And cut! Can't use any of that! I'm going to be on the show. I'll be doing a little interview with Margaux about how athletes should kind of approach the workout and then Margaux and I are calling the live action for Ro versus Boz. So we're excited about that. Marston: You going to talk some trash?
Margaux: Yeah. Maybe a little bit. Rory: We're just going to have fun anyways, right? We're just going to start slow and just stir it up. On 3 we're going to break. 1...2...3...BREAK! There's some fresh beats. I'm actually looking up some fresh beats for today. It's going to be crazy, man! I'm actually going for Rory to win. Marston: Oh really?
Lou: Rory! Come on! I think he got it. I'm playing his favorite song. [crowd cheering] Hey guys. I am Rory McKernan and we are live in Columbus, Ohio! Ladies and gentlemen, for the announcement of the workout, I give you the director of the CrossFit Games Dave Castro. Dave: Where 17.1 had a dumbbell...17.2 has dumbbells. Dan: It's different. It's new. It's fresh. Rich: It's gonna hurt. Like every Open workout. Chris: I'm not going to compete and I'm doing this, but I'm shaking inside. Like, it's so funny that I know the suffering that's about to come. And it's not going to happen to me but somehow it's resonating throughout my body and coming out my feet. Sara: Yeah, it's such an ugly movement to do power cleans with dumbbells. Ugh. It's like Gollum all over again. From 17.1. Gollum? From Lord of the Rings. But I will not say that the dumbbell is My Precious. Rich: "Just do the workout", they said. "It'll be fun", they said. Let's get it over with. Whoo. Bar Muscle-ups. They get hard. Just winded. Grip. All of it. Hurt. Tia: There's a lot of people in the kitchen. I honestly--I'll just have whatever for this morning. And then I find it way too hard to measure all food per meal. Camille: Yeah. So you eat what you want. But it's weigh and measure.
Tia: Yeah... I'm sorry. I know you were trying to film her. I had my moment. You'll come back one day. You'll come back one day! You'll come back one day, Ian. I'm not trying to hang on to anything. Chris: Don't call attention to it because there's going to be so much criticism and I know what I'm doing. It is going to be incredible. I am cooking three pounds of bacon at one time. Just you wait. I got it. I know. I know.
Ian: Nobody believes in you right now, Chris. Chris: It's been about five minutes. Now what's happened is... look at that nice, beautiful bacon color. Three pounds of bacon, five minutes, every piece is nice. You know what's so great about this? It's the example that everyone has doubt and then all of a sudden it's like, "Wow, he starts the weekend with this?" Wow, they're not going to question one single thing. Look at that! This is what we're calling Cookeville 2017. Sara: It's Friday. Every day is the same. So I've been here for almost two weeks. And it's been amazing. It's just awesome atmosphere here and everybody's super nice and awesome group to train with and yeah... it's just unreal. Rich: There are a lot of people here. Elly: Jen Smith! I like her. She's fun. Putting tape on the bar is a big commitment. I don't want to be the one to mess it up! And then they'll be like, "It was Elly's fault. The tape caught fire!" Sara: It's all about that grip. Camille: I can't wait to be inspired by you. Elly: Camille, do your best to try and do more today, okay? Tia: There's a bunch of athletes here that Chris Hinshaw's brought in. Whoever is my judge, make sure that you call it out! Shane: She didn't even know the workout. We're about to start in five minutes. I'm not surprised. Camille: We're like faking to warm up. Just to avoid the workout right now. I don't know if it's exciting or very scary! Cause we'll have to, like... everyone's wearing grip... I feel like I should put grip now. Chris: The purpose of this camp and this get-together is to—every day—provide new opportunities to take advantage of. To essentially move them ahead of all the other competition in the world. Tia: To give us that opportunity to be out training with each other and learn new things and learn from specialized coaches and, I guess, kind of take our training to the next level but also have fun doing it. Sara: I did it on purpose. Tia: Good job. did she just get you on the last round?
Sara: I don't know how many she repped... How many reps she got. Tia: How many did you get? Sara: I got four.
Ian: She got 220. Tia: You got one less than her. Sara: Oh yeah, I got four. So I got two nineteen? Wow, I was one rep behind Camille in a bar muscle-up workout! I thought she would round me or something. Ian: 220? Cool!
Camille: And then you go look as everyone's at 4-something you're like, "Ahh, damnit." It's like how I felt at the Games last year. "Everyone got so much better. Damnit." So much more work now. Tia: Will you re-do it? Sara: Open doesn't really matter. You want to peak at the right moment, I think. I would rather want to do good training on Monday than focusing on improving that score. Tia: I'll re-do it if these guys want to re-do it. But I don't really want to re-do it. Camille: I can't handle her. Tia: I can't handle her. [laughs] Sara: Were they talking about me? I was in another world! I was like, "Oh my gosh, this bar is so good." Rich: Dre's an idiot. Dre did the workout. Text us all that he was mad at himself and he was going to punish himself and do the workout again. An hour later. And actually did better the second time. Dre: So me, Nick, [indecipherable], and Ron Ortiz... we did first heat. Nick ended up beating me by... he got 214, I got 210. So we go in the back and he's trash talking me saying how I need to upload his video right now and I should do it because he beat me. I was like, "I'm going to re-do it, unless you stop trash talking." So I re-did it, beat him by one rep. Nick:It's all cool. It's all in good fun. Hey, good for him. That was crazy. That's up to him. Oh yeah, absolutely. Not tonight, not tonight but I definitely will re-do it, for sure. Heber: You got Ab Ripper X on right now? You want to hop in, bro?
Yeah. This stuff is hard. I'm telling you. Dre does like five times in a row. Sara: I love training so much and I don't feel satisfied if I haven't gotten everything that I wanted to get done that day. When there's such a large group of people, it gets hard to schedule when you can train and intensity goes a little bit lower becauseyou're waiting on people. I just try not to let that affect me and I just put in more in the afternoon, after everybody has left. Then I put in all the things I was going to do. Tia: Everyone just stretches and mobilizes and warms up way too much. I feel like I shouldn't be doing this just yet, because I feel like I actually feel warm, but I look at everyone else I'm like, "I need to do more! Maybe I'm not ready!" Camille: I can't handle her. "Oh I'm the second Fittest Woman on Earth and I don't know how to warm up." Please, no one teach her. Heber: Ian, what are you doing? Ian: Having a really good time.
Sara: He's hurting me! Heber, how do whales cry?
Heber: I don't know, how do whales cry? Sara: Ian, do you remember the video?
Ian: [whale noises] Sara: It's the best video in the world. Lindy: Sara loves workouts that are 21-15-9. No matter what it is. No matter what movements it is, she wants it to be 21-15-9. But not just one round, she wants it to be two rounds of 21-15-9, back-to-back. Sometimes with a three round of something in between the two. And then she likes to call it a warm up and pretend like we're not exhausted by the end of it. And we're just prepped for the day afterwards. Just super warm and exhausted, all at the same time. Camille: Same when Tia tries to warm up, it's not a real warm up. Cause then she goes and grabs her belt and her wrist sleeve for like 20 minutes. And she'll come back and just keep going. Ian: You're the professional equipment mover?
Ron: I am, I am. I will do that for these young ladies, absolutely. Ron: Trying to be a gentleman.
Sara: He's putting the plates on the bar and everything. Ron, this side too!
Ron: I thought you were busy talking. Jen: I'm really bad at taping my thumbs. Like, so bad at it. And people try to teach me how and this is what I've come up with, right now. Ron: I don't know. I don't think it's that complicated, bro. I really don't. It's okay, though. It's okay, they make the world go around. Women do. Jen. It's okay.
Jen: You thumbs are just so long, so it's different Ron: Smile for me for a second. See? It makes it all better. All better! Lindy: Also, I don't really know how to work this clock. So it's just going to go up for 20 minutes. I don't know how to do all the fancy countdown whatever. Sara: I actually know how to do it. But I don't care. Lindy: "But whatever, Lindy. It's fine. Let's just use your whatever clock. It's cool." Your stupid workout and your stupid clock. It's fine. Sara's world, just living in it. I said, "Hey Sara, do you want to do this 20:00 AMRAP with me?" And she's like, "Yeah, that sounds great. But let's do my warm up... "and I'm not going to do anything of your movements, so I'm just going to do something for twenty minutes." Is that okay?
Sara: That's okay. I'm just going to change everything instead of what you're doing. Sara: I mean, it's fun but you can also feel a lot of tension, too. Everyone wants to do their own thing, because they don't want to change their programming. Lindy: It's fine. Sara's world. She's just in my gym. It's not a big deal, it's fine. Camille: You didn't want to do the twelve minutes of GHD sit-up? Twenty minutes? Sara: I think I can improve by doing something different. Sara: I just want to know the magic behind Chris Hinshaw. Chris: It was a surprise. No one had any idea that these athletes were going to be at this course. None. I'm going to give you about three minutes, then I want everybody to meet on the turf. We're going to warm up doing some single under jump ropes. These athletes participated in the workouts, along with the other coaches and athletes. We're going to do a total of five rounds: 30 seconds of jumping, each. You guys are going to miss. [laughs] Many elite level CrossFitters can't do a single under. Sara: No idea how to do single unders anymore. Chris: At one point in time, that single under was important to them, but they left it behind. My feeling is: as a coach, you develop a skill and don't ever leave it behind because it becomes part of your arsenal. Jen: Keep your hands pinned into your hips and just rotate with your wrists. It'll stay the same length. Sara: This is the one for me. Not this year. Camille: Ian, you're missing Jen. Jen has a great bum.
Tia: Look at it, it's like a little- it just like bounces like really petite! It's so cute! Camille: Just a cute butt. Jen: The only round that I got the same. The only round. Tia: We're talking about your bum. It was really nice. You were kind of twerking for us. We really appreciated that. Tia: Shane's cheating!
Shane: You got that on film. I did it properly! Camille: We're all so competitive . Tia: [indecipherable] Oh I don't even know. I can't remember what I just got! Yes! Smashed it! Sara: 23.
Tia: Oooh, I got 22.
Sara: Oh shit. Sara: This is the last one.
Tia: Shit's getting real, now. Chris: These guys out here are competitive athletes. My job is to create workouts that we both learn from. If we execute perfect workouts, it's like what was the point? It was a waste of time. Katrin: What's it like working with Chris? The way he talks about running... he loves it. Chris: That was really good. I'm dying to run this. Katrin: And I remember I did not love it. And the way he got so excited, he was talking so fast. He talks so much with the hands. He's so passionate about it that I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat. So excited for running! Chris: Look at Tia go. Passing 200 meters in 32 seconds. She's not at all fatigued. Or as she puts it, "I'm not puffed." Today on the track, we clearly saw a separation of two different groups of athletes. We saw Tia and Katrin, who are more aerobically fit than Sara is. And Sara was a little disappointed by them doing faster times. I walked over and said, "You know what? That was terrific." And I go, "Don't be disappointed. This is an area of opportunity. You had those weaknesses last year and the year before. What if you fixed those? Your overall performances will climb." And that excited her. Part of whar we want to do is make sure that these athletes know that just because you have a weakness, it's not a bad thing. Our job is as coaches is to find weaknesses so that we can go and fix them. If a coach can never find a weakness, what good are we? Dan: I'm a revolutionary. This is the new thing. My arms are so warm, yet I'm able to breathe. I mean, I don't know what could go wrong here. Chris: We have Brian Chontosh here. Tosh is here and he's kind of what we call our keynote speaker. What we want to do is we're going to take them out, late at night, in the mountains of Tennessee and test their ability under heavy fatigue to remove negative thought and focus on the task. And as a former Marine, he's got something nice in store for them. Tia: We're petrified because we're going to go to Senior's place and Tosh is going to take us through this thing that we have no idea. And Tosh just told Katrin that if anyone is late to his event that they are going to die. Tosh: Tonight, we'll do a little experiment with you guys. It's basically a game of Fuck You Up. Katrin: Okay. So we didn't know what we were in for... and Tosh literally tells us that we're playing a game of [explicative] or something like that. That needs to be like bleeped five times. But those are his exact words. Tosh: Nine minutes, exactly, as a team. You're going to leave here on "Go" and you're going to arrive here on "Go" You're going to run a full mile. Sara: And so we met at Rich's house and of course a few people were late and now we had to run two miles because of that. Katrin: He just told us to run a mile. He was like, "I want you guys back in nine minutes." And we get back and he's like, "How do you guys think you did?" And we're like, "Hmm, we're probably a little late." And he's like, "You're right. Do it again." "I'm giving you guys ten minutes." So we have to go again. Tia: And we broke up into two teams. Tosh: Darren, you pick first. We're going boys. You got first pick, just pick a boy and put him on your side of the line.
Darren: Give me Dan. Tosh: Youre going to cross the Riches' field. You're going to go through this field, through the field, through the field. See where them lights are up there? You can see where it gets really dark in a line that's kind of parallel to that slope. Senior's house is on the other side of the Harbaugh Road, just to the left of where you will come out. Darren: Rich was on one team, I was on the other. The first thing when he said. "3, 2, 1...Go!" I said, okay, we're going to follow Rich. Cause he's lived here his whole life and it'd be stupid not to. Heber: Hard to see you right now. Just a floating face.
Rich: I know, right? Face and the shoes. Heber: Probably never heard that before.
Rich: Nope. Not at all. Not once. Tia: And we all set off at the hill through the forest to Senior's house. Katrin: So Rich's house is here. He has like a huge field! And then there's just like a mountain and some woods and somewhere up there, his dad lives. Jen: I'm really just trying not to get my feet wet. We kind of expected to be there all night because—originally—I think Chris wanted us to camp out. So we had no idea. I was just hoping that we'd be done by midnight. Okay, what is this?
[screams] Katrin: It wasn't a bug. It was one of those prickly things. I'm not kidding, it was like ten minutes in and I'm like [screams] Everyone's like, "oh it's going to be a long night." Watch out for the giant turd!
Hey guys! Come on, come on. Come on guys, let's stay together. Good view! Gotta say. Tia: We had to go through a paddock with cows and stuff. Branches everywhere... Katrin: It was like you're all wet. And it probably, in daylight, took us like two hours to get there. Tia: Team A got up there, which was Rich's team, we got up there first. But Team B they followed us up there and then sprinted at the last minute, so they actually won. Why are they wrestling?
We're surviving! Okay? Katrin: And just before we get to Rich's dad's house, our team just jogs to the finish line, so we pass Rich's team. And he was like legit pissed. Like so mad. Tosh: First team here gets first choice for this group. You guys got something different, they get first choice. They were here first. Pays to be a winner, okay? Not my problem! Sara: And then they had set up, like a workout for us. Katrin: So we got first dibs on the workout. And the workout was... you had to finish a certain amount of calories on the bike. We didn't know the calories. We didn't know the time, so we just had to keep working. Tosh: They don't listen, they don't listen. Really clear instructions, I gave it to them twice. They don't listen. And they come up here and they start to have a whole bunch of questions. They create confusion for themselves. And they're doing more work. Tia: And then every time that we have to rotate on the Assault Bike, someone had to swim in Senior's pond. Tosh: Somebody's getting wet! Somebody's getting wet! Tia: Which was—I'm pretty confident—like negative 150º. It was freezing! Sara: I've been doing ocean swimming in Iceland, actually. So I was like, "This is warm!" Then I went into the water and was like, "Oh my gosh, just breathe!" Chris: Go go go! Do not stop! Sara: So me and Dan were swimming at the same time and he jumped into he water before me and I'm like, "Just stay calm. Don't show that it's cold." And then Dan Bailey turns around and he's like hyperventilating. I'm like, "Dan, come on! Just relax, just breathe." He's like, "Sara's calm. I need to be calm, too." Tosh: Time! You fail. You fail. Everybody in the water. Get in the water. Come back out and meet. We'll start the clock back over. Pays to be a winner! Winners are laughing and joking! Losers are saying, "Deal the cards!" Clock is running. Your job is to go back to Rich's. You cannot take the road. Clock is running. Don't be late! Ben said to give you extra attention. To make it hurt real bad. The fact that Ben said to go easy on you means that I'm not. You supposed to be with the team? How come they left without you? [whistles]
Darrenn? Do you have everybody? Do you have everybody? You're missing someone! Come back in and pay! One team said they were ready to go and they took off, but they had somebody back here who didn't have his shoes on yet. So they gotta pay that. Time stopped because Dan Bailey can't do it right. Time's starting. Your butt was too low and you're all twisty-twisty. Let's go down to our elbows!
Okay time, you guys are cleared to leave. Sara: Now we are finding our way back through the woods to Rich's house. We got a little pissed that they "cheated" so on the way down they waited for us until we were finished with our workout because we got a penalty. They should have gone before us and they just waited for us. So we waited too, until they left us and went another direction and we found our direction and we didn't want them to find us, so we just didn't use flashlights. If you're going with us, we don't want the light on... cause they'll follow us. Jen: I heard that Team Rich was like running down. I am cold. Hungry. Come here, I need a light.
Rich is stuck in the barbed wire. Give me a light. Help me out of there. Nice work!
We crushed them! Tosh: You got two minutes. You got two minutes. Grab a sandbag, end of the road. You got ten minutes. If I can recreate moments like that for you so that you can learn more about yourself cause you're not me and I'm not you.I think that's the key. That's winning, man. If you can challenge your brain to reframe how you're looking at things... Every time I invent something, maybe I'm in a bad mood and I invent something bad. I wonder what's going on, this is happening. It's a weak fabrication, but my mind created it. Nice work. Nice work. You can have this. See you guys at Senior's. Don't be late. Rich: Kit-Kat. Anyone want a Kit-Kat? Food? There's some sugar. Tosh: I just gave them 64-plus ounces of chicken noodle soup, and 5 Kit-Kat bars. I mean, you could go for a day on that. Rich: I don't want the other team to see out position.
Heber: How far ahead are we now? Rich: I have no idea. No man left behind.
You all right, Ron? Do you need me to massage your legs? Tosh: Every time I feel myself creating one of those negative fabrications, I say, "Woah woah woah, stop. That's a pure fairy tale." There's no fact that's true. Let me reinvent three more stories—then—that are positive. Sara: I need to pee so bad. Tia: Are you fucking kidding me? That was trees falling. Sara: It's like, "Watch out guys! There might be trees falling!" We're like, "What?" Fucking cold.
You haven't seen anything of the other team, right? Rich: Not yet. They must be dead. Darren: We made a couple wrong turns along the way and sure enough we get all the way down and we realize that we're seeing houses that we don't recognize. And we're seeing a road that we haven't even seen before. We made a group decision to turn around and sure enough we found Tosh creeping around in the woods and showed him how to get back as well. Katrin: Look, everyone keeps asking us what happened. Nothing happened. This went great. We're back! Tosh: Grab the bag. You've got ten-and-a-half minutes to the road and back. Not early, not late. 3, 2, 1...Go! Good job, boys and girls. Tia: We were huddling around this little heater. At that time in our heads we knew we had to probably go back into the pond and the thought of going back in and going back into that icy water... I know Sara and I were just wanting to cry. We seriously were pretty over it and wanted to just make it finish. Rich Sr: Tosh has found the second crew. And they're not here yet. Heber: What were your instructions?
Rich Sr: To get the worm and take it to Rich's house. You want the worm down there through the woods, or down the road? Down the road. Got it. Come on kids. Something in here.
Does that really have to go down? Rich Sr: It needs to go to Rich's house. Let's do it. Let's go! [grunting] Tosh: Two minutes. Get in the back of Rich's truck. Jen: Tosh tells us to get in the back of the truck. Up to Rich's house is a gravel-dirt road. And I creep up in my car. Tosh is flying down this gravel-dirt road. Yes. I've never been so happy to get out of the truck. And walk back. Hi guys!
Go help them with the worm? Sara: When we were walking down with the worm and we see the other team in Rich's car. And then they come out and they're supposed to help us with the worm. All of a sudden, Shane comes in instead of me in the worm and I was like, "Ah, nice. A break." Why's the other team helping us?
Get the other team out of here! There's like, "Sara! Get back in there! That's the other team! Don't listen to them!" I was lik, "Okay." So the other team could not help us with the worm. Jen: Team Rich did not want help. I think they secretly thought if they didn't let us carry the worm down that we were going to have to carry the worm back up. Katrin: You gotta learn how to put things in perspective. Yeah, you're uncomfortable. Yeah, you're cold. Yeah, it's hard. And yeah, you're hungry. But it's like, okay, you're also here. You're with friends. You're supporting them. You're making it through this. This is great training. Out of gas. Katrin: At some point, Rich's dad was like, "I'm out of gas!" Which was a total lie. So we pushed him. We had to prowler push him all the way back. Rich: Good job team. Good job. What do we got next? Tosh: Nice work. You want more? Of course you do. I think we're good. I think if we did anything more it would detract from where we're at. I think if I run my mouth and ruin it with words, we end up with less than what we have right now, so just super impressed. I knew I would be. Great job.
All: Thank you, Tosh! [applause] Katrin: It's good! I was not expecting to be done. I thought we were going either back to the woods or bringing that one back to Senior's house. So I'm ready for some food now. Heber: You count your macros?
Katrin: What? I had a lot of stuff left. I didn't even finish lunch. Sara: What I think I did wrong last year... was stop enjoying myself. And I really can't do well if I'm not enjoying what I am doing. So, of course my goal is to win the CrossFit Games 2017 and I think this is the right way of getting closer to that goal. It's to enjoy and ask myself why do I do this and why do I love this. That's going to help me get more passionate about it and it's going to push me harder. Tia: The past two years have been ups and downs, and it's been so many shocks as well. Like going into 2015 not expecting to place second. Announcer: Where did she come from? Toomey just does that! Tia: And then heading into 2016 just wanting to prove to myself and to the rest of the world that it wasn't a fluke. This year I am confident enough in my abilities and I'm going to go out there 100% to win the CrossFit Games. Katrin: I'm in the best place that I've ever been, this time of year. I feel fit, I feel strong. My head's in a great place. I think the biggest thing that drives me is becoming better. I don't need confidence and like, "I'm going to win the Games." We never even talk about it. But I want confidence that we are doing our best and we are maximizing everything so that when it's game time, you know you're the best you can be. There isn't anything more you could have done. You don't have any regrets. And that's our goal.
A lot of passive aggressiveness from the ladies...
Wait wait wait...that guy put all his bacon in a pot and boils it to cook it? This would save me alot of time and cleaning!!!
Is that it? Did he cover it with a lid? At what heat?
That LOTR reference by Sara made me love her all that much more
Great video overall- training at Mayhem (if she sticks it out through the games) will be the best thing possible for Sara. And for Team Mayhem Freedom. Tia is a beast, is funny, and is cute as all get out. Katrin is Katrin
If you guys don't know Chontoshs exploits: real life superhero
Sigmundsdótturs and toomeys and fronings, Oh my!
shhhh be quiet or else they'll charge us for 37 mins of content...
The session with Tosh looks nuts. And Chris Hinshaw sounds super interesting, keen to see if his advice for Sara pays off!
Am I the only one enthralled by Toomey's butt?
Kit Kats.