Tia Toomey: Finding Your Why, Rejecting Complacency, and Developing a Champion's Mindset
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Tia Toomey was named one of the world’s fittest women by Sports Illustrated, and is a six-time CrossFit Games champion, Olympic weightlifter, and Commonwealth Games gold medalist. She is the only CrossFit athlete to have competed in the CrossFit Games and the Olympics in the same year. With her sixth title, she solidified her record-breaking streak as the most successful CrossFit athlete the sport has ever seen. Tia’s new book, THE HEART IS THE STRONGEST MUSCLE was released on 2/13.
We loved getting to understand how Tia went from great to unstoppable, and that the missing piece isn't always physical, even in high performance. She is a new mom and a banner example of how women CAN have it all, including babies and demanding careers competing in elite sport.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.0 | And you're listening to the Ready State podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | We are very excited to welcome Tia Toomey to the podcast today. |
| 0:20.5 | Tia was named one of the world's fittest women by Sports Illustrated, |
| 0:24.3 | is a six-times CrossFit Games champion, Olympic weightlifter, |
| 0:28.3 | and Commonwealth Games gold medalist. |
| 0:30.6 | She's the only CrossFit athlete to have competed in the CrossFit games |
| 0:34.2 | in the Olympics in the same year. |
| 0:36.5 | With her sixth title, she solidified her record-breaking streak as the most successful CrossFit games in the Olympics in the same year. With her sixth title, she solidified her |
| 0:38.8 | record-breaking streak as the most successful CrossFit athlete the sport has ever seen. Tia's new book, |
| 0:45.7 | The Heart is the Strongest Muscle, was released on February 13th. And, you know, it was so fun to talk to |
| 0:51.6 | Tia. You know, we've known her and known of her for all these years and watched her compete in so many games. But I think maybe my favorite part of this conversation is her talking about her book, which is a really a reflection on, you know, the things that really made a difference for her, you know, going from kind of good to great, so to speak, as an athlete. Right. |
| 1:12.3 | Who wasn't eating another sweet potato. |
| 1:14.2 | No, and it wasn't lifting a heavier weight. And underneath that, sort of, you know, she has this really unique relationship with her husband, |
| 1:20.5 | business partner, coach, Shane, and how they kind of created this model of curiosity to ask what was missing. And it turned out it was not |
| 1:30.5 | physical at all. It was psychoemotional. Yeah, that was really interesting. And, you know, |
| 1:33.8 | she also just had a baby recently. And so I'm really excited to hear that her training is going well. |
| 1:40.2 | You know, she placed second last fall in the Rogue Invitational. and she's gearing up to compete again in the CrossFit games. |
| 1:46.2 | And I just think the more women that we can have and watch mid-career, have children, and then go back to competing and being successful is amazing. |
| 1:54.6 | And so I'm really looking forward to seeing what Tia does this year. |
| 1:57.5 | Yeah, there's so many ways in on this conversation. |
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