How CrossFit Has Evolved Since We Started - 222
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The last few weeks have been pretty intense. Let's back off on the seriousness a little bit and bring it back to to old school Shrugged. This week we thought it was due time for a throwback episode. So brew up some coffee Chris Moore style, with delicate treatment via french press. Remember, don't scorch it and ruin your fresh grind like an amateur. We share our stories and experiences about how much the CrossFit world has changed over the past 10 years.
We go into a little background of how we found it . We also share some of our competition experiences as well as how much the CrossFit Games have changed from year to year.
Have you noticed how fast nutrition and training volume in this community are evolving?
It's cool to think back and see what parts of this fitness community are trends and which ones of those have stood the test of time.
There are some funny ass stories in here so make sure you cover your keyboard so when you spit out the black gold your sipping it doesn't fry your Macbook, Del, or E-machines (…after all, it is a throwback).
It's all changing and growing so fast. Towards the end we talk about where we think CrossFit as a sport is heading and what we think the future CrossFit Games Athletes will look like.
Where do you think it is heading? What do you think things will look like in 5 or 10 years?
It's a blast to think about it. And I'm super grateful to be along for the ride.
And we're super grateful to have you with us.
As always, thanks for listening.
Enjoy!
McG
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Barbell Shrug we talk about the past present and future of CrossFit and the history of training and competition and we bring up old dirty stories |
| 0:08.2 | Hey, this is Rich Froning. You're listening to Barbell Shrugged for the video version go to barbellschrug.com |
| 0:14.4 | CrossFit Games to workout |
| 0:17.8 | One training session. Wait, what? That's like a single training session now. Is that for real? |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah, that's a three of it. No, that's seriously. Are you serious? Yeah, man |
| 0:28.1 | It went from it went from 2008 to having three events and then |
| 0:33.3 | To the man all the crushers are about it. Don't take an on me. Go say low winning |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, this looks like some shit that would be published on like a Saturday workout at I know |
| 0:43.2 | I know even the general pop now. It's a lot of stuff |
| 0:46.8 | That's funny. Yeah, what's up guys welcome to Barbell Shrug. I'm your host Mike McGolder here with Mike McAroy |
| 0:53.0 | What's happening? He's holding the phone. We got Kurt Mulliken. Hey |
| 0:57.8 | Down boy and Alex McAroy. Oh, you know today we're gonna talk a little bit about you know |
| 1:04.2 | What's a little bit different format? I'm pretty excited about this |
| 1:06.2 | We had this idea earlier as we were reminiscing I pulled out my old red nannos. I don't know. I was good bit |
| 1:11.3 | You know why not pull out my old red innovates and I'm like man like what a cool idea |
| 1:15.7 | We should talk about how much the community the sport and the fitness world of CrossFit has actually changed |
| 1:22.6 | From when it all started and when we all came into it |
| 1:24.8 | So we're gonna talk a little bit about our individual experiences through starting it |
| 1:28.8 | And getting it to be finding out about it as well as competition and then how it's changed towards that today |
| 1:33.1 | And then where we see it going in the future. Yep, so starting back with that |
| 1:37.7 | Some of the funny stories like think over like some of the old things that we almost forgot about like vibrums when they came on the scene |
| 1:43.1 | Big time like like people still wear vibrums and they're cool but like like everyone wanted them |
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