Hey everybody it's Eddie Yift and we're about to start this episode of the

Wadcast podcast with my guest Doug Chapman if you are new to Cross Fit and you're not familiar with

Doug Chapman that's your fault get acquainted figure out who he, or just listen to this episode, because we kind of get into it, but Doug's one of the OGs.

He's been around since practically the beginning of Cross Fit.

He is the owner of the Hyper Fit affiliate in Michigan. I stopped

by his place in Ann Arbor to, we're right outside of Ann Arbor. I don't know where

it was. It's

scary. There's lots of militia there. It's a lot of cold.

I don't know what's going on but I got to go over to Doug's house. He

welcomed me in and we did this interview and the guy has not only

coached some of the top top top athletes in the Cross Fit Games people from

Julie Fushe, China Cho, Neil Maddox,

Brooke Wells, Nick Yeranker, you name it. They've all kind of gone through him.

And the guys got some knowledge that's unbelievable.

He's certified up to the hill with, you name it, L-1s,

L2s, kettlebells, weightlifting, gymnastics, mobility, power lifting,

crossfit power lifting, pose running,

the guy knows his shit.

That's all I'm saying.

And he sat down with me in his kitchen and talked to me all about CrossFit.

I wish we recorded everything but we couldn't.

So we had an off-the-record conversation, we had an on-the-record conversation, and we got to know each other way before we even put

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