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Double Edge Fitness
Sacrifice, Strength, and Success: The Double Edge Journey with Ryan and Alyssa
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Speaker 2:There it is.
Speaker 3:Ooh, I like that. Is this a new tune or is this the same one? It's not new.
Speaker 2:It's how many? Of these you listen to, or just the same one. So how many of these do you listen to? Today we have Alyssa Kruger, ryan Perry.
Speaker 3:On the Double Edge Podcast. Thanks for having us Excited to be here Round of applause.
Speaker 2:Round of applause Special day.
Speaker 3:We've been waiting six months for this. Yeah, we have been.
Speaker 2:And we're not even sure if it's going to make it out. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm out. We're done, wrap it up, all right. So, funny enough, they have been beating me up about them not being on the podcast. I said, yeah, schedule it.
Speaker 3:And so the second that you said, that I scheduled it.
Speaker 2:And what are we doing today? You even sent out a text yesterday. Are we still doing the podcast?
Speaker 3:I had to confirm, we had to confirm, that's fair but dealing with me.
Speaker 2:if it makes it to the calendar, I live and die by the calendar, all right. So the reasons I cancel things is kids get sick, something comes up that's dramatically more important than something else that's scheduled. It might not be. I'd tell that person to def off.
Speaker 3:Are we allowed to cuss on here?
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, it's explicit. She's a teenager, though.
Speaker 3:I don't know the rules, I'll keep it. Chase always says it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. How old are you now?
Speaker 4:I'll be 17 in August 17. You're practically an adult. I know it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2:It's crazy is how long I've known you seeing your entire life. It's been pretty cool, Thank you. Like Ryan's been around my entire fitness career, almost all but two years of it.
Speaker 3:So you've seen him too.
Speaker 2:She's seen the ups and downs of me too. I've only seen ups with her. I've had some not so fit moments in my life. I've overcome.
Speaker 4:You're doing great.
Speaker 3:Oh, thanks You're doing great Look at all yeah, you're doing great.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you. Look at all these affirmations right out the gate. What a treat.
Speaker 3:I beat him in the open, but it's fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're going to talk about that. We're going to put it out there. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 3:I didn't actually beat you in the open.
Speaker 2:You did.
Speaker 3:We were tied. Based on the rules that we came up with for the Open you won Another round of applause.
Speaker 2:I accepted the rowing calorie adjustment.
Speaker 3:But everyone else didn't.
Speaker 2:Doesn't matter what they think. The competition was between me and you, You're right. So yeah, we'll get into that.
Speaker 3:Champion.
Speaker 2:We get to talk about CrossFit a lot. We have a games athlete on here, woo-hoo On Ryan Perry. It a lot, since we have a games athlete on here on ryan perry. Now, how don't brainstorming on trying to figure out how to do this podcast with you both?
Speaker 3:I have no clue oh, do you normally have ideas?
Speaker 2:I usually have a plan right, depending on the guest who's on what I know about their life journey, their story. Um, like alex, he had quite the transformation mentally and physically over the last 16 months and um overcome a lot of obstacles, and just that was the bulk of our conversation. It's cool um various coaches we talk about areas that they're experts in, but you guys bridge, bridge a lot. You bridge success stories. Success stories and growth, personal development. Being a member, you're already a coach, but then you became a member here and then you became a coach here Trying to get Ryan to coach classes. It's about time. I mean, if Jackson starts coaching before you, that's a problem.
Speaker 2:And he's ready.
Speaker 3:I mean he thinks he's ready. Or you're Jackson, oh yeah, he's ready.
Speaker 2:He's like dad. When do I get to coach? I was like oh my god, pump your brakes.
Speaker 3:Takes over Chase's classes Jackson.
Speaker 2:People probably won't think there's a huge age difference ooh burn. Chase has never. If I had a mistake like 14 years old, chase would be my son you know what's funny about age which wouldn't be a? Mistake, chase, it would be a blessing if you were my child, but at 14, considering his attitude yesterday oh was it spicy.
Speaker 4:He was yeah.
Speaker 2:What happened?
Speaker 4:Well, I had to do this 60 minute bike workout last week that he programmed for me and he was like I felt so bad giving you that that I'm going to make myself do it. And I was like, wow, you're just so generous and he did it.
Speaker 3:And he was he was not happy, he was not okay. I tried to have a conversation with him and he basically was like Did you say 60 minute?
Speaker 4:Yeah, an hour Like on the erg Hour long on the bike, erg yeah.
Speaker 2:Steady state or intervals.
Speaker 4:Intervals Like fast.
Speaker 3:It was terrible, he looked unwell yeah.
Speaker 2:He's not conditioned for that right now.
Speaker 4:This is us just roasting Chase the entire time.
Speaker 3:Surprise, it's not about us, it's just about Chase.
Speaker 2:It's just about Chase I mean we all have a special relationship in our own way, that's true, here's. Ryan's coach. He's one of your close friends. You've known for a long time and he's my child Each different. Yeah, each different. We all love him in our own way.
Speaker 3:Chase likes to think he's my big brother and I'm older than him.
Speaker 2:I could see that. Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 4:He's like my second dad, third dad, I have a lot of dads at this gym, true, very protective.
Speaker 2:You do have a protective circle around you. Does it make it hard to like for boys?
Speaker 4:yes, because, oh yeah, the second a boy gets brought up, everyone goes like stir crazy, like I mean I did too. Everyone's just like who is this? Who? Blah, blah, blah. Like always asked me who I'm gonna go to like a dance with. And then they're like, okay, what's his name, where does he go? Do I have to beat him up? I'm like no. Then they're like, okay, what's his name, where does he go? Do I have to beat him up? I'm like no.
Speaker 2:Does he know how to lift?
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's the biggest thing too.
Speaker 3:How much does he bench? The latest one was a good prospect. We shouldn't Can't talk about that?
Speaker 2:Can't talk about that. I mean, my daughter's already informing me that she's on her way to 13. Oh, it's like Claire, you're nine, she's like I know, but in four years I'll be 13. I'll be a teenager. I don't even know.
Speaker 4:She told me she had a crush on a boy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and these conversations she had.
Speaker 4:I told her once I was like if he breaks your heart, I'll kill him, as you said. Yeah, she was eight.
Speaker 2:oh, start it young, she took that pretty um like legitimately oh so she's straight up, she only talks to mom right now about anything in this world because she's genuinely concerned. Like I would kill this child and it's like that's a father metaphor that I'm very protective of you and your heart and your soul, you like. Yeah, it's a metaphor claire. Now there are things that will require me to kill that person, but I'm not worried about that, not too worried about those things well, that's.
Speaker 4:That's how Chase was too, because now that he's going to the academy, he was like, well, now I'm able to Like kill someone if I have to. And I was like, oh my gosh. And I was like, okay, what about once I go off to college, like find a really fit guy at another gym?
Speaker 2:And he goes no, that's worse, because now I have to make sure I'm fitter than him in case I need to beat him up. And now he's like just don't date ever, you're just not gonna. I've come through those psychological things as a father of a young daughter. What that is going to look like when I have to embrace that chapter of my life and I and I would be lying if a big motivation of me striving to be fit and jacked and like look the part.
Speaker 3:For him to be scared. If that wasn't one of them.
Speaker 2:But apparently I have this aura about me.
Speaker 3:You do, I already know.
Speaker 2:Like walking dick face. Yeah, people are intimidated or nervous at first meeting me so I have to imagine it's going to stick a little bit in high school boys.
Speaker 3:Yeah, when I first met Derek I was like Jess, can you go get Derek for me, Because I don't want to go up to him so funny because I'm like, I'm so nice. And then the first time we met you were like I'm working on my resting dick face. I said you're doing good.
Speaker 2:Well, jess told me she's like Liz is nervous to come and talk to you. I was like, oh, the resting dick face strikes again. I got to work on this and I'm hoping you know creating content and people are listening to it and they're like, oh, maybe it's not that bad. I guess the hairdo helped. It's not as like marine militaristic.
Speaker 3:The short head.
Speaker 2:So apparently that's softened the blow a little bit. As much as I like to be narcissistic and make things about me, let's talk about you guys.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So we're going to start with this Alyssa's journey in fitness life hygiene beating me in the open, or Ryan's evolution from from gymnastics, slaying gymnastics, that being the foundation, pretty much your life. Yeah, pretty much all the injuries that haven't happened in crossfit, that happened in gymnastics and um, you're on the competitive side of both of those yep and it's funny as I still hear all the time injuries and crossfit, injuries and crossfit I'm like really is that a thing?
Speaker 2:I know pretty high level people that get injured way less doing competitive crossfit than they did in their gymnastics, which is a sport that is well received amongst parents for kids, and I think it's great. I'm wrong, you learn so much that you can't learn any other deal and it facilitated you to elevate to the level that you did so fast.
Speaker 4:It's awesome, but I also remember you having some pretty traumatic injuries yeah, that was the one thing like when I was finally done with gymnastics and I went full crossfit, like it was mostly like my grandparents or like other people in my family they were so worried. They were like I don't want you to get hurt with all this lifting, blah, blah, and I just kept telling them I have never been healthier now than I have ever in gymnastics. Like I have dealt with barely any injuries in crossfit, minus just a random wrist when I just got, which was just overuse, like because I've been training like crazy.
Speaker 2:When you train like an athlete overuse, you're gonna get something little kinks yeah, everywhere.
Speaker 4:But like gymnastics is also just so much on your body when you're so young and you're doing all these crazy things and sometimes stuff happens.
Speaker 3:I mean, we've talked about the trauma from gymnastics, because I there's a lot of trauma.
Speaker 2:She obviously was competitive obviously not just physical, but mental.
Speaker 3:Yes, for sure it's mostly all mental for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and mine was a little bit like so you did gymnastics too, I did yeah, um not for very long I did get you tell by my handstand walking you know, obviously well trained in gymnastics no, I remember watching one of my friends break her back and I was like I'm done I'm done with this. And she was, I don't know, seven or eight, and and that's you're all rubber then, like that kind of injury and she had to wait so long to get it even repaired because they wouldn't wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3:but I saw that and I was. That was the final shot for me, and so that's gnarly yeah.
Speaker 4:I mean even like I saw some pretty scary stuff happen, like, just like from my teammates, and like when you see that right in front of your eyes and then you're the next one having to go and do a whole routine, it's scary and it messes with your head so much, like I had so many mental blocks when I was younger on just certain skills and you just sometimes don't even know why. And then obviously the coaches are like just do it, just do it. And you're like. You're like, can you do it? I was like physically I can, but my mind's telling me I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know how to do it, which is like it's so crazy how much it messes with your mind, like what about gymnastics here?
Speaker 2:especially amongst girls? But like eating disorders? Happens a lot, happens a lot body dysmorphia for sure you're in a sport that I feel like you're doing it two to four hours a day at times yeah, but it was about three hour practices every day, yeah it's a lot and when did? You start what?
Speaker 4:age um, I got on the like team I think I was seven or eight and then all the way up until freshman year, so I was 13, yeah so five, six years of pretty heavy competing because you traveled across the country, you did yeah, we would nationwide meets too yeah, we'd mostly stay on the west coast, but yeah, we traveled a few places.
Speaker 4:Um, yeah, there is about like it's weird with gymnastics, though, is because, like our season is technically in the winter, only for, like, I think, like three or four months, but we train year round, which is like so crazy. Which is like basically what I do for crossfit too. But you have some competitions here and there, like little ones, but like when you're training that much, every like we only would get, I mean a few like a week or two off a year for, like spring break, christmas break, stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's expected too at a young age.
Speaker 4:You're gonna be a practice if you're on the team yeah, for sure, yeah, but I think honestly that's where all my discipline came from like yeah no question that there's huge benefits.
Speaker 2:Do you feel like you missed out on any aspects of your life honestly?
Speaker 4:not really, because I think once I got into high school I realized that was like, if I continue to try to do high school, I realized that was like if I continue to try to do this and if I wanted to like try and get to the collegiate level, I was like that would have taken a lot more of my like social life out. But because I stopped right at freshman year and that was the thing was my last season I knew it was going to be my last season Like I was already prepared and everything which was, I think, better in a way, because I was like content with what was happening. I was already prepared and everything which was, I think, better in a way, because I was like content with what was happening. I was like, okay, I'm gonna end on a good note and like, not like I injured myself and I'm done and I'm gonna miss it, like I knew what I was gonna go into and go full crossfit after that.
Speaker 4:So I was like ready and I don't feel like I missed out on a ton because, like I was, just I was so young and social life doesn't really, I guess, hit until high school years mostly. Yeah, which it's still hard for me now, Like I'm training even more now in CrossFit and it's definitely hard and your friends don't quite understand.
Speaker 3:I don't think, like I know, ryan has told me in the past like they're going to the lake, but I have to say, oh, I'm doing MRF today. Yeah, that literally happened. What the heck?
Speaker 4:There was a huge group of my friends all going to the lake and I was like so I actually can't because I have to work out, I have to do Murph. And they were like what is that? And like it was, we did it. I had to do it at 3.30, little sacrifices that like they suck, but they, I know that like this is what I want to do the rest of my life and I love it, like I'm not gonna change it. But yeah, a lot of people still don't really get it, like a lot of the people at my school they see me, they like know a lot about me because everyone's like, oh, she's a really strong girl and everyone just thinks I like body build. I'm like, no, it's not it.
Speaker 2:No, I actually don't do any of that, even with the power of social media, and I imagine most of high schoolers are on social media.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they still don't quite understand they've gone a little better about it because, like, if I I do post mostly, yeah, we're trying to make you a tier athlete too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so tier.
Speaker 4:I know you guys tune into this, but we got an aspiring athlete for you, yep um, yeah, but I post a lot of like lifting, which is I think they they get that idea, or I'm just like a power lifter. But then I post on like workouts and they're like, oh my gosh, like y'all do all these like handstand push-ups and like all these things on the rings and I'm like, yeah, that's what I do, not to mention your work capacity. Yeah, which?
Speaker 2:not a single high schooler in this town would be able to match male or female. I would bet I would agree with hard money on that, yeah, um, so that's interesting, which makes a little more sense why you two have become close friends, training partners, because there's an age gap A decade, yeah just a decade, ten years, no biggie.
Speaker 3:Actually, you know, we asked one of the classes one time where he looks older and they're like you look the same age and I was like cool. So I look 16 and she looks 27. Perfect.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to to like look at this, I think I'm just. I've known ryan since he was in diapers so yeah, okay, but what's weird is like I've heard, but I could see it if you just walked in together to a gym and like, yeah, their senior sisters are close in the same age, like everyone thinks I'm a lot older when they meet me sometimes well, your maturity is, yeah, my maturity, and I feel like dramatically the fact, like everyone's like oh you look so little because you're so short, but a lot older.
Speaker 4:when they meet me sometimes, well, your maturity is dramatically older than yours. Everyone's like oh, you look so little because you're so short. But then they're like but your muscle makes you also look older somehow. I think that's another thing.
Speaker 2:I don't really know why, but you look like you've done physical activity the majority of your life Been through it.
Speaker 2:So pretty cool. I had a question when it comes to your school and kids and training and it slipped my mind. But hopefully it comes back. It's going to bug me now. It's going to get me. It had to do with Murph and going to the lake. Oh, I was going to the lake. Oh, I was gonna tell you not necessarily a question, but oftentimes when people get to my age going on 41 now- I'm close yeah don't, don't catch
Speaker 2:me though not yet not yet, um, they're like how did you find success in life, how did you accomplish all this stuff in life? And it's those sacrifices that you're making at your age that lead you up and, like you said, discipline that sets you up and as long as you're happy. I think a problem is especially with gymnastics and those Olympic goals that young girls get exposed to and it's like grind, grind, grind there. Usually it seems like doing it, and I've never talked to anyone with just like documentaries or whatever that they're doing it for somebody else a lot of times. So then when they get to college or whatever, they do have a lot of regrets of missing out on the social life and the those aspects of it, skipping.
Speaker 4:You know they wish they didn't skip the lake and you seem to embrace your goals and your desires and where you get fulfillment at a young age, that it doesn't seem to bug you at all yeah, I think honestly, like I've definitely had moments where, like I'm like upset because I feel like I see all like my other, like friends online and they always like look like they're having so much fun and like I like I feel sad sometimes, but then I'm like they're nothing like me, like and like in the best way possible.
Speaker 4:Like I have so much going for me and I'm working so hard for my goals that like I don't. I'm like when I get that sad, I'm like, okay, but this is for a reason, like, and it's what makes you happy, right? Like I'm not out every single night in the summertime, like 10 o'clock at night hanging out with people. Like I'm in bed and I'm ready to go the next day for training. Like a lot of my like even my parents are like you like never go out. And I'm like, yeah, because crossfit is exhausting.
Speaker 2:You're the least stressful child to have oh yeah, for sure you get straight a's.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you're diligent in your school work sometimes like I don't know I mean you do get straight a's, I do, I did, yes, you did.
Speaker 2:And then to go to UNR of all places. Right, that's a stretch. We'll talk about that another time. Some of us are jockeying for her to stay close, but I can also understand she's going to have a lot of opportunities. I went there, didn't you go there?
Speaker 3:I did Look at us. We turned out great. I think so I know that was kind of toot my own horn.
Speaker 2:That's a good one to do. We turned out all right. But all these sacrifices you're making, I truly believe, as long as you're happy with your path, I think it's going to lead you to a life that you never imagined, that people obviously are envious of and will say that you got lucky.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But they don't look at. I gave this up to do this. I'd eat this way for these goals. I this is I do it. So at some point all these people are saying you're lucky, but we have documented track record of all the sacrifices that you've made. I just think at a young age, as long as you're doing it for you is the most important part, right? You don't have those regrets. Yeah, I'm literally friends with one single person from high school.
Speaker 3:Really. Yeah, I have a handful, but it's not many. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:There's one guy in my life who we've known since we were little, that we still communicate texts how's the family this and that since we were little, that we still communicate texts how's the family this and that If I meet up with him it's like we've been hanging out the last few years together. It's just like that kind of friendship. One person Dang that's crazy. You know, how many friends I have that I went to college with.
Speaker 3:Zero, zero no.
Speaker 2:That probably has to do with the walking dick face thing, but zero people that were out socializing and fraternities and all this stuff. None of those people like they're even not in a negative way, just life deviate and separate that's how my college experience went too, so yeah like in my mind, like you're not missing out a lot, right yeah and your core memories are only going to expand as long as you're doing this for you.
Speaker 2:And I remember, remember telling you when I had to pick you up to babysit my kids because you couldn't drive yet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2:That, this quest of yours to make it to the games. Are you comfortable with the sacrifices that are involved in that? Yeah, because it's a lot.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a lot of people like don't get it. But the thing I do love having Chase as my coach is like he's always the one to remind me, like go be a teenager. So like when I would have those weeks off after semifinals or straight after the games he goes don't even think about crossfit, go be a teenager. Like and that's what I love he still like remember, remembers that I'm yeah, yes, I'm training as an elite athlete, but I'm also still a kid and like I want to have, I want to experience prom and high school football games and stuff like that and you can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the thing is you can, and then him as a coach, that's very good because he went through it all too yeah recognizing that and it's important because you can't yeah for sure and it's important to have that time off, have an off season crossfit, unfortunately, is tipped into that realm of training year round, whereas the mass majority of sports don't, and so finding those off season moments, it's important.
Speaker 4:Well, and the other thing is like I know a lot of the girls that I went to the games with, like most, like a good amount of them, are homeschooled or they go like half days. But like I told myself going into CrossFit, I was like I don't want this to deviate from having like a normal high school experience which is like I don't think it has, like yeah, I miss out on sometimes hanging out on the weekends, or like at night sometimes, yeah, like don't ever do that, um, but I don't feel like I've missed out on anything crazy like and like I, and I feel like going to high school is so important just for like social skills, like as somebody who is homeschooled, I agree.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, uh, it's all I mean you hear it all the time like I mean I did go to public high school.
Speaker 2:I switched from homeschooling in the seventh grade for sports, for whatever reason I mean. My parents didn't believe in the school system. They decided to homeschool. Both my brother and I and my cousins were homeschooled. But it came down to sports and socially it was difficult and I carried over into college and I know it might not seem like this but by nature I'm a very introverted person.
Speaker 3:It doesn't seem like that.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:Oh, I feel like I kind of could have picked that one.
Speaker 2:You've gotten a lot closer to me though that's true, because people that just see me in my class coaching setting, they don't get that. But also it's like the most comfortable environment that I'm in. Yeah, but if I were to go like, for instance, my kid's friend's birthday parties or whatever, it's difficult for me to have conversation with other people, especially outside of CrossFit.
Speaker 3:I don't watch professional sports.
Speaker 2:I can't just have this conversation about things that other men my age, I guess care about.
Speaker 3:What is that?
Speaker 2:yeah, and people assume because I'm a fitness guy, I'm super into professional sports, but I have zero interest yeah, oh, that's funny, so yeah, so alissa derrick, let's hear your story, yeah, my story. Like, you're a little bit, I'm gonna say, famous or infamous in the crossfit circle of reno. You've done a lot of comps. Yeah, I mean most of the gyms. They know who you are. You've been around the CrossFit community for a very long time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And talk about that journey. How did you get into CrossFit? Where?
Speaker 3:did it start? What did you do?
Speaker 2:in high school. I mean, that was way before Ryan, Ten years ago. When did you do in high school? I mean?
Speaker 3:that was way before Ryan Ten years ago. When did you graduate 2016.
Speaker 4:You're still so young I was in first grade, I think. Thank you, Ryan.
Speaker 3:That's three years into owning this gym. Well, I played competitive soccer after gymnastics was. Your brother was a soccer player too. Yeah, gymnastics was like. Played that my whole life. Your brother was a soccer player too. Yeah, gymnastics was like not anymore Played that my whole life.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's where I got the competitiveness in me and I remember my brother one time telling me like your soccer career is either going to end in high school or it's going to end four years in college and he was like sorry to tell you you, but you're not making the USA women's team. And I was like you're probably right how come?
Speaker 2:it's because you're short. A little.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it was never my goal to be a professional, like I had some other aspirations in life. But I kind of took that to heart and I was like you know, and I had a lot of visits, I had multiple offers to go play soccer and I was like you know what, I'm staying home and I tell Ryan all the time that it's okay, but staying home went to UNR and that first semester at UNR I was like I miss that competitiveness, like something to just like.
Speaker 2:Train for Be around.
Speaker 3:Be around the people, the community and I, actually my brother and sister in law. They were going to another CrossFit gym and they're like you know, you should just try it. I'm like, oh, you do CrossFit. That was the first thing that went up out the gate. Yeah, and I was like you know, I'll try it.
Speaker 2:So then joined a gym and of course, once you drink the juice you A lot of times. It's funny.
Speaker 3:I have a story later, but yeah, and a year in, um, the owner of the gym was like, hey, I think you would be a great coach, do you want to get your L1? And I was like, yeah, sure, let's do it. I'm 19 at the time and, yeah, january of 2017 is when I started and 2018 was when I first started coaching, and I was just talking about this at work and someone believe it or not, I'm pretty extroverted.
Speaker 3:I believe, um, they're like how, why are you so good at public speaking? Because I speak a lot at our meetings weekly and I was like you know what?
Speaker 3:like it's coaching and that's where I gained like a lot of my confidence from, and because when I first started coaching I was just a little baby. I was like what do I do? Like all these people are older than me, like why would they take advice from a 19 year old? And I grew past that and just I hate to say it, but blossomed, and that's how I gained my confidence. But started coaching and then took a break for a little bit to go back to school, coached through sorry, I coached through college and graduated with a kinesiology degree, which is what Ryan wants to do. Remember I went to unr um and then took went back to school to go to hygiene school and kind of took a year and a half to two years off of crossfit. In one of those years I specifically focused on olympic weightlifting and I was doing purely olympic weightlifting. I went to calvera actually and carlos really tuned in some of that stuff for me Great Olympic weightlifter Carlos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I went to high school with him.
Speaker 3:He's great. Really enjoyed that. And getting back into CrossFit, I'm like where's the bench?
Speaker 2:I was like really got used to that, but then after school I was like I really miss CrossFit and kind of stumbled into double edge.
Speaker 3:So you stumbled into here after hygiene school, like you just recently graduated yeah, so I graduated in May and then, I think, I started in July all right.
Speaker 4:I remember the first day she came in because I was doing group class that day and and I remember like I think Chase was talking like Jess and was like what's the Kruger's coming in? And they were like what? That's crazy. And I was like what are they talking about? And I see her in the middle of the workout. I still had no clue who she was and I was like who is this girl? She's fit Because we were doing squat snatches and running and I was trying to keep up and make sure I could teach you.
Speaker 2:I was like dang is this girl. So yeah, you are not as fit as you are now correct yeah, you had that. You had a little bit of weight lifting life in you I was chunky girl for a minute remember you're showing me your in body yeah it's like and he got some work to do.
Speaker 3:You're on the far end time to clean this up a little bit, to be better yeah, stumbled in here and then just this community is unlike any other and happy to be here and happy to coach and yeah, no, one of the highlights of my life is getting to know new members and coaches, but when somebody like you comes into my life, it's been a true blessing.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I do think of you as like, not even an awkward little sister, but like if I had a little sister it would be you.
Speaker 3:You should tell Corey that.
Speaker 2:I will Okay, and. I have to take him in as my little brother, because I love Corey too, yeah.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 2:Erica and I love Erica. You know she oftentimes tried to make me do things I don't want to do, yeah, but no, you have a great family and great people and it's just awesome to be around and when you're around somebody that makes your day better instantly like you're one of those.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's awesome and I'm grateful for it as a friend, as I guess kind of your boss in a weird small time away we had conversations about Alyssa becoming a full-time coach.
Speaker 2:She took a hygiene career and coaching careers. Well, to get to hygiene level of financial stability it's possible, but it's a different road. Yeah, and we decided she's going to keep helping out and she's going to keep her what she went to school for, going Unless for whatever reason. Double Edge hits my dream of someday where I don't even have to have members pay a membership.
Speaker 1:Whoa.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be my goal is like this is a free gym, but it's not necessarily invite only, but you have to be putting in the work yeah consistent and being a leader in the community in your household, like what you two are, and that's the environment I want to foster. And a lot of times if people aren't paying for something, they don't value it also. So there's that idea, but it came.
Speaker 2:Mark bell did that with his gym in sacramento mm-hmm it's like you don't have to pay to work out here, but you have to work out yeah like you have to. You have to do stuff and it's just kind of a cool thought project in your mind. But at that point I could also potentially afford to pay my coaches whatever is required to be the best. Yeah, in the country. Yeah, right now is required to be the best in the country. Right now it's just be the best in Reno Small goal.
Speaker 2:We got it, we got it. But I need coaches like Alyssa and be able to grow into positions like that, and every time I think I have one and I think we're on that track and I have a vision for them to grow. They fucking quit.
Speaker 3:Chase, chase.
Speaker 2:I really haven't opened up to him and nobody listens to these outside of like members Like none of my coaches so far have been like nobody. They think that music is like new.
Speaker 3:I was like no, it's been since the first well, I knew it was the first one, I just it sounded newer oh it's a fresh one, yeah, it just sounds different actually I was on a walk with my dog, like last week, and I was like I have nothing to listen to.
Speaker 4:I don't want to listen to music, so I listened to one of your it was your solo one. And then I heard I had a shout-out in it because he talked about me and I was like oh, look at me go Big time.
Speaker 2:Made it to the big time. But no, if he does listen to this, it is something that he was one of the ones in double-edged history that I truly like. I think I can grow this guy into a legitimate not just coach, manager, owner of a facility, like that whole path he would be good at it.
Speaker 2:He would yeah, and when he, uh, I knew his degree was done and we talked about PT school, we talked about all these things going to be a professor and I was like Dad, supportive, but deep down, like I want Ryan to go to UNR, Like I got these other ambitions for you, bro, so you're stopping your tracks right now. And then when he came and told me and then the shitty part is like he will be a phenomenal police officer. Yeah, the shitty part is like he will be a phenomenal police officer.
Speaker 2:yeah, like that is the kind of human being, both in personality and capability that I want, protecting my community, yeah, and I can't not not support that. Yeah, like it'll be a great value to humanity, especially in our local community. And it's just like, and he has a passion and a desire and the father figure in me, he's gotta just swallow it yeah, dang it so it's just slowly prepping me for the day when jackson or claire want nothing to do with it, just gonna coach till I die, which is the kind of the plan anyway maybe jackson will blossom and I think he will yeah, on the flip side of that, I also also don't want them to live my life, unless it's like what Ryan's doing.
Speaker 2:Is she truly this is her desire.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And if it's their desire, or Zuzu, maybe Z I do want to facilitate that opportunity, want to have an open heart that my kids, whether they be my adopted children to the gym or my actual kids, go on a different path even at that pass. Not something that I necessarily want, as long as it's, you know good, it's still for the good of society and themselves. So I ended up doing CrossFit. Love it. Love it. You are competitive.
Speaker 3:I try to be. I've retired from the actual competition side of things, but after our competition, so you're retired.
Speaker 2:Ryan just kicked the headphones off, so you're retired from competing now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, unless it's a.
Speaker 2:Fundraiser.
Speaker 3:Yeah, unless it's a fundraiser.
Speaker 2:That's kind of where I'm at. My training is purely for me and just to be the best version of me that I can for my family and my community.
Speaker 4:And Alyssa's training is, so she can still be my partner in workouts, so I can get better off of her.
Speaker 3:I just really train, so Ryan can train yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, it's helping you be better.
Speaker 3:Oh for sure, by default.
Speaker 2:And that's a great relationship to have.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's pretty fun.
Speaker 2:I don't even know how we started and it seems that it stays healthy, because I know with a lot of people it's like you get competitive and it can almost get unhealthy.
Speaker 4:And we've talked about this before like there's some people who can be very intense to train with, yeah, but it's like, I think, with both of our like bubbly personalities, like we just make it so fun and like it's not like a like we don't have like bad blood if one of us beats each other in a workout, like, yeah, I know that she's gonna beat me in any running workout there is, but I know I could most likely be here and like everything else.
Speaker 2:You can say everything in like gymnastic stuff, yeah and yeah it's like that, like, but you can work on each other's strengths. Yeah for running workouts for you to get better, try to push me.
Speaker 4:Okay, go a little faster. A little faster. I'm like I can't do it, like, yeah, we're always. I feel like that's the best part about us is we're all just trying to uplift each other.
Speaker 2:Speaking of running what about the R2?
Speaker 4:Next question.
Speaker 3:Brush that off.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of running okay. Alyssa we got a lot of running going on.
Speaker 3:We have a lot of running to do, 29 miles ahead of us.
Speaker 2:To 32. Depending on which block you get. Oof. Yeah, yeah, I don't know about that yet miles ahead of us To 32.
Speaker 1:To hang on which block you get.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know about that yet I wouldn't ask you to be on the ultra team. Yeah, don't ask me.
Speaker 3:The 12-man team. I think you'd have fun with we had a blast. We had a ton of fun. I kind of wish I was still on the 12-man team.
Speaker 2:We're going to have fun. Different kind of fun.
Speaker 4:Okay, for me though, like running is just boring, 100% it's not boring.
Speaker 2:Love that and I agree there are so many other things but we can get into this a little bit, Since you hate running. I'm not a fan of it.
Speaker 4:Chase will be mad if he watches this saying I hate running. Oh, he does not much because he loves, because I complain so much about it and he goes okay, you can't hate it, you just have to work on it.
Speaker 2:You just have to have a better mindset maybe we can reframe it during this, because I grew up in a family runners diehards, the first sport I was exposed to was cross country. It was awful.
Speaker 3:That's why you hate it. It was awful.
Speaker 2:It never made sense to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to go run for training, to then again go up Friday afternoon or Saturday to run.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, that's another thing. So it's just like we run for certain like sports, but that's your sport is just running. That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3:Put it in a soccer perspective, we ran a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you were still competing at other skill, kicking a ball around. You do a ton of running for very little reward, but you do have a reward in the sense you make a goal. It's like oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but that's just a reward in the sense you make a goal. It's like, oh yeah, yeah, but that's just yeah.
Speaker 2:But this is my excuse. Like I do think running is a great sport. I like watching, like the sprinters, 400 meter runs, and like the olympic trials and stuff like the pre-fontaines of the past, like the stories are great, but in my mind at that age it was like I'm going to train to run, to go run.
Speaker 2:It just never penciled. I was a bigger kid, a little bit chunky maybe, and it just never felt comfortable. I had growth plate issues in my heels and stuff, so it was so painful and I would get lidocaine injections in my heels to go do this running event. I hated it. I hated every minute of it, all of it.
Speaker 3:You know what you didn't hate? The RTO.
Speaker 2:So it took me a couple years to get back to it, but running became a part of my life Wrestling. So two reasons Weight management you can just go out and jog for two hours and burn calories. Weight management but what got me into accepting running as a tool for conditioning a very valuable tool and this is happening again currently is the capacity that I had on the mat against my components was exponential. Yeah, like I wouldn't get tired, like they would just fall apart. The guys that only lifted weights, only did strength training, like after if, as long as they didn't get ahold of me too good in the first minute or two, especially my junior senior year year like it was over for them.
Speaker 2:But I did a ton of running conditioning, yeah, and I ran track to stay conditioned for wrestling and um. So, circling background, find crossfit. Same reasons as you. I missed the this team sport, yeah, deal of wrestling and that competitive environment and everybody getting together and grinding together. And when I found crossfit it was like, oh, I've missed this environment and it just sucked me right in and um, you get to where you can do a ton of conditioning without running for sure yeah sometimes I'm like well, actually I would rather run and I.
Speaker 2:You know ebbs and flows of my fitness journey for sure, but I've gotten to some of my fittest places in life without running at all. But then do the RTO. I didn't want to do that too I've this year. No, I didn't when we had that, our little planning meeting, and everybody is all rah, rah, rah about the RTO. My hey, yeah, all this running, actually, you know, I get a little competitive, I want to do okay, we got a, I got to get some miles on the legs.
Speaker 3:Derek, did you train?
Speaker 2:No, I did two runs, oh my gosh. And I just pulled out purely out of suffer camp, suffer and survive.
Speaker 3:Which is actually quite annoying. I think on his runs he was like averaging I don't know 730 pace, meanwhile me training like averaging like 830. Training like averaging, like 8 30, and I remember watching him out the window and I remember yelling.
Speaker 2:This is really annoying. My first I did have the easiest block of legs. They're either flat or slightly downhill, except for the last one yeah but you know I I can suffer, I can hurt for a duration, but that was a testament to crossfit training. Like you can build an endurance base, that is pretty freaking phenomenal with minimal running. But since I've embraced this idea of running and it being a massive hole in my fitness, unlike wall walks and handstand walking, we haven't embraced that yet.
Speaker 2:We really haven't I go through like a week of like, okay, I'm gonna do a little bit of this every week, and then it disappears for months oh boy so we'll revisit that though we'll revisit that when you slaughter me when it matters, yeah um, but to help ryan out, embrace potentially running. You might not be the best, but just in the two days of intentional running I'm doing right now, it's been nuts what I'm already feeling in other workouts.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And how quickly like my running capacity, like my running is improving from running into wads, yeah. So, like yesterday, I did this test workout for my brother and it started off with a two mile run oh, I already loved the workout.
Speaker 3:I kind of looked a little awful, honestly hey, you're right beside me yeah, you're over there started with a two mile start with two mile run.
Speaker 2:What day is this? Let me make sure I'm free july 22nd looks like I'm free so I'm like two, two and a half weeks ahead of group class right now. So I'm like two, two and a half weeks ahead of group class right now and before a two mile run. One it like 18, 17 minutes and I'm pushing it and I come through the door. I'm like hurting joints kind of uncomfortable. Came in like 15 minutes flat felt Lifetime, pr'd my max pull-ups in an unbroken set.
Speaker 4:After a two-mile run. He did do that. I saw that. Yeah, oh.
Speaker 2:So it was just like being able to like one. My run was faster and my running is one day a week is faster stuff. Typically that happens in group class and Metcons. Now I just try to push the run versus traditional crossfitter of resting on the run, like trying to pull the heart rate down because I'm gonna, and I've seen you do? It sounds familiar okay me and every other crossfitter in the world is probably guilty of it.
Speaker 2:I know I am because, like I'll murder these wall balls and these deadlifts way faster than Owen. He learned this the hard way and you can beat me on the run by four minutes and I'm just going to smoke you on this other stuff.
Speaker 2:And I've leaned into that for years and now I'm shifting. I'm like, okay, I still want to do, okay, but I want to push the run, go a little faster, get uncomfortable on this run and shifted my mindset with the class workouts, with that, and then on the weekends I try to do one long run and I'm up to 40 minutes and that's around five miles now and I don't blow out my heart rate. I'm not max effort.
Speaker 3:If I ran with him for 40 minutes I would be zone five.
Speaker 2:You and your brother's hearts just are gnarly freaking strong.
Speaker 3:Is that what it's called?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but it is the gnarliest thing I've witnessed in my 20 years of fitness the ability for you two to maintain zone five.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I watch it on his watch because this is going live while I'm coaching him in the morning and he's just grinding along in the red 185 beats per minute and I'm like over here I'm having heart attack form that's wild so, but he said he's been checked out by a cardiologist.
Speaker 3:I was like bro, if they say you're good to go.
Speaker 2:You're good to go, you just got a strong ass heart I got checked out by cassie.
Speaker 3:She said fine, we did. Yeah, all right, yeah, and that's like my wife has an extremely low resting heart rate ass heart I got checked out by Cassie.
Speaker 2:She said fine, you did. Yeah, my wife has an extremely low resting heart rate. She does, I see it and her HRV is nuts and I love my wife, but I'm a lot fitter. My resting heart rate isn't remotely close to hers at all. No, never has been. I'm just like I work so hard.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to catch her HRV.
Speaker 2:I gave up.
Speaker 3:I gave up too. I stopped worrying about you.
Speaker 2:I was going to say you don't even have to, but Ryan, embracing running as a and I will say, just from watching my zone, um, my VO two max like algorithm increase on this logging time in there. And I had to reshift my mindset because in the running I usually, like I get competitive against the clock, Like if I'm not doing an eight or seven and a half minute mile there's a waste of my fucking time. Now it's just duration.
Speaker 2:I'm going out and jogging zone two, zone three, not paying attention to the per mile time but, accumulating time in that cardio respiratory zone and it has been already since the rto, translating into what I'm feeling fitness wise and everything else out here in a big way, yeah well, like, okay, let's get this straight.
Speaker 4:I run a lot now you do yeah, I I think I know because there's so every I have like an active recovery day now, which is a 90 minute zone too, so I'll either switch between the air runner and the biker or I'll just go on a trail run and do like 90 minutes.
Speaker 3:She never wants me to go on the trail run with her.
Speaker 4:I didn't say that.
Speaker 3:I never said that Okay.
Speaker 4:And then I think there's two.
Speaker 2:In theory. You need to be able to talk while you're doing zone two, so this could be a great running partner with you, that's true.
Speaker 4:And then there's two other days of my training days where at the very end I days where at the very end I have 45 minutes of zone 2, which is usually all running, and then there's usually at least one Metcon in there that requires me to actually go fast, and so we're working on it like I'm not, like complaining about it that I'm a terrible runner and then not doing anything about it. It's just like it sucks, it's so bad well in your sport that you've chosen.
Speaker 2:If you just frame it around that, it's going to improve all these other areas Like look at Tia, yeah. She slays running. She's the strongest. She's probably going to win the games again.
Speaker 4:Probably, I hope so Annoying.
Speaker 2:I think it's awesome.
Speaker 3:I truly think it's awesome we could get into that if you want.
Speaker 2:It is amazing, I think people are tired of her winning. I'm not. I'm never tired of the best people winning.
Speaker 4:It's insane, though it's insane.
Speaker 2:People want Tom Brady to lose and I don't follow pro sports I'm like no, fuck it. Homie's putting in more work than all of you.
Speaker 5:But then again I'm saying that, and if it were me, I'd want to win, as many times as I could before I'm all burnt out.
Speaker 3:That's being real. She's playing High Rocks. Yeah, going back to the games High Rocks.
Speaker 2:I'm a High Rockser now.
Speaker 3:He's a High Rockser, oh.
Speaker 2:I mean, I guess I haven't actually done one.
Speaker 4:I'm a certified High Rocks coach. What do you do for that? It's a good class.
Speaker 2:Yeah, online. How do you coach that Teach? Teach us how to teach us.
Speaker 4:Thank you, yeah, my family makes fun of High Rocks a little bit.
Speaker 2:So did Derek. Yes, I'm very guilty of that.
Speaker 3:Pretty sure that's one of the hot takes.
Speaker 2:It is one of my hot takes, oh yeah that's right. It is one of my hot takes High.
Speaker 3:Rocks is glorified my hot takes. Oh yeah, that's right, it is one of my hot takes. High Rocks is glorified CrossFit.
Speaker 2:CrossFit endurance class.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I do think it is a great test of fitness, but I simply, even though I now pay High Rocks to be a High Rocks affiliate, I do think they make fitness accessible to a broader group of people that may be intimidated by traditional CrossFit. You search CrossFit games or you search CrossFit Like I'm interested. Go to Google, search CrossFit. You get the baddest people in the world popping up first. Right, Like doing the coolest, craziest shit ever yeah. So if like your mom at home trying to find a fitness program and you hear about CrossFit and you go do a little research, you're like what the fuck, Whoa? Yeah. So if like your mom at home trying to find a fitness program and you hear about CrossFit and you go do a little research, you're like what?
Speaker 2:the fuck. Whoa, yeah, yeah and I get that, and that was one of the things I brought up when I got to go meet with the CEO of CrossFit and Dave Castro and them Another coach brought that up too. It's like when you search CrossFit, you're not finding the positive health outcomes that are happening in our gyms and our communities positive health outcomes that are happening in our gyms and our communities.
Speaker 2:No, you're not finding those stories in the first four pages of Google. You're finding the most elite people in the entire world. So immediately it's like I can't do that. I'm out. You search High Rocks it's, it's, it's approachable, it's doable, it's. It's not a huge stretch from just the weekend 5k crowd.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, Like a lot of people show up and do these events and it's very accessible for 5k. And then this adds very doable for your recreational fitness person event and a test of fitness across a little bit more than just doing a 5k or a triathlon, which are the standard when I want to say fitness events of the recreational exerciser, if you will.
Speaker 2:So they did come in and bridged a gap in that marketplace. Um, I will never, ever and if they fire me as a coach because of it say that it is the best fit test fitness. I would say it's the most inclusive test of fitness, which is cool.
Speaker 2:I can totally get behind that because as a person who wants to help people get healthier and fitter, like having things that people can access at their level and not be intimidated by and go out and do that and test themselves I think is phenomenal, love it and I can get behind that mission. But when you have these high rocks athletes same with the Spartan race people like oh, like, no, you're not the best Test of fitness. I will die on that Hill, like the capacity and capabilities of most of the top CrossFit people. I mean I watch it with Ryan, obviously, but I mean just our recreational. I mean I'd consider me and you recreational fitness enthusiasts.
Speaker 2:Sure we have pretty awesome work capacity across a lot of different topics. Yeah, now we might not win the Olympic weightlifting event, but we can do it. Yeah, yeah, and do probably okay yeah um, you know, you get these specialists, which I think the sport's great, but it is not the same as like what ryan experienced at the crossfit games as far as a test of fitness across broad and modal domains yeah um, basically any shit that's thrown at you, you can rise up to the challenge well, and that's the whole thing about High Rocks is like, in my opinion.
Speaker 4:I hate knowing like you know every movement you're going to do. You know how many reps. The distance of everything With CrossFit that's what I love is the unknown.
Speaker 4:You never know A lot of people I mean people can argue that that's like worse, but it's like it's more fun that way. Like I get to train all these crazy different movements and a lot of people. That's what they don't understand about crossfit is they're like so are there? Like when they talk about the games they're like is it like just one competition? Like how does it work? Blah, blah, blah. And I'm like they can give me any type of movement, multiple movements, put it into a workout and say do it, and it could be a completely different thing.
Speaker 2:It could be shit you've never seen.
Speaker 4:Like when they introduced the pegboard.
Speaker 3:Or the ring or the parallettes.
Speaker 4:You're testing to see who's the fittest on earth and the fittest, you have to be comfortable with the unknown.
Speaker 2:That's the whole part of CrossFit and I agree with you because I love that. I love with you because I love that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love not knowing what I'm doing at the gym.
Speaker 2:I walk in and I read it and I'm like, oh shit. From training aspect. I like knowing what I'm doing, because then I know how to approach my training. But when it comes to my previous of doing local comps and whatever, I started getting annoyed when people had and we had to do it too to get people to sign up to put out the workouts. People don't sign up. I would rather they're not put out at all. Everybody shows up blinded, not testing the workouts five times.
Speaker 3:Well, that's our last competition we didn't know until 10 minutes before the event.
Speaker 2:So I do appreciate that Jeff's gone strong with the unknown. He'll put out the movements or suggested weights you should be able to handle. But I'm even in the camp of fuck all that Just show up Just show up. See if you can or can't, and that's what's the worst that's going to happen. It's like I can't do it. My can's done working yeah.
Speaker 3:Don't worry, we've programmed our competition.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Now I don't know if I want to put that out there, just yet. Maybe We'll see. We've got a lot going on. She's training for some big events. You know a handful of things. But I agree with Ryan. That appeals to me. But the recreational exerciser out there, a lot of people, I don't know what the answer is. Recreational exerciser out there, a lot of people, I don't know what the answer is, but I don't want to say mental fortitude to handle not knowing um, or they're just like but it's.
Speaker 4:I guess it's the confidence, I guess it comes down to confidence.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, if you are relatively new or whatever which I get for like new kids on the box or whatever the beginner crossfit deal, new or whatever, which I get for, like new kids on the box or whatever the beginner CrossFit deal. But I believe in our society over the last 50, 60 years that self-confidence in what you're physically capable of has been eroded. We live in a society that desk jockeying and you know our lives are no longer physically challenging. They're more mentally challenging and the way you make money and get a career. Not a whole lot of them are physically oriented. I get my groceries delivered to the house now I go grocery shop, let alone farm my own shit. But like that physical work capacity that happened generations ago doesn't happen anymore and I think that's self-confidence to explore what your body is capable of. Well it's.
Speaker 3:People haven't even been exposed to it at all and it's funny that you say not exposed to it and just relating it to my job. Um, I don't know, has your dental hygienist ever stood, or like stood up to clean your teeth? No and so I stand a lot and while you're cleaning teeth, yeah, and because I don't want to sit the whole day or like stood up to clean your teeth, no, and so I stand a lot While you're cleaning teeth. Yeah, and because.
Speaker 3:I don't want to sit the whole day Like I'm sitting down the whole day, and so if the patient's like a little bit broader chested or just like a bigger person, I typically stand and they're like, why are you standing? And they give me the weirdest look.
Speaker 4:And I'm like, well, maybe I just want to sit down for eight hours, but it is kind of crazy like nowadays that people are more surprised seeing like really, really fit and strong people like yeah, like they'll see that out in public and like they're just like staring, like fit shaming is a real thing now yeah, yeah like it is.
Speaker 2:it's interesting, it's quite interesting.
Speaker 3:Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.
Speaker 2:No, but for a job like yours you have to be very intentional about finding physical activity. So obviously you find the majority of physical activity through the hobbies and recreational exercising you like to do on a competitive, semi-competitive nature, competitive, semi-competitive nature.
Speaker 2:but you have to be proactive and intentional, find physical activity because, it is very void in our way of life now and um so when it comes like a high rocks or whatever, you have people sign up for the turkey trot that didn't run one time in the entire last 364 days prior to the turkey trot like you see it out there? Yeah, and the family gets together and they go do their physical activity to go gorge themselves on a meal later.
Speaker 2:And that's what happens, and that might be the only exercise they got the whole year. And so I like High Rocks coming into the fitness space and being a part of the fitness stuff and being something that is slightly more than a 5k but also, uh, very inclusive and achievable and approachable for a lot of people and with that mindset, I get very supportive of it. But when you have some of these high rocks people getting all hoity-toity, y'all need to pump your bricks, throw 225 deadlifts for time in the middle of that, yeah and y'all, some of you guys at the top.
Speaker 2:I've seen the videos.
Speaker 3:You need to figure out your wall balls situation oh yeah yeah, like it's shit I'm gonna start doing my wall balls like that in here.
Speaker 2:It's funny because they get a well, they get a lot of volunteer judges for those events and I watched this one judge go ballistic on a guy for not getting below parallel and then the athlete started going ballistic on the judge. He was legit. You thought it was made up, they were just making a spoof video, but it was legit and I was like what the fuck? I was like what the it's so bad it's so bad.
Speaker 2:But you know I'm not gonna sit here and pretend every crossfit comp and every crossfit workout has ever been done with perfect, uh, full depth squats of anything. Murph season is cringe season for me, so, and that's in my own community so, and I think that goes for the mass majority of gyms out there chasing perfection, unfortunately. But if you're in a competitive environment, there needs to be a standard that's held. Yes, and high rocks is a competition. Yeah, and just I'm sure yeah, I'm sure they listen to me talk, so they're going to raise their standards after this, for sure.
Speaker 1:They don't need to hear anything else.
Speaker 2:But it's been cool seeing the CrossFit athletes like Matt Frazier.
Speaker 1:Tia yeah.
Speaker 3:Justin.
Speaker 2:Medeiros, this is nuts Olsen.
Speaker 4:Noah, noah Olsen, noah and Chandler yeah, chandler Smith.
Speaker 2:They don't just show up and participate.
Speaker 4:They dominate.
Speaker 2:They're very I think they got like third or something, like the little guys. Yeah, I don't know how to beat them, but they're very competitive and they don't specialize in that. Right, like if they spent a season specializing. I'm sure they would slay If they spent a season specializing.
Speaker 3:I'm sure they would slay. Well, it's like it brings back the point of the RTO where none of us really trained no, and we still placed very well, and it just proves that CrossFit can prepare you for everything.
Speaker 2:No on our team, james was like the only person that legitimately trains running on a regular basis, so it's like we still did, respectful, not like that.
Speaker 3:That are like 200 of 130 or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it was a very respectful time we didn't get cut off at Virginia City. That was my goal.
Speaker 3:Well, that was up to Derek.
Speaker 2:That hill sucked. I know that was quite an eye-opening experience, but shit, where were you at ryan? Crossfit games lissa training, beat up but also welcomed high rocks into our life. I'm gonna do a comp. I want to decide to yeah, here's the problem I'm probably gonna do with Faye.
Speaker 4:Oh boy, yikes, that scares me. Yeah, I get humbled everyday just doing workouts with her, like.
Speaker 2:There was a moment that us three were the fittest people in the gym.
Speaker 3:Not anymore, not anymore. That's why.
Speaker 4:I said yeah.
Speaker 2:She is phenomenal Humble.
Speaker 3:Fun to be around, super sweet yeah the other day.
Speaker 2:We're doing a test workout together and she's cheering me on while she's repping out 30 ghd's.
Speaker 5:I'm like, you're just like fuck, come on, derrick and her. She's already done I mean she was.
Speaker 2:She got me by a full minute, but she's slaying these ghd's I'm finishing up burpees on this workout sometimes I'm glad that's a saturday workout that we tested not this saturday, but next saturday. I'd like you two to do it is it a partner workout it's not a partner workout I will make it a partner workout I would like for you to it could be a partner.
Speaker 4:Tell Chase to put it in my programming.
Speaker 2:I'm just curious it's probably it's a build welded warrior day, so there's three versions for the Saturday has there ever been a Saturday with that? Is that a?
Speaker 4:new thing we're doing.
Speaker 2:I want every weekend to be a partner lone wolf concept. But I like the partner lone wolf concept for weekend workouts. But I thought you know, sometimes I want to come in on a Saturday and do just a classic cross-fitty gymnastic workout. It has muscle-ups, burpees and GHDs.
Speaker 3:Was that the workout?
Speaker 2:Love it, and it's not just bar, but it's bar and ring muscle-ups. You have to do both.
Speaker 3:Oof, sounds like fun. Yeah, partnered. Don't you know that every workout that we can try and persuade Chase to letting us do partnered. We do, we do, yeah All right?
Speaker 2:Well, I just think it'd be a fun Saturday workout.
Speaker 3:And his response is I don't want to deal with you guys, so sure do what? You want? Yeah, he's tired of us, it's okay.
Speaker 2:Well, I do think it's important to train with friends and I'm a big fan of it, but I was excited when we put that Saturday workout together and I was wrecked. So was Faye.
Speaker 3:Oh okay, well, I don't have to do it that fast?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've never done 150 GHGs. Is it a third time? Yeah, 150 GH. To do it that fast, I've never done 150 GHDs.
Speaker 4:I've done that before it's terrible GHDs suck the life out of me. I better start training those right now.
Speaker 2:If you haven't been doing them at all, I wouldn't make that your first GHDs. I did so many last week.
Speaker 4:They just suck the life out of you, especially with burpees too. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And ring muscle ups Like my head's gonna hurt so bad I felt my abs were gonna cramp hard on the ring muscle ups.
Speaker 4:Okay, not gonna lie, I kind of love that feeling though.
Speaker 2:It doesn't tell you you have a seizure trying to press out.
Speaker 4:Oh that's fair yeah, but like these are the only thing that can make my abs hurt, so bad.
Speaker 2:What are your favorite movements in CrossFit?
Speaker 4:Honestly, I feel like it depends.
Speaker 2:Not running. We've cleared that up.
Speaker 4:Obviously not running. Maybe one day, I don't know. But obviously, coming from a gymnastics background, I think the thing that I love the most is what's easiest for me, which like kind of makes sense, right. But I do love handstand walking. That's always been my favorite handstand push-ups.
Speaker 2:It's insane. I always love it. Watching you walk on your hands.
Speaker 3:I wish you could have seen her at our competition. It was funny Just pirouetting on the ground.
Speaker 4:It was the last event Walking backwards. I was like you know what, let's just so I start pirouetting walking backwards, just causing a show, and it was so fun. The whole crowd was wow. Yeah, it's just fun to show off those skills because not a lot of people can obviously I know nobody, yeah, so that can walk backwards on their hands.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's really fun, I mean on purpose.
Speaker 2:Exactly On purpose. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've seen you walk backwards. I've also seen me.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it also seemed to go straight to my face. Yeah, so I love handstands. I just they're so fun. It brings me back to gymnastics, you know, but I love lifting too Like. I always have a special place in my heart you embraced.
Speaker 2:Olympic weightlifting in a pretty big way.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know how. I think it was just starting CrossFit with Sabrina. Like I got introduced to the barbell and I was like this is pretty fun. And I remember like my mom telling my dad like I was lifting probably like 75 pounds maybe, and she was like you know, she's still eight years old, like you need to relax, and like there was a time where she was like you're not allowed to lift above 100 pounds until you're like this age and I was like whatever.
Speaker 2:It's funny because your mom.
Speaker 4:I remember the text message asking me if it's safe, yeah, and I was like, yes, yeah, she's 100 percent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, and obviously your mom's a medical professional. She delivered both of my children um most of the gym's children, but it is um an area that I will die on. Is kids being able to lift weights and push their bodies?
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2:And it's been cool to see your Olympic weightlifting progression and how talented you are at it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I just think it's so fun being able to see, like, how much you can lift and like showing up like to the weight comp for high school.
Speaker 2:I was going to say didn't you just recently win?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I was like I didn't expect it either because, honestly, a few weeks before I was like I just don't even know if I really want to do it this year, like I already done it two years past, but like it was like my year to shine and I didn't even know.
Speaker 2:And you said it set a state title too right?
Speaker 4:I set three new state records. Yeah, I broke, and like even on when we did power clean um my first attempt, I had already broken my own state record from last year. So that was pretty cool and it was. I was just kind of like the talk of the town.
Speaker 4:Yeah, everyone, I was like. Afterwards I was like I bet everyone's so tired of hearing my name at this point. I was like I don't know if I should show up next year. But my coach was like let's just have you move up a weight class so you can break more records.
Speaker 2:So what's funny about that is back to a testament to CrossFit.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:You don't specifically just train weightlifting, not at all yeah. It's a big part of your training but you don't specialize and you show up and crush the high school state records and your own previous thing is like one of the lifts is bench and we don't bench here ever. So, like showing up, I was like I have no clue what I'm gonna do, like I had no plan really and uh, got a state record on that. Yeah.
Speaker 2:What I would like to see is more women in general, but especially your age, really embrace weight training.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And I've always tried to like tell people how amazing it is. But a lot of girls obviously my age too they're scared of looking too bulky. Do you get that? Do people bring that up to you? A lot of girls obviously my age too they're scared of looking too bulky.
Speaker 2:Do you get that? Do people bring that up to you?
Speaker 4:A lot. Yeah, I've gotten body shamed quite a bit at my school actually just from looking like I've been called a man before, from the guys, obviously, who are so insecure of themselves that they want to put someone else down that's probably stronger than them.
Speaker 4:Obviously I get it a lot, but I think it honestly fuels me more to like do what I love and go grind in a workout and I'm like you can't do any of this and I can. Obviously, the group we spend most of our life around is a fit, healthy, strong group.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we all look around the same. Yeah, being a teenager in your position, you are very abnormal amongst teenagers.
Speaker 4:Very yeah.
Speaker 2:And your fitness and work capacity is absolutely insane. Teenagers do some sports.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But your general work capacity and strength is. There's probably not many guys in this teenage year in the area that are really and I don't think you look bulky at all.
Speaker 4:No, thank you. I think it's also just the fact that I'm so short.
Speaker 2:Well, you're short and I know your mom and dad. Height isn't going to be a thing in your life, yeah but yeah, I mean, it's never.
Speaker 4:like it wasn't kind of an issue freshman and sophomore year, like it would get to me a little bit, but like I think, after the success that I've had from the games and everything, and like trying to just become the person that I am in this sport, it doesn't really affect me anymore.
Speaker 2:That's good, but I could also understand the pressure of how awful teenage girls but teenagers are in general, Teenage girls can be rough Boys obviously. Like you said, men, boys and their insecurities.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4:You are more lean, more fit and in a feminine way yeah like you're a little rat rider, like, yeah, like, and a lot of people like I'm still like I still love being a girl, like I love dressing up, being all cute, my hair, my makeup, all of it like I'm not just like this, like she hulk, it's healthy.
Speaker 3:What do you say?
Speaker 2:sheulk. But the problem is that comparison comes from comparing to everyday society which is unhealthy, unfit uncapable. You have chronic type 2 diabetes and obesity just plaguing youth now and you don't want to be compared to that. Yeah right, and you don't want to be compared to that, yeah right, and this whole skinny idea? Just to me it's not attractive at any age. So it's like you're a fit, healthy young lady and you're still very feminine in my mind. Granted, you're like Claire to me, a couple years older, just a couple.
Speaker 2:I could, I wanted to.
Speaker 4:I could imagine that being an issue amongst yeah Especially like in high school too, Like it's just everyone's trying to be their own person.
Speaker 2:It's just hard but.
Speaker 4:I think it also stems a lot from gymnastics, because the whole point of gymnastics is to be perfect.
Speaker 3:Like you get judged and scored on how perfect you are, yeah, and like that is a hard concept like, even though I mean, I wasn't in gymnastics as near as long as ryan, but like, even people will be like did you do gymnastics? Like that's, that's just what I get from my body. Yeah, someone sees my body and they're like oh, gymnastics was your sport. Yeah, and I was like no, um, at one point.
Speaker 4:Yes, but it almost brings back this like vision of like yeah, we had to be perfect yeah, like you have to look a certain way, blah, blah, blah, like your toes pointed like they're just you get a lot of the time like okay, suck in your stomach a little more, like yeah, because you're supposed to like look hollow or something like that, like it's just like stuff like that, and I hear that a lot. Like outside, in public, a lot of the people are like are you? A gymnast and I'm like yeah, I was like nope, I'm a crossfitter now, like I do crossfit and they're just like oh, wow, like yeah, yeah, I get a lot of comments.
Speaker 3:I get a lot of gymnasts Like are you a gymnast? Yeah, I'm a 27.
Speaker 2:I would say most people in society associate a muscular, physically developed female. It's easy connection to say they were a gymnast and were short.
Speaker 5:That's also helpful. Yeah, you're vertically challenged, just a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're vertically challenged Just a little bit. Yeah, it's okay, but in general not a lot of female sports develop muscle.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That I can think of. I mean, I know that in sports now, especially in high school and college, that athletes female athletes are embracing strength training at levels wasn't 20, 30 years ago, because they're finding out how much better you can perform when you're stronger. But in general I'd say most folks, probably my age, would associate of strong looking female with gymnastics.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I never really.
Speaker 1:I just thought that was normal, you know like that's just what you're supposed to look like, and yeah.
Speaker 3:And it's almost every time gymnast.
Speaker 4:I honestly it's crazy. I take it as a compliment because, like, obviously, they're like so impressed with how you look Like and like gymnast any like you think of Simone Biles and you're like, yes, she's a goat. Like yeah, obviously like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, it is, and if they could remotely understand how much work it takes and discipline and consistency.
Speaker 2:Sacrifice that's gone into having a physique, but the strength and work capacity to go along with that physique, like yours, is developed through years, since you're eight years old starting gymnastics to now being a junior in high school. Consistency and most people can't comprehend putting that kind of work in day in, day out for that long, let alone at a younger age right, yeah, so yeah, people are very quick to judge, I would say, and then they don't realize.
Speaker 4:Like this is my whole life, like I love it though, and deep down.
Speaker 2:I'm willing to bet most of them, if not all of them want it.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Just not willing to put in the work.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I agree. It's kind of funny when I met Ryan. I'm changing the subject just because it reminds me of something I've been telling Ryan ever since I met her that she reminds me of me in college. Yeah, like I'm reliving my college days your vicariously reliving.
Speaker 3:Because I was the same way. I mean, like you know, you live in the dorms your freshman year. Like you go party, you go to the frat house, you know like underage and I'm like nope, got to go to CrossFit tonight. And like, literally on the weekends I literally wouldn't be at the dorm Like I would be at the gym. And it's so funny because it's like I see myself.
Speaker 4:Yeah and we've talked about this before because I was like I don't feel like a normal teen, like I know I'm not, obviously, but like that's okay. You don't feel normal because partying is so normalized at this age and like being out late, drinking and doing all this stuff, like it it's so normalized and I'm just like, am I like crazy to not like I'd rather be at the gym training my butt off for something important, you know?
Speaker 2:I'd rather be in bed by 10 pm.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we'll see how I am in college Probably not no different, I would imagine.
Speaker 2:based on what I know of you and knowing you over the years and seeing your love for it, I don't see a hell of a lot of deviation.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I doubt it. It's going to be the same.
Speaker 2:I see you being very sad because obviously your training, partner and environment and everything will, I mean, arguably be shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's probably not going to even be fun. Actually, I kind of hope you're sad.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding, but you know. Then we just open up a gym Wherever you're at and have to bring the community and everything with you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's a good idea. I think we should just have like once a month Everyone just comes to visit me, and we all do a workout together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'd be really easy to do, you and I True.
Speaker 3:I think I just broke something.
Speaker 2:No, I want you to be happy and successful.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I get. You've grown up and lived in Reno your entire life to want to go see what's beyond the valley of Washoe.
Speaker 3:Again, we didn't do that. I know, I know, I kind of did.
Speaker 2:You went to high school. You're from Reno.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:See, I at least went from Yarrington-Smith Valley to Reno. I had a little bit of a move, not very far.
Speaker 3:I grew up in Spanish Springs. It's close enough yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, it's not like I've ever been super opposed to going to UNR, but it's the fact that I just don't want to feel stuck here and like my biggest thing was like if I hate where I am, I don't I'm gonna transfer and go to unr, like I don't see myself, like going all the way across the country hating it and trying to find another random college, like no, I would rather just come home, be with my people, like yeah, that's fair, dude.
Speaker 2:We'll all accept it and support you, no matter what. We still got a year yeah one year left.
Speaker 3:Yeah, one year. One year, then we're all gonna be at our graduation everybody there that'll be the first high school graduation.
Speaker 2:I'll probably go to a very long time it'll be a good one we'll be there. What else you guys got?
Speaker 4:you make fitness short again yeah, it's our motto at this point what else you want to roast me about what you guys?
Speaker 3:lower pull-up bars would be great oh yeah, all right, that'd be nice so here's my argument for that.
Speaker 2:You can get on a box to get up when tall people can't get shorter I understand I guess that's fair.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but carrying a box gets exhausting but accepting short people and accommodating them we don't feel accommodated here, her words, not mine yeah, and kathleen's brought up some short issues too.
Speaker 4:Like I need one extra hole on these salt bikes shorter no no, my problem is is the echo bike every time that's a beastly thing every time I'm on that, it's
Speaker 3:usually.
Speaker 4:Jason makes fun of me and he's just like we look kind of dumb doing it. Yeah, I fully extended arms and legs on that thing. At the lowest levels the screen's higher than my head. Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's really not fun.
Speaker 2:That is a very beastly machine for you to be on, and that's the only bike I train on now. Because it's potentially going to be at an event.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 2:But we're getting through it.
Speaker 4:Another thing ski is terrible.
Speaker 2:You got to jump to grab the handles you got to jump.
Speaker 3:I don't have to do quite that that was a struggle. Today we were doing a partner workout one day and I was skiing and I just let the handles go and she goes. Thanks.
Speaker 4:Had to jump back up. I think that's why I lost so much.
Speaker 2:Brian's, like Jackson, have to climb up onto the damper to grab the handles.
Speaker 4:That's why I lost so much to Faye today. The handles were too high.
Speaker 2:I finally got a W on Faye Ooh Today's workout.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nice.
Speaker 2:First one in probably two months.
Speaker 3:Dang, should we create like a plaque for you?
Speaker 4:I mean I put all my stuff out there first, so everybody has a score to chase.
Speaker 2:She's fit, I know, I don't even know her.
Speaker 4:It's super cool. She runs a lot. She does. She was just telling me about her new running training program.
Speaker 2:We got to work it out for us. I'm good.
Speaker 3:You know, we had a discussion, Faye and I, about she's okay with you having fun. Yeah, I told her. I said I'm not doing it if you're not going to have fun Trying to win. Yeah, I said, we're not trying to win, we're not going to win, we're not going to win, it's straight up we could train as much as we want. We're still not going to win. Unless we slash our tires.
Speaker 2:Well, it's just about representing what we do as fitness enthusiasts that we can go out and do that.
Speaker 3:Still regretful.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, got you on the team.
Speaker 3:I'm just not mentally there quite yet. We have a year, maybe not even that we have 11 months Short, people problems.
Speaker 2:Are you able to wash your hands in the sink and stuff. We have issues there.
Speaker 4:No, we're good on that.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:My feet dangle on some of the chairs in here.
Speaker 4:My feet dangle everywhere, except for these ones, actually.
Speaker 2:Toes are down.
Speaker 4:People make fun of me in class, actually at school, and they all start kicking my feet and they're like, oh my God, Like swinging them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm like okay, Like swinging them.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm like okay.
Speaker 3:We had a whole list of short people things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we actually did. What short people things can I actually solve? Pull a bar, yeah, pull a bar, no you don't have to, that's okay, we got two shorties.
Speaker 3:You actually have solved the box problem. What box problem? Remember when we were four boxes stacked and trying to get a box off the top?
Speaker 2:oh, you can roll them around now that's nice.
Speaker 4:I do like that.
Speaker 3:So really you've already accommodated everything we needed.
Speaker 4:I think we just complain a lot about everything why not?
Speaker 2:we have a reason to yeah, I guess if you have an identity, you didn't need to stand behind. You might as well complain about stuff, the rower, joke, joke. At least in the broad domains of fitness, there are activities that you two can absolutely murder that us taller people can't Deadlifts.
Speaker 4:I'm not a burpee fan, but wall balls Well, that's actually still a stretch.
Speaker 2:It's ish ish.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, honestly, I feel like it depends, yeah.
Speaker 3:But burpees for sure though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, most barbell stuff.
Speaker 4:Barbell stuff Just doesn't need to travel as far. Plank ups Most gymnastic stuff. Yeah, that's fair. R rope doesn't have to travel as far because you both have a shorter rope.
Speaker 3:We both, our squats, are insane like, just like any type. Yeah, because it's just so easy.
Speaker 4:It's kind of easy. I also love them. So, yeah, yeah, the worst movements for us? Well, the ones we like the least rope climbs really. Yeah, I hate and we talked about this actually.
Speaker 4:Um, in gymnastics you do a lot of rope climbs like l sit conditioning as a punishment, and it's usually as a punishment, so, like most of the time it would be in like during conditioning pieces, you have to go do three or four. A lot of the time. It could also be you're not performing how you should be and coaches are mad at you. You go do five rope climbs because they're angry at you and they don't know what else to give you and it's as a punishment. And so going into crossfit, having to do them, everyone's like, oh my god, it's so fun. I'm like no, this is ptsd and also I get like crossfit.
Speaker 3:Crossfit is pretty functional. Right, Tell me what's functional about a rope.
Speaker 2:I'm trying. Yeah, it's hard. It says like a police officer stuff you got to scale something. Having being able to scale a wall.
Speaker 3:I scale teeth.
Speaker 2:You scale, you descale teeth yeah.
Speaker 4:They're just not fun for me.
Speaker 2:I don't think there's a life event where it's going to require you to climb a rope, unless you have one of those fire exit deals in your house.
Speaker 3:Climbing up the rope.
Speaker 2:No, no, no but having some function of being able to go down a rope.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's fine, maybe I had to do them a rope.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's fair. Okay, maybe I had to do them a ton for wrestling, so Really.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a mainstay for wrestlers to do rope climbs, grip strength, upper body strength.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's fair Pulling strength in general.
Speaker 2:I mean, it was part of my life, so it's not something I run to to do on a weekly basis, but I don't hate them. I've been coaching these for a long time and the way some people melt the hell out of their leg.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't have the fancy sock. I'd never have leg burn.
Speaker 4:I actually, because I go down it a very different way from a lot of people.
Speaker 2:I fire, pull it.
Speaker 4:Because of gymnastics and there's one, it's my left leg that always gets cut. I have scars from years of it just because of gymnastics too. They just kind of stay there and I'm kind of just used to it. Now it hurts, but now I'm so used to it, I'm like whatever.
Speaker 3:There's no nerve endings in there anymore, same with your hands.
Speaker 2:I've seen you have some of the gnarliest tears and you can just keep going.
Speaker 4:I've actually been. I mean, these little thumb ones from dumbbell snatches Terrible. I did have to do 200 of them yesterday. It's terrible, um no, but I've actually. I don't think I've ripped in a really long time. My new grips have been amazing, so yeah, we're good on those. It was was when I used to not wear grips at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've seen your hands just melt, but then you're able to keep going, so you must have some destroyed nerve endings in your hands from gymnastics.
Speaker 4:Well, gymnastics, like, once you get it, like you got rips a lot, obviously because you're on the bar every single day and you'd get one and they're just like all right, put some chalk in it, do at least one more routine and you're good. Yeah, they're like just dig One of my old coaches. He always say just like, dig chalk in it, so you can't feel it. I was like no, I'm good, can I just be done? Yeah, bars was actually funny thing, like going into CrossFit, like all the stuff I'm good at on the bar and gymnastics stuff. Bars was my worst event and I hated it. I hated it so much like every time we'd be on there I was not excited. It was my worst event. I hated everything about it. I was always like the weak link on that one because I was a powerhouse like. I was very good at vault. I was the regional champion, state champion on floor my last year. And bars was not my thing. I'm not a very like fluid, elegant gymnast. I was just like the Simone Biles powerhouse girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it worked out for me, I guess Now you do a sport that you can express all of your power.
Speaker 4:Yeah, nice, thank goodness.
Speaker 2:What else we got? So real quick recap. Alyssa, as of right now, stands as fittest in the gym against me. She won the Open.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So we'll revisit this next year and we'll come up with terms and conditions for our competition. Have a signing. Yeah, and you know Faye's probably going to be the fittest person in the gym in the Open. It's not going to be us.
Speaker 3:We'll fight for a second. Yeah, fight for a second.
Speaker 2:Congratulate you on that officially, publicly.
Speaker 3:Thank you. I feel like it's really hard to accept that because I really Okay, thank you, you did it, you did it.
Speaker 2:Terms and conditions.
Speaker 3:We have yet to beat him in another workout, since.
Speaker 2:You texted me the other day. You beat me.
Speaker 4:You did, you did beat him. I remember that.
Speaker 2:Twice. Yeah, it's not that uncommon. You're a fit human. That's only my seventh workout that day, but I'm joking. This is why I don't really beat him.
Speaker 3:He's like oh yeah, I was watching Jackson the whole time and I was like oh cool.
Speaker 2:I was busting my ass, burpee something.
Speaker 1:I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 2:There was one of them that you did text me and I was coaching and adjusting Jackson shit during the workout but I didn't have the heart to tell you.
Speaker 3:No, I knew it, I saw something about it and I was like ah, damn it the funny thing training with Faye.
Speaker 4:She'll always like tell me she's like I'm not making this an excuse. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like shut up, you're still gonna beat me. I know you are.
Speaker 2:She's like so scared I'm like I don't care, you're still gonna beat me no, it's good for you, you're surrounded by it's good for you not to be just walking away with everything in the gym here that there are people here that can push you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and that's what I need.
Speaker 3:Only in some stuff, not everything. No like, no An all-around event.
Speaker 2:you're going to probably come out on top and you stack all eight workouts back to back to back. But, having an environment, there are people, even though some of us are dramatically older than you that can still push you and give you that. I'm hopeful that it helps you in achieving your goals.
Speaker 2:Yeah totally, we still draw an element of folks. I mean, our general goal here is to help the everyday person just be fit, healthy and capable, not just slightly, but overly and above our average population out there. You're pushing to be the best in the world and compete against the best in the world at this sport of CrossFit. It's cool for me to be able to know that we have folks in the gym that can give you that push and be good training partners for you. And it's cool yeah, the fun push yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 2:It's really fun.
Speaker 4:Yeah, good stuff like it's like I think when we started working out together, my dad was always the one to be like you do realize she's like 10 years older than you. I was like yeah, but she's my best friend. Like I don't care. Like I was like the thing about crossfit is like obviously not a lot of kids my age do it still.
Speaker 2:Like no, and you are way more mature than your age, so yeah, and the way you train it's. It makes perfect sense to me, knowing both of you yeah you know I'm way older than Chase and we're close.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and it's just like it's not weird for me at all to be able to be such good friends with older people, because obviously I see myself as a very mature 16-year-old. Yeah, like no doubt about it, but like it's just funny and that's where it reminds me of my college days, like I mean the gym.
Speaker 3:those were my people and they were all 10 or 15 years older than me and I'm coming to family events and they all have kids and I'm like I'll just be the babysitter.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know. It's fun for me though. I love this gym, so I've got some good people.
Speaker 2:Well, you're a staple here. You've been here well since the very beginning.
Speaker 3:Yeah, look at you, yeah now crazy jess, jamie and chase have been trying to meet her. They're trying to get me over here for a lot of years nev.
Speaker 2:well, we got you, we did it. It happened, it happened. Super cool. So anything else you guys got you want to recap, we can always do another one later. Ryan's got some events coming up.
Speaker 4:Yeah, don't you let the people know I do. Okay, so I'm competing in the World Fitness Project.
Speaker 2:I have a bone to pick with them too. I know, I know we don't need to do that right now.
Speaker 4:Um, I got asked from this girl from canada she's another teen athlete um, she didn't go to the games last year but she did make it. She did the pit teen throwdowns there. Um, same venue, same place. She won it. Um, she competed this year also, so asked me to do, and I was like, and she did the first one, the first tour stop, and she was like it is the craziest, like you need to go, like the best experience I've ever seen. Like she's like I don't know if they can top the games, but it was pretty dang cool and so I'm gonna do that with her.
Speaker 2:Um, is it a team?
Speaker 4:yeah, team duo oh cool yeah, so in the teen division. Uh, I don't know how many people are actually gonna be signed up for it, but it's in Arizona. So nice, stop away. So it should be fun. I'm excited When's that. End of August Labor Day weekend yeah, then three weeks after that a little close.
Speaker 1:San Diego.
Speaker 4:We are going to Waterpalooza, yeah, huntington Beach. I'm in the 16 to 18 division, so that's what we're training for mostly that's the big thing.
Speaker 2:Did you get invited to that? Because I don't remember you doing a qualifier so I did no qualifier.
Speaker 4:So the Miami one requires a qualifier, but because I don't know like the difference, but the California one there was no qualifier and I got really lucky, actually, because it was right after semifinals was done and I found out I didn't make it to the games and I was really bummed out. So we were kind of looking for competitions. I was in the middle of class, like in religion class, doing nothing, searching up competitions, and I was like oh my God, what a palooza. Like I've always wanted to compete there in miami, of course, like, and I was like this is in california. It's like not, like, not far at all.
Speaker 4:Yeah, um, and I looked up there was no spots left open and they were like we do have a wait list, though, and I I was texting my mom. I was like what do you think? And she's like worst you could do is like just put your name down, see what happens. Like a week later I get an email in class. Also it was like hurry, spas just opened up in your division. You need to sign up. So signed up in the middle of class, registered, good to go.
Speaker 3:And everything you're like, hold on teacher.
Speaker 4:So I signed up and I was that I was so excited because I was like it was just nice to be able to finally have something, because obviously I was heartbroken not making was like it was just nice to be able to finally have something, because obviously I was heartbroken not making it to the games as I should be, and now I have something so big to train for Like this is a huge competition too. Everyone's going to be there.
Speaker 2:A lot of Palooza is a big deal now.
Speaker 4:It's a huge deal, yeah, so I'm excited to get my name out there. It's not the games, it's this is the best place to have it. So, yeah, I'm excited that's the two. Yeah, that's the two.
Speaker 3:Cool, yeah, I got yeah, so I put my lottery in for the london marathon, didn't get it no, I paid for us to do this ultra thing, but yeah yeah so that's in September and then take a little bit off, and then we start getting ready for the open.
Speaker 2:I guess, and this will be. You'll be old, the oldest in your age group.
Speaker 4:Yeah, this is my last year in the teen division. Oh kind of crazy.
Speaker 2:I'm excited well an open gets here. They asked me questions at this little CrossFit get-together about Open participation and it's like I want to get the community hype behind you.
Speaker 4:I would love that.
Speaker 2:I think it would honestly be better for me, but it's been hard in the last few years like post-COVID, to be honest to get the community hyped on the Open.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's hard. People just I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah few years like post-covid, to be honest, to get the community hyped on the open. Yeah, people, just I don't know, yeah and um. So yeah, we need to, we need to think through that and a little bit of planning for you, just to create an environment for you to express your fitness, um, and support that yeah, because so we're gonna have to bring competitive vibe. Yeah, me and lisa are going to show up head-to-head throwdowns.
Speaker 3:I showed up every time.
Speaker 2:I know I'm just saying this. Next year we're going to have to do it for Ryan, To create this environment.
Speaker 4:It was really fun being able to do alongside Alyssa. It was so helpful.
Speaker 2:I told Dave, though up at this deal I was like dude, the whole two judges thing and camera angles and stuff. I was like having an affiliate. I only had to do it for two people If we had four, five, six, ten people making it to the semifinals and I had to pull that shit off.
Speaker 2:I was like that was a pain in the ass as an affiliate owner and that was only for two people. What kind of judges certificate did we get? That was a pain in the ass as an affiliate owner and that was only for two people, yeah, and.
Speaker 3:What kind? Of judges certificate. Did we get Advanced?
Speaker 4:Yeah, sorry for making us pay more. It's not even the money, it's just in my mind.
Speaker 2:There was no reason Once you hit like a level three coach with 20 years of coaching experience is like I really need to take this bullshit. And I get it. You know they're trying to make revenue and they have a business to run to and it's an easy it's an easy cash grab, yeah, but um, then when they did the advanced one and two judges, a head judge and me just standing there- in the frame, not having to do shit.
Speaker 2:So I was just like logistically pulling that off for a larger group of people would be an absolute pain in the ass.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So but we'll make it happen this year if we're around Last year in the teen division.
Speaker 4:Yeah, gotta, go with a bang, let's do it All right.
Speaker 2:Well, I hope this was enjoyable for you guys. Yeah, it was fun, we'll have to do a recap after my competitions. Do a recap and then, if anything important or pertinent comes up, we can always schedule a time lock it down we could do it sooner than that it's cool. Love having you two in the gym.
Speaker 4:It's awesome love being here. Same yeah, it's like as I go home, I think I'm probably here more than I was going to bring that up earlier You're, I think you're more excited when you could drive because you didn't have to rely on your dad.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah 100%.
Speaker 4:The first stop I made when I got my license that same day, like I think my appointment was at nine, got my license, head back home and I was like all right, I'm off to the gym.
Speaker 3:Only teenager in the world that that sequence of events took place like that. Yeah, going to the gym.
Speaker 2:Yeah, your dad for the first time.
Speaker 4:Like he works out here every day too, but didn't have to shuffle your training schedule, yeah yeah, it's hard for him too because, like even when I started, like full mentality and everything, and like he'd have to wait like two other plus hours after like school nights too.
Speaker 2:I mean, your dad's been a rock for you in your training career yeah, I mean I've watched the entire thing, yeah so yeah, he told me I have to give him a shout out.
Speaker 4:So shout out, dad. No 100 the reason I'm here, since you were little he's been your transport.
Speaker 2:I'm always trying to get your mom to work a couple less hours.
Speaker 4:I don't know if it's going to happen just yet. No, people keep having babies, all the damn time.
Speaker 2:It's terrible and she's a very desired OB in this town. We appreciate you, Susan.
Speaker 4:Yes, we love you. Don't like her job but got to do it. I'm grateful for you.
Speaker 3:Arguably don't like her job but I'm grateful for you arguably, you saved my daughter and my wife's life.
Speaker 2:So thanks, mama p. Yeah, but I'm watching you and your dad. It's been cool witnessing over yeah I mean your dad's been with me for three, four different gym training yeah, that's crazy committed.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he is so yeah right on.
Speaker 2:Yeah cool, all right team. Love you guys until next time. Keep inspiring people you gotta do it too, yeah, no this is the old guy in the room. Yeah, we're gonna edit that part. Oh no, what?
Speaker 3:do? They got down there.
Speaker 2:What else they got chimes that's how your farts sound.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's how your fart sound. That's really funny actually, if you just do that Just in the middle of it. They're talking in this. Next topic, please wrap it up all right.
Speaker 2:Well, until next time. Yeah, next time, keep following these two. Yeah, alyssa's a coach here, so if you guys ever have any questions or any of this about that, I'm gonna try to get her to coach a couple more classes here pretty soon. Oh, I have some ideas, and then Ryan's going to coach. Before she leaves here, she will run a class.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I want to actually. I think it'll be fun. I think I'd be a good coach.
Speaker 3:Imagine Ryan and Alyssa team coaching. Oh, that would be a good one.
Speaker 2:I would accept that for a Saturday class.
Speaker 3:Okay, only a Saturday.
Speaker 2:I don't think, I don't know if you do.
Speaker 3:I mean prove it to me. Insightful knowledge right here, Very insightful.
Speaker 2:I'd probably get one of those squares that show up first time ever doing a class.
Speaker 3:It's like crossfit die hard.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just saying like a random drop in.
Speaker 3:This has happened.
Speaker 2:Like is an odor, yeah and just so, like by the book on how everything needs to be structured.
Speaker 4:We're like no Dodgeball. We would be so good, though, like I would call people out for their. I called my dad out yesterday. He was over here. I call Jack out all the time. Oh yeah, he was over here doing box step-ups and I was like none of those just counted. He was like like hunched over. I was like you did not extend one of those and I completely called him out and he got mad. I was like do it right.
Speaker 4:No, my dad yeah, I was like Derek and Chase would both yell at you right now, just saying Okay, so I think I'd be good at it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so call your dad out your brother I gotta have. Yeah, I've called him out. Call your dad out your brother.
Speaker 3:I've got to have a little chat. I've actually called him out. I think she should start at the noon class.
Speaker 4:Oh, I don't know about that. I've heard it's rough and I know the people in it. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:We'll figure this out. We'll figure this out. But Jack we need to talk about your bicep workout. I'm all for growing the arms and I just if he listens to this. He's got his little routine, which I can appreciate and respect, but I know a way to amplify it and I got to talk to him about it.
Speaker 3:Jack.
Speaker 2:But he's getting strong.
Speaker 4:He is.
Speaker 2:He really is Dude he is and he was slaying muscle-ups the other day I was like this isn't the Jack I knew. And he was like he's been doing good.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it was just like he found a CrossFit gym in Salt Lake in college. He was going to and he was enjoying it, you know like, yeah. So he's been here for a while too, but you know, stopped from football and golf for high school sports and everything. But you know he loves it too and he's always competing with me. He beat me today and he can't stop talking about it.
Speaker 3:He'll talk about it tomorrow too. It's fair, siblings. Do you know how many times I beat Corey? How? Many yeah do you know how many times I beat cory? How?
Speaker 2:many a lot. All right, I know it's funny, cory and um erica, like the other day, he's like dude. I have to lunge 235 for the six rep max and I'm not even 100 confident that I will beat my wife. Yeah, I was like bro. That's crazy and the thing is like you're still strong, dude, but but Erica's capacity to lunge is fucking nuts, it's like Alex. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was just blown away when she grabbed those big-ass kettlebells when I was down there coaching. She just went for the 20 rep. I'm like holy shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she's an animal.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you have both of you got pretty awesome fitness fames.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's fun, all right. Well, wrap this up. Hour and 52 minutes. Oh yeah, wow, it's easy to carry it away in here huh yeah, it is. So thanks for listening guys.
Speaker 4:I don't want to work out now. Bye, you guys got to go train.
Speaker 2:Peace, peace.