NoRep Podcast

The boys chatted with the funniest man in CrossFit, John Wooley of  Instagram’s Make WODs Great Again.   John is an every day CrossFitter who happens to train at a box that has produced a number of Games athletes, including Scott Panchik and Julie Foucher.  His IG memes humanize the world’s fittest and help us all laugh our way to better health.  He gives his take on the future of CrossFit as a sport, the virtues of burgers and beers and everything in between.  Games Athletes are people too.

Pakistan women's National Champion Mishka Murad speaks her mind, which is good for NoRep because she is goddamn hilarious.  And smart.  The boys get her take on being a national champion, CrossFit's decision to cut more than half the individual women after the first Games event, the down side of dedicated training and just what CrossFit is trying to accomplish with its changes to the Games.  Mishka reveals that she is training for the Zombie Apocalypse, calls bullshit on functional training and explains why we can't all achieve our goals with hard work.  Listen to a champion of CrossFit and comedy now, on NoRep.

Pakistan women's National Champion Mishka Murad speaks her mind, which is good for NoRep because she is goddamn hilarious.  And smart.  The boys get her take on being a national champion, CrossFit's decision to cut more than half the individual women after the first Games event, the down side of dedicated training and just what CrossFit is trying to accomplish with its changes to the Games.  Mishka reveals that she is training for the Zombie Apocalypse, calls bullshit on functional training and explains why we can't all achieve our goals with hard work.  Listen to a champion of CrossFit and comedy now, on NoRep.

When You're 43 But Your Ego is 23. The boys talk to local CrossFitter Eric Wilson, whose competitive nature led to frustration and injury on his first - and second - CrossFit go-arounds. Eric overcame the 'just rub some dirt on it' approach instilled in him as a kid, learned to take a more humble approach and is now on the road to a healthier CrossFit life. Along the way Eric reveals that Tony is a vampire, Dave and Eric share their special relationship with their physical therapist and Tony comes up with a WOD for men over 40. First, kill your ego.

The boys catch up with Level III coach, box manager, individualized programming guru and maniacal devourer of fitness knowledge Damian Pagano. In this wide ranging interview, Damian explains body building vs. strength training, what happens when you do Murph 5 times in 5 hours, why he has accepted his wife’s athletic superiority, the future of CrossFit type training and programming differences for women and men. Damian shares his dark secrets, his shallow goals, his compassionate spirit and his desert dry sense of humor. Hear Dave and Tony peel back the layers of this Brooklyn onion now on NoRep.

Dave and Tony welcome Haley York to the program.  Haley is a former Division I rower at The University of Massachusetts. Originally from California Haley has recently begun taking her CrossFit training seriously - she seemed to come out out of nowhere to finish inside the top 250 in the U.S. in the 2019 CrossFit Open.  And she’s just getting started.  Find out how she has set herself up for success, and how her personal drive makes for great community building and what it may take for her to get to the top.  Don’t be afraid to leave your mark. Please enjoy.

Tony and Ash break the news that Seth has left the program.  After discussing Seth’s place in history, they introduce World Class Dave as the new co-host.  The newly constructed crew talks current training and goals and then dives into Tony’s recent experience taking the CrossFit Level I Certificate Course.  Along the way, Ash gets too honest and the wheels come off during the speed round.  You can change the co-host but you can’t fix the movement quality.  It’s still NoRep.

This week Seth and Tony sit down with definitely the hardest worker in the room Adee Cazayoux. Adee is coincidently the founder and CEO of Working Against Gravity, one of the largest and most respected one on one nutrition coaching groups in the world.  Adee focuses the conversation on the central role of food in our lives and how a flexible but intentional approach can transform us.  Well, maybe not Tony and Seth.  Tony is stuck in nutritional ground hog day and Seth admits to having had Goldfish crackers for lunch.  Listen in as Adee dishes eating advice to the nutritionally challenged NoRep boys.

This week the boys talk to Pamela Gagnon, a former D-1 gymnast, a three-time masters Games athlete and a Lead CrossFit gymnastics coach. Pamela has been flipping, twisting and summersaulting for decades, but she still loves to teach beginners the progressions they need to achieve their individual goals. Of course, Seth and Tony just want to try the crazy gymnastics moves you can find Pamela doing on Instagram. After an hour chatting with her, they figure they’re now ready to give it a shot. What could possibly go wrong? 

Justin LoFranco is the founder of The Morning Chalk Up, which began as a small daily CrossFit news email and now goes out to over a hundred thousand people each day.  Their website and media coverage has quickly become THE source for CrossFit news and information.  Justin spent years on Capital Hill building a career in national politics before he decided to reassess his life. He left that world and has never looked back… except maybe when he was living in his parents’ pool house, self-funding an online news rag about his favorite hobby.  Seth and Tony talk to Justin about his big move, CrossFit’s changes and the advice he got in a parking lot from a Games winner and CrossFit business guru.  Oh, and Morning Chalk Up groupies.  They had to ask about groupies.