Hey everybody and welcome to Talking Elite Fitness. Today we have the second fittest woman in Asia,

Shahad Budibs, off of semifinals, getting ready for the CrossFit Games. How are you doing so far, Shahad?

I'm excited. You recently got to the States a lot of CrossFit Games training prep. What are some

of the things you're working on? What has the transition from the UAE to I think Boston right now,

by Mike? Yeah, I just arrived Boston yesterday. It took me like 14 hours to fly. It's very long

to fly. Today I'm just like moving around and getting sweat. I met my coach for the first time.

I'm so excited. We are preparing for the CrossFit Games. It's different from here. I was like

just want to get out from UAE because of the heat. So I'm just here to try and do my best.

How long do you think it's going to take for your body, your internal clock,

like the acclimation to the environment for you to feel ready for the games with all of just the

transitions that go into coming somewhere that's halfway around the world? Actually, it would be,

it would not be that long. It would just take me like, let's say maybe around one week or five days

to adjust my body, everything with the time zone and everything, but I was like just wanted to come

here earlier just to get to the weather, to use to the weather and to get my body and the time zone

and everything. So I think it would just take one week and I would just go back on track.

So perfect timing to get settled in a week. Then we have, I mean, less than two weeks at that

point until the CrossFit Games going back to semi-finals, watching that leaderboard every night,

it almost seemed like you didn't know who was actually going to qualify until the last possible

second. What were some of those emotions like for you going day to day and event to event?

So that was very surprised for me. As you said, the leader was changing after every workout.

So for me it was like a bit impossible, like after day two, I messed up with one of the workouts

so it dropped me down, but then I said, it's okay, the third day I know it's my workout, so I'm

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