Nothing but friends taking the piss out of conspiracy theories, chatting food and keeping nutrition simple and trying to act all pro doing some analysis of the announcements regarding the CrossFit 2021 Season.

Friend of the show and all round top guy Tom "Chalking Fitness" Forder also dropped in to give us some his highlights of the past year. Think positive people: there are always highlights.

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Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson is twice a third place finisher at the CrossFit Games and has been untouchable as the fittest in Iceland for longer than most of us have known about this sport. 

We chat about the Icelandic winter, his new training regimen alongside Sara Sigmundsdottir, reflections on 2020 and all the hopes for a more pandemic lite 2021.

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Megan Lovegrove is based out of CrossFit Forest Flow in England's Lake District. Google both of those places and then get jealous.

As well as calling one of the most picturesque places on earth home, she is the UK's reigning Female National Champion in CrossFit and already has one Games appearance on a team with JST under her belt. Check out the chat and give us a follow and a push over at @fuelwhatmatters.

Roman Khrennikov will surely one day podium at the CrossFit Games, all he needs to do is get there. Although he has finished 5th in Dubai and won the Italian Showdown last year, he is yet to gain a Visa to enter the good old U S of A in time for the Games. Roman is a humble, honest guy. Enjoy his story.

Emelye Dwyer is a fierce competitor and role model to the UK CrossFit scene. Join this podcast for her opinionated take on training, mental health and the power of targeted coaching as well as her strong views on diversity of representation. Powerful stuff all round.

Snorri is a marketing man, a manager and a friend to the athletes he looks after in the sphere of CrossFit. Just listening to this podcast for an hour, you will get a sense over the airwaves of his warm brand of loyalty and business acumen. We talk the season just gone, some of the unfair comments aimed at Sara Sigmundsdottir in the wake of her performance at the 2020 Games; the rising star of Roman Khrennikov and what makes BKG a home bird and a superstar at the same time. We also finally unlock the code regarding why Iceland is the perfect breeding ground for elite CrossFitters.

Bethany Shadburne has only been competing in CrossFit since 2015, but is already a top 10 Games finisher, current champion of the South Fit Sanctional held in Argentina and is about to move to Las Vegas to train with Kari Pearce full time. As well as this, she is a superb role model for the sport and has a wonderful outlook on competition, training and life. This will brighten your day.

Elliot Simmonds is one of the UK's top CrossFit athletes. As a team athlete, Elliot podiumed with CrossFit Yas in 2016 and followed this up with two impressive individual appearances, including a top 20 finish in 2019. We caught up with Elliot ahead of his move back to the UK with a view to training full time ahead of the 2021 Games.

Athletic Brewing Company are a beer company on a simple mission - to bring the masses no alcohol beers with unbeatable taste. They are succeeding in this mission!! On this episode. founder and CEO and Bill Shufelt joins us to talk about his company, what drove him to start Athletic Brewing and even joins James and I in a taste test of three of the superb brews that Athletic offer.

Will Kane is one of the best known names in UK CrossFit, has a heart of gold and is hilarious. If you need any other reasons to listen, well, he's competed at several CrossFit "Sanctionals" and before that multiple times in one of the toughest "Regionals" in the world and is about to embark on a new adventure as owner of Blueprint Training's new facility, which promises to be Worcester's newest and biggest CrossFit facility and will most likely serve to be a blueprint for other CrossFit facilities in the UK. Don't miss this episode!