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Talking Elite Fitness

Semifinals RFP and Gretchen Kittelberger talks IF3

Talking Elite Fitness

Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The CrossFit Semifinals are looking for new homes in North America and Europe. Sean, Tommy and Lauren talk about CrossFit's RFP to cities interested in hosting semifinals competitions for the next three years. Former CrossFit Games athlete and current President of the International Functional Fitness Federation (IF3) Gretchen Kittelberger joins the show to talk about what her organization does to clearly define rules and movement standards, and where they are in the quest to get functional fitness included in the Olympics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness, the usual suspects

0:05.0

here with you, Sean Woodland, Tommy Marquez and Lauren Collille, beautiful Thursday as

0:10.4

we record on May 4th. May the fourth be with you, everyone. Happy Star Wars Day. Yes, I'm

0:15.2

sure Lauren is celebrating accordingly. I have used a light saber before and when I did,

0:22.4

that was the first time that I realized it was a light saber and not a light saber.

0:28.4

Like the candy. Sean's head just almost explode. It's okay. It's okay. You know, like it,

0:35.9

you know, like it's South Park when someone just their head's just randomly popped from

0:39.9

frustration. That's what Sean said almost just using the Chewbacca defense, Bob.

0:51.0

That wasn't a button. No, that's Tommy Marquez doing a wookie impression. So happy May 4th,

0:56.0

everybody. My wife came to me last night and she's like, she texted me. She goes, I have a

1:01.0

huge favor to ask. I said, okay, what? And she is one of her co-workers today is getting sworn

1:08.4

in. He's a huge Star Wars fan. He got promoted to lieutenant. So he got sworn in as lieutenant.

1:12.6

And she texted me last night. She's like, can one of her co-workers wear your costume to the

1:20.5

swearing in tomorrow? I went, yeah, that's fine. Sure. That's amazing. She gathered it all up this

1:26.0

morning, took it out the door. And I was like, Tommy, you'll get this. I was like a Han Solo in

1:30.8

return legit. I went, he's like, you're telling me not a scratch, right? He's like, we can have

1:39.2

so I kind of was like looking longingly as it went out the door. No, I'm okay. This is going to

1:43.3

be all right. So yeah, he put it on and I guess it was a big hit and a light saber's there. Not

1:47.8

savers, light sabers as he was after he got sworn in. Everyone like lit him up. So it was

1:51.8

pretty cool. So I'm happy to be part of that. I was hoping the other line you would have

1:56.0

followed it up with as she walks out. She goes, I love you. I know. I know.

2:02.9

I've been good. You'll learn one day, Lauren. Okay. I'm bummed. I meant to wear my chewy socks.

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