Salty B!tch: Adrian Bozman and His CrossFit Legacy (EP. 015)
The CrossFit Podcast
CrossFit LLC
4.3 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Episode Description CrossFit Competition Director Adrian “Boz” Bozman joins the show to reflect on the evolving landscape of the sport and its roots. With nearly 20 years in the CrossFit ecosystem — as an athlete, coach, judge, long-time Seminar Staff member, and even Games director — Boz brings a unique perspective on the methodology’s intent and its interpretation. Boz and Denise dig into CrossFit philosophy, the challenge of honoring tradition while pushing boundaries, and why discomfort is part of the job. Get to know the man whose fingerprints are all over CrossFit — including the “no-rep.” This conversation reveals what Boz looks for in coaches, how he views criticism, and what he hopes CrossFit never forgets. Topics Included Boz’s journey from personal trainer to Seminar Staff to competition director The evolution of training: traditional personal training vs. coaching CrossFit How Boz approached programming the Games How Boz’s relationship with training has settled in over time Resources Mentioned Boz and Pat Sherwood’s podcast: Varied, Not Random Community Highlight: After losing his grandfather to suicide in 2013, Mark Moss stayed quiet, unsure how to help others facing the same darkness. Then he found CrossFit. And with it, a spark.⠀ In 2022, he launched UPLIFT — starting with T-shirt sales to raise awareness and funds for mental health support. Today, alongside Emma Skelley, Mark is partnering with local affiliates to offer free memberships to those struggling with mental health. They host an annual memorial workout each fall. And one day, they hope to take the program nationwide.⠀ This year’s T-shirts are available now. Go check it out, and when you see an UPLIFT T-shirt in the wild, give that human a high five. Know someone you think deserves to be highlighted? Nominate them here → https://crossfit.surveysparrow.com/s/CrossFit-Community-Stories/tt-PrkSJ Let us know what you think about the podcast and how we can improve here → https://crossfit.surveysparrow.com/s/The-CrossFit-Podcast—Feedback-Survey/tt-lf9Gf?ep=015
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| 0:00.0 | I don't really care if I'm just better at CrossFit arbitrarily, you know what I mean? |
| 0:05.0 | I care that I can learn new things in my 40s. |
| 0:09.0 | People all over the world today that are doing CrossFit are throwing no reps. |
| 0:15.0 | And I don't even know if they know where it came from, but I'm here to tell you it's you. |
| 0:20.0 | I think that if something gets too codified, it can become a great expression of itself, |
| 0:26.6 | but that may not be the expression of the bigger thing that it was supposed to be in the first place. |
| 0:32.6 | You are a bit of a character in CrossFit, and I don't know if you know that. |
| 0:42.3 | Your influence on CrossFit is pretty incredible. |
| 0:46.3 | There's Adrian Bosman is all over the CrossFit ecosystem, and a lot of people won't even know to what capacity because now you're most |
| 0:56.7 | known for your role as the competition director at the CrossFit Games. |
| 1:01.2 | But you worked from, I want to say, 2008-ish to 2018, maybe a little bit more, a little bit |
| 1:07.8 | less for seminar staff and you ran over 350 gigs worldwide. |
| 1:15.1 | And that was in 10 years. So that was probably, you were probably on the road every weekend for |
| 1:19.2 | like 10 years across the universe. |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah, that sounds about right. And particularly we put in like around those seminars too. There were regional |
| 1:29.5 | events and other announcements we did for open and games and stuff like that. Like yeah, it was about |
| 1:34.6 | a 10 year stretch where I recall being on the road about 40 weeks out of the year on average for |
| 1:40.1 | that 10 year period. But it was pretty awesome. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:44.5 | And yeah, you said about the sport side and CrossFit, all the time you were doing that, |
| 1:49.3 | you were also running the CrossFit games with Dave and that team. |
| 1:54.8 | And you were overseeing all the online content for a good amount of time |
| 1:59.5 | until you handed that off. And I know that we did |
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