No Mat Fraser? Can CrossFit Survive? w/ Armen Hammer, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash - Barbell Shrugged #557
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Armen Hammer has been doing CrossFit for more than 10 years and has been producing content around the CrossFit Games since 2012. You can find his coverage, commentary, and analysis on YouTube on ArmenHammerTV and his various podcasts including Scale As Needed on iTunes, Spotify, and everywhere else you can find podcasts.
Download his free eBook: https://bit.ly/101freeworkouts
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- What happens to the CrossFit Games without Mat Fraser?
- Is Tia Clair Toomey the best athlete of all time?
- CrossFit selling out to a venture firm is now cool?
- Is opening a CrossFit gym in 2021 a good idea?
- How does CrossFit regain dominance in the fitness industry?
Coach Travis Mash on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Shark family this week on Barbell Shrug my good friend arm and hammer drops into barbell |
| 0:05.2 | Shrug. He's probably the most connected person that I still follow in the CrossFit world |
| 0:12.0 | and I love listening to his YouTube channel because we share so many of the same thoughts |
| 0:17.1 | on CrossFit, the CrossFit games. Many of the faces that you see on a daily basis if you |
| 0:23.0 | are in the CrossFit world whether it's Greg Glass with Dave Castro, new ownership, all |
| 0:28.6 | the moves that they've done and he's one of the most respected people to me in CrossFit |
| 0:33.8 | because he's been around so long that he has seen all of these stories happen from day |
| 0:39.9 | one all the way to current day CrossFit and what everything looks like, how it's shaping |
| 0:45.6 | out. Many of the athletes that have come and gone and many of them are still in it. |
| 0:51.7 | Today we spent a ton of time talking about what's what is going to happen to CrossFit |
| 0:55.4 | once Matt Frazier. Now that Matt Frazier has left, how much of a savage Teotere cluminous |
| 1:00.7 | I really think she's one of the best athletes to ever walk on the face of this earth. |
| 1:06.0 | Our US Bob sled has been picking a lot of the female CrossFit athletes to be on the US |
| 1:13.0 | Bob sled team this year. Shout out to Kelsey Keel, former Barbell Shrug podcast guest. |
| 1:23.6 | Also, if you enjoy this conversation make sure you get into the link in the bio. |
| 1:28.7 | Armin has a free download, 101 free workouts and he's just putting out a course now for |
| 1:35.5 | any of you beginner coaches out there or people that are into training people called How |
| 1:41.0 | to Write a Workout. So if you've ever been into the programming space, coaching space |
| 1:50.5 | and interested in how you can write workouts, he's been a gem owner, he's programmed for |
| 1:54.2 | tons of CrossFit athletes and I think it's a very valuable course just because he's got |
| 1:59.5 | a great brain on him and understands the CrossFit space, understands how to coach people, |
| 2:03.2 | understands how to connect with people and this course is going to be very good. I believe |
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