Road to the Games Ep. 17.05: Valenzuela/Bailey

i'm so excited i'm so excited to watch you compete yeah i'm so nervous why are you nervous just i just am you've never been nervous something you didn't care about it's true when is your regional next one next i'm going to weekend so hard i appreciate that did you hear it being yo up uh he blew his peck out what he's out yeah doing what prep like a ring dip yeah ring uh regional down three until event two oh my gosh that sucks you can't even do a push-up oh people are dropping like flies yeah i'm ready to go it's interesting because this year's regional is so different than any other regional we've ever had on the fact that there's no barbell how many shade cups do you have right now one there's nothing i feel like that's really gonna throw a giant wrench in anybody's system you're gonna have to keep moving for a large large part of the workout you're just gonna have to keep the gas pedal down i got a good joke okay that's never a good way to start a joke is it says uh what's the perhaps see look at that i just ruined it with the stutter there oh better it's kind of my whiteboard and you know what i've found is if i don't write things down they don't get done not so much the workouts but it'll just be like pick up a coffee grinder tuesday and then i just start writing things are you showing that again tuesday did dave castro write your notebook what's that the dave castro writing your netflix you guys have similar handwriting dave and i don't have much in common but what we do i cherish [Music] wait what when they were making the announcement for the first workout i was like that's a lady's hand that's not dave's hand i'm like unless he's wearing like a puffy sweatshirt and has very delicate hands i'm like that's a lady's hand i hope it's not his hand because now i'll feel like a dick but that's totally like a lady's hand no it's dave's hand no it's not he's got [Music] feminism lindsay valenzuela i own and i train at automo crossfit in moore park california i've been to the reebok crosstalk games four times and my highest finish was in 2013 i placed second it's come back to her 2017. i had my our son on may 26th of last year actually the first day of our regionals are my regionals uh my son will be turning one years old and i'll be exactly one year postpartum he missed the worst poopy diaper this morning he like pooped in his sleep yeah and there was poop everywhere i was like this is a two-man job there's people on me there's poop on him there's poop all over your pajamas i think he's the cutest little boy ever i might be biased but he's just fun he's definitely his dad like i don't think he looks anything like me he looks just like his dad i knew it i'm just gonna call dave david now on when i'm mad at him david i don't even know if that's his real name um he uh announced the workout last night and i wasn't really the air squats or the air squats i mean we did a lot of stuff with the vest the last few weeks actually so i'm fairly confident in it and i was 60 pounds heavier when i first started training again so that helped yeah you're basically going back to yeah post pregnancy weight yeah they say on average that you know anything from about 20 to 40 pounds is a healthy weight to gain while you're pregnant i unfortunately gained 85 pounds while i was pregnant it wasn't you know because i was eating donuts and ho hoes i wish because that would have been a whole lot more fun they tested me for preeclampsia because that's a big sign of it is a lot of water retention to put it simply i at one point was put on complete bed rest and couldn't even leave the house i mean i could go to the grocery store for with my husband for about 10 20 minutes before i felt just not you know super sick and my feet and my legs started swelling up really bad it was crappy at the time but i i like i said it was worth it and i would do it in a heartbeat again to have my son [Music] i've been doing crossfit competitively since the beginning of 2010. since then i've been to the games five times so you want to talk about pressure on this particular event all the pressure is on this guy right here dan bailey three points out you don't want to accept the fact that you can get beat you know getting beat sucks losing sucks and dan bailey will miss the games for the first time since 2010. what are you gonna do now [Music] i don't want to keep competing and just go to regionals like that's not why i started this i started this to be the fittest man on earth and i want to compete at the games if i'm going to compete and if i'm not making it there then i think it's time for me to move on so how long does it take you're going to figure this out what here we go he struggles with being a mom where's your weekend clearly he doesn't get it from me i've never seen his dad do that changing his diaper did something happen no he just peed mom duty don't put my son's junk out there yet i won't put a jug out there not yet if he wants to do that whatever i'm kidding see this is the only time i cry now i don't cry when i do well in crossfit anymore it's only when i talk about rc yeah so uh i went in we it tried to induce me for about 20 hours and i had so much placenta fluid so so much fluid on my placenta that if i would have waited any longer they said that my placenta would have burst so we would have lost our son so it was supposed to happen that day in that time so you know he comes out you hear he cried immediately and i was like oh crap does this mean he's gonna cry all the time um and uh he got placed on my chest and i'll never forget the way that felt it's like the best best thing that i ever could have asked for replaces everything in life and from that you don't know life from that moment on without your child in your life and that's just every hope and dream and prayer that i ever put out in the universe just came completely true so i'll never forget that even when he gets older and he gets married and has kids i'll be like i remember when you're butt naked on my chest so it was the coolest thing that i've ever had so i knew i wasn't done competing you just can't take it out of my of my blood it's it's forever ingrained in me i think whether i'm crossfitting or i'm crocheting at 90 years old i'm going to be competing in something i remember you know they're like all right let's try a pull-up let's try a strict pull-up no kipping and i couldn't do a pull-up i had to use like two bands two or three bands and i was just like oh crap yeah this is gonna be a lot of work and i just remember sitting in bed sometimes just crying to arsenio my husband thinking like saying i'm never gonna be where i was before aesthetically i'm never gonna lose this weight and you know i would be lying to say if i was like this is i'm just gonna quit i just you know i'm gonna take my time and i'm gonna quit and i'm just gonna do crossfit for fun and own my affiliate and coach from now to when the open was i'm a completely different athlete i feel like every week i've gotten better and every week things have started to make sense again like physically and mentally but i also have um a different why and that why is to make sure that my son knows what women are capable of doing and he's why i bust my my ass every day in the gym [Music] [Applause] for the love of all the tully why aren't you wearing an ohio t-shirt thoughts on lindsay valenzuela how's she gonna do she's gonna crush it she's a fierce competitor i mean i don't know what it's like to come off pregnancy so i can't really speak to that one i'd imagine it's a little bit harder than coming back from like a rolled ankle probably that's a good assumption being a part of what we're doing here we've also got we're measuring for the ring dip standard i can't remember that shoulders back shoulders are too small you can't tell i'm going can't even i can't talk to my friends anymore of course you can of course you can all right this guy intimidates me so much i gotta keep an eye on these guys though uh strap measurement huh how do you think you did how do you think it did yeah you didn't tear my pec so so far so good that's the only thing that i needed we're drill buddies yeah yes did you see my drooling drooling on a muscled up yeah i think it's like a barn thing or something it started there for you right so that's where it started for that again for that yeah for a while i haven't slaughtered for a long time yeah i've never it's the tennessee effect i'm telling you america i already did the huge poop diaper chain this morning and i got him dressed it was like almost coming out of the seams it's all that cornbread he ate last night thanks nana there's a ladybug in there put your shirt on while we get his pictures taken the photographer always says there's a ladybug and he goes there's a ladybug in there smile maybe she'll come out yeah where's your where's the dan bailey entourage there's no damn entourage my parents are here i think they they got in and my brother gets in today at some point so you don't have anyone carrying your luggage and stuff over there no super regionals day one friday the 26th at 10 36 how many if female games athletes do we have total eleven to the games like eight or ten so i feel like our in terms of stacked in terms of depth of how many girls have gone to the games we have a lot i think it'll be a pretty exciting weekend should be this is just icing on the cake it's operator error what what is that it's a little birthday cake for artsy and then we have some presents i wrap presents not yes when did i wrap presents not yesterday what is this after i had rc i couldn't go poop for two weeks and it hurt really bad medication because of the painkillers it hurt really bad i remember sitting on the toilet one calling my mom crying and screaming because i couldn't go it hurt so bad like i thought like someone was stabbing me with like a a hot poker oh my gosh and no i remember this i even remember exactly where i was i was downstairs bathroom i remember everything and rc was outside with arsenio and i remember saying god please just let me go poop this hurts really bad i never thought i'd be praying for that come on we have a case hey can i have one can i have one no the night so on our last video you're riding around with me right yep you stopped at the speedway and you got some energy drinks and you got me some whole milk put that whole milk in my bag and it got left in my bag and it exploded in my bag and all over the back seat and so for like two days i'd open the door the one day and i'm like dang it is bad in here i'm like what is that and i didn't catch on until one of the days i went to open my bag i opened it and just like that's the same smell from my car i'm like what the hell is going on here and i start digging through the bag and sure enough there it is it's the little cord of whole milk warm with the cap burst off you know what that other is thrusters i smell the games it's a small gains yeah i love it it's awesome yeah she's uh she's great especially looking forward to the next year too i mean to see what she's accomplished in this uh eight months right after having you know emergency c-section has been uh pretty awesome to see yeah cool yeah very cool right now i don't think that got out a little nervous they'll start getting real once we start like warming up and getting in the stalls and stuff but i gotta come to you in prayer and god i just ask that you watch over these two amazing women going into this weekend got him that you just give them your warrior spirit and that they go out there and let all their abilities fall out of them and true confidence god and just let everything out on the floor and leave nothing unspoken at the end of the weekend god amen [Music] fireworks [Music] i think those buttons are even hooked up but might not even be hooked up at all you don't even you don't believe in the buttons something i don't believe it i'm just asking the question [Music] is that your same backpack that you're using yeah i washed it i put it through the watch yeah i bet it still stinks no it doesn't that didn't find it for two days no it was bad if you're watching this and you see dan bailey's backpack smell it and tell me if it's steeped damn keep your germs off why are you in i'm running off the floor punching you in the face we're fighting with my one good arm [Music] those of you who don't know dan he is a five-time crossfit games competitor he won the open in 2011 that's common knowledge everybody knows that what do you think about these first two workouts i think they're great i mean it's just classic pure crossfit we're seeing the best for the first time in a regional which i think is really cool [Music] event one is an iteration of murph kind of that's that's probably gonna be the most painful work out of the weekend by far because you can really sell out on the run and still move into a lot of simple body weight movements 2015 i would have seen chest part pull ups and [ __ ] myself really oh yeah i hate chest i hated chest bar i can do all the movements it's just can i do them better than the other girls i did event one today in its entirety and i'm pretty [ __ ] stoked that i did an unbroken even if it's in training because seven months ago i couldn't do a single pull-up i think i'm going to be able to hold my own i've been wearing the vest once a week and it's just it's super unpleasant trying to breathe and do all those movements while wearing an extra 20 pounds on your body definitely makes for an unpleasant experience so it's definitely gonna be the one that probably sucks the most and that you can really put out really hard for the entire duration until you're done you know i think dan's gonna have his work cut out for him he's still a great athlete he's still a great crossfitter obviously but there's so many younger people in the field now that are performing at a as high level as him or even higher i had dinner with him last night and he seems in good in a good space in his head so hopefully that'll help him return to the games this year the 225 what are you doing here i'm gonna hang with my boy every time the show comes up i hear pat pat's boys saying dan bailey bailey that's because this is probably it dave let's be honest whether i go or not this is probably the last go around speaking of big names on the men's side dan bailey started his career at the central east regional he has been in california the past couple years trying to get back to the games after not qualifying in 2016. here he is back in the in the central regional what are his chances of making it back to the games here in 2017. i think they're exceptional [Music] i'm kind of curious how dan bailey is going to do after missing the games by just a few points last year in the california regional lindsey valenzuela making her come back to the individual competition after taking a year off well documented her battle through pregnancy to come back as an individual and i'm really excited to see her in event number one right because we have this 14 pound weight mess that everybody's kind of you know making a little bit of a deal about and she's kind of like 14 pounds i put on 80 plus during my pregnancy so why don't we strap maybe five or six more on and see how everybody else does yeah and listening to pat sherwood he's spoken to dan bailey and he says that bailey has practiced events like this a murph-like event weekly if not almost daily and this is one of those things with lindsay she is she is doing phenomenal right now i know she is probably irritated that she's having [Music] dan bailey meanwhile kind of got lost in the shuffle he wound up in 12th place in the heat you're looking at what's going to have to be a come from behind weekend for both bayley and dancer to get back to the games [Music] and the loudest cheers we've heard since pacelli crossed the finish line was hurt as valenzuela moving in to her final 12 air squats but i think it's very important rather than inspirational for especially women to see the pregnancy doesn't mean you're done pregnancy doesn't mean that like you know you're you're not you can't be a competitor you can't be throwing a competitive yeah you don't have to do that i mean i i think that is important for people to see and she's doing a great job of showing that [Music] i don't know that that's not going to be top 15 that's for sure i know but my goal was top 15 on it i just my pull-ups went like like that after the first four rounds shake it off dude got five more that was embarrassing for me i'm just telling you how i feel so i get it out you're gonna be fine okay long weekend time it's only one i know this is your first time back in two years you know but that was like an hour yeah don't stress about that okay that wasn't a true representation of what i can do that's what like i shoot the bed on that one it's okay i understand the frustration it's fine this is the one event that we were that i was worried about okay and you didn't do bad okay you're fine you're fine i think i'm kind of mean he's like you didn't do bad but he didn't do good yeah what was the goal we started season to make it back here okay and we made it back like i was an out of shape athlete out there which i'm not your first time back on the floor in two years i know i was like now you've been out there you know what it feels like okay i'm gonna get rid of all that [Music] oh start thinking about event two that's it that's what you have left today one more workout not a true representation of like what i've accomplished the first time i did that workout i did it i'm broken i know i'm just voicing everything out so i don't keep it internal competitive athlete gets pregnant has a baby takes a year off a competition comes back and makes it to regionals you're doing fine gotta carry that over into this next event okay like what i'm concerned about like what happens if everybody's that much better than me because i've taken i have to take time off [Music] the greatest songs ever made it doesn't just make you wanna on this day today in 1986 top gun was [Music] released [Music] my body's working overtime sweet jam [Music] we are at crossfit polaris should be good hi i need to fix that so bad that speaker that drives me nuts it's my case i think oh i don't know maybe lifeproof yeah i had no idea that christy was local until 172. as soon as i found out she was local i'm like hey where do you train at we just started talking and she's like yeah i train alone a lot kind of sucks but i'm like oh it's great i train alone a lot you know i forgot i was doing it right yeah that would be faster though that's worked out on and off uh every now and then i'll go up there to train she's come down here a couple times you're gonna push each other really hard like christy's an incredible athlete when you work out with the girls like you're not competing for the same thing like we're not going for the same five spots [Music] it doesn't get old like it literally does not get old just because you're not competing for the same five spots it allows you to be a little more competitive and not get any kind of emotion in there and just kind of compete go hard push yourself get a good training session yeah this is the first thing i did i don't know how much more i don't want to tear a pack let's put it that way last chance for the men today here in albany 3 14 the time to beat expect that to possibly go down christian harris down he's the second or third athlete to drop off those rings it's chase smith who missed the games a year ago by multiple tiebreakers being man that looks terrible unbelievable tim holtz in your event winner matt fraser in second i think it's awful that sucks it's terrible again we're running it back i want to know who made that sound this is a big debate between me and brian like who's the guy on the credits for this song who makes that that noise [Music] i don't want to be the moth around your fire i mean hemingway steinbeck kenny loggins when you have finished recording you may hang up or press one for more options say it was the right time to walk the whole way dreaming takes you nowhere with your message press one ha ha i think this one is a good one for me we're treating it as this is event one but i wish i would have gone a little bit faster in the first one but at the end of the day i'm trying to remember when i started training eight months ago i couldn't do a pull-up so oh we're just stretching the shoulders a little extra stretch make sure we're loose i think this is the all heartthrob division of the uh because i'm going with dan bailey in this one because i think he actually i think he needs a top finish in this particular one is one of those people pat that needs to stomp the cast and chest and triceps good friend of mine e.c one of the best coaches in crossfit she called my arms beef pillows [Music] it's a good name and all eyes are going to be on the man in blue shorts and red shoes and that is dan bailey who's looking to make up some ground look how fast he is on that pole [Music] lindsay valenzuela will be first to step forward this might be something she's looking a bit more forward to a little bit heavier demo she gets to throw around mentally he needs an event like this after that little bit of a setback he mentioned placing 17 and event number one didn't go the way he wanted it to but this one looks like it's shaping up exactly how he wants it to i mean no wasted movement no wasted effort except right there right when i say that [Music] this is still ahead of the event record pace of tim paulson valenzuela is off the rings over in lane number one and she will close it out giving her a top four finish in this third heat damn bailey is gonna have to lay out second and he will just ahead of brian wong everything just started feeling really tight anytime i got deep in the dip 15 i kind of went a little bit shallower and i got no rep a couple times so i started going deeper again and then just it just hurt the whole rest of the way through tristan i was waiting hoping i wasn't gonna like obviously i'm not ending where i want to be on day one but uh i'm kind of bummed but uh it's time to like regroup and how are you feeling after day one i actually feel fantastic about it i mean two points out like fifth and spread from my position to the top spot isn't that that crazy especially with uh you know four events to go right now i'm just wondering if i can do those four events because my pec is not in not in great shape right now like i'm not internally freaking out that i'm sitting what 23rd it's not like a super shitty spot to be in but it's not a really great spot to be in you know i mean i'm disappointed obviously i think that my performance the last my performance the first two workouts doesn't reflect i think where i am athletically i just feel like i've let people down already [Music] just everyone that's invested just as much time as i have if somebody feels let down by your performance then there's somebody that doesn't know what it takes to be in your shoes the sacrifice it takes to there's also somebody that's really not in your corner if they feel that way yeah if they're not willing to be with you maybe they're not willing to be there and i don't think anybody within our circles everybody was just super happy to see you out there again yeah i think i want to say at least 50 of the competitors didn't finish that second workout yeah so and to keep it all in perspective did 50 of those people have a kid and then come back in one year no they didn't it's like i don't want to make that your crutch but it's reality no i don't that's what i think that's a good way to put it like i don't want it to make it my crutch like i think it i don't want to make an excuse although it's like a huge life-changing physical changing thing but i also know what i'm capable of doing does that make sense do you love ohio i love ohio absolutely heart of it all birth place of aviation damn bailey why are you single why am i single it's more of a choice it's been a choice like let's be honest i haven't really put in the groundwork to be having a girlfriend it's been a choice i'm hoping to change that choice i've had plenty of opportunities i just haven't really taken them or capitalized on them what do you mean by the word capitalize i mean like trying to improve the quality of a woman's life to the point where she needs me to stay in it or she is not fulfilled it's your fault i bet yeah i mean yeah it is it's my fault i started my great i've started my period this is like a whole like sexual like like what is it called sex ed class with lindsey valenzuela talking about not being able to poop after having a kid and now i'm talking about periods and everyone's never been well informed about a c-section yeah you're welcome crossfit world uh dm me if you have any personal questions um no i it's hard when for a female like we have so many like i guess like body things that we have to go through as competitors like you guys don't have to go through [ __ ] like i've started my period like in the middle of regionals like during an event like when to go to the bathroom to go pee and i'm like well this is great i'm like texting my mom like you gotta go to save on like what i hate it yeah don't you hate that that seriously that happened oh yeah oh my gosh [Applause] [Music] happy birthday [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay [Applause] [Music] eat it buddy yeah he's like what is this what am i feeling it's like crack whoa put your mouth [Music] he's like am i allowed to keep doing this i don't know if i can do this did you get my card number on there yeah good it's great 4k that's great let's just slow it down it'll be really easy to screen grab that [ __ ] it's just a slow motion i got your address this is sitting right here that's the uh restaurant it's not where you going that's one of those situations where everybody's on the out inside looking out going he can't do it he's not going to push on that door there's no way so that's the rules tonight no talking about events i was not talking about crossfit what other rules are there dan well the rules aren't so much to not talk about crossfit just don't give me advice on how i should approach the events come on dan i want to know their advice see you tomorrow it's best yep what's best you know what's best yeah i mean we'll see how it feels in the morning and then uh obviously warm up tried to get a little treatment before i warmed up and that didn't go well i needed to get the blood flowing a little bit i had a lot of pain when people were poking on it right now i'm having trouble doing simple things like opening doors with my left hand [Music] but then the rope climbs didn't feel good at all right now i think i'm done this morning basically what's going through my mind you know you got one or two options you're gonna be super disappointed if you pull out of the competition don't go back on the floor or if you go out there worst case scenario if i actually tore my pec off or did something like that [Music] right now i'm probably looking at two to three weeks you're just taking it easy on leaving my left arm alone if it gets torn off you're looking at i don't know six months to a year and 45 muscle ups are kind of looming tomorrow with all that i just decided to step out and not risk further injuries yeah i'm disappointed i'm disappointed a little bit that it happened i'm disappointed that i feel like i'm kind of letting fans down people who want to see you compete want to hang out want to chat i want to whatever get pictures again like i said like last year i felt like it was in my control to go and right now i can't control this it happened i hurt myself and i can't stop that i'm so lucky to get to have gotten to have five years at the games it's been a crazy crazy fun journey hopefully it's not over we'll see yeah i've hinted that this was gonna be my last year and i think it would have been if i could have made it through the weekend we'll see i'm not gonna make any decisions today because i'm not really in a good mood to make a decision like that right now whether it's team whether it's individual whether it's taking your off and go masters we'll see [Music] they're actually pretty good it's actually pretty good yeah are they for babies they're like cereal taste it found it three thousand dollars a year for that house probably really good i see what do you think about that 21-15 nine today i think it's uh a really cool feeling to be on the floor and just see like so many people stand and cheering me on that was probably one of the best moments in my crossfit career of like being in heat too and everyone's like ah you know i'm not in the last heat but i've pretty much experienced every situation i think i can possibly experience in crossfit now i'm not scared to lose because i've lost i'm not scared to win because i've won i'm not scared to take time off because i've taken time off and i think that's made me a mature athlete because i've experienced so much in such a short period of time i just i want you know my son to know that women are capable of so much and i think that you know these false expectations that are of women that you know you you can't do everything that we can't handle everything we can't be a mom we can't be a competitor we can't be a business owner it's [ __ ] there's probably more girls in your gym than there are males right and the guys were like yeah that girl just beat me in that workout can you believe that and she did the men's weight like that's [ __ ] awesome and that's cool that the guys in crossfit think that's cool and respect that i want him to know that you know you know you choose to marry a woman and he's happily married to a lady that that she's capable of doing everything and that he can support her just like my husband his dad has supported me through everything and i want arsenio rc to know that women are capable of a lot of things whether it's in crossfit or not that we can hold our own against guys [Music] too i can remember like in november like sitting there like in tears thinking i'm never going to be back in shape like how am i going to even get through the open how i'm going to be ready for the open and i'm 11th at this year's regionals so i surpassed my expectations the competitor side of me definitely wishes i was top five i think that's a legitimate feeling to have but i think i for sure can be top five again [Music] there's only one thing left that i really wanna accomplish and that's now at the minimum is beyond the podium and at the maximum win pr everything else that i've done i want to open i've won two regionals i've won on an invitational team i don't have a whole lot of more things that i want to check off the list other than those two the battle that goes on inside you then is am i good am i satisfied like with what i've done at the crossfit games like is that enough or is it not enough you know there's a part of me where it's not enough and there's a part of me where it's enough [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] you

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Length: 47min 15sec (2835 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 04 2020