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The CrossFit Podcast

[LIVE] Why the Standard Matters (EP. 036)

The CrossFit Podcast

CrossFit LLC

Health & Fitness

4.3757 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We talk about “the standard” in CrossFit all the time — but what does it really mean?

In this livestream, Denise Thomas sits down with Nicole Carroll, Chase Ingraham, and Adrian Conway to get real about what it takes to hold the standard in our gyms and on the competition floor.

The crew digs into where the standard came from, why it matters, and what happens when we don’t uphold it. They’ll break down coaching, defining fitness, and the ultimate goals of health and performance longevity. 

Expect a candid conversation about what “holding the standard” actually means, why it matters, and how we’re doing on hitting the goal. 

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0:00.0

To me, the standard is what binds us.

0:02.3

CrossFit standard is just to get people really freaking fit.

0:06.0

It's the results.

0:07.0

We're not holding a standard just to break people off or out of some sense of moral superiority.

0:13.0

We're doing it in service of results.

0:15.0

You're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen.

0:18.0

How do we police that? How do we enhance that?

0:20.0

Or what do you

0:21.2

guys do and what have you done to call these people higher so that they can hold the standard?

0:32.4

Good morning everyone. Adrian Nicole. How are you guys doing? Good morning. I'm great. Happy to be here.

0:37.1

Good morning. Great. Happy to be

0:39.1

here too. Wonderful. My dog had surgery this week. So she was out. I've never had a dog before. So I didn't

0:47.3

know it was like when they had surgery, but it's devastating when they're after they come out of being

0:52.1

under the, and I'm just like come on are you breathing are

0:55.8

still breathing so that was i stress what she have surgery for she got a skin tag coming out of one of

1:03.7

a whisker holes there's a better name for that a whisker hole the old whisker hole the old whisker hole

1:09.6

a whizky a whisker hole. The old whisker hole. Follogule. A whiskey, a whisker hole.

1:15.1

So we had it removed because we didn't know whether or not it was, you know, we needed to get a

1:18.4

biopsy on it.

1:19.4

So it's not the clear yet, but thank you for asking.

1:22.9

But yeah, so I know that Chase is a very busy man.

1:26.8

So we got to cram as much in as we can in this wonderful hour.

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