Scale As Needed Podcast

1:05 - Rush, “dad rock”, I Love You Man 4:20 - How Kyle and Cliff’s first feature film at South by Southwest lead to them finding CrossFit 12:35 - Cliff and Kyle’s current fashion choices + how we take care of our long hair 17:20 - Armen, Cliff, and Kyle’s skinny photos 21:10 - This is why you should take before photos + your relationship with your body image 26:09 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Dr. Strange 48:06 - Westworld episodes 6 and 7 1:01:40 - the final Rogue One trailer  

1:18 - Welcome to Trump’s America 29:59 - Armen PRs his Karen time and crushes his soul 35:28 - the CrossFit Games Liftoff and what it takes to clean & jerk 400 47:49 - Daniel is gonna start Project Maniel 49:50 - Armen goes to an Adele concert

1:29 - the Bogarts consume way too much coffee and Kyle’s increased pre-workout dosage is working 6:38 - Kyle is still working out + how useful bodybuilding is + the importance of bench press 15:30 - Alec Smith cleans 400lb + why he’s not making it to the Games 25:30 - Kyle’s Tinder game 31:55 - “Soft bodied robot EATS living matter” and why humans are totally screwed 42:18 - trailers are no longer narrated  

0:55 - Donovan Ford is pretty awesome 5:25 - death metal and why YouTube and internet videos contributed to the growth of things like super technical prog metal and CrossFit 24:35 - Westworld episodes 4 and 5 recap 52:10 - Burger King and eating a ton of candy on Halloween 56:45 - Kyle and Cliff’s death metal suggestions:   Obscura - Omnivium (Cliff) First Fragment (Kyle) Japandroids - Celebration Rock (Daniel's suggestion)

2:16 - ICYMI! 10:00 - fish oil and other supplements 17:19 - Guardian of the Galaxy Vol 2 teaser 20:38 - A view from the back 25:10 - internet memes around movie stars 27:24 - Being Brent Fikowski 38:00 - True Detective

1:28 - Armen just got back from Miami for Crush Games and MIA Classic 6:50 - Helen and other old school workouts 11:00 - how do you make CrossFit functional? 13:50 - Jacob Heppner is still working out like a maniac 16:55 - the craziest headline ever 21:55 - Quest bar flavors, Poptarts, and cereal 30:25 - Cliff gives up on Arnold 36:45 - Westworld Episode 3

2:10 - Kyle’s Harvey Fierstein impression 2:30 - Armen and Cliff and Kyle keep running into each other at the gym. Kyle nearly dies while benching and Armen makes fun of Kyle’s push up noises. 7:10 - Kyle and Cliff went on a hike 8:54 - Armen does the hero workout Glen (AKA so many burpees) and “uneven” workouts like Filthy 50 and Nutts 16:32 - fast burpees and Danila Shokhin 18:03 - sooooo what is your nutrition advice? 21:35 - fasted weighted walks for weight loss 28:02 - The Princess Bride 30:18 - Guy Ritchie’s live action Aladdin and the live action Mulan 35:55 - Armie Hammer, the actor 38:15 - Fury Road without special effects 38:50 - The Death of Superman Lives 41:05 - Batman and Robin 42:28 - Gobleki Tepe, Egypt, and why the Sphinx is stupid looking 54:28 - Westworld episode 2

1:00 - CJ Bogart 1:45 - The Bogart Family 2:40 - The truest advice on diets you’ll ever hear: diet advice from people who weren’t born jacked, using performance goals to get you to aesthetic goals 29:44 - We all tried a lot of pre workout since last week (and Armen tries SoulCycle) 38:58 - Norik Vardanyan’s London 2012 sample tests positive and whether weightlifting will make Tokyo 2010 48:48 - WESTWORLD WAS AWESOME (spoilers abound) 1:00:00 - Westward is much closer to reality than we think; what does this mean about our own evolution and where humans and technology is meeting; the insane acceleration of technology and how the world will change in the next twenty years

1:00 - the worst music genre 3:08 - a federal judge rules the NSCA knowingly published false injury data about CrossFit 7:54 - CrossFit’s crazy (and probably true) Coke/NSCA/Sugar conspiracy 12:39 - Jon North has a heart attack 14:45 - C4 and other preworkout 21:25 - Armen’s going to America’s Strongest Man 26:01 - Fantastic Fest: Cliff and Kyle’s dumb bruises 30:44 - Fantastic Fest: thoughts on Arrival 33:55 - Fantastic Fest: super secret other movies 36:50 - Fantastic Fest: the official tattoos 39:20 - Fantastic Fest: Rats and how they taste 39:40 - Fantastic Fest: Armen sees Elijah Wood 41:55 - Fantastic Fest: What makes it so rad? 47:25 - Why are people doing touch and go snatches? 52:40 - Fantastic Fest: The Fantastic Debates ask “is Rocky IV the greatest boxing movie ever made?”

1:15 - Armen sees Kyle and Cliff at the gym 3:55 - Armen’s thoughts on CompTrain 12:20 - The secret base to the pyramid of athletic development 13:05 - Armen’s Physical Career of Athleticism and Exercise 13:50 - Khalipa’s background coming into CrossFit, guessing races as a gameshow 18:20 - bringing back Every Second Counts 25:50 - falling into the “I’m going to the Games” trap 30:14 - Cliff’s terrible, awful, no good diet advice and the importance of protein 34:17 - Beyond The Whiteboard levels are awesome 42:30 - Behdad Salimi with the heaviest snatch of all time: 220kg/484lb 44:30 - the movie Prisoners, and how Cliff and Kyle fucked this whole this up. ALL OF IT. COMPLETELY RUINED. 48:18 - Passengers and other space ship movies that Kyle and Cliff care about 50:20 - Fantastic Fest and what to expect + Jessica Chastain vs Bryce Dallas Howar

1:04 - South Park season 20 2:21 - ESPN’s OJ: Made In America 6:55 - how consuming media has changed recently 8:46 - How’d Cliff do at Rich Froning’s epic workout? 14:50 - Armen’s shoulder warm up 16:45 - The importance of muscular endurance 18:45 - The 12.2 open Workout video 21:40 - OJ Simpson’s terrible jerk and Ivan Drago’s awesome clean & press  26:48 - Brian Shaw’s 12.8 second 100m row sprint  31:52 - Granite Games: Brooke Ence’s team’s hang power cleans, Pat Vellner, Marquan Jones 42:12 - Best movie scores and why 50:25 - The Thing 54:55 - Cliff’s Arnold training

2:08 - iPhone 7’s new features 12:13 - hardest workout we’ve ever done 17:03 - “maybe CrossFit isn’t for you guys” 21:46 - Cliff goes “full Arnold” 25:04 - accessory work: why, how, for who 39:10 - “if you have a limited amount of time to train, how do you focus on weaknesses?” 42:50 - Rich and Mayhem do Heavy Strict Diane 47:01 - products for functional fitness people 53:04 - supplement names should all sound like steroids 59:58 - which MMA star would make the best CrossFitter 1:04:41 - which superhero would make the best CrossFitter 1:11:20 - hardest workouts part deux 1:15:50 - Rich’s impossible workout

0:43 - “I think we may have named this thing!” 1:54 - Brooke Wells’ booty explodes the internet 4:08 - CrossFit HQ’s old school topless pull up photos 10:30 - Brent Fikowski is the most unique CrossFitter ever - his training, his mindset, his full time job, his Games event wins, his nutrition 34:15 - Armen hates The Game 38:38 - Brent’s coach/programming - RAW Strength and Conditioning 45:10 - Cliff’s use of RP Nutrition templates to achieve his overall fitness goals 56:18 - Cliff’s fitness/aesthetic goals 59:22 - Deathstroke is now the villain in Ben Affleck’s Batman movie 1:01:15 - Daniel’s opinion on Deathstroke 1:03:08 - We all disagree on the X-Men movies 1:06:35 - Bryan Singer is terrible + The Usual Suspects is still pretty good + Superman Returns is also still good 1:08:35 - checking in on Heterobear

0:30 - “I now have reverb” 3:18 - Chad Johnson vs Rich Froning: “show me that dick, bro” 8:34 - 17yo Jeison Lopez snatches 160kg 10:48 - Doping: everywhere and all the time 14:24 - 12 more medalists from Beijing 2008 test positive and eve more doping 27:09 - UFC unionization 28:46 - positive tests in CrossFit and CrossFit’s testing process 32:42 - The Force Awakens and Star Wars 53:07 - games athlete with 500lb back squat + sub 5 minute mile 59:15 - decathletes and CrossFit 1:00:10 - Why is weightlifting so important to CrossFit? 1:05:28 - Heppner joins Brute Strength and the possible difference between these programs and coaches 1:14:03 - The Big Fikowski

1:16 - Clifford Joseph Bogart III 2:28 - Kyle’s most recent CrossFit milestone and his 9:20 - Kyle’s car is in the shop 11:00 - Armen’s audio is finally fixed 12:28 - Sausage Party 21:04 - Sam Neill and Event Horizon 24:00 - the Hulk/Thor buddy movie 24:46 - Rio weightlifting, doping, North Koreans, the All Drug Olympics 34:14 - GRID 45:25 - The Lobster 54:18 - Days in The Life with Rich Froning 1:07:15 - CrossFit makes you superhuman 1:08:55 - CrossFit parlance and Neanderthal’s CrossFitting 1:12:01 - the weightlifting Google Doodle

1:15 - The Poverhead SquatCast? 3:05 - Talking Fit 4:40 - Suicide Squad was terrible 21:26 - Brooke Wells joins Built By Bergeron 25:37 - Armen’s favorite story from the Games 32:11 - “I want to see Alderaan” 33:00 - The Marvel/Star Wars/Everything Multiverse 38:20 - CrossFit Games site tour 38:45 - Real Sports documentary on IOC 45:00 - the article on Tia-Clair Toomey and other dumb articles 50:25 - Russia holds their own Olympics and more of the IOC documentary 55:50 - The Berenstein Bears and why we don’t remember anything and coming full circle 1:00:21 - Stranger Things Season 2: The Revenge Of Barb

0:31 - The Podsterior Chaincast + Cliff and Kyle's athletic powers 3:19 - Armen's going to a Final Fantasy concert  5:07 - Nerdiness, so much nerdiness 7:00 - Attending nerdy niche events like Comic Con, film festivals, and the Games 12:18 - The CrossFit Games are moving: why they're moving, where they might go, and benefits and drawbacks of various places 19:52 - Paying the athletes and judges 21:40 - What types of changes will come to the Games with new locations? 24:40 - The Rogue vs Again Faster Tahoe Throwdown + how to make team competitions interesting 33:39 - "What is Krewella?" 35:43 - CrossFit and World's Strongest Man 37:22 - Back to the Tahoe Throwdown 38:55 - The Road To The Games series 40:15 - Guy Ritchie's King Arthur 44:20 - Does knowing how films are made and how the business work disgust filmmakers? 45:50 - Tips for people making films in medieval times 47:10 - Will Fraser continue dominating the Games? 50:37 - What happens if Fraser keeps winning? 58:45 - Katrin's repeat deserves respect 5

Armen breaks down the very few pieces of info we have about what the events will be and how many events we'll expect to see as well as why the secrecy around the Games this year is so great.

Armen got a chance to sit down with Margaux Alvarez, Meg Reardon, and Brent Fikowski for individual interviews at the official CrossFit Games hotel in Manhattan Beach.

Interviewing weightlifting Coach Danny Camargo (Mattie Rogers' coach) of Oly Concepts at the 2016 Youth Nationals in Austin, Texas.   1:14 - On the size of the entourage it takes to handle 14 athletes 2:49 - Camargo’s start in weightlifting and his competitive career 10:45 - how he moved on from weightlifting after retiring at 21 12:40 - how he found coaching 14:40 - the birth of Oly Concepts and his team 16:05 - law enforcement career and finding CrossFit 19:19 - coaching while being a police officer 21:55 - Danny’s coaching philosophy and his worries about new coaches 25:38 - the future of weightlifting in the US 31:03 - the hidden competition in weightlifting 35:46 - keeping an athlete at peak performance 37:42 - recent IWF doping news and doping in weightlifting 44:30 - final thoughts on weightlifting in the US