Keeping it NorCal with Ben Alderman

Talking Elite Fitness

Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ben Alderman is the Co-Founder of the Northern California Classic. He joins Sean, Tommy and Lauren to talk about how he got involved with the event, how he and Blair Morrison have continued to grow it, advice he would give to other competition organizers and what the Northern California Classic needs to do to become a premier offseason event.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness, Sean Woodland and
0:03.8	Tommy Marquez here. Lauren Khalil will be joining us here in just a second when we bring
0:07.2	on our guest for the day, talking to Ben Alderman, who's the co-founder of the Northern California
0:13.0	classic. I want to pick his brain a little bit about not only his event, but just the greater
0:17.4	landscape in general when it comes to sort of those middle-level competitions and what
0:20.8	the keys to success are and how you grow from being just sort of this fledging little backyard
0:26.1	throw down to what they've built in Sacramento. So speaking of building, Tommy, I thought you
0:32.6	were going to show up today with like a monocle on the top hat. You were now, congratulations.
0:36.0	Pature would slap a landowner. Apparently, so I still got to wait to have some people sign off
0:42.3	on it, but hopefully there's a stewie-griffin meme where he's like, it's good to have land.
0:49.6	Yeah, so trying to make some moves and, you know, congratulations, man, that's awesome.
0:56.3	Happy for you. Trying to have a place to live and start a family is the goal.
1:00.8	Tremendous. Yeah, it's a little difficult out here. Yeah, it's like goodness. California,
1:04.9	it's very tough. It's just, I, yeah, you look at, you go and you're like, just like, oh,
1:09.2	I wonder where to cost a living in these other places and I just start laughing. I'm like, that's
1:12.5	wow, and it's expensive everywhere. But I'm glad you were able to get that. It's one piece,
1:18.0	one piece. We still got to work on the few of the others, but yeah, feeling good to get that
1:22.1	accomplished. So not a lot going on this week as far as news is concerned. We are getting closer
1:27.6	to the Rogue Invitational. We are going to get Tia to me on the show. That will be not this coming
1:33.4	week but the week after. So it'll be a week from this coming Tuesday that we will have her on the
1:39.2	show. And then we're going to start releasing our TEF rewind segments. Those will be on YouTube.
1:44.8	And that's, we sit down with former games athletes and just talk about old CrossFit Games events.
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