What it Takes to be a CrossFit Games Athlete w/ 8 Time CrossFit Games Athlete Alessandra Pichelli, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson- Barbell Shrugged — Barbell Shrugged #410
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Alessandra Pichelli was born in Montreal, Quebec. At age 2, her family moved to Bahrain in the Middle East and spent a few years there. Her family then moved to Yokohama, Japan where Alessandra attended St Maur International School. By age 8, Alessandra returned to Canada and grew up in Welland, Ontario. She remained in Canada through her highschool rowing career, which led her to a full scholarship to Saint Mary's College of California. It was during her final year of collegiate rowing that her coach, Nicole Young, introduced her to the sport of CrossFit.
Since then Alessandra has consecutively competed in the Reebok CrossFit Games for eight years; her best finish was during her rookie year in 2013 when she finished 4th.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, the crew breaks down what it takes to be an 8 time CrossFit Games Athlete, the training, nutrition, lifestyle, and how she has maintained her competitiveness with the competition getting harder and harder every year.
Minute Breakdown:
0-10 – Learning from your mistakes every year to compete at the highest level
11-20 – How do you peak with so many events in a CrossFit season
21-30 – Questioning your why each year and finding motivation to push forward
31-40 - Is the spectrum of talent going to be lower at the Games than in years past
41 -50 - Training vs. working out
51 -60 - Sealfit to build mental and emotional capacity in games training
Alessandra Pichelli on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | We are one week out from the one-ton challenge live presented by Fidgett Friends, Wes |
| 0:08.5 | Kitts, Marcus Philly, Ben Alderman, Kenny Leverage, Logan Aldridge, Adrian Conway, Elijah |
| 0:14.9 | Muhammad, Morgan King, Kristen Pope, there's so many big names, Katie Cork, Savage, |
| 0:20.7 | Barbell, Caffin and Kilos, whoo, Fidgett! |
| 0:23.8 | The one-ton challenge live, make sure you get over if you're going to be at the CrossFit |
| 0:27.0 | Games from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday night, August 2nd. We're going to be tearing it down. Lots of |
| 0:33.6 | big weights getting moved around, coming see it and I'm going to be hosting it with CT Fletcher. |
| 0:40.2 | Everybody loves CT Fletcher so you got to get over and check it out. We're going to be lifting |
| 0:44.0 | all the weights and I am super-amped on it. If you cannot be at the CrossFit Games, we're opening |
| 0:49.2 | up a live leaderboard starting Thursday August 1st through Sunday August 4th. You can get |
| 0:56.8 | on snatch clean jerksquad dead bench, Adam, I'll find your one-ton total, put them on the leaderboard |
| 1:02.2 | and you can get signed up for free today go over to live.one-tonchallenge.com live.one-tonchallenge.com. |
| 1:11.1 | If you can make it to the CrossFit Games, come to the Fidgett Lounge, 5 to 8 p.m. August 2nd. |
| 1:17.0 | If you cannot, the one-ton challenge in your home gym with your training partners, |
| 1:21.2 | you're going to be so much fun. Snatch clean jerksquad dead bench live.one-tonchallenge.com. |
| 1:27.8 | Tons of free resources, free leaderboards, get signed up today. I want to thank our friends |
| 1:32.4 | over at Woop. We love Woop. You know what I decided? Woop is like tracking macros for recovery. |
| 1:40.2 | Hear me out. I didn't use the track macros and then I had a kid and then I didn't sleep as much. |
| 1:47.1 | In the guest ward, I got a little lazy on my nutrition and I had no idea it was going on my mouth. |
| 1:51.4 | Let's start to put on a little weight. Got back to tracking macros because that's where the |
| 1:54.9 | basics are at. You got to track your macros. When it comes to recovery, Woop is the basics. You |
| 2:00.0 | got to be able to track your heart rate. You got to be able to track your HRV and you got to be |
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