[LIVE] CrossFit, GLP-1s, and the Serena Williams Ad (EP. 034)
The CrossFit Podcast
CrossFit LLC
4.3 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
We’re sitting down to have an honest, nuanced conversation about Ozempic (semaglutide), other GLP-1 drugs, and their role in lifestyle intervention and health. We want to understand who benefits, who profits, and what the implications are for individuals, coaches, and the broader CrossFit community.
The goal is not to provide all the answers or be the experts, but to create space for a thoughtful discussion around an important and highly visible issue, especially in light of GLP-1 provider Ro’s recent sponsored post featuring Serena Williams.
Host Denise Thomas is joined by Dr. Tom McCoy, Jocelyn Rylee, and Joe Alexander.
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| 0:00.0 | Serena Williams recently declared, announced very loudly that she is on GLP1. |
| 0:07.0 | Ultimately what we're boiling this down to, it's a tool not a fix. |
| 0:11.0 | The lifestyle is supposed to be the nucleus of the cell, if you will, |
| 0:16.0 | and then the drugs and other tools that can support that should be secondary. |
| 0:30.8 | We're live. We were just talking about everybody if you're in already that Jocelyn and I have the new merch from CrossFit, eat your meats and veggies, nuts and seeds. I have the black |
| 0:36.9 | one, like my soul. |
| 0:38.9 | And Jocelyn has the white one because she's so angelic. Tom, stop laughing. You know it's true. You know it's true. It might be my favorite CrossFit shirt of all time. When I saw it in the store at the games, I was like, yes, that's coming home with me. And the square and the patch. I came down a day this week and my daughter had mine on and she was like eating snacks |
| 0:57.0 | and baking stuff. |
| 0:57.9 | Well, you can't do that. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm like, oh, stretching it out. |
| 1:01.2 | Being a Dorito. |
| 1:02.5 | Like, well, this is great. |
| 1:06.1 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 1:07.2 | If you are in, please come on the chat. |
| 1:10.0 | Say hi. |
| 1:10.5 | Tell us where you're from, what your |
| 1:11.7 | affiliate is and maybe why you're interested in this topic that we're going to dive deep |
| 1:17.0 | and we're going to go deeper than you probably want to because we have some phenomenal |
| 1:21.2 | minds on this call today. We got my co-pilot, a CrossFit host when I'm absent. |
| 1:30.4 | I know maybe you should be in more, Jocelyn. |
| 1:31.5 | Maybe we'll just switch around. |
| 1:37.5 | But Jocelyn Riley, CrossFit Level 4, affiliate owner, greater the nutrition course, just a wizard. |
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