This week on Barbell Shrug, we interviewed Teen USA, coach Matt Chan, Jason Kleepa, Ben Smith, and of course, Rich Froning.

Hey, this is Rich Froning. You're listening to Barbell Shrug. For the video version, go to BarbellShrug.com.

Welcome to Barbell Shrug. Mike Bloods here with Doug Larson. We have traveled to Cookville, Tennessee to hang out with the men's Teen USA for what's the name of the competition we're doing, Matt?

It's a CrossFit Invitational. CrossFit Invitational, which will be in Berlin in a couple of weeks. And Matt Chan is here as the coach.

Hi, coach Matt. We have Rich Froning here, and Ben Smith. And we've got Hollywood there in the back. Jason Kleepa, getting worked on.

Yeah, so you guys are all coming in, training together, and Matt, you got all these guys on the same training program?

The same training program. These guys are doing exactly what I've said. Told them to do for the last six months.

No, we're just getting together and we're really just trying to work together as a team.

Iron out some details and see what we're good and bad at.

So today we were watching and you're doing a lot of team building-type programming. A lot of the wads we're holding.

Yeah, holds while the other partner does thrusters or actual team of it.

Actual team of it. Yeah, I think I know that these guys are good at individual events.

I don't really need to test them at that. There's a reason why they were one, two, and three in the CrossFit games. They're plenty good.

But it's interesting how you take a bunch of individuals, you put them on a team, and then all of a sudden maybe things clash a little bit.

Things start falling apart. But not today, I thought these guys worked pretty well together.

Is there going to be individual and team events for these guys, or are they doing only team?

Well, the way that it works is everything's designated as a routine USA versus team world.

Oh, so I thought it was just USA versus Europe.

That's world now. So the US is battling everybody.

That's right. That's right. And they just can't bring it. They can't step it up enough. We're going to have to make it versus the universe.

One world team against USA or multiple different world teams.

That's what I'm saying. They should have multiple different world teams.

...