Should You Open A CrossFit Gym? w/ Chris Spealler — Barbell Shrugged #346
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Chris Spealler was an individual competitor in 7 CrossFit Games, is an Affiliate Owner, and trainer for CrossFit Headquarters teaching a variety of seminars both domestic and internationally.
Chris has been fortunate enough to help grow the sport of CrossFit through competing and teaching at a variety of competitions and seminars from as early as 2007, and is currently sharing his knowledge and experience through programming for and developing Icon Athlete.
In this episode, we talk about the early days of CrossFit, before it was a fitness empire, how wrestling leads to mental toughness, being the smallest CrossFit athlete at the CrossFit Games, the business of owning a CrossFit gym, taking your workouts outside and doing grunt work, and more.
Enjoy!
Doug and Anders
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shrugged family! Another Saturday edition of Shrugged coming your way! Hanging out |
| 0:05.6 | with Chris Speeler. This dude is a legend! If you are an OG crossfitter and you |
| 0:12.3 | remember him pushing that gigantic prowler across the stadium in Carson at |
| 0:20.4 | the CrossFit Games. That was a pretty inspirational moment that little guy |
| 0:24.8 | just hanging out with all the gigantic monsters and Speeler's just an awesome guy. |
| 0:32.2 | He was actually the lead flow master at my level two like eight years ago when |
| 0:41.3 | they first came out with the level two we went on a massive road trip all the way |
| 0:46.3 | up the coast. Got to go hang out at NorCal CrossFit. Jason Coleepa was there. |
| 0:51.3 | It was super cool. I really had a blast talking to Speeler. He is to such an OG |
| 1:00.0 | and probably millions of people have come through his brain and the way that he |
| 1:07.2 | perceives CrossFit and just all the wisdom that he brings to the methodology. |
| 1:13.2 | Just so much experience and what an awesome guy. Want to give a shout out to |
| 1:20.0 | Viori Clothing. These guys. We have a photo shoot with them and a video shoot |
| 1:26.7 | with them coming up on Monday but I literally cannot take the clothes off. My wife |
| 1:32.0 | loves me in them which means they make you look good. Strong, athletic, all the |
| 1:38.4 | right places. They look nice. That's a huge one in the fitness world and they're |
| 1:45.4 | so comfortable. Everything's so soft. I love the shirts. I love the shorts. They've |
| 1:50.9 | got this awesome liner in them that I just can't stop talking about because most of |
| 1:56.6 | the time when there's a liner in shorts it drives me absolutely crazy. It never fits |
| 2:01.6 | and they suck. Viori figured it out. They did it the right way. The jogger sweat pants |
| 2:08.3 | that I have, fashion forward, fitness forward. Just made that up. Sounded awesome. |
| 2:15.5 | Probably going to use it again later in shrug episode reads. But get over to Viori Clothing |
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