#StopTheMayhem, The Wasatch Brutes, and Coaching with Adrian Conway - Ep. 105

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Adrian Conway, my former teammate and team captain to the Wasatch Brutes is on the show. (@adrianconway) We'll discuss how the team came to be, difficulties they experienced, what the driving force behind their success is and their mission to #stopthemayhem. We also dive into topics about coaching—his own experience as a coach over the years and what he has learned about athletes both in person and virtually. Adrian is a wealth of knowledge and an amazing leader, there is a lot of pearls of knowledge in this one. Enjoy the show!

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Topics of discussion:

[1:51] Getting the team together

[8:43] Lessons learned at Wodapalooza

[14:59] Creating accountability within the team

[15:55] Nick Fowler as head coach

[19:40] Becoming and communicating like a team

[22:49] Benefit of having a coach

[24:34] Regionals and pushing the threshold

[26:40] Mutual respect for teammates and developing chemistry

[28:48] Winning the CrossFit Games

[31:16] Adrian as a leader

[35:10] Being a coach and what has changed over the years

[39:29] The curious and passionate athlete

[43:40] Why consistent athletes are better athletes

[46:37] Knowing your athletes and honest assessments

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey this is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. This week I'm back with my former teammate and current colleague Adrian Conway.
0:08.0	Adrian is a member of the Cross Fit L1 staff, head coach at Wasatch, Cross Fit in Leighton, Utah as well as one of the head coaches at Brute.
0:18.8	Adrian is the main coach that all of our athletes check in with on a weekly basis.
0:25.0	On this show we talk a lot about their team that is gearing up for the games this year, what they've learned, working together for the past six to nine months,
0:38.0	as well as the new relationship with their coach, Nick Fowler. We finish up by talking about
0:45.7	what he's learned through all of the thousands of hours of teaching seminars,
0:50.5	coaching athletes in person and online. Enjoy the show. Hey, this is Mike
0:56.1	Kaseh you and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast. I'm back for the
0:59.6	second time or third time with my former teammates and colleague Adrian Conway. Adrian you got the games
1:06.2	coming up you got a lot on your plate new baby thank you for making some time to do this
1:10.0	with me today ma'am love to here man. Thanks for having me.
1:13.0	Hell yeah.
1:14.0	So I want to start out with this.
1:16.4	You guys have a team that can actually dethron the mayhem and I'm very excited about that.
1:25.0	Let's back up about six months, eight month, nine months, however long ago before you guys decided to form the team.
1:31.0	All of you had been competing as individuals in the past and you had been on a team with me.
1:38.0	Everybody had or most of the people had been on a team before but at the time everybody was
1:43.2	competing as an individual so what were the what were the conversations like
1:47.2	that convinced everyone to join this team. Gosh.
1:53.0	The conversations were all over the place, to be honest.
1:57.3	At first it was more, you know, specifically, for me it was like, hey, I'm assessing where I'm going to be at this year in regards to
2:06.1	professionally as a coach
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