Most athletes are like, "What are you going to do after college sports?" You know, like, what am I going to do? I'm going to have all of this pent up aggression and competitive nature, and I'm not going to have an outsource for it. It's almost like, this is it. This is what I'm built for. (music) My name's Jacob Heppner. I'm 25 years old, and I go to Cobra Command CrossFit. At the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games, I finished 10th. I'm Brooke Wells, 20 years old, and I go to CrossFit Fringe. My mom actually--we were driving to the airport the other day, and she's like, "I have a surprise," and I'm like, "What?" And she's like, "I already booked our stuff for regionals and the Games." I was like, "Mom, you can't talk about the Games yet." I'm like, "You can talk about the Games after regionals. I don't want to talk about it." And then she's like, "Well we can cancel it," and I was like, "Stop." Like, "You're making it worse." I can't handle this pressure. My nutrition looks like whatever my wife cooks me, so she's a wonderful cook, and so, it's pretty healthy food. I don't eat strict paleo. I don't measure my food or anything. I eat whatever's available. I think sometimes I'm at a caloric deficit, so anything that's available, I eat it. Now tell us what's in it because we don't trust you. Yes. So there's spinach and kale. It's my special ingredient. It's how I make Jacob eat his vegetables. I have to hide them from him. I started CrossFit to supplement track. Going from gymnastics to track wasn't enough hours of working out in the day for me until I started doing CrossFit and ended up liking it better than track. God, thank you for this day and for this wonderful blessing of just having friends here to stay with us and fellowship with us for the rest of the day, and just keep us safe as we work out-- So my wife's amazing. First day I met her, I knew she was amazing, but she turned me down for four years, and I was in the friend zone, totally friend zone, but I told her that I wanted to write a book called "How to Beat the Crap out of the Friend Zone." We basically always have an argument with the music when I'm around. I mean, I'm 20, so I know what's good right now. They like the old crap. What does she listen to? DJ Mustard. DJ Snake. I don't know. DJ Snake pandora is pretty good. (music) A hard work ethic will get you there. People always talk about, "What kind of programming do you do?" and "What's your macros like?" and "Who's your coach?" and yeah, it's great, and yeah, I appreciate the program that's given to me, but man, I could--it's the work you put into your program that really matters. For sure. Yeah, well, I also love hurting, so doing a hard metcon is also one of my favorites too. Too sloppy. If I had to choose strengths, they'd probably be anything gymnastics related. I enjoy gymnastics I love me some pistols, anything that's just long and grueling, workouts that are going to take forever. I don't like short workouts. Speed ladders. I'm over that now. Yeah, that needs to go away. That's pretty much what I hate. The Brooke Wells playlist is like, "I'm already done." Yeah, my Brooke Wells playlist only has four songs. I could. They can't. We're not that picky, but four songs? I mean, if I have a short workout, then I want to hear my four favorite songs. Alright, everything done for my morning. What's next? Post-workout shake. 30 grams of protein, and, like, 80 grams of carbs, and then, that'll hold me over through class. So, first session's done, so boys are probably going to watch a movie. I'm going to do some work. I'm going to do some work, and some school work too, and we're all going to eat lasagna. Well, Andrew's not. I brought lasagna for like me and Marston, so-- A lot of the athletes know that I'm big in CrossFit, but it's kind of cool to also go to school and a lot of people don't know, and so, I'm just a normal college student. If you'd asked me three years ago, "Do you want to go get your Master's in business intelligence and analytics I probably would have said, 'I have no idea what that is,' and 'probably not.'" But yeah, it's very interesting, and the best part is, it benefits my company and helps me improve my value within the company, which is what we're all looking for, right? Class is like 5:45 on a Thursday, so like, I show up to class working out here, and drive there as fast as I can to make it there, so yeah, I've shown up--no one really sits next to me. It's pretty hard to balance school and CrossFit just because they both take up a lot of time, so like, days that I have, like, tests or something, it's really hard to be able to get a full training day in while I'm studying for a test. Like, I go to school for three hours on Tuesday and Thursday, so it's pretty draining trying to work out after that. What is that? A saw? Ughh. What do my rest days look like? Rest days I usually go in to my sports chiropractor once a week. This is a cold laser, low-level laser. It just increases tissue healing. I'm watching "The Bachelor" while I row for 30 minutes, but since the show's on, it might be longer than 30 minutes. So, well, what usually consists of our active recovery somewhat is when we play video games against each other, and when you and when you die, you have five calories on the air assault bike. Active recovery includes long rowing, air assault biking and video games, and just eating a bunch of food pretty much. I mean, I don't go too hard because it's active recovery, but on this today, I'm just trying to keep, like, 10 calories a minute, just, pretty easy. What do I do outside of CrossFit? Wow, really nothing. This is a classic red. This is about as basic as it gets. If I had big hands, I would look so bad. Like, if I had your size hands on my body I would get so made fun of. You don't have that much bigger. At first, I hated training by myself. I literally dreaded working out by myself. Then I'd try to, like, pick up training partners and then I, like, hated it even more trying to go off other peoples' schedule, and especially when I have school and stuff. No one has my school schedule, so I like to train when I want, so that's one of the good things about training by yourself. If I train with someone, then I really want them to push me really hard, and if they aren't, kind of like, I slow down, make sure I'm just barely beating them or whatever so, when I train by myself, it's just like me against the clock, and so I really know how to push myself now. You see a lot of people who are like, "Man, I'm good at a barbell," or "I'm good at gymnastics, so I'm just going to show you all the stuff I do with barbell and, you know, I'm only going to do barbell or I'm only going to do gymnastics." Well, why do we do that? Well, because then you feel good. It's like, "Yeah man, I got 35 rounds on Cindy." "I did Cindy last week. I also got 35 rounds." "I did Cindy two weeks ago, I got the same thing." You're like, "I'm awesome." Well yeah, you are awesome, but let's change it up. Let's put something different in your hands that you're not awesome at. I think the beauty of this sport is it humbles you. (indecipherable shouting) Yeah, if you go to that last cone, up to this cone, back to the last cone, back up top, that'll be 400 meters. There's always some bro, or some bro that's a girl, that's out there that can lift more than you, do more rounds of Cindy than you and can beat you at something, and so, you need to be training in all aspects. Do you hold this type of volume the whole year? This is pretty normal, yeah. (beep) I think you get used to it after awhile. You know, you'll do regionals, and whether you qualify or not, I don't know. It wasn't too bad. You did two workouts a day. La-di-da-di-da, you know. It doesn't mean you're going to qualify, but at the end you'll feel pretty good, you know? Well, I outdid my old score, but that sucked. Woo! And we're done! You know that was 330, right? Yeah, I know that was 330. I needed something on there. We're going to clean up, then we're going to jump in the car. Going back to my house. Wife's got chicken. Gonna have all the guys over. We're gonna have chicken, play Catan to the break of dawn. Wait, I'm going to do something here. A six. Yeah, pretty much Yeah, for dinner I have like, two-three pieces of bacon, and then like two eggs, three egg whites, and I'm going to do a wrap. It has like four carbs in it, so it's okay, and a little bit of cheese. I want wheat or brick, and I'll give you so much wood you'll choke on it. That's the worst choice of words. Do you share your food often? Oh yeah. Not really. OK. Used to. I do all the time. I share my money, my food. Sucks being the older sister, huh? Yeah (laughing). Do you think you're fitter this year than you were last year? Yeah. My weaknesses that really showed at regionals, I've worked really hard on, so as long as those are gone and my strengths are still there, should be a good year. (music) When you put that much time in and you're so competitive, I think you want to win everything. I think you want to be like, "Yeah, I want to go to the Games, so I want to win regionals, or at least take top-three regionals, but I also want to win the stinking Open." If I'm going to try to get top 10, in my region, then I might as well try to just do really well in the world too. Jacob Heppner is going to take Midline Madness. Brooke Wells, she doesn't look like a rookie to me.
