Meet the Athletes of Invictus

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, we went over to CrossFit Invictus in downtown San Diego to meet up with some of the very best athletes in the world. This week’s six-for-one special includes insights from four Games competitors and two Invictus coaches about what it takes to go from great to the greatest.

In our first segment, we talk to training partners Garret Fisher and Holden Rethwill about how their workout styles compliment each other, how they train for such an unpredictable athletic event, and how to know when it’s truly time to give their bodies a rest.

Next up, we talk to weightlifters and Games competitors Maddy Myers and Lauren Fisher about the challenges they face as dual-discipline athletes, how they’ll decide when it’s time to specialize, and what it’s like to enter this field as new athletes––only to discover you’re the best in the world.

We round the conversation out with the coaches who got them this far, CJ Martin and Tino Marini. CJ’s trained over 40 individual athletes to Games, and Tino’s coached alongside him since 2012. We talk to them about these four athletes, and what makes them stand apart from even the most elite in the field.

Enjoy the show!

Mike

P.S. And if you want to follow any of these athletes or learn more about them head over to the blog. We've posted their social media accounts here.

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0:00.0	It's a long season. CrossFit is a really long season.
0:03.2	And so just keeping them balanced and mentally motivated to be here, I think, is probably the most important part of what we do.
0:13.8	It's kind of like you treat them as individuals as well because the conversations that I'll have with holding are totally different from the conversation I have with Garrett.
0:21.8	And it's like having that understanding of who you're coaching and how you can really information to them, especially outside of the jump.
0:30.0	And so just keeping them balanced and mentally motivated to be here, I think, is really the most important part of what we do.
0:40.0	And so just keeping them balanced and mentally motivated to be here, is really the most important part of what we do.
0:48.0	And so just keeping them balanced and mentally motivated to be here, is really the most important part of what we do.
0:59.0	Welcome to Barbell's truck. I'm Mike Blitzer here with Doug Larson. And we've traveled down here to CrossFit and Victus, downtown San Diego.
1:06.0	And hanging out watching you guys train, getting ready for the CrossFit Games, here with Holden Rethwell and Garrett Fisher.
1:13.0	And today's show is going to be a little bit different.
1:15.0	Yeah, we're doing something a little different today. We're interviewing these guys and then we're going to take a break and interview Lauren Fisher and Maddie Myers.
1:23.0	And in the process, we're actually going to be talking with CJ Martin, who's all these people's coaches, people's coach.
1:29.0	Yeah, and today I want to dig into what it's like to go to the games year after year for you, Garrett, and what it's like to go through the progression.
1:36.0	And the mental side and just some of the pain and suffering that goes along with the sport, which is unique to this sport versus other sports as well.
1:44.0	Yeah, so Garrett, what you've been in the games multiple times? What's your goal this year versus last year? And what's it like to prepare for that mentally year after year?
1:57.0	It's like you finished the games last year and you go, okay, well now I got to start preparing for next year again.
2:03.0	For me, my goal last year was just to make it back to the games because I didn't make it two years in a row.
2:07.0	So 2013, I got fifth place, 14, I didn't make it, 15, I didn't make it. And then so last year, my goal was just to get back to the games.
2:14.0	This year was obviously to get back to the games, but this year I want to do well at the games again.
2:19.0	My goal this year to be honest, I placed fifth place, I want to get better than that.
2:24.0	So fourth, third, second, or hopefully win it.
2:28.0	That's kind of my goal this year. And then just kind of mentally, like for me, it's just a long season.
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