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The WODcast Podcast

347 Lauren Gravatt at school

The WODcast Podcast

The Wodcast

Health & Fitness, Sprinting, Functional, Crossfit, Weightlifting, Fitness, Gymnastics, Crossfitgames

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary



We take the Bingle Bus to pick up 2X Games, 6XRegional athlete, Lauren Gravatt at her school where she is taking classes to become a physical therapist. We talk about everything from her future in the sport to her diet to everybody being Crossfit obsessed and lots more.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, before we start the show, I want to talk to you about our sponsors. We got a new one today.

0:10.0

I want to talk to you because you're cross fitters and swimming is an important part of overall fitness

0:17.1

And you've seen it in the games in the last few years. I mean the last like three four years.

0:21.3

I can't count how many for five years maybe

0:24.1

swimming has been included so if it's not a part of your daily regimen or

0:29.6

weekly regimen training regimen you need to get it in there because it is, you know, if you can't

0:35.6

swim, you're not really that fit.

0:37.7

And a lot of you can't swim.

0:39.2

That's why there's the new wave swim buoy.

0:42.1

A lot of competition swimmers, open water swimmers use these things. I've used

0:46.0

it. It's amazing. And I'll tell you why it's amazing for two reasons. It's amazing for safety, safety,'s the one reason the other reason is safety safety safety safety

0:58.2

What it is this is first I'll explain to you what it is it's a swim buoy that you attach to your waist by a nylon web belt and then

1:06.4

it's pulled behind you. It's so light, floats right behind you, you can't even feel that

1:10.4

it's there, you swim with it and it creates visibility. So if you're out in the

1:15.7

open water where there's lots of boats and you're swimming, they can't see you. But there's

1:20.0

this neon thing. They come in neon green, neon yellow, neon pink or neon orange. They see that,

1:26.0

they're going to go around it. They don't want to screw up their boat, wreck into you, so they're

1:29.4

going to go around it. But also, every once a while, and I know this from the past of my swimming experience,

1:37.0

you get cramps when you're out there. You get tired, you get sore, you need to take a break.

1:42.0

Guess what? You can float on this thing

1:43.7

this thing will hold you forever not forever I'm not going to guarantee that but

1:47.9

it'll float you you can take a little break hang out out there when you're

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