In this episode of the James Smith podcast, I'm joined by Matt Fraser who is five times the world's fittest man

We cover a lot of topics in this podcast. I'm very confident you guys are gonna enjoy it. So here it is

You don't want to like ruin someone's day, but you want to fucking beat him. You want to oh of course? Yeah, oh that that's

That's like this sport why I got hooked

just that competitive nature like there's someone in the gym that I'm like I

I my day would be better if I beat you and you know whatever your motivation is whatever gets your ass in the gym

But yeah, you know and it doesn't have to be personal. It's like I'm competing with my best buddies and it was just like

Yeah, like this is the fun of it

And you know like I remember all the time like you get the 10 second warning for the workout to start you turn to your body

I'm like, yeah, I bet you a Chipotle burrito. I beat you and whatever that motivation is like I'm bet you're applying to bed in Jerry's tonight

But I'm gonna kick your ass in this workout, but there's also a beautiful utility as well. It's gotten beaten where you start workout

And you're like, hey the win I get what I want or if I lose I'm not need to do my work. Yeah, yeah, I mean that was

Huge part of my the beginning of my my competitive career like the first time I went to regionals

You know, it's the middle stage of qualifying for the CrossFit games

first time I went you know, I'm I'm as green as they come and

And and I took fifth and they take the top three to qualifying and I was just like, okay

I don't like how this feels. I'm gonna I'm gonna go back and work other things

I'm shit at and it was kind of the what you're talking about earlier

Like the best thing that happened to me was was that I wasn't quite good enough like the worst thing

I could happen in my life is like for myself is if I had qualified for the games that first year and

I would have gone and and

just gotten thrashed and

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