actually i'm going to take this out of my ear oh let's just hope they don't talk to me for
tomorrow's announcement we're going to be doing things a little bit differently we've got two
teams going head-to-head one is our superstar team from iceland and the second is a team representing
the average athletes like myself from crossfit hendersonville in tennessee two men will go
first and then they'll tag in their individual their women the women athletes okay as for the
scoring athletes we'll score okay individuals will all get their own score so you can relax
to make things even more interesting to make things even more interesting
and to make things even more interesting we're giving the team from hendersonville a little head
start to see if they can hold off the team from iceland it'll all make sense tomorrow
i hope that looks okay
sled push about 100 feet is down to trash cans mailbox okay so once you get down there you
leave it so we're in week three of crossfit open in 2022 and we're in hendersonville tennessee
we're here because this is the top affiliate as far as participation goes they've got almost 300
members that are participating in the crossfit open and we've got sled pushes about 100 feet
and then throwing in a little push-up air squat sticking to the body weight keeping it simple with
minimal equipment we were kind of used to this you know in 2020 so these people are having a blast
it's like throwback right now 22.3 we finally got ourselves back into an affiliate so crossfit
hendersonville just put together four members from their gym one of them being the gym owner
uh for this event three of the four of the team right yeah his his wife is she's around somewhere
just right down there chatting up laughing yeah living life now she's doing push-ups right now
she seemed the least out of breath so maybe that's why she's she's not big on going hard it'll be
interesting to see how it goes on thursday so why is she tapering for thursday and you guys aren't
we're all idiots she's smart i think the competitive side kicks in quite a bit usually
even if we're not meeting four two it just kind of naturally happens
for me what's different about this year's open is that we're back on the
road and it's so good to be back in an affiliate which is where we want to be
because the open takes place in affiliates even for the most elite athletes in the entire world
so how are you guys feeling about things body's good ready to rock and roll
yeah i think so we'll see we're gonna let it rip it's a lot easier to produce an open announcement
from a controlled studio setting but that's not the full story of the open we love going on the
road and the unique challenges that come with it are just part of the show so in this case we have
to displace a bunch of the members from crossfit hendersonville and even though they're good sports
it takes up a lot of their time we knew it was going to be a ton of fun this week but actually
living it out has has been surreal so i just sent a message to all our members just saying
thank you like the way that they had a blast out here in the parking lot and working out and
just the energy and the vibe that's fueling me you know that's making this even a better deal
than it already was so it's been a really fun week so while it's hard to come in and produce
everything from scratch it's also better because it's got all the nuance and the quirks and the
personality of real affiliates i teach a course for for physical therapists to learn how to
work with pregnant and postpartum athletes and so of course annie thor's daughter's been just like
the icon for that and so last year like whenever she was you know the snatch left of course is like
the most iconic but i'm like standing in the stand that i'm just like i'm like bawling my
eyes out i'm like yes like for woman kind and so when we found out that we were doing this
um i was just in shock i think the first thing i said was like am i gonna embarrass myself
if we're going against andy thorsteiner this place is truly i know it says it's in a crossfit
affiliate and it is but it's truly a community inside these four walls is unmatched the people
that make up this place are unbelievable and the community here is is truly truly amazing
getting to be around so many people that all want to you know do well and have the same vision goals
and it's it's it's a true blessing you get to be a part of and it's
something that you get to look forward to coming here every single day so it's good
the 22.3 announcement was not just in one affiliate it was in two affiliates
when they asked if we wanted to do this as a team i was like hell yeah it's the first open
announcement that has a team on it and it'll be my team and at my gym one of the most fun
times is when you're competing on homegrown that is like it doesn't get a lot better than
that so it'll be really fun obviously i'm competing against them but it's also like
we're a team so we're gonna all try to do our very very best and i want them to do super well
as well so it's like it's it'll be really cool so so we'll leave it with sean to take us home
yeah the warm-up thingy the walk-through i'm not nervous i'm not anxious
feel great ready to go yeah no i think this is the dress rehearsal i think you would
call it we're not dressed like an undressed rehearsal but so the boys are going to start
uh khan attention for a little bit for tonight no very much um
boys go first and if khan finishes first we need to wait for tola if you finish first
she's taking our past open performance into account it's okay
the complexity of this week right as we all know is that there's two separate competitions
happening for the sake of the show we're gonna have the men go first so men in both lanes here
same thing in iceland right so there's gonna be one continuous clock the entire time yes uh i
don't have a question i just felt like if someone was talking like he would come over so let's just
try to get on the miles to madison video that's it this is definitely happening during the show
where he's going to talk trash to wreck your actions i'll say one word for trash talk and
that's i won't tell you now but i will say one that's it i brought my mullet too just in case
just in case
just in case man i love america in america it's not america without a mullet right
what do we do with our hands in my pockets
posted the video today of other team did y'all see that on instagram where they're you know that
beyonce song is and they all drop and it was like with all the crossfit movies it was the whole team
so i sent it to the team this morning i'm like we have to have a response
right here we gotta all look like turn our heads at the same time
don't smile one two three look three two one look okay you ready so ready jump look we may not be
able to beat them on the floor tomorrow but this floor to this music we got them
you know i think we really we saved the best for last the first two weeks were fantastic being back
in front of a live audience was really cool but to be back in front of an affiliate and have the
community here and hear these fans and hear the enthusiasm for it it was a blast like it was just
this one feels it feels special hendersonville in tennessee and these guys are amazing
you guys have a record 288 members who have signed up for the open
how are you guys able to get such huge numbers to sign up you see these people
this crowd is intoxicating like that is the word that i can use to describe them they are
intoxicating like there were times where i was just like i'm drunk on their vibes like it was
just so good it's always amazing to have at home it's always the best to have it at home
get to do it with your people at your gym with your family that's facebook are you all ready
22 for all right the workout is fourth time 21 pull ups
42 double unders 21 thrusters then 18 chests of our pull ups 36 double motors 18 thrusters
then 15 of our muscle ups 30 double enders 15 thrusters the thrusters
increase in weight every round there is a 12 minute time cap good and the weights are lights
i haven't honestly been able to train a lot of like gymnastics movements on the bar and
even thrusters because it's just like the front rack position doesn't feel very good
i feel like i've held back a little bit in like the previous workout so i just was like
okay let's go for it and see what happens and i think it went up it went pretty well
i definitely was surprised by like how well i think i did for myself in this workout considering
the training that i've done leading up to this has not involved much of any of these movements
so muscle ups was i'd say the most scared movement for me even over snatches just because it's just
a lot of low on elbow and my strategy was just take it right very slow like i took baby steps
and did tons of drills before i even did one rep for somebody coming off of such a huge injury to
see brooke wells finish fifth place overall in the open this year means this really could be
a big comeback year for brooke the good thing is that doing workouts like this kind of shows that
it'll be there when i need it i should be healthy
how are you guys feeling excited excited that's our people it's our gym yeah this is it so you
guys know lindsay and maggie they're gonna be judging you guys uh it'll be just like rehearsal
same deal uh you know we are you know live to the world that sort of thing these guys are
going to hold you to a strict standard so don't come out hot and think you know just blasting
reps that aren't all the way there like take the time to make it undeniable it's really easy to
get wrapped up in like you know there's people and they're going to make it loud and then your first
round you come out and you're just like what am i doing and you're not even in your mind and then
they're throwing no reps and nobody wants sucks i don't know we don't want to do that no maggie
all righty lindsay you're chatting with annie now let's see what kind of head
start you can negotiate so how does 10 minutes down since you've been in the game since times
well do you want me to hand this to you on a platter or do you want to try to actually win
so the fun part about the matchup was hendersonville was able to actually
negotiate a head start four minutes 40 minutes it's as high as i go four minutes
take it or leave it or i'll start four minutes no five minutes meet us in the middle five minutes
i'm going down three and a half so they went back and forth and annie played hardball and
in the end they settled on four minutes and 30 seconds and given the talent on reykjavik's team
i honestly don't think it was enough you know if you ain't first you're last
and we ain't looking to finish last today let's go baby down to the competition floor for the final
time of the 2022 noble crossing games open that man adrian bosman get us started three two one
go they have a four and a half minute head start on tomorrow aquino and con
look at the beginning of this event this is classic fran movements in a different
order five seconds now before porter and mauricino get going three two
this middle round is gonna be a lot where i think your resolve is tested
and where the last round is where your fitness is gonna get tested
khan porter is done with round two more quinoa almost done with his second set of thrusters that
may as well be an empty barbell for more aquino the fatigue level in these little breaks you see
from hendersonville on the side it's going to be what's going to open that door up for marquinho
and porter as now lindsay mcduffie and alexis morgan are working lauren fisher
and annie thorstein were just ripped through their pull-ups so they are now in the lead
mcduffie has her fans counting her in gutsy effort from the crew from crossing hendersonville
and reykjavik has already showered and changed outfits and ready for their post-workout interview
yeah that was unreal like i don't know what to expect i didn't know what to expect but that
vibe was ridiculous like hey thank you so much to the crowd for that environment for that vibe
it's so great being back in an affiliate the energy that affiliates give us during
the open announcements there's just no way to replicate that everything starts with the open
and it's where the heart of the community lies and it is by far my favorite part of the season
how did it feel having uh the entire world watch you on 135 pounds
it would have felt better if i wasn't fighting back vomit through all of them but
it was we got the job done left it all out there for sure i was out there and i'm like oh my gosh
you can't do another you can't do another muscle i'm like yes you can no i can't yes you can
and everyone just starts cheering i hear all my people go and i'm like i can do this i can do this
this is probably definitely if not the coolest one of the coolest things i've ever done in my life
yeah man it was uh unbelievable i couldn't believe that it happened whenever they told us
it was going to happen and showing up here today seeing it all it was uh man what an experience
this has been such a gift this i found crossfit right after i finished college and so this has
been like my first you know my first child like chase said this has changed my life
and i've had the blessing and the privilege to change um
other people other people's lives and it's been something that
you man you can't put towards how good of a gift and how sweet
next time on miles to madison my initial reaction when i found out annie put a team
together was excitement i was excited because i want to meet them it was the jolt of motivation
that i needed to get into the season i'm not gonna say we have a huge weakness but we have
holes that we need to fill up i just think we stayed too comfortable the whole time
for me the biggest priority is just stay healthy and i should have a good crack at it
if he can compete the way he competed last year he's going to win the cosplay games