A Conversation with Alex Gazan and Does it Pay to be a Winner
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
CrossFit Games athlete Alex Gazan joins the show fresh off her first place finish at the North America West Semifinal. She talks about the lessons she learned in Pasadena, her expectations for the CrossFit Games, dealing with online criticism and why Brian Friend is motivating her to do well in Madison. Does winning your semifinal mean you're going to be successful at the CrossFit Games? Sean, Tommy, Lauren and Brian Friend discuss what history has to say about that. Plus, a nature-themed edition of Crazy Things We Saw.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness. I'm Sean Woodland, |
| 0:04.3 | going to be joined by a whole host of characters today. Tommy Marquez will be here, |
| 0:09.2 | Lauren Khalil will be here, and then later on in the show, Brian Friend, will be joining us as well. |
| 0:13.8 | But we're going to start with a conversation that Lauren, Tommy, and I had with the North America |
| 0:19.7 | West semi-finalinal champion Alex Gazan. |
| 0:23.3 | And then after that, Brian Friend will join us to talk about an article that he has up on |
| 0:27.2 | his website right now. |
| 0:29.0 | Regarding, does winning a semifinal predict your success at the CrossFit games? |
| 0:35.5 | We have a good discussion on that. |
| 0:36.8 | So without further ado, here's our conversation with Alex Gazan. |
| 0:42.7 | Let's welcome in our guest. |
| 0:44.2 | She is now a two-time CrossFit Games athlete, |
| 0:48.0 | and she's the champion of the North America West semifinal. |
| 0:52.3 | Alex, how are you doing today? |
| 0:56.3 | Hi, I'm good. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm tired. |
| 0:59.1 | How are you going? |
| 1:00.3 | We're good. |
| 1:01.8 | Let's just go back now to the semifinals. |
| 1:06.4 | And going in, I don't know, you were something that people viewed as someone who was going to qualify, |
| 1:12.1 | but I don't know if people thought you were going to win the whole thing. |
| 1:15.1 | What were your expectations for when you showed up in Pasadena? |
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