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**Scale As Needed Podcast**

FloElite’s Scale As Needed Podcast: where we care just as much about movies, TV shows, and comic books as we do about weightlifting, The CrossFit Games, and strongman.

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8 Brian Shaw's World Record 100m Row, The Granite Games, Best Movie Scores Ever Sep 16, 2016

Show notes

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

7 The iPhone 7, Accessory Work, Rich's Impossible Workout Sep 09, 2016

Show notes

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

6 Brooke Wells, Being Brent Fikowski, and Aesthetics Sep 02, 2016

Show notes

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

5 Chad Johnson vs Rich Froning, Doping in Sports, Star Wars The Force Awakens Aug 26, 2016

Show notes

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

4 - Sausage Party, Rio Weightlifting, CrossFit Superhumans Aug 19, 2016

Show notes

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

3 Suicide Squad and The International Olympic Committee Aug 12, 2016

Show notes

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

2 Can Fraser Continue His Dominance At The Games? Aug 05, 2016

Show notes

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 59:53 - New era of the Games 1:02:29 - Food WODs

FloElite Hoistcast - One Day Out Of The 2016 CrossFit Games: What We Know Jul 19, 2016

Show notes

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.

FloElite Hoistcast - Margaux Alvarez, Meg Reardon, Brent Fikowski At The CrossFit Games Jul 18, 2016

Show notes

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.

FloElite Hoistcast - Danny Camargo Jun 28, 2016

Show notes

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