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This week the boys sat down for a chat about athlete skill development.

They looked at it from a coaches standpoint on how to build progressions and get athletes to make small, but consistent improvements over time and they also gave some tips to athletes that don’t have a coach and need to figure out how to get better at a movement that is holding them back.

This episode is filled with A TON of knowledge that Dave has accumulated from climbing the competitive CrossFit ladder over the last 5 years and Danny did an amazing job of pulling it all out of him with very specific and pointed questions about how to build the skills necessary to be elite in our sport.

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This week the boys sat down for a chat about being a motivating coach and making personal connections with your athletes. This episode also involved us having a few beers, telling some hilarious stories and all kinds of weird background noises from airplanes, trains and Dave's neighbors because they recorded it in his garage, so hopefully you’ll laugh as much as they did.

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This week the boys went old school and sat down for a chat, just the two of them.

As many of you know, Danny is addicted to becoming more mobile aka flexible and although Dave isn't as big of a fanatic as Danny is, he's spent more than his fair share of time, especially while competing in CrossFit, stretching, smashing and rolling to keep his body happy and healthy.

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This week the boys got to interview Dave's coach for the last 4 years, Kyle Ruth of Training Think Tank.

Kyle is one super smart dude that, as you’ll learn in this episode, became obsessed with how the human body works and how to drive the performance of athletes at age 15 when he had his first experience with high level athletics after qualifying for junior nationals in swimming.

He swam throughout college at The University of Indiana where he got his bachelor of science in Exercise Physiology and followed it up with a Master’s of Applied Sport Science, which unbeknownst to him at the time would lead perfectly into being a Remote Coach for high level athletes in CrossFit and other sports all over the world.

He’s a 4-time CrossFit Regional Individual competitor as well and he works out of the Training Think Tank headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

They dove deep into all kinds of stuff in this episode from remote coaching, the Training Think Tank educational series, some training and mental tips that Kyle has seen help push his athletes over the edge or take the next step, some other training secrets that he usually only gives to paying clients, haha, and just had some good old fashioned conversation about life, CrossFit and this year’s Open and upcoming Regionals.

This week the boys got to interview the woman behind one of the most influential nutrition companies in the CrossFit space.

Her name is Adee Cazayoux and she is the founder and CEO of Working Against Gravity, a 1-on-1 nutrition service that helps individuals develop positive relationships with food by removing the guilt surrounding their eating habits.

There are no gimmicks, no meal plans, no restrictions, just finding what works for you through patience, education and a little hard work.

We had a ton of fun chatting with her about her background, how working against gravity works, some solid nutrition advice for individuals looking to clean up their eating and track their intake, and a bunch of other fun stuff about business, life and just plain being awesome.

You can find out more info at workingagainstgravity.com or on their Instagram at @workingagainstgravity

You can find Adee Cazayoux in Instagram at @adeecazayoux

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This week Danny and Dave got to interview one of the guys behind Wodapalooza and the man behind the mic on the floor of the CrossFit Games.

His name is Dylan Malitsky and his weekday, year round, job is helping to plan the biggest independent CrossFit event in the world, Wodapalooza Miami.

And if that wasn’t cool enough, his 10-15 weekends a year job is to be the MC on the floor of some of the other enormous CrossFit events throughout the country, most notably, calling the individual athlete events at The 2017 CrossFit Games in Madison.

In this episode we chat about how Dylan found CrossFit, he’s got a few very well known high level CrossFitters as best friends from college who all happened to find the sport by introducing each other to it, how he stumbled into doing live event announcing, what he does for Wodapalooza and some cool stuff they’ve got in the works, and what it’s really like to be on the floor of The CrossFit Games with a mic in hand and everyone listening

This week Danny and Dave got to interview the co-owner of Float Station.

His name is Ryan Ariko and he and his wife, Katie, are the founders of a sensory deprivation float tank business in Campbell, California.

In this episode we chat about the history of floating, some of the benefits of floating that have been medically proven and what makes it the perfect escape from distractions, gravity and stress from our busy and hectic lives.

They like to say that Float Station is a place where you can get away without going away.

You can find out more info at floatstation.com or on their Instagram at @floatstation

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This week Danny and Dave got to interview the man behind an up and coming macro tracking app called MacrosFirst.

His name is Jacob Bockelmann and he’s a product manager by day and a olympic weightlifter by night.

He got turned on to the Renaissance Periodization or RP Strength Diet a few years ago and found that trying to figure out how much of each food to eat to hit his correct macros for each meal was such a nightmare he was determined to find a better way.

An Entrepreneurial spirit, some well timed jury duty that gave him some time with paper and pen instead of at his desk working on someone else’s product, this built up frustration with how hard it was to eat correctly, and the determination to fix his own problem and help other people at the same time led him to build MacrosFirst.

In this episode we chat about nutrition, weightlifting, marconutrient counting, silicon valley, building an app and a bunch of other fun stuff, so it’s a very well rounded and fun hour.

You can find on Instagram at @macrosfirst

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This week we experimented with going live on Instagram and answering listeners questions.

We chatted about The Open, our personal experiences, what we enjoyed and what we loved seeing from our athletes.

We also shot the shit a little and had some good laughs about all kinds of nonsense, like usual.

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This week Dave & Danny got to interview the boys from Lean Feast

Their names are Eric & Bennie and they’re two of the hardest working people we’ve ever met in our lives. About 3 years ago Eric started a meal prep company out of the back of a nightclub he DJ’d at. A year later, he was so busy that he NEEDED his friend Bennie to help, so he hired him. Fast forward another year and the boys have a retail chipotle style clean eating store that is an absolute hit, they’re working on a line of bottles sauces and marinades, they’re own brand of spices, and franchising Lean Feast for future expansion. And the funny and cool part is, the motivation behind all of this is to change people’s lives and make them healthier, NOT the money that has come with it. I can honestly say this is the best episode we’ve filmed yet. So good that you might want to listen to it two or three times.

You can find them on Instagram at @lean_feast

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