Mal O'Brien's Discovery Journey, 24.1 Picks, and Can Invictus Keep the Affiliate Cup Green
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Mal O'Brien recenly made the decision to sit out the 2024 season. She talks with Lauren Kalil about working on discovering who she is, what her perfect day looks like, when she started feeling like she needed to step away from competing, and what it's been like taking up surfing.
Sean, Lauren and Tommy talk through the headlines of the week and give their predictions for who will prevail in 24.1.
CrossFit Invictus has a unveiled a new super team last week. Tommy talks with Josh Al-Chamaa about how Chandler Smith and Lauren Fisher got involved, and how they stay motivated after achieving the ultimate goal in the team competition at the CrossFit Games.
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| 0:00.0 | One two three go. |
| 0:10.0 | three go. |
| 0:10.0 | What is up everybody? What is up everybody? |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to another edition of Talking League Fitness. I'm Sean Woodland at home. Tommy Marquez, he is at home. |
| 0:17.0 | Lauren Kalil, however, you have gotten bit by the Tommy Marquez Travel Bug. I'm very sorry about that. |
| 0:22.8 | Where are you now in your quest to get back to Syracuse? |
| 0:27.8 | You know what, I'm in Dallas, Fort Worth. |
| 0:29.9 | I just wanted to come vet where the 2024 Cross Fit Games were going to be and you know sit here in a hotel in an airport for 24 hours. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm sorry about that, but you did get to attend the tactical games, which one of the |
| 0:47.5 | qualifying events, that looked like it went pretty well. |
| 0:50.7 | It was a lot of fun. It has a lot of similarities to cross-fit events in the sense that, you know, their two day events, the first couple of hours, it's like full scramble, new people are trying to figure out what they're doing everybody's trying to get their footing and then after the first few hours everybody knows it's a little bit more calm and relaxed, but like man that community is so cool. |
| 1:16.5 | Like from the way that they do it is they have so if you and Tommy were in the same division and in separate heats, you would each |
| 1:26.9 | judge each other. |
| 1:27.9 | So almost like the Cross Fit Open, yeah. |
| 1:30.4 | And it was really cool to watch some of the athletes actually try to judge and coach them at the same time and give them helpful feedback that increased their performance. |
| 1:40.0 | So it's just a really cool sport that is a lot of fun and a lot of |
| 1:43.6 | crossfidders are getting involved with which is yeah yeah Jacob |
| 1:46.0 | Pheppner of course and I know Jason Kalep is interested and yeah there's been a lot in |
| 1:50.0 | there I think one of the pantychoo brothers is starting to dabble in a little. |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:55.0 | And the and the whole judging and helping each other is very much an act like a common thread in the like competitive shooting community too because you know I've |
| 2:07.1 | shot some with my father-in-law and my wife and he shoots revolvers competitively at a national level. |
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