Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

What's up everyone. We're here for the fourth annual brute retreat in Austin, Texas. I've got a group of our coaches together and today we're going to talk about all of the

changes that just took place with the Crossvig games. I know from talking to a lot of athletes

and coaches there's a lot of stress going around. There to a lot of athletes and coaches,

there's a lot of stress going around.

There's a lot of what's gonna happen,

what if this, what if that, and people are still working hard

but everybody's kind of up in the air.

So hopefully we can

answer some questions and just give a little bit of insight for people that are

wondering what coaches and some of that top athletes are talking about and let's just see where it goes.

So to start, I've got Nick Sorrell here with Brute Gymnastics.

Adrian Conway, kind of Jack of all Trades, Sean Pastooch with Active Life, who also does our

performance care for our athletes, and then the head honcho, Nick Fowler, over the, as the director of strength and conditioning.

So now I've introduced you guys.

What were your initial thoughts and also what was your kind of gut feeling reaction

when you first heard the changes.

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