Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Talking Elite Fitness, Sean Woodland, Tommy Marquez, and Lauren Khalil here with you as we start to wrap up a busy quarterfinals weekend and one of the three people in this podcast right now actually made quarterfinals. Yeah, and it's not you were.

Nope.

Thankfully, so Lauren, before we jump into anything else, I want to know how did it go for you.

Oh, man, this was, I don't know that I've been training for the correct sport the past year.

No, but in all seriousness, it was so fun. I really enjoyed these tests because I felt like each of them tested something so different, and I was able to kind of find one little goal to achieve or accomplish from my training the past year.

Obviously, we've talked a little bit about it that my training this the past five or six months has not been consistent.

No, it's been enough to get you hang on. Hang on. I got you quarterfinals. So it's up and right.

The past five years of being very dedicated where I think what caught me through this year, but it was really cool to see like the evolution of CrossFit and how some of the like movements and like the standards, even when we're thinking of like doing a 25 foot handstand walk unbroken.

Like that was the first time we've seen that in an online qualifier. Normally you put the little tape lines and even like as a coach, I'm going out there helping some people and they're like, wait, why is there only two tape lines? And I'm like, because it's unbroken.

It's just like those little conversations were cool and fun to have. But I would say my body actually didn't hurt as bad this year as it does.

Or as it did in past years, like I think last year I remember just being so wrecked.

My quads could like barely move. And I think that might have been because of the pistols and that's not a great movement for me.

But it was it was fun. It was it's just like a fun environment. We had about like 10 people at my affiliate that qualified for quarterfinals and just, you know, it gets lit and people.

It literally reminds me of like high school Friday night football when everything is on the line. And everybody's cheering. You got parents that are coming into watch. It just was it was fun.

Yeah. So let me ask you this. The final question will move on. But you see some things online about, you know, people who did quarterfinals. I'm like, I couldn't, you know, these are way too hard. And I'm not paying my money next time. And did you feel like from your for your ability.

That these tests gave you enough of a chance to compete. But at the same time, you know, pushed you maybe to try and get better. And if so, why?

Yeah, for sure. I think that if ring muscle ups were the first movement in one workout, then I could absolutely make that argument because that's the weakest movement for me. And it would take me maybe the full 15 minutes to get just a couple of them.

Um, I'm a stronger athlete than I am a gymnasty athlete. So the weights for me really weren't that big of an issue. And we did have somebody actually at our affiliate. He looks at the weights and he's like, well, I guess I'm going to try to PR on the first one.

The argument that I make is somebody who loves the sport, but also like as just a general pop member, but also somebody who like watches these fantastically athletes, if the weights didn't go up.

And if some of the tests weren't hard enough, then you're going to get to the first in person competition. And you're going to have athletes who then can't do the tests and how bad does that look.

So you have to make it hard enough to qualify the right people.

Yeah, it does seem like some of those criticisms are highly subjective to the individual and what what may or may not be their their holes in their fitness.

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