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Alyssa Royse was at the center of a lot of controversy with her letter to Greg Glassman and his response. In today's episode Ackerman (@thejasonackerman) sits down with Alyssa for a very candid conversation on this topic, as well as rebranding, the state of CrossFit HQ, and how affiliates can be more inclusive. If you haven't already, you can read the emails as well as Alyssa's blog posts here. Many people are calling for Alyssa's head and many feel the same about Coach Glassman. As always on Best Hour of Their Day we try to listen first and be open-minded. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-ackerman/support
Coach Manny was fortunate enough to hop on a call with the CEO and Founder of CrossFit, along with 9 other affiliates in Colorado. He shares his experience talking with Coach and the other owners, and how CrossFit is hoping to change to standard of health in our communities.
Coach Glassman's, "Sickness, Wellness, Fitness Continuum" has never been more relavant. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-ackerman/support
CrossFit has been on the cutting edge of health and fitness since its inception and over the past few years we've seen a really cool shift in the medical community recognizing the benefits CrossFit. Coach Glassman's prescription of eating meats and veggies, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and not sugar and combining that with constantly varied, functional movements, executed at high intensity has millions of people reaping the rewards. Well... the medical community is starting to buy in and CrossFit is helping. Holding Doctor only Level 1's to attack the issue at its core... the doctors office. What if instead of getting prescribed a medication for your chronic illness, the doctor wrote you a prescription to the local CrossFit gym? Well... it's happening. And in this episode of The Coast Range Podcast Coach Wes sits down to take you inside the MDL1 and how these courses may just change the way you view your CrossFit coach and doctors relationship.
It's episode 100 and we have the founder of CrossFit, Coach Greg Glassman on today's show. It was our goal to have Coach Glassman on our show and it was truly in Ackerman's mind, an example of putting something out in the world and making it happen. Thank you so much, for all your support! - We couldn't have done it without you! Don't worry we'll still going strong and got so much more content for you. Be sure to head over to our site, Besthouroftheirday.com to check out our mentor group and the first 50 people to click the link will receive a FREE Best Hour of Their Day t-shirt courtesy of Forever Fierce. Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! Find us on Instagram: @besthouroftheirday + @thejasonackerman Check out our website - besthouroftheirday.com - to learn more about our private coaches development group. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-ackerman/support
In this episode, Fern sits down with Dr Shakha and Dr Scott, who are both involved in the Crossfit Health scene. Dr Scott is an anesthesiologist, Dr Shakha is Coach Glassman’s children paediatrician. They discuss how Crossfit moving forward in the greater community, chronic disease and how to navigate that when it walks into your gym, what really is Glassman problem with Coke- Cola, and how when it comes to chronic disease medicine don’t curse they simply slow down the decay. They dive into how the main site is now more beneficial to us all as trainers and coaches. You may have to listen to this podcast a couple of time theirs so much information about health mark and why they are so important because they are so hard to get a test through your normal Doctors as well. Dr Shakha and Dr Scott open the Warrior Clinic so that you could get this important test done yourself at home to be more in control of your health. Along with we will be hosting a live Q&A with Dr Shakha and Dr Scott, details to follow. Check out the extras about this episode on besthouroftheirday.com Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! Find us on Instagram: @besthouroftheirday + @thejasonackerman Check out our website - besthouroftheirday.com - to learn more about our private coaches development group. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-ackerman/support
Coach Glassman broke it down in a 2004 article, over 10 years before CrossFit Coldwater was even around. Today we discuss what it means to us and how its helped shape what we are doing in the gym every day.
Hollis Molloy has been part of CrossFit from the beginning and is one of only a handful of Certified Level 4 CrossFit Coaches worldwide. He is the co-owner of CrossFit Santa Cruz, and believes that everyone is an athlete, regardless of current ability or past experience. He does not tolerate subpar movement in his classes and works to inspire athletes to become the best possible movers. For Hollis, CrossFit is a way of expressing our true potential as human beings. When not in his gym, he travels the world as a CrossFit Seminar Staff member teaching both the Level 1 and Level 2 Seminars. Kelly has always said that “there are few coaches that are able to effectively blend technical ability, passion, and the capacity to understand and address an athlete's weaknesses as well as Coach Hollis”. In this episode we hear about how Hollis went from an unhealthy weight to taking over the original CrossFit HQ space, and running it successfully for over a decade. For more info on Hollis and CrossFit Santa Cruz, check them out here, or follow them on Instagram and Facebook. People, Organizations, and Coffee mentioned in the episode:[02:50] Hollis’ CrossFit origin story[04:06] Annie Sakamoto[05:24] The Starrett’s visit Beth Dorsey, and go to the original CrossFit gym for the first time[08:12] Hollis decides to take the Level 1 Certification which includes a host of crushing workouts: Tabata Squats, Frelen, Fight Gone Bad, lifting with Coach Burgener, and an hour with Mark Rippetoe[09:28] Play It Again Sports[12:07] Dave Werner 12:34 Hollis’ Business Partner, Laurie Galassi[15:12] How Hollis came to own the original CrossFit[16:25] Greg Amundson[17:20] What would Hollis go back and tell his younger self?[20:09] Coach Glassman’s early articles: What is Fitness?, What is CrossFit?, Foundations[26:00] Hollis’ thoughts on CrossFit’s recent shift back to a more health-centered focus[26:49] Annie Sakamoto, Firebreather[27:24] Stairmaster Gravitron[27:58] Hollis’ current training regimen[30:20] Laurie Galassi[31:39] What’s next for Hollis?[33:40] Coffeetopia, Kelly's favorite Latte in Santa Cruz[33:54] Hollis' Socials
Welcome back to another episode of The NCR Podcast! Today we sit down with our newest coaching addition, Rene. Rene has been around CrossFit since the beginning, from owning one of the first affiliates in Ottawa, to having his L1 given by Coach Glassman himself, Rene offers a unique perspective on the current CrossFit and CrossFit Games landscape from a point of view that only an OG could posses. Enjoy!
Regan Doele boldly posted “We Cure Type 2 Diabetes” on a sign outside his affiliate, Octane CrossFit, in Phoenix, Arizona. CrossFit Founder Greg Glassman is on a mission to enlist doctors, medical professionals and affiliate owners who understand “The Mess." Doele and Octane CrossFit caught Coach Glassman's attention. CrossFit affiliates have and will continue to cure Type 2 Diabetes.
This week on the Brute Strength Podcast, I’m speaking with the CrossFit HQ Director of Training & Certification herself, Nicole Carroll. This was a very unique experience to hear about the remarkable affects CrossFit can have on someone’s life. In this episode we’re going back into the early days of CrossFit as Nicole describes some of her very first classes with Coach Glassman and what it was like giving up her dream of art to eventually becoming a major part of the CrossFit staff. We’ll be getting into the importance of quality and portion control in nutrition, as well as some of the cool ways CrossFit is fighting chronic disease. Enjoy the show. Topics: 02:30 - Forgoing the CrossFit Games 06:30 - Balancing your career & training 09:20 - “My first CrossFit class with Coach Glassman…” 18:55 - Going from Art school to CrossFit 24:55 - Combining the physical, emotional, and psychological 30:17 - Trends in CrossFit programming 36:20 - Nutrition & portion control 39:30 - CrossFit & fighting disease 50:20 - Leadership Links: @nicolecarroll Books: Man Search For Meaning - Frankl Reviews: If you love this podcast please click HERE to leave me a review. It energizes me to keep doing these as well as pushes us higher in the rankings. Thank you all for the support. Follow us on Instagram @brute.strength.
Greg Glassman, the founder of the global fitness company and community movement, CrossFit, Inc., is a true visionary. Not afraid to speak his mind or upset people if that’s what it takes to deliver his message, Glassman is on a quest to end the involvement of “Big Soda” in the health sciences. [Note: For the complete set of show notes, links, and contact info, head to https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/podcast] Wait, back up. Did you even know that PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, Inc. were involved in the world of health sciences? Oh yes — they are. And how are they involved? Pepsi and Coke both provide money to run health programs, initiatives and studies. And because of that, they get to assert their power, creating their own health science target agenda based on corporate fiscal goals, initiatives that get created, what gets studied, who gets hired to conduct studies, which of the studies continue to get funding, and perhaps even which study results get shared and which don’t. When the world is suffering from an obesity crisis caused, in large part, by sugar consumption, doesn’t that seem a little bit strange that the companies who have built their empires on the liquid delivery of sugar are part of the conversation about health? To me, it’s like putting the fox in charge of the hen house — similar to allowing an oil company to influence environmental policy. As it turns out, their ability to continue to effectively sell soda (or other forms of sugar or sweetener-infused drinks) in the face of our ever-worsening chronic disease epidemic has a lot to do with the conversation and policies set forth in Washington, D.C. How does a company whose primary product thrives on the addictive qualities of sugar legitimize being included in the conversation about health? Simple — change the conversation from one about diet and nutrition to one solely about exercise. That’s what Coca-Cola did. They created a program called Exercise Is Medicine. The program’s focus is 100% on exercise, zero on diet. But the reality is, if you’re eating (or drinking) the wrong things, all the exercise in the world isn’t going to help, so leaving nutrition out of the conversation about chronic disease and diabetes is laughable. This is the corporate meddling that Coach Glassman is fighting so hard to eliminate. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did! Here are the highlights: CrossFit’s unique and simple definition of world class fitness in 100 words. How Glassman got pulled into his fight with Big Soda. How pre-hydration and drinking beyond your thirst are not effective hydration strategies. The current major players in the world of chronic disease If you had to choose one, eating right or exercising, which should it be? What is Glassman’s end game? What is the result he’s looking for? The chronic disease that is the linchpin in reversing current trends. The metrics you should use for determining your body’s health and well-being. How to outlaw a methodology. Glassman’s new job and mission at CrossFit, Inc. (no longer CEO) How if you really want to make a difference, sometimes you have to ruffle some feathers. Is it possible that cancer is, in fact, a metabolic disease?