KHC 173 - Jayson Hopper

Cameron Hanes - Keep Hammering Collective

Cameron Hanes

Sports, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Jayson Hopper - American professional CrossFit athlete, widely recognized as the 2025 CrossFit Games champion—earning him the title of Fittest Man on Earth for that year. Join us for a conversation that traces Jayson’s extraordinary journey from getting cut from athletic dreams, including football at Clemson and early CrossFit setbacks to shattering records and claiming the ultimate title. Jayson opens up about embracing pain as fuel for growth and self-awareness, the pivotal role of his coach and training philosophy, breaking the rock carry record in explosive fashion, and how faith in Christ, integrity, and treating loved ones right have shaped his character amid the grind. Listen on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3XCm31n Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3Dm6ClE Follow along: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cameronrhanes Twitter: https://twitter.com/cameronhanes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camhanes/ Website: https://www.cameronhanes.com Follow Jayson: https://www.instagram.com/jhopper3/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 – Jayson’s Lift. Run. Shoot. Experience & Breaking the Rock Carry Record 00:12:04 – Welcoming Pain as a Way to Grow & Self Awareness 00:20:19 – Jayson’s Coach & Training Plan 00:22:08 – Getting Cut from the Games to Becoming the World Champion 00:36:02 – Documentaries, Playing Football, and Latte Art 00:46:38 – The Hardest Worker in the Room & Gaining Integrity Through Christ 01:00:22 – Jayson’s Current Goals, His Why, and the Pursuit of Greatness 01:09:38 – Religion, Theology, and How You Treat Your Wife 01:15:13 – Cam’s Advice on How to Become the Best Bowhunter: A Hunters Mindset 01:26:39 – F**k, Marry, Kill: Echo Bike, Squat, and Snatch 01:33:07 – Lack of Validation Growing Up & Using the Pain for Strength 01:47:38 – Using Pain to Fight for the Podium at the Games 01:56:06 – “Blooming Where Your Planted” - Downside of Making Plans Outside of Your Control 02:00:48 – Final Thoughts: Process Goals for Jayson to Hunt a Bear Thank you to our sponsors: Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Use code KEEPHAMMERING for 10% your order Grizzly Coolers: https://www.grizzlycoolers.com/ use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% off Montana Knife Company: https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/ Use code CAM for 10% off Sig Sauer: https://www.sigsauer.com/ use code CAM10 for 10% off optics MTN OPS Supplements: https://mtnops.com/ Use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% off Hoyt: http://bit.ly/3Zdamyv use code CAM for 10% off

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0:00.0	Every step I take, I move my truth. Every time they tell me stop I use. Every comment hate that makes my feel, gather up my energy and boom. I had them talking, saying the way that I move it's so reckless. That is a part of my mind I've been blessed with. Giving my blood so I am relentless. All right, this is the Keep Hammering Collective with Jason Hopper. What's up? Thanks for having me. This is awesome.
0:21.3	How you doing?
0:22.1	Doing great.
0:23.0	We had a big day today.
0:24.9	How was it?
0:25.9	Tell the folks what we did.
0:27.0	We did a proper lift run shoot.
0:30.5	And this was a big one because we had a goal or you had a, to break the rock up Mount Peska record,
0:40.2	which my oldest son had at, I think he's 30-04,
0:45.1	something like that, just right over 30 minutes.
0:46.9	So nobody's ever broke 30 minutes.
0:48.8	We thought, if anybody's gonna do it, it could be you,
0:51.6	but I also did have to make it hard.
0:54.4	You did.
0:54.9	Because you are the, it's a fittest man on earth, right? Yeah. Okay. Or the world. It doesn't matter. Yeah, I apologize to everybody when I said fittest man in the world. I know that makes no sense and nobody would know what I was talking about. So thank you for correcting me. Fittest man man on earth so i figured if we got the king
1:12.5	current king here who had to challenge him so we did um a 13 mile run first at least 13 probably further
1:21.6	but with a couple thousand feet of gain that was good and then went to the rock yeah so tell me about it so i you didn't tell me
1:31.2	anything about what the terrain was going to be so i was i had the assumption that we were
1:36.8	going to run 18 miles um because that that was the the initial goal and i got and it was all
1:43.6	on 17 yeah it was all going to be on road that's
1:46.6	that's the assumption i didn't really ask any questions yeah i didn't ask any questions i was just like
1:50.3	you know what i'm just going to assume i'm just going to show up yeah that's a good assumption
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