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This week we chat with CrossFit Games competitor Christy Phillips Adkins.

2015 is a very special year for Christy as she temporarily takes leave from her work as a full-time nurse to pursue life as a professional athlete.

This strategic move might be just the thing to put the six-time individual competitor on top of this year's CrossFit games.

Hear what provoked the 5-foot, 4-inch, 135-pound frame Christy to lift weights well into college and eventually pursue a degree in exercise science.

Christie also takes a few moments to reminisce on all the changes and transformations that the CrossFit games have seen throughout the years.

From women's weights steadily climbing to the format of what was once called sectionals.

Do you remember a time when each sectional competition had liberty to create its own unique

set of workouts?

We also discussed the existence of trash talking in a sport whose roots are comprised of

group suffering and community.

Christy comments on the most outspoken and confident among the elite few, and to unabashedly

remark to her once,

sometimes I look to wait and I'm like, fuck I'm strong.

How was Christy attacking the open both in terms of weekly prep, programming, and the

workouts themselves?

Those secrets lie just moments away.

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