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Gritty Podcast

EPISODE 194: Bad Knees? Bad Back? Is There Hope? with Chris Spealler

Gritty Podcast

Brian Call

Outdoor, Sports & Recreation

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Gritty Bowmen we talk with Chris Spealler of Icon Athlete. Do you have a bad back or a bad shoulder? What can you do? On this podcast we answer these questions and more about being fit for the mountains.

Spealler is a former college wrestler from a family of standout athletes, Chris Spealler quickly became one of CrossFit’s leading ambassadors, impressing and inspiring newcomers to the sport with his underdog spirit, unequaled work ethic, and warm personality. A competitor at the very first CrossFit Games in 2007. He was the only performer from the ’07 Games who was also in the 2014 games.

Spealler continues to train and coach at CrossFit Park City in Utah, where he lives with his wife Sarah and their children.

I’m a huge fan of Chris Spealler for a hundred reasons. Not least of which is his commitment to his family.

Chris has just started his own podcast called Icon Athlete Podcast.

Featured on this podcast:

iconathlete.com

http://iconathlete.com/the-vault/

https://www.instagram.com/cspealler/

https://www.facebook.com/ChrisSpealler

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/icon-athlete-podcast/id1126149472?mt=2

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is Shondi Gray.

0:03.3

Nobody knows who that is, but it's me.

0:07.3

And you are listening to The Gritty Bowman!

0:11.8

It's all in perspective, right? If you could make $150,000 a year, but you had to work 80 hours

0:16.8

a week and you were committed to a corporation that you hated what you did,

0:21.0

is that more lucrative than making $70,000 a year doing what you love with a lot of free time?

0:28.4

And who's richer? One of the things I never want to say, and I even think this with life,

0:32.4

is I never want to say like, what if? Well, I hate that. I hate that feeling. What if I would have done this?

0:38.1

What if I would have just tried this? Or what if? What if? And there's very few things that I say,

0:44.0

what if about very few things? And that gives me a lot of peace of mind. So that helps give me drive,

0:51.6

because I don't want to ever say what if? Brandy always says this, you're going to run out of health

0:56.0

before you run out of money. For me, it's just like part of being a dude. You know, it's just like,

1:04.7

you just, you just don't quit, right? And like, you don't stop because there's one thing that's

1:09.6

like a little bit tough. It's like, man, welcome to life. You know, for hunters,

1:15.8

it's generally over like the long haul, right? And more of like, you know, making sure that we have good

1:21.2

base level strengths so that our joints are strong and the muscles around our joints are strong,

1:25.2

so they can start to handle kind of like these longer rocks or hikes and varied terrain and

1:31.4

things like that. So let's say a guy does have a bad shoulder, you know, what is, how does he get that

1:37.2

back? How does he face it? Yeah. First, so if I'm a guy that just wants to be, it's just a beast in

1:43.8

the woods. Yeah. I mean, I want to be able to climb them out and I want to go to 14,000 feet. I

1:48.0

want to come back down on both covered, covered 10 miles a day. I feel like if I'm that guy,

1:54.8

what I want to do is just hike a lot with the heavy backpack, right? Because that's what you

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