Barbell Shrugged - Feed Me Fuel Me  — Committed to Change w/ Taylor Dayne Loyd  — 91

Episode Date: June 14, 2018

Taylor Dayne Loyd is owner of TDLFIT and co-owner of Iron Greenhouse. She has been coaching boxing for 8 years. She is USA WEIGHTLIFTING Certified and has her Precision Nutrition Cert. Taylor competed in bodybuilding competitions, bikini and figure. She was a nationally qualified figure competitor. After 3 years of bodybuilding, she made her way into Crossfit. Taylor is currently training at Crossfit Jaakarhu under Michael Winchester. She is a passionate athlete and coach with high expectations for her athletes. She grew up struggling with wanting to be really skinny. She was completely obsessed, and even went through a bad drug problem. After being in a rough spot, she decided one night to change her life around, ditched her dream to be skinny, and decided to show herself how strong she can really be. Since 2007, she have been training, coaching, and competing in the fitness industry. She has been hands on training for 10 years, and takes a balanced approach to fitness combining intense and varied workouts with nutritional and dietary support. Taylor draws inspiration from many workout styles, including CrossFit, bootcamp, plyo, yoga, gymnastics, and fighting. In this episode, Taylor talks about her journey in the fitness world, transitioning from bodybuilding to CrossFit, and her experience competing on a team at regionals and the games. Taylor gravitated towards CrossFit because of the sense of community. In bodybuilding, there was no sense of team or “us”, so the team centered environment of CrossFit instantly hooked her. Enjoy! - Jeff and Mycal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Show notes: http://www.shruggedcollective.com/fmfm_loyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please support our partners! Thrive Market is a proud supporter of us here at Barbell Shrugged.  We very much appreciate all they do with us and we’d love for you to support them in return!  Thrive Market has a special offer for you. You get $60 of FREE Organic Groceries + Free Shipping and a 30 day trial, click the link below: thrivemarket.com/feedme How it works:  Users will get $20 off their first 3 orders of $49 or more + free shipping.  No code is necessary because the discount will be applied at checkout. Many of you will be going to the store this week anyway, so why not give Thrive Market a try!   ► Subscribe to Shrugged Collective's Channel Here http://bit.ly/BarbellShruggedSubscribe 📲 🎧 Listen to the audio version on the Apple Podcast App or Stitcher for Android Here- http://bit.ly/BarbellShruggedApple http://bit.ly/BarbellShruggedStitcher Shrugged Collective is a network of fitness, health and performance shows that help people achieve their physical and mental health goals.  Usually in the gym, but outside as well. In 2012 they posted their first Barbell Shrugged podcast and have been putting out weekly free videos and podcasts ever since. Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini. We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast. Find Shrugged Collective and their flagship show Barbell Shrugged here: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES ► http://bit.ly/ShruggedCollectiveiTunes WEBSITE ► https://www.ShruggedCollective.com INSTAGRAM ► https://instagram.com/shruggedcollective FACEBOOK ► https://facebook.com/barbellshruggedp... TWITTER ► http://twitter.com/barbellshrugged

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you know that we now offer 11 of our top training programs as a part of a single membership site that we're calling the Program Vault. We used to launch training programs every few months, and people were always bummed that they couldn't sign up at any time. You had to be around for the launch. The launch was only four or five days if you missed it then you had to wait six months or a year depending on what training program we were offering next and it's kind of a hassle even when people signed up for training programs to switch to a different program when they got to the end of their current program or they just happen to be in a new phase of training they hit their their past goal and now they have new goals and new goals require

different training programs so inevitably it was a pain in the ass for people to switch programs so we took all that feedback and we decided to just put all of our programs together on this thing we now call the program vault that way all struggling athletes could have access to all the workouts that we have and move from program to program as they saw fit for themselves. Makes sense. So there's 11 programs. Three of them are long-term, very comprehensive programs where there's a warm-up and there's mobility and there's nutrition added in there. All the workouts are there. There's a cool-down. There's stuff to do on your off days. They're super, super comprehensive. And those programs last for over 18 months if you want to stick around for that long. And there's also eight

short-term programs. These programs are three months long and these are basically add-on programs. So if you are already doing classes at a gym and you don't want to stop doing your classes but you want to work on one particular thing, maybe you want to like work on your shoulder health or you want to work on your conditioning, like your aerobic capacity or maybe you just want to work on your squatting strength or your pull-up strength or something like that, then we have these short-term add-on programs that are super low volume, but they're just like an extra, you know, two or three exercises at the end of your workout to help work on whatever those very specific goals are that you have. So the three long-term programs are flight weightlifting. That's a very weightlifting-specific

training program. It builds you from someone who's more like beginner-intermediate at weightlifting and builds you up to be a more technical, professional-style weightlifter over the course of 12 or 18 months. We also have Muscle Gain Challenge. If you just want to put on muscle mass and you want a higher-volume training program, this, in my opinion, is more of an intermediate program. If you don't have good technique on the Olympic lifts yet, you're going to kind of be thrown right to the wolves, so to speak.

It doesn't ramp you up like flight does. Flight has very specific progressions for weightlifting to let you learn all the technique over time. Muscle gain challenge kind of just throws you right into it. So ideally, you already have some experience with Olympic weightlifting before you start the muscle gain challenge kind of just throws you right into it so ideally you already have some experience with olympic weightlifting before you start the muscle gain challenge and there's a very high emphasis of course with the muscle gain challenge on gaining muscle so that means you got to eat a lot of food so there's a lot of emphasis on how much to eat what to eat and your recovery as a part of that program so that way you can get bigger and stronger

also we have shrug strength challenge which is more of a traditional kind of CrossFit program. If you do CrossFit classes at a CrossFit gym, you probably do some strength movements at the very beginning of class. Maybe you do front squats for 5 sets of 5, and then you do a Metcon that's 20 or 25 minutes or whatever it happens to be. That's more typical of the Strug Strength Challenge, where strength is the goal, but certainly conditioning is is a key

part of that as well as has more of a strength bias than kind of a regular generalized cross type program so the eight short-term training programs again these are about three months long and they're kind of an add-on program so the first one is boulders for shoulders that's a shoulder health and stability program, health mobility and stability program. That doesn't mean you're going to be doing a whole lot of jerks and overhead presses necessarily. This is again an add-on program. So you're gonna be doing a lot of assistance work for your shoulders, your thoracic spine, etc. That way you can have the healthiest shoulders possible. There's the aerobic monster program,

which is adding in a bunch of extra, mostly aerobic conditioning. You're going to be on the airdyne a lot. You're going to be on the rower a lot. You're going to be doing a lot of monostructural stuff. So, you know, if you already have your regular workout, you do strength, you do your Metcon. And then, you know, as a very overly simplistic example, you do, you know, 20 minutes of rowing, or you do 30 on 30 off for 10 rounds, or you're doing a hard 30 and an easy 30 or whatever it is just a little bit extra aerobic work there's the squat the house program where you know we add in two leg exercises three days a week so you might squat and then do some lunges

or something like that depending on what your regular classes are like you might already be doing a lot of squatting but if you're not currently able to do a lot of squatting and you want to do some more squatting and you just want to add that onto your current training, then Squat the House is a great program. Anaerobic Assault, that is a high-intensity interval-style program where you're doing very fast Metcons. So you might be doing airdyne sprints, you know, 30 seconds on,

100% full speed, and then take a three-minute break and do it again, or even, you know, five even 5 touch and go deadlifts followed by 10 burpees, rest 2 minutes and then do it again but you're doing it all 100% full speed, really teaching you how to kick it into high gear and move very very quickly when you're doing your Metcons. There's my first pull up which is not going to give you a whole lot of actually doing pull ups, this is a program for people that can't do a pull up yet so you a whole lot of actually doing pull-ups these are this is a program for people that can't do a pull-up yet so there's a lot of assistance work for pull-ups and there's a

lot of extra assistance work for just all the muscle groups involved in doing pull-ups everything everything from just doing extra extra lat work extra scapular attraction rhomboid lower trap work extra bicep work etc to help get you to the point where you can do your first pull-up there's a strongman accessory program where you can be doing yoke walks, picking up stones, pulling heavy sleds, and things like that. And then there's two more programs that are kind of a little bit higher volume. You could do them on your own if you wanted to. And you also can combine these.

You could do aerobic monster and anaerobic assault and my first pull-up all together if you wanted to, if you just wanted to add extra volume but the last two open prep is exactly what it sounds like just gets you ready for the crossfit open or other similar competitions you'll be doing a lot of metcons and the last one is barbell beginner to meet it's prepping you for your first olympic weightlifting competition each program is scheduled between three and five days per week. There's videos explaining all the programming. There's demos. There's technique explanations for everything.

And then also you have access to the private Shrugged Collective Facebook group. That way you can get advice from ourselves. We'll be in there hanging out. Our guests from our shows. We also have a bunch of athletes, coaches, and strength experts that are friends of ours that are in there too to help you out. If you're interested, since I've been talking long enough, you can go to shruggedcollective.com backslash vault for all the information. Again, that is shruggedcollective.com backslash B-A-U-L-T. That spells vault. Go there, check it out. If you have any questions, email help at

barbellshrugged.com and enjoy the show. This is episode number 91 of the Feed Me, Fuel Me podcast with our special guest, owner of Iron Greenhouse, Taylor Dane Lloyd. Welcome to the Feed Me, Fuel Me podcast. My name is Jeff Thornton alongside my co-host, Michael Anders. Each week, we bring you an inspiring person or message related to our three pillars of success, manifestation, business, fitness and nutrition. Our intent is to enrich, educate and empower our audience to take action, control and accountability for their decisions. Thank you for allowing us to join you on your journey.

Now let's get started. Hey, what's good crew? Welcome to another episode of the Feed Me, Fuel Me podcast. There's Jeff coming to you from Salt Lake City, Utah at the CrossFit Games South Regional. And today we're on the mic with Taylor Lloyd holding down CrossFit yukaru yes finish with the bang yes he win yeah on yeah last of it mm-hmm that's baller how's that worm it's it's awful it really is but the plus side is the one we were training with was so janky and all over the place because we had

A six-man worm really we rigged it to a four-person so it had all this Janky stuff and then when we got here, and it was so compact the ones that they had it actually Made it a lot easier for us, but it still is a bitch like it is I Guess just you have all your weight on all the weights on one shoulder and it's a barbell It's just even so you can do thrusters I mean not all day, but it's just you can control your breathing and on the worm You have to say I want to stop at five thrusters, but we're going to ten I don't get to stop right so I'm not on my pace

I'm on their pace and the worm is just all over the place and is it hard it is it's really hard It reminds me a lot of the the the the team building stuff we did in the Marine Corps with logs, right? So for you guys, who's dictating the pace? Who's calling the cadence? Who's in control of that particular part of the workout? So you have a team captain, and it's his in which I can't even – I can't say enough good things about him,

and this is all of our first year at regionals this is all our first year of competing that's crazy really yeah all four of us we've never none of us have ever even we've done one local competition once and that is jules or as a team okay and um but even as individuals none of us have ever competed none of us have ever competed. None of us have ever done anything until this weekend. Wow. That's crazy. That's awesome. So we are like the rookie underdogs of the weekend. Okay. Um, so us learning to be on the worm. Uh, so if you, when you're, when you're running or you're working out, the last thing you want to fucking do is yell or talk or do anything. You just want to black out and go so his job is to have to like see people and see how we're moving and be able to make the calls and it's hard i

didn't want to do it and yeah um so you have a team captain and he makes the call so like burpees when everyone's on the ground and he sees everyone on the ground he says up on the lunges you say right left and it's it's hard it's hard. You don't get to catch your breath. So, like, the us three get to just black out, listen for his voice, and go, and he has to, like, look at us and look how we're moving and, you know, blah, blah, blah. That's crazy because just watching the synchronization, how you have the taller than the shorter athletes, that has to be like navigating a damn minefield, to be honest with you.

Yeah, I mean, so Sarah's shorter than all of us, and her knee hits the ground before ours do on the lunges so it's something where like sarah has to know that she has to lunge and sit there for like one two because that's taking us longer to get our knee down so it's okay it's just a lot of awareness but it it also makes it fun because then you take your mind off of how bad it's sucking and how bad you're hurting because you're so concentrated on your teammates. So I'm super glad that I came team. Yeah. Yeah. So the last time we had you on the show, you were kind of playing in both worlds,

bodybuilding and CrossFit. So awesome. And then, you know, you had made a declaration that you were going to commit to CrossFit, give it a shot, and just see where it took you. And now you're here. So that's super awesome. I love that I did that. That makes me excited to go back and listen to it. You totally manifested that.

Congratulations on that, too. Thank you. Thank you. It was shocking, actually. How was the transition as you moved away from bodybuilding and, like, full-on committed to CrossFit? Honestly, it was so easy. I didn't for a second hesitate or think, like, oh, this is the wrong choice or, oh, I don't want to do this. It was just, like, every single day I went back and I was just, like, loving it more every single day.

And bodybuilding is so, so low. Like, yeah, you might have your cool bro workout partner and all that stuff, but they don't, they don't, they don't care about how you feel or how you did that day. They don't care at all. And so with car or CrossFit and team and knowing that you're going to compete with these people, I mean, you come in and you're like, kind of not feeling great. And they're all just, they're like, Hey, what's wrong? Hey, let's do this. Hey let's do this hey you've got it hey this is great and you know if you're slacking a workout they come get in your face and like no let's go so bodybuilding you don't want to show up you don't show up no one cares right so it just it was it was super easy and i i'll never regret anything i wish i would have done it sooner honestly that's dope how long was your bodybuilding

career three three and a half years competitively right and then remind us again how did you find crossfit so i um it's it's kind of a strange so instagram of course all of connections of everything someone reached out to me and they're like hey i saw you quit bodybuilding we have a a team. Um, let me interview you. And so I went to an interview kind of, and this wasn't you car who, and I was like, okay, you know, I'll try it. And I tried it for three months with this particular team and the vibe wasn't there. The coach wasn't there. The relationship wasn't there. The, um, I did my very first open with them. Um, it wasn't a, it just wasn't a good vibe and didn't have a good taste in my mouth about CrossFit. And so I quit after I trained for half

a month. I did the open, which was silly. And then I was like, I suck like this is awful. So I quit and I did a hybrid of CrossFit of what I did learn in bodybuilding by myself. And, um, I was really tired of being so crappy at gymnastics, like couldn't even kick up to a handstand for nothing and couldn't do a kipping pull up, couldn't do anything. So I reached out to Jessica Estrada of CrossFit Yukaru. I didn't know anything about them. I just knew that she was the best in Austin. I was like, hey, I want to pay you to help me with gymnastics twice a week. So I did that for almost a month. And she started, like, kind of putting the idea in my head of, like, you should just come work out here.

Just come try it. Just come try it. And I'd always see them, like, come train. And I was like, fuck, they are intense. Like, when you watch an intense group workout and you're an athlete, it gives you chills. Like you're just like, I miss that. And so they had like a community workout one day

and I was like, I want to do it. So I went and did this, no, it wasn't a community workout. She just said I could come do a workout with the level three. And I was like, okay, all right, I'll come. And I did it. And, um, it was on a Saturday. So it's always like competitive Saturday. And I fucking went for it. I threw up later, but it was like a deadlift burpee and you had to get so many deadlifts and so many burpees in this certain time, but the reps increased every time. Almost like a death by? Yes.

Yeah. And I did it, and I was literally the last person for like almost three rounds, and I went and threw up, and I was like, yep, this is what I've been missing. So I had a meeting with the head coach like later that week, and he asked me what my goals were, and I was like, I don't, and I swear he'll tell you I said this. I was like, I don't, and I swear he'll tell you I said this. I was like, I don't really want to compete. I just want to see how, what my potential is in this type of sport.

I was like, I don't want to compete. I'm not really interested in that. I just want to work out for fun. He was like, okay. And I think he already knew what I, like, so then that's where it all started. And I just, I promised him i would show up every day and i would listen to him and do anything he asked me to do and how it ended up all i asked him what to do was to be honest with me and to never say like hey you really got potential if i didn't i was

like i don't want to waste my time like you tell you honestly in six months from now if you tell me that like you just it ain't it for you then i want to know that and he was completely transparent with me and told me what i needed to work on all the time and that's where i'm at now that's still yeah he's i can't say enough good things about him either do you feel like you're excuse me do you feel like your progression has sort of gone rapidly because you surround yourself with people that were of higher of a higher skill set in CrossFit? Because from when we spoke to you that year and from transitioning and getting it to regionals now, that's a fast timeline. Do you think that accelerates your timeline and your pace by being around great people?

A hundred percent. A hundred and ten percent. No one's going to go out of their comfort zone if they don't have someone to chase. So if you're always the best person in the gym, the best person in the room, you're in the wrong room. Like you're not – I'm not going to get pushed by someone that's worse than me because then I'm probably going to scale it back and hang out with them. Yeah. And being around people who have literally been to the games and someone like Jessica Estrada who's 120 pounds and, what, 5'1", and she is barbell cycling a barbell that I have just as fast as me.

Damn. Absolutely. That's going to make you step up your game. And having her just cycle her toe-to-bar way faster than me is just, she's one of my favorite people to work out next to because she's always a little bit faster than me, and she's so small. And I'm like, I know that this is, unless it's running or rowing, and she'll tell you that. Or wall balls, right?

Wall balls. I got her all day. But, yeah, just, and the coach, too. If you don't have a coach that brings that intensity and brings that expectation on the session, you're not going to do it. Yeah. expectation on the session you're not going to do it yeah so he always brings his expectations and he always expresses like how he feels we should perform and where you should be at and we write our times on the board and he tells you like hey deering you need to be closer to lloyd like y'all need to compete with each other and he just puts that out there so then it's in your head and I always compete with the boys so yeah always I'll compare my times to the boys

and I I think that also is what and that's not a bragging thing it's just I know when you get to this level that's what I need to be able to keep up with boys if I want to be in top five but these freaking crazy females so I always made sure to do that too. And when I was winning workouts, still I wanted to beat Andy or I wanted to beat Orion who were also here as individuals. So that's something that I always put on myself too. And that's dope because that follows exactly what you said

on the last time you were on the show, how you worked out with your brother and you always tried to beat your brother and his friends. They accelerated. Your mindset is incredible. But if people don't see that, you know, you always put the finish line so far ahead of you that you're going to – that's how you reach your accomplishments a lot faster

instead of reaching, like, a small goal. Right. That's huge. Yeah, you don't stop when you're winning workouts. It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean nothing. It's funny because, you know, we see a lot of people day in and day out that are always looking at the gym leaderboard, right? No.

And your gym is not a reflection, a true reflection of how well you're doing. Absolutely not. You know, it's easy to get comfortable within the confines of the walls that you train in each and every day. So, you know, for those people that are always, you know, checking Wattify and whatnot, you know, we encourage them, step outside your comfort zone, you know, go compete, you know, and just see where you're really at. Oh, absolutely. Find out.

Yeah, it's a slap in the face. You know, like, oh, my God, like, top three, what does that really mean? Right. You know, how significant is that really mean right you know how significant is that really you know and but it's really cool watching your progression and your your commitment to becoming as good as you become and now that you're here what are you doing with your goals I've been watching the individuals actually I did qualify as an individual okay I got an invite okay so I got 29th over the

region and I was like I ain't get no invite and so I was training with the team for two weeks and then one like literally randomly check my phone I was training with the team for two weeks and then one like literally randomly checked my phone I was like I almost teared up because it was just like I did it like it's it was different And I'm not I'm not Taking away of what I accomplished But that's not how I wanted to come to regionals as an invite and I'm not taking away from who are here on an invite And I think that's dope that they're here. want to earn my top 20 spot yeah and I know that I wasn't ready this year as an individual and even seeing these workouts I probably could have done

really well and maybe three I think I could have done really well in Linda but this the ring muscle-up handstand, I would probably still be out there trying to get over two damn ramps. And I just, that's not how I want to come. When I do do individual, which that's now a goal of mine. I love team. And I think I will regret it if I don't ever try as an individual. But just like Rich Froning, he did it as his individual. And then he's done with it.

And now he has a phenomenal team like that that's like my end goal to be like hey I I can hang as an individual but now I want to do team because team is so much more fulfilling um it's so much more fun and it's not so mentally draining on yourself because when you're out on the floor solo you don't have anyone to like pick you up like that's that's you and that's it right and team you can like I said you're out on the floor solo, you don't have anyone to, like, pick you up. Like, that's you, and that's it. Right. And team, you can, like I said, you can focus on their pain and you helping them more than how you're feeling. Right.

So, and team is just fun. I mean, you get to the finish line, you get to hug them and see how great and how excited they are. When you're solo, you get to the finish line, you're back to myself so but I've been watching individuals and seeing how they move the top ten individuals and just seeing what I feel that I need to focus on and expressing my coach like hey I this next year I want to train as an individual. And, I mean, my weaknesses are very obvious, and so I can't even wait to get home and start nailing down a program for me to start working on an individual.

So that would be my goal. Yeah. You've got to listen to Jessica Griffith's episode. She manifested that same path, you know, trained and trained and trained and trained. And, you know, I think she went two years on team because first year that was the goal. The second year, she didn't feel like she was ready still. And then when we interviewed her last year, she was committed to going individual and she made it. That's awesome.

And she made a huge splash at the games. That's awesome. So if you want to see what that path looks like, listen to her episode. Oh, absolutely. That'd be awesome. Yeah. But no, you also have Iron Greenhouse. Yes.

So you're kicking ass on the business front too? Yes. Yeah. So how's been the balance as an entrepreneur and a now regional athlete? Honestly, I think it makes it easier. I don't have to sit in an 8 to 5 job. I don't have to sit inside and, like, get my muscles tired and have to deal with bullshit of people I don't like all day. And this is just my opinion.

I get to train at 10 a. AM. I get to sleep in. If I have a client at 6 AM, like who cares? I can have a breakfast and they understand. And it wouldn't be as easy if my clients weren't so supportive. Like they, I mean, they would probably print my face on their t-shirts and fly here if I come individual ever. Um, and they have been so phenomenal. They don't mind when I, if I have to eat during class, they get it and they don't, I don't make it to where like I'm sitting down and like yelling at him across, but if I have to eat real quick or something, they understand. Um, this past training, the only time our team could train together was a 7 PM on Tuesdays and I I coach at 630. And I gave them a little discount on their membership, and they just showed up.

They trained without me. My business partner was there and helped kind of watch, and they were just so supportive. So, like, my schedule is so flexible and so perfect for training, and I own a gym. So if I have to get a second session in, I own a gym. I don't have to drive back south to go. I can just run up there if it's 6 a.m., 7 a.m., need to bust it out. If I need to do it at 3 p.m., if I need to do a night session, I have keys to the door.

So I personally think it made it easier. But I also just love what I do. So that also helps. A ton. How have you noticed the community transition coming from a bodybuilding community to the CrossFit community? What bodybuilding community? It is a dog eat dog. And I know people still message me to this day of how much I dog eat dog. I can't.

And I know people still message me to this day of how much I dog bodybuilding. And again, people need to remember it was my experience. No one is there for you. No one cares. They're so fake. They're so full of crap. They would break your heels without you looking so you fall on stage. And it's just, there's no community.

There's no nothing. They all, I say they. I mean, whatever. If they love doing it, I think that's a lie. It's a very miserable, it's just solo. You're just it. You're hungry by yourself. You're at home meal prepping by yourself you're your only goal is to look a

certain way and other girls want you to look worse than them so all you're doing is looking at other people's instagram on how they're leaning out and you're not lean enough and blah blah blah blah and no one's calling to check on you or seeing if you came to the gym and crossfit has just made it a point to like make it about community and friendships and um even here so like at bodybuilding when you're backstage no one talks to each other no one even hardly looks at you no one asks if you're feeling okay i swear to god a girl passed out while we were in line because she was so dehydrated and not one person human being that wasn't working there even looked twice like they were just like well she fell so the only person that ran up to her to help

was someone that worked there trying to give her water and they're like so you want to have water and everyone was just like stood there and was like this is a show there's no water like it's awful and so you come here and even right before you're about to compete everyone's just like giving you high fives and like good luck and even on the floor they look at you and they're like that was really good like good job um it's just awesome you just you don't you're not out there hoping someone falls off the rope or hoping someone fails a rep. You sincerely want everyone to do their best. And you can feel that. I mean, there's a few assholes that are going to be dicks and cocky and think that they don't need to tell you good job and all that stuff.

And that's fine. But for the 90%, it is so fun. I couldn't. It was just a blast. That's dope. Has the experience been everything you thought it would be coming in? No. Oddly enough, no one ever believes me.

I'm a very anxious, nervous person. And usually in bodybuilding when I'd walk on stage, I would be like shaking because I was so nervous. And when I would get off the stage, I wouldn't even like remember the experience because I was so nervous. And I guess I blacked it out because I was so anxious and wanting to get off the stage. And then I got off and I was like, I didn't even enjoy that. I didn't even let myself be present to enjoy what I worked for this long. And then I was scared that that was going to happen here. And then I was going to get on the floor and I was going to be so nervous and like looking at other people and like being, um, so close to other competitors in our lane and that

it was just going to like shake me up. And then by the time it was over that I didn't even get to experience it. And it just, I mean, I could cry about it thinking about it. Like as soon as I stepped on the floor, I was like, I'm'm not nervous this is where I'm supposed to be like this is this is my element and so it was just so comforting to be like I can do this yeah um I don't know I could cry about it I haven't cried yet so I might um it was just awesome because I was just really nervous I was like I'm not even going to enjoy this because I'm going to be so nervous. And then our first freaking event was the handstand walk, which is my worst event. I was so – and right before we went on the floor, we were practicing going up the stairs,

and I literally fucked up. I can't – seven times in a row. And my coach was like, you know what? Stop. You're going to get in your head about it. You've done it. You've done it plenty of times. Like, walk off.

And I was just like, god damn it. Like, this is going to suck. And we went out on the floor. I did my thing. And it just wasn't going the way we planned on the handstand walk. And then I had to go a little bit, a few more times than I was supposed to ahead of time. And then I was the last person. I had one minute left. And I had to go a little bit few more times than I was supposed to ahead of time. And then I was the last person. I had one minute left.

And I had two ramps I had to walk over. And I was just like, okay. And I got over the first one. I probably could have collapsed and cried. So I got over the first one. And I was so happy. I actually got over the second one. But there was a line you had to actually walk to.

And right on the last step, I tripped. But I was just happy that I did it. I was super proud that I even got over one of the ramps being so anxious about that workout. How do you calm yourself down in that moment when you're sort of like stressing out and panicking on the floor? I kept telling myself, I was like, it's just another fucking training day. I looked at my teammates and they were just nod they were just, like, nodding their head, and they smiled at me. They weren't yelling at me.

I'm not the type to be yelled at, like, when I'm anxious about something. Like, they know, and this was so cool about team, you learn how to motivate each one of your people in the right moment. And they were just looking at me, and they were just like, it's just us. So I just, like, sat there and just relaxed and, like, just relaxed and thought about the thousands of times we did it at the gym. And I was like, I've done this. I am capable of doing this. And I just flipped up and just walked down.

And I was like, so happy. So you just keep telling yourself, it's just another training day. It's just another training day. So I just kept telling myself that. That's cool. There you go. How – where are you at with your team? Like everybody kind of has their role.

You know, somebody's the leader, somebody's the encourager. You know, where are you at in the team dynamic? I think my coach wanted me to be team captain and, um, I think that's what he was pushing for me to do. And I think I could, um, I wasn't there yet this year. Um, especially on the worm. I really just didn't need to make the calls. I wasn't there yet. Um, but I am, I'm kind of a hard ass. Um, no, I know. Shocker. Um, I am not a fluffer. I am not going to rub your back and tell you it's going to be okay. I'm not, um, I'm not going to say, Hey, you know, you tried your best, but that's okay. If I, so example, if this helps at all, we were doing a training session at the gym and we had like a run, but we, the goal was for us to stay within seconds of each other.

And I was just taking off on the runs. I was like, no, like we're fucking training for regionals. Like we don't get to kind of jog this run. And they were jogging and I turned around and I was like, if this is hard for you, you need to go home. Like if you can't jog at my pace for a 400 meter little run, you need to go home. Like we have regionals in a week. And so, of course, two people get their feelings hurt and blah, blah, blah. And I don't apologize for it. It's just, that's it.

Like I'm not, we're not, I'm not naive to how good we need to be to be here. And so I'm kind of a hard ass. Um, and then I, I, I'm a leader in a way of setting the tone of how quick this workout needs to be or how, um, you know, if someone needs to pick up the pace, I'll, I'll be the one to tell them that, um, I don't just sit back, but I think, I think I could probably have played a little bit bigger of a role, but I think I was just trying to take it in and be present and, um, more, I was more selfish in that way with this experience this time around to just make sure that I was being the best performer for them. As opposed to being a leader for them, I wanted to perform well for them.

And so I was more focused on that at this point, this time around, which I maybe should have been a little bit more of a leader and helped Steven out maybe. But again, I was more worried of doing my part for the team than being a leader through this whole process. I think that's more, I don't think that's selfish at all. I mean, I think that's actually more that being aware of that is, you know, puts you in that selfless seat, you know, because, you know, there's nothing more detrimental to the team to have somebody leading that isn't capable of leadership in those moments. You know, in the Marine Corps and training and stuff like that, you find out who those people are, who's ready for all that in training, so that, you know, you don't put yourself in a situation where they shit the bed, you know, in this case, on the floor.

Right. You know what I mean? So to, to have that awareness and know that if you were in the driver's seat, this go around, it probably, it potentially. Right. Could have been worse. Could have been done more harm than good. You know, I agree. And there's a lot of people who have that opportunity who don't have that awareness, who are like, I want to lead, I should be in charge, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. No, no. I think that it takes a very special person. I think Steven was the right choice for this. And again, us being all rookies, I think we all were leaders in our own way. Like when Steven was tired and he couldn't talk chase like immediately stepped up and was there and making calls and knew that i wasn't wanting to do that and he just took the lead and did that so in certain situations like i think we all got the chance to be slight leaders

because we're so again rookies like we don't think of each other anyone better than the other one at this point because we're all here together. Sure. What's the makeup of your team? Like background wise. Everybody's a rookie. So how long has everybody been doing CrossFit and whatnot? Gosh, I really don't know. I think everyone's on there like maybe two to three years possibly.

I could be so wrong. Sure, sure, sure. I know Sarah was a gymnast and a basketball player and chase was a wrestler and I Don't know. I'm not sure what Steven did exactly. He's probably gonna hate me because he's probably told me But I know I Want to say two to three years two to three years probably But we all have had very specific jobs this weekend and i think we all executed our jobs very well and i think that's that was so important because i didn't sarah is not as strong as i am and so i on the snatches i don't know if y'all are watching so i

did a lot more than her but i can't expect her to all of a sudden be able to barbell cycle 95 pounds as good as me like i can't expect that of her to randomly of a sudden be able to barbell cycle 95 pounds as good as me. I can't expect that of her to randomly be able to be stronger than she is. So, and I was fine with taking more reps. Sure. And just stuff like that. With the handstand push-ups, she's a lot faster than me. So, I didn't do very many to get off the wall so she could do more.

And that was her job. Yeah. So, that's... I think that's the beauty of team. Oh, yes. didn't do very many to get off the wall so she could do more and that was her job yeah so i think that's the beauty of team oh yes you can cover each other's gaps yeah you know what i mean and and really uh push each other and also drag each other through particular elements of certain workouts you know and being able to really rely on your strengths and kind of, you know, comparatively speaking, glide over your weaknesses. I mean, that's so huge. Yeah. And you have to be humble to the point of like, to knowing what you're not great at. So

like if I stayed on the wall and try to be an asshole and do more handstand pushups than I could and like resting at the top and trying to do two more we probably wouldn't have even won that event so you have to just be humble and be like Sarah's better at this than me so I'm just gonna let you go yeah and that's where I think some people get big-headed and try to do like if Sarah tried to do five power snatches all of a sudden she probably would have failed one or two and then dropped the bar and that wouldn't have helped us at all yeah so that's what. So that's what's cool about team. When it comes to putting together a team, like, Jakarta, they have a lot of competitor level athletes.

Did you guys do it intentionally to build this team of four that you built? Was that by intention or was that just by happenstance of where you placed? I think it was really just obvious. It was really like, of course, that's Winchester's decision, not ours. But through, as you train together in our 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. class, like it's just very obvious of like who's ready for this, who wants it, who.

Because like, again, we have like competitive Saturdays and we always bring that competitive edge to training even when we don't want to and it comes time to like lift or whatever we always just turn that on and it just it's very obvious especially towards like during the open and stuff even if um I don't know what Sarah didn't do what she wanted to do during the open but But when she's in train, she's very much of a very confident athlete. So she's, that girl can jog handstand walk, like jog on her hands. And she's very confident in what she is capable of. And she brings that to training sessions. And I think it was just like, you know what, you're ready. And she compliments me very well because she's very good at what i'm not um and so i think that's something and um we had another female alternate

and we just kind of had to wait till the workouts came out to see like who was going to be a better fit and it wasn't obvious when they came out and so they just kind of had to fight for that and see where it worked and um i mean i think I think picking Sarah was a great choice, and we did great this weekend. But it kind of just, Stephen and Chase are so fit, as in, like, endurance and cardio, it is unreal. Like, no matter what, they will outbeat anyone. They always make fun of themselves as like they're like the

triathlon crossfitters because they ain't huge. They're not super strong but put them on like a runner or a row and they are gone. And so these workouts were there wasn't a heavy barbell. The heaviest barbell was 135 or

175 135 for the guys. That's the heaviest barbell for the guys. That's the heaviest barbell for the guys. So we didn't really need a super strong dude. We just needed someone that can have their heart rate up for a while. And they were perfect. Steven's really good at gymnastics. And it was just very obvious when and then the Open came.

And it was just pretty obvious of who needed to be on the team. Okay, that's dope. That's cool. The team dynamic always is super interesting just because of all the egos that potentially conflict. Everybody wants to be on the team. Everybody's pushing for that individual slot. And when you get to a point where you have so many fire breathers to choose from, you know, it's kind of like, okay.

So when you're competing for a slot on the team and it's not as obvious as, well, you're the first and second guy, you're the first and second girl, I can only imagine what that's like for you guys. Yeah. I worked really hard to guarantee my spot. Sure. Like you can't not have me? Yes. Yeah. And, again, I don't mean that in a cocky way, but I and lucky me, those open workouts, except for maybe one were like made for me.

Like the first one, I love total bar and I love rowing and I'm very good at both. So when that came out, I was like, oh, yes, please. And then the second one was burpees. I love the dumbbell squat. And then my clean the dumbbell squat and then my clean was decent i think my clean was like the fourth in the region that's the workout why i did so well and yeah in the open so these workouts were really good for me for the in the open um and i just i i made sure and told him like how serious i was all the time and you have to i mean your coach you have to you have to have that relationship

with your coach because if you if you come in with a shitty attitude for two weeks he's going to think that you're not into it anymore but you always have to tell him like hey this is going on in my life like this is why I'm having an attitude or this is what I'm feeling um injuries you have to tell him but I always like once a month I just made sure to have a meeting with him was like I'm I'm ready to go like if I was like, I'm ready to go. If we get a team, we're ready to go. If I make an individual, I'm going to leave that up to you if you think I'm ready for an individual or not. But I just always told him and put it out there.

I was like, I'm ready. I think that also helped. You made the commitment to CrossFit and taking it as far as you could. But there was still a six-person team dynamic. And then they made the announcement that there was four. Did that kind of change the perspective of the Open for a lot of you guys? Like now we're competing for two spots as females, two spots as opposed to three. Like did that change the dynamic of man um not really i guess because so that the team that was the team last year none of them are even here anymore okay

so they all they all either um so jessica's now a coach um two of them retired and then the two boys one of them isn't at the gym anymore and the two boys are now individuals so it was like it's it's a free-for-all yeah i mean who who wants to be on the team like all of y'all have a choice so it didn't change anything i just think that either people picked it up or they didn't yeah and it was it was us four that did a dallas comp together that was our first comp to ever do and so i think winchester just saw that we like clicked with each other and the chemistry was there yeah yeah it was like okay like let's let's do this so i think and i don't i don't talk to the 6 p.m and it's on a rude way i just don't ever see them so i don't talk to the 6 p.m. and it's on a rude way. I just don't ever see them. So I don't know how much they want to compete or who does.

So I don't really know. All I know is that I know Steven wanted to. I know Taylor Deering wanted to, which was our alternate. I kind of just got to know Sarah these past few months. And so it really wasn't like anything. It was just we are the four that we're willing. Yeah. As you continue to grow and evolve with everything you're doing,

you may or may not know the answer right now, but what is sort of your long-term vision for yourself in the entrepreneurship space and even in the CrossFit space? Do you see yourself staying on the athletic track? For years to come or just branching off and doing your own thing building your gym to have a competitive aspect team community What have you good question? as Of right now And I think it might be the location. I'm not, I don't love having a gym in Austin.

I think I would enjoy it more if I was in a different city that wasn't saturated with gyms. It's not as, I don't want to say fun. It's fun. It's just hard being in a city that has so many gyms. And it's very expensive in austin and so i think i would enjoy it more if i had a little bit more wiggle wiggle room for with money and in a different place i would probably like owning a gym a little bit more than i do but as of this very second i actually want to get into video i hate the word blogging so video blogging. I blog for 600 episodes daily. Do it.

You would blow up. I don't, again, I might change my mind. I don't want a gym. After our lease is up, I don't think I want it. And I want this year and these next two years, I want to fucking do this. Like, I want to fucking do this. Like I want to compete and I want to do something that I can, if I need to move or whatever happens, um, I need to go stay somewhere for a month or I find a coach that's going to help me somewhere else or for something that I'm particular or whatever. Um, I want to be able to do that. So something that I can take with me and travel with,

which my online programming is there, but it wouldn't support my life. So I want to do that ultimately. That's good. Yeah, because you want that flexibility. And that's the thing with buying houses or owning brick and mortars, that it keeps you locked into that location. You want to be able, especially where you are in life, it sounds like you just want to be more agile and mobile.

Because it's fun being able to just travel around and do what you want to do. Because with your social influence, you can expand your brand wherever you want to land. And that's what a lot of people don't have. Right. And you just want to take full advantage of it while you have that. Exactly. A hundred percent. I'm on board for that.

You got one subscriber already. I'm here. Two subscribers. Two subscribers. My my dad I'll take two that's awesome as far so as far as this experience is concerned and you're talking about your performance as an individual, what are the biggest gaps that need to be filled for you? As skill-wise or just as an athlete? Just as a CrossFit competitor now. Now that you're here, you've had the experience.

Are the gaps in your game the same as what you thought before you got here or are they even bigger than you thought they were um i'm actually pretty hard on myself and i i never i never want to just be okay or mediocre or like people will say like oh you're super strong I'm like yeah but I could be stronger um and same with like anything that I'm decent at it's like yeah but I could be better so I really it's so hard for me to be able to just say like oh I just really need to work on strict muscle ups I'd be golden because that's not true right because all these other athletes are getting better this year and evolving and getting better

at what they're already fucking better at. Right. So, obviously, my gymnastics is so much better than what it was. It could be so much better. My strict movements are a huge weakness of mine. While I know some females can bust out 30 strict handstand pushups, I'd probably die. Um, so I, I guess it's my gymnastics endurance.

I really need to just, and it could just be, you know, experience. I just don't, I don't have that experience under my belt of doing on my hands and muscle ups and bar muscle ups. And I'm super stoked of where I'm at now, but I know I need to be so much better. Oddly enough, double-unders kill me. Very strange. You too, huh? I fucking hate double-unders.

So do I. And people are like, I could do them for hours. I'm like, why? I can't figure out my breathing. I can do sprints. I can row. I can assault bike. I can run. Put me breathing. I can do sprints. I can row. I can assault bike. I can run.

Put me on double-unders, and it's like I don't have cardio. Like, it's embarrassing. I'm serious, and I've got to figure that crap out. And if they start doing triple-unders, I'm done. I'm going to go do Tough Mudters because triple I've never even tried one but I don't know I'm just hungry like I want to be faster

I want to be stronger I want to be able to move more efficiently I can't swim for shit I need to learn to swim you too I'm terrible I can get from point A to point b but not gracefully or well um i want to be a good runner i want to be able to squat 320 like i just i want to be able to do

it all yeah and that's what you have to do and i know that's what you have to be able to do to be an individual like um i'm okay with that i working. I love having goals and crushing them and then getting more. And I want to be a fucking spider monkey on the pegboard. We just started doing that this past month. How'd that go? It was scary. It's scary. It's kind of scary when you get halfway up there and you're like, this is really far to let go.

Yeah. I had to figure it out. Have you ever seen anyone do it long arms, like locked out? So I was able to do that my first time. And I got just super honed in on it. And I was like, fuck, I need to learn how to do it the man way. So I just sat. And that's something also that's hard because you can't sit there and keep practicing.

Because once you fail, you fail. Right. So it was rough. I was able to bust out one or two in like a MetCon that we were doing. But it makes me very sore and very tired. Yeah. So I think my strict pulling needs some serious work. Everything.

I just want to be good. And going into this offseason, are you looking to hire more coaches for each of those skill sets, or are you sticking with just one person? That's a very good question, too. I think I'm going to, of course, I have to talk to Winchester, but he'll already tell you he's not a full gymnastics coach and he's not an Olympic lifting coach, but he knows everyone in the city,

and so I think he's going to have people that he trusts to put me in their hands of like, I'm, I want to see an Olympic weightlifting coach. And there used to be one that was on their CrossFit team a few years ago. That is now in a way of Olympic weightlifting lifter. So I think he's going to end up sending me to him. And so I'll probably have a few coaches, um, bless. I need a swim coach. So I'll probably find a few coaches. Bless, I need a swim coach. So I'll probably find one of those.

And he'll be my coach for CrossFit. But Jessica works at Car Who, and she's a gymnastics specialist. So I'm really lucky. I have a lot of really awesome people surrounding me in Austin. And so I'm just really excited. But big shout-out to you, though, because you actually went out there and you seek me in Austin. And so I'm just really excited. But big shout-out to you, though, because you actually went out there and you seeked their guidance. You just happened upon it and get lucky.

It's like you went out there and actively seeked it, and a lot of people don't do that because it's a humbling experience of, like, I suck at this. I'm going to actually ask somebody who's better than me and humble myself. You know, that's the biggest thing. Yeah. Oh, I would never. No, i'm not like that at all i love you need to find who's the best so that's what i did i walked around and i asked different gyms and different people i'm like who is the

who's what's the competitive gym in austin and who's the best gymnastics coach crossfit yukaru jessica strata was like done done. And I went knocking on their door. Where did your humility come from? I think having brothers. Yeah. They're always they they're really humble and I always admired that about

them and they always, Jimmy, especially my oldest brother, and I lived with him in Yuma. Shout out to Yuma. 3-10. Stay there. Not too late, baby. They always, always wanted me to have a good head on my shoulders and I just can't tell them thank you enough and always, because my dad and my mom weren't really present in my life in that way. And so my brothers took it as their responsibility to kind of raise me to be a good person. And I was such an angry asshole through high school. They really just always talked to me about how I need to treat other people

and how it doesn't matter how good I am at things. It matters how I treat other people. And to just always just don't be the loudest person in the room by how you speak but how you act. And they're like, that's okay to be great at things but don't have to say it. Like let people be able to judge you by how you are and not what you say. And they always just ingrain that in me. And so I've always just been that way. Like, I'm super shy.

I'm super quiet. No one would ever guess that. But I always just try to keep my, like, I'm never going to get any better if I don't stay humble. Like, I give athletes that are better than me all day long, and I will tell them good job any day. And I always said that during the Open is I will happily lose to someone that's better than me, but I am a sore loser if I knew that I could have beat them. Right. So I don't mind losing. I think it makes me better, but they better have earned it and they better have been better

than me. Because if they didn't, then I messed up. Sure. So probably my brothers. Yeah. Big brothers. There you go. Probably be an asshole if it wasn't for them, for sure.

But I think it's interesting to know where that comes from in you because that's what comes through in your message and everything that you put out there on social and whatnot. You know, it's very authentic, and you're very honest in that in that humility so you know big ups to you on having that that attribute that's big that's massive yeah a lot of people don't have that it's a hard thing to do you know yeah so we asked you this the last time around the show and i'm really interested to see if it's changed and you can answer these two questions in any way mentally physically spiritually whatever whatever is good for you.

First and foremost, what's something that you do each and every day to feed yourself and kickstart your motivation? And the second of which is what do you do each and every day to fuel yourself and create that carryover and sustainability and consistency in your training? I'm going to have to ask you to repeat the second one. The first one, I always try to remind myself where I was a few years ago or where I was six years ago or where I was a month ago or where I was six months ago, just depending on the day. And that's why I love Instagram in a silly, silly way. I legitimately often, this may not be every day, but I don't do this every day, but I do remind myself this every day.

I will scroll, like, through old pictures, and it's just like, I have come so far, and you are capable of so big things. Like, if you would have asked me five years ago if I'd be at CrossFit Regionals, I would have laughed at your face and been like, are you joking? No. I would never be capable to do the things that those people do. And so I often try to just remind myself when I wake up, like, hey, you're great. You are capable of amazing things and you impact people. And so that kind of just, again, keeps me humble that I want to be a positive impact on people and not make people feel anything negative.

So I always try to do that. There's the famous Jessica Estrada and they're going to take pictures of me right now and it's going to make it really awkward. Um, what was the second question? What did, do you remember what I answered the first time? I have to go back and look. Yeah. I remember probably wasn't that at all. It was not that. No, no. Um, and then, so how do you create that sustainable motivation? You know, that's hard. Um, I don't know why I have it. Um, I am very, very self motivated and I, it's, I guess I have like a, I have, um, a journal where I write my goals on and it's so funny to watch how your goals change. Um, and so I often, I look at that daily and just like, I have a goal for the day and then I have a goal for the year and six months. And, uh, I don't know where that comes from. Honestly, I have it. I, I know this

sounds so silly and you can believe me or not. Sometimes when I'm driving to training, I can literally be so excited because i know where this like is leading i like tear up in my car and it's i don't cry a lot and my tears are never like oh poor me it's just like that's how i express excitement and like i'll get chills and i'm just a very excited motivated person about life in general and i just i mean even if it's a beautiful day like i'll turn the windows down turn on some fucking 80s music and just like be in the greatest mood and just like remind myself like you get to fucking work out as a job almost like my flights were paid to come here my airbnb was paid for like our gym did a fundraiser and took care of that like who gets to do that

and it just keeps me grateful and motivated that like I have this opportunity like you need to go 110% or this opportunity is going to pass you you're going to be 40 years old and overweight and no one's going to like you so like do do what you're doing as great as you can right now because i i mean who gets this opportunity and i might not get to come to regionals next year i mean i am i'm gonna try and bleed and everything else so i get here but there's a chance like i couldn't and so i just have to just honestly remind myself daily to just not everyone gets to do what they love. You are so lucky. No one else.

You don't need to feel bad for yourself about anything. You didn't have a great upbringing. Who freaking cares? That doesn't mean anything. It's just I self-talk a lot. I guess that would be a really good answer. That would be a shorter answer. I self-talk a lot. Yeah. that'd be a really good answer. That'd be a shorter answer. I self-talk a lot.

Yeah. That's what I do. Dope. We're excited to see you grow. Where can everybody in this community go follow you and support you on your journey and everything you have going? My website is taylordaynlloyd. My middle name is D-A-Y-N-E, last name L-O-Y-D.com. So taylordaynelloyd.com. And then my Instagram is tdl.fitness. Awesome. Well, I know you're going to crush it. Thank you. So we're going to do this again next year. Yes.

In the same spot with you as an individual. Yes. Let's say that right now. I mean, it worked last time. It did. We tried it. It did. Yes. Yeah. Thank you for. I mean, it worked last time. It did. We're trying. It did. Yes.

Yeah. Congratulations on everything that you've accomplished. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for making me tear up in public. For everybody out there in Feed Me, Fuel Me land, make sure you get out there and support everything that Taylor has going on. Thank you.

Keep an eye out for all the moves that she's making and is about to make. And until next time, guys, feed me, fuel me. Thank you. And that'll do it for this episode with our special guest, Taylor Dane Lloyd. If you want to check out everything that Taylor has going and support her on her journey through CrossFit, please go to the full show notes on shrugcollective.com. Also, be sure to connect with us on social media, including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter at FeedMeFuelMe. We would love to hear from each and every one of you. If you found this episode

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Thank you again for joining us and we'll catch you on the next episode. Way to make it to the end of the show. As always, go to Shrug Collect over at iTunes. Give us a five-star review, positive comment, and hit thrivemarket.com slash feedme to get that great deal on awesome groceries. See you next time.