Miles to Madison Ep. 02.21: Pearce, Eramo O’Connell, Medeiros & O’Brien

are you guys still holding on to this theory about it being seven minutes of burpees no because everybody thinks it so dave's not gonna do something everybody thinks you think he would change it last minute i don't think he'd change it last minute but i think he maybe it's like um he wanted us to all think that so this is all part of the master plan right yeah if he has a master plan i don't know he lives for this stuff i'm just kidding i have no idea he does live for this stuff though yeah like have you seen him before in the announcements it's true he lives for them the way it all went down last time the way that i left that uh i was just kind of forced out of doing announcements uh i didn't like the truth is i was ready to be done then i was ready to stop doing announcements but i didn't get to go out on my own terms so these three weeks will be on my own terms and then i'm out everyone doesn't know that yet but that's my plan every year hundreds of thousands of people start the same journey but only a select few reach the destination the crossfit games in madison wisconsin this year we give you access to the elite athletes making that journey and for the first time ever an unprecedented look at what goes on behind the scenes every step of the way this is miles to madison [Music] smells like salt smells like the beach it does it does is there a lot of surface around here oh yeah [Music] i wish i could serve something new to learn yeah never searched this always makes me question where we live so many other places in the world it means a lot to lead off the community and to be a part of the first open workout announcement especially after the craziness of last year and you know the long season for us games athletes i feel like if anybody sees you they're just going to stop she's got a big old truck no one's going to mess with you yeah it hits bright red super bright do you feel like a badass driving like i do feel like a badass driving this which way am i going left to be part of the first one is slightly terrifying it's also very exciting so it's terrifying in a good way it's putting me outside of my comfort zone which is where you grow and you learn and so i'm i'm pretty excited about it say it again the arsonist had oddly shaved feet human torsos that i day bankrupt what is it ever see anchorman you've never seen anchorman no and now i should huh i don't know if i can work with you anymore we are here at crossfit to bring you the live announcement of 21.1 uh with christy arimo and carrie pierce throwing down showing us all what we're going to be doing this week and to get everybody excited and into the open and the crossfit season [Applause] sorry you missed out you walked in at an awkward time it's different right now because we don't have fans here but they're pretty much the same because live is live and it's the adrenaline of like putting on a good show not wanting to mess up make sure you do it you have a good performance 10 minutes away this is when i just look over my uh my format one last time and make sure that i know exactly where we're going because i have screwed this up a couple times already in rehearsal so we'll make sure we get right this time i'm actually really happy with the way this all came together when we started talking about it it was using our own office wasn't exciting because we've done a lot of stuff here in the past and we knew we had to do stuff a lot differently to make it appear better and it's gonna feel a lot better with athletes here nine eight sean seven six five four three two one hi everybody and welcome to the 2021 noble crossfit games pre-show presented by ram the only truck brand so with motor trend truck of the year three years in a row i'm sean woodland she's annie sakamoto rory mckernan is here derek ford i'm excited to compete against christy arimo in 21.1 also a little nervous because i know she's a phenomenal athlete and i feel like we have a lot of similar strengths i was waiting to hear who i was competing against and i was a little bit nervous all of the girls are great but i feel like i have a special relationship with carrie we did the announcement back in 2017. it's just this experience that we bonded over and to get to repeat that experience four years later is pretty cool it should be interesting to see what dave castro comes up with for the first workout but i mean we're there we're throwing down together it's gonna be a good time and i'm actually getting goosebumps as i'm talking about it because i'm just i'm really excited to be here they said they have to have time for the equipment change and the way the rig is set up there's a fat beam under the pull-up bar so kerry and i both were like we're not using the pull-up bar so it's set up for like a for them to screw handstand bishop boards onto each section yeah which is the one thing i don't want to see let's get this thing kicked off i have waited a long time to say this the 2021 noble crossfit game season starts now it is my great pleasure and honor to welcome you to open announcement 21.1 presented by this is going to be a workout we have no idea what it is until we step out on the stage having confidence in the work that i put in in the variety of workouts just i think let my mind be at ease and just try and stay relaxed and know that my body knows what to do she's the third fittest woman in the world right now so she is extremely fit and i know that it will not be an easy task or challenge [Music] 21.1 is one wall walk 10 double unders three wall walks 30 double unders hard to say two amazing athletes which one is going to come out the victor but the biggest take home is just going to be everybody getting excited about the season welcome to the open and welcome to the prone pain that is 21.1 [Music] i'm like very nervous to see the workout really yeah so currently in the season it's uh week one of the open it's three weeks long and then hopefully we can move on to the semifinals quarterfinals quarterfinals [Music] i'd like i just feel like it's gonna be like seven minutes of burpees burpees oh what so when we when we watch the 21.1 open announcement i think we first were just like heck yeah let's go the wall walk you know it was it was a new movement for all of us so there's definitely an unknown element we both love that you know that's part of what makes our sport fun this will be pretty fun i'm excited to see i mean they're going to throw down and do it right now too so three two one go [Music] he judged me on thursday night i think i don't know if him watching me do it is really that helpful because we're on much different levels of fitness but if anything he loves watching me suffer so it was enjoyable for him here we go adam come on you can finish these there we go nice after i did the open workout he saw some things i saw some things we talked about a little bit and we left that evening like cool that's what we'll do tomorrow because we live together the relationship goes way beyond coach athlete yeah at first it was like hey he's just gonna come stay with us for a little bit and and i said how do you know he's like a really good person and he's like oh don't worry i've talked to him on the phone a lot of times i'm really lucky that adam wasn't weird give me the shot if i missed this now i don't deserve to win this game oh buckets went in got it now we'll see if i can make it with the pressures on i know probably not my role has evolved this year into not not just being his coach but being his advocate in terms of like hey let's work with a couple of other coaches that can really move the needle in his performance [Music] uh like shoulder knowing that upper body pressing strength specifically has been a big challenge for justin i have a friend his name is jesse buffano awesome dude he actually owns crossfit squamish in british columbia and is a wizard when it comes to powerlifting and strength training he's a staple of our team now he's been working with justin really since about last november that's going to be a game changer for this year that wasn't bad every day i train my weaknesses so i have a full five or six hour day of working on things that i suck at and i know that i suck at them because a lot of people better at me adam so there's always room to get stronger always room to be fitter as long as i'm willing to put in the work i don't think there's anything holding me back come on there you go oh my gosh if you go back to when the 2020 season started in 2019 if you thought justin medeiros was gonna finish on the podium at the crossfit games you were probably related to him to have a have longevity in this sport you have to just have true love and passion for it he seems like he just truly loves competing and doing crossfit it's just another workout that's not just another workout first step in a long season uh and i know that the open doesn't matter but like it's an opportunity to compete and we're here to win so let's uh have fun with it you guys know the plan you ready crush it heck yeah let's go let's go big picture our game plan for the open is let's do the open within the context of his regular training it's an opportunity to compete and it's opportunity to test yourself but it is the first step in a long journey that is the crossfit game season it is truly believed that i'm capable of of being the best if you can make yourself strong and be willing to like compete and grind and really make those sacrifices as long as i'm able to do that like there's gonna be nothing holding me back justin medeiros has all the makings of being not only the future crossfit games champion but a bonafide base of the sport two breaths and then a fast set of three two brass three fast go it was really cool to see him on the podium because it was proof to him that he belongs now justin knows what many of us close to and i've known for a while like you belong you're capable of that and we're just getting started [Applause] [Music] okay push up one foot on other foot on now you're good yep both hands back right yes so that wouldn't came down before that second hand was back tonight's matchup with carrie and christy i think on paper carrie's got the advantage you know she's uh comes from a pretty serious gymnastics lineage and that's kind of her jam but on the other hand i've worked with christy a lot she's done some testing for us and some other things and she is always gay like she is always competitive and always willing to just put it on the line so i think it's going to be closer than most people will think initially but i will still give the edge to to carry a mistake most people the shoulder pump is going to be real though i think it's just going to be like making sure you don't get any no reps because it's something new and something different so maybe just be careful on that i think that 21 yeah and that 21 at the end is spicy all right my friends it's time to kick off 21.1 and for that we'll go to dave castro three two one go and here we go the 2021 noble crossing game season is officially underway and two of the best in the world throwing down head to head in 21.1 i'm not trying to think about who would win or who's going to win i kind of leave that to the analysts and those guys we knew that this would be a great workout for kerry pierce because it involves handstands carrie in my mind is the front runner just at face value but all that goes out the window for the fact that like competitive wall walking is something i've not seen looking good friends looking good 21.1 the first time we have ever seen this movement the wall walk in the open if you're going to be crowned the fittest on earth you need to be able to handle anything that's really thrown at you and they showed just how good the top level athletes are carrie pierce starting to open up a pretty good lead on kristyna when he said the workout it's really bad and if you shouldn't defeat yourself from the start but i knew that i was just gonna have to let her go that's it for carrie pierce carrie pierce was phenomenal and often times that can give us a false sense of how we might do we always say with crossfit it's about the unknown and the unknowable and you have to be ready for anything that is thrown at you the fact that carrie pierce handled that new movement so easily just shows that she is ready to maybe push one of the top spots on the podium and that is it for carrie pierce 1305 final seconds for erimo o'connell and she will be 138 double under short of finishing that workout an incredible display by both of these women and you are going to be hard-pressed to find an athlete that is better suited to do well at this workout than carrie pierce [Applause] that's gotta be like the top times [Music] my name is maui o'brien i'm 17 years old i have competed at the crossing games twice and this is my fourth year competing as a team what did jim carrey do in in uh it's victorian [Applause] her mentor is stronger than any other 17 year old i know she wants to come into the gym this is her hangout spot she has down to earth parents that respect her she has parents that respect her space and becoming an athlete and when you have that support man sky's the limit you know for her to come in here and and do what she does man it's just it's it's amazing right hands coming here [Music] right yeah just like a bird let the hands stand all right how much pain you willing to put yourself through and how much [Music] i did good yep riley o'brien lion brave crossfit girl 1617 21.1 [Music] you got it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i wanted stuff 13 because that's what carrie did but so that's what i went for but sub 12 works too you can't do this workout again yeah no yeah you can't do this again that's gonna be what are you thinking saying your with in my cursive i never learned she's too young to have learned curses refuel refuel back up still got training she's doing more work today training under james i have seen like crazy amount of improvements in like every part of my life training wise it's just been like he's helped me with my mental game my physical game strength form all the stuff coaches do it's easy training her because her determination like hey i need to get better at this all right let's do it there's no talk back there's no pushback there's nothing like hey i need to get better at burpees all right let's do burpees i need to get better at wall balls there's two wall balls and that's it and and that's the joy of being her coach and training her is that like she spoils me because all i get to do is come up with the fun hard training programming for her and i'm thinking it's going to be hard for her but she kills it every time people had told me how good mel o'brien was but then i saw it for myself and i realized okay the people who were telling me about mal o'brien were not giving her enough credit she has tenacity she has determination motivation the focus like she has it you could tell she's locked in we know that she does good in live competition but again how does she do when she's got tia claire toomey on one side and you know somebody like brook wells or catrin david's daughter on the other side of her but so far the athlete that mal o'brien is is wildly impressive to me i never really got to live the teenage high school experience and i'm still not but i don't know what that feels like because i started when i was 12. nice to have a small iced cold brew with coconut milk the outcomes that i've experienced and the joy i feel doing this sport is all that matters to me like tia posted like a lot of her workout not all of it so we didn't know the final time but like of course not we kind of like got some ideas like if we can shave off a few seconds of each round it will add up but now i know what it feels like which i like that's why i like redoing it because you do it once you know what it feels like you know you can change so [Music] when you say you want to be the best at something you have to be willing to put in the time you got to be willing to put in the effort the motivation you got to sacrifice you look at athletes like mal and how fit they are at such a young age and you think there is still ceiling left for this sport to grow there is another evolution of this athlete and what it can do [Music] i just shake my head every time when i see the times see the effort see the weights that she putting up and i'm just like man like this girl is is really something special like i feel really good right now going into the season feel fitter than i ever have healthier than i ever have and happier so i want to compete as individual for all my crossfit career and i want to win the crossfit games and do that as much as i can wow mal o'brien was so impressive in 21.1 she took fourth place worldwide only four seconds off of the top time a lot of people wanted to see how justin moderos was going to be able to build on his third place finish at the crossfit games in 2020 comes out smashes 21.1 finishes sixth in the world and it was very clear that okay yeah this kid is for real it's pretty amazing to think that two of the best uh gymnastics-based female athletes in the field that christie irmo finished 121st and that carrie pierce was 52nd in the world it just really shows where the competition is at [Applause] so tonight we had just north of 100 000 people tuning in we've got a great foundation there's a beautiful show here we've got great athlete matchups coming up we can only do better um but let's really use this as the starting place and start sprinting on week two so good job thank you guys we're good i'm happy with it it's good good to be back i think it came off pretty well i'm excited i hope the community liked it but uh i think it i think overall we'll call that one a win crossfit's been my dream like to do this i'm excited for next week and for week three and let's keep this train rolling up jumping jacks you know they're hard this year is super significant for a lot of us just kind of coming back to the open announcement it's been a really long tough year for a lot of people so i was super honored to be part of this first one there was a couple times when i literally teared up but mostly out of gratitude it felt fantastic um yeah i felt like uh i felt like we really connected with people at a time when they really need to be connected with call me cheesy but it's my heart luckily brooke's here because otherwise i would be in so much trouble there's really some big biscuits though i forgot to put them on a pan no you need to and we are happy to have the two athletes who will be throwing down in 21.2 i think it's going to be a battle because we both want it pretty bad i'm going in and giving to sam for running for his money we're going to be competing for that top spot allow me to introduce you to a test oh shit's gonna get real tomorrow [Music] three two one go [Music] one thing's getting to the top another thing's staying up there my focus is turning that four into a five [Music]

Channel: CrossFit Games

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Keywords: 2021 crossfit games, 2021 crossfit open, 2021 crossfit season, 2021 open, CrossFit Games Docuseries, Docuseries, Fittest on Earth, Justin Medeiros, Kari Pearce, Kristi Eram O'Connell, Mal O'Brien, bts, crossfit games, crossfit games 2021, crossfit open 2021, dave castro, miles to madison, road to the games, sport of fitness

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Length: 24min 23sec (1463 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 26 2021