I just need to center myself.

Before we start, I do think it's important for most people watching to know that this show will be quite a bit different from the show, the response video I did on Monday night.

I think even for so many viewers, I was so crashed out.

I used too many metaphors.

I used too much humor.

And I think a lot of the point was lost.

Points that I didn't even have or tried to make until Hiller did his live with Tyler Watkins.

And I want to start this show by emulating someone that I've learned to,

and that is to tell a story in order to paint a picture and to give everyone, I think,

some very meaningful context. When I found CrossFit, my sister had taken me to my first class,

and the workout was deadlifts and rope climbs. It was in Jeff and Maggie Tintcher's gym, CrossFit Fairfax. And it was a crazy workout. I remember this guy, Tyler Costello in the back of the class. I ended up coaching there for years and working out there. And I remember keeping my eye on him the whole class because he was the fit guy there. and this was my first class. And I could tell. And he absolutely destroyed me. And I remember I'm doing my last rope climb and I shred up my Nike trainers. My shins are all bloody. And I look in the back and they're like on the ground just chilling. Like they'd finished the workout five minutes ago. And I didn't go back. I got embarrassed. I didn't like getting beat.

CrossFit's stupid. I'm not going back. A year later, I was trying to get into shape to join the

military. And I came across an Instagram ad for another affiliate. I went there and I tried it.

And for whatever reason, this second attempt, I fell in love.

And I think I fell in love with the fact that it was really hard, the fact that it was always something different.

And there was a really awesome community that just drew me in.

It wasn't until maybe a year later that I became truly obsessed with CrossFit and it became

kind of this integral part of my life and a lifelong passion, so to speak. And that was when I took

my level one. And I realized that CrossFit gave me truth. There was truth, objective, fact-based truth in Greg's definition of

fitness, work capacity across broad time and modal domains. I loved that because it couldn't be

argued. If you can measure this and repeat it and demonstrate it,

it can't be argued. Force times distance over time creates power, which is equal to intensity,

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