Going Team and Taking Podiums w/ Alex Smith, Cody Mooney, Jessica Griffith, and Dani Speegle — Barbell Shrugged #407
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Super teams are taking over the 2019 CrossFit Games. For the first time in the history of the CrossFit Games, the affiliate cup has transitioned into a team competition where athletes around the world can team up to create super teams.
One of the favorites to win the 2019 team competition is composed of Alec Smith, Jessica Griffith, Cody Mooney, and Camille Leblanc Bazinet. The team qualified at the 2019 Wodapalooza Fitness Festival and Dani Speegle, after finishing the CrossFit Open in the top 5, decided to compete as an individual.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders Varner and Doug Larson sit down with Alex Smith, Cody Mooney, Jessica Griffith, and Dani Speegle to discuss Games training, going team, and the secret sauce to making a great team
Minute Breakdown:
0-10 – Alex and Cody Mooney training before being Games Athletes
11-20 – Team training vs. Individual training for the CrossFit Games
21-30 – CrossFit Games training camp
31-40 – Genetics playing a role in strength training
41-50 – Dani Speegle's diet and why she is so strong
51 -60 – Having coaches or doing it on your own
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| 0:00.0 | Shug family, there's so many things going on that we're just going to put a little one and a half minutes segment at the beginning of each show |
| 0:05.7 | Just to keep you in the nose everything that's happening one ton challenge live presented by |
| 0:10.3 | Fiddle Friday night at the CrossFit Games in the Fiddle lounge from five to eight p.m |
| 0:15.3 | We have Olympians pro athletes CrossFit Games athletes and celebrity fitness trainers taking the states to see how far we can push strength |
| 0:22.5 | Snatch clean jerk squat dead bench the strongest people in the world coming to show up |
| 0:27.9 | Test how far we can push the limits of strength to stay in the know on exclusive access to athletes live streams leaderboards go to live |
| 0:36.3 | Dot one ton challenge dot com. That's live dot one ton challenge dot com also starting next week new shows coming to the short collective |
| 0:47.0 | The business of fitness with Jason Clephe starting to lie eight active life rx |
| 0:54.1 | That's active life radio with Dr. Sean pastage on Fridays and the Barbell life with coach Travis mass on Sunday |
| 1:01.2 | So the weekly lineup is going to be Monday the business of fitness with Jason Clephe Tuesday real chalk with Ryan Fisher Wednesday |
| 1:08.8 | Barbell shrug with Doug Larsen in myself |
| 1:11.3 | Thursday muscle maven radio with Ashley van how Friday active life radio with Dr. Sean past to Saturday |
| 1:18.4 | Gonna try and start getting to Barbell struggles out of week |
| 1:22.0 | It's a heavy heavy load, but we're gonna try to get back to that schedule and then Sunday with Travis |
| 1:28.2 | Mash the barbell life also want to let everyone know we just launched our brand new store loaded with T-shirts has one ton |
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| 1:48.3 | Shwag have a killer week friends |
| 1:52.3 | One ton challenge lie presented by fit a I slipped up last week and leaked with the first athlete on Instagram |
| 2:00.2 | If you missed it, you're just gonna have to wait till Monday strongest athletes in the world sharing one stage live at the CrossFit Games and Madison |
| 2:07.6 | West Thompson shrug family. I cannot be more serious |
| 2:11.4 | We are going to find the up find the outer limits of strength Friday August 2nd for five to a p.m |
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