, uh, if, if you've ever been to, uh, if you compete at the program on throwdown last year, um, if you, I think, even if you follow like misfit athletics, even if you've gone to like a camp or something like that, and you don't think there's going to be something, um, that that tests you and uh, and, and I'll say a longer duration. Honestly, I'll just say a longer duration, uh, workout.
Speaker 1:Um, then you're, you're, you're, you're mistaken right and I think reps did you choose for this so it's actually entirely different oh, oh yeah, it's just different from some of our, some of our our running routes and oops some of our hiking routes.
Speaker 3:Are you're gonna have to bleep that part?
Speaker 2:um, some of the things that we looked at maybe were not in a time domain that we thought they may be. Yeah, you know, it's funny because I had an entire story I wanted to tell, but now I realize it will give away too much of the workout.
Speaker 1:Sorry to interrupt Shub.
Speaker 2:I'll abbreviate a little bit here. So we, prior to we come up with the name Misfit but I was still in college, hadn't home started the crossfit gym yet and we made t-shirts and based on, I think, the every second counts games you guys remember this where the crossfit games was a total time score oh yeah insane.
Speaker 2:So no one had any fucking idea what's going on. So we had standards for those workouts that you had to be able to hit to get the t-shirt. And, um, obviously I had the t-shirt because I made it and designed it. So I don't know if I hit the standards or not, but I got to have fun because it was mine, the I did the.
Speaker 2:I did the 2008 games with this other person, my roommate in college, but at elevation, and there was one part of it that holy shit, like, like there are pictures of me laying down on the ground. Shit, like, like there are pictures of me laying down on the ground and like I had never been so like hypoxic in my life, like the stars that I was seeing, because we actually went like outside to do it and we went like up in elevation a little bit. Oh my god, that was like a life-changing experience. Being a c-level for life person and exercising. There is a whole thing. So I guess I will say to the misfits um, as you're, you're, you're being convinced to go to this, don't, don't like, fly in the day of are the movements roughly the same oh, the movements of the Everything's.
Speaker 2:Almost everything's the same, it's just a rep scheme change to make it fit with a schedule and potentially not have people carried off in a stretcher.
Speaker 1:We're getting so fucking.
Speaker 2:And then event two Anything that you would like to say about event two.
Speaker 4:You know, I think event two it's going to be the best display of confidence and I think that's going to be like the trend throughout people who are successful in this workout is going to be whether you have already done the work to have that confidence, or if you're going to kind of find your wild, as we say, and just commit to completing the work required and embodying that confidence required. And embodying that confidence Because I think people who second guess themselves in this one, who get too much in their head it's going to destroy them. But I think people who come into it with a plan and then come into it with the mindset that they're just going to go, I think those are the people who are going to be successful. And even if you're not, I think you're going to get way more out of that workout if you do Just commit it can be overpaced yeah 100% Hunter.
Speaker 2:you've got process of elimination, so you can probably figure out what this is.
Speaker 1:I was just confirming how much it's changed.
Speaker 2:The order of events is different. I don't remember what I sent you.
Speaker 1:It's PurpleMountain25 is the name of the sheet. I don't know if that, let's see.
Speaker 2:Yes, so this on that sheet is.
Speaker 1:I mean, I got process of elimination down here. Sure, is it what's typed in there?
Speaker 4:I think so okay yeah, I don't think we changed, we didn't change.
Speaker 2:We didn't change anything about this, did we?
Speaker 4:no, no, no, it is it is very aesthetically pleasing.
Speaker 1:It is, and I'm I I do quite like an aesthetically pleasing workout um it's a throwback to the combination of movement. Ok, good Is it.
Speaker 2:The combination of movements is very much a throwback. It goes back to the roots of something that was programmed somewhat regularly and known as a devastating combination. But in a weird kind of way, yeah, um. But in a weird kind of way, yeah, not like my heart's gonna pop out of my chest kind of a thing, more like is my body going to come along for the ride on the back half of this trip.
Speaker 4:This was like this all right, here we go, legs like wrong bitch, we're staying here this one was probably my favorite like uh named workout that I did.
Speaker 4:Seb, I know you're on the profile. This one's called Scramble because I looked at the definition of scramble the straight-up definition, and it just fit so well in my mind for what this workout actually is, just because by the time you're scrambling up a mountain you don't have very far to go, but it might be awkward. You might have to overcome some stuff. You might have to move it away.
Speaker 2:It's not announced yet, is it?
Speaker 4:It's not announced, but I have dropped some of the names of the workouts and I will say that the second portion if you haven't process eliminated it, scramble is going to be coming out in our second release of workouts and that is this workout. I'm trying to see if we can scroll up, keep going up, keep going up. It's going to be a straight up mountain right there Down Down, the one. That's just a straight up mountain, got it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got the definition that first gif is pretty good that is fucking spot on. I think that gets the general idea across. Yeah, yeah, this is uh, uh, yeah, I agree with what you said. I think it's it's. I like the work, I like workouts like this, because like there are a lot of ways uh to kind of I don't know scramble most of the way up the mountain and like there's gonna be, or I guess there's there's one, there's there's one way to go up and there's a lot of ways to go down.
Speaker 1:Uh, I guess, maybe, maybe, in, maybe that's the best way to put it without, uh, completely dropping the bomb here, but it's yeah that ending that ending if that's not your jam that's yeah you're gonna it's funny.
Speaker 2:It's funny because two of the people right now on this podcast would love the end. I was gonna say I and two of the people right now on this podcast would love the end.
Speaker 1:I was going to say I quite enjoy this and two of the people would not like the end very much, and it's one of those.
Speaker 2:They're just movements that we do, where sometimes you see someone else do it and you're like what the fuck? We're not experiencing the same thing right now. Like I don't what? Yeah, like I don't, I don't know what the what is happening, I don't understand. So, yeah, this is definitely, um, if you're an OG, uh, a CrossFit OG, you'll understand what I'm saying when I say that this was, this was definitely a, a classic back in the day, um, when it comes to to movement combinations, and then there's just a little little skill twist thrown in there. So those are the three events that have been announced. When are the next three coming out?
Speaker 4:So it's going to be towards the back end of April. We're going to announce them, so it's going to be after the t-shirt cutoff. You do need to commit if you want to do it and get a t-shirt, but we do believe in I. I don't, there's nothing to hide, right, the test is gonna be, the test is gonna be the test. I rather people uh train for that way they can come show their best effort and I like just getting out there yeah and there's no.
Speaker 2:I mean I'll, I'll put people's minds at ease, but not their hearts, like there's no silly shit that we aren't announcing.
Speaker 1:That would be like, oh, I can't do this I'm not gonna sign up for it it's gonna be over a single leg, triple unders yes, yes, running, yeah, running.
Speaker 2:I don't you have to spin the rope five times under for every jump, while you're on it the moving the broken one jump, yeah, yeah. And there's no floater event that I could sneak in and win. That also typically means it's a decent competition. I used to be able to win all of the floaters and then come in last in all the other events.
Speaker 1:I love it. Where'd that one-rep max cleaning jerk?
Speaker 2:come from 13 seconds. Like how fast can you push this sled? Like 40 feet.
Speaker 4:The furthest med ball through dude, exactly Softball toss.
Speaker 2:Leap up, please. I still wish that wasn't scrubbed for the internet. I hope someone has that still, but you got some.
Speaker 3:Just if we can give a shout out to the media team. I wouldn't be doing my due diligence if we didn't just highlight the people that are working the competition. I know some of them. I don't know all of them, but I trust that the ones I do know you're already in really good hands, and the additional ones, they're going to be a good support system to the Purple Mountain Throwdown media team. Let me pull up the post real quick.
Speaker 4:Yeah, man, I'm. I, like I said, I feel extremely blessed. You know, one of my best friends, jonathan Ortega, is going to be our media coordinator for year two. Once again, he has assembled an amazing team of photographers and videographers. We have enough people to cover all three of our active floors throughout the whole thing, and then some.
Speaker 4:One of the best things of last year, one of the things we wanted to continue when we were creating this event, is you know, media tells stories, media captures moments, and media is super important for competitions, because people might not think about it or might not like consider it, but you want those moments. You know what I mean. Like you want to be able to remember. You know what you did when you held on for that last burpee bar muscle up in the crowd cheers and you ran back. You know, and these guys are there to capture that moment. So the the media package uh is available now. There's photo and video packages for anyone that does sign up. Um, there's like special things you can uh customize as well. Uh, john, and the team for PMT media, it's very, uh very open to working with you and uh just reach out. Man, so cool.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. Yeah, you guys have done a really good job of like a lot of times that's your entry point, right, like people haven't heard about this competition. You know a friend shares it, something like that. And being able to have, you know, just the graphical elements and in the video and the photo, I think you know gives you a little bit of a leg up to start, because, like, the amount of shit that's running through everybody's feed nowadays is is so overwhelming that you're going to find a way to to stand out for sure, a hundred percent A hundred percent.
Speaker 2:All right, gentlemen, it's time for final thoughts. Um, I'll kick it off just by sort of reiterating that, um, it's been cool to watch this process. You know, over the over the last you know, five, six years, I've gotten to to to know Shep a little bit and was really blown away by, like, his level of organization. Um, and you know, he sort of alluded to the fact that, like, hey, this is something that, like, I came into with that skillset and that was very evident. And then that second hurdle would be, um, was it worth it and are you going to do it again? Right, like, that's? That's something that, like, like, really matters. So, so, to know that you're, you're super organized, um, and really on top of your shit and learned a ton from last year, um, I think that's super exciting. And the workouts are. You know, we were able to to.
Speaker 2:One of the things we talked about last year was not, like making sure the programming was good but not complicated and not worrying about getting every possible weird piece of equipment there. Getting every possible weird piece of equipment there and the fact that we were able to iterate on that and add some elements, I think is really cool. But it's just, you know it's couplets, triplets. You know you've got a lift, you've got, you know, some skills in there. All that stuff you're going to be tested and the order of events I think will the leaderboard will not continue to look the same, which I think is is really fun at competitions.
Speaker 2:Um, you wouldn't want to lead someone down a path where it was very clear, I think, right off the bat. You know, in those first two or three events, and I think it's going to be a tale of two different days and someone's ability to really bring it on that second day, to kind of follow up a good performance on day one and day two, which could have to do with the programming and also could just have to do with with how fit you are. And, last but not least, you know, calling all misfits, whether it's this year, whether it's next year would love to to get a lot of misfits out to the competition, you know, so that we can justify getting ourselves out there and again, just, you know, hanging out with everybody and cheering you guys on and helping you with strategy and all that good stuff would be really great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think my, my final thoughts are just along the lines of good luck, have fun.
Speaker 1:For a second year in a row.
Speaker 1:I think it's always like I got to imagine you feel a little, at least a little bit more confident going in as far as the preparation and the, just knowing what like kind of lessons learned from the last time you did it and also understanding the military background, like that's been when it comes to competitions, albeit much smaller, at the home gym, like my brain is almost exclusively dialed into like, like the logistics of how this, how this is supposed to work and get set up, and I think that makes honestly, I think like that makes for like the good.
Speaker 1:That's that's what me arguably the best way to have a good, for people to have a good experience, is like does this run on time? Does this run efficiently? Run efficiently? There's always going to be the you know everybody. There's not going to be a single event where somebody doesn't complain about a judge or you know a judge doesn't give a wrong, no rep, or something like that, and that's just the inherent nature of CrossFit competitions. And so I think the fact that you've like you have the mindset of like, let's just let's make this smooth, let's make this run run like efficiently, like. I think all of the other stuff becomes so much easier when those sorts of things are in play. So good luck, man thanks.
Speaker 4:Yeah, dude, crush it and best of luck no I thoughts preston yeah, no, I one, I really appreciate it. One um, I remember when we first came up with the idea for the Purple Mountain Throwdown, I took out the whiteboard and I just created a whole bunch of workouts. I created six workouts really fast and I was sitting there and I was showing my wife and she said, hey, have you ever considered outsourcing the workouts? And I was like you know what? I think that's an amazing idea and I feel truly blessed and super grateful. That drew you and Hunter and the whole Misfit team, um, that we have that relationship and that I could text you and be like hey, I have this idea. Uh, this is what we're driving towards.
Speaker 4:Um, I would love nothing more than to use Misfit programming for this competition, because I believe in this program and I believe in this training methodology that Misfit puts out to be there as like a sounding board as we move through. Uh, you know battling what is logistics versus stimulus, versus uh programming overall. Um, you guys have been amazing and this community has been amazing. Um, I want to give a huge shout out to all the misfits that did come last year. Uh, we definitely did have some misfits travel out. We had tony. Uh, zanderander was emceeing for us Zander's coming back as the emcee this year, which is going to be awesome, and I just think it's going to be a great time, and I really would love to see the program that I've been following since 2017 and the people that I've been associating with since 2017 use us.
Speaker 4:That's what we're creating this for. Use it as a chance to come together and hang out, and let's make this a Misfit thing. I do want to say, seb I know I sent it to you. I don't know where you're going to post it, but if you are listening to this podcast, until we close registration, the promo code PMTMisfit25 is going to be available for any Misfit listeners to sign up and get discount for signing up for the competition. We have individual and team competition, teams of two. We have a co-ed division this year as well, too, for those teams. So, like I'm just, I'm just pumped for it, man, I'm just excited.
Speaker 2:Hell, yeah, yeah, I'll. I'll give the details here in a second, but just, you know, we say it very often and sometimes people take us up on it and sometimes people don't. Supporting the people that support us means a lot Like this is definitely for us, a two-way street. So you know, you come into a bunch of events and following the programming and posting about us on social media and you know the people that take that extra leap to put themselves out there into the community and maybe help some others along, I think is incredibly important, because it's not. You know, we're not always going to feel comfortable to do so and I think that you've been kind of an integral part of that. So we appreciate it and want to support what you do, just as a way to say thanks.
Speaker 2:So the purple mountain throwdowncom June 21st through the 22nd in Colorado Springs purple mountain underscore throwdown on Instagram, if you just want to click some links and bios to get signed up. Signups are going to be open here for a while, but the t-shirt deadline is April 15th and the promo code that I've already forgotten that he's going to tell you what it is again here in a second is going to get you a little bit of a discount. So get signed up, let us know, force us to hop on an airplane and come out and see you in Colorado.
Speaker 4:Yeah, let's do it. Pmt Misfit 25.
Speaker 2:Beautiful. Thank you for tuning into another episode of the misfit podcast. Misfit athleticscom. Seven-day free trial for off-season block number one team, misfitcom. Click on sign up now and you will be taken to a place where you can get a 14-day free trial. Push press, stream, fit and sugar wad. Thank you for joining us, preston. We'll see you guys next week later.