Say Yes to Life
We are a fitness community on a mission to IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE. Each week we sit down for a short conversation with an expert in the health and fitness industry with CrossFit as our main focus. We believe that life is a TEAM SPORT - not a spectator sport - and we want to help you work HARD and SMART in the gym so you can be successful doing the things you want to do outside the gym.
Episodes
29 episodes
Success Sunday (Part 3): YOU CAN DO HARD THINGS! Embracing Discomfort and the Power of Positive Self-Talk
What's going through your mind during an echo bike sprint, a max set of wall-balls, or that 4 mile Hero WOD run in 100 degree heat? Today Angelina shares success tips and ways to reframe our thinking to help us overcome even our greatest challe...
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Success Sunday (Part 2): Identifying and Living Your Values
Have you ever done a self-audit of where you're spending your time, energy, and money? How can establishing our own personal core values help us take charge of our goals? Back for part 2 of our Success Sunday mini series, Angelina Rybachuk shar...
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Success Sunday (Part 1): Recommitting to Habits, Creating a Joy List, and Celebrating Wins
Welcome back to Success Sunday: podcast edition! With Q4 just around the corner, now is an opportune time to reflect on our successes of 2021 thus far as well as the goals we want to hit before the end of this year. Listen as host Lauren Carlos...
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Season FINALE: Meet the Everett Team! Q&A with Coach Clayton and Coach Theresa
The opening of our new Everett location would not be possible without these two AMAZING humans: Clayton Feis and Theresa Costanzo! Listen as Lauren and Cody ask them everything from how they started CrossFit to what drives them as coaches, from...
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Episode 25: "Scaling" Workouts and Why We Customize
Customizing, also known as "scaling," is what makes CrossFit possible for both novice and elite athletes, young and old, injured and healthy, and everyone in between. Today Cody and Lauren discuss how customizing is not a setback but a ne...
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Episode 24: What is the Wolf Pack?
"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." -Rudyard Kipling. What does this quote mean, and why is the wolf our mascot? Listen as host Lauren Carlos interviews Cody Looney, founder and CEO of CrossFit ...
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Episode 23: We Went to NATIONALS! Recap of the USA Weightlifting National Championship with Derek Cullison and Chelsea Nicholas
Three of our Wolfpack Weightlifters made it to nationals this year! Listen as athletes Chelsea Nicholas, Derek Cullison, and coach Cody Looney recap an electrifying weekend on the platform in Detroit. (Not featured: Sam Vallin, one of our remot...
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Episode 22: Why We Take Scores
Why do we keep track of our rounds and reps, track our numbers on Beyond the Whiteboard, and ring the PR bell? Listen as Cody and Lauren talk about how taking scores serves as a tool to help improve performance and create more moments to celebr...
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Episode 21: Why We Love Burpees - The Value of Metabolic Conditioning and Monostructural Movements in CrossFit
The recipe for any given CrossFit WOD uses three ingredients: gymnastics, weightlifting, and monostructural. Movements like running, rowing, echo bike, and double-unders fall into this "monostructural" category. Listen as Cody and Lauren talk a...
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Episode 20: Living with Intention - Habit Tracking, Goal Setting, and Progress Over Perfection featuring Angelina Rybachuk
Have you ever set a New Years resolution that doesn't stick around past January? Or thought to yourself at the end of the year, "How did that go by so fast?" Listen as Angelina Rybachuk shares tips about living intentionally each day instead of...
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Episode 19: I'm Upside Down and I'M OK! - Gymnastics 101 and Why You're Born a Gymnast
When we think about gymnastics, we often think about back handsprings and flips on a high beam. But you don't have to do these things to be a gymnast--push-ups, pull-ups, handstand holds and muscle-ups count, too! Learn why gymnastics is one of...
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Episode 18: You Are What You Eat - Meal Timing, Macros, and Food Labels with Nutrition Coach Carly Fuhrer
The first word in CrossFit's definition of fitness is "eat." If we want to make the most of our training and maximize our performance--not to mention sleep, brain and heart health, and energy throughout the day--we must first learn how to FUEL ...
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Episode 17: Why We're Born to Lift - Health Benefits, Common Myths, and Gaining Confidence with Weightlifting
Weightlifting is not just something Gregg Glassman and the Burgeners invented—our ancestors were doing this stuff hundreds and thousands of years ago in the form of pushing wheelbarrows and carrying bales of hay. It’s almost in our DNA to lift ...
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Episode 16: Our 4 Core Values and Why
Your culture is only as strong as the values you practice. What are the 4 core values of CrossFit Advantage, and why do they matter? Listen as Lauren Carlos interviews Cody Looney, owner and CEO of CrossFit Advantage, and hear shoutouts of some...
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Episode 15: Mental Health Awareness with Darla Telschow, LMHC
May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Listen as licensed mental health counselor Darla Telschow (LMHC) shares some useful mental health tips--everything from coping mechanisms such as "grounding" to how to navigate finding a good child therapis...
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Episode 14: Life is a Team Sport
"Life is a team sport" is a key part of who we are at CrossFit Advantage. What does it mean? Where did it come from? Why does it matter to us both inside and outside the gym? Listen as Lauren and Cody share their thoughts (and let us know yours...
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Episode 13: The Hero Challenge - Who, What, When, Where, and Why featuring Gregg Garmire
Hero Challenge season is HERE! Host Lauren Carlos interviews Cody and Gregg, both former military veterans who've been doing the Hero Challenge for years, all about what the challenge is, how to participate, why we do it, and the #1 rule for th...
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Episode 12: Training with Intention
Ever wonder if you're training too hard or not hard enough? Or when to push and when to rest and recover? Lauren and Cody discuss listening to your body, making movement a habit, and different "modes" of training from game day to rest day. ...
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Episode 11: Tough Guys Talking About Tough Stuff - "It's OK to Not Be OK" with Derek Cullison, Fox Eisinger, and Cody Looney
Mental health matters, no matter who you are or what you're going through. Listen as Cody interviews guests Derek Cullison and Fox Eisinger in a candid conversation about emotions, mental health, anxiety, and not being afraid to seek help. (Ple...
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Episode 10: The "5 for 5 Challenge" & Finding Balance as an Athlete - featuring Kelsey Mcgee
The 5 for 5 Challenge is back! We are challenging YOU to attend 5 CrossFit classes per week for 5 weeks in a row. CFA athlete Kelsey Mcgee shares how completing the challenge multiple times in the past has transformed her physically, mentally, ...
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Episode 9: What's More Important, Technique or Intensity?
Intensity is the key ingredient in the methodology of CrossFit. But where does technique fit in? See how you do on this POP quiz podcast and learn about the importance of balancing both in your training. Episode 2: What Even is Fitness?...
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Episode 8: SURPRISE INTERVIEW - Sage Burgener Interviews Cody and Lauren
Sage Burgener is BACK for part two with some bonus footage - learn all about her infamous Bad B*tch Camp, tips to improve your snatch technique, embracing the whole spectrum of masculinity and femininity, and a surprise interview where Sage thr...
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Episode 7: Interview with Sage Burgener - Growing Up Burgener, Olympic Weightlifting, and Training Mindset Over Matter
If you've done CrossFit, you've probably heard of "Burgener Strength" or done "the Burgener warm-up" at one point or another. But who are the Burgeners, and how has this methodology transformed Olympic weightlifting? From her first competition ...
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Episode 6: Women Who CrossFit - with Kathryn Zollman, Chelsea Nicholas, and Julie Carlos
What does it mean to be a woman in CrossFit? In honor of Women's History Month, host Lauren Carlos interviews three badass women: a coach and mom of three, a competitive athlete with her masters degree, and her own mom, who never considered her...
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Episode 5: What is CrossFit, Who's Eric Roza, and Why We're Still a CrossFit Affiliate (Part 2)
What does the "CrossFit" name mean, and what went down last summer in 2020? Hundreds of gyms around the world have cut ties with CrossFit after former CEO Greg Glassman's racist remarks on Twitter. Learn how gym owner Cody Looney handled the si...
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