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The Free Man

#367 - Rowing & Muscle Ups with Olympian Dr Cameron Nichol

The Free Man

Ben Coomber

Self-improvement, Education, Science, Natural Sciences, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The 2012 Olympics saw Dr Cameron Nichol compete in rowing for Team GB, which spurred a transition to creating Rowing WOD, crossfits answer to mastering the art of rowing which has now been used by many of the world top 10 crossfit athletes. He did this while training in medicine and being a complete legend. Cameron joins me to chat fitness, crossfit aka competitive fitness, the art of rowing, movement, training, mindset, the state of fitness, overcomplicating something super simple... getting fit and my small calves!!

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Benkimer Radio episode, it doesn't matter.

0:03.6

So my guest today I'm in person with, and I'm trying to do this more because I think it leads to

0:08.7

a better show, right?

0:09.9

You're able to connect, you're able to really feel the energy and the dynamic. Now this guest today has a

0:16.6

background in high-level sport. He's doing great things in the Cross Fit world.

0:21.0

He knows a lot of cool stuff and do you know what I just

0:25.3

kind of like him I've been following this stuff for a little while and I'm just like

0:28.4

you're doing good things and we better introduce this man. Cameron Nickel.

0:34.0

Hello.

0:35.0

Hi Ben, how you doing?

0:36.0

Mate, I am awesome.

0:38.0

We're in a very poky office.

0:41.0

It smells of a dog.

0:42.0

You've already dropped water all over the floor

0:44.3

nearly cremating a 42 inch plasma TV and hopefully the show will be a little bit

0:49.8

better than our entrance easy yeah well so so we're, my friend's gym called Blitz. It's the first gym

0:56.7

and I really started doing cross fitting and yeah, it's a nice small office but a really

1:01.8

cool space outside. So yeah, it's awesome. small office but a really cool space outside so yeah so

1:04.2

diving in quickly on your background because we'll pick apart elements of your

1:08.4

background we don't want like the full story right now like keep the

1:12.2

audience on their toes.

1:14.4

Okay.

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