I'm going to Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, You're listening to Girls Gone Wild, this is Joy. This is episode 205. This episode is with Shelley Eddington. She was previously on the podcast on episode 172. She's a five times

crossfit games athlete and she's qualifying and going again this year.

So we're catching up with her and she's just an amazing person and just so fun to talk to.

Yeah, we love having Shelly on and she just brings such a unique perspective I think as a

a master's class athlete and not only you know coming from the background of

not really being involved with fitness throughout the kind of middle of her life, but then

being able to be a super successful professional athlete into her 40s and 50s.

We just love the perspective she brings and are really excited for you

guys to hear this episode. Yeah, I stand corrected. She's four times but she will be

five times this year. So she was the 2006, yeah, she was 2016 Cross Fit Masters Games champ and she does Master Fit Coaching.

She just does a lot of really cool things and I hope you guys enjoy this episode.

Here we go with Shelly Eddington. Okay, we sound really good so we're just going to jump

right in. Oh good. So tell us what you've been up to Miss Shelley.

I was thinking about that I'm like, oh they're just thinking I'm so boring because you know I'm like

January through you know the games are usually just training and eating and does it go by

fast though that's what I was wondering like I was thinking about the calendar year for cross-fit athletes

competitive cross-fit athletes and how you know does it is there like seasons or like how does it start to feel after so many years of competing because this is this will be your fifth time right yeah um yeah we definitely have a season I guess it's generally after the games for that month of August the rest of it I get to play exercise and then September is kind of like a little bit of play exercise kind of thinking seriously about it.

And then October is like, okay, really seriously thinking about it.

And then November is like, okay, you've got to kind of get serious now and December is like okay you

really got to start ramping it up and then you know and then January we've got to

open so yeah it's a real it's a very long season I think January through now like the first week in August. It's like, gosh, that's, you know, eight months, close to eight months and definitely seven and yeah, it just, you know, we've learned to make it a steady climb the great thing

about it is you don't have to be 100% to qualify you just have to make sure that you know where you need to be and how to get there with the engine that you have and the strength that you have and then you know continue to increase upon those strengths and

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