CrossFit Games Podcast

“I’ve always wanted to change the world. ... Sitting at the end of those 48 hours (at the Level 1), I was like, ‘This is how you change the world.’”
CrossFit Wonderland affiliate owner and Certified CrossFit Trainer (CF-L4) Caroline Lambray joins host Adrian Conway on the “More Than Fitness” podcast to share her story about becoming a CrossFit gym owner, changing lives, and coaching CrossFit Games champion Jeff Adler.
In 2023, Lambray became the first female coach to lead an athlete to the title of Fittest on Earth, coaching Adler — a five-time Games athlete — to his first championship. But when she first started CrossFit and took her Level 1, she thought her career would go in a different direction.In today’s episode, Lambray dives into her passion for changing lives through CrossFit and its methodology. She details her experience coaching in other gyms, discusses her dream to be on the Seminar Staff, and expands on her desire to help people own their health journeys to be independent later in life.
Lambray opens up about meeting Adler, seeing his potential as an athlete, and becoming his coach. She explains how communication and asking questions strengthen their coach-athlete relationship, and shares the highs and lows of their CrossFit journey, leading up to his 2023 title.
Tune in to hear more on Lambray’s role as a coach to everyday athletes and to the Fittest Man on Earth, being an affiliate owner and wanting to change the world, and how and why CrossFit works for everyone.

The 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games season kicked off with the live announcement of CrossFit Open Workout 22.1 in Boulder, Colorado. Games perennials Pat Vellner and Noah Ohlsen, and Bethany Shadburne and Danielle Brandon went head-to-head and set the scores to beat.
In this episode, Vellner, Ohlsen, Shadburne, and Brandon join host Chase Ingraham after the live announcement to talk about their experience with the event, tips and tricks for a successful Open workout, and their preparations for the 2022 season.

“Your self-worth is not going to be married to what number reflects your name on the leaderboard. ... At the end of the day, it’s more important to know that you did the best effort that you could, to know that you now have some good insight into some things that can maybe improve your training.” — Adrian Bozman
Competition Director Adrian Bozman joins host Chase Ingraham in today’s episode to recap the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games Open and look ahead to the second stop on the road to the Games — Quarterfinals.
After three weeks, four tests, and hundreds of thousands of competitors, the Open has come to an end. Boz gives insight into the programming for this year’s Open and details “big ticket” ideas he wanted to implement each week, including movement variety, a repeat element, and a heavy lift.
He also explains the value in benchmark and repeat workouts on an individual and community scale, and offers advice and encouragement on athlete growth to those who were discouraged or disappointed with their performances this year.
With the Open in the rearview, Ingraham and Boz look ahead to Quarterfinals with individuals up first.
In addition to reviewing Quarterfinals details, including invite schedules, floor plan releases, and score submission dates, the pair also discusses some of the reasons why the Quarterfinals stage of competition is a special time for the CrossFit community.“
(Quarterfinals) is a celebration of our champions, our local champions, and the people within our affiliates that are top of the top,” Boz says.Boz also reminds Quarterfinalists that only athletes who qualify for Quarterfinals and register for the competition will be included in the worldwide ranking calculation.
Find out what Boz learned from this year’s Open, analyze top scores from the Open leaderboard with the crew, and learn best score submission practices for Quarterfinals.Learn More About Quarterfinals:
The Worldwide Ranking System: How It Works → https://games.crossfit.com/article/worldwide-ranking-system-how-it-works/games
What Are Quarterfinals? → https://games.crossfit.com/article/what-are-2023-crossfit-games-quarterfinals
Quarterfinals Schedule → https://games.crossfit.com/quarterfinals/scheduleCrossFit Open Leaderboard → https://games.crossfit.com/leaderboard/open
Presented by RP Strength.

In 2020, the CrossFit Games team announced that they would be introducing an adaptive division to the CrossFit Games season. Since then it has yet to catch more flak than traction centering around the implementation, available divisions and standards, and lack of in person representation at The CrossFit Games.
Fast forward to 2023, the CrossFit Games have just announced the brand new format for adaptive athletes. New Director of the Adaptive Division and former CrossFit Games Champion Kevin Ogar joins the show. We talk about what went into the decision to make this change and what we can look forward to next year's CrossFit Games season.
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Presented by @LiveMomentous.
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The CrossFit Games are the ultimate proving grounds for the Fittest Man and Fittest Woman on EarthTM and are world-renowned as the definitive test of fitness.
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The CrossFit Games began as a backyard fitness festival in 2007 on a ranch in Aromas, California.
Within a decade, they had become a worldwide phenomenon with hundreds of thousands of individuals competing in the largest participatory fitness event in the world — the Open — and ending with millions watching our sport's greatest athletes battle to be crowned the Fittest on Earth.
Host Chase Ingraham and three-time CrossFit Games team champion Adrian Conway take a look back at the history of some of the most popular sports in the world to see how they evolved over the years and how long it took them to get where they are today.
Presented by G-SHOCK.