Barbell Shrugged - Episode 16 - Rebecca Brown of Steve's Club Nashville

Episode Date: July 10, 2012

Rebecca Brown from Steve's Club Nashville

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That's the most fucked part about the medical community. You're exactly right. Like, I was at the hospital maybe two weeks ago, and everywhere I look, all the nurses are overweight. The doctors aren't too bad but the nurses are all overweight i don't know why that is like you have to be fat to be a nurse in a lot of cases but they're everywhere you think they'd be thin because it's supposed to be the most on your feet job i think it's uh i think it's all the doctor's wives they're it's a conspiracy to make all the nurses fat like shit i don't want them cheating on me at the hospital so i think

that's a good argument for low-intensity activity doesn't do as much as people think it does. Right, because nurses are on their feet all day long. Yeah, nurses, like, you know, waitress runs around the restaurant the entire day serving food, gets home exhausted. Well, my dad's a doctor, and he's incredibly fat, and he dips, and he's about the most unhealthy person I know.

He gets up at, usually right before he goes to bed every night he has a massive binge eating session of like he'll sit down and eat a whole box of fruit roll-ups do you think there's like a disconnect between medicine and health um i actually know some i've actually read some research about the psychology of people that go into medicine and it's pretty bad 75% of students in medical school now this statistic is from 20 years ago so I don't know if it's recent but 20 years ago 75% of them

were from alcoholic homes wow yeah because they say it's the drive to save people like they couldn't save their parents oh that's crazy i know so doctors to doctors are traditionally crazy like there's all these stipulations and the insurance clauses about like how many times they can go to treatment what type of treatment facilities they can be committed to before doctors yeah like before they

are not allowed to carry that like see people that have that kind of insurance. You know, it's really bizarre. Like they can be committed to a hospital for drug and alcohol abuse like up to three or four times. But if they're committed to a psych ward, that's a different scenario. But yeah, it's pretty weird. Yeah. Doctors are crazy. I feel like most drive that people have

usually stems from them actually running away from something. And you can spin it any way you want and make it really positive or really negative depending on whatever light you're trying to shine on it. But I feel like with the doctor's thing, like they can make the same argument for, I'm sure someone's probably done this, people in the fitness industry.

Yeah. Especially like... CrossFit. Every time I go to Arnold, I hear somebody inevitably say like, look at all those guys. They all have some type of self-image issue or they wouldn't be out there trying to flex their muscles or something like that. There might be something to that for a lot of people, but I bet you it's not just fitness or medicine. But to any professional degree, if you looked at their population as a whole,

you could see they were running away from something in their past, and they all have this similarity that drives them to do what they do. Yeah, like they have this intense drive. I mean, CrossFit is pretty masochistic. Sure. Oh, yeah, CrossFitters are egomaniacs. Yeah, going through med school is just torture, Oh, yeah, CrossFitters are egomaniacs. They're fun to hang out with, though. Going through med school is just torture,

and being a CEO at some huge company is miserable, and you work 90 hours a week, and it's all probably got the same kind of drive. Maybe. Maybe. Although maybe I should have channeled my drive in CrossFit into being the CEO of some Fortune 500 company. Maybe. I don't know.

Maybe we should try to figure out what we're running from. I don't know. No, that's way too honest. We're not going to talk about that. No, no, no. Maybe we should be at church right now. That's right. We're podcasting instead of going to church.

It's Sunday morning. That's right. Yeah. Don't explain all the crazy psychologists I know. Everyone I know is a psychologist. That's exactly morning. That's right. Yeah. They'll explain all the crazy psychologists. I know. Okay. Everyone. That's exactly right. That's what I'm talking about.

Nuts, man. Yeah. That's the same thing for that field. That feels bad. I want to solve my problems. Like subconsciously. They're like thinking that.

So I'm going to go to psychology school and learn how to, how the mind works. And they spent all their time trying to figure out other people after that and they're still crazy so easy uh all the psychologists i know we've already had this out so that we've already had this argument we good we recording we are this barbell shrugged on mike bledsoesoe here with Doug Larson and CTP behind the camera. He's got a microphone as well. Here with Rebecca Brown with Steve's Club Nashville. So we're going to talk a little bit about that and some fundraising opportunities.

Yep. I'm about to be launching. Well, I just held 13 events in Middle Tennessee. 13 Beat the Streets are organized, which is the national WOD for raising money. It's similar to Fight Gone Bad, Amazing Grace. It was a workout that was done by a lot of gyms in the nation to raise money for local branches. And I'm here this weekend to talk to the masterminds of holding competitions about how to get a

couple big events going. Can you tell me who the masterminds you are talking about? Faction Strength and Conditioning Masterminds. The Bledsoes, Doug, McGoldrick um everybody that has put together what is talked about as being the most organized well-run event in uh the southeast pretty much in history um so there's gonna be a lot of sad people that they may not continue yeah uh yeah we're not gonna do faction games as a two-day event this year. So we're looking at doing – oh, my microphone went flaccid.

All right. It's like, no wonder I can't hear myself too well. No comment. So, yeah, we won't be doing it this year. We might do a single-day event. I think it just got a little overwhelming for us. But I think the reason we did a good job in the past is because we have a really job in the past is because

we have a really good team so maybe we can like get some of our team out to you to help you out with yours because i think i think that's a huge part of it just making sure you have a lot of highly committed volunteers yeah part of the reason it was so well run is part of the reason that we're not doing it anymore because we took like all of our resources to make this event as as awesome as possible right and then it took away from a lot of other things we were doing so i think we're just going to take a break i don't think it's going to go away forever but maybe this year we're going to tone it back a little bit and maybe next year we can blow it up big again right which i'm hoping it'll be okay that'll work out um for me since i'm doing this pretty much full-time that hopefully i won't get as burned

out as you guys. Cause yeah, if it's your full time deal, then I think there's a really good opportunity to do a really great job and feel good about it instead of like feeling like, yeah, I mean, I hope so. I hope so. I got here and I, um, I think I talked to Ashley first and she was like, it was horrible. I was like, Oh no, what am I getting myself in for? It's always fun during it. And afterwards we're like, man, it was horrible. I was like, oh, no, what am I getting myself in for? It's always fun during it.

And afterwards, we're like, man, that was cool. And then we have to, like, remember. No, don't forget, like, before it started in the months leading up to it, we were not having a good time. Right. Not every day anyway. Like, there's some ups, but there was a lot of, like, God, I hate doing this. But you got to make it happen if you want to be a good event so right it wore on us a little bit so I feel like we're like putting you down on your on your event coming up like we're discouraging you.

So in an ideal world what would your event or what would like be the outcome of your event if everything went perfectly what would what would it look like and what would happen afterward? What it would look like is I would like to do a two-day individual event that is as organized and well run as i can make it um i've got some ocd so hopefully that's pretty um that's good for that coordinator yeah it is and then um i would like to have an rx and a scale division um two-day individual because besides the faction games there are two-day individual competitions have kind of fallen to the wayside and i think there's still a want for them for especially

for people preparing for things like regionals for sure test their endurance um and at the end of it i would like for everybody to have fun everybody to find find out about Steve's Club Nashville, coordinate a community effort. I'm really trying to make this a big middle Tennessee or even all of Tennessee. I'm all the way out in Memphis. All a Tennessee effort. And I'd like the ultimate outcome from having these events to be able to grow Steve's Club Nashville to be able to reach out to more than one community because I mean I know I know the government just got this huge

the Tennessee government just did this huge program for going after childhood obesity because it is so bad in Tennessee and you know the at-risk kids get the least amount of that and they're probably got the worst nutrition I would imagine yeah wait so the event the events not for the kids events for CrossFitters the event is for CrossFitters okay but you know all the profits go all the profits will go to funding Steve's Club Nashville okay or most of the profits. Except for what goes into running the event. Management. Which they've been telling me about some of the stuff

that goes into porta-potties. I want to have some really amazing prizes. I thought you were going to say really amazing porta-potties. Those would be nice too. By the way, at Barbecue Fest, one of our friends at his Barbecue Fest booth or tent or whatever,

they ran an AC unit into their porta potty. Oh, really? Every booth got a porta potty. Yeah. I got pictures on my Facebook. It's legit. Man, that would be nice. I think I posted it on Twitter too.

Yeah, that would get me there. Another reason to follow me on Twitter. I wonder how many times they had people just hanging out in their port-a-potty. I think someone slept in it one night. Gross. I don't know, didn't it? But no, I don't want amazing port-a-potties. I would like to have some amazing prizes.

I've been emailing with demonbells.com. Yeah. I got that demon bell from them for the top team out of all the gyms that held Beat the Streets. And those things are freaking sweet. They were out of the two-pood.

You got one, right? Yeah, I got a 54-pound one. Isn't it weighted especially well for kettlebell snatches and stuff? Yeah, they're supposed to be designed as well as they can for actual use right i mean some of the edges on those demon faces i'm like i don't know if i want that hit my arm make sure it's it's faces a particular way right what is it demon bells uh yeah demonbells.com they're kettlebells that look like demon faces from different he pulls them from different cultures around the world to design each um weight kettlebells that look like demon faces from different. He pulls them from different cultures around the world to design each weight kettlebell.

The Polynesian demon is the Tupud. And it's pretty freaking sweet looking. And they're backordered. I think they're in customs right now. And I really wanted one of those. So maybe my next event is going to be the introduction of the Tupud. Free promotion, Ryan. We need to get Mike's face on a kettle bell.

We could still call it the demon bell. Yeah. That'd be scary. Called the beard bell. The beard bell. Beard bell. What time frame are we looking at? So you're going to do it in the fall.

Right. And I was until I thought y'all were doing faction games in September. So I was thinking about pushing it till later in November. But now I'm kind of liking the idea of a Halloween event. Okay. So, you know. That would work very well with your Demon Bell prizes. I know.

And it might. I mean, I would love to see some people out there competing in costume. We're going to come out. I think that would be a lot of fun. We're going to come out and compete. We'll bring the whole. Our team is trying to find two competitions to do between now and regionals, maybe three. Yeah.

And so, like, the whole faction crew, I think, will come out. We're going to do yours. Well, thanks. We're going to bring a good crew, and no one's going to beat us. I like how CrossFit has come to the point where you could actually be a CrossFitter for Halloween. You could wear minimalist shoes and high socks and tight shorts, and you're a CrossFitter. I got the costume on right now. Yeah, no kidding.

I'm ready to go. So we're looking at fall, maybe September, or I'm thinking Halloween time. And where's it going to be at? That is not 100% determined. To be determined. Yeah, to be determined. CrossFit Music City in Nashville has about 10,000 square feet in their facility, which is great. And they've been talking about wanting to get an event in there for a long time. But the problem has been finding somebody that has the time to organize it.

So here I am. Awesome. So that's my original CrossFit home. There's good people there. I like them. I moved to CrossFit 615 that just opened on May 13th was their opening day because it's right in East Nashville where I have the most connections with reaching at-risk kids right now.

The school bus from the high school that zoned for this gym is going to be able to drop the kids off to me. Oh, really? Yeah, it's exciting. The principal there actually CrossFits with his officers. And so he was the only principal that was like, what is this CrossFit? That wasn't like I had to go into a 10-minute, you know, the eternal struggle of how do you explain CrossFit.

Right. He immediately was like, oh, yeah, I love CrossFit. High-intensity functional movement, I'm with you. Yeah. Exactly. And was just like, you know, tell me how many kids you can take. You know, we're going to have them there. We're going to have them lined up.

And so that's exciting. I'm starting with his kids in July. And then the month of June, I'm doing a summer camp with a nonprofit organization that's already in place called Backfield in Motion. They work with at-risk boys, and they provide tutoring services in sports leagues. And I'm doing a summer camp in the whole month of June with them with 80 kids. It's going to be absolutely— So it's you and 80 kids all at the same time? Yeah. No.

There's four classes of 20. Okay. Man, that's still 20 kids at one time. I'm actually leaving here and going and buying the biggest whistle I can find today. Yeah. You're not going to have a voice. Maybe a foghorn. I need a megaphone.

Oh, yeah. Maybe I do need a megaphone. Yeah. Trust me. I always wanted the megaphone when I was a kid. There's so much fun. So you can use it at work and at parties. All right.

Maybe I need to get a megaphone. Maybe I need to get a megaphone in like a taser i know a joke it's like i've been working with kids twice a week yeah and sometimes it's been classes of um you know up to 25 and i always have the joke going about that it's like herding cats oh yeah you know like i focus on the squat on one kid and like three kids wander away so you gotta to figure out how to multitask or get them focused. It really helps to get them to help me critique the squats or the movements. They kind of light up for that kind of stuff. I was a strength coach for a wrestling team for one season. Terrible.

I just didn't know how to work with kids. I'd been out of the navy for like a year i'm just like cussing at them and stuff and like like why don't they do what i say it's like i'd forgotten everything about kids so yeah these yeah and the kids are um when i first start working with them i mean i can't even get them to make eye contact with me they just break break break my. They're scared of me. They're like, this girl is crazy. How old do you say they were? Right now I'm working with – I've been working with seventh grade through high school.

I'm about to bump it back to fifth grade. The summer camp is fifth grade through high school. And then in July I'll be working with high school kids. When I get them trained in the fundamentals, I'm going to have them help me coach a middle school class. And then hopefully I'll be able to add a parents class soon too. Oh, cool. Yeah, I'd like to be able to add a parents class by December. The requirement for membership is just that you have a kid participating.

You don't have to pay anything. You just have to have a kid involved. Are the kids coming in as a pretty voluntary or is, like, is the principal at the school kind of twisting some of their arms or how does this work? No, the summer camp is going to be somewhat involuntary. Okay. You know, they're there for – they're also getting tutored when they're cycling through the classes. They're also getting tutored in math, reading comprehension.

At the gym? This is going to be at a middle school. Okay. So I'm going to have them in this big field. You'll be training them at the school? Yeah. Okay, cool. And then, you know, these little kids,

I can't do much stuff that requires technical equipment. Right. Anyways, you know, I can have kettlebells and dumbbells out there, but no powerlifting or Olympic lifting, least um for the littlest ones you know when i get the high school kids kids in there i'm going to do just like a standard on ramp yeah and then um yeah the focus of the younger kids is just not there yeah and you know they're just they're they're really struggling with at that age they seem you. They're growing so fast. They're so awkward.

A lot of them haven't grown up being put in sports programs their whole life, so their concept of their body and space. I had a pack of 25 kids, and some of them were young, like 11 and 12, and there wasn't one of them that knew how to do a handstand. It was just like I grew up doing those. That's pretty crazy. Yeah. I remember the same thing i mean my brother like when i was 12 years old we're trying to figure out who could pull the back flip off yeah first in the living room you know yeah my husband sounds like he was like that broke his arm twice within six weeks flipping off the couch um i did that i broke my arm falling

off a bullet bar like you know like the ones that you screw into into your doorway yeah yeah like i was i was swinging on because i was practicing because i want to do giants oh no giants are um you know like high bar gymnastics where you hang on the high bar like i'm hanging here and then i'm going around the bar those are those are giants so i was trying to practice that. I was seven years old, right? I was trying to practice that on something that you screw into the door. And so I'm going like this, and it's screwing and unscrewing, like tightening and loosening.

And then I ended up, I came back like this from my feet way behind me, and then I let go because it rolled in my hands. I let go, and I came down, and I went like that, and I got a Colley's fracture. I think that's what it's called, where you break your both bones here and you get what's called a silver spoon formation where it breaks here

and then it slides up and your hand slides back like that so you can go like this and touch the end of your wrist like that. Do you remember doing that? Could you do that? I remember all of it very vividly. Oh, gosh. I remember falling.

I remember, actually, I fell twice. I fell twice in a row. I did it, and then the second time is when it broke. Apparently I didn't learn from my first fall. Did you ever get your giant? You know what? No, I didn't. Never got back on the bike, huh?

I didn't. Never got giants. Giants scared the shit out of huh? I didn't. Never got Giants. Giants scared the shit out of me when I was a little kid doing gymnastics. Well, there's a pull-up bar out there if you want to get it today. Giants scared the shit out of me now. I know. That was one of the last things I was working on

before I stopped doing gymnastics when I was a little kid. I quit gymnastics when I was a little kid, too. And I'm kicking myself for that now i wish i would have stuck with it too yeah i can't decide if i'm gonna make my kids stick with it or not i think it's fantastic for little kids to do yeah i mean i think it it's a rough sport to to keep doing and into your teens and especially into your 20s unless you're really going somewhere like you're trying to be an olympian but right when you're a little kid i think it's fantastic because i mean if you did it if you just did it till 13 or 14 make a huge difference

huge difference yeah yeah my kids gymnastics swimming and olympic lifts and they'll be like awesome crossfitters yeah i'm sure i'm not the only crossfit coach in the world without playing for their kids yeah no kidding um elijah easy at our gym he's got his little girl cameron he has her doing um burpees back squat um wall walks and she's like two and a half he's an animal so i'm sure that and she she wants to do everything he's doing she gets on the rings um yeah he's he's determined he's like she's gonna be she's gonna win the world games what do you um so how are you coaching these kids are you using like crossfit kids type programming are you kind of using adult fundamentals or how's that working um a little bit

of both um i found that the i've got to keep things short the the attention span is probably the biggest struggle. The intensity, that's not really any different from when you first start working with adults, trying to get them to grasp the intensity. A lot of times, you almost have to trick them about the intensity. One of the best tricks is games. They tend to, if they think it's a game, they'll push harder. Or partnering up. And sometimes partnering up a younger kid with an older kid seems to work pretty well

because they really want to impress that older kid. And the older kids usually are better about pushing than the younger kids. And so the older kids will be yelling at them like, get back on the box, get back on the box. And they go much faster than when I yell at them. And I'm just another teacher telling them to do something. Another thing is that when I get them to do the workouts that the adults have done, and they can see it on the board, and they see the adult times, and they just, it's really interesting how much they just want to be a part of. I mean, all kids are going through that. My little nephew, you know, if you want him to do something, you have to say,

will you help me do this? And then he's like, okay. But if you say, do you want to do this, it's a no. But if he thinks he's participating, and it's the same thing when they get older. These kids, they just want to feel like they're participating with the adults, and they get so excited. The funnest one I did with them was Open WOD 12.1, the burpees. The burpees, yeah.

Yeah, because they just thought, oh, burpees are stupid. You know, they're these like little kids that think falling down the ground and jumping up again is something they do on a regular basis. And then, you know, I had to cut it down to five minutes because they got three minutes into it. And they were just like glaring at me, rolling their eyes. They were so mad. But knowing what the adults had done, you know, they were just, they got done and were just like dumbfounded that people got the scores that adults got in that one.

What kind of scores were the kids putting up? Just curious. Well, you know, I have a few little ninja kids. They like weigh nothing and they just bounce off the ground like they're made of rubber. And they did get 100, 110

burpees. Most of them were getting around 50 to 60. So they didn't do too bad. I mean, burpees are great for little kids. I'm like, I want to be a little kid size and try and do that burpee wad again. It's hard to do it wrong. That was a seven-minute wad?

Yeah, it was seven minutes. Okay, yeah. So I had to cut it down to five. Five minutes, I was like, damn. Were they doing 105 minutes? Or did those kids do it in seven? Yeah. Those kids did it in seven.

Okay. Some of the other kids. Those kids I could have them go until seven minutes. Some of the kids I have to cut it off at five. Did you ever do that? That seven-minute burpee thing? No. No?

Did you do it? Yes. It was awful? It was horrible. Did you get it? I only got 86. Oh, yeah. Which I was happy with that.

Well, you're a taller girl, so that's going to be much tougher for you. I saw Katie Hogan's video right before I did it when she got the 91. And then she redid it and I think she got like 116. Oh, wow. That makes no sense. I know. So I was happy to get somewhat close to her first attempt. Yeah.

And I tried to redo it when I was coming down with a cold a few days later, and that was not a good idea. Oh, I did not repeat another WOD the rest of the Open. It was just misery, torture. Doug did it. I did do it. You did? How did it go?

Pretty well. I got 111. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Good job. Not too bad. That's probably, for those of you that don't know me very well i don't do a whole lot of burpees uh it's probably like more burpees than i

had done ever ever yeah literally probably almost ever oh that's nice that's a good score did you do the other open ones no we uh we did that and then we went to ohio and then i went to africa oh and so we actually were out of town uh me and moldrick and a few other people were in Africa for about three weeks and it was right in the middle of the open. Oh, that sounds like a good reason to miss the open. It was fantastic. I think I'd rather go to Africa. We went on safari in a couple different areas. Yeah, Doug was out of town four, because we went to Columbus first, then he went to Africa. So he was gone for like a month straight. So he missed like four. Oh, really? So he got to do the first one. After that, he was gone and and this is the trip to africa where you passed out some paleo kits

uh we we had paleo kits with us we we let some africans try them out yeah okay all right yeah you're talking to me about that yeah mcgoldrick got a bunch of cool pictures of him like holding up paleo kits like oh yeah okay it was mcgoldrick that was telling me about it because he said the paleo kit um the steve's National Program, said send us some pictures. We'd love to see. And he's supposed to send the pictures to him. Okay. I don't know if he has it or not.

Actually, we'll get some pictures from McGoldrick and we'll edit them in to the podcast right now so you can see a couple of cool pictures. Now you have to do it, Chris, because we said it on the podcast. It's official. We always say something for me to do and I never do it. This won't be the first time. podcast it's official we always say something for me to do and i never do it this one's the first time i've watched i've watched the podcast before and we're like yeah we'll put a picture in right here or something like that and then and i'm watching it's like he didn't do it so lazy chris is plenty busy he is no i just never got the pictures that's probably part of it too

all right someone someone text mcgoldick right now and tell him to email us those pictures No, I just never got the pictures. That's probably part of it, too. Someone text McGoldrick right now and tell him to email us those pictures. No. No. We're going to take a break. No, we're not taking a break. Oh, geez. But that's pretty neat.

The Paleo kids, they sent me a bunch of stuff to put in the prize bags. I like them. Lee Knight is the organizer of the local branches from the national program. She's kind of the go-to. Steve Liberati is the original Steve. And people still are emailing me saying, hey, Steve, what's... I'm like, I'm Rebecca.

You know this is a bigger organization. It's just not one guy. Yeah. People figure it out pretty quick i actually made the mistake of emailing um one of their trainers and i think i was just thinking steve's club i emailed one of those trainers and i i said hey steve and i'm like that looks pretty bad when i'm like a steve's club branch and i don't know who steve is i emailed him like a few days later. I realized it.

And I was like, I emailed him and was like, sorry, completely spaced that. And he's like, I wondered. I thought that was pretty odd. How many branches are there? Now, I was just talking about this with somebody. The original is in Camden, New Jersey. Yeah, the original is in Camden, New Jersey.

And then they started Paleo Kits when they were providing healthy snacks for the kids. And they started selling the Paleo Kits to raise money for the organization. And then people found out about Steve's Club and were like, I want to get this going in my city. What do I need to do? So they put the whole national program in place and the 501c3 federal tax umbrella, which I'll find out more about that when I do my taxes this year. And they put Lee Knight, who just went to regionals this past weekend and the last weekend they had regionals. She coordinates everything on their website. It has a list of local clubs.

I don't think the website is not quite up to date right now there's probably about 10 to 12 clubs on there my club's not on there yet and I don't know how many other clubs aren't on there yet so I'm guessing in the whole country there may be you know 15 to 20 clubs and they're all over New York, California. My CrossFit kids' cert is coming up, and I'm going to the King of Prusa, CrossFit King of Prusa in Philadelphia. They have a Steve's Club there.

Oh, cool. I'm excited about that. Every Steve's Club is done differently. They're all independent. I think I might be the only self-sustaining Steve's's club or hopefully self-sustaining we'll see um most of them are affiliate owners that want to do a scholarship class okay or work in scholarship students and with their regular crossfit kids program i gotcha um or the ones that i've talked to that's the way they're doing it and or they're um or they have just an at-risk kids class and they're an affiliate owner I gotcha. It could turn out to be a really good thing because I do have, you know, when I'm not training my kids, I have the rest of the time to invest into growing the program and trying to get it bigger and expanding it outside of just one gym.

I've already talked to CrossFit Nashville, Preston. I can never pronounce his last name. I'm not going to even attempt it. As the owner there, I've already talked to him about hiring one of their trainers to do a 230 high school class. Because it's right in this big Hispanic community that I live by there. And I see the middle school get out. And there are a lot of kids struggling with obesity that you see walking down the street. And it's like four out of five kids in middle school.

Like it's not even, they're young. They're little. So it's going to be interesting. You know, Lee Knight has been like, you know what? Let's just take this and run with it. I've never heard of anybody doing it this way, but it sounds like it could work. Let's see how it goes. And hopefully with these events, I think it's a possibility.

You know, there's so many people that are enthusiastic about it and want to help that I think that we could make it grow and make it a good event. You know, people, you know, hopefully I won't have to, you know, buy massive amounts of equipment for these competitions. Yeah. I can get people involved in the CrossFit community to loan it to me, take it back. I had a little bit of that with the Beat the Streets. It had box jumps in it and different heights for girls and guys, teams of three. Some of the gyms didn't have enough boxes, so I was a box transporter for about a month. Just took boxes all over.

I wonder if you could get an equipment sponsor. An equipment sponsor, yeah. That would be nice. Equipment sponsors. Yeah, equipment sponsors would be nice you're the sponsors yeah equipment sponsors would be nice i've had some clothing sponsors i've talked to some clothing sponsors for the kids um i haven't official um nothing official okay i'm talking to a couple companies i really like the company redefine fit uh so james harbert her her h-u-l-b-e-r-t video about like women being size six and that's okay

i don't know i didn't see that no oh i haven't seen it either yeah okay maybe but um unbroken performance i've talked to them a little bit we'll see you know a lot of people know about steve's club and it's a well-known organization and it does a good thing and crossfitters are crazy about crossfit and thinks the the world would be a better place if everybody crossfitted oh yeah if you had kids that were like you know at-risk kids that you know educated on nutrition and then they got to learn all these movements like you know they'll know more than like college football players about nutrition and training no promise no how big of a role is nutrition playing in the program they're not a big role there's training and then and then going home each day is there separate interest

in classes or a course or is it like you do workout stuff and then you do a little nutrition then they go home or is it one-on-one well are you structuring that in the um right now it's been one-on-one with the kids that um are struggling um the i think that i'll probably be able to really address the nutrition um when i have a parent's program in place for sure because i can talk to these kids about nutrition all day long but their parents are doing the grocery shopping and um i've we've got i've got one kid that i'm working with that he's great. His name's Dierico, and he has birth defects in his legs. His bones are malformed, and he's very overweight. He weighs about, I think he started at 270, and he's about to start ninth grade.

He's having surgery on his legs in July. I've gotten 21 pounds off of him last time he weighed in, so he's down to 2. He was at 274. He's down to 253. I'm really addressing the nutrition with him. His mother has been talked to through the organization that I'm working with about trying to get him off grains, cut back on the grains, try and keep things,

you know, no processed foods. But there's, there's so much that needs to be taught. I asked him what he had for breakfast the other day. And you know, one day it was it was pretty good. It was like eggs and fruit. And, and then he added cereal at the end of it and i was like oh i was like try and cut out the cereal you know go easy on the cereal you know more eggs more fruit you know maybe um and i talked about almonds you know almond butter or even peanut butter um and then the other morning i asked him i said and i told him about grains i asked him well what'd you have for breakfast and he was like all happy he's like i had a pretzel i was like oh i was like well a pretzel made out of grains reading too many women's magazines yeah like yeah i know i don't know where i got the pretzel from oh you

know being a little kid and feeling like pretzels were the healthy snack out of like the potato chips oh yeah yeah well i remember being an adult and thinking that seriously there's so much shit that you were like man i'm doing good and i know you weren't doing good at all i used to eat those so horrible lean cuisines but now they have like the spa classic lean cuisine that are supposed to be more like whole foods less preservatives but i just used to eat the old school lean cuisines and they're just preservatives and salt and processed food. They gross me out now. Lean Cuisines, if you're listening to this, you can send any responses to Rebecca Brown.

Sorry. I got to eat gummy bears because they were fat-free. Oh, yeah. I could have gummy bears because they were fat-free. Fat-free Oreos, too, man. I had fat-free gummy bears yesterday. From a birthday. I had a lot of your gummy bears because they were fat free. Fat free Oreos too, man. I had fat free gummy bears yesterday. From my birthday. I had a lot of your gummy bears.

Apparently YOLO has the world's best gummy bears, or so Brandy says. They were good. I had a few. They were not your everyday gummy bears. Yesterday was Doug's birthday and we had a blowout. I had a blowout. I did not make it. The pictures were on Facebook

before I went to bed at like 10 at night. And they were already getting crazy and I hear it went on until 3 and 5 in the morning. Oh, really? Yeah. I went home at like 10. Oh, really? I wondered.

You texted me at like 10.30. I was like, is he out partying? They get like, yeah, let's do the podcast in the morning. We do do that, by the way. Doug and I go out to a party, and we'll be talking about the gym or the podcast, and we're like, oh, yeah. We start sending out emails from our phones. That's not uncommon at all.

You wake up in the morning, and you're like, why did I do that? No, I'm just going to have it. We got a lot done while we were having fun. It's just a good thing. Oh, that worked out. Partying and working. I usually want to leave halfway through the party to go work on something. I don't know, we got a lot done while we were having fun. It's just a good thing. Oh, that worked out. Partying and working. I usually want to leave halfway through the party to go work on something.

Well, that probably means you're doing the right job and the right profession. Well, everywhere we go to party with is just with people that train at the gym. Like, our whole life is the same no matter where we go. Like, whether we're at work or whether we're having a party, it's the same group of people talking about the same stuff. It's usually like the workout gets over over we're all sitting there hanging out and then we're like oh man um you guys want to get out of here we're closing let's take all the same people we're talking to right now and go talk somewhere else and we go to a restaurant i always feel bad for the significant others that don't crossfit they get dragged along to these things it's a bad idea

i know oh yeah i wouldn't be able to date somebody that didn't train here. Yeah. Should we go into the story, Chris? No, I'm just kidding. What story? Never mind. You know.

The story. No, I don't. No, it's good. So, Mike's on crutches, if the camera hasn't panned to the crutches yet. I have. What do you think this is?

Did you talk about your foot yeah so uh chris you can put pictures up of the party i don't know i wish there was video of that it was doug brad and alex's birthday party so brad rented a giant like air up pool uh slide alex from episode one and brad from episode three yeah yeah you can see who those people are yeah yeah so it's like a moon bounce people it's like yeah it's like yeah it's like a moon bounce but it's a giant water slide and it's got a pool at the bottom and it's actually really cool well the uh what what's the name of that thing? The slide engineers, they installed they blew this thing up on top of pavement. Like there's like a slab in the backyard. And Brad was like, but you can't see the pavement. It looks like all grass. Right. Things like had you never been in his backyard, you just thought you would never have. So it's just a little tarp over. So So Brad, when they were installing it, was like,

I'm not so sure on the concrete slab is the best spot. And they're like, no, it's totally the best spot. And he's like, all right, whatever you guys say. You're the slide engineers. So I've got, and before you can get to the pool, the slab starts, but there's a tarp. It's on top of a tarp. And so you just assume it's grass top of a tarp and so you

just assume it's grass so i'm like i show up at a party i'm like pool slide awesome so i rip my shirt off and i go sprinting at it and i just jam the ball of my foot and not only that there's like a metal strip like tacked onto this concrete slab i I didn't even know the concrete slab was there, let alone this metal strip. The ball of my foot just like jams right into the slab. And I just tumble into it. And everyone's like, ah, he jumped in. It was funny. And I'm in there going, ah.

And I was like, well, maybe as soon as I did it, I was thinking this is really, really bad. Like I don't think I've ever jammed my foot into something this hard before. Then I got up and I was like, oh, it doesn't feel too bad. So I went down the slide a few times, played around. I got out, it's bleeding, and it's got other stuff going on. Now it's like, I couldn't sleep last night because it was so whatever. I couldn't sleep, so i only have one type of

painkillers in my house that's from when my dog got spayed oh no what is it tram doll tram it all okay that's a human medication oh good yeah i took it in 30 minutes later it was like my wife was talking to me and like I was hearing things slightly behind her mouth. Okay, so I did. But I'm fine for this, obviously. You're lucky. Yeah, I got into this. I was an emergency vet tech, and there's a lot of medications that dogs take at much higher doses than we take.

Oh, I just figured it would be the other way around. No. I even thought about it. I was like, well, she weighs like 50 pounds when she got the surgery, so I'll take three. Fentanyl. We give dogs fentanyl, um, fentanyl patches. It's a very heavy duty painkiller that you get put on for like orthopedic surgeries. If you ever took your dog's dose of that, it would kill you. Humans take it, but they take it in much smaller doses. It is a massive dose that a dog takes. So you're lucky. Tramadol is fine, though. Don't do that. Or call me first. You can message me in the middle of the night.

People call me about that stuff. I did take it and then look it up afterwards. I was like, do I need to throw this up? I started second guessing this. Maybe that wasn't a good idea. People frequently contact you in the middle of the night, wondering if they can take their pet's medications. No, people contact me in the middle of the night.

I had a guy I went to elementary school, girlfriend in Germany, contact me from Germany and email me pictures of her kittens because she wanted, I'd never met her. I hadn't seen him since I was 10. I don't even know how he knew I worked in vet clinics. And it came up with this girl in Germany. And I've got Facebook. Yeah. Thank you, Facebook.

I've had crazy people contact me. And that was in the middle of the night because of the time change. I didn't get it until the morning. They were fine. I'm like, dude, what do you want me to tell you with a picture over the phone from Germany? Like they need to go to the vet. They look sick. Kevin Lowe, he's a vet.

And I once found a dead bird and I texted it to him. I was like, what should i do i know i've actually talked to him some stuff about that stuff i think derrick robinson posted something about his dog's expensive hematoma in its ear he was like mad about how much it cost and vets must make so much money and uh i think me and kevin lowe commented on there like actually no vets don't make money you know yeah oh you just assume because they're like a doctor and he must make so much money and uh i think me and kevin lowe commented on there like actually no vets don't make money you know yeah oh you just assume because they're like a doctor and he he tagged kevin lowe in the post he was like kevin lowe look at my expensive dog bandage

it was funny i always said like if it's gonna cost more than like five hundred dollars then i'm just gonna put the dog down oh no you wouldn't but that's the thing now i'm like up to a thousand that's what i used to say now i'm like well now it's a thousand but i've never had anything happen to my dog so i don't know what every girl watching this podcast just made the same sound she did they were just like oh oh yeah it doesn't happen my husband says the same thing. And then, you know, my cat throws up. And he's like, is kitty okay? I'm like, yeah, it's a hairball. I love my dogs.

I'd probably throw down some cash, unfortunately. Yeah. Is there anywhere, where can we go, like, if we want to donate money to Steve's Club Nashville? Like, if we want to help you out in your mission. To help me out, I have a website. It's stevesclubnashville.org. There will be pictures, updates. There's a blog on there, although I'm new to blogging.

So I'll be blogging updates on there, but bear with me. We're going to make her Twitter today. Yeah, and I've had the conversation that I need to learn how to tweet, so I'm going to get a Twitter going. I'll have that posted on there, how to follow on Twitter. You can follow me on Facebook, too. It's facebook.com backslash stevesclubnashville.

There's a click on there for contact us or donate. We'd appreciate any help. We'd also appreciate any help volunteer-wise. A few coaches have already contacted me saying, hey, I want to come help coach the kids. And, you know, I'll take all the help I can get. You know, it's the same with adults.

You know, a trainer, three trainers can say something three different ways, and one way is going to click with that person. It's the exact same with the kids. Yeah. three different ways and one way is going to click with that person it's the exact same with the kids yeah um i'll take all the eyes and voices and bodies blowing whistles i can get and um yeah feel free to contact me about any questions i've already i've been contacted about a guy that's wanting to start up his own steve's club um i may go visit him in east tennessee okay um soon he may come down in the month of june and help me but yeah I mean I can talk about this stuff all day long it's what I love talking about we'll talk to anybody about it you know do you know what

you're gonna name your competition in the fall yet no but I'm liking the idea of something about something around demons demons forons for kids. Yeah, demons for kids. Hey, it has to be better than that freaking CrossFit for Hope poster they made. Yeah, don't do the one I have. No, I haven't seen it. Oh, really? Is it bad?

I think we got a copy. No, they're at my house. I don't want to know what you're doing with them at your house. I'm keeping them so in the future when CrossFit's a little bigger, I can be like, look at this nonsense. Well, hopefully. Maybe I'll send whatever I think of to you to prove first.

Is this nonsense? I don't know. Yeah, demons for kids. The demon thing with the kids thing may not work out. But something maybe Halloween-esque. Halloween-related. That's kind of like a kid's holiday anyway. Yeah.

That's my favorite holiday. I like kids. All right. Well, we're going to wrap this up. And so make sure you guys visit fitter.tv, F-I-T-R.TV, especially if you're listening because you won't see us putting that on the video. So and what else we got to promote, Doug? Just make sure that when you do go to fitter.tv, sign up for the video. So, and what else we got to promote, Doug? Just make sure that

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The episodes will start being live, so you'll be able to tweet at us during the show. And that should be fun. Oh, yeah. That's going to be cool. All right, guys. One more time. What was your website? stevesclubnashville. yeah. That's going to be cool. All right, guys. One more time. What was your website? stevesclubnashville.org.

Feel free to check it out. It's got my email on there. It's got my phone number. Any questions, feel free to send me a message, give me a call. If the calls get out of control, maybe I'll have to put a fake number on there, but the email will work. I don't think the calls will get out of control. Just real quick, can we donate money through the website?

Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, the donate, can we donate money through the website? Yeah. Absolutely. The donate, it has a little widget on there for donating. If you want to donate with a credit card, it also is hooked up straight with the national program. The widget on there is all

worked out for the local clubs. Alright. Very cool. Alright, guys. See y'all next time. Alright. Good job. Dude dude was i supposed to say like you are a talker we can do this yeah i know i told you i can talk about talk and talk i should have said something about thank you for doing this on there