Podcast Episodes

VNR #106 - How many days a week should you work out?

Episode 106

- How many days a week should you work out & what should the schedule be?
- Is 3 days working out & 1 day of rest better than 5 days on & 2 days off?
-…

2 years, 10 months ago

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VNR #105 - Box Jumps... What's the point?

Episode 105

- If a box jump is too high for an athlete should they keep the height & do step-overs or should they reduce the height & jump?
- Pat & Adrian answer …

2 years, 10 months ago

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VNR #104 - How to develop mental toughness

Episode 104

- Pat & Adrian interview retired USMC Major Brian Chontosh, aka. “Tosh”.
- Tosh talks about mental toughness, the benefits of challenges/adversity & t…

2 years, 11 months ago

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VNR #103 - Haley Adams on mental health, eating disorders & her path forward

Episode 103

- Haley Adams started CrossFit when she was only 14 years old. 
- Now, at 22 years old she has competed at the CrossFit Games 7 times.
- Haley discusse…

2 years, 11 months ago

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VNR #102 - VNR episodes keep an affiliate member from quitting!

Episode 102

- Joe Pangallo is one of the owners of CrossFit Spring Hill.
- Joe tells Pat & Adrian how he used episodes of Varied Not Random to help keep two membe…

2 years, 11 months ago

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VNR #101 - The Opioid Crisis & CrossFit

Episode 101

- Pat interviews Dale King, the owner of PSKC CrossFit.
- Dale uses his gym as a way to help addicts during their road to recovery. 
- Pat & Dale discu…

2 years, 11 months ago

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VNR #100 - 2023 CrossFit Open Workouts - dissected & discussed

Episode 100

Adrian Bozman is the Director of the CrossFit Games and did the Open Test programming this year. Pat interviews Adrian about each of the 2023 CrossFi…

2 years, 11 months ago

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VNR #99 - Does CrossFit make you less athletic?

Episode 99

- A VNR listener asked, “Does CrossFit make you less athletic?”
- The listener also asked how to program to get out of the up/down & forward/back plan…

3 years ago

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VNR #98 - Pacing vs Full Send... which is better?

Episode 98

- Should you pace a workout or just go full send?
- Is one strategy “better” than the other?
- Pat & Adrian dive into this question.

3 years ago

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VNR #97 - 11-time World's Strongest Man competitor loses 100 pounds

Episode 97

- Laurence Shahlaei has competed 11 times at the World’s Strongest Man.
- He won Europe’s Strongest Man in 2016, he was the Ultimate Strongman World C…

3 years ago

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