Barbell Shrugged — Earned Not Given: The Story of The Granite Games w/ John Swanson — 338
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
John Swanson is the founder and CEO of The Granite Games, owner of Fast Factory Fitness, and owner of Factory Forged.
The goal of The Granite Games is to create a platform that allows all levels and ages to chase their athletic dreams. Our event gives athletes of every skill level the opportunity to compete and have their own professional athlete experience. Each element of this experience is carefully crafted to create a lasting impression. Everything from the athlete's personalized name tag to the design of the competition floor all play a critical role in this experience.
In this episode, we talk about why we are all athletes, how to go from a small gym to a national competition, reaching over 2,500 athletes in one weekend, the future of The CrossFit Games, the future of The Granite Games, and more.
Enjoy!
- Doug and Anders
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| 0:00.0 | truck family coming back on a Saturday. We have Mr. John Swanson the CEO of the |
| 0:08.4 | granite games. We spent five days out at the granite games this past weekend |
| 0:13.8 | recorded seven shows. What an awesome weekend. I am so grateful that we were able |
| 0:20.1 | to attend. Working with John was an amazing experience. Everybody out there was |
| 0:25.9 | incredibly friendly. We were able to be a part of him launching the granite |
| 0:32.7 | games into the mainstream of the CrossFit season which is incredibly cool. We |
| 0:38.5 | had a big roundtable event on Thursday night which Jason Calipa was the keynote |
| 0:45.7 | speaker. John Swanson also was able to get up on stage and tell the world |
| 0:51.4 | and announce it before CrossFit put up that they were going to be one of the |
| 0:55.0 | regional events on the circuit for qualifying for the games. So instead of |
| 1:00.3 | having a one-year process to turn the granite games over they've got like 10 |
| 1:05.3 | months and they are going to be the final stop on the circuit to qualifying for |
| 1:09.7 | the CrossFit games. So incredibly cool. What a great time to be in the CrossFit |
| 1:15.4 | community. What a great time for us to be at the granite games. I am just super |
| 1:21.3 | happy that we are able to be there. I also want to give a very special shout out |
| 1:24.9 | to Adam Smith. The guy took care of us all weekend every single time. We need |
| 1:28.8 | a coffee, a water, maybe some snacks. The guy was just right there and took care |
| 1:37.1 | of us and it was just super appreciated. From top to bottom every single person |
| 1:41.2 | we met phenomenal human beings, phenomenal time and very grateful we're able to |
| 1:46.5 | be a part of the experience and able to sit down with John and just kind of |
| 1:50.4 | understand the vision of where they've been, where they're going over the last |
| 1:53.1 | eight years, understand his background and why this event was started in the |
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