Scale As Needed Podcast

1:15 - Armen sees Kyle and Cliff at the gym

3:55 - Armen's thoughts on CompTrain

12:20 - The secret base to the pyramid of athletic development

13:05 - Armen's Physical Career of Athleticism and Exercise

13:50 - Khalipa's background coming into CrossFit, guessing races as a gameshow

18:20 - bringing back Every Second Counts

25:50 - falling into the "I'm going to the Games" trap

30:14 - Cliff's terrible, awful, no good diet advice and the importance of protein

34:17 - Beyond The Whiteboard levels are awesome

42:30 - Behdad Salimi with the heaviest snatch of all time: 220kg/484lb

44:30 - the movie Prisoners, and how Cliff and Kyle fucked this whole this up. ALL OF IT. COMPLETELY RUINED.

48:18 - Passengers and other space ship movies that Kyle and Cliff care about

50:20 - Fantastic Fest and what to expect + Jessica Chastain vs Bryce Dallas Howar

1:04 - South Park season 20

2:21 - ESPN's OJ: Made In America

6:55 - how consuming media has changed recently

8:46 - How'd Cliff do at Rich Froning's epic workout?

14:50 - Armen's shoulder warm up

16:45 - The importance of muscular endurance

18:45 - The 12.2 open Workout video

21:40 - OJ Simpson's terrible jerk and Ivan Drago's awesome clean & press

26:48 - Brian Shaw's 12.8 second 100m row sprint

31:52 - Granite Games: Brooke Ence's team's hang power cleans, Pat Vellner, Marquan Jones

42:12 - Best movie scores and why

50:25 - The Thing

54:55 - Cliff's Arnold training

2:08 - iPhone 7's new features

12:13 - hardest workout we've ever done

17:03 - "maybe CrossFit isn't for you guys"

21:46 - Cliff goes "full Arnold"

25:04 - accessory work: why, how, for who

39:10 - "if you have a limited amount of time to train, how do you focus on weaknesses?"

42:50 - Rich and Mayhem do Heavy Strict Diane

47:01 - products for functional fitness people

53:04 - supplement names should all sound like steroids

59:58 - which MMA star would make the best CrossFitter

1:04:41 - which superhero would make the best CrossFitter

1:11:20 - hardest workouts part deux

1:15:50 - Rich's impossible workout

0:43 - "I think we may have named this thing!"

1:54 - Brooke Wells' booty explodes the internet

4:08 - CrossFit HQ's old school topless pull up photos

10:30 - Brent Fikowski is the most unique CrossFitter ever - his training, his mindset, his full time job, his Games event wins, his nutrition

34:15 - Armen hates The Game

38:38 - Brent's coach/programming - RAW Strength and Conditioning

45:10 - Cliff's use of RP Nutrition templates to achieve his overall fitness goals

56:18 - Cliff's fitness/aesthetic goals

59:22 - Deathstroke is now the villain in Ben Affleck's Batman movie

1:01:15 - Daniel's opinion on Deathstroke

1:03:08 - We all disagree on the X-Men movies

1:06:35 - Bryan Singer is terrible + The Usual Suspects is still pretty good + Superman Returns is also still good

1:08:35 - checking in on Heterobear

0:30 - "I now have reverb"

3:18 - Chad Johnson vs Rich Froning: "show me that dick, bro"

8:34 - 17yo Jeison Lopez snatches 160kg

10:48 - Doping: everywhere and all the time

14:24 - 12 more medalists from Beijing 2008 test positive and eve more doping

27:09 - UFC unionization

28:46 - positive tests in CrossFit and CrossFit's testing process

32:42 - The Force Awakens and Star Wars

53:07 - games athlete with 500lb back squat + sub 5 minute mile

59:15 - decathletes and CrossFit

1:00:10 - Why is weightlifting so important to CrossFit?

1:05:28 - Heppner joins Brute Strength and the possible difference between these programs and coaches

1:14:03 - The Big Fikowski

1:16 - Clifford Joseph Bogart III

2:28 - Kyle's most recent CrossFit milestone and his

9:20 - Kyle's car is in the shop

11:00 - Armen's audio is finally fixed

12:28 - Sausage Party

21:04 - Sam Neill and Event Horizon

24:00 - the Hulk/Thor buddy movie

24:46 - Rio weightlifting, doping, North Koreans, the All Drug Olympics

34:14 - GRID

45:25 - The Lobster

54:18 - Days in The Life with Rich Froning

1:07:15 - CrossFit makes you superhuman

1:08:55 - CrossFit parlance and Neanderthal's CrossFitting

1:12:01 - the weightlifting Google Doodle

1:15 - The Poverhead SquatCast?

3:05 - Talking Fit

4:40 - Suicide Squad was terrible

21:26 - Brooke Wells joins Built By Bergeron

25:37 - Armen's favorite story from the Games

32:11 - "I want to see Alderaan"

33:00 - The Marvel/Star Wars/Everything Multiverse

38:20 - CrossFit Games site tour

38:45 - Real Sports documentary on IOC

45:00 - the article on Tia-Clair Toomey and other dumb articles

50:25 - Russia holds their own Olympics and more of the IOC documentary

55:50 - The Berenstein Bears and why we don't remember anything and coming full circle

1:00:21 - Stranger Things Season 2: The Revenge Of Barb

0:31 - The Podsterior Chaincast + Cliff and Kyle's athletic powers

Armen breaks down the very few pieces of info we have about what the events will be and how many events we'll expect to see as well as why the secrecy around the Games this year is so great.

Armen got a chance to sit down with Margaux Alvarez, Meg Reardon, and Brent Fikowski for individual interviews at the official CrossFit Games hotel in Manhattan Beach.