The CrossFit Podcast Trailer
The CrossFit Podcast
CrossFit LLC
4.3 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the CrossFit Podcast, hosted by CrossFit Seminar Staff veteran Denise Thomas.
Each episode features a conversation with a leader or legend within the CrossFit community sharing their experiences as practitioners of the CrossFit methodology, and first-hand witnesses to the power of CrossFit to create health and change lives in lasting and profound ways.
We’ll also sit down with guests from outside the community whose work in the academic or clinical space adds a valuable perspective to our discussions and collective understanding.
Along the way, we’ll unpack core elements of CrossFit’s identity that set us apart in our industry.
The CrossFit Podcast offers you the opportunity to listen to conversations between subject matter experts, long-standing affiliate owners, coaches and athletes, and pioneers in the charitable space. We’ll cover a variety of topics, including:
- Lifestyle intervention and chronic disease
- Accountability and agency
- The role of the CrossFit coach
- Mental health and CrossFit
- The value of doing hard things
- Paying it forward and the spirit of service
Subscribe to gain regular insights from the most thoughtful and experienced voices on health and fitness in the CrossFit community and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | Every day, at any moment, there are people all over the world heading to the gym or to the garage, |
| 0:08.3 | where they push themselves harder and they get healthier than they ever could have imagined. |
| 0:14.0 | Who are these people? |
| 0:16.5 | Well, they are members of this community. |
| 0:20.1 | They are CrossFit. |
| 0:24.0 | CrossFit is a technology that allows people to grab health and fitness in their life by the horns. |
| 0:31.5 | My name's Denise Thomas and 17 years ago, CrossFit changed my life. |
| 0:36.5 | Not just personally, but professionally. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm an athlete, I'm a coach, but when it all comes down to it, I'm just a gigantic |
| 0:44.3 | CrossFit nerd. |
| 0:45.7 | And on this CrossFit podcast, we're going to dig deep. |
| 0:48.9 | There's nothing else that works this well. |
| 0:50.8 | I want everyone I love doing this. |
| 0:52.2 | I want everyone you love doing this, right? Because I |
| 0:54.9 | just know how well it works. And if you're going to spend time in a gym, there's nothing else I want |
| 0:59.4 | you doing. With people in our community who are changing and saving lives. We were seeing |
| 1:05.6 | diabetes on the rise for kids. We were seeing depression on the rise for these little kids. And I'm like, |
| 1:12.4 | I can do this. I can start something in Detroit. Join me as I get to know these incredible humans. |
| 1:19.5 | I saw that with my brothers at a point they were able to beat me in a workout. And I did not |
| 1:24.8 | like that. It was not a good feeling. But I can tell you this, it made me a better athlete. |
| 1:30.3 | Together, their stories are the story of CrossFit. |
| 1:33.3 | You know you've disrupted or you've created excellence when everything before you is now obsolete and everything after you now bears your mark. |
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