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I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson

Hello, and we are going to answer more of your coaching questions this time and we mean it

We're actually gonna answer your questions. I've got a lot of them

No, so we're actually recording this right after recorded the last one. That's true

I have not gone to Israel yet, but by the time this comes out. I will probably be racing pond

Yeah, not the pond, but it's a big pond

Pacific. I don't know which way going to the other side of the world quite literally

What day are you racing that then? It's Friday. Yep. You'll probably if you listen to it when it comes out

You'll be listening to it probably but they're not so done with my with your race for the US or yeah, we'll see yeah, so exciting stuff

It's almost like we're bending time space. Yeah, yeah

But we're gonna answer more of your coaching questions and

The we got a some feedback for sure

We knew that we were playing with fire when we said we were gonna mention CrossFit on this podcast and

We had somebody send in a question or a number of people sending questions just questioning the efficacy of that and

Everything else so Chad you wanted to share some thoughts just more or less on this

Yeah, I mean should we preface it with what this guy's asking?

Yeah, specifically I guess within the context of FTP testing and everything else. I'll go ahead and read that out

so

Let's see yeah, he says hey guys love the podcast and love the app recently gave five stars and iTunes

Thank you very much claps for that talk me off the ledge here because I'm super frustrated

I'm getting ready for a seven-day trip to Italy in France to do some major climbs this summer

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