EPISODE 264: Body Movement Myths, Overtraining & Injury Prevention with Chris Spealler

Gritty Podcast

Brian Call

Outdoor, Sports & Recreation

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Gritty Bowmen we meet with CrossFit Games Athlete, Chris Spealler. Chris recently qualified for the 2017 games in the newly formed 35-39 year-old Masters Level Men’s competition. We at Gritty Bowmen will be rooting for him in August!

Chris and I discuss exercise myths, his experience with over training and how to prevent injury and still maintain your fitness if you are working through an injury.

Chris 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 two children.

Chris has just started his own podcast called Icon Athlete Podcast. If you want to learn more about fitness or just like Chris Spealler, do me a favor, and go and subscribe to his podcast. Check it out!

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

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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.
0:07.4	And you are listening to The Gritty Bowman!
0:11.8	It's all in perspective, right?
0:13.0	If you could make $150,000 a year,
0:15.4	but you had to work 80 hours a week
0:17.2	and you were committed to a corporation
0:19.2	that you hated what you did,
0:21.0	is that more lucrative than making $70,000 a year,
0:26.0	doing what you love with a lot of free time?
0:28.7	Who's richer?
0:29.8	One of the things I never want to say,
0:31.3	and I even think this with life,
0:32.4	is I never want to say like, what if?
0:34.9	Well, I hate that.
0:36.1	I hate that feeling.
0:37.0	What if I would have done this?
0:38.2	Or what if I would have just tried this?
0:40.3	Or what if?
0:41.3	What if?
0:42.2	And there's very few things that I say,
0:44.0	what if about very few things?
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