A Conversation with Dallin Pepper
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dallin Pepper has grown up competing in CrossFit. The former two-time teenage champion is hoping to duplicate that achievement as an individual. The last two years at the CrossFit Games, Pepper has not finished lower than 4th and was one spot away from standing atop the podium in 2024. This year, Pepper is hoping to complete the journey and be crowned Fittest Man on Earth. Tommy Marquez and Lauren Kalil talk with him about his goals for 2026, how his public persona has changed over the years and his unique friendship with Jayson Hopper.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three, go. |
| 0:02.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness. |
| 0:14.0 | Tommy Marquez here, alongside Lauren Cole. |
| 0:17.0 | Sean Woodland is on assignment, |
| 0:20.0 | slash getting the day off off slash always just busy. |
| 0:23.3 | So it'll be just us too while the grown up is in the room is away. |
| 0:28.3 | Lauren, first and foremost, seems like you're actually in some good weather for a change. |
| 0:32.7 | How are you doing? |
| 0:33.8 | I know. I'm great. It's funny when I'm in better weather than you and Sean because you guys always have the beautiful California weather of it's 70 and sunny every day, but you're actually in more layers than I am for once. So I'm in Florida and my parents condo for just a quick day and a half before another work trip. |
| 0:54.9 | And the weather here is excellent, not a cloud in the sky. |
| 0:57.7 | And it's almost 80. |
| 0:59.8 | It is 45 and rainy and windy here. |
| 1:03.5 | We got like, I want to say like, oh yeah. |
| 1:07.5 | It was 39 degrees when I woke up this morning. |
| 1:10.2 | Oh, man. I don't think that your blood is thick enough for that. |
| 1:14.6 | I mean, yeah, I'm a closer to the equator type person in terms of weather climates, but I can handle both in moderation for sure but yeah exactly well we do have some |
| 1:31.7 | stuff to talk about we'll be joined in just a little bit by friend of the program and one of the |
| 1:37.0 | fittest dudes walking this planet down and pepper we have a little bit of open registration and open talk with some new athletes being |
| 1:46.7 | announced, some more action on WFP side. And really, the kickoff to 2026 is just about a week |
| 1:56.0 | away if you're listening to this. But before we get to that, we want to say thanks to our sponsor for today and always, |
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