My first year in 2014 competing at the Games,
I had no expectations.
I didn't know if I would finish in first or 40th
and ended up in the top 10,
so to me, I think I let a little bit of that get to my head,
and second year, more experience,
I'm stronger, more confident.
I should be able to podium, or heck, I could win it.
2015 was the best season I've ever had.
Took fourth place at the CrossFit Games,
but I was only about 30 points out
of being on the podium,
and I really would love to be on the podium
at the Games.
And I think that kind of ended up being a detriment to me that year,
because I went in with too much expectation.
I had too much pressure,
so I finished eighth both years
in 2014 and 2015.
It's like, "Well maybe this is just what I am.
Maybe I'm just the sixth, sixth, eighth, tenth
and fourth fittest man on Earth
and that's what it is."
But at some point it's just like, "Gosh that sucks."
Like, I just don't want to accept that.
Of course I want to get on the podium,
and of course I want to stand at the top of the podium.
I want to be first.
I want to be on the podium.
Hopefully 2016's the year.
I'm Noah Ohlsen.
I live in Miami, Florida.
I train at Peak 360 CrossFit.
We are in my lovely little one-bedroom apartment here
in Miami.
Just whipping up some morning coffee.
Joanne's getting ready for work.
Joanne's started getting ready. She has a little bit more to do
in the mornings than I do in terms of
getting all ready to--
No.
No, we timed it the other day. It takes four minutes.
Joanne is my beautiful girlfriend,
and we have been dating for about four years.
We kind of use regionals as our anniversary mark.
Alright, get out of here.
Bye, Ian. Ian: See ya.
Noah: See ya at 5.
My girlfriend is awesome.
I love her to infinity and beyond.
Alright, some very hot eggs.
Some buckwheat, I think, pancakes,
some crispy bacon,
some oranges.
Joanne was just talking to her boss yesterday about that being her least favorite part of living with me
is that there's always ice cream and crazy stuff in the house.
Whole Foods had a Ben and Jerry's sale, so we just stocked up.
Joanne's like, "We already have all those flavors,
and I was like, "Yeah, but they're our favorites,
and now we have extras of them."
Max is my 2-year-old golden retriever,
and we've had him since he was 10 weeks old.
He's just made our time here the past two years
so much better.
Dan: Hey Hebs. Heber: What's up, Dan?
What's going on?
Heber: Not much.
In general, what I do for fun.
I love riding motorcycles.
I just found out I have a real passion and love for doing that
the past probably six months or so.
I love to surf.
Hiking, camping, that's always been one of my favorite things to do.
I love doing anything outside.
I woke up this morning,
and I put my socks on, and I got two of the wrong socks.
This one keeps falling down.
I don't know why or what it's made of.
Everything you could possibly want: eggs, bacon,
potatoes.
Pretty good stuff.
Uh, we're down here at the Operation Surf event.
Going to watch some wounded vets
shred the gnar,
tear it up.
I was actually at this event two years ago.
It was down in Capitola,
and it was awesome.
Heber: Dan, are you single?
Yeah, I'm single.
I don't want to talk about my dating life
the least bit. There's not much to talk about.
Mr. Wittenber up there thinks it's a good idea that I should be on The Bachelor.
Oh, you should be on The Bachelor!
There are those in this building
that think that I should apply to be on The Bachelor.
Heber: Dan, you're single.
Yeah, so? Heber: You're a bachelor.
Uh huh. Great lifestyle.
I think that everything society expects from The Bachelor and expects to see, and what they want to see
you're just not going to get from me,
like, it's just not going to happen.
So I'm not going to be the guy that's just going to go make out with 10 different girls
on 10 different nights.
That's just not how I roll.
That's not how I do things.
All the reasons that I think it's terrible,
you're like, "Yes, that's exactly why you should go on that show."
This is so bad.
I don't want to do any of this.
Go for the plunge.
It's worse when you go one step at a time.
The bellybutton's the worst.
Aw, dude. For me, it's the nuts and the nips.
Those two layers, it's like, "Ugh, we're halfway--ok.
We're good."
It's really funny because I've come to the realization
recently that I enjoy training
a little bit more I think than I now enjoy competing.
Someone said to me recently at the beginning of a competition
that all the work is done,
all the hard part is over with,
and now you just have to get out there
and go have fun
and do--like, let the work that you put in in the gym everyday show.
I thought about it a little bit, and I realized for me it's the opposite.
The fun part for me is the work, it's the training.
It's being in the gym, it's blasting the music
and taking as many attempts at a lift as I want,
and fist bumping the guys and going head to head.
For the last month or so
I've been up here at CrossFit HQ,
and for the most part I train alone
in terms of, there's not somebody else doing the same workout that I'm doing.
I typically enjoy training with just other people in the gym.
They don't have to be doing what I'm doing.
I don't have to be doing what they're doing, but just the presence of somebody else's eyes watching you,
and every now and then somebody kind of rooting you on or helping you out at some point.
I think I PR'd, so pretty happy about that.
Or I repeat a lot of workouts that I've done in the past,
so I have times, I have goals, I have things that I want to hit.
The clock can be as good as a motivator
as somebody being slightly ahead of you in a workout,
because you know if you're going to finish with a PR or if you're not,
and then how do you adjust your training from there
if you didn't do as well as you hoped.
That's the motto.
Ian: Nothing replaces hard work?
Nothing replaces hard work.
Yeah, there's that pressure and that want to win,
but if you don't squeak one out ahead of somebody,
then it's ok. You don't stress about it for the rest of the week.
Competition is quite the contrary, where every single workout there's a lot of pressure.
You want to beat every single person out on the floor, so
that's become not as fun to me.
Training is--you have to view it a little bit different than competing.
So one of the things I think that I learned training with Rich for so long
was that it was great training together
up to a point,
because we're both competing for the same thing,
whether you're always losing to him, sometimes you beat him.
When you're constantly competing against each other,
it's like you're constantly doing the Games
every week,
and the regional every week.
I mean, I love it.
I love competing. I love that experience.
I look forward to doing that every year. I want to go to the Games,
and I can't wait to be in the Tennis Stadium
and in the Soccer Stadium. I like those experiences
and those memories.
But the morning of a Friday, a Saturday, a Sunday at the Games.
I kind of can't wait for that day to be over
and have the work behind me
and hopefully end up having it be a
positive placement so that I can just kind of keep working toward that goal of being the Fittest on Earth.
Ian: What's going on? Dan: It always sounds like a good idea
before we do it,
and then I put this thing on,
and it feels like a terrible idea.
This is a public service announcement from Danny Broflex.
Hi, I'm Danny Broflex,
and I'm here to talk to you about the 2014 Reebok CrossFit Games Open.
Miranda: Ok. Danny: Give it a little bit more beep boop.
So Danny is basically the--
he tries so hard to do everything right
when it comes to fitness, but he does everything wrong.
In your face!
You didn't sign up for the Open?
You didn't sign up for life.
He is what is wrong with the fitness community,
but he means very well,
and we're going to incorporate that into nutrition
today.
We've arrived at the Salty Donut in Wynwood.
Cool, like, art district area of Miami.
I don't even know what you'd call that thing. A little metal shack serving up some awesome donuts.
We are filming Broflex, season 2.
I think some people might be jealous.
My mom would be so disappointed.
Yeah, so we're actually going to collaborate with him and do like a
Noah Ohlsen signature donut.
We'll just kind of come up with a awesome flavor
and cool name.
Ian: What's the name going to be?
I don't know yet.
I suggested the swole-nut,
and Joanne said it sounded like I had a prostate issue,
so probably not going to do that one.
I was thinking a bro-nut,
maybe. I don't know.
This is a high point of my career right here.
None of this needs to see the light of day.
Is this stuff permanent?
No!
We're heading to the spot
to get a haircut from my buddy Freddie.
He's the only dude I trust with my hair at this point.
I can just sit back and relax, and I know I'm going to come out looking better than I came in.
Can we do it around your nipple too?
No, no, no--not the nipple. Mariah: Oh, can we do the nipples?
The nipples aren't happening, no.
I think we went with the classic bowl cut for a good 10 years.
Pretty simple, pretty not awesome.
In high school I used to get the (indecipherable) out,
which was like a explosion,
and then my first couple years of high school I had a long flow
like down to my shoulders.
Heber: Let's shoot that one twice. Dan: Ok.
Heber: 3, 2, 1 ... action.
Rory: I hate you.
You know what I would actually love to do someday,
and I told Freddie.
Dreadlocks.
Heber: Let's do that again, but don't get down on your knees.
Thanks, brother.
Do I look better than when I came in?
Ian: Oh yeah. Noah: Little bit?
A lot a bit?
I think that when I came on the scene
in 2014, my first year of competing at the Games,
and I surprised myself and was sitting in first place at one point throughout the weekend.
I know that I said something in an interview about something that Rich said to me at the Games,
or maybe I misheard him,.
I don't even know what it was.
He said to me at the end of the 2014 Games, I thought,
"It's yours now."
And who knows? It was like roaring crowd.
He walked up to me and he gave me a hug,
so maybe I misinterpreted that, and I said it in an interview,
and Hillary tweeted something about somebody
being really cocky, and how she really likes all the competitors at the CrossFit Games, but there's somebody that rubbed her the wrong way,
and a lot of people referenced that interview
and referenced me in that, and that crushed me.
I was so upset, like the rest of the day,
sick to my stomach, and it really really upset me,
and I think from that point on I really flipped the switch
and made sure that the image that I portrayed was not something that would make somebody put on the internet
that I rubbed them the wrong way,
and I have reached out to Rich, and I apologized to him,
and I don't know if it ever got through to Hillary, but I apologized to her
if that was the situation, but
it really really bothers me when I hear something about being cocky.
I just--I feel like I want to be a good person,
and I want people to see that, and
if they're interpreting that I'm not,
then I'm not doing as good of a job at being a good person as I think I am.
But I try to do my best
to just be a good person and make as many people happy as I can.
3,
2,
1...
go!
16.2 is underway.
Sean Woodland and Pat Sherwood going to bring you the action ...
The Open sucked.
No, the Open--
Uh, I didn't have a great Open at all.
I've been dealing with planar fasciitis
and an ankle problem.
I did this workout on the TruForm,
and wow, this is a week before the Open,
and bam. I just, like, strained my achilles really bad,
and so I was actually really nervous that that could have been the end of the season
before it even started.
Bailey almost done
with his set of 50, and it will be back to the barbell.
I remember doing the reps
and then losing count myself
with what I was on, so I checked my judge
and saw a hand up with either two or three
was what was held up.
I did those two or three more reps,
checked over with my judge again. Saw the hand close out,
so I thought I was done,
but I still had one more rep to go.
Apparently I hadn't finished that round.
Sean Woodland: And Dan Bailey will get it!
Dan Bailey has finished 16.2!
Could submit that score. It didn't really count.
It was an honest mistake by myself
and my judge.
I didn't finish it.
He miscounted.
After that, when I redid the workout and I didn't finish
I missed the last clean just barely.
I don't want to say that I just kind of discounted the Open
and swept it under the rug, but
my focus definitely changed after week 2.
I decided after week 2 that I wanted to commit to winning the Open.
To go into a five-week competition
and come out on top with some amazing athletes that I was going head to head with
that I'd looked up to forever
was a really cool experience for me
and really just solidifies my belief that
I belong at the CrossFit Games
and up near the top.
Regionals have a different type of stress
than the Games.
Everybody's had the chance to practice them.
Everyone's rehearsed.
Everybody knows how they're going to do the workout.
They've seen where people have done well
and where they haven't,
and how they can tweak that to enhance their performance.
So there's really a lot less room
at the regional.
One through five, they don't care as long as they stamp the ticket
and end up in Carson.
But like I said earlier, I like to win everything, so
I'm going to go out there and try to win
regionals number three.
You have to be so disciplined.
Just to make it to the Games,
you have to give up a lot.
Sean Woodland: Dan Bailey across the finish line.
Clang and bang!
I worked so hard for so long,
and so many people have really invested in me,
and to seeing that dream come true,
yeah, I'm fired up to get back after it this year.
I don't want to be the guy that went to the Games
two or three years and then fell off.
When they're talking about CrossFit and they're talking about the history of the CrossFit Games,
I want my name to be mentioned alongside Rich
and Jason and all those guys.