Scale As Needed Podcast

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0:01 - subscribe to ArmenHammerTV! 1:37 - Some Athleticism Neglected! 3:00 - purposefully ignoring actual fitness talk 4:40 - bodyweight strict presses: super tough. 14:28 - rucking: Kyle and Cliff do it. 21:30 - “if you’re gonna die with a backpack full of literature, what literature would you pick?” 23:19 - Fourth of July! And growing up in Texas 28:50 - a very long Nicolas Cage circle: Con Air to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Leaving Las Vegas to Mandy to Ghostrider 2 to Face/Off 39:00 - John Woo circle: Broken Arrow, Face/Off, MI:2 40:44 - the evolution of action movies over time 1:00:06 - Bethany Shadburne prefers “Bethany” over “Beth” and an in-depth discussion on the acoustics of “Bethany” vs “Beth” 1:07:23 - Reebok will require athletes to wear only what is provided to them at the Games 1:14:26 - ….almost.

0:04 - SARMs Are Needed 1:01 - we changed locations! 2:02 - three athletes tested positive at Regionals 8:23 - Chase keeps working out for some reason and literally salting your wounds on your torn hands 18:12 - the reason why most of our audience is men (“you can fuck a meat pocket”) 19:45 - #FitBeth! 26:05 - Kyle’s sad/crazy Alex Jones story 29:06 - Michael Shannon as a sad rodeo clown, Viggo Mortensen, 34:20 - Kyle and Armen’s travels 35:50 - T*rkish delight and the history between Armenians and T*rks 38:08 - Armen hung out with Sean Sweeney for a few days! 48:24 - Kyle’s epic saga of getting way too high and watching 2001: A Space Odyssey 59:35 - the reason why Armen doesn’t do edibles in public anymore 1:04:26 - Cliff’s “I got super high and lost my car in a parking lot” story

0:01 - SHAVE A NERD! 1:00 - special delivery interruption time! 2:17 - Armen’s mullet 6:30 - the long lasting pain of childhood humiliation 14:58 - Magic cards, the Black Lotus, Armen’s weird dream 22:10 - Cliff’s awesome idea to make CrossFit Games events way more exciting 27:15 - Armen’s other weird dream 29:10 - The Fittest Beth, #FitBeth 30:58 - CrossFit is suing Reebok, Rogue vs Eleiko barbells, and who might be the new title sponsor at the Games 49:00 - Dan Bailey’s recovery is going better than Kyle’s did, are these knee injuries from plyometrics?

00:38 - subscribe to ArmenHammerTV 03:30 - Russell Berger was fired 26:11 - Klokov and Trump? 32:15 - Tough Mudder X 41:12 - Existenz, The Blog, body horror movies and more

0:03 - WE ARE BACK! 2:10 - “60% of this show is no longer employed at FloSports” 19:30 - Armen and Chase have seen each other every day since getting fired 21:24 - What’s next? 29:15 - Chase competed at Regionals! 40:27 - Regional performances breakdown 1:03:10 - Deadpool 2!

2:35 - 2018 Regionals Day 1 events: Triple 3 and Linda 27:10 - Kyle and Cliff visited Dallas recently 30:52 - Thor wins World’s Strongest Man 40:49 - Westworld sucks 41:35 - Andre The Giant

The entirety of this episode is Avengers: Infinity War

1:00 - Kyle is back and he looks more like Jesus than ever 5:00 - pierce tongues and other weirdness 6:10 - Sam Briggs broke her elbow 12:50 - the Masters competition 21:40 - John Cena cleans 352 and deadlifts 500 for 3! 24:30 - Kyle was at Overlook Film Festival 29:15 - Chase’s Regional training update 37:40 - does the pursuit of fitness eventually outweigh the benefits? 59:15 - Venom trailer is terrible 1:03:44 - Infinity War!

1:00 - no Kyle today, and the Cliff Arm, and the Cliff Farm 19:10 - Chase’s Regionals training and the Whoop Strap 36:29 - Brooke Wells CrossFit HQ 18.4 controversy 46:50 - Armen’s vlog Chasing Fitness

0:35 - the 1997 film “Thinner” 3:30 - nutrition is the worst 6:30 - “the toughest thing is not eating exceptionally shitty” 8:50 - The Big Poop Talk and the strangeness of shame 25:25 - Chase’s Regionals training and the team competition 34:00 - new ways to make Regionals event more interesting 40:00 - outrageous regionals workouts from 2012 42:00 - Matt Chan’s exploded leg 46:45 - how to build an engine

1:55 -“ Margaret Thatcher is not a centaur” 3:00 - AI can generate faces, voices, videos  of pretty much anyone doing and saying anything 4:18 - deepfake, pornography, and technology changing behavior 11:00 - Pornhub is changing the world, Kyle’s prediction for the future of porn and mainstream fame, what it was like when porn first started streaming on the internet, and why Kyle follows pornstars on instagram 30:34 - Chase is going to Regionals! 39:30 - Dan Bailey’s knee explosion is exactly what happened to Kyle 51:10 - Armen will row 1,000,000 meters in 2018 52:40 - Is it part of being a CrossFitter to start hating other CrossFitters at some point? 58:36 - you should be able to very easily do the type of training necessary to actually meet your goals 1:12:09 - Ready Player One 1:30:30 - Westworld season 2

Armen, Cliff, Kyle, Chase, and Daniel chat about the 2018 CrossFit Gmaes Open and review "Redeemed And Dominant" the new CrossFit Games commercial/film.

1:20 - Jacob Heppner will not be competing at Regionals 2018 and the new handstand push up standard 13:50 - CrossFit’s MO has always been “fuck you, deal with it” and their reddit account 20:30 - Armen’s 18.4 29:15 - 18.5 guesses 34:20 - Chase got poisoned 38:00 - Armen and Kyle’s story about Chase’s butt 41:57 - The CrossFit Podcast needs some help 53:00 - We need Gore4Ever on the show and weird DMs 1:03:00 - Infinity War!

1:10 - the unexplored reaches of fitness: butthole weights 3:20 - what would you ask Dave Castro? 5:50 - 18.3! 16:50 - being a CrossFit Clydesdale 26:06 - two people finished 18.3, Dakota Rager and Josh Bridges 30:20 - 18.4 announcement and the 18.3 companion announcement that didn’t happen 35:40 - Kyle goes on a Stargate and The Crying Game tangent, the animaniacs, and more ridiculousness

2:00 - marilyn manson has gotta have a punch at this point 5:10 - trent reznor is pretty jacked though 7:40 - if you train regularly you’re probably hungry all the time 9:40 - Vice is the worst 12:10 - the guys take on 18.2 and 18.2a 23:20 - ZA Anderson 26:25 - Lil Xan is a real thing 36:00 - Chris Pritchard is my favorite CrossFit Games Open athlete 47:00 - Dakota puts together timely photoshops for the crew 48:30 - Thor deadlifts a World Record on the Elephant Bar and Ray Williams sets a new raw squat World Record 51:09 - Dan Bailey out of the CrossFit Games again 53:20 - Armen vs Iceland

1:40 - Chase Long is the Fittest on Scale As Needed and a full 18.1 breakdown for Armen, Cliff, Jannis, and Chase 11:10 - Chase’s first and second shots at 18.1 were very dramatic 20:00 - 18.1 leaderboard lessons: northern Europe, Alex Vigneault, Kara Webb, Brent Fikowski 32:08 - 18.2 clues? 35:30 - our YouTube videos are getting some ridiculous and amazing comments 51:40 - Fikowski’s Open humiliation crushes Travis Williams in 18.1 54:30 - Black Panther 1:13:30 - “Do my nipples offend you?”

1:10 - Armen got a haircut! 14:10 - roasting Chase’s instagram 20:55 - The 2018 CrossFit Games Open kicks off 28:40 - Armen doesn’t understand movie phrases, Kyle and Cliff explain Pulp Fiction 42:40 - Mathew Fraser is ready for 18.1 44:50 - Eddie Hall vs Robert Oberst 49:20 - Fikowski’s trash talk Thursdays 54:00 - Harrison Maurus clean & jerked 200kg

The guys talk about Valentine's Day, Thor's 1003lb deadlift, Ray Williams' 1003lb squat double, John Cena's 2000lb super total challenge, the 2017 Games Documentary, and more!

1:00 - Cliff’s dick symbolism 3:14 - Armen’s a fan of Tom Brady and Bill Belichik 11:20 - Chase’s “Fitter Bowl 2018” experiment was a huge hit 15:02 - Wearing a tiny wrestling singlet to a weightlifting meet 19:15 - fitness inflation 21:15 - Jason Khalipa’s 2010 Amanda fails and old school CF Games workouts 30:03 - Greg Glassman’s original ‘How Fit Are You” article 45:40 - The new Deadpool teaser, Solo looks terrible, and the show runners of Game of Thrones have a series of Star Wars movies to ruin

0:20 - Croth-Fit 2:45 - training after the holidays is still tough 4:00 - 1 million Gucci Gangs 6:50 - there’s something inside of us which drives us to love things like CrossFit, or rap, or cataloging Metal 10:38 - Chase’s hip hop band names 13:00 - the Gucci Gang 1000m 15:49 - what would you repeat a million times? 19:45 - Angelo Dicicco vs the Universe 24:30 - Mat Fraser is Doomsday? 30:45 - Let’s play “What’s Chase” 34:20 - accidentally stealing things… 36:08 - Scott Tenorman Must Die 37:38 - the Super Bowl exists and so did someone called Lil Peep 46:40 - The Rock 47:40 - The Oscar nominations including chats about The Shape Of Water and Phantom Thread 1:01:20 - There Will Be Blood

1:10 - fitness is eggs, eggs is fitness 1:30 - Kyle is European Jesus, ChristFit 9:28 - Worst CrossFit gym names 11:20 - fiction movies with nonfiction-esque epilogues and curtain calls 12:30 - Predator as a parable for the danger of women destroying fraternal relationships 17:30 - Sam Briggs used to be overweight! 20:45 - it’s tough to get back into the gym after time off for the holidays 29:00 - training with Bethany Shadburne 40:00 - 18.0 and what it means for the 2018 Open 44:13 - wacky special CrossFit movements like Dan Bailey’s Turbo Pull Ups 49:30 - Rich Froning does a lot of cardio and drinks a lot of chocolate milk 57:00 - 250 5 star reviews = CHRISTFIT

0:30 - We’re back! 3:10 - this time last year… 5:30 - Whirlwind trips to Iceland and Miami: Into The Heart Of Darkness 28:50 - Born Strong and Functional Fitness on Netflix 30:45 - Wodapalooza was pretty cool! 39:40 - Mattie Rogers may end up getting a silver medal from Worlds 41:55 - Ilya Ilyin’s ban is up in June 2018 49:20 - New potential formats for weightlifting 56:54 - Armen Met Stef Cohen 1:02:45 - Rich Froning has spent his entire career beating his training partners, Froning vs Fraser in competition, the Froning/Fraser head games

On this special episode of Scale As Needed, Armen, Kyle, Cliff, and Daniel spend the entire episode breaking down their thoughts on the newest Star Wars movie The Last Jedi. This episode is entirely full of spoilers, so you've been warned!

The boys are back from hiatus to discuss the 2017 IWF World Championships, Justice League, and more!

Armen got his blue belt, the introduction of Paulo Silva, the insanity of Danny Nichols' 10 minute Assault Bike performance, Friday the 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street, and we forgot about Justice League.

In this episode, the guys talk about earning efficiency in workouts, what to do in the worst poop disaster possible, and Thor Ragnarok!

Armen tells the harrowing tale of his DNF at the Austin Half Ironman!

3:20 - Stefi Cohen’s insane deadlift 525lb at 123lb bodyweight, Cailer Woolam’s deadlifts 7:35 - the escalation of feats of strength 24:10 - armen’s half ironman 33:40 - 30lb wall ball suck 39:40 - David Fincher’s Mindhunter

0:15 - everyone is pissed 1:50 - Armen hung out with Jacob Heppner and it was awesome 24:15 - "Cliff, why did you move?" 38:04 - Blade Runner 2049 spoilers and discussion  56:05 - There will be a new Terminator trilogy for some reason  

2:30 - Daniel and Cliff are having an issue 4:15 - the fleshlight detour 7:27 - Justin Bergh responds to the Ricky Garard news 10:46 - Harvey Weinstein jerked off into a potted plant 11:50 - terrible movies like “The Mummy” 16:20 - Eddie Hall addresses the WSM “controversy” with Thor 25:20 - 80s superheroes were all on steroids 31:00 - The Tork Mile! 49:44 - reviewsssss! 58:20 - Rick and Morty season finale

Ricky Garard Tests Positive At The CrossFit Games

Fantastic Fest, Mat Fraser may move to Cookeville, and Rick and Morty "The ABC's of Beth"

Armen recaps his wedding and the guys discuss the most recent Rick and Morty!

the gang gets together to talk about the 2017 Granite Games, Parenthood, It, and more!

00:37 - exercising yourself into death and hunger 2:10 - Cliff is super salty 3:19 - Kyle fasts for 36 hours and gains super powers 16:55 - Kyle’s cheat day goes terribly wrong 41:50 - Colin Trevorrow removed from Star Wars Episode IX 48:00 - Dunkirk is a terrible excuse for a movie

0:47 - Kyle’s cheat meal guide aka “My Fatness Pal” 13:40 - Keto ice cream 15:45 - the deaths of Dallas McCarver and Rich Piana 21:30 - McGregor vs Mayweather 32:55 - the Game of Thrones season finale 55:49 - Rick and Morty is still awesome 1:04:19 - torque mile update 1:05:24 - Help Houston

0:30 - Cliff is pissed today and he wants to get his head shot into space 9:08 - “mythical porn in the woods aka woodsporn” 13:35 - being a teenager now in the age of smartphones and the internet and “what kind of adult is produced by that kind of a child” 15:15 - technology and the constant stream of information is changing the way people think and behave, the democratization of learning, trying to fix your internal biases 53:38 - Game of Thrones, season 7, episode 6

0:30 - “They had a second CrossFit Games!” + Castro dunk tank 3:16 - 17.5 vs 17.5++ (the payoff here sucks, seriously) + but mainly about printers 10:30 - Elias Wheeler has won the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games Pick ‘Em!!! 15:58 - Chippy the new Gym Coordinator has invaded our sacred space at the gym + the open gym model for functional fitness might now be a thing 43:04 - Game of Thrones season 7 episode 5 1:00:07 - Rick and Morty season 3 episode 4 + Rick and Morty fan theories

1:20 - Armen Is In The Cheese State 1:35 - Cheese Curds In Madison? 7:00 - Someone Actually Listened To Our Reebok Pick ‘Em Advice… And They’re In 2nd Place! 8:04 - Alaska Doesn’t Have Whole Foods 10:05 - Armen Recaps The New Games Venue 14:45 - Castro Knows How To Build Races 17:09 - About That Women’s Final 23:23 - Why Tia Should Have Won In 2015 #FakeNews 24:56 - Katrin’s Phenomenal 2nd Half & Weaknesses 26:00 - Decreasing Margin Of Error & How The Games Are Different Now 28:47 - Fikowski Smells Like Sandalwood & Maple Syrup 34:12 - Madison Was A Good Move? Solid Programming 51:00 - Rich Froning Is Pissed 56:30 - Mat Fraser's Post Win Interview 1:06:00 - Ricky Garard Crushing Ass 1:13:45 - Iceland Annie and Armen Is a Liar 1:25:00 - PICKLE RICK 1:32:30 - Game Of Thrones Steps It Up

1:51 - SAN 1 year anniversary 3:21 - Kyle has never flipped a tire, avoiding competing in stupid non-competition at the gym, keeping a healthy mindset, being the big fish in a little pond 25:40 - 2017 CrossFit Games thoughts, James Moser snatches 175kg/385lb, Team USA did well at Pan Ams, and why differences in weightlifting methodology aren’t as important as you might think 41:30 - Rick and Morty might be the best show on television right now 50:45 - Game of Thrones season three episode 3 was terrible 1:09:55 - Armen’s picks for the Games Champs are Fikowski and Toomey

0:30 - Cliff’s BCAAs are all about Rich Piana 5% life 1:45 - Cliff is doing intermittent fasting too, Kyle and Cliff have lost a ton of weight, and are having no fun 18:10 - The 2017 CrossFit Games start next week and positive doping tests 40:33 - the known CrossFit Games events at this point 50:25 - trailers for Thor3 , Stranger Things 2, Ready Player One 1:07:20 - Games Of Thrones season 7, episode 2

1:00 - Abraham Lincoln was secret gay 2:50 - Thoughts on Fittest on Earth: A Decade of Fitness 23:49 - Armen’s Suggestion to CrossFit 26:05 - 2014 Games documentary 36:25 - Kyle’s Kneeiversary 38:08 - Reebok Pick Em 41:49 - The Shape Of Water & Peter Jackson is sorry about the Hobbit movies 48:40 - The Disaster Artist 51:00 - The new Blade Runner trailer is really pretty & Kyle watched Enemy. 59:05 - Ridley Scott is a crazy old man 1:02:00 - Game Of Thrones is back

00:40 - Booger Fingers 1:28 - Rogue vs Again Faster Tahoe Throwdown deep dive 11:00 - what CrossFit was like (I remember when…) 17:00 - Cliff and Kyle used to be depressingly poor 24:20 - When Armen first started CrossFitting 35:25 - Chase started CrossFitting at a time when Rich Froning wasn’t the Champ 39:00 - “there was a time when CrossFit wasn’t weightlifting” 49:00 - fitness and aesthetics used to be unattainable by “normal” people

0:00 - MCT Oil - Milk Of The Poppy 2:30 - Hafthor Bjornnson is mad 3:30 - The Accountant 2 5:12 - Front squat PR’s are in the air 9:35 - Wes Kitts dick cleans 13:45 - How to achieve peak T 15:50 - The fundamentals of a good fitness program… Powders & Pills 21:05 - Cliff’s weight update proof that supplements work 22:35 - The end of Scale As Needed 23:40 - Ben Smith’s Dad vs. Brent Fikowski 28:05 - Dave Castro announces the first announced event of the 2017 Games 33:30 - Adam Richards poetry 35:15 - Twin Peaks 40:00 - Tahoe Throwdown is way too long 50:45 - Reviews

Chatting about how Regionals will be different in 2018, keto, and the CrossFit Rogue vs Again Faster Tahoe Throwdown Episode 1

2:04 - IWF Junior Worlds updates 4:00 - Egypt’s doping issues and why it matter for everyone 10:00 - More IWF Junior Worlds updates 12:25 - Cliff and Kyle’s keto is going great and the three electrolytes you need FOR SURE 24:40 - Bethany Branham climbs a swinging pegboard + the Games 33:22 - Star Wars Han Solo movie loses its directors 43:54 - The Book of Henry SUCKS 55:07 - Watchmen the HBO series by Damon Lindelhof, Justice League, Game of Thrones, REVIEWSSSS

Dimitar Savatinov's 143kg/315lb world record dumbbell press, Tazio Il Biondo does 70 one handed pull ups in one 43 minute set, Eddie Hall might enter weightlifting and more.

Recapping the 2017 CrossFit Games Regionals, Heavyweights, the ketogenic diet, and more!

1:00 - Murph and Chase is dying 3:40 - Cliff vs Kyle on 30 muscle ups for time 5:50 - Keto + Clark Burkle 11:00 - repeating last week’s jokes re: pec tears 13:30 - The Dark Crystal sequel and remaking everything all the time 17:45 - the Spiderman Homecoming poster + more movie talk 25:30 - Eddie Hall wins World’s Strongest Man + WSM controversies 39:10 - Donald Trump Jr’s Murph 45:10 - Heavyweights, the Ben Stiller Movie 50:30 - Armen learns about Black Mirror 55:10 - Rick and Morty + Futurama 1:06:45 - Valerie Voboril 1:13:00 - REVIEWSSSS

Join us on this episode where we recap Weekend 1 of the 2017 CrossFit Games Regionals, talk about tearing pecs, Sam Dancer, Liefia Ingalls: Strong Woman documentary, Game of Thrones and more!