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Barbell Shrugged

Andrea Ager: Faith, Fitness, and Finding Your Passion — Real Chalk #55

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Andrea Ager is passion personified. She attacks everything she does with her whole heart, whether it's running track, competing in CrossFit, coaching her AgerBomb seminars, or sharing her faith. As a high-level athlete and an instructor, she knows it's crucial to never stop learning about training and nutrition for herself so that she can better serve her clients. Andrea's drive to never stop improving has inspired some crazy decisions, like leaving the CrossFit coaching staff to branch out on her own and moving halfway across the country to train for the Games with a team she'd never met (and get to know a certain guy better 😉).

 

Andrea's a Colorado native now living in New York, but we used to train together in LA back in the early days of CrossFit so you know this episode includes some reminiscing about Regionals (RIP), references to He Who Should Not Be Named (that's Dave Castro for you uneducated folk), and a discussion about the realness of competition depression and the danger of letting your performance as an athlete define who you are. We share some pros and cons of being your own boss, make fun of the "Instagram models" New York is overrun with, and explain the necessity of having several pursuits if you're going to make it as an entrepreneur. I ask Andrea to talk about her experience with Faith RX'd, and she gives the Cliffs Notes version of how she met her husband (first year of marriage insights included! Listen up kids).

 

It's a conversation between two old friends with a great vibe and a ton of helpful info for people interested in setting out on their own. It's a little deep, a little silly, a little weird (just wait for the gummy bear analogy), and a lot awesome.

 

Enjoy!

– Ryan

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Right now it is currently Christmas Eve and you may or may not be listening to this episode on Christmas Day

0:07.0

December 25th when it comes out. I happen to sit down with an old friend, Mrs. Andrea Ager. I'm not supposed to say Ager anymore

0:14.0

I'm supposed to say Mum Paulevo. I probably said it wrong. I'm sorry Andrea if you're listening. Anyway, Andrea and I were really good training partners way back in the day when CrossFit was fucking awesome.

0:27.0

It was such an amazing time. I have these pictures of us just sitting outside on the sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles and it's me and one of our old training partners named Basil and Ronnie Teesdale and it was just such an amazing time that it's really really really hard to emulate now.

0:45.0

It's really really hard to even imagine right now because during that time we were like going to other people's gyms and throwing down and it was just such a...

0:55.0

Everybody was welcome at every gym and CrossFit was still super exciting. You didn't even know how to train for it yet. You just did everything in hopes of getting better and that's exactly what Andrea and I did actually during that time.

1:08.0

We did so many things that probably were not smart but we had so much fun during that time and it's just such an unbelievable time.

1:17.0

Because of those times I have such an unbelievable relationship with Andrea and we just shared so many times together that it just makes for a great friendship.

1:28.0

After this show it was the first time I had seen her in... God knows how long it was probably years actually. We actually had an actual conversation with her and you got to hang out with her. She actually kidnapped me very shortly after the show and I stayed with her for two nights in Brooklyn.

1:45.0

She recorded this in Manhattan right after the strong fit at Solace New York gym. She came to my hotel. We had a great podcast and then she's like, you're coming with me.

1:56.0

And then I hung out with her in Brooklyn and I was supposed to go home the next day. I wound up changing my ticket and I just had... We had such a great time.

2:03.0

I actually almost was that we did the podcast after we hung out because there was so many funny things that happened during that time and how much different that she is right now.

2:10.0

If you are an Andrea Ager fan and you haven't heard from her in a while, this is going to be the episode that you really want to listen to.

2:17.0

If you just want to listen to some OG cross-set people talking. This is also a great episode for you. She's also really involved with her faith. So she brings that up quite a bit.

2:25.0

So there is a little bit of everything in this episode and I'm really excited for you guys to listen to it.

2:31.0

Before we get into the show, I will go over the sponsors that we have for the show which makes everything go round.

2:36.0

Right now currently, it's going to be going off of the Ryan Fisher products. So it is Christmas time and I think that during Christmas time it is a very important time to not forget about your fitness and not be like, you know what?

2:48.0

I'm not going to do anything until New Year's Day because that's when New Year's resolutions start and that's what I'm going to do my thing.

2:56.0

But you know, really the longer that you guys hold out and you really just don't do anything is just like the worst that it gets.

3:03.0

And you start digging yourself into this hole that just gets really, really, really, really hard to get out of.

3:08.0

So I've made a bunch of ebooks recently that are just for pretty much everyday people, people who are traveling, people who are into the things that I'm into currently, and people who just want to change things up quite a bit.

3:22.0

So the first thing that I just came out with literally just today is a 30 days of dumbbells only workouts.

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