Balancing competition, career and life w/ James Hobart - Ep.92

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

James Hobart, eight-time CrossFit Games veteran is on the show this week. It was announced that this year James has made the decision to decline his Regionals invitation despite finishing 33rd in the CrossFit Open overall. In this episode we are going to talk what it’s like not training for the Games, being an athlete vs. coaching, as well as the motivation behind his decision to not compete and finally, what he plans to do next.

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Topics of discussion:

[4:45] Declining the CrossFit Regionals invitation

[9:07] Athlete’s depression

[18:20] What’s next?

[25:18] Time-bound goals

[29:53] Coaching in CrossFit

[41:17} 3 skills to be a good coach

Books:
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes – Syed

Peace Is In Every Step - Hanh

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast.
0:04.6	This week's guest is James Hobart, eight-time Cross Fit Games veteran, three-time Cross FitVit Games team champion.
0:14.0	This year, James placed 33rd in the Cross-Fit Open worldwide,
0:21.6	and he chose to decline his invitation. And so one of the it
0:25.0	worldwide and he chose to decline his invitation. And so one of the topics that we talk about is the is how to deal with
0:30.0	kind of going from identifying as an athlete to no longer competing.
0:37.0	And so this is something that I could definitely relate to,
0:40.0	having gone through a serious back surgery years ago and thinking that I would be done competing forever.
0:46.0	And so that was really interesting to discuss with him.
0:49.0	James has also been on the CrossFit level One staff for six or seven years and he's worked with
0:55.6	thousands of aspiring coaches and so we talk a lot about coaching and
1:00.0	leadership and in general James is just a very thoughtful intelligent guy and he's a
1:06.0	very skilled coach so lots to learn in this one hope you enjoy the show.
1:10.3	What's up everyone this is Mike Kaju.
1:13.0	This is the Brute Strength Podcast.
1:14.0	I'm here with James Hobart.
1:17.0	Would you even be considered the Cross-Bid kid or would that be more Pat Barber?
1:22.0	I feel like I'm, yeah, maybe I think Pat had that nickname first and I feel like I'm a little old for that now, but it has a nice ring to it.
1:30.0	Just an O.G. in terms of being a competitor as well as just being a part of the I-1
1:38.5	staff and the community in general. I'm really really excited to do this show with you. We've
1:45.5	been trying to connect for a while. So I thank you so much for taking some time
1:51.1	out of your busy schedule to do this man I really appreciate it.
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