Girls Gone WOD Podcast

We love interviewing great people, but sometimes it’s refreshing to just sit down for a J&C episode! This week we put on our therapy hats and answer your questions about balancing life and expectations in the gym and with your diet, using CrossFit to cope with anxiety and stress, and how to muster up the courage to step into the box for the first time. We also give a little State of the Podcast address, and get back to the roots of why we do what we do and the driving force behind this little project called GGW. Girls Gone WOD Podcast is sponsored by Four Athletics. http://fourathletics.com  

We are so excited and honored to have Coach B on the podcast this week! Mike Burgener is a Marine, a Level 5 Senior International Weightlifting Coach, and designed the CrossFit Weightlifting course. If you’ve ever done the Burgener warm-up you are familiar with his handiwork… But what you probably don’t know is that Coach B is one of the most genuine people we’ve ever had on the podcast, with a true passion and love for his sport. In this episode we find out how Coach B got to where he is today, and most importantly, why he prefers to coach women in weightlifting! Support the podcast! Click the SUBSCRIBE button on iTunes! Please leave us a review on itunes!! We love hearing your feedback and want to make this show the best it can be for YOU, amazing listeners. Share with a friend while you’re at it! www.girlsgonewodpodcast.com Send us an email with feedback and show ideas: girlsgonewod@gmail.com

Bonus time! Joy and Shane shoot the shi#t at the 2016 Reebok Crossfit Games. Well, it’s mostly 20 minutes of flirting and swooning because Joy can’t get over how beautiful Aaron Samuels, eerrrr Shane Farmer, is in real life. We also cover how he almost lost his finger in a wedding ring disaster, which makes us really happy that Qalo exists (discount code GGW at Qalo.com !!) Seriously though, Shane is the nicest and knows a thing or two about rowing. Check him out at www.DarkHorseRowing.com Can we go back to the Crossfit Games please?? www.Audibletrial.com/girlsgonewodpodcast Support the podcast! Click the SUBSCRIBE button on iTunes! Please leave us a review on itunes!! We love hearing your feedback and want to make this show the best it can be for YOU, amazing listeners. Share with a friend while you’re at it! www.girlsgonewodpodcast.com Send us an email with feedback and show ideas: girlsgonewod@gmail.com  

We’ve been working with Sarah Pierce on nutrition coaching for about a month now, and it’s time to talk about our progress! In this month’s check-in with Sarah, we hear more about her journey through the diet jungle and how she arrived at macro counting as her favorite solution. Sarah talks about how to keep a healthy mindset about macro counting when it comes to vacations or special events or just off-days, we talk about carb timing and intermittent fasting, and even get some tips for general healthy eating for you non-macro counters out there! Audibletrial.com/girlsgonewodpodcast Support the podcast! Click the SUBSCRIBE button on iTunes! Please leave us a review on itunes!! We love hearing your feedback and want to make this show the best it can be for YOU, amazing listeners. Share with a friend while you’re at it! www.girlsgonewodpodcast.com Send us an email with feedback and show ideas: girlsgonewod@gmail.com

We are back from Carson, and as expected we are super drunk on CrossFit Koolaid and loving every minute of it! Joy met Bob Harper, Sandy smooched Coach Burgener, and Claire didn’t even get sunburned… I’d say the weekend was a big WIN. In this episode we recap our Games experience, including our favorite vendors and new products, thoughts on the ring push-ups, and TDC’s hairstyle choices. And now we just want to live in a place where we can wear booty shorts and eat sweet potato and avocado and drink bulletproof coffee all day every day… Is it time to go back to CrossFitLand yet? This episode of Girls Gone WOD Podcast is sponsored by Joshua Tree Skin Care  

GGW is sponsored by FOURATHLETICS.COM Discount code GGW Audibletrial.com/girlsgonewodpodcast Support the podcast! Click the SUBSCRIBE button on iTunes! Please leave us a review on itunes!! We love hearing your feedback and want to make this show the best it can be for YOU, amazing listeners. Share with a friend while you’re at it! www.girlsgonewodpodcast.com Send us an email with feedback and show ideas: girlsgonewod@gmail.com  

GGW is sponsored by FOURATHLETICS.COM Discount code GGW Audibletrial.com/girlsgonewodpodcast Support the podcast! Click the SUBSCRIBE button on iTunes! Please leave us a review on itunes!! We love hearing your feedback and want to make this show the best it can be for YOU, amazing listeners. Share with a friend while you’re at it! www.girlsgonewodpodcast.com Send us an email with feedback and show ideas: girlsgonewod@gmail.com          

We are so excited to have Emily Abbott back on the show this week as she heads into the 2016 CrossFit Games! It’s been close to a year since Emily’s first appearance on GGW, and we hear all about the whirlwind traveling and training experiences she’s been having, talk about how her training changed after her experience at The Games last year, and what her goals are this time around. She tells us about competing in the 16.1 announcement, eating burgers, and the last thing she’d want to see come out of the hopper in Carson. We can’t wait to cheer Emily on!

We have a big paleo blogger crush on Taylor Riggs and we are so excited to get to chat with her this week! We get awkwardly technical about how much we love her Instagram account, talk about how Taylor got into cooking and clean eating, and hear all about her upcoming cookbook “Real Food Real Simple.” Taylor tells us what it’s like to live with Type 1 Diabetes and geeks out about her bluetooth insulin pump, and of course we talk about our favorite products and desserts. It’s basically an old-fashioned girl talk sesh and we aren’t mad about it!

It’s almost time for the 2016 CrossFit Games!! And this week we talk to 2015 9th place Games finisher, Margaux Alvarez. Margaux tells us how she got started in CrossFit, including the ill-advised but ultimately fateful competition decisions that propelled her into competitive the CrossFit world. She tells us what it’s like to train for the Games, her favorite ways to fuel her WODs, and her best and worst case scenarios for what could come out of the hopper, plus much more. We can’t wait to watch her compete in Carson!   GGW is sponsored by FOURATHLETICS.COM Discount code GGW Audibletrial.com/girlsgonewodpodcast Support the podcast! Click the SUBSCRIBE button on iTunes! Please leave us a review on itunes!! We love hearing your feedback and want to make this show the best it can be for YOU, amazing listeners. Share with a friend while you’re at it! www.girlsgonewodpodcast.com Send us an email with feedback and show ideas: girlsgonewod@gmail.com

Our flexible dieting journey continues this week with Sarah Pierce! We both had great results and experiences with WAG, but after finishing our programming, we wanted to work with someone who could help us develop a more long-term mindset. Enter Sarah, who has many years of experience coaching CrossFit athletes, gymnasts, runners–you name it–and now offers a personalized approach to macro counting and nutrition counseling! Sarah answers our questions about how she comes up with her custom plans, how to see results without letting food take over your life, and why drinking wine is (usually) just fine. Whew. To join Joy and Claire as we work with Sarah, email saraheileenpierce@gmail.com and let her know we sent you for special GGW pricing. GGW is sponsored by FOURATHLETICS.COM Discount code GGW Audibletrial.com/girlsgonewodpodcast Support the podcast! Click the SUBSCRIBE button on iTunes! Please leave us a review on itunes!! We love hearing your feedback and want to make this show the best it can be for YOU, amazing listeners. Share with a friend while you’re at it! www.girlsgonewodpodcast.com Send us an email with feedback and show ideas: girlsgonewod@gmail.com  

Finally, a J&C episode! It feels like it’s been foreeeever! This week is all about catching up, and we hear about Claire’s new job and how she’s balancing her new schedule, learn just how deep Joy’s obsession with true crime shows really runs, and answer all your questions about life after WAG and our favorite summer products. We talk a little bit about what Chris Moore said about “mastering the art of knowing (your)self,” and where we’re at in our own process on that path. And we learn that that the journey never ends, whether you’re dealing with a postpartum belly or extra-lean shoulder muscles.    

This episode is about Chris Moore, the Barbell Buddha himself. We learn about what motivates him, what brings him joy, and the work he hopes to do with his life. It’s about his influence on us as athletes, podcasters, and human beings; his ability to constantly challenge himself and those around him; and his serious love for ice cream. It is also a small piece of Chris’ legacy, as barely 24 hours after this conversation was recorded, Chris passed away from sudden heart failure at his home in Amsterdam. But we know that Chris’ work is not over, and we are honored beyond description to have a small part in continuing to spread his message through this episode. We know you are going to love this interview. And if you’d like to help make Chris’ dreams for his art and his family a reality, please visit gofundme.com/mooreironheart

This week we are joined by Noelle Tarr and Stefani Ruper from The Paleo Women Podcast! Noelle and Stefani are definitely #podcastsquadgoals, and we learn how they came together to create their show and what motivates them to want to help people achieve a healthy life. We also discuss body image and the biggest body struggles we’re facing right now, why finding balance is so important and yet so complex, and throw around some serious opinions about apple varieties.

The month of May turned in to the month of MEN on the podcast. We aren’t mad about it and we’re keeping the trend going. This week we interview a guy who puts the most interesting man in the world to shame. Founder of The XWOD program, Ryan has worked with nearly every Crossfitter you can think of and he’s BFFs with Sam Dancer.  Need we say more? Ryan holds multiple world records for jumping and is a world renowned coach, and our minds are blown about 100 times in this episode as we learn all the ways that max height box jumps can be translated into the way you think about life and goals. Who knew!   GGW is sponsored by FOURATHLETICS.COM AND QALO.COM Support the podcast! Click the SUBSCRIBE button on iTunes! Please leave us a review on itunes!! We love hearing your feedback and want to make this show the best it can be for YOU, amazing listeners. Share with a friend while you’re at it! Check out Ryan’s website: thexwod.com www.girlsgonewodpodcast.com Send us an email with feedback and show ideas: girlsgonewod@gmail.com