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Talking Elite Fitness

Fitness with Friends #120 - Alexis Raptis

Talking Elite Fitness

Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Kalil sits down with the 10th fittest woman on Earth Alexis Raptis as she gears up for the 2023 CrossFit Games season.

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0:00.0

Okay, so we have one week done of the open. We're just kicking it off. How does your body feel

0:07.5

coming off of the off season, coming off of last year? I feel good now. It was definitely hard

0:15.3

after the games to kind of ramp back up to do Rogue, I found myself not really ready to train really hard again.

0:24.7

And then I got to the training groove and I got, I think, I would say, fitter than I was at the games for Rogue.

0:33.3

Rogue didn't go as planned.

0:36.1

But after that, I tried to take more of an off-season and just like let myself

0:40.2

recover. And I knew I was going to do water poloosa, so I couldn't take too much time off. But during

0:46.9

that time, I just enjoyed being kind of just like a normal person and not training like a crazy

0:52.1

professional athlete and like training six hours a day.

0:56.2

So that was really nice.

0:58.4

Went home, visited friends, family.

1:02.3

It was just very relaxing.

1:05.8

And it was definitely time that I needed.

1:09.4

And then leading up until the open, kind of the same thing with

1:14.8

after the games, it was like trying to get my body to go hard again. And I don't know, like,

1:22.9

it took a little bit longer than I thought it would right before they open well I was after

1:28.2

Waterplusa I got back and I got really sick for two weeks so I took some time off

1:33.7

was excited to get back into training and then just like my whole body hurt and I was

1:38.3

like man the open's coming up like what's going on and this happened last year too

1:43.5

it's like I don't, like maybe anxiety and nerves from just, you know what's about

1:51.2

to happen, like this whole season is about to happen.

1:55.3

And it's like my body just like, whoa.

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