1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm doing something I've never done before, 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: an episode repost, but with really good reason because Tia 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: Clear to me is crowned once again crossfits fittest Woman 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: on Earth. Wow, what an amazing weekend watching her performance. 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 1: I'm so excited for her, and so I felt like 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: it was only appropriate to repost her episode from earlier 7 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: this year. I'm going to keep this intro short, but 8 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: if you don't know anything about CrossFit or Tia Claire, 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 1: she is the three time now fittest woman on Earth. 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: She's from Australia and the craziest thing about her is 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: that she went from pretty much not working out at 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: all to in a very short amount of time being 13 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: such an excellent, outrageously fantastic I can't say enough good 14 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: adjectives here. 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Let's get to hurdling. 33 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: Today. 34 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here with Tia Claire. To me, she is 35 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: the fittest woman on earth. Does that ever get old? 36 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 3: No? No, it's every time someone says that, it's still 37 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 3: something that's like, oh wow, that's really cool. 38 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy that CrossFit came up with that 39 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: for like the title of the person that wins the 40 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: CrossFit Games. Okay, so I feel like there's a little 41 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: background to provide here for my listener. Tia is an 42 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: excellent crossfitter and in CrossFit. Every year there are the 43 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: CrossFit Games and they take place over the summer months, 44 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: and when you come in first place, you win this 45 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: superstellar title. Yeah, the Fittest woman on Earth. 46 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. 47 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, it's rad. 48 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: There's also the fittest man on Earth. But I today 49 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: am lucky enough to be sitting with this lady. So 50 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: before we get going here, I want to like do 51 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 1: like some baseball cards stats. 52 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, let's do some max left stats dead. 53 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 3: Left four point fifteen I believe, which was at the 54 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 3: games heavier squat. You would think that I actually would 55 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 3: know these like off by heart, but the amount of 56 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 3: times I actually try and work up to like a 57 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 3: one RM is very rarely. 58 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: R M and CrossFit speakers rep max. 59 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 3: Yes, rep max PB sorry personal best. I think it 60 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 3: was around the one sixty kilograms, so I don't know 61 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: what that is in pounds. 62 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: I should probably just have opened up a conversion trying. Yes, yeah, okay, 63 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: what about snatch? 64 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 3: We got a squat snatch, but or a power snatch 65 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 3: just to be precise, No, so my snatch would be 66 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 3: two or five I think in pounds. 67 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I'm like randomly. 68 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 3: Pulling out these numbers, but I'm not even sure if 69 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 3: they're the right one. 70 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 2: You're doing excellent pull ups. 71 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 3: Sixty five. 72 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 2: They need to update the CrossFit website. Oh really, ta's fifty. 73 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 3: Wow. 74 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: And okay, last thing, how fast can you spread four 75 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: hundred meters? 76 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 3: I think I'd like to say around the one minute. 77 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: Wow. And that's a quarter of a mile for you 78 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 2: guys at home. That's pretty incredible. Okay. So those are 79 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: just some benchmarks for being this fit. 80 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I try. So. 81 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 2: You won the CrossFit Games this past year. 82 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: You've been competing as a CrossFit athlete now for four years. 83 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, how's that been. 84 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 3: It's been a whirlwind. It was something that I never 85 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 3: even expected or anticipated. I got into CrossFit purely just 86 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 3: to build my fitness for a different sport, and at 87 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 3: the time that was track and field. And when I 88 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 3: started CrossFit, you know, I really enjoyed the challenge is 89 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 3: it provided every training session and the community and camaraderie 90 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 3: that it provided. But I never thought that I would 91 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 3: be competing on a world stage and also being the 92 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 3: best in the world, which is just mind blowing. 93 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. 94 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: I mean every time we say this, I kind of 95 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: like get chills talking about it. Okay, so let's rewind 96 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: it back. So you said track and field. Did you 97 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,119 Speaker 1: grow up being really athletic back at home? 98 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, so every day I would be doing a different sport. 99 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 3: Mom and Dad they were very encouraging in, you know, 100 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 3: taking me after school to different types of training sessions. 101 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 3: So I would do tennis. I would play netball, which 102 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 3: is a more of the Commonwealth countries know what netball is. 103 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 3: I would play football nippers there was a Nippers is 104 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 3: like a surf life saving kind of sport that we 105 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 3: have back home in Australia, which is a lot of fun. 106 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 3: What else did I do? I did swimming, cross country? 107 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 2: Wow, everything I did. 108 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 3: So much, like if there was a sport that I 109 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 3: could get involved in, Like mom and Dad were very 110 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 3: supportive and you know, had me there every day. So 111 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 3: like that was something that I think made me who 112 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 3: I am today, and that's why I'm so sporty and 113 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 3: very competitive. 114 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. 115 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: I mean, and growing up with this much love for athleticism. 116 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: You know, when I was younger, I dreamed of being 117 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: a journalist, which man like talk about some like I 118 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: could have dreamed to be so many things, but I 119 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: dreamed of moving to New York and writing articles like 120 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: I do. Now, were you dreaming of becoming this stellar athlete? 121 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 3: I do? Remember when when you grow up, all you 122 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 3: think is like the pinnacle oh of our you know, 123 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 3: the sporting careers is going to the Olympics, or you 124 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 3: know in certain sports, it may be like the World 125 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 3: Championships in specific sports. I know that the Olympics isn't 126 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 3: the pinnacle for every single sport. But for me, like, 127 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 3: I was really focused on running and I was good 128 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 3: at it, and my dad helped train me and take 129 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 3: my training to another level, which was also very special 130 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 3: because it was, you know, something that we could do together. 131 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 3: And I was like, well, the pinnacle of that would 132 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 3: be going to the Olympics. So I want to go 133 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 3: to the Olympics for eight or four hundred meter hurdles. 134 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 3: So that was something that I grew up dreaming about. 135 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 3: And it like, I mean, I look back and think, well, 136 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 3: it's not crazy to have these dreams, Like it's actually 137 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 3: pretty incredible. 138 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 2: I think, what's even more crazy about this? Now? 139 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: In retrospect is that you have been to the Olympics, 140 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: but not for tree. So talk to tell me just 141 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: a little bit about that. 142 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 3: As I got older and school became a little more important, 143 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 3: I had to make sure that, you know, I was 144 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 3: getting the right grades because I needed to focus on that, 145 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 3: you know, building that career and getting the right op 146 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 3: which is you know, you need a specific score in 147 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 3: order to get into a university degree back home in Australia. 148 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 3: And so for me, that was definitely a high priority 149 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 3: because my mum and dad put a lot of money 150 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 3: into my secondary. 151 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 2: School and. 152 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 3: Through that I kind of put my sporting interests on 153 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 3: a whold. I still did them, but I wasn't fully 154 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 3: involved because I wanted to really focus on, you know, 155 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 3: getting the right grades in secondary school, and so that 156 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 3: dream of going to the Olympics, as much as I 157 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 3: still wanted to do that, I kind of felt like 158 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 3: it just wasn't going to happen because I knew how 159 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 3: much work you needed to do in order to go there. 160 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 3: But I also was being thinking and kind of hearing 161 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 3: from other people like no, you know, you need to 162 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 3: go out and get a good career and create an 163 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 3: income for yourself so you can support yourself, and this 164 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 3: is the right way of going and getting a university degree. 165 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 3: And so that's what I thought was probably the best 166 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 3: decision to take, And that's no one's fault, it's just 167 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 3: that that's in my eyes, I was like, that's probably 168 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 3: the better option, Whereas my passion for the Olympics is 169 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 3: probably like I just didn't see it, you know, earning 170 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 3: me the income that I needed to live a long 171 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: and successful life. And so I just left that on 172 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 3: the back burner and went to UNI and kind of 173 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 3: fell into a bit of a rut and didn't really exercise, 174 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 3: didn't do anything. 175 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: To be honest, when you say a little bit of 176 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: a rut, like what did that entail? 177 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 3: Well, I actually was at boarding school and when I 178 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 3: went to university, I moved away from my family to 179 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 3: go to this university in Brisbane, which it was like 180 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 3: one of the major universities, and I had to obviously 181 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 3: really focus on studying and everything. But I just didn't 182 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 3: pick the right degree for me. So my interest and 183 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 3: passion just wasn't there. And I think that when your 184 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 3: heart isn't fully in something, you kind of do it 185 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 3: half hearted and then you find all these excuses on 186 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 3: why you don't want to study for that exam or 187 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 3: you don't want to put in the hard work, and 188 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 3: you get that a plus on your assignment. And for me, 189 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 3: I actually just started eating rubbish food. I wasn't healthy. 190 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 3: I mean, I wasn't exercising, so I wasn't stimulating the 191 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 3: brain as well, and I just watched TV. So really 192 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 3: I was just getting into the slump of just being 193 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 3: such a homebody and not really socializing with the people 194 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 3: that I loved being around and also doing the things 195 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 3: that I really enjoyed and made me the person I am. 196 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 3: So I definitely change and I kind of felt like 197 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 3: I was just wasting life. And I don't ever want 198 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 3: to have a go at other people because that may 199 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 3: be certain things that they want to do in their life, 200 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 3: but for me personally, that's just not who I was. 201 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 3: I was always someone that was outdoors, very active, and 202 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 3: very social with my friends and family, and I just 203 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 3: wasn't being like that. So that was something that I 204 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 3: looked back at and think, oh, wow, like that was interesting. 205 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 3: I didn't realize it at the time, but now I 206 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 3: can see just how much that affected me. Where I 207 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 3: wasn't following what I wanted to do, and I was 208 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 3: doing what I thought was the right decision. 209 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: How did you even go about pulling yourself out of 210 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: that rut? Because I'm assuming you had to spend a 211 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: certain amount of time or you were supposed to anyway, 212 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 1: I spend a certain amount of time going through the 213 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: motions of taking all these courses. 214 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I definitely didn't want to waste the money 215 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 3: that we were spending. And when I say we, my 216 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,079 Speaker 3: parents were helping me support that, so I didn't want 217 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,439 Speaker 3: to waste their money. But when it came to the 218 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 3: six month mark, every month, like you would, you know, 219 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 3: put on a certain like take on another subject or whatever, 220 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 3: and I was like no, no, no, like when it 221 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 3: gets hard, like don't just give up. So I wrote 222 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 3: it out for another like six months, and then I 223 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 3: still felt like I just wasn't enjoying it and I 224 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 3: was wasting my parents' money, really, and so I put 225 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 3: it on hold so that, you know, maybe in five 226 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 3: years time, when I've kind of grown up a little 227 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 3: bit and I know what i want to do and 228 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 3: I'm maybe more motivated and I'm in a better headspace, 229 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 3: I can come back and revisit that, and that wasn't 230 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 3: that six months wasn't a waste. But you know, I 231 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 3: can just put that on hold and go on, just 232 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,719 Speaker 3: try and figure out, you know, who I am as 233 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 3: a person as well, because I just graduated from school, 234 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 3: you know, a young adult that had no idea what 235 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 3: she wanted to do with her life. And you know, 236 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 3: I'm also trying to figure out who I was as 237 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 3: a person as well. 238 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: I think it's tough because even you know in America, 239 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: when you get to college at eighteen and they say 240 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: to you, all right, right now, you have to pick 241 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: what you think you're going to do for the rest 242 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: of your life, and there's so much pressure on that, 243 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: so much pressure and what like pleases any eighteen year 244 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 1: old in to be like, I know exactly what I 245 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: want to do when I'm thirty seven. 246 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 3: But like some kids do, which is amazing, yeah, but 247 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 3: the people that don't. I mean, for me, I didn't 248 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 3: know what I wanted to do, and so I was like, man, 249 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 3: am I am I not doing it right? Like is 250 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 3: there something wrong with me? Because personally I was like, 251 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 3: everyone has everything together and they know what they want 252 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 3: to do, but like I just don't want to make 253 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 3: the bad choice, but you have to kind of live 254 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 3: and learn. And obviously, as life goes on, you kind 255 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 3: of learn that and you realize that, hey, this may 256 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 3: not go as planned, but what if it actually does, 257 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 3: Like what if it goes, you know, above and beyond 258 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 3: your expectations and takes you to a whole nother world 259 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 3: And that I guess that's what happened with CrossFit. 260 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 2: Right, Okay, So you do you move back home? 261 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 3: I never moved back home, So I actually I moved 262 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 3: out of home in grade ten and I went to 263 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 3: boarding school for my last two years just because where 264 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 3: we lived it was a lot more rural, so, you know, 265 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 3: to make sure that I was getting that good education, 266 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 3: Mom and dads sent me to a boarding school and 267 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 3: then from there I went to UNI, but I stayed 268 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 3: in Brisbane for the university degrees and from there. That's 269 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 3: Shane and I, who's my husband at the time. He 270 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 3: was my boyfriend. We'd been dating since high school and 271 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 3: he was working on the other side of the country 272 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 3: in Western Australia, so he decided to leave his job 273 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 3: and actually get relocated to a different place on the 274 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 3: east coast of Australia in a town called Gladstone, and 275 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 3: so we moved. I deferred university in Brisbane and we 276 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 3: both moved our house up to Gladstone. And then it 277 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 3: wasn't that's pretty much like I don't look at it 278 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 3: as like I was running away from my problems, but 279 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 3: it was a different opportunity. And I looked at that 280 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 3: is like, okay, like this is going to be a 281 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 3: fresh start. I can just try and figure out who 282 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 3: I am and what I want to do. And as well, 283 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 3: you know, Shane and I we get to actually live 284 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 3: together and stop doing long distance, which is obviously really nice. 285 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 3: At the time, I actually got a job as a 286 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 3: dental assistant. I did that for about eighteen months, and 287 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 3: I really enjoyed that because I do enjoy the health industry. 288 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 3: So that was very different. 289 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 2: What a random I know, it was so. 290 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 3: So random, so you know, I know about so many 291 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 3: people's teeth. But then like that just still wasn't fulfilling. 292 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 3: But in that time I actually started running and I 293 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 3: started being a lot more energetic and I kind of 294 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 3: starting to get my mojo back a little bit. But 295 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 3: then I decided that hey, you know, like I'm I 296 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 3: really want to make some money so that Shane and 297 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 3: I can go traveling more regularly. And he was working 298 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 3: for a mining company called Rio Tinto and there was 299 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 3: a job coming up in the lab and so I 300 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 3: actually applied for that, and due to my personality, I 301 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 3: got that job, which was just I couldn't believe it actually, 302 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 3: because there was a lot of people with so much 303 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 3: experience in the lab that was going for that job. 304 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 3: And for me, for someone that's never had any experience 305 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 3: in the laboratory in a major company, I was like, wow, Like, man, 306 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 3: I must have had done a good interview, you know, 307 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 3: So that was interesting. I was like, all right, well, 308 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 3: you know, like I'm starting to build something here and 309 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 3: I'm starting to kind of get out of my right 310 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 3: a little bit. I'm eventually going to be earning a 311 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 3: decent amount of money. I'm in a secure job, and 312 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 3: Shane and I we can save up and maybe go 313 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 3: traveling a little bit more. And who knows where this 314 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:03,120 Speaker 3: you know, laboratory job is going to take me. And 315 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 3: so in that time I started realizing that I wanted 316 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 3: to take up track a little bit more as well. 317 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,239 Speaker 3: So I needed to build my fitness because that was 318 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 3: like two years off the track, and I'd put on 319 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 3: a little bit of weight and I definitely wasn't as 320 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 3: fit as what I was, So I was like, I 321 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 3: need to build my fitness. And Shane at the time 322 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 3: was playing football and he was going to this CrossFit 323 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 3: gym in the preseason and was like, Hey, I think 324 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 3: s Tea would like this, and was like, hey, like 325 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 3: you should really come to one of the classes here 326 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 3: because I think that this training at this gym would 327 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 3: really help and benefit your track training. So I was like, 328 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 3: all right, I don't give it a go. 329 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: I was going to ask were you at all resistant 330 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 1: to that? I feel like sometimes, especially when you're a runner, 331 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: you just love running, yeah, and someone's like, let's go 332 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: lift these weights, and you're like, do we have to? 333 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 3: I've always a pre shated the variety of what swimming 334 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 3: can do to my fitness to benefit my running, what 335 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 3: a bit of weight training can do to build that 336 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 3: power to help with my speed and running. So I 337 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 3: wasn't I wasn't opposed to the idea, but I definitely 338 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 3: was how did that little bit of an ego like Hey, 339 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 3: I'm already fit and you know, like whatever you guys 340 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 3: are doing there like I can do that? 341 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: What about lifting heavyweights? And I think that's just another thing. 342 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: I mean talk about things that as you're the fittest 343 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 1: woman on earth, like things that a lot of women 344 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: stand back from are like going anywhere near wheat plates 345 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: or even like thinking that they should be in that arena. 346 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 3: Well, I'm a person that if someone says I can't 347 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 3: do it, like, I'm going to prove to them that 348 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 3: I can. It was an interesting thing because the day 349 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 3: that I went there and did my first class, I 350 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 3: did not like the coach and I walked out of 351 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 3: the class like, nuh, this is just not for me. 352 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 3: I enjoyed it, but I just didn't like how the 353 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 3: coach directed and didn't allow me. It was actually hands 354 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 3: stand push ups, and I was like, I will go 355 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 3: upside down and try that because I've never ever seen 356 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 3: that before, but he wouldn't allow that. And obviously, now 357 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 3: after understanding you know, the skill and everything that's required 358 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 3: for that, I appreciate what he was trying to do. 359 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 3: But no, I had an ego back then where I 360 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 3: thought that because I run track, I was fit enough 361 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 3: and I was very capable of it that Yeah, I 362 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 3: just had that nah, Like I don't need. 363 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 2: This, so why do you go back? 364 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 3: Well, I kind of felt obligated because the owner of 365 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,679 Speaker 3: the gym, he was a very nice person and we 366 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 3: would bump into him at this local grocery store and 367 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 3: he'd be like, oh, hey, Tea, you know, when are 368 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 3: you coming back to the gym? And I was always like, ah, soon, mate, 369 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 3: you know, it was awkward. So it was like the 370 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 3: third time we bumped into him, I was like, man, 371 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 3: I keep telling him that I'm going to come back, 372 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 3: and I just have to bite the bullet and do it. 373 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 3: And I'd already used up my like one free trial, 374 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 3: so I had to sign up for like a month, 375 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 3: and so I obviously, like I put money into that 376 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 3: and I wasn't going to waste that. So I would 377 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 3: go twice a day. Oh wow, Yeah, I know, because 378 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 3: because of my job, it was a shift work, so 379 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 3: I had five days of work and then five days off. 380 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 3: So on those five days off, like I would just 381 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 3: train all the time. It was just because it was 382 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 3: so enjoyable, you know, Like I mean I could run 383 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 3: with my dogs as well. Like there was just I 384 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 3: could just do so much. And yeah, I was really 385 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,439 Speaker 3: utilizing that whole month, and by the end of it, 386 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, this is so much fun, and 387 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 3: like I've created so many friends through this, So that 388 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 3: was definitely something that I was like, wow, like I'm 389 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 3: so pleased that I came back to this. But I 390 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 3: never had any intention to compete in CrossFit. I didn't 391 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,239 Speaker 3: even know there was a thing called CrossFit games. And 392 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 3: I mean I was light. I could do the body 393 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 3: weight movements well, but it was always like very strict. 394 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,120 Speaker 3: So you know, the burpies they're a little more there's 395 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 3: a motion to the burpies. Mine were always very strict. 396 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 3: The pull ups they had this kipping style. Mine were 397 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 3: always strict. And I found it very hard to I guess, 398 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 3: pick up on the momentum or using momentum throughout these 399 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 3: movements through CrossFit, because in my head I was like, no, 400 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 3: that's cheating, Like you have to do it strict because 401 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 3: that's just the way it goes, and these people are cheating. 402 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 3: But by the end of it, I realized we'll hang 403 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,199 Speaker 3: on like these guys are doing workouts with like a 404 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 3: hundred pull ups, like they have to create momentum, and 405 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 3: you know, like it was just all like all these 406 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 3: things were going in my head that like I was 407 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 3: kind of fighting how much I loved it, but like 408 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 3: still not allowing it to break through and be like 409 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 3: no tear, just embrace it and just go with the flow. 410 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: And I think what's so great that you pointed out 411 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: about CrossFit is obviously that amount of camaraderie. Yeah, it's 412 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: something that keeps everyone from newbies to you know, people 413 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: of your caliber walking into the box, which is what 414 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: crossfitters call the gym day in and day out. I mean, 415 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: obviously you're still doing it. What is this six years later? 416 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 2: Now? 417 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, it will be. It will be six years, which 418 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 3: is crazy because a few months had passed and as 419 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 3: I was getting into CrossFit, like weightlifting was a huge 420 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 3: weakness of mine, like I could never wrap my head 421 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 3: around a snatch and a clean and jerk, and that 422 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 3: was something that Shane and I we wanted to improve 423 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 3: on and kind of just understand the movement more. And 424 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 3: once we started getting along that journey and realizing that 425 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 3: the Olympics was a potential opportunity, like I just thought, Okay, 426 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 3: I'm just going to be in it for a year 427 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 3: or two and then that's it. 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It's 447 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: Athleticgreens dot com slash Hurdle. 448 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:30,719 Speaker 2: Let's get back to it. 449 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: I think, what's so insane, And I know we hinted 450 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: at this before, but we haven't really dove into the 451 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: fact that you went to the Olympics is that you 452 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: had a point where that wasn't even something that was 453 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: on your radar, and you had a point where you 454 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: were total beginner. And so many people every day don't 455 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: even start something because they're like, well, I've never done 456 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: it before. 457 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. Like so there has been commentators that have said, oh, 458 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 3: she's a weightlifter doing CrossFit. You know, she's gone to 459 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,880 Speaker 3: the Olympics and done all this. I was like, no, 460 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 3: I'm actually a cross for crossfitter doing weightlifting. And because 461 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 3: if it wasn't for CrossFit, I would never have picked 462 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 3: up weightlifting. And I know this sounds a little corny, 463 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 3: but I kind of felt like weightlifting chose or picked me. 464 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 3: And then you know, my dream of going to the 465 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 3: Olympics was fulfilled. Yes, it wasn't fulfilled through the track 466 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 3: that I thought it was going to be, but I 467 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 3: wasn't going to pass up an opportunity to go to 468 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 3: the Olympics. So of course I was going to dive 469 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 3: in and put all my like work into weightlifting. 470 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 1: What year did you go to the Olympics twenty sixteen, 471 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen and you had come in second place that 472 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: year in the CrossFit Games? 473 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 2: Yes, wow, Yeah, it's a lot of work. 474 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 3: It wasn't It was two weeks apart from each other. 475 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 3: That was pretty full on. 476 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, did you've I feel like the Games were good 477 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: prep for the Olympics. 478 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 3: I did. I don't think that they there was any 479 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 3: jeopardization or whatever between the two. The hard part was 480 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,199 Speaker 3: actually getting into the Olympics and being the one, like 481 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 3: the only one from Australia to represent you know, Australia 482 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 3: at the Olympics for weightlifting. There was myself and then 483 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 3: a male from Australia because we only had one spot 484 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 3: you know for males and for females. And just getting 485 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 3: to that spot that was what was so rewarding. And 486 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 3: being at the Olympics was it was just fun and 487 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 3: it was just like wow, like this is incredible. But 488 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 3: the CrossFit Games it was so different. Like I was 489 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,199 Speaker 3: going into see if I could, you know, back up 490 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,479 Speaker 3: my performance from the year before, because that was it 491 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 3: was just so shocking, Like I know, it surprised the world, 492 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 3: but it surprised me too because I had no intention 493 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 3: of podiuming at the CrossFit Games. I was just so 494 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 3: happy to be there. 495 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: What was it like the first time that you competed 496 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: in the CrossFit Open and made it to the Games? 497 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: And when I ask you that, I'd love it if 498 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,360 Speaker 1: you could just touch briefly on how that whole process 499 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: works for someone who doesn't know. 500 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 3: So currently, it's actually a little different. But a few 501 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 3: years ago, well actually last year and prior to that, 502 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 3: there is a procedure to make it to the CrossFit Game, 503 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 3: So you have to go through at the start of 504 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 3: the year, from the last week of February through to 505 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 3: the end of March, you go through a five week 506 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 3: online qualifier called the CrossFit Open, and anyone in the 507 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 3: world can sign up online and do it. Every week 508 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 3: there is a different workout and you have all weekend 509 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 3: to do the workout as many times as you want, 510 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 3: and then on Monday you get to upload it and 511 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 3: you get put on a leaderboard depending on which region 512 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 3: you are. So at the time I was in the 513 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 3: Pacific region, which was Australia, New Zealand and Asia. You 514 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 3: had to make the top thirty in that region to 515 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 3: go to regionals, which was held in May, and there 516 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 3: was you know, a number of regions all over the world. 517 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,239 Speaker 3: So there was one in Europe and there was a 518 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 3: handful in the US, and you would go to this 519 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 3: regionals and try and get into the top five in 520 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 3: order to make it to the CrossFit Games. And then 521 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 3: there was forty men and forty females that competed at 522 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 3: the cross for Games in August. So there was like, 523 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 3: you know, a few procedures that you had to go 524 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 3: through in order to qualify. But that's what created the. 525 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 2: Journey, I guess, yeah, so like you're qualified. 526 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 3: I qualified. So when I started the Open in twenty fifteen, 527 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 3: the year prior, I went to regionals and I did 528 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 3: not enjoy my experience. I enjoyed competing, but I just 529 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 3: wasn't happy when I was there. I didn't enjoy the 530 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 3: camaraderie between the competitors. And I know that that sounds 531 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 3: a bit crazy, you know, and a lot of people 532 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 3: they don't go to compete and create friends, but this 533 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 3: was different. I just didn't enjoy it as much as 534 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 3: what I thought I had because CrossFit for me was 535 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 3: just it was so much about being behind each other 536 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 3: and you know, just trying to be a better version 537 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 3: of yourself, and I just didn't feel that right, so 538 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 3: I had no intention of pursuing a CrossFit competitive career. 539 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: It still blows my mind because like just to go 540 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: back to this idea, like I never thought I would 541 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: be a professional weightlifter, Like I never thought I was 542 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: going to like CrossFit. I didn't like CrossFit for this 543 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: time and this time in this time, and like to 544 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: still be at this point. To stick with something like 545 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,080 Speaker 1: it shows so much compassion for how you treat yourself, 546 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 1: like being willing to give it so many tries. 547 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 3: But I think it's also got a lot to do 548 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 3: with the people that I surround myself with. So the 549 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 3: team that I have, my friends, my family, my husband 550 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 3: Shane who's my coach, and we literally do this as 551 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 3: our profession now that if it wasn't for them, like 552 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 3: I wouldn't be where I am today, and having their 553 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 3: support has obviously made that journey so much more enjoyable. 554 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 3: So we owned the gym. We actually ended up buying 555 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 3: the gym that I started CrossFit in. I left my 556 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 3: laboratory job and it was halfway through the twenty fifteen 557 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 3: open that I was in the middle of fifteen point three, 558 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 3: that's what it was called. Middle of that workout. And 559 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 3: I finished that workout and I walked out to Shane 560 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 3: and I was like, Shane, We're going to the Games. 561 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 3: It was like this flick of a switch that happened. 562 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 3: I don't even know what it was, but it was 563 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 3: like this hunger that I was like, nah, I'm not 564 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 3: going to give up yet, like I'm actually going to 565 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 3: go and give it a go. And I, you know, 566 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 3: went to Regionals, came third, secured my spot to the Games, 567 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 3: and I was just like, I done it, Like this 568 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 3: is awesome. Like I it was. I just had a 569 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 3: different approach to it, and I didn't worry about what 570 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 3: other people were doing. I was just solely focused on 571 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 3: myself and giving my absolute best to that. And then 572 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,719 Speaker 3: getting to the Games was like, man, this is amazing, 573 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 3: Like I just want to be a part of this experience. 574 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 3: And yeah, that's the same thing that happened with the 575 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 3: Olympics for sure. 576 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think, also, what is so great here? 577 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: Not to spoil anything, it's public knowledge, but you show 578 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 1: up in twenty fifteen and you come in second. 579 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 3: I know, I know I did tell me we actually 580 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 3: the girls and I were talking about this earlier today, 581 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 3: and we're laughing about certain things, like there was this 582 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 3: workout that we kind of all got a little dehydrated in, 583 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 3: and you know, it was just one of those things 584 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,719 Speaker 3: that like obviously at the time you just kind of 585 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 3: like whoa, Like that was really hard. That was very brutal. 586 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 3: But now we're laughing about it, you know, and I'm 587 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 3: hanging around my competitors, you know, just reminiscing, but we 588 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 3: actually were laughing. Like I remember during that workout, I 589 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 3: was like, who is this lady? Like tear clear to me? 590 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 3: What I've never heard her before. I was like, I know, 591 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 3: I was amazed too. 592 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: I remember I was at the Games that year and 593 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 1: just like watching everyone run through that sheet. 594 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty hard. 595 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 2: It's pretty hard. 596 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I enjoyed it. I mean not at the time, 597 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 3: definitely not. But I look back and I'm like, well, 598 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 3: that that's what it was about, you know, the unknown 599 00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 3: and unknowable. That's we signed up for this. So yeah, 600 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 3: I enjoyed every moment of it. 601 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: And then you came back in twenty sixteen, you came 602 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: back in twenty seventeen, Yeah, and everything changes in twenty seventeen, 603 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: it did. 604 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 3: It was something about the twenty sixteen games that throughout, 605 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 3: like throughout my whole journey, even when I was younger, 606 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 3: like competing at in CrossFit and all my you know, 607 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 3: sporting events back back in school, I just was so 608 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 3: happy to be involved in a very competitive environment, so 609 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 3: like winning was not a priority for me, and I 610 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 3: never looked at it. I never looked at, you know, 611 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,360 Speaker 3: wanting to compete for a particular placing. It was to 612 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 3: be a part of that and just to push myself 613 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,839 Speaker 3: as best as what I could, and the same I 614 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,280 Speaker 3: went in with the same mentality for the twenty fifteen 615 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 3: twenty sixteen games because it was so new. I woul 616 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 3: I was just so happy to be there. And then 617 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 3: when I came second again, it just felt different to 618 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 3: the first time, Like there was tears in both years. 619 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,600 Speaker 3: Twenty fifteen I was so ecstatic. I was like, oh 620 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,359 Speaker 3: my gosh, like did this happen or am I like 621 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 3: dreaming right now? Like what happened? Like surely they've stuffed 622 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,359 Speaker 3: something up with the scoring because I was not meant 623 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 3: to be second. And then twenty sixteen I came second again, 624 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 3: and I mean that's that's no easy fee Like it 625 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 3: was very I'm very proud of it, but it was 626 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 3: just something like it just didn't sit right, and I 627 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 3: was actually really broken, Like I felt like I hadn't 628 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 3: done my absolute best. If I if I could, like 629 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 3: I could stand on that podium in second place knowing 630 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:56,840 Speaker 3: I'd done my absolute best, I would have been so 631 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 3: proud of it. But knowing if I look back throughout 632 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 3: at like my events on that weekend, and I knew 633 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 3: that there was certain places that I just gave points away, 634 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,280 Speaker 3: or I'd just given up, or you know, I stopped 635 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 3: at one particular moment to have a rest when I 636 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 3: should have just kept going. I knew deep down that 637 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,880 Speaker 3: it wasn't my absolute best, so I wasn't happy, and 638 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,560 Speaker 3: then that stuck with me for the rest of the season, 639 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 3: and I just I just went for in twenty seventeen 640 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 3: and then came first, and I mean that win was 641 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,280 Speaker 3: just It's something that like Shane and I hold really 642 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 3: deeply and true to our hearts. So it was It's 643 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 3: pretty cool to look back and kind of see that 644 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,880 Speaker 3: because at the time you don't realize. 645 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 2: It right when you're in the thick of air. 646 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:51,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, I also think it's just the most remarkable thing 647 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,280 Speaker 1: to be able to go to the Games and place 648 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 1: like you have so many times in a row. Like 649 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 1: you said, you broke it down how it has been 650 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 1: in year's past that anyone in the world can sign 651 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: up for the CrossFit Open and then they go through 652 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,800 Speaker 1: the Open and they qualify for Regionals, and then you 653 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,799 Speaker 1: go from Regionals and you go to the Games, and. 654 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 2: Four years in a row you were in the top 655 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:16,680 Speaker 2: two spots. 656 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 3: I know, it's been pretty incredible. 657 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, when you think about what goes hand in hand 658 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,440 Speaker 1: with this title, I mean obviously great sponsors like Rebok. 659 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 1: Do you still pinch yourself sometimes that this is all happening? 660 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:30,160 Speaker 3: Oh? 661 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. 662 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:35,759 Speaker 3: In twenty fifteen, I approached who is now a very 663 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,920 Speaker 3: dear friend of mine, Andreas. He works for Rebook in Australia, 664 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 3: and I approached him through an email. I was like, hi, Andres, 665 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 3: my name's Tia. You know, I just I'm starting to 666 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 3: do CrossFit and going and representing the Australia at the 667 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,280 Speaker 3: CrossFit Games for my very first year. I was wondering 668 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 3: if you know, I could get a few shoes and 669 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,839 Speaker 3: clothes from Rebook and you know, He's like, oh, like, 670 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 3: I just love how she just kind of emailed me 671 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 3: and he all of a sudden, I was sponsored by 672 00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 3: Rebok and I was like, oh, oh my gosh, so 673 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 3: you're telling me I get free clothing. Now. I was 674 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 3: just over the moon. But the fact that rebook had 675 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 3: no idea who I was. This is before I even 676 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,720 Speaker 3: came second, So I wasn't like no one, they didn't 677 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,160 Speaker 3: care about that. It was more the fact that, hey, 678 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,200 Speaker 3: like I really I see something in this girl. You know, 679 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,759 Speaker 3: she's gone out of her way, put herself out there, 680 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,279 Speaker 3: and I love that, and like they they took a 681 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,479 Speaker 3: chance on me, and I haven't looked back. 682 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:46,480 Speaker 2: Haven't looked back. 683 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:51,400 Speaker 1: Okay, so right now on Instagram Live Update, you have 684 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,360 Speaker 1: eight hundred and eighty seven thousand people that follow you, 685 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,799 Speaker 1: and they obviously, you know, they have their opinions of 686 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,719 Speaker 1: what they see every day. But when you look in 687 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,399 Speaker 1: the mirror, like what is it that you see every day? 688 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 3: That's actually a really good question. I've never really thought 689 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 3: of that, to be honest, But I mean, I guess 690 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 3: the way I look at it is, you know, when 691 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,160 Speaker 3: I'm done, or you know, out of this space, or 692 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,680 Speaker 3: it's it's kind of like, it's my time to retire. 693 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,320 Speaker 3: How do I want people to remember me by? And 694 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 3: for me, it's it's actually about people remembering I guess, 695 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:46,399 Speaker 3: my legacy and reminding themselves that, hey, you know, if 696 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:52,120 Speaker 3: you just take a chance and believe in yourself and 697 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:57,400 Speaker 3: get that fire in your belly, that determination deep down inside, 698 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,600 Speaker 3: if you believe in yourself, like anything is possible, so 699 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:07,760 Speaker 3: just go after it. And I think like if people 700 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,360 Speaker 3: can kind of look back on my journey and remember 701 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:16,040 Speaker 3: that and remind themselves that, hey, like it doesn't matter 702 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,920 Speaker 3: what you do. If you're someone that wants to be 703 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,319 Speaker 3: a journalist, right, if you're someone that wants to be 704 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 3: a musician, like, go for it. Like, if you really 705 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,760 Speaker 3: want it, you will get it. You will be super 706 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,800 Speaker 3: successful at it too. It doesn't take someone special to 707 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,560 Speaker 3: make that happen or be very successful. All it takes 708 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:41,000 Speaker 3: is that determination inside. And you know, I hope that 709 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 3: people can kind of look back on my journey and 710 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:49,120 Speaker 3: feed off that energy and motivation and realize that, hey, 711 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,600 Speaker 3: like if Tea can do it, so can I. 712 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:52,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. 713 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 1: And I mean it sounds like when you look at 714 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,200 Speaker 1: the mirror, you see someone that's being authentic to what 715 00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:02,480 Speaker 1: they want. Yeah, whereas maybe, yeah, you know, after grade twelve, no, 716 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:03,560 Speaker 1: like I. 717 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,960 Speaker 3: Was so unsure, I was afraid to take a chance. 718 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:07,800 Speaker 2: Totally. 719 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to ask, you've obviously been on the 720 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,120 Speaker 1: podium for four years in a row, you've won for 721 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,800 Speaker 1: the past two what's on your radar? 722 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,920 Speaker 3: I mean, going to the CrossFit Games. I've secured my spot. 723 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,520 Speaker 3: I've done my job for now. Now it's literally training hard. 724 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,239 Speaker 3: I mean I was training before this. I'm going to 725 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:33,359 Speaker 3: go back and do some more training. Like, I just 726 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,640 Speaker 3: want to go back to the CrossFit Games and you know, 727 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,960 Speaker 3: do my absolute best, and I hope my absolute best 728 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,840 Speaker 3: is enough to be on top of that podium because 729 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,520 Speaker 3: it's something that I know is very possible. But there's 730 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,799 Speaker 3: just so many incredible athletes out there, and I'm just 731 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,600 Speaker 3: so wanted to actually be a part of that. Like, 732 00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,680 Speaker 3: I just can't wait to push myself and see how 733 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,759 Speaker 3: good we've really become since last year as well, and 734 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,520 Speaker 3: that's something that I'm really looking forward to. So the 735 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,120 Speaker 3: CrossFit Games is definitely on my radar for this year, 736 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,160 Speaker 3: and I try not to look too far ahead because 737 00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,040 Speaker 3: you know, I just need to stick to my one 738 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,440 Speaker 3: priorities and enjoy the ride. 739 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,400 Speaker 1: We are winding down here, but I do want to 740 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:24,839 Speaker 1: note that you have finally made the pilgrimage to Tennessee. Yeah, 741 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,040 Speaker 1: which is very different than Australia. 742 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,239 Speaker 3: Moved to the south. Yeah, how's that going for you? 743 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:31,799 Speaker 3: It's amazing. 744 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 2: I've actually been to Cookville. I've been to Rich's house. 745 00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,719 Speaker 1: I went there on assignment for Men's Health last year 746 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 1: and I hung out with the team and Rich for 747 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:42,200 Speaker 1: forty eight hours. 748 00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,759 Speaker 2: Amazing, Poy, so much fun. Yeah. 749 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,799 Speaker 1: Rich Frowning, who was at one time the fittest man 750 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,680 Speaker 1: on earth. He is a legend in the CrossFit world 751 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,600 Speaker 1: and Cookville was something special. 752 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. So, I mean I've seen a snippet of the 753 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,839 Speaker 2: day in the life of him. Are you training? How 754 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,120 Speaker 2: many hours a day are you training? 755 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,920 Speaker 3: I guess it depends on the season. I right now, 756 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,879 Speaker 3: I'd probably be training between four to six hours a day, 757 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:14,520 Speaker 3: probably resting every sixth to seventh day, and then that's 758 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,520 Speaker 3: just going to increase obviously as I get closer to competition. 759 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,359 Speaker 3: And I'm in May. There's a competition coming up called 760 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,920 Speaker 3: the Rogue Invitational. It's the first one and it's actually 761 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 3: going to be a pretty incredible event because they also 762 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:33,960 Speaker 3: have a category for CrossFit Legends, which is like all 763 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,360 Speaker 3: the veterans from like back in the day, like before 764 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,399 Speaker 3: I even knew what CrossFit was. They're going to come 765 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 3: back from retirement and do some competing and I'm really 766 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,880 Speaker 3: looking forward to that. But I also am competing in 767 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,879 Speaker 3: a different category, so that's going to be a lot 768 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:51,240 Speaker 3: of fun. 769 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:53,920 Speaker 2: It's a lot of training every day. 770 00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,120 Speaker 3: It is a lot of training, but it's a good thing. 771 00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:57,040 Speaker 3: I enjoy it, right. 772 00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,440 Speaker 1: I feel like there's like all these last minute things 773 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm trying to because I'm so curious, like I've got 774 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,320 Speaker 1: to know. No, it's cool, like staples in your pantry. 775 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,600 Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah. 776 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,880 Speaker 3: I know. Well, I mean we're in America now, so 777 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:15,879 Speaker 3: there's peanut butter and we're really enjoying the like the popcorn, 778 00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:20,440 Speaker 3: the caramelized popcorn, Like, I mean, it's in Australia as well, 779 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,120 Speaker 3: but it's not as popular over over there than it 780 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:23,520 Speaker 3: is here. 781 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,480 Speaker 2: Are you super strict with what you eat? 782 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,200 Speaker 3: I like to have a balance. Yeah, I think that's 783 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,560 Speaker 3: probably the most simple way of explaining. I definitely like 784 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,440 Speaker 3: to eat clean foods. I work with a specific nutrition 785 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,919 Speaker 3: coach called the Method Now, and they helped me out 786 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,759 Speaker 3: with counting my macros and making sure I'm fueling the 787 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,280 Speaker 3: body with what it needs and how much it needs, 788 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,799 Speaker 3: just so that I'm built, like improving my recovery and 789 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,279 Speaker 3: I'm not feeling fatigued, and you know, I'm getting the 790 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:54,000 Speaker 3: best out. 791 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:58,960 Speaker 2: Of my body. Sweets, but I yeah, I love it 792 00:44:59,080 --> 00:44:59,960 Speaker 2: like I love chocolate. 793 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,360 Speaker 3: I love going to the movies or the theaters or 794 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:08,440 Speaker 3: cinemas you're like whatever you call them, and just munching 795 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,120 Speaker 3: out on like your popcorn, your peanut m and ms. 796 00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,280 Speaker 3: You know, I love Tim Tams, So whenever someone comes 797 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:19,360 Speaker 3: over to from Australia and visits, they always bring Tim 798 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:20,840 Speaker 3: Tams and. 799 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know, I love to live balance. 800 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think balance is key. 801 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:31,120 Speaker 1: All right, final question, You have an opportunity right now 802 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:35,520 Speaker 1: to offer the tea who is going through it after 803 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,439 Speaker 1: grade twelve, really feeling stuck at her hurdle moment, one 804 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:43,319 Speaker 1: piece of advice looking back on it right now, what 805 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,160 Speaker 1: do you tell her? 806 00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,280 Speaker 3: I think, you know, there's so many things that obviously 807 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,759 Speaker 3: looking back now that I could be like, you know, 808 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,640 Speaker 3: there's so many things that you weren't doing right to you. 809 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:05,840 Speaker 3: But I mean if I never experienced that, I probably 810 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,680 Speaker 3: wouldn't be sitting here today. So if I was to 811 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:13,960 Speaker 3: tell myself, you know, back in the day, it'd probably be, 812 00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:18,799 Speaker 3: you know, like, what is it that you want out 813 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,680 Speaker 3: of your life? And what type of person do you 814 00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,279 Speaker 3: want to be? Because I think that that would have 815 00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:32,520 Speaker 3: kind of gotten rid of me filtering all the recommendations 816 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,800 Speaker 3: and thinking, oh, that's what I should do from outsiders, 817 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,920 Speaker 3: and I wouldn't probably been so confused, and I probably 818 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,680 Speaker 3: wouldn't have gone and pursued a degree that I didn't 819 00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:50,399 Speaker 3: really enjoy or wasn't passionate about. But I mean, if 820 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,400 Speaker 3: I never experienced that, you know, who knows where I 821 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,000 Speaker 3: would have been. So I'm you know, I've lived and 822 00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:01,719 Speaker 3: I've learned, and I I don't actually have any regrets. 823 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,160 Speaker 2: Amazing. Yeah, thank you so much for sitting down with me. 824 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,960 Speaker 1: Please take a moment to leave a quick review by 825 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,040 Speaker 1: clicking the link or the description to this episode. We 826 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,680 Speaker 1: all face multiple hurdles in life. I want to hear 827 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,200 Speaker 1: about yours. Reach out to me at Emily at hurdle 828 00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:20,600 Speaker 1: dot us. Connect with the podcast on Instagram and Twitter 829 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:22,560 Speaker 1: at Hurdle Podcast, Tia. 830 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,839 Speaker 2: Where do they find you? How do they keep up 831 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,040 Speaker 2: with you? Give me the dats? 832 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,520 Speaker 3: Well, I mean I have an Instagram account, Tia Claire one. 833 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,120 Speaker 3: They can always, you know, see my journey on that. 834 00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,480 Speaker 3: I actually have a book, How I Became the Fittest 835 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:39,280 Speaker 3: Woman on Earth. 836 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,120 Speaker 2: So casual, casual book title. 837 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a pretty good book. It's a 838 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,040 Speaker 3: very easy book, and I've had some fantastic feedback, so 839 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:53,200 Speaker 3: you know, if you enjoy reading, definitely look that up. 840 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,800 Speaker 3: And I mean I'm on Facebook, I'm on all social media, 841 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,040 Speaker 3: so yeah, they can reach me on anything. 842 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,680 Speaker 1: I am at Emily a Body another hurdle conquered. 843 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,239 Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time. 844 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,120 Speaker 3: M H.