What does being a great competitor have in common with being a great coach? ft. Chris Spealler - Ep.75
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week Chris Spealler (@cspealler) one of CrossFit's OGs, is on the show. Not only was he an individual competitor for 7 CrossFit Games, but he is now an Affiliate owner, and a trainer for CrossFit Headquarters. Since 2007, Chris has been helping CrossFit grow as a sport through his efforts as an athlete and now a coach. This guy is a true ambassador for CrossFit. In this episode we will be getting into some of his success as an athlete, as well as transitioning out of competitions and what it really takes to make it to the games. Enjoy the show.
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Topics of discussion:
[2:08] Points of performance for the Squat w/ Chris Spealler
[10:00] Coaching elite athletes
[16:20] Transitioning out of competitions
[23:23] What it takes to make it to The Games
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Icon Athlete – Programming by Chris Spealler
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? This is Mike Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | This week, I interview Chris Spieler, one of the most iconic CrossFit athletes of all time. |
| 0:11.0 | We talk about his career in CrossFit, competing as an athlete, as well as his transition |
| 0:17.8 | into a coach and what he's learned throughout that whole process. |
| 0:21.8 | Before we get started, if you're a regular listener of this show and you haven't done so yet, |
| 0:26.1 | please put this show on pause real quick. Head to iTunes. Leave me a quick review. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm going to invite any of you that are interested to call into a voicemail that I have set up |
| 0:36.6 | and leave some questions. So then I'm going to |
| 0:40.1 | play back your question on the podcast and I'm either going to answer the question myself or I'm |
| 0:46.5 | going to get one of my guests to help me answer those questions. If you're interested, |
| 0:51.2 | the number is 801-449-0503. That's 801-4-9-0503. I hope you enjoy the show. |
| 1:03.0 | Hi, my name is Darren Hanson. I'm a recent hire over at Mass Athletics, so working with Nick |
| 1:09.1 | Fowler over there. I'm Pretty sure you're familiar with him. |
| 1:12.9 | So, question, training, the squat, okay, basic, right? |
| 1:18.7 | So with clients, obviously it depends on the client or does it. |
| 1:24.4 | What's the proper squat depth? |
| 1:26.6 | Do you push athletes to an in optimal position |
| 1:30.3 | to reach a full depth or do you preach toes forward and squat to the depth capable? |
| 1:38.3 | How do you go about that when working with the client. |
| 1:47.4 | Also, toes out, toes forward. |
| 1:54.3 | I mean, that's always a fun one to talk about and how it applies to, well, sport application as well as just in the gym, training, CrossFit style applications. |
| 2:05.1 | I would love to hear some talk about that and that's it um Darren what's up man thanks for calling in yes obviously I'm very familiar with Nick Fowler |
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