Navy SEAL Crossfit King Dave Castro | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 155

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Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Every year, CrossFit's toughest athletes enroll to compete in The CrossFit Games, a three-week global competition designed to find the Fittest Man and Fittest Woman on Earth. It's a grueling endeavor, filled with agonizing events and creative challenges that are guaranteed to weed out the weak and crown the victors in glory. Just take it from Dave Castro - he's a retired Navy SEAL that's been organizing the games since 2007, way back on his parents ranch in Aromas, California. Since those early days he's been hired, fired, re-hired, and through it all, has somehow managed to grow the games from a simple weekend workout to a globally-broadcasted event. How did he do it? What's CrossFit's role in all of it? And is a retired Navy SEAL the sole reason the Games are so brutally challenging? Let's meet Dave. ---------- Support Dave Castro - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedavecastro YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@davecastro6289 Support The Crossfit Games - Website: https://games.crossfit.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRs1pHnES3QDdh43xbjOmzw Fueled by TeamDog | www.mikeritlandco.com | @Teamdog.pet ALL THINGS MIKE RITLAND: SHOP for Fueled By Team Dog Performance Dog Food, Treats, Apparel, Accessories, and Protection dogs - MikeRitlandCo.com - https://www.MikeRitlandCo.com Team Dog Online dog training - TeamDog.pet - https://www.TeamDog.pet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And we walked around and he's like,
0:01.5	Hey, I've always thought about doing an event.
0:03.4	Let's have an event here.
0:04.6	And I go, OK, cool.
0:05.4	Like, what?
0:05.7	He was like a competition, kind of like he said,
0:07.9	the woodstock of fitness.
0:12.7	That summer, 2007, we had the first CrossFit Games.
0:16.3	This year, I think we had around 300,000 people compete online.
0:20.9	And then those are all whittled down to the top 40 men
0:23.7	and top 40 women at CrossFit Games.
0:25.8	You know, I've had people accuse me of,
0:27.2	oh, you're trying to make it like buds.
0:28.6	I've never tried to make it like buds.
0:30.4	Day at buds is much harder than a day at the CrossFit Games.
0:33.6	They're doing things that no one at buds could do.
0:35.8	So it's very different.
0:36.8	We're ultimately trying to test fitness,
0:38.7	not trying to make people completely break down mentally.
0:41.4	But if they do break down in the test,
0:43.2	that's kind of an added benefit, but not the intention.
0:46.2	I would love to tell the whole story at one point,
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