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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you hip too high rocks?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I actually just heard about this for the first time,
like a few weeks ago, because one of my friends
was competing at a thing at the convention Center.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Oh, so you know about it.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
But I had never heard of it before. When she
said high rocks, I was like, what do you what
is that?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
And they had a big competition at.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The convention Center a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Are you hipped on high rocks?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Not even sure what word you're saying? Hi, h y
rox rocks, high rocks both, My guess is wrong for
both parts of that.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Word high rocks. I think I'm pronouncing it.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I've never heard of it.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Yeah, I had never heard of it either. Is your
friend like a fitness freak?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
She she definitely trained for this, right, So yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Was she a big CrossFit person.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
She she did every every sort of thing like she
would do class Pass.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
So you're kind of like, what is class Pass?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's I don't do a lot.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Of these, you can.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's it's an app where you can basically, instead of
having a membership at a particular club or gym or whatever,
you can just go take class is like a la
carte at different places and so she she did everything
that you could imagine. But yeah, she she she said
this was like a competition though it was her and
a friend of person who were partnered up.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Yeah, you can, you could do you can do individuals,
you could do relays.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I had no idea what it was.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
She said that she's probably in like the best shape
of her life now after train doing high rockster training
for this.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
So, but I wonder if, like are people, does CrossFit
still do well?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I think it's it's not as big as it used
to be. I mean, you still see CrossFit gyms everywhere
for sure, but.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
It feels like again just on what I read that
High Rocks, Krista, will you do me a favor? Will
you see if you can find me somebody who trains
for high rocks competitions and do people? I guess there's
training to do it, but it's is it all competition
or is there just people who just like to do
as if it is a competition, just like the training
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part of.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It, I would imagine yeah, that they would do it,
because I mean, if you look up the workout, they're
pretty serious.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (02:02):
So high Rocks is oh, I got to give the
number to Christen eight sixty six, to Elliott eight six
six two three five five four six eight, somebody who's
doing or knows about high rocks.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So it is it is hold on, I wrote, I
have this. Here we go. High Rocks originated in Germany.
It's not that old.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
It originated in Germany in twenty seventeen, but as quickly
established itself as one of the fastest growing fitness sports
in the world. They hold races, and even though races,
it's not all running. There is definitely running that's part
of it, but the races are kind of like you're
competing against other people because it is for time.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's the race for hybrid athletes.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
It entails eight kilometers of running, which is roughly five miles,
and eight rength based workout stations. There's no finishing time restriction,
and ninety eight percent of athletes successfully complete the race.
But given that it's a competition, obviously you don't win
just for finishing. Hybrid fitness competition that combines running and
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functional workout stations. So for example, like they'll say, and
again you can do it by yourself, you could do
it as a as a tandem. You could do it
as a foursome. I don't know if you can do
it as threes.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
But you would do a one kilometer run and then,
like they're just giving examples, one kilometer run and then
a fifty meters sled push followed by a one kilometer
run followed by a fifty meters sled pull.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How far is a kilometer?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It's likeero point six miles.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Why I feel like.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'd be tired?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
So is this similar? Remember if it's been back ten
plus years? But do you recall the National Pro Grid League? No,
she had that. We had the DC Brawlers in the
studio and it was a crossfoit CrossFit inspired competition. It
did not last long now, but there were teams from
other cities as well, and I think they competed at
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George Mason And it just sounds similar like it just see.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
But as soon as you said that, I forgot about them.
But as soon as you said that, my head went
to that it was CrossFit.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
It was definitely inspired by CrossFit, but it wasn't exclusively CrossFit.
But that league folded before you're telling me. Hi Rocks
was even invented.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeh yes h.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
So in addition, so you got to keep doing these
these goddamn one kilometer runs, yeah, between every between every
every station. Right, and so I told you there's the
fifty meter sled poll, eighty meter burpie broad jump, one
kilometer roll row. Excuse me, Now I do the role.
I just lay down an eye roll.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
It's easier.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Two hundred meter farmers carry one hundred meters sandbag walking
lunges and one hundred wallballs depending they could be seventy five.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It depends on your division. What's a wallball?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Like, the only wallball I know is like the game
that you used to play as kids.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I bet you call it something else. Yes, now we
called it butts up, but I bet it's not butts up.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
What's that? Oh wallball?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah, not like a wall sit, no wallball, But there's
no way it's wallball like you play when you're a kid.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Now this looks like you got a big medicine ball.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, it's a It's a weighted ball that you're throwing
up straight and I think you do a squat in
the middle of it.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
We're definitely throwing up.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh all right, oh you you do do this?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Oh I yeah, okay, yeah, I just did that last week.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Line what but it sounds like it sounds like and
then I'll grab these calls.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But it sounds like, are people that are into this?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
And I mean this with no disrespect, right, people who
were into crossfit're you're you're in great shape. But people
that were in CrossFit, it was like it was their
look at Roach. They're being yeah, look at Roach. That
was the only thing he cared about and he's married
with kids. All he carried about was CrossFit.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
But you're saying this is not the cancer with higher No.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I wonder if it is like, are people who are
into it into it?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Well, Diane, your friend, was this what she dedicated herself to?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean she said it was that you you worked
and you did that because she was training for a competition.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Right, No, no, no, But was it like was she like
was she like trying to like like voodoo you with it? It?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
No? No, I mean she would we were.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Just cross people would try to voodoo you into.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Git you into their wad or they're sorry I misspoke
their box, which is where they did the wad.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yes, absolutely, remember Roach would come in here, like after
being in the wad or the box or whatever, and
he thanked to holy hell.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's like, no, man, that's that's the smell success. You
could You can be successful and smell like this too.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You can shower too.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But are these people like that? And that sounds bad
to say?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Until this morning, I've never heard of This is the
only person I have ever known who has done this,
So I can't make a sleeping generalization.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Maybe this will be my thing?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Where am I going line one of the events you
listed other than wall right love the burpie broad jump?
Say again, are you doing the burpie broad jump?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Or now, remember this is a relay. I may pass
on that one.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Oh, you're doing the farmers carry.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'll be honest, I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
You're just carrying like kettlebells.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh, I'll do that one.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
They're pretty heavy.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, I wasn't expecting to be the feathers. Hey, a
ton of feathers weighs as much as a ton of bricks.
I would do. I would do farmers carries.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
That's right there there you go.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh look at her. I could do that.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
It is exactly as Diane described.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I'm walking carrying weights?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And what kind of burpie?
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
A burpie broad jump?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Burpie? Burpie broad jump?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Lay down?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yes, a burpie broad jump?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Oh my god. This in a competition where we're being timed.
This can be rough. You see it on the computer.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Down up? Jump? Oh okay?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
And how far are we going with that?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Eighty meters? Eighty meters? So you do a burpie? Yeah,
but when you get up you launch yourself forward.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah. Some exercises with burbies are just the jump jump.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, right now, I'm jumping for distance.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
But the further you jump, the less you have to
do because you only have to make it eighty meters.
If I if I can jump forty meters, I only
got to do two of these?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Man, how far do I jump?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I'm watching a guy do it right now.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Every time I jump, I get black eyes.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
He's not he's maybe jumping like five feet. I don't know.
Oh how many hairs?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
How many hairs do I jump? No?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Serious? How many inches do they you can jump?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Are you meaning for a burpie broad jump? Are you
just going to.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm going to stand my arms and jump fifty inches?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I hope you can I hope you can do fifty.
We're at fifty right now.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's oh I could do that.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Sixteen hundred hairs.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I can do that. I've definitely jumped sixteen hundred hairs.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Amen.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I told Diane stay down.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, I could do fifty.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Yeah, what about sixty at nine?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Can I?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Oh, that's that's a long that's that's a long way
a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That's a long jump. That's a lot more hairs.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Line one, Hi Elliott in the morning, Hey, what's going on, dude?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So I did high rocks last year and this year.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
In DC so is so you did the you did
the competition, the high rocks competition, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And let me tell you, I can't shut up about it.
I just hope that everybody around me asked about it.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Do you like the do you like the the training
for is the training for it?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Do you know what I mean by CrossFit?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Where like people that were into CrossFit, like they were
into CrossFit, are people that are in the high rocks?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Are they in the high rocks?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah? Dude. So basically I'll try to be a short
when as possible with it. It definitely stemmed frum cross
it a lot of the movies of Kimp and taking
Trum across it. The reason that a lot of people
like this is because it's the same workout all the time,
and so you can kind of benchmark yourself with it,
as opposed to like CrossFit, where it's always will be different.
You never exactly know how much better you're getting it anything.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
But CrossFit was never a competition, right.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
CrossFit was just an individualized workout program.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
True, but they do have to cross the game some
different CrossFit you know, competitions throughout.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
The year, right, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So basically when high Rocks came around, it was something
that like everybody could do. So basically you can sign
up for it just like a five k or a marathon.
And I like it personally just because it gives me
like a north Star to train for. Otherwise I'm just
going to sit on my ass and you know it couldies.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, Hydrox, what is the how did you get into it?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
How did you learn about it?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah? Absolutely, So I'm trainer and I was just kind
of always looking for that like kind of next thing,
and then like three years ago I saw it on
the internet and then it was it was only in
like like sixth or seventh States or something like New
York Chicago, just like kind of the bigger metropolitan area.
And then last year it was the first year that
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it came to DC. So what's awesome. Let me give
it a shot. It took an hour and a half
and it sucked.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
But it's fun.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Is the which is the I mean, obviously running the
kilometer isn't fun. What like of of the of the
the what's the the other discipline? The disciplines? What which
one is the worst? Well, I guess it's all personal
preference of the burfie.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
One hands out perfuse everybody hat the burbies blow you up.
It's right there in the middle of the race. It
blows your legs up, spikes your heart rate, and it
basically just ruined the rest of the red the second
half of the workout.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
And you said, it's always the same disciplines, always in
the same order, Yes, sir, did you not hear my
hack to get through the burbie broad jobs.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
There are definitely some people there that do try that.
It doesn't work, but they definitely try it. Yeah, it's
just you probably do roughly between like kind of like
how it. We're saying like sixty maybe roughly. Last year
they had the Burkes where you basically just started at
one starting point and then the finished point of the
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burbles eighty meters was like kind of in front of you.
This year in DC, it digzag like a snake, so
it kind of like took the wind out of you
because you'd look up and you only get a quarter
through it. Oh god, So yeah it was Yeah, it sucked.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
And last last question for your personal trainer, the are
you seeing are you seeing more and more not just
education about it, but are you seeing more and more
involvement in high rocks.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It is absolutely blown up. I mean just looking at
you know, the website and kind of being in the
know about it. Last year and two years ago, none
of the races would sell out, and this year it's
not quite getting tailor slip tickets, but like it's getting there.
So I mean, they can only have such a capacity
for many people during the day and it's thousands and
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thousands of thousands of people. But yeah, like DC sold out,
New York is now sold out, Chicago's sold out. It's
blowing up. And now because somebody died in the last
Crosst Games. Kind of everybody from cross It is moving
over to high rocks just because it's fun and you're
not you know, it doesn't have that bad reputation that
cross It does.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Wait, so somebody died in the cross of the game,
so everybody's baling on CrossFit.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, dude, it's like cross It is not as popular
as it used to be. Lots. He died in the
last Crosst Games back in August. He drowned.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
We talk about that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, I think we did. I think we did. All
that sucks, man.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, the sport really has not It has not really recovered.
And like so you're getting all of these super fit,
like huge cropfit people that are moving over to higher
rocks just because it's it's the next best bet.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, that's where I am. All right, very good, very good.
I appreciate it. Where am I going?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Christ So he was a personal trainer. What did you
say your friend was when she fell into this line?
What she she's a hairdresser. Oh so she's not even
in the fitness world. No, but she's always worked out. Yeah,
but his job was working out and working people out. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I think she just I think she just kind of
stumbled upon it.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
And was it Do you think it was like explained
this sort of north Star type thing when it came
to the workout and the program.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I don't know. She seems to love it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
One other thing about her? Do you know what her
favorite color is?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I don't Okay?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Where am I going? Kristen Line three? Hi, Elliott the morning.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Hey you know Hey, I'm doing great? Thank you high Rocks.
Are you familiar?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I am.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I did the one in DC recently.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wow, so a lot of people went. So it was packed?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Oh it was. It was super packed. I was not
expecting it to be that as occupied as it was.
It was. It was a little overwhelming at first.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How did like do you like? I know it's a competition.
Do we know who won? Is there?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Who is the what is what? Am I?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Look?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Who's the who's the stud of high Rocks right now?
Speaker 7 (16:33):
So I did the open division which everybody everyone could
join that, but there's a pro division which I'm not
ready for that yet. And I don't know the guy's
real name on Instagram. I think it's like the hybrid Raccoon.
But I think he broke the record and doing it
in like fifty three minutes. It was like something absurd.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
How long does it take you?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
The personal trainer didn't he say he took him an
hour and a half, which when I heard that, I'm
being very honest, I was like, man, that seems like
that's a long time.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But I'm sure that's fast. No, No, I'm sure that's fast.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
So I'm actually a personal trainer too in Ocean City, Maryland,
so that that's it was a challenge to me. So
the average time for the open last INBC was an
hour and thirty two minutes. I did it in an
hour and twenty eight boy, and yeah, I was pretty
happy about that. But it was it was crazy. It
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was I'm definitely gonna do it again. I'm hooked now.
How definitely gonna do it again?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
How'd you get into it? How'd you get into it?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
So one of the other trainers at my gym here
in Ocean City, I guess she had been following it
because it was in Europe for a long time.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, it started in Germany, came.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Yeah, I guess it came over to the States, and
she asked me if I'd be willing to do it,
And initially I was thinking, like hell no, because the
amount of running in it is overwhelming, And I'm used
to CrossFit style workouts where there's running involved, but this
race is a crazy amount of running. So at first
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I didn't want to do it, and then she talked
me into it, and I decided to start training for it,
and now I'm obsessed with it. Now I'm obsessed with
running too.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So really, so it got you? It got you? So
you went from hating running to now being obsessed with it?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Well, I feel like it exposed my weaknesses. So and
running it's like eighty percent running, I would say. And
everyone who kills it, they all come from like I
feel like they usually come from like marathon running backgrounds,
like CrossFit you lift heavy weights and you run for
a little bit. But it seems like everyone who dominates
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high rocks. They're more from a running bat right, and
then they start lifting a little weights. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Are there are they?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
That's the biggest division?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Last two, last three questions. Number one, do you agree
the burp are the worst part? Although maybe for you
would say the running.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
No. I still think Burpey's will always be the number
one most stated thing. I will never agree, I would
do anything before Burpy's and then adding broad jumps to
it just throws salt on the loon. That was horrible.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
It took forever, Hey number two, Like CrossFit gyms started
popping up everywhere, and then like remember like American Ninja Warrior,
Like Ninja Warrior gym started popping up everywhere, and you're
a personal trainer, are you doing high Rocks like at
other gyms or are there specific high Rocks gyms?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
So I heard they're doing the same thing as CrossFit,
and I think it's spreading like wildfire how CrossFit did
because on their website and on social media. I've been
seeing that you can be to become like an affiliate
with their company. I've see like a lot of CrossFit
gyms are even doing it in regular gym's like they're
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becoming a High Rocks affiliated gym rightly getting High Rocks
coaches to taylor the workouts to get ready for those.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Either And when is the next like you said you
did DC, and then like they mentioned New York and Chicago,
where is the next?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Where's the next big one?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
I feel like the next one is Atlanta. I think
they just did one in Miami this month. And I
feel like they're going to be one in Atlanta soon.
The next one I'm thinking about is probably going to
be in Chicago or Dallas, but that's not until November.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And events all over the world, everywhere, Asia, Europe obviously
the States.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Oh so there's there's not just a US leg it's
like Formula one.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
No, they do this way more than Formula one.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
No.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
No.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
But what I'm saying is where it's not like like
NASCAR is all in the US, I know, Mexico City
or whatever, but like it doesn't go Dallas, Houston, Atlanta,
d C, New York, Chicago, Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It could be New York, d C.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Because Germany upcoming, Barcelona, Atlanta, London, Mumbai.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Holy crap. Yeah, so you couldn't run the circuit.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I mean, I are some of these even overlapping they
might be, so it would be impossible. And also between
now and the end of the year, there's dozens and
dozens of events. Oh, Birmingham does that look like Alabama?
Do you?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I don't know. It's right next to Stuttgart. So I'm
gonna say no. Line four.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
By the way, Dylan Scott is the not the country singer.
But Dylan hold On one second line four, Dylan Scott
is the hybrid raccoon h His thing is live fast,
eat trash YEP. I feel like you'd like part of
his receipt.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I mean, listen, if you could do all of this
stuff and be great at it, you think he cares
if he you know what he didn't do yesterday? I
bet he didn't go home and go I ate three
crembrew laid donuts from Astro Donut.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Not with these?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
As?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I also had.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Fried chicken and a breakfast burrito, and I had three
crembrew lay I told Jackie I hate myself. She's like why.
I was like, I told her. I was like, I
had fried chicken. It's fine, Like that's good, it's chicken.
I had a breakfast burrito and the eggs didn't make
me nauseous, and she's like, okay. I was like, and
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then I had three crembrew laid donuts. You had to
have three, And I was like, I hate myself.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
They were so good, though.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
And you know what the truth is, if if you
walked in here, if Astro walked in here with three
more krimber laid donuts. I would like I hadn't eaten
in a month. I'd eat the guy's hand off just
to get them.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Come on, let me get a pr You knew I
did three already.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
But if I start doing high Rocks, no problem.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Mary just did her fourth high Rocks event this past
week No way, this past weekend in Miami.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Are you serious, she writes, I love it. God, you
really have to be into it like it looks hard.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
It does say, though. On their website it says that
it is the fitness competition for everybody.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Well, what do you want them to say? This will
freaking kill you your doe?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Come on in?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Oh is astro here?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
No, but they do say everybody can do it. Now
you may not. You may not be good at it.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You may take you a day and a half.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I don't know if I'm gonna beat Scuba Raccoon or
whatever his name is. What is his name, trash raccoon?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
No, he is the hybrid raccoon.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Yeah, mind set scoop of raccoon.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I don't know. Hi, Elliott the morning by me? Yes, Hi,
who is this?
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I'm Mary from Richmond. I'm the one that just posted
about the fourth.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Oh you you did the one in Miami?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
I did?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Hey, how did you?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
How did you get into High Rocks?
Speaker 8 (24:28):
I have a gym in Richmond, and a bunch of
people were doing it there and I just sort of
jumped on the bandwagon.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Wait, so when you say you have a gym, I
thought you meant like you own a gym.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
No.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
No, No, the gym that I go to in Richmond, it's
not an affiliate gym. But like you guys were talking
about earlier, there are affiliate gyms that you can be
sort of branded as an affiliate by High Rocks, and
you have to have certain capacity of people size things
like that at and they will consider you a high
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Rocky gym, put you on their website and things like that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Do you love High Rocks?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I do.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
I have really gotten into it and it's it's pretty cool, fus.
We travel to places and do it, so it's kind
of like a built in vacation and we have a
Sunday Fun day afterwards, which makes.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
It that much better.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
What do you like Sunday fun Day? Let's let let
me guess.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
We just we just do push ups, no boosy brunch.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
There you go, busy brunch.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Okay, hey, is it is?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Was it hard to get into Like I know you
said you saw some people doing it, but was it
hard to get going?
Speaker 7 (25:43):
It was.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
It's a lot, and so training for it it's probably
the worst part, but it's it's a lot to get
into it. It's a lot to maintain. I've only been
doing it about a year and there are a lot
of people that have done it a lot longer. It's
hard on the body, but it's my full time job.
I have a full time job, so it's just something
on the side.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Do you train every day, five or six days a week.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yes, you sound like you're in no.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
No, but it sounds you agree. The Burpy's part is
the worst.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Part for me.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
It's the wall balls.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh real. Oh yeah, because the medicine ball that you
throw up in the air.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
Right, and they make you do one hundred of them.
They just changed it. It used to be seventy five. Now
it's one hundred. It's at the very end.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Wait, so did they throw out my records?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I don't. I don't feel like that would be the
hardest one. I mean, I guess you're just.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
How much does the medicine ball.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Way for women. It is four kilograms, which is about
nine pounds.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
All right, one of those.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Up and then you do a squad and then you
catch it.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I don't like having to do the squat. Oh my god,
that feels like my knees.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
No, not my knees, my goddamn thighs. I feel like
that would hurt.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
How are you doing the sandbag lunge?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Walk?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Then?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I don't want to. I want to be in the room.
I just want to walk.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
That's the farmer carry.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, I'm all farmer carry.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You got to do the sandbag one with the big
sandbag either here or on your back.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
But do I have to do lunges?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Yes, that's part of the exercise. Yeah, this is hard
now us he had boozy brunch.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
You know what I did?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I hopped off the chair because my feet don't touch
the ground.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I walked around. That's a one k.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I walked around, I got a donut, I walked right
back around.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Personal best.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Hey, how long? How long does it take you to
get through the.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Race?
Speaker 8 (27:54):
This past weekend was an hour twenty three minute.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Wow, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
And when you said, when you said you work out,
when you work out, like five days a week.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Do you do the entire circuit as a workout.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
No, No, you do different variations. I mean, you could
have one workout that's focused on lunges or that's just conditioning,
so running steered and grow. There's there's lots of different variations.
But maybe before a race you might do like a
partial high Rocks, like a half or something like that.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
But you don't.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
I've never actually done a full high Rocks race before the.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Actual race, right, I understand. And like you said, this
thing is growing like a weed.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
It is.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
It felled out pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Now wow,
Are you hip too high rocks?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I actually just heard about this for the first time,
like a few weeks ago, because one of my friends
was competing at a thing at the convention Center.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Oh, so you know about it.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
But I had never heard of it before. When she
said high rocks, I was like, what do you what
is that?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
And they had a big competition at.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The convention Center a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Are you hipped on high rocks?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Not even sure what word you're saying? Hi, h y
rox rocks, high rocks both, My guess is wrong for
both parts of that.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Word high rocks. I think I'm pronouncing it.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I've never heard of it.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Yeah, I had never heard of it either. Is your
friend like a fitness freak?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
She she definitely trained for this, right, So yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Was she a big CrossFit person.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
She she did every every sort of thing like she
would do class Pass.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
So you're kind of like, what is class Pass?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's I don't do a lot.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Of these, you can.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's it's an app where you can basically, instead of
having a membership at a particular club or gym or whatever,
you can just go take class is like a la
carte at different places and so she she did everything
that you could imagine. But yeah, she she she said
this was like a competition though it was her and
a friend of person who were partnered up.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Yeah, you can, you could do you can do individuals,
you could do relays.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I had no idea what it was.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
She said that she's probably in like the best shape
of her life now after train doing high rockster training
for this.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
So, but I wonder if, like are people, does CrossFit
still do well?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I think it's it's not as big as it used
to be. I mean, you still see CrossFit gyms everywhere
for sure, but.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
It feels like again just on what I read that
High Rocks, Krista, will you do me a favor? Will
you see if you can find me somebody who trains
for high rocks competitions and do people? I guess there's
training to do it, but it's is it all competition
or is there just people who just like to do
as if it is a competition, just like the training
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part of.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It, I would imagine yeah, that they would do it,
because I mean, if you look up the workout, they're
pretty serious.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (02:02):
So high Rocks is oh, I got to give the
number to Christen eight sixty six, to Elliott eight six
six two three five five four six eight, somebody who's
doing or knows about high rocks.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So it is it is hold on, I wrote, I
have this. Here we go. High Rocks originated in Germany.
It's not that old.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
It originated in Germany in twenty seventeen, but as quickly
established itself as one of the fastest growing fitness sports
in the world. They hold races, and even though races,
it's not all running. There is definitely running that's part
of it, but the races are kind of like you're
competing against other people because it is for time.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's the race for hybrid athletes.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
It entails eight kilometers of running, which is roughly five miles,
and eight rength based workout stations. There's no finishing time restriction,
and ninety eight percent of athletes successfully complete the race.
But given that it's a competition, obviously you don't win
just for finishing. Hybrid fitness competition that combines running and
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functional workout stations. So for example, like they'll say, and
again you can do it by yourself, you could do
it as a as a tandem. You could do it
as a foursome. I don't know if you can do
it as threes.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
But you would do a one kilometer run and then,
like they're just giving examples, one kilometer run and then
a fifty meters sled push followed by a one kilometer
run followed by a fifty meters sled pull.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How far is a kilometer?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It's likeero point six miles.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Why I feel like.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'd be tired?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
So is this similar? Remember if it's been back ten
plus years? But do you recall the National Pro Grid League? No,
she had that. We had the DC Brawlers in the
studio and it was a crossfoit CrossFit inspired competition. It
did not last long now, but there were teams from
other cities as well, and I think they competed at
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George Mason And it just sounds similar like it just see.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
But as soon as you said that, I forgot about them.
But as soon as you said that, my head went
to that it was CrossFit.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
It was definitely inspired by CrossFit, but it wasn't exclusively CrossFit.
But that league folded before you're telling me. Hi Rocks
was even invented.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeh yes h.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
So in addition, so you got to keep doing these
these goddamn one kilometer runs, yeah, between every between every
every station. Right, and so I told you there's the
fifty meter sled poll, eighty meter burpie broad jump, one
kilometer roll row. Excuse me, Now I do the role.
I just lay down an eye roll.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
It's easier.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Two hundred meter farmers carry one hundred meters sandbag walking
lunges and one hundred wallballs depending they could be seventy five.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It depends on your division. What's a wallball?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Like, the only wallball I know is like the game
that you used to play as kids.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I bet you call it something else. Yes, now we
called it butts up, but I bet it's not butts up.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
What's that? Oh wallball?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah, not like a wall sit, no wallball, But there's
no way it's wallball like you play when you're a kid.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Now this looks like you got a big medicine ball.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, it's a It's a weighted ball that you're throwing
up straight and I think you do a squat in
the middle of it.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
We're definitely throwing up.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh all right, oh you you do do this?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Oh I yeah, okay, yeah, I just did that last week.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Line what but it sounds like it sounds like and
then I'll grab these calls.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But it sounds like, are people that are into this?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
And I mean this with no disrespect, right, people who
were into crossfit're you're you're in great shape. But people
that were in CrossFit, it was like it was their
look at Roach. They're being yeah, look at Roach. That
was the only thing he cared about and he's married
with kids. All he carried about was CrossFit.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
But you're saying this is not the cancer with higher No.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I wonder if it is like, are people who are
into it into it?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Well, Diane, your friend, was this what she dedicated herself to?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean she said it was that you you worked
and you did that because she was training for a competition.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Right, No, no, no, But was it like was she like
was she like trying to like like voodoo you with it? It?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
No? No, I mean she would we were.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Just cross people would try to voodoo you into.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Git you into their wad or they're sorry I misspoke
their box, which is where they did the wad.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yes, absolutely, remember Roach would come in here, like after
being in the wad or the box or whatever, and
he thanked to holy hell.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's like, no, man, that's that's the smell success. You
could You can be successful and smell like this too.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You can shower too.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But are these people like that? And that sounds bad
to say?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Until this morning, I've never heard of This is the
only person I have ever known who has done this,
So I can't make a sleeping generalization.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Maybe this will be my thing?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Where am I going line one of the events you
listed other than wall right love the burpie broad jump?
Say again, are you doing the burpie broad jump?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Or now, remember this is a relay. I may pass
on that one.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Oh, you're doing the farmers carry.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'll be honest, I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
You're just carrying like kettlebells.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh, I'll do that one.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
They're pretty heavy.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, I wasn't expecting to be the feathers. Hey, a
ton of feathers weighs as much as a ton of bricks.
I would do. I would do farmers carries.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
That's right there there you go.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh look at her. I could do that.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
It is exactly as Diane described.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I'm walking carrying weights?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And what kind of burpie?
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
A burpie broad jump?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Burpie? Burpie broad jump?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Lay down?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yes, a burpie broad jump?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Oh my god. This in a competition where we're being timed.
This can be rough. You see it on the computer.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Down up? Jump? Oh okay?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
And how far are we going with that?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Eighty meters? Eighty meters? So you do a burpie? Yeah,
but when you get up you launch yourself forward.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah. Some exercises with burbies are just the jump jump.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, right now, I'm jumping for distance.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
But the further you jump, the less you have to
do because you only have to make it eighty meters.
If I if I can jump forty meters, I only
got to do two of these?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Man, how far do I jump?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I'm watching a guy do it right now.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Every time I jump, I get black eyes.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
He's not he's maybe jumping like five feet. I don't know.
Oh how many hairs?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
How many hairs do I jump? No?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Serious? How many inches do they you can jump?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Are you meaning for a burpie broad jump? Are you
just going to.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm going to stand my arms and jump fifty inches?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I hope you can I hope you can do fifty.
We're at fifty right now.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's oh I could do that.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Sixteen hundred hairs.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I can do that. I've definitely jumped sixteen hundred hairs.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Amen.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I told Diane stay down.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, I could do fifty.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Yeah, what about sixty at nine?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Can I?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Oh, that's that's a long that's that's a long way
a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That's a long jump. That's a lot more hairs.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Line one, Hi Elliott in the morning, Hey, what's going on, dude?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So I did high rocks last year and this year.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
In DC so is so you did the you did
the competition, the high rocks competition, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And let me tell you, I can't shut up about it.
I just hope that everybody around me asked about it.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Do you like the do you like the the training
for is the training for it?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Do you know what I mean by CrossFit?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Where like people that were into CrossFit, like they were
into CrossFit, are people that are in the high rocks?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Are they in the high rocks?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah? Dude. So basically I'll try to be a short
when as possible with it. It definitely stemmed frum cross
it a lot of the movies of Kimp and taking
Trum across it. The reason that a lot of people
like this is because it's the same workout all the time,
and so you can kind of benchmark yourself with it,
as opposed to like CrossFit, where it's always will be different.
You never exactly know how much better you're getting it anything.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
But CrossFit was never a competition, right.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
CrossFit was just an individualized workout program.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
True, but they do have to cross the game some
different CrossFit you know, competitions throughout.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
The year, right, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So basically when high Rocks came around, it was something
that like everybody could do. So basically you can sign
up for it just like a five k or a marathon.
And I like it personally just because it gives me
like a north Star to train for. Otherwise I'm just
going to sit on my ass and you know it couldies.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, Hydrox, what is the how did you get into it?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
How did you learn about it?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah? Absolutely, So I'm trainer and I was just kind
of always looking for that like kind of next thing,
and then like three years ago I saw it on
the internet and then it was it was only in
like like sixth or seventh States or something like New
York Chicago, just like kind of the bigger metropolitan area.
And then last year it was the first year that
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it came to DC. So what's awesome. Let me give
it a shot. It took an hour and a half
and it sucked.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
But it's fun.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Is the which is the I mean, obviously running the
kilometer isn't fun. What like of of the of the
the what's the the other discipline? The disciplines? What which
one is the worst? Well, I guess it's all personal
preference of the burfie.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
One hands out perfuse everybody hat the burbies blow you up.
It's right there in the middle of the race. It
blows your legs up, spikes your heart rate, and it
basically just ruined the rest of the red the second
half of the workout.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
And you said, it's always the same disciplines, always in
the same order, Yes, sir, did you not hear my
hack to get through the burbie broad jobs.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
There are definitely some people there that do try that.
It doesn't work, but they definitely try it. Yeah, it's
just you probably do roughly between like kind of like
how it. We're saying like sixty maybe roughly. Last year
they had the Burkes where you basically just started at
one starting point and then the finished point of the
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burbles eighty meters was like kind of in front of you.
This year in DC, it digzag like a snake, so
it kind of like took the wind out of you
because you'd look up and you only get a quarter
through it. Oh god, So yeah it was Yeah, it sucked.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
And last last question for your personal trainer, the are
you seeing are you seeing more and more not just
education about it, but are you seeing more and more
involvement in high rocks.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It is absolutely blown up. I mean just looking at
you know, the website and kind of being in the
know about it. Last year and two years ago, none
of the races would sell out, and this year it's
not quite getting tailor slip tickets, but like it's getting there.
So I mean, they can only have such a capacity
for many people during the day and it's thousands and
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thousands of thousands of people. But yeah, like DC sold out,
New York is now sold out, Chicago's sold out. It's
blowing up. And now because somebody died in the last
Crosst Games. Kind of everybody from cross It is moving
over to high rocks just because it's fun and you're
not you know, it doesn't have that bad reputation that
cross It does.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Wait, so somebody died in the cross of the game,
so everybody's baling on CrossFit.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, dude, it's like cross It is not as popular
as it used to be. Lots. He died in the
last Crosst Games back in August. He drowned.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
We talk about that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, I think we did. I think we did. All
that sucks, man.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, the sport really has not It has not really recovered.
And like so you're getting all of these super fit,
like huge cropfit people that are moving over to higher
rocks just because it's it's the next best bet.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, that's where I am. All right, very good, very good.
I appreciate it. Where am I going?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Christ So he was a personal trainer. What did you
say your friend was when she fell into this line?
What she she's a hairdresser. Oh so she's not even
in the fitness world. No, but she's always worked out. Yeah,
but his job was working out and working people out. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I think she just I think she just kind of
stumbled upon it.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
And was it Do you think it was like explained
this sort of north Star type thing when it came
to the workout and the program.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I don't know. She seems to love it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
One other thing about her? Do you know what her
favorite color is?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I don't Okay?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Where am I going? Kristen Line three? Hi, Elliott the morning.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Hey you know Hey, I'm doing great? Thank you high Rocks.
Are you familiar?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I am.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I did the one in DC recently.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wow, so a lot of people went. So it was packed?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Oh it was. It was super packed. I was not
expecting it to be that as occupied as it was.
It was. It was a little overwhelming at first.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How did like do you like? I know it's a competition.
Do we know who won? Is there?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Who is the what is what? Am I?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Look?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Who's the who's the stud of high Rocks right now?
Speaker 7 (16:33):
So I did the open division which everybody everyone could
join that, but there's a pro division which I'm not
ready for that yet. And I don't know the guy's
real name on Instagram. I think it's like the hybrid Raccoon.
But I think he broke the record and doing it
in like fifty three minutes. It was like something absurd.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
How long does it take you?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
The personal trainer didn't he say he took him an
hour and a half, which when I heard that, I'm
being very honest, I was like, man, that seems like
that's a long time.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But I'm sure that's fast. No, No, I'm sure that's fast.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
So I'm actually a personal trainer too in Ocean City, Maryland,
so that that's it was a challenge to me. So
the average time for the open last INBC was an
hour and thirty two minutes. I did it in an
hour and twenty eight boy, and yeah, I was pretty
happy about that. But it was it was crazy. It
(17:29):
was I'm definitely gonna do it again. I'm hooked now.
How definitely gonna do it again?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
How'd you get into it? How'd you get into it?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
So one of the other trainers at my gym here
in Ocean City, I guess she had been following it
because it was in Europe for a long time.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, it started in Germany, came.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Yeah, I guess it came over to the States, and
she asked me if I'd be willing to do it,
And initially I was thinking, like hell no, because the
amount of running in it is overwhelming, And I'm used
to CrossFit style workouts where there's running involved, but this
race is a crazy amount of running. So at first
(18:10):
I didn't want to do it, and then she talked
me into it, and I decided to start training for it,
and now I'm obsessed with it. Now I'm obsessed with
running too.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So really, so it got you? It got you? So
you went from hating running to now being obsessed with it?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Well, I feel like it exposed my weaknesses. So and
running it's like eighty percent running, I would say. And
everyone who kills it, they all come from like I
feel like they usually come from like marathon running backgrounds,
like CrossFit you lift heavy weights and you run for
a little bit. But it seems like everyone who dominates
(18:45):
high rocks. They're more from a running bat right, and
then they start lifting a little weights. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Are there are they?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
That's the biggest division?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Last two, last three questions. Number one, do you agree
the burp are the worst part? Although maybe for you
would say the running.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
No. I still think Burpey's will always be the number
one most stated thing. I will never agree, I would
do anything before Burpy's and then adding broad jumps to
it just throws salt on the loon. That was horrible.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
It took forever, Hey number two, Like CrossFit gyms started
popping up everywhere, and then like remember like American Ninja Warrior,
Like Ninja Warrior gym started popping up everywhere, and you're
a personal trainer, are you doing high Rocks like at
other gyms or are there specific high Rocks gyms?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
So I heard they're doing the same thing as CrossFit,
and I think it's spreading like wildfire how CrossFit did
because on their website and on social media. I've been
seeing that you can be to become like an affiliate
with their company. I've see like a lot of CrossFit
gyms are even doing it in regular gym's like they're
(20:03):
becoming a High Rocks affiliated gym rightly getting High Rocks
coaches to taylor the workouts to get ready for those.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Either And when is the next like you said you
did DC, and then like they mentioned New York and Chicago,
where is the next?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Where's the next big one?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
I feel like the next one is Atlanta. I think
they just did one in Miami this month. And I
feel like they're going to be one in Atlanta soon.
The next one I'm thinking about is probably going to
be in Chicago or Dallas, but that's not until November.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And events all over the world, everywhere, Asia, Europe obviously
the States.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Oh so there's there's not just a US leg it's
like Formula one.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
No, they do this way more than Formula one.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
No.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
No.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
But what I'm saying is where it's not like like
NASCAR is all in the US, I know, Mexico City
or whatever, but like it doesn't go Dallas, Houston, Atlanta,
d C, New York, Chicago, Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It could be New York, d C.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Because Germany upcoming, Barcelona, Atlanta, London, Mumbai.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Holy crap. Yeah, so you couldn't run the circuit.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I mean, I are some of these even overlapping they
might be, so it would be impossible. And also between
now and the end of the year, there's dozens and
dozens of events. Oh, Birmingham does that look like Alabama?
Do you?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I don't know. It's right next to Stuttgart. So I'm
gonna say no. Line four.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
By the way, Dylan Scott is the not the country singer.
But Dylan hold On one second line four, Dylan Scott
is the hybrid raccoon h His thing is live fast,
eat trash YEP. I feel like you'd like part of
his receipt.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I mean, listen, if you could do all of this
stuff and be great at it, you think he cares
if he you know what he didn't do yesterday? I
bet he didn't go home and go I ate three
crembrew laid donuts from Astro Donut.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Not with these?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
As?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I also had.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Fried chicken and a breakfast burrito, and I had three
crembrew lay I told Jackie I hate myself. She's like why.
I was like, I told her. I was like, I
had fried chicken. It's fine, Like that's good, it's chicken.
I had a breakfast burrito and the eggs didn't make
me nauseous, and she's like, okay. I was like, and
(22:45):
then I had three crembrew laid donuts. You had to
have three, And I was like, I hate myself.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
They were so good, though.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
And you know what the truth is, if if you
walked in here, if Astro walked in here with three
more krimber laid donuts. I would like I hadn't eaten
in a month. I'd eat the guy's hand off just
to get them.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Come on, let me get a pr You knew I
did three already.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
But if I start doing high Rocks, no problem.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Mary just did her fourth high Rocks event this past
week No way, this past weekend in Miami.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Are you serious, she writes, I love it. God, you
really have to be into it like it looks hard.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
It does say, though. On their website it says that
it is the fitness competition for everybody.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Well, what do you want them to say? This will
freaking kill you your doe?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Come on in?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Oh is astro here?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
No, but they do say everybody can do it. Now
you may not. You may not be good at it.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You may take you a day and a half.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I don't know if I'm gonna beat Scuba Raccoon or
whatever his name is. What is his name, trash raccoon?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
No, he is the hybrid raccoon.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Yeah, mind set scoop of raccoon.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I don't know. Hi, Elliott the morning by me? Yes, Hi,
who is this?
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I'm Mary from Richmond. I'm the one that just posted
about the fourth.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Oh you you did the one in Miami?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
I did?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Hey, how did you?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
How did you get into High Rocks?
Speaker 8 (24:28):
I have a gym in Richmond, and a bunch of
people were doing it there and I just sort of
jumped on the bandwagon.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Wait, so when you say you have a gym, I
thought you meant like you own a gym.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
No.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
No, No, the gym that I go to in Richmond, it's
not an affiliate gym. But like you guys were talking
about earlier, there are affiliate gyms that you can be
sort of branded as an affiliate by High Rocks, and
you have to have certain capacity of people size things
like that at and they will consider you a high
(25:03):
Rocky gym, put you on their website and things like that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Do you love High Rocks?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I do.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
I have really gotten into it and it's it's pretty cool, fus.
We travel to places and do it, so it's kind
of like a built in vacation and we have a
Sunday Fun day afterwards, which makes.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
It that much better.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
What do you like Sunday fun Day? Let's let let
me guess.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
We just we just do push ups, no boosy brunch.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
There you go, busy brunch.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Okay, hey, is it is?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Was it hard to get into Like I know you
said you saw some people doing it, but was it
hard to get going?
Speaker 7 (25:43):
It was.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
It's a lot, and so training for it it's probably
the worst part, but it's it's a lot to get
into it. It's a lot to maintain. I've only been
doing it about a year and there are a lot
of people that have done it a lot longer. It's
hard on the body, but it's my full time job.
I have a full time job, so it's just something
on the side.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Do you train every day, five or six days a week.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yes, you sound like you're in no.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
No, but it sounds you agree. The Burpy's part is
the worst.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Part for me.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
It's the wall balls.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh real. Oh yeah, because the medicine ball that you
throw up in the air.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
Right, and they make you do one hundred of them.
They just changed it. It used to be seventy five. Now
it's one hundred. It's at the very end.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Wait, so did they throw out my records?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I don't. I don't feel like that would be the
hardest one. I mean, I guess you're just.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
How much does the medicine ball.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Way for women. It is four kilograms, which is about
nine pounds.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
All right, one of those.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Up and then you do a squad and then you
catch it.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I don't like having to do the squat. Oh my god,
that feels like my knees.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
No, not my knees, my goddamn thighs. I feel like
that would hurt.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
How are you doing the sandbag lunge?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Walk?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Then?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I don't want to. I want to be in the room.
I just want to walk.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
That's the farmer carry.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, I'm all farmer carry.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You got to do the sandbag one with the big
sandbag either here or on your back.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
But do I have to do lunges?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Yes, that's part of the exercise. Yeah, this is hard
now us he had boozy brunch.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
You know what I did?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I hopped off the chair because my feet don't touch
the ground.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I walked around. That's a one k.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I walked around, I got a donut, I walked right
back around.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Personal best.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Hey, how long? How long does it take you to
get through the.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Race?
Speaker 8 (27:54):
This past weekend was an hour twenty three minute.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Wow, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
And when you said, when you said you work out,
when you work out, like five days a week.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Do you do the entire circuit as a workout.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
No, No, you do different variations. I mean, you could
have one workout that's focused on lunges or that's just conditioning,
so running steered and grow. There's there's lots of different variations.
But maybe before a race you might do like a
partial high Rocks, like a half or something like that.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
But you don't.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
I've never actually done a full high Rocks race before the.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Actual race, right, I understand. And like you said, this
thing is growing like a weed.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
It is.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
It felled out pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Now wow,
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