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Year 3 @crashcrucible 🥇
Keep showing up. See what happens.
Thank you @crossfitcrash @crashcrucible and everyone who gives so much of themselves to make this competition special year after year. One of our favorites of all time!

@mitch.wagz 🥇 Masters Male - Mitch and I met for the first time this weekend after a short 6-week prep for Crash. Between moving across the country and juggling life, prep wasn’t always ideal. But he showed up and got it done. Crazy talented, but an even better human. Congrats on the W and thanks for letting me tag along!

@matt_orange_fish is the real MVP, flying in last minute to surprise Lydia on Friday night. Competitions just aren’t the same without the Fish Fan Club!

A Crash Crucible tradition

Don’t quit your day job

We called this cat Moo Moo all weekend, only to find out on the last day her name is actually Mow Mow. She’ll forever be Moo Moo in our hearts.

@trainingthinktank by @perbehr

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Lydia wins event 2 here at @crashcrucible. peep our YouTube to hear her talk over the full workout alongside TTT coaches @perbehr & @ttt_adam by @perbehr

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Proud and grateful. Thanks for the memories @wodapalooza by @perbehr

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7 days ago

You can spend an entire career getting better at programming, assessment, and developing your coaching eye.

What I’ve learned is getting better at coaching has a lot to do with getting better at people.

Knowing who’s in front of you, what they need, and when to listen, challenge, reassure, or just get out of the way.

The results matter. But years from now, the relationships are what I think we’ll remember most.

@perbehr at the TTT Weekend Mentorship sharing her experience with communication and building relationships by @perbehr

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13 days ago

😂 Coach P leaving it all on the floor! @perbehr
@gymreapers @wodapalooza taken in Huntington Beach, California by @perbehr

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15 days ago

TTT Team - Wodapalooza Battle of the Camps
The old guard and the next generation.

Travis, Chandler, and Noah have been doing this for a long time. Veterans of the sport, dads, longtime friends, and teammates who have already stood on top of podiums together.

Lydia, Hannah, and Anikha are young in their careers. Still learning what they’re capable of, hungry to find out, and eager to throw themselves into the ring.

Different ages, experiences, and chapters of the same sport yet this team already feels like family. There’s wisdom and uncertainty, experience and excitement, a lot of laughter, a little fear, and a shared hunger to prove something - to ourselves and to each other.

Team competition requires something different. It’s more than putting talented individuals next to each other and hoping the math works. It’s knowing your role, trusting the person beside you, and being willing to give a little more because your effort belongs to more than just you.

Travis, Noah, Chandler, Lydia, Hannah, Anikha - you are an incredibly talented and resilient group of awesome humans. I can’t wait to see what you’re capable of together.

@wodapalooza , thank you for giving us this opportunity to play the game and represent @trainingthinktank on this stage.

We have a lot of respect for the teams we’ll be standing next to. But don’t mistake that respect for a lack of intention. We came to make a statement. With hunger, integrity, and trust in each other. by @perbehr

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17 days ago

Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t final.

One of the hardest things about sport is accepting that it owes you nothing. You can prepare the right way. Make every sacrifice. Put years into becoming capable of a moment you’ve dreamed about. And when that moment finally comes, you can still come up short.

The opposite is also true. You can win. Stand on top. Accomplish the thing you thought would change everything. And then Monday comes. The scoreboard resets. The next season starts. Eventually, nobody really cares what happened except you.

I think that’s why winning can be a poor measure of progress. Yes, results absolutely matter. Most athletes compete because they want to win. But the result is only one moment that cannot be summarized inside of a longer story.

The more time I spend in sport, the more I believe that success and failure are temporary labels we put on experiences. Neither one tells the whole truth about who someone is becoming or what they did to get there.

Maybe the better questions are:
- Did you find out something about yourself?
- Did you become more capable?
- Did you learn how to keep going when things didn’t go your way?
- Are you willing to come back and do it again?

Because eventually the podium gets taken down, the leaderboard resets, and the crowd goes home. What’s left is the person the pursuit created. The only people who ever find out how good they can become are the ones willing to stay long enough to see.

📸 @iouliakonovalovphotography taken in Training Think Tank by @perbehr

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Expanded thoughts in captions.

1. There probably isn’t a universally best exercise, program, volume, or training system independent of context. Coaching is figuring out what adaptation we want, what stress might create it, whether this athlete is prepared for that stress, and how their response should change what we do next. The program is a hypothesis that continually gets updated by coaching the athlete in front of you.
2. It’s tempting to blame an injury on technique, mobility, training volume, exercise selection, or one “dysfunction,” but injury is usually more complicated. Previous injury, workload, fatigue, strength, conditioning, coordination, equipment, environment, consistency, exposure history, and sometimes plain bad luck can all contribute. I believe injury prevention is less about finding one perfect solution and more about improving the athlete’s ability to tolerate the demands they’re going to encounter.

3. We’ve gotten pretty good at quantifying how much training someone does, but we’re much worse at describing exactly what they’re doing. Exercises that train the same muscle group or movement pattern aren’t necessarily interchangeable. Different exercises create different demands for stability, coordination, ROM, velocity, loading, sensory feedback, and fatigue. Exercise selection is another way of manipulating training stress - not just a list of movements to plug into a program.
4. Calling something a “quad exercise” or a “squat” doesn’t give us enough information. A leg press, hack squat, Smith machine squat, barbell back squat, and single leg squat may all train similar tissues while asking very different things from the athlete. Instead of only asking ‘what muscle does this train?’, ask what does this exercise require the athlete to manage?

5. Improving VO2 max, strength, power, muscular endurance, and other general qualities gives us a foundation. But sport doesn’t test those qualities in isolation. A basketball player needs to shoot accurately while fatigued late in a game. A fighter needs to execute technique 20 minutes into a fight. A CrossFit athlete needs to express strength, skill, and decision-making while accumulating fatigue acr by @perbehr

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One of my favorite parts of coaching has nothing to do with the leaderboard. It’s watching athletes slowly become the people they used to look up to.

When you first start competing, the best athletes can feel larger than life. You watch how they train, how they compete, how they carry themselves. You take pictures with them. You remember the first time they knew your name.

Then, if you stay in the sport long enough, something changes. One day there’s a kid waiting for your picture. Someone is wearing your shirt. Someone is watching how you warm up. They remember something you said to them. And somewhere along the way, you became the person you used to look up to.

Being a role model isn’t really something you decide to become. Most of the time, you don’t even know when it’s happening. People are watching the big lifts, the finishes and the leaderboard. But they’re also watching everything else.

* How you respond when you lose.
* Whether you make excuses.
* Whether you congratulate the person who beat you.
* How you treat volunteers, judges, fans and other competitors.
* How you carry yourself when the weekend doesn’t go the way you hoped.

Those moments probably say more about who you are than anything that happens on the competition floor.

At some point, the dream stops being only about you. Someone else is watching you live it and starting to believe they might be able to do it too.

Being the person you would’ve wanted to meet when you were the one watching. Maybe that’s one of the quieter signs that you’ve made it further than you realize. by @perbehr

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2 months ago

Year ✌🏼here we come ❤️‍🔥

@fish_lydia @trainingthinktank @crossfitgames by @perbehr

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@h_blackk CrossFit Games Rookie

People will see the photos, the leaderboard, and the title of “Games athlete”. They’ll see the destination. They won’t see the thousands of decisions that built it. The long training sessions. The workouts that didn’t go well. The questioning and changed plans. The days where confidence was easy to find, and the days where it wasn’t.

Watching someone slowly become the person they’re capable of becoming is one of the greatest privileges coaching has given me. There was a time when this was just an idea and now you get to live it. You earned it. Now go enjoy every second of it! by @perbehr

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3 months ago

For the love of the game.

The CrossFit Games are earned through years of consistency and a willingness to keep showing up. Balancing family, careers, and everything else life throws at you while continuing to pursue excellence is something I’ve always admired about Masters athletes. Those who’ve walked that path understand the highs, the lows, and what it takes to get where they want to go. Most of all, they’ve lived enough to know not to take any of it for granted.

I’m proud of the work Travis and Hollye have put in, and even more so of how they’ve stayed true to who they are along the way. Looking forward to watching them lay it all on the line this weekend. Grateful to be in their corner. taken in San Jose, California by @perbehr

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