Barbell Shrugged — Let’s Not Be Perfect w/ Emily Abbott — 313
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Emily Abbott is a 4x CrossFit Games Athlete (‘14-’17) and 8th fittest woman in the world (2015). She grew up on a farm with a couple of loving, “crazy” parents, who raised her to work hard to get what she wants.
Emily was always into physical activities and sports. In college, she played basketball for the University of Windsor, where her team won two national championships back-to-back. During that time, she learned so much about mental toughness, accountability, and pursuing a dream–no matter how ridiculous it appeared.
Emily spent her childhood in Calgary and later moved to San Diego. She still enjoys many sports, such as snowboarding, cross-country skiing, and rock climbing. Recently, she gravitates towards these activities more, especially if she gets burnt out with training.
In this episode, Emily talk about the emotional release that she gets from training, and how to be ok with not being perfect. She also touches on some of her bucket list life experiences, like living in an RV and going completely nomadic.
Emily is working on shifting her perspectives on life from being focused on being competitive and grinding, to being present in the moment and trying to enjoy her life more.
She is also working on a new YouTube series called Psychedelic Gypsy Fitness, which is an expression of her letting go, having fun and being a little less serious.
Enjoy!
- Mike, Doug and Anders
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| 0:00.0 | It's everybody's time of year to basically compare themselves and to get like external validation for all the like work they've been doing for a year. |
| 0:08.0 | And then you start to question yourself and a lot of people go crazy like, you know, even when I have a poor performance, I'm like, I can feel like that stuff bubbling up to the service like, you're not good enough. |
| 0:19.0 | You didn't fucking work hard enough. You should be beating this bitch. But really it's just like- |
| 0:24.0 | There's always somebody like one rap in front of you. I couldn't have done one more push up. |
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| 2:11.0 | Our boy Colton is on the cam. Mr. Fitzby, look at this. I got female joggers on today. If it's inappropriate on the YouTube, you're gonna have to deal with it today. |
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