5-MINUTE FRIDAY: What Are You Choosing Because It's Comfortable?
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Recapping a hectic week with some thoughts on the power of allowing others to support you.
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| 0:00.0 | 🎵 |
| 0:20.3 | Emily a body coming in hot that felt unnatural. Here I am. |
| 0:24.8 | And here I am, to grace your feats with a little rambling thoughts and wisdom for you |
| 0:31.7 | to take into your weekend. |
| 0:33.3 | I today recorded my sixth hurdle episode of the week. |
| 0:38.7 | It has been an insane week. |
| 0:41.3 | I am working to kind of get my ducks in a row before heading out of town next week. |
| 0:47.8 | And so that meant getting a leg up on all the work that I had on deck. |
| 0:53.6 | So having the opportunity to interview some really awesome people. |
| 0:57.6 | So one of the people that I sat down with, you're going to be hearing from her on Monday. |
| 1:01.5 | Her name is Brooke Wells. |
| 1:03.5 | If you don't know Brooke, she is a cross fitter. |
| 1:06.5 | She came in fifth at the CrossFit Games last week. |
| 1:10.7 | I've been wanting to chat with Brooke forever and was so excited that we were finally able |
| 1:15.6 | to make this happen. |
| 1:17.0 | And something that I really took away and was really just enamored by from our conversation |
| 1:23.2 | was the fact that for the first six years of Brooke competing professionally, CrossFit |
| 1:28.7 | being her profession, she did it alone. |
| 1:34.2 | And that she trained alone, she worked remotely with a coach, but she found that next level |
| 1:41.1 | of intrinsic motivation to get up every day and not just do hard things. |
| 1:47.0 | I mean, hard sometimes for me is like walking to the mailbox downstairs. |
| 1:53.9 | Brooke was out there like slamming PRs, lifting heavy barbells overhead, putting in the work |
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