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The CrossFit Podcast

[LIVE] The Value of Competition (EP. 044)

The CrossFit Podcast

CrossFit LLC

Health & Fitness

4.3757 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

James Hobart, Adrian Conway, and Craig Howard discuss competition within the fitness world. They share their perspectives on the role of rivals and how it impacts their community. The conversation explores both external competition and healthy rivalry among affiliates.

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0:00.0

How can Crosswood be so fucking dangerous if we're able to apply it to such a wide group of ability level and age and body type?

0:08.0

Like wake up people, open your eyes, look at what's going on.

0:11.0

You can go to a lot of different places, but you can't capture that single thing.

0:15.0

It's measurable and observable and repeatable.

0:17.0

We can demonstrate why we are more fit than others.

0:21.9

And the manifestation of that is the competition, the sport.

0:25.8

There's no better way to test our methodology,

0:28.2

meaning that if we are right, they will return.

0:38.4

Oh, we're live.

0:38.7

Okay.

0:39.9

No Denise today.

0:40.8

That's the live announcement.

0:41.9

She's traveling.

0:43.2

You guys are stuck with me.

0:57.9

But I'm here with CrossFit podcast, Renaissance Man extraordinaire, Adrian Conway, and one of our longest-standing affiliate owners, Craig Howard out of Diablo CrossFit, so great to have you guys here today.

1:03.4

Craig, the other thing I didn't know about you, and obviously, like, we haven't, we haven't had a ton of time to interact.

1:04.5

You're fit, dude.

1:44.3

I was creeping your open, your games profile, and I was like, oh, man, he's got some, he's got some gas for sure. I think you. I feel like it's like an obligation to my community now. We've had as such a long history and I have, I have to keep it up. The other thing is I have a 62 year old wife that still competes to the game. So she keeps me on my toes. I'm hitting that era where it's like, I, my wife, Cassandra, I used to, like, beat her easily in every workout. No problem. I could be, like, drinking a cup of coffee, beating her in a work. And now we've kind of hit this stage of life for me where I have to, like, I'm almost kind is hanging on for dear life to beat her in a workout. I don't know. She's a little younger than me.

1:46.2

She's a lot younger.

1:47.0

She's six years younger than me, but man, I've just been getting fresh by her lately. And I feel like I have a worry that that's not going to stop. You know what I mean? It's like now it's just it only gets worse and worse for me. so i've i've had some opportunities to train some aging athletes, both on the male and female

2:03.4

side. And I will say it's quite obvious to me that women are kind of like v2 of man and they're

2:08.9

more durable. And they just have a higher threshold for tolerance through our years. I mean, I just

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