Ep. 231: Noah Ohlsen - ”Happy, But Hungry”
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
5x CrossFit Games Athlete Noah Ohlsen comes on the show to give us an insider’s look at what it’s like to be a Professional Athlete in the Sport of CrossFit and Competitive Fitness.
To follow Noah on instagram: @nohlsen
To check out Noah’s site: www.noahohlsen.com
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WHAT WE COVER:
3:00 - Who Is Noah Olsen??
3:48 - Getting into CrossFit
6:00 - Training before The Games, during and currently.
8:41- The mindset shift of becoming a CrossFit Games Athlete.
13:42 - Noah’s Injury prevention strategies as a CrossFit Athlete.
16:46 - Noah’s Training Periodization
20:00 - Biofeedback markers and body awareness.
22:23 - The “new” CrossFit Games setup and Noah’s thoughts on them.
25:45 - Setting boundaries for yourself inside the sport.
28:28 - A week in the life of Noah Ohlsen
31:10 - A day in the life of Noah Ohlsen
32:50 - The diet of a CrossFit Athlete
37:26 - How Noah’s diet shifts throughout the year (Nutritional Periodization)
39:45 - Creating Noah’s positive mindset and attitude
42:10 - The mentality Noah has stepping onto the CrossFit competition floor
44:44 - Post CrossFit game emotions, highs and lows, etc…
46:55 - Noah’s top 3 lessons learned after 8+ years in CrossFit.
51:40 - You Are Dinner Table With 3 Empty Seats, You Can Pick 3 People To Sit With You, Dead Or Alive, Who Would You Pick?
54:10 - Where can people find you and all of your content?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on, guys. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to another episode of the Boom Boom Performance podcast. |
| 0:17.9 | Today's guest is the one and only Noah Olson, who is a professional CrossFit athlete. |
| 0:24.9 | He has actually been to the CrossFit games five times. He is known for not only being just a |
| 0:30.7 | monster in the gym. I mean, the dude is big, jack, strong, fast, you name it, he is it. But he's also |
| 0:36.5 | the most positive dude in that space, in my opinion. |
| 0:40.1 | Just watching his content, looking at his Instagram, you will immediately see how positive, |
| 0:44.9 | positive this guy that he talks about all the time is happy but hungry, meaning he is |
| 0:51.0 | striving for excellence constantly, but he's extremely happy with what he has |
| 0:54.7 | accomplished and where he is at now. And in this podcast, you're going to see that firsthand because |
| 0:58.8 | you're going to listen to him talk about his journey from being a scrawny guy just trying to get |
| 1:03.2 | Jack to impress the ladies to becoming one of the top CrossFit athletes in the world, |
| 1:08.3 | showing the world how strong he is, showing the world how much he cares |
| 1:11.3 | about the sport, showing the world how much he believes in what he calls the pursuit of fitness, |
| 1:15.9 | which is his way of spreading the message of moving more, becoming more, and just being more |
| 1:20.7 | yourself. So I really had a good time talking to this athlete, Noah Olson, and just digging |
| 1:25.3 | into his story and bringing you guys a real |
| 1:28.6 | life example of what a day in the life of a professional CrossFit athlete looks like. |
| 1:33.9 | I mean, this guy trains a lot and we're going to dive into that. |
| 1:37.3 | We're going to learn more about how he became the athlete he is today. |
| 1:41.2 | But also talk a little bit about what he does right now from a training a |
| 1:46.1 | mental and a nutritional standpoint to make sure that he continues becoming a better athlete |
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