The Evolution Of A Games Athlete W/ Wes Piatt

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

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🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

So you want to compete in CrossFit and perhaps make it to the Games one day? Getting to the CrossFit Games is no joke. It never was, and now it's a full time job to even get to Regionals. Competition in the sport of CrossFit is more intense than ever, and there's no doubt that the bar is set higher every year.

This week, we meet up with Games athlete, Wes Piatt, who just wrapped up competing at the California Regionals. Wes has been competing for 7 years and in this episode, he shares his journey and we get to look into the life of a competitive athlete to hear what it is really like to train for the Games.

You'll learn about the training, supplementation, and mindset an individual CrossFitter needs to compete at the highest level plus get Wes's insight on the evolution of the competition over the last decade. In addition. Wes dives into what it is like to coach aspiring CrossFit Games athletes.

If you have aspirations to get to the Games or you're curious how it's done you'll want to tune in for this one.

Enjoy the show,

Mike

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0:00.0	I'm not gonna do it because I'm gonna listen to my body.
0:02.2	I think that's honestly like to answer your original question.
0:04.5	That's the things probably changed the most over these seven years.
0:07.0	Is I listen to myself more now than I did in the beginning.
0:10.2	The beginning was like, it's there.
0:11.8	I gotta do it.
0:12.8	If I don't do it because it's on paper, then you know, I was a failure today.
0:16.2	And so, but now I'll be like, ah, you know what?
0:18.5	Actually, I'm kind of beat up. I'm gonna go home.
0:20.4	I'm good. And then some days I'm like, you know what?
0:22.7	That wasn't enough. Actually, I'm gonna add a little bit to it.
0:30.0	We're gonna borrow a shrug. I'm like, let's go here with Doug Larson and Andy Goppin.
0:59.0	And we're hanging out, Dynamis CrossFit.
1:01.0	Here in Clause Bad, we have a West Piet.
1:04.0	You've been a CrossFit Games competitor.
1:07.0	You've been competing, you just wrapped up Regionals.
1:11.0	And you're alive.
1:13.0	Yeah, I'm alive.
1:14.0	Yeah, I made it through the weekend on injured, which seems like it was a task.
1:18.0	Yeah.
1:19.0	I think almost every athlete after Regionals, I get talking to them half of them or beat up in some way.
1:25.0	Every athlete that has their pecs still is just really happy about that.
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