Ask Me Anything on the Past, Present, and Future of CrossFit w/ Director of Government Relations and Research at CrossFit, Inc. Russ Grenne, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Greg Pitts — Barbell Shrugged #413
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Russ Green is the Director of Government Relations and Research at CrossFit, Inc. His tenure at CrossFit started at the original CrossFit gym in Santa Cruz, CA where he admits he did not get along or care for Greg Glassman. He stuck around, continued to grow, and is now spearheading CrossFit's defense against some the largest companies in the world in CrossFit's efforts to raise awareness for health, longevity, and the benefits of functional fitness.
In this episode, the Shrugged crew digs deep in to the current state of CrossFit, Greene's history with the company, moments where the company was under attack, and the future was uncertain.
Minute Breakdown:
1-10 What is the Director of Government Relations for CrossFit
11-20 Getting a luck break to work at CrossFit
21-30 is CrossFit the best methodology for training with all the new methodologies
31-40 Controversies in the CrossFit Community
41-50 Legally, what is CrossFit and battling for the trademark
51-60 The Russels and the final chapter of Russ Berger
61-70 Coaching is a different skill and is learned through doing
71- 80 Is CrossFit the Games or for old people
81-90 Why NSCA is confirmed to be lying about CrossFit
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| 0:00.0 | Truck family, we have a banger for you today. We get to hang out with Russ Green. He is |
| 0:05.7 | the insider to all the knowledge of |
| 0:09.7 | Everything that has ever happened in CrossFit. He's like the gatekeeper to everything at CrossFit |
| 0:16.0 | The only person that knows more than him, Greg Blasman |
| 0:19.2 | I've been super stoked to talk to him. We've been chatting on text message and |
| 0:24.2 | Actually even had a bone call |
| 0:26.6 | Turns out he's a really legit dude and he opens up and answers every single question about the past the present and the future of CrossFit |
| 0:35.0 | And it is awesome |
| 0:37.0 | super excited for you to listen to this this is our first interview coming out of the CrossFit games and |
| 0:42.4 | It's a really really good one. I never thought that CrossFit would be so open and |
| 0:47.3 | So willing to talk about the inner workings and where the company is going? |
| 0:52.3 | Why are they changing their marketing? How they feel about the CrossFit games the new Sanctumals and then the general messaging that they're getting out with all these weird videos of old people picking up water bottles in their house |
| 1:05.2 | Russ is an awesome dude. We only got lunch after that's where a lot of the magic happens to |
| 1:11.2 | Just very grateful that he was able to spend a couple hours with us in Madison during his busy schedule and |
| 1:17.0 | It's a phenomenal interview. The one-tone challenge training plan is launching right now |
| 1:23.3 | You have today and tomorrow when's day and Thursday to get in improve your squat snatch clean jerk |
| 1:31.6 | Bench and deadlift those six lifts the big six that allow you to find out if you're actually strong |
| 1:39.0 | That's why we made the one-tone challenge because we want you to add all six of those lips up squat that bench |
| 1:43.9 | Snatch clean jerk to total two thousand pounds |
| 1:48.2 | Adam up right now in your car. Don't look at your phone to do it |
| 1:51.7 | Adam up if you aren't at two thousand pounds for males you need to get stronger if you're not at 1200 for women |
| 1:57.8 | You need to get stronger. We have a program just for you to get over to one-tone challenge dot com forward slash join one-tone challenge dot com forward slash |
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