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Talking Elite Fitness

Where Should the CrossFit Games Move? Death By: Episode 14

Talking Elite Fitness

Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Host Lauren Kalil is joined by James Hobart, Chase Ingraham and Tim Paulson as they talk about the difference coaching and programming make for an athlete, if Justin Medeiros will ever be able to reclaim his crown and where they'd like to see the CrossFit Games in 2024.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone and welcome to death by where contestants will earn reps for their arguments for a chance to stand on top of the podium pedestal.

0:07.5

I'm your host, Lauren Kalil.

0:09.1

Whoever I decide has the best argument through the final round will earn 30 seconds to talk about a topic of their choosing.

0:16.2

On today's episode, we have two-time affiliate cup champion and seminar

0:20.8

staff head trainer James

0:22.8

Hobart.

0:25.5

Affiliate owner

0:26.7

and CrossFit analyst Chase Ingram

0:28.5

with Get With the Programming.

0:32.1

And CrossFit Games team athlete

0:34.8

Tim Polson with Team CrossFit

0:36.6

East Nashville proven.

0:39.7

Let's play death by.

0:44.0

Over the last few years, there has been a lot of hype around training camps and for good

0:48.8

reason. You put a high level athlete in an environment with other high level athletes,

0:55.3

with elite coaches,

1:00.1

and it should be a recipe for success. But looking at the elite men and women's leaderboards from this year's games, five of the six athletes on the podium are not from a training camp.

1:05.6

So does an athlete's programming and environment dictate who ultimately wins the CrossFit games. And if so,

1:12.6

by how much? We will start this round with Chase Ingram. All right. Simple answer is the same

1:20.8

way I look at programming in an affiliate or other entities around the space. And the answer is,

1:25.9

is there a best program out there? Unequivocally, no is, is there a best program out there?

1:28.2

Unequivocally, no. There's not a best program out there. However, you can't have bad programs,

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