Lionhearted

This week the boys sat down for a chat about Coaching and a little bit about being on the receiving end of coaching. The conversation was sparked by a blog post titled “If you see something, say something” written by Janet Navarette on Pat & Taz Barbers programming website, Warmup and Workout. As coaches and coaches of coaches and even as athletes, this is an idea that Danny and I have thought about, talked about, and experienced both sides of for many years now, so it made for a fun hour of exploring.

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Check out the original WUWO blog post here: https://warmupandworkout.com/blog/if-you-see-something-say-something/
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This week the boys sat down for another chat about Nutrition. Since this is a topic where there is constantly new information and Danny and Dave are constantly reading, learning and experimenting it only seemed fitting that they have another chat on the subject with some updates for 2019. Additionally, Dave just launched in-house nutrition services at Croga CrossFit through the Working Against Gravity Affiliate Program and he’s super pumped about being able to do one-on-one, personalized, nutrition coaching for their athletes and friends.

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Find out more about Croga Nutrition: https://crogacrossfit.com/croga-nutrition-powered-by-wag/

This week the boys sat down sat down with the lovely, Andrea Cecil. She’s the former assistant managing editor & head writer of The CrossFit Journal. Andrea and Dave crossed paths about 6 years ago when she moved to town for a job at CrossFit HQ. A couple months ago her husband, Tony, and her popped in to one of Dave’s Oly classes to throw some weight around and they got to chatting about having her on The Lionhearted Podcast. In this week’s conversation, we chatted about the effect CrossFit has had on the female aesthetic inside and outside the box, how doing CrossFit and earning the physical capacity that comes with that changes the way women think about the way they look in the mirror and, how the rise of our sport has produced some solid role models for young girls by promoting health, wellness and function over looks alone as the metric for confidence and self-worth.

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Youtube Video Andrea referenced in the podcast - Letting Beauty Speak: https://youtu.be/CDXxURPagpM

This week the boys sat down for a chat about the 2019 Open. More specifically, some lessons we’ve learned over the previous 8 years of The Open, including how to perform your best during the workouts, how to motivate yourself even though you’re not going to The CrossFit Games, how to stay safe and healthy through the five week long competition and how to enjoy the hell out of this yearly test and celebration of fitness.

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This week the boys sat down for a chat about an opinion piece titled “CrossFit Still Needs Its Heroes”, written by the Editor-in-Chief of The Morning Chalk Up, a daily CrossFit focused email dedicated to keeping it’s readers up to date with the CrossFit community. This article was the perfect follow up to our conversation last week in episode 34 about the changes to the CrossFit.com main site and the overall change in focus of CrossFit HQ because it raised the questions of “who will we all look to as inspiration to help us dig a little deeper at the end of a workout?” Which is where we all know the most progress is made physically and mentally. And, “who will be the face of the sport that our kids look up to and pretend to be when they’re lifting weights, running laps and doing pull-ups? Who will be the Michael Jordan or Mia Hamm of CrossFit if we don’t remember to promote our sport as a sport?” As Justin said at the end of his blog post, “young athletes need to pin up posters of champions in their garages, imagining they’re going rep-for-rep with Mat Fraser; grabbing just one more before the time cap. The next generation needs to wake up hungry, hungry to compete, to grow, to sweat, to hurt, to earn it, and to win.” and Danny and I had a fun time chatting about how and why this is an important piece for the future of CrossFit.
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Read the opinion piece here: https://morningchalkup.com/2019/01/25/crossfit-still-needs-its-heroes-opinion/
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