For the second year in a row, Alison Scudds is captain of the CrossFit Games Demo Team.  What, pray tell, does that mean?  What is it like to test Games events over, and over, and over again?  What does she do during the Games?

We're joined by the Demo Team leader to talk her role in Madison, her competition at the Can West Games, her Born Primitive clothing line, her cats, what the future holds and so much more!

Trevor Kimm is the 96kg USA weightlifting national champion.  He's also a clinician and overall really smart dude.  So we thought he'd be a good guy to sit down with and chat about the rash of positive drug tests in CrossFit so far this season.

Topics we cover in this conversation:

- What does drug testing look like.

- What is USADA and what is Drug Free Sport?

- What are the drugs that people are commonly using in fitness?  What do they do and how long do they stay in your body?

- What does "NSF Certified for Sport" mean when you bud a supplement?

- Why are more and more people testing positive?

The CanWest Games are back this weekend in British Columbia.  Mike McLean is leading the team that's behind the new/relaunched popular brand north of the border.  Mike joins the Funhouse to discuss:

- The process of acquiring the name to the CanWest Games

- Recruiting an incredible athlete roster for this year's competition

- The $100,000 prize purse available

- Mat Fraser programming the event

- Which divisions are competing

- Seminars and workshops for fans

- How to build this event up as a cornerstone CrossFit competition

The conversation with Mike starts at the 7:20 mark.  Joel and Mouse then break down all the events and talk programming on the back half.

Harrison Maurus placed 4th at 81kg in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for weightlifting, the best performance by an American of his size in some 60 years.

On this episode Maurus discusses:

- His Olympic experience

- How the competition broke down

- Training for 2020 ... and then 2021

- How life changed as he advanced in the sport

- Hiking

- Hiking using hiking poles

- Why he decided to retire and what comes next

- Not cutting his hair for his entire career

- Philosophy

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Lexi Neely is one of the huge up and coming crop of young athletes in CrossFit and one of seven female competitors at this year's Atlas Games 21 or younger.  Matt also happens to be Lexi's coach and Lexi happens to coach classes Joel used to take at Three Kings Athletics in Indianapolis, IN.  

In this episode Lexi discusses:

12:08 Becoming a member of the PRVN team

14:10 Competing as an elite individual for the first time

19:00 The youth movement in CrossFit

21:50 What is next for her in competing

23:30 Balancing college and CrossFit

26:15 How she fuels herself for fitness

27:20 Her broken back and how she battled through it

33:00 Winning a heat at the Atlas Games

38:44 Strategy Sesh

And so much more!

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