The Wild Card Spot ft. Hunter McIntyre
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week’s Brute Podcast is wild—and it has everything to do with guest Hunter McIntyre.
Hunter is back on the Brute Podcast in advance of this year’s 2019 CrossFit Games to express his excitement—and gratitude—for making it into this year’s Games with the wild card draw.
(Rumor has it that if he doesn’t place in the top 15, he’ll be rocking a new belly button piercing by the end of the year.)
Listen to hear more about how he went from rehab to OCR Champ, other crazy stories and to learn how Hunter is preparing for one of the most grueling challenges in sport.
Topics:
09:28 – Going to the CrossFit Games
27:40 – Looking for a new challenge
23:50 – Open vs. Regionals vs. Games
38:50 – Competing for the podium
47:51 – Yearly ritual
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
| 0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back. This is Michael Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. This week I've got Hunter McIntyre back on the show. |
| 0:33.0 | Hunter is also known as Hunt the Sheriff on Instagram. |
| 0:38.0 | And as of two or three weeks ago, Hunter got the very first wild card spot at the CrossVig |
| 0:46.6 | games. About a year ago he had heard that Greg Glassman was talking about |
| 0:51.9 | this wild card spot and he decided that he wanted one and he made |
| 0:56.0 | it known across the fitness industry that he was gunning for one of these spots. |
| 1:01.4 | You can see him doing interviews on Forbes, on the morning chalk up, he's done |
| 1:05.8 | things all over trying to spread the message that he wants one of these spots. And as of about two or three |
| 1:12.2 | weeks ago, he finally got one. |
| 1:15.0 | And since then, there's been a lot of shit talking directed at him regarding this spot. |
| 1:22.0 | A lot of anger directed at him when really what they're feeling |
| 1:27.0 | may be more appropriately directed at Greg Glassman |
| 1:31.0 | and the people that are making the decisions to create this spot in the first place. |
| 1:35.7 | So being a friend of hunters, I wanted to give him a platform to speak and to express himself. |
| 1:42.4 | And as always, he's incredibly entertaining and |
| 1:45.4 | insightful. Hunter is a six maybe seven time world champion obstacle |
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