What is XENOM and why should we be excited about it?
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
XENOM is the being billed as "The Decathalon of Fitness," but what exactly is it? CEO and Founder Keith Barlow joins the show to talk about the new competition, how it came about, what a competition weekend looks like and why CrossFitters should be excited about it.
Plus, the crew recaps the 2026 Open and takes a look back and a rain-soaked Wodapalooza.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three, go! |
| 0:10.0 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Sean Woodland, joined as always by Lauren Kaleel. |
| 0:17.4 | Lauren, how are you? |
| 0:19.3 | I'm good. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm dry. |
| 0:20.9 | Are you dry yet, Sean? |
| 0:22.6 | I have finally, yes. |
| 0:23.9 | I have finally dried off from the deluge of rain that we had in Miami. |
| 0:28.2 | And, of course, featuring Tommy Marquez, who I'm surprised you're not in front of a television |
| 0:34.1 | right now, given all the March madness that is occurring. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, for the first time, I mean, pretty much for 15 years straight, I was in front of a |
| 0:43.0 | sports book television for March Madness, opening of March Madness. This was, you know, I'm just |
| 0:48.2 | going to say it right now. I was going to say it for the end. First time in 30 years, my alma |
| 0:52.4 | honor, Santa Clara, made the tournament. |
| 0:59.6 | If you haven't already, you haven't seen the highlights, Santa Clara hit a three to go up three with 2.4 seconds, thought it would be the game. Kentucky came back and hit a logo three, |
| 1:05.6 | falling away bank shot to tie it to send it to overtime. And then you kind of knew it was over after that because |
| 1:11.8 | they just had their guts ripped out was this this was the men's game right the women's game yeah |
| 1:17.0 | this was a man this was maybe an hour ago yeah i know i was on a meeting and one of our the people on |
| 1:23.3 | the meeting is an alum of that institution like yourself and was, yeah, hanging on with bated breath. |
| 1:31.1 | Well, yeah. And so now the Marquez family shifts their focus to Arizona. |
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