The Sevan Podcast - #101 - Björgvin K. Guðmundsson

Episode Date: August 11, 2021

The Sevan Podcast Episode 101 - Björgvin K. Guðmundsson & Brian Friend @bk_gudmundsson @sevanmatossian The Sevan Podcast is sponsored by http://www.barbelljobs.com Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/therealsevanpodcast/ Sevan's Stuff: https://www.instagram.com/sevanmatossian/?hl=en https://app.sugarwod.com/marketplace/3-playing-brothers Brian's Stuff: https://www.instagram.com/brianfriendcrossfit/ https://morningchalkup.com/author/brianfriend/ Support the show Partners: https://cahormones.com/ - CODE "SEVAN" FOR FREE CONSULTATION https://www.paperstcoffee.com/ - THE COFFEE I DRINK! https://asrx.com/collections/the-real... - OUR TSHIRTS ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We can see you. You look great. Oh, really? Okay. Oh, shit. So when we go live, we can't see you. Oh, Nelly.

But I can't see him on the YouTube channel. We're live on YouTube now, and when I'm on the channel, I can't. I see him. I'm on it too. I can see him. Oh, you can? Oh, yeah, there he is. Shit, you're right. Oh, that's funny, because I can't see myself. Okay, that's good.

That doesn't matter i guess this is uh i guess that works how are you gonna know if you go low enough in the squad if you can't see yourself well um i can always see myself when i'm training i don't have to uh i don't have to see myself right now i'm not i training for the CrossFit Games, so it doesn't matter. All righty, if you say so. Yeah. Can you imagine that it's only been 20 years that it's okay to squat below parallel in the United States? Yeah, that's mind-blowing, actually.

That's mind-blowing. It is nuts. There were billions of people in China were billions of people in china billions of people in india hundreds of millions if not billions in africa all squatting below parallel but us in the united states we knew better don't squat yeah parallel it's very very bad for you we know better well well you also uh i guess it can be bad for you if you don't have the range of motion to do so and uh but um no yeah it's uh it's crazy evolution it is it is nuts and then and then and then how about that food pyramid when i was a kid like every like eat bread, eat cereal, and pour a glass of orange juice every morning.

Don't forget to use your margarine. I mean, is that – did you guys ever use margarine? Do you even know what margarine is? How old are you? Wait, wait, wait. I have no idea what that is. You have to tell me what that is first. Bjorgvin Carl Gudmundsson.

Wow, that was so legit Wow That was so legit That was so good Björgvin and I have it written on my page B E and then Y O R So I get it right Björ Or is it Do you pronounce the J Björ

Not much so I would say Björgvin It's a mix Of the letters right after the B. I wonder if having a name that doesn't flow off of people's mouths, well, simpletons like myself, easily has affected your popularity. Do you ever feel like you're somewhere and people don't talk to you because they don't want to say your name? Oh, okay, I'll talk to this guy instead.

and people don't talk to you because they don't want to say your name uh oh okay i'll talk to this guy instead like in the beginning i think so yes but then uh bkg is a very like that's a nice thing to say right i mean that's easy to say and when someone sounds like bkg that's uh yeah i know they're talking talking to me and then but then definitely in the beginning you know trying to pronounce my name and like everyone would just butcher my name and i wouldn't even like i wouldn't even uh notice that they were trying to talk to me because um yeah so that's probably the reason why like i didn't even notice so i didn't talk to anybody and that we've solved the mystery sorry hold on a sec here i'm making sure that i have the chats open hey listen you knuckleheads in the in the chat world. You guys criticize me for like moving the windows around in the beginning of the show. That's not me. That's not me. I don't do that. I don't I don't even learn how to say his name and type the whole thing out and prove

your love um do people actually call you bkg like would someone be like hey bkg uh you want to go to lunch or like do people say that in in iceland anywhere no like everywhere outside of iceland yes but it's just weird if someone in Iceland would call me BKG. You know, they would just call me Björg und Karl. Like, you know, they're not having problems saying my name anyway. What a missed opportunity to try to say your name. I have to look over it. I mean, I enjoy saying the hard names.

And it's not even that hard, but it's just hard. It's just a lot of syllables for a guy who smoked a lot of weed in college like me to remember yeah yeah yeah i mean there are definitely there are hard letters in there like the third letter which is kind of like and then also the t in like goodmanson like it's gu like for you it's easier to just spell it g-u-t but it's G-U, and then there's a letter called F. Yeah, yeah. But then you just don't have it. Yeah, yeah.

You're complicating it. Yeah, no wonder no one says your name. No wonder no one says your name. No, that's true. No, I mean, I understand. I want everyone at home to try to say it. If you're listening to the podcast, all six of you that are listening, just it björgvin carl gudmundsson if it just feels good will you say it once for us slowly and then we'll try to repeat it björgvin carl gudmundsson i thought your first name was hard

holy cow you just made your middle name and your last name hard. Those are the easy ones. Yeah, like Carl. But that's the very, like, I could say it as, like, Carl, and you would understand me. But it's, you would have to say it as Carl. You know, a little more, like, harsh. Björn Carl. Gudmundsson.

Gudmundsson. Hey, let me hear you try to say my name. Let me hear you try to say my name. Let me hear you try to say my name. Do you even know my name? Savon, like M-A-T something? Savon M-A-T something. I love it. Savon M-A-T something.

Can you say the guy's name in the middle? Can you say this other guy's name? Do you know his name? I can't see the name on my screen here. Tell me his name. His name is Brian Friend. Oh, I just can't see the friend in there. I'm on my iPhone, so I can't can't see Okay but Brian Friend is a great name

That is a great name And your Yeah your last name Simon Is like Say that again It's Matosian Okay that's good It's not that hard

If you're Armenian you would say Matosian Matosyan. Okay, that's good. It's not that hard. If you're Armenian, you would say Matosyan. Matosyan. Yes. Brian Friend. That's such a nice name. He's smarter than me. He's stronger than me. He's younger than me.

Did Björgvin have any family in iceland strongman contest last was last weekend listen ironically fit let me explain something to you all these guys on iceland are related to each other they're all family they've been stuck on an island for 10 million years together what do you got yeah i mean i it's really it isn't like that but we have like like you foreigners like people outside of iceland talk about this like talk about this dating app or something like you could like before you go home with a partner or something like let's say after a night out or something you could go and like like check if you're like really related throughout through that app but i haven't

really downloaded that app i i'm not sure if it exists even but um i feel like everyone is asking me about this app to check if i'm related to everyone here uh but yeah we are i mean we are very small we have the population is like total of 360 000 and that's like a very small city in in the u.s yeah i think the first time i went to but but it sounds like it's growing i think the first time i went to iceland that it only had 300 000 so you guys have put on 60 000 uh it was probably a little more than 300 000 but yeah we have definitely gotten like it's getting bigger but not rapidly it's like you know it's it's it's growing but at a very slow pace i'll tell you that it's um what's today august 9th

9th? I have no idea. And what time is it where you're at? 2 o'clock. 2 p.m. And it's 7.09 in the morning when I'm at. And what's the weather like where you're at? It's August in Iceland.

Yeah, so I'm actually up north now. So I live down south, but I'm actually up north. I arrived here yesterday and I'm just like trying to do something else than being at the gym. So we left the gym and we were up north. We met up with some friends and it's 20 degrees Celsius. So that's like 70, 72, 73, 74 Fahrenheit, maybe. So it's perfect. It's perfect. Like this is very nice.

And we only get a few of those days. But I feel like... Go ahead. No, no, you go ahead. Yeah, and I feel like, you know, if you're from the south, you feel like the north gets the best weather, like, during the winter. So they actually get snow and, like, you know, very good. Like, they have some ski areas here that are better than down south and then during the summer the summers are just much better than the summers down south or

that's what we feel like when you live like on the south side it's always greener on the other side of the hill yeah i think it's something like that for sure this job would be so much better if we had a different ceo oh shit i shouldn't have said that this job sucks now this place would be so much better if we had a different CEO. Oh, shit. I shouldn't have said that. This job sucks now. This place would be so much better if – why are you avoiding the gym right now? I saw you posted a picture of yourself in a wetsuit. God, I don't know how you found a wetsuit that fit you. Yeah.

So why are you avoiding the gym? It did it? Yeah. I mean because like you're so used to training. You're so used to only train. And, you know, for me, I just, I love training. I love the, I love everything about it. I love the gym. The people are there.

But I know that after the games, if I start too early, I'm just going to burn out. So I need to take some time off. Like that's the most important thing and then also just to get the fire back a little bit because I feel like if I go down there you know there's not gonna be much to my training you know I might just do something a little bit and then you know I don't want to bother I don't want to go down there to just do something if you know what I mean so I would rather do something very active go out on the jet ski on and you know to to a summer house or go up north meet up with friends and do something that you actually can't do during the season so i'm just trying to catch up so you don't you don't

work out like i do you you don't like get on the assault bike and want to sit in front of the tv and watch the local news or watch a ufc fight and then do some push-ups and then just roll out of there like when you work out you want to work out with intention yeah they're not just checking a box like a slob like me okay like we're not in the same situation i guess but maybe when i've stopped doing crossfit on a competitive level i would do it maybe that way. But at this point, it might be the last thing I will ever do. Right, right.

And then seriously, how did you get in that wetsuit? I mean, it looks great on you. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, you look like a James Bond character. But I'm guessing that you have to – you know what spam is, that spray stuff you spray on Pam? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I kind of pictured you spraying your body down with that and then someone having to pull the suit onto you. I mean I needed two people to pull it up.

So it was quite tight. Two guys with a 500-pound deadlift on either side of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, to pull it up, yeah. And then you held a 200-pound bar on a front rack to hold yourself on the ground and then they just pulled it up yeah and then you and then you held a 200 pound bar on a front rack to hold yourself on the ground and then they just pulled it up over your those thighs ears oh that's the way to do it for sure um are a lot of people going in the water in iceland is that like and and then do you have to can you go in without a wetsuit or are you just toast if you do that? It depends a little bit, but this water is quite big. It's very deep.

The temperature doesn't change much during the summer, so it stays very cold. It's just not as enjoyable. You could, but it's not enjoyable because it's so cold. I tried to actually swim in that water, and I just completely freaked out because it's so clear and it's so cold um i tried to actually swim in that water and i just completely freaked out because it's so clear and it's so deep and i could see it down to the bottom and for some reason that just completely freaked me out so it's basically this madison that that's like that's a murder that's disgusting. Like that late Monona, like fuck dude. Like seriously, I'm pretty sure that two, three or four people got like, they got sick

from that water. Have you ever got diarrhea from swimming in that water? It seems like that, that every year we always hear of a handful of guys that got diarrhea. And if we're hearing about a handful, I'm guessing most people are too embarrassed to talk about it. So I just assume it's the entire pack wow so i have a coach that's very uh well he he likes well he hates to take chances so he has us take probiotics and like active charcoal like right after we have been in the water so i'll be i have actually never had any issues with the water,

but I'm pretty sure if I wouldn't have taken those probiotics right after the swim, I would be pooping my pants. Like Wellner, he was probably pooping his pants on Friday or Saturday because of that water. Must be. I don't know why you have to say he's pooping his pants. I think he made it to the toilet, but I like your version. I like the thought of Wellner pooping his pants.

That's pretty good. You saw his status on event six right with the queens yeah he wrote about it oh he just wrote about it was pretty cool but uh yeah but he was saying he had some like stomach issues on on friday or saturday or something yeah didn't he mention that to us in the podcast brian that like he was seriously concerned that something could fly yeah i think so um who's your coach it's yami yami yami yes yami tikkanen tikkanen yeah yeah i i used to be friends with him i mean i i guess i could still say i'm friends with him i used to see him around every i used to see him multiple times a year he's a great guy he's very um intelligent yeah he's is he finnish he's finished but he has lived in london for quite quite some time yeah those finnish people are um hard for us americans to figure out because they're so like, you know, they're like so flatline, so chill.

So, hey, yeah, you interviewed. Do you remember when you interviewed Thomas? Thomas Wyniel? Yeah, that sounds familiar. Yeah, I don't remember, but I know the name. He was at he was at the Invitational was probably the first year and he was it might have been him him and even miko sailor or something on that team and you interviewed him right after that was very hilarious i think it was 2012 or 13 invitationals one of the first competitions should have been 2012 yeah 2012 you and that was funny it was just like yeah i i think finnish are great. Like I spent four days of the preparation camp when I went out to Madison. I met up with Dionne Koski and the Finnish team. And those guys, they are very similar to Icelanders, I feel. But like the language is definitely so much different that I like I can't understand a word what they're saying. But I still like left with him a little bit, even though I don't know what they're saying. Yeah, I'm glad you said that they're very similar because I get the two mixed up. When I'm with someone who's Icelandic sometimes, I start to get Finnish vibes and I start to get kind of like the country start conflating for me, even though they're nowhere near each other.

But just, yeah, very um i don't want to use the word stoic because it's so played out but i guess like scandinavian general like it's it's a little related like even though the languages are definitely not the same are you sponsored we have we have that we have that the wipe around us, right? You have the what? Wipe? The wipe. Yeah. Like Scandinavian wipe around us.

Like, you know when you're talking to a Scandinavian and you know when you're talking to American, right? Yeah. Yeah. What's a wipe? A wipe? You know the wipe? I'm not talking about wiping. Like, you know, bathroom wiping.

It's not that way. but I'm saying just like yeah we just have that you know Scandinavian look we have the Scandinavian like I don't know how to say it but like yeah Brian what the fuck is BKG no sorry what the fuck is Björg

Vinsane right here what's this wipe thing he's talking to me about sorry I'm like the grandfather who can't hear him shit for me that's a term i've not i'm he's just saying there's a like um almost like a stigma like you can recognize them they all have similar features they all have similar accents they present themselves similarly yeah all these all these knucklehead americans on the on the live chat or not think that they don't know what wipe is either they're with me they think you're talking about wiping but hey chris fit can't be worse than savon's poop story with kids that is not a bad story that's like the greatest story of all time someone named named Jamie the Jam from the UK.

God, the people in the UK are so generous. Gave us $4, four sterlings for UK, four pounds, four pounds and 49 cents. Do we have to share any of that with Björgvin? I wouldn't think so. Good. Thank you. I don't, I wouldn't think so. Good. Thank you.

The fourth fittest man in the world. Oh, you do this part, Brian. Tell us how great Bjorgvin is. Tell us. Okay. I'll tell Bjorgvin. He's one of the most consistent guys I've ever seen in the past seven years, he's been eighth place or better every single year. Twice. He's consistently the guy to beat in Europe. It's difficult to have consistency over a long period of time like that.

A couple of things I think about your career are your kind of breakout event win first year your podium in 2015 and then you had a kind of a drought in terms of event wins but seven years later this year you won an event impressed by you on which was the yoke event and i don't know if maybe you want to talk about why you did so well on that particular workout but um just in general if you're looking for a guy who's consistent over time there's hard it's hard to find many that are more consistent than this one uh boy that i just so you know the organ i don't think that i wouldn't say thank you to that shit consistent sounds like that doesn't sound that like i consistently don't make it to the games i don't

know if i like that word no No. Consistently excellent. That's very good. It's better. It's better. I would like... It's better. What would you like to hear? He's the fourth fittest man in the world. Listen to these guys who beat him this year. But first of all, he's only one of four people who went over a thousand points. And

he had to deal with Brent Fikowski, Patrick Vellner, and Justin Medeiros. Where did you have Bjorgvin finishing the games this year? And I know you love Bjorgvin, and so it's crazy. I can't imagine what you say about people you don't like, Brian. You are not the heart of it. I think I projected him sixth, and in part that was because I wasn't certain that he was 100% healthy coming into the games. But, Savant.

Oh, that's right. I remember you saying that. certain that he was 100% healthy coming into the games. But, Savant... Was there anything that... Did you know that I wasn't healthy? Or was that just a hunch? I had... I just... I know he won his semifinal, but

I feel like to the other guys who did those workouts, if he was 100% better. And I never like to put too much credence or belief in rumors that I hear unless they're from specifically. But a couple of people had told me either your hip, maybe your hip or your back or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's true. That's really true your back or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's true. That's really true. I'll talk to you about that.

Yeah. I just wanted, the last thing I wanted to say, because Sevan mentioned it was, and you probably know this, Bjorn Grunberg, you don't. He was actually two steps away from taking third place this year on that last workout. Yeah, I know. Tell me about it. I know everything about that, and I think I'm going to use that for next year. That. Yeah. I know. I tell me about it. Like I know everything about that. And I think I'm going to use that for next year.

That's very heartbreaking. Actually. That's. Yeah. I haven't been discussing this with many people after the games. I know exactly what I had to do to be on the podium. But then again, I'm like, yeah, third is going to be better than fourth. For sure.

It's really heartbreaking and everything. But like, as you were saying, I was a little bit, I was dealing with a little bit of injuries and stuff like that throughout the season. Not that I know, you know, I don't want to excuse myself or anything because I don't know what everyone else is going through. But, you know, I just want to get, I just want to get first place before I, you know, I call this a day in uh competitive crossfit so um you know yeah i could could have gotten to the podium that would

definitely have been like a great experience for sure but i feel like you know i'm just gonna make the best of this i think you know yeah this just puts fire in my heart to do better next year for sure like this was very heartbreaking i like what he said the way i heard it he probably didn't mean it this way but he said he hasn't discussed it yet and i hear the word disgust like it's a disgusting event and disgust at the same time he hasn't disgusted he hasn't he hasn't disgusted this yet let's disgust it um yeah uh but what happened brian can you paint the picture for us where um where bk where bjorn then carl goodmanson shit the bed and uh and didn't pick up the extra extra fifty thousand dollars well he i mean i think i think at that point he knew that paint the picture like

we don't know anything because i don't know shit uh there's a final row 90 chest bar pull-ups and then total of six foot segments of walking lunge with 185 was in a back rack the second was in a back rack, the second was in a front rack, and the last was in a walking lunge. And he needed to beat Brent Fikowski and have four other guys come between Brent. And if you look at the leaderboard, you'll see that he finished one place below Brent. But if you go watch the final event back, in the last segment of overhead walking lunges, In the last segment of overhead walking lunges, you're not only ahead of Brent, but Vellner was between them and maybe as many as four or five other times

from the first heat would have come in between the time that Jorgen could have finished. He could do two more steps maintaining the position overhead finish that he had, which was 16th. So, four-point deficit that ended up beating him by what what did bjorgvin end up doing so you're telling me he's got 185 pounds over his head he's two steps away from getting on the podium and then what happened

you know if you want to if it comes from me, then I definitely took the chance. I knew exactly what I was and how many people are needed between me and Brent. And I just took the chance. I tried to make it all the way with the barbell overhead, but I just failed on my second to last lunge. So I had to come back. And at that point, it was too late. So I had to come back. And at that point. It was too late. So I needed two more steps.

When you have to come back. Do you have to go back to the beginning of that section? Or just right there where you dropped it? Yeah. Where you dropped it. But then again. You'll be pulled back to the last checkpoint. So basically yes.

If I had two more steps there then i had to go back a little bit and do probably like four or something to finish the workout so at that point you know because we were also tight a lot of guys had passed me um bjorgvin what happened you know what gave out was it like just your shoulders no it wasn't the shoulders. It was more of the legs, actually. So I don't know. I just took the chance. I don't know why I couldn't hold the barbell. I didn't feel that bad.

It was just like I lost a little control, lost the balance a little bit. But then also, I just haven't been putting in a lot of volume and getting a lot of the stimulus in my legs throughout the season, especially before the games. So like, not that I want to blame it on anything. It's just my fault for sure. But yeah, it's a shitty experience, but probably much needed. I want to say so. It's much needed, but I hate it.

Fucking hated the experience. One of the worst workouts I've ever done and then the feeling right after it was the last event like usually you feel good after a competition but like yeah I just felt miserable for a few hours

after and you'd just you'd set yourself up really well you won the event in the morning deadlift freestanding handstand push-up workout it was like set up to be a great finish and then obviously didn't go and then for sure i mean all the workouts that day were great for me the the yoke the the deadlift and handstand push-ups and then this as well like i love chest bars there's nothing with like there's nothing wrong with my rowing and then lunges are just lunges you just have to grind through them and but i guess like at that point you have you know you have the barbell overhead and like

there are a lot of things that can't go wrong and there was just something that went wrong in that workout um yeah and like i mean it was a great day and i overall think it was a good competition i i've never felt so good after a competition, to be honest. Like I'm usually just fucked for, you know, a week or two right after the competition. Like everything, like the nervous system, like it's everything. It's just fried a little bit. But now I feel like, you know, for some reason I was just more fresh than I have been in the previous years after the competition. You were more fresh. Oh, absolutely. Like I felt like this was definitely not the hardest games I've competed in. What did you think about the programming before we go back and talk about

that? I mean, I think, I think it was, I think it was good. Like I think it's, it's good when, when on a Wednesday or early Friday

they don't put a workout out that's just going to ruin the weekend for everybody. If you know what I mean. We can go back to 2015 when you had Murph. Because Murph affected everything else. So much. Did you win that?

Did you win that, Murph? I won Murph in 2015 i won like savannah to be honest like i won the murph when they had the murph in 2016 and british like one that was that was that wasn't murph careful that's my boy careful be i know you better be careful you better be careful okay tell better be careful. Okay. Tell me about, tell me about the real Murph in 2015 that you won. I mean, I guess that was a breakthrough for me because like in 2014,

my first year I came in there as a rookie and I was just more of a fan boy of Rich at that point. Like I, at that point, you know, I was still watching YouTube videos with Rich, like on repeat and just like trying to mimic everything that he did uh like I'm definitely the biggest Rich Browning fan of

like all time that's just how it is to be honest and then in 2015 there was just so many you know I qualified again to the games and then uh i needed that event win i needed mirth because that it boosted my performance it boosted my um just like believe in myself i guess and then from that point like i haven't really looked back you know i've been like you said before like one of the most consistent CrossFit competitors of all time. But the work isn't done. I want to stand in the middle of that podium, but not to the sides. Do you think that Rich could come back and place on the podium?

and place on the podium? I'm only asking because I know that this is going to just get people titillated. This is like scratching your cat too much. Yeah, I don't think so. Savan, you see? Lazar Jukic. Oh, yeah, Jukic. Hey, did you get a chance to talk to lazar jukic yeah of course fellow european for sure what a homeboy him and luca are right yeah yeah very good guys i love those guys yeah they're awesome we're gonna we gotta get brothers that's so cool

to have like brothers competing at the games. What the fuck? Yeah, they were probably the two easiest people we've had on the podcast. I did not want to have them on. Brian was talking about them nonstop. I'm like, these fucking guys. I never even fucking heard of them. Fuck these guys.

We only do the big names. We only do Bjorgvins. And then Brian had them on, and I fell in love with them. They were, like, our best guests ever. Oh, really? I love that. I only said that to you because you took a shot at my boy, Josh. So that's me taking a shot at you, a subtle shot at you.

I don't know. I don't know the backstory of the Luka brothers, but I'll definitely have to dig into that and get to know them a little bit better. But yeah, they did great. And yeah, I think it's a some time coming for luca dukic i don't want to butcher his name but like he's very good he's very good i like the way you say dukic if i if he wasn't my friend i would call him dukic too but brian told me it's jukic jukic yeah yeah there's a j and there's a j in there like but it's so much more fun saying Duke. Yeah. Duke-age.

So why do you say the 2015 Murph was because it wasn't partitioned? No, definitely not. I mean, you know, you would not bet on me that year to win

Murph Lincoln in 2015. You would definitely like pick Fraser or Noah or maybe Yonikoski, and they were like up there. And then for some reason, I have no idea why I won that workout. Like I have a great engine. I have a great capacity. That's probably the reason why. And I was one of few that could actually do proper push-ups

and was not getting not getting a lot of row reps but I mean I think Dan Bailey said this uh at the invitationals that same year he was talking to um he was talking to Dave and he was saying like to Dave like dude I beat Björkvind by like 15 minutes in training so we were down in LA two weeks prior to the game so we did Murph in the West and he beat me by like 15 minutes and then you know two weeks later at the games I beat everyone

and Dan Bailey of course and then Dave said that was because he could do proper pushups so that might have been it. Was it 100, 200, 300 that year? Yes. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. You know, it's a good actually example. Because you can go train with whomever. And they'll finish and you'll finish. But if you go to a competition, then you're at the mercy of someone else, reps are good or not. And,

you know, a lot of people who never have had, no, they think that they're great at their gym or whatever. And they, they move the way that they move, but you put yourself out there and, and you don't know who's going to tell you this is,

this is acceptable rep and this not. And suddenly it's a very different landscape. Yeah. And you know, a very different landscape. Yeah. And, you know, one of the reasons, like, you know, back home, like I train alone most of the time, like 95% of the time I train alone. There's no one in the gym that's at my level. So it's very much like in my control.

Like I have to be in control of everything that I do. And I have to make sure that I'm meeting every standard. So I don't have anyone else by my side to tell me that this might not fly in the competition or not. So I try to make it very clear to everybody that everything I do is legit. And that holds true with the best that the sport's ever seen. I mean, no one ever mentioned Froning's movement or Matt Fraser's movement. It's very obvious that they're meeting the movement standards. I am curious, though, because you said you train alone almost all the time.

What do you think about all these training camp scenarios that have popped up this year? this is my favorite topic no definitely i think i i think they're definitely beneficial i i don't think no like no one is the same like it's it's very personalized i feel like yes i love to go and do a training camp before the crossfit games for a month like a full month with you know we have been doing in the past like any and frederick but um yeah i'm a big fan of training camps but for an example if you put me and john nikoski next week together for a whole year we would just compete ourselves out of shape for sure because

we are just too stubborn to back off yeah that's kind of the feeling that i've had and i you know some of these places top level athletes competing for the entire year are training and this year it didn't work out so well most of the people that did the games are people who train out on their own a majority of the time. Yeah. To have that focused training environment leading into the game.

So, we'll see how it changes over time, but so far... Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, we don't, we just don't, like, definitely, well, in Iceland, we have a lot of,

we could have, like, a great training camps here and there with me and the girls. But I don't see that happening. What about Haraldur Hogarsson? Does he have potential?

Oh, for sure. He's coming up. I've known who he is for a few years. Yeah, probably like five, six years. He started pretty young and he's made some promising progress over the last two years so I'm expecting to see

him this year as well. Is Geraldo Holgeson Icelandic? Yes. He is. He's only 22 years old. He's 22 and he was 9th place at the semifinals this year and he had a top 10 finish at strength and depth in the sanctional season and i think he's got some potential too to be made you know you know i don't want to say that anyone will ever be able

to replicate the career that he's had but in terms of icelandic men that have the potential to be good. He's the only one I really see right now that has that. I agree. I think he's going to be the one that's going to qualify after me. I don't see many other people being able to qualify. I'm just...

But no, I think it's just Harald that he'll definitely be the next one to qualify yeah bjorgvin did you did you did dan bailey beat you by 15 minutes then because all his reps were ass and training like when you glanced over at him were you like dude you this is a you're a shit show. No, no, no. I was like, I was so impressed. I was so impressed.

I had no idea what, I had no idea if he was cheating or he was, if, if, or if he was doing a shitty reps. Well, now you do. Well, maybe it was just his pushups. I mean, everything else was fine. Right. Um, uh, has anyone asked you if you're going to retire? Not yet, man.

I'm 27. Has anyone asked you that, though? Yeah, like, how long do you think you'll be doing this? Like, for how many more years and stuff like that? And I'm like, I'm still getting so stuff like that and i'm like i'm still getting so much better and i'm still getting i'm still understanding my body so much better like with each year you know and i've i've told by this and i've you know if if and when i get tired of this i'm just gonna quit you know i don't want to do this if you know it's just not making me happy

anymore um because i really like training i've always liked training i've always been competing I don't want to do this if it's just not making me happy anymore. Because I really like training. I've always liked training. I've always been competing since I was like four years old or something. So I think I'll do this for – yeah. You'll see me for the next four years at least. But do you have seagulls in Iceland? Yeah, did you hear it?

Yeah, that was cool. I like seagulls. Yeah? Yeah. Don't feed the seagulls in iceland yeah did you hear it yeah that was cool i like seagulls um yeah yeah don't feed the seagulls though feeding the seagulls is bad news yeah you ruin the whole scene for everybody oh that's true you can just shoot them like i literally i hate that bird oh i love that bird but i understand but i understand your disgust. Um, so, uh, but, but has anyone actually asked you this year since you finished competing? Are you going to retire? Has anyone put that question at you? No, I think everyone knows exactly what I'm going to do. Okay, good.

Because I was thinking, asking a CrossFit games athlete, are you going to retire? Would be like, it probably rubs them the wrong way. Like it rubs me the wrong way when people ask me if I do CrossFit. Right. What? Like they're saying something like, what, you can't see? Or like that they're insinuating that I don't, or they're insinuating that you should retire.

So when I came up with that question last night, do you have plans to retire? I immediately crossed it out. And I would never ask you that because it could be taken as offensive offensive so i want you to know i crossed that no of questions no i yeah i mean that's fine i'm not i would never take it as offensive but oh you're a good dude you would never fit in this country by the way don't come here if that doesn't offend you then you would never fit in this country okay okay. Now, I'm over there. I'm spending like one and a half months a year in the US

prior to the games and then over the games. I mean, I love to be over there, man. It's so good. The weather is so nice. Where do you stay? The average weather here in Iceland is 10 degrees in rain during the summer. So this day day today it's great and you're just wasting my time

truth hashtag truth i understand i understand and it's two o'clock it's the best part of the day meanwhile 7 a.m here and i and i act like it's bad for me but really it's good because then i after i'm done with you i have the rest of the day to be like yeah i did a podcast this morning my shit's done and i get to play with my little boys all day yeah seven is such a prick yeah um uh you oh so let's before we get it off on i'm i have a thousand questions i want to go back to event number 13. Yeah. So, Brian, ask some questions about this because it really is impressive. I'll start with the first question.

Sorry. Did you try to finish it in one round? Like, were you like, fuck this, I'm doing this in one round? Yeah. So, in the beginning, like, we only had two minutes. I kind of figured that, you know, 20 GSDs will take some, like, certain amount of time. And then the hay bale thing. So I just really tried to rush that. Because in the warm-up, we were able to check the weight on the yoke.

And to me, it just didn't feel that heavy. Like, to be completely honest. Yeah, it was only 605 pounds. Yeah, that's like, you know, I don't do a a lot of yoke i don't have yoke at the gym there's there are yokes and reykjavik for sure but just everything was just firing everything like every muscle groups are just firing it didn't feel like bad on the back or like the knee or the hips or anything it was like tight and like compact and you know i just i knew i had to make some ground in order to like attack the the podium spot so i just fucking went for it man like i just wanted to get that yoke as far as i could on the first round and then finish it in the second like i like honestly

i didn't think it was going to be more than two um but in the first one i don't know how many seconds i had on the yoke but i was like i was going for it i just wanted to finish it in one but i got close i got to the blue and we had to go to the white so i was like i don't know and yeah like like a five to ten yards or something um did when you were carrying the yoke did you did it ever hit the ground or did you have any missteps while carrying it? I just picked it up and it just stayed up. It was smooth. It was very smooth.

And it didn't feel, to be completely honest, it didn't feel that heavy, but I also didn't carry it for three or four rounds. So like, I didn't, you know, it, it would probably have like caught up to me and, and

run three and four, but you know, I was just able to finish it very quickly, but I, yeah. How about, how about the, um, the injuries that, um, Brian talked about your, your hip and your back, the yoke didn't, didn't mess with those. No, not at all. Like we were basically like after the semifinals like we went all in or like yeah we went of course all in on on trying to uh figure that injury out but of course you know injuries just need time and we just don't have time between semifinals and the game so we just made the best out of the training which meant we needed to stay we stayed a lot um out

of the hip and out of the knees and like everything that would accruate the hip uh we we didn't do much of for an example you know lifting heavy and squatting heavy dead lifting heavy stuff like that so um i was uh i don't know like i honestly, like, when you have the adrenaline just going, you know, there's not much that will stop you. And, like, even though you feel the hip a little bit, it's just not going to, like, I'm not going to just go out and cry and withdraw from the competition, if you know what I mean. So I'm just going to push through.

Like, this is it. This is the games. This is the last stage. So I might as well just fuck me up here in order to try to do something Brian are you surprised you won that event? You should know that I wasn't that surprised we talked

about it before the before the workout happened we had talked about it on a podcast and I thought that it would be advantageous to be a little bit bigger in this but there was a potential that there were guys like you who had you know a big base of training several years of training in the space that just would have a really solid midline and be able to take like

short consistent steps and and move the yoke well workout which made me feel good because I'd actually mentioned but you might have a guy like bkg who's just got a really strong really well and you did yeah i think that was also it i think that you know the technique itself on the yoke for me is just very good i'm very comfortable having something like on my back like this and then you know the short like compact steps but then of course we have been you know not that we are there every week but we have been to like half like Thor

Thor Bjornsson the you know who that is Le Mountain yeah like he has a Le Mountain The Mountain yeah he has I mean they do a lot of yoga and they do a lot of yoke and they do a lot of like the stone lifting stuff and like we've we've definitely been like trying out their

equipment every now and then so um and he has some good pointers the perception from the the that cheese thing sandbag the hussevel bag i think yeah i i mean it was the same size isn't it like the the bag itself is like it's shaped like the hussevel stone and i think everyone we just appreciate it i think oh it's not blasphemy it wasn't like how dare you cultural no no never fit in this country man that's cultural appropriation you'll never ever fit in this country you stay on your island you do not get offended easily enough no i mean we thought it was very cool i mean just like to be able to bring that out outside of iceland this i don't know just we appreciate it you mean embracing and sharing culture is okay and respecting other people's cultures?

Well, that's weird. We'll talk offline. I'll call you later on tonight and you can walk me through that whole thing. Yeah. Like, would you get offended? No. I don't get offended. Being offended is...

Every time I'm offended, I just look at myself. It's my problem. I ain't no bitch does that mean you're no you are no bitch siobhan thank you does have you uh god i wish and try to lift those stones yeah like a lot of them like i've tried there's just no fucking way it's like 400 and something some pounds and it's just like the grip is but also like so many people have tried to walk it but it's just so slippery and it's just way too heavy wait so those stones are just like out sitting somewhere in any any smoke i could just

there's just one stone there's just one stone and it's just sitting out in the public and you can just free walk over there and try to pick it up yeah it's in husafat which is an area in iceland uh a lot of people have summer houses there a lot of people go camping there during the summer there's a golf course there but then also there is the husafal stone um yeah do you know what what it's all about so the thing is like you have to be able to like pick it up and then you walk a circle that's there and then you know you i don't know it's just free it's just there it's just there like anyone can do it like i could fly there tomorrow i could get a ticket put on my mask get my shots come to iceland and pick up the stone

absolutely and like we don't steal like i was gonna say that shit would be spray painted if on my mask, get my shots, come to Iceland and pick up the stone? Absolutely. I was going to say that shit would be spray painted. If you brought that to the United States, they'd spray paint the shit out of that thing. I love Bjork. If your wife really loved you and she lived in the United States, she would go spray paint on there. What's your wife's name? Victoria?

What's your wife's name? Mine? Yeah. No, Betty. Betty? their what's your wife's name victoria what's your wife's name mine yeah no betty betty yeah betty yeah she would spray on there like go ahead like betty crocker okay betty crocker loves bjorg then that's what i mean that's someone have that on there that's amazing i guess you guys don't have the same artistic aptitude That we have in the United States You guys are just kind of like You don't appreciate spray paint No not so much

Well if you can spray paint But I hate when people just spray paint Something disgusting on a wall And then someone has to come and paint the wall again Why the fuck would you do that That's a great point Carmen Ryan from Australia And then someone has to come and paint the wall again. Why the fuck would you do that? That's a great point. Carmen Ryan from Australia.

$14.99. Love you guys. Kiwi girl living in Australia. That's really sweet, Carmen. Thank you. What you're doing in Australia, I don't know if I would call it living. But okay. But thank you for listening.

I hope we're bringing enjoyment to your six by six room that you're locked in. Oh, geez. Francisco Moreno. Muchas gracias. Sois los majeros. Francisco Moreno. That means you. I'm pretty sure that means that

Bjorkman is super handsome. I'm pretty sure that means that Bjorkvin is super handsome. I'm pretty sure I speak Spanish. Okay, so the Husafell, your country's okay with a knockoff bag version that Rogue made, and anyone can come try to lift the stone, but don't bother because not even Bjorkvin can do it. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. There's just a handful of people that have lifted that stone.

It's, I don't know the exact weight, but it's. Do they drop it? Could it break and the whole, the whole show be over? It's basically only going to sand or gravel. So I won't really break.

But it is, it has definitely like over the years, it So I won't really break. Um, but it is, it has definitely like over the years, it has definitely like, you know, people have lost it, uh, lost it out of their hands. And,

you know, it might be like a pound or two lighter than it was like five years ago. So it's not much. I wonder if anyone's ever like really hurt themselves or killed themselves, like dropped it on themselves. Probably. I wouldn't know has it is that guy the mountain guy your friend like do you have his phone number in your phone

uh i could definitely get his phone number for sure i don't have it at this point but uh yeah like when we meet we always like i always say hi to him and i guess how everything is going it's it's that close. And have you seen him lift it up? The Husserl Post, no. I haven't seen him do it. I've seen some other strongman guys do it. There are a few that have done it, actually. But I've definitely...

Have you seen Thor live? No, not live. No, no, not live. No, no. Only like in movies and TV and stuff. Fucking massive. Like, dude, you wouldn't believe it. You can't get your head wrapped around it until you meet him. And then even then, if you look away, you still can't imagine how big he is.

Then you look back like that. Like you're just tripping on him the whole time he's there. Yeah, pretty much like you see a strong man like other strong men that are like very big but then he comes in the room and he just makes them look like you know small girls it's pretty much like that so you wouldn't boxing ring with him oh absolutely not like right now he's like Weighing like 340 or something And completely shredded I would like

To be honest like Eddie did not have a chance And he's actually getting good at boxing Like his conditioning is great It's so much better than it was So freaking hard There's no way that there's anyone else out there working harder than him in the strongman scene. I wonder if Puginowski is going to take the fight.

Yeah. When do we know? Are they going to announce that soon? I don't know. For all I know, maybe he already did take it, but I just saw somewhere in the last couple of days that he said he wants to take the fight and he's ready for the fight but it seems like that they're stuck on money from the little bit that i read it looks like that there's a money issue all right okay yeah yeah i guess they're getting uh decent payday from this

fight did yami did yami tell you to take these days off does your coach say hey bjorn man you really have to go home and like find something else to do no i i guess he didn't like he didn't even have to say it like he is very uh like he wants me to be not training right now like it wouldn't make sense for me to be training right now. But, well, we definitely talk. I mean, we talk a lot together, like pretty much every day. So we, yeah, we'll just start training when we're ready. And I guess that's like next Monday. So it's not going to be, you know, I won't take like months off, but I'll take some time off.

So you have a Finnish coach and like he doesn't have to talk to you. He just makes some like head nods and some gestures because, because there are men, a few words, and then you just know what he means. Well, I think he's getting, he's getting much,

I think he's getting much better because he's, he's, he has a British girlfriend and he's been living in London for such a long time. And like his Finnish has been like going a little, like he's been living in London for such a long time. And his fitness has been going a little. He's not as fitness as he was once. Gotcha. He's like, oh, this talking shit's not so bad.

Maybe I'll do a little bit of it. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And actually, he speaks very well. I didn't notice that he was fitness until he just told me. So, yeah. And by the way, I know he's a world-class coach i remember in the early years he was just on a on a level all to himself he he was on the i don't

know if he's still on the crossfit level one team but i'm pretty sure he was a flow master and yeah he was he was a beast i mean yeah he was some shit and he could articulate it like a like amazing. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. And I just feel so dumb around him, if you know what I mean. It's just like he knows so much. And I've been very lucky to – so I met him in 2012. And I've been working with him since day one basically.

So I started following his training, his, his training plan, which is called the training plan, uh, in 2012. And then in 2015, we started working, uh, you know, on one-on-one like personalized. Um, when's the last time you've been on a skateboard? Uh, it's been some time now actually. Um, but I used to do it so much. So that was in life. Like I really wanted to be a professional skateboarder when I was like 12, 13, 14, maybe. And then, uh, I don't know why I quit. Actually. I have no idea why I quit. I regret it. Actually. It's, that's a well-paid sport to be honest. Like if you're good. paid sport to be honest like if you're good so so we're soccer and skateboarding your two primary like expressions of athleticism prior to crossfit so it was big yeah that was like soccer there was

skateboarding and then gymnastic it was all mixed up like in uh those years between like when I was like 9 to 15 years old I was doing all three and like yeah I was going hard on skateboarding was training soccer and then gymnastics as well so I was super fucking active like yeah crazy active

do you have siblings? yeah I have two brothers and they're both so my brother my oldest one he went Do you have siblings? Yeah, I have two brothers, and they're both... So my brother, my oldest one, he went to the CrossFit Games in 2013 with the CrossFit Reykjavik team. Hold on, did you know that, Brian? No, I have to find the history of the CrossFit Games teams, when before they're not listed on the game site anywhere i think there's only one who has that information do you hear that you would never make

excuses like that you would never look at brian's making excuses why he doesn't have crossfit games data yeah you would never you would just come home and work harder but anyway go yeah the difference between us podcasters and someone like you okay so you're I can't believe your brother went to the games that's crazy okay so he was on yeah all the my older brother and he is actually the owner of the gym that I train at CrossFit Henkiet he's the owner of that gym and his his wife Maria and okay hold on one more. I'm going to ask a really brave question here. Yeah. What's your brother's name? Hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, yes. That was, hey,

hey, and Björgvin. Okay. Yeah. Go on. Sorry. And his wife Maria owned the gym. What's the name of the gym?

CrossFit. Okay. I'm asking these questions not because i give a shit but because later on your brother's gonna be like dude you called me your brother and didn't say my name and you said the gym and you didn't say the name i mean i'm hooking you up right now thank you thank you it's all for you because like i could give a rat's ass but i'm just looking out for you buddy i like it how you have your door cracked too uh it's so warm can you see there's a crack here yes it's nice the car is the car is off and i'm sweating so much and there's a fucking pool there that i'm waiting to get into we only have an hour and a half more we only have an hour and a half more no i'm joking i'm joking.

I'm joking. So I was going to say something. So basically I'm from this town down south. So at this point, I don't live in my original hometown, but my original hometown is like, it's also down south with the population of 500 people. Okay. 500 people. It was 500 people and we have three people from this town that have made it to the games. Wow.

So it's me, my brother, and do you remember Nume Katrinarsson from 2012? He won the Camp Pendleton, him and Chad McKay. And he had the kidney issue. I remember. Oh, is that the guy that went crazy too he kind of lost his shit yeah 2012 he's a swimmer yeah that was nuts that guy came in and he's a few people came in but he had some like mental crazy mental breakdown

because he was so dehydrated and they hauled him off in an ambulance and then brought him back later but he was like screaming and yelling and he just kind of just he just spun out yeah it was kind of scary it was it was kind of scary then he came back like he got some like that with the water thing like hooked to his uh to his body and like he came back and finished the competition yeah 2012 he did pretty good like i don't know like 15 agree. He plays 24th. 24th, which is slightly better than you, your rookie year. Yeah, that's true.

Fuck. That's what Brian's here for. That's what Brian's here for. If you Google now, no, you will never be able to spell it. Okay, Stock City is the name of the town. And there are three people from Stock City that have made it to the Games.

And there are 500 people that live there. Stock City is a town in the south. I think there's more CrossFit gyms in Iceland per capita than anywhere in any other country in the world. Yeah, that could make sense. There's a lot of them in the capital area right now. And they're popping up like here in the north and east and like in the smallest towns, actually. Yeah, that's cool. Olsen Jews.

Go ahead. No, I was just going to say that. I was actually in the swimming pool before you guys called. I was actually in the semi-pull before you guys called, and I met the mayor of Husavik, which is one hour from here, from Akron. And he was telling me that he has an underground cross-it gym. And I got to go and check it out at some point.

By underground, you mean it's literally underground, or meaning he doesn't pay affiliate fees and he's just fucking using the methodology? Which I'm okay with. Probably both, but I think it's like literally underground or meaning he doesn't pay affiliate fees and he's just fucking using the methodology which i'm okay probably both but i think it's just like private gym or something but uh i need i definitely need to check that out um when you met him did you he was he in the pool too both you guys had your shirts off and just like yeah pretty much and he just came over and said like congratulations with congratulations with the games. Like, I know this was not what you wanted, but like fourth place is very good. And you're so consistent. Did you know he was the mayor before he came over and said hi? No, no. You know, I'm the king of Iceland at this point. You just have to understand that. I get it. That's awesome. I love it.

Can we say, can we expand that to Europe in terms of CrossFit? Oh, yeah, sure. That's honest. Something that this was really bothering me, I'm sure it'll be, after the quarterfinals when I was doing and predicting semifinal placements. Yeah. I got like 100 messages from these guys. Eji Fasa is the new king

of Europe. Yeah, they started telling that on social media, like after quarterfinals, there's a new king in town. They're like, dude, shut the fuck up for a minute. Like, seriously.

Just for a minute. seriously just for a minute yeah yeah yeah cause like the semi finals were coming and like we only worked out for like two and a half minutes to the quarter finals so like chill and we had like a four at Max Pronskjöld so just hold your horses the king of Europe Björn

Kjart Gudmundsson who hails from the island of Icelandia. I want to tell you that Olsen Dudes gave us $5 for talking to you. He said, enjoying all the good gems, gentlemen. Congratulations on the performance. And he calls you BKG. And I'll translate that for people. That's Björnvind Kjart Gudmundsson. Oh, awesome. Wow people that's bjorgvin kart goodmanson oh awesome wow that's great um yeah were you ever able to do a kickflip

yes like dude i did i did skateboard for uh for like six years three i have i have some good i have some good footage actually like kickflip was like a second. That was easy. 360 flip down. You know heartflip? No, I'm just... My kid can't do that yet, so I don't know it. I only learn the tricks my kids can do. Okay, okay. Kickflip, yeah, that was...

Tell me about the heartflip. What's a heartflip? Heartflip is... That's like a kickfl kick flip but the board goes um so basically this this is the board can you see my hand yeah yes you do you do a kick flip and the board goes like this direction so it's it's much harder and it goes like through your feet you'll just have to youtube it i have no idea how to tell you guys what a hard flip is your camera work and your use of your camera right there um surpassed that of the crossfit games in terms of storytelling

that was really amazing you should be proud of yourself i mean they set the bar pretty low but um but uh but that was really good you were talking about something and then you panned the camera over and actually showed it to us. That's fucking amazing. That's amazing. Maybe after you're done with competing, you could go work in the broadcast team and explain to them how that works. Yeah. Maybe I will, actually. Yeah, I don't want to say anything negative.

It's not negative. It's just accurate. Negative would be like, fuck those guys. They should burn in hell. That wouldn't be cool because no one's perfect. But the fact that the camera and the storytelling wasn't being told and that they try to claim that CrossFit Games is a sport

is... No, I agree. I agree, but also there's so many people that are talking about the live show is testing the workouts. You know, mainly focused on, of course, the guys. And it's cheap. Just to have, like, this, like, side screen where you can see, like, other people going as well or like an overview or

something like they do in the formula one you know what i mean if you're only showing all the time just let's say present wellner there in first and second you know they're all in that heat that people are trying to watch uh bad with for like other places and stuff so that i think they should do a little better job on the broadcasting i don't know i i disagree with you a little bit i think it would be great if they just showed the guys who were winning and the guys who were chasing them they couldn't even do that travis mayor was winning an entire event and with one second uh with scott panchick and they couldn't show that let me tell you something i could make i could put a piece of a string on the back of one snail and then tape it to the back of another snail and put them on the ground and have them do a pull-off to see which

snail is stronger and tell that story more exciting than the broadcast did at the crossfit games this year i'm just telling and that's not i'm not being negative or that's not a put down i'm just telling you the facts like i. It's just the snail pull off is slow, but it can be dramatized and made exciting. Do you guys have snails in Iceland? Do you even know what I'm talking about? Or do they freeze with all that mucus in them freeze and they just die?

You guys don't have snails? Yes, we have super small. We don't have the giant ones. We don't have the ones with the fucking shell and like, yeah, I don't see them often.

I, when I was, I was in, I Olsen dudes, thank you for the 499. Did I already say that? Yeah, probably.

When I was in Iceland, I came there and I filmed with Annie and I think, and I think Katrin was at her gym then, but it was before. She was just like someone taking classes. And I was really into insects at the time. So everywhere I went, I took pictures of insects. Do you know how hard it is to find insects in Iceland? It's not hard at all. Really?

You were really into that? Filming insects? Yeah, let's not talk about that. Let's just talk about whether you have insects. That was just context for the story. I couldn't find...

It was like... I was like, oh, look, there's a fly. And I went and took a picture of it. I mean, there were so few bugs in your country. I mean, there's a lot of them. There isn't?

I don't know. There are a few. You probably have to go to Australia or something to get the proper one. Yeah, or South America. I've been to South America. I wouldn't come here to... I guess. No, I came to film Annie.

I came there to film Annie, and it was great. It was great, and she was great. And Iceland was great. I don't know. That was back in the 70s when I worked for CrossFit. Yeah, probably. Maybe... What year was the first year she won the Games? 2011.

Yeah, it was probably right after she won the Games. Right, yeah. When did you first get interested in Formula One? In Formula One? So, basically, my dad watched a lot of Formula One when Mika Hakkinen, which is a Finnish, was competing a lot. He was running for McLaren. But that, it cut a little bit, but I regained the interest when I watched the... And now I'm all in again.

Yeah, it seems like you followed really closely. I've completely missed the Hamilton show. So basically when he was coming up, I had already quit watching the Formula 1. But like last year

I started watching I don't think that I've I've not missed that one race. It's very It's good. Have you ever been in one of those cars? His audio is starting to sound like

the audio from when he did the interview with Morning Chalkup, like he's talking in a tin can. I also can't hear outside the car. Oh, that sucks. So not only do we have a language barrier, but we have a stuttering issue.

I don't think there's any language barrier. Definitely a language barrier. Have you ever been in a Formula One car? No, I've ever been in the formula one car no i've never been in a formula one well i would you know what's yannick husky he's sponsored by and he's the rebel car but he's like he has been like throughout the car and like checked it out and like he has he has like called this steering wheel up and everything like that that's very cool i'm yeah he was telling me this in madison only one person fits in those cars at a time right

yeah so it's not like someone could give you a ride in it no no I don't think so. Like it will be quite tight in there. Tight as the wood. Yeah. Good call. Yeah, similar to the wetsuit, I guess. I'm going to go through some. Go ahead. I'm going to go through some questions kind of fast here.

Ready? Yep. Yep. Just stuff from your Instagram that I've looked at. So we talked about how hard it is to get in your wetsuit. You've had one coach the entire time. You've never been tempted to switch coaches? We won't tell Yami.

Go ahead. Be honest. Again, I know, but... Switch coaches? And you can just whisper your answer. Have you ever been tempted to kick. Have you ever been attempted to kick? Have you ever been attempted? It's coming off a little bit.

I don't hear you. He's trying to get off the phone. He can hear us fine, Brian. He's just trying to get out of the podcast. Bjorn, have you ever been tempted to kick Yami to the curb? No. You weren't like, you're never like, God damn it, I'm just going to go train at the Mayhem Camp. No, not at all.

That's amazing. Why one coach the whole time say it one more time why one coach the entire time why not why not mix it up just trust the guy from the beginning

he's he's so intelligent. He's constantly learning something new. To integrate that into our training. So it's never like it's flat. He's made new goals. We try things and we work from the previous season.

Kind of the thing that I like. But then he's just like trying to like Like it feel like he wants to Just because that I got I might be like For it Like getting people to sign like at this. That's not what I like. I feel like we are just on the same track. So that's the...

So he challenges you. If he... I would not be with him. So he challenges you. He challenges you. It's not easy. Yeah. He needs a lot.

You need to do very, very well for him to be impressed. You're doing great. That's what I feel. It's like, yeah, he wants me to work hard and you know do well but he's not like he's not like this uh this new mother that says to his to the child like you're doing so great for everything that you do do you know what I mean so it's kind of like he wants me to work hard and he challenges me and then he doesn't get impressed very easily well of course that you know he's been training andy as well so you know what i mean yeah it's really cool that

you say that i'm reading this book bounce right now bounce it's got a spring on the cover i wish i could remember the name of the author have you read that book no it's basically it goes there's a whole chapter. A chapter is basically you should never tell anyone they're smart. You should just tell people keep working harder. Your hard work is paying off. It's exactly what you just said. He's not there telling you how great you are.

It's a huge, huge mistake. And I just was listening to Khabib Nurganen. You know Khabib. We won't say his last name. UFC fighter. Yeah. Yeah. And his father would call him after fights where he would demolish opponents and his father would just tell him what he did wrong. And man, this book is fascinating, this book, Bounce. I hope I can get the author on. Matthew Syed. Matthew Syed. Matthew Syed. Matthew Syed. Okay. Yeah.

Fascinating book, but it basically talks about the psychology of what, of what makes people better and what you should say to them. And like, what are the worst things you could say to little kids? And if you tell him one of the premises he gives in the book and he gives an example is, is if you keep telling a kid, he's smart, he's so good, he's so smart, he'll believe that he's talented. And not only will he then – basically then what he'll do is he'll be afraid of failure. You'll train them to become afraid of failure by telling them how good they are. God, I'm so sorry that the connection is bad. I know that sucks. Yesterday I interviewed someone and the connection was bad, and it just makes you want to say, hey, fuck off.

I'm done because it makes this not fun. I's actually getting it's actually getting much better now okay i think it's only when brian talks yeah when you and brian talk they they just throttle that shit down because because they know they want to hear me talk um what's really it and maybe this other guy I can't say his name but this other guy who Brian was trying to give some love to the guy who took yeah the other athletes on the on the island basically you know and he was there before us for sure like he'd see one the two 2011 and and, you know, we all looked up to her. And I think me, Catherine and Sarah probably just started doing CrossFit because of her winning the games and all that cool stuff that she was doing. So I started doing CrossFit in 2012 and Sarah as well.

I think Catherine as well. And around that time, the community was just building up rapidly in Iceland. And so we just met, like, I met Sarah for the first time at level one summer, actually. Just randomly? Like, you were both taking your

level one? Yeah. Like, super randomly. Just both taking the level one. She was at a different gym. Catherine was at a different gym. And then I a different gym and then i was um you know in in queragheri so uh in queragheri so basically we just started um training a little bit together we were like training camps before the regionals together and you know we just talk

stuff sponsored by the same you know supplements we have to do photos together so I get

before I started like all right after I started like all right after I started and then friendship has definitely just stayed there and with all of them oh definitely with all of them I mean you know Catherine is the only

well she fucking loves. Stay here. And Annie lives in... I think we should also include... Competing since 2012 and made the game six times also. Sometimes gets lost behind the other girls, but she's amazing. six times also. She gets lost behind the other girls,

but she's amazing. Thurie has been there longer than... Thurie has been training for longer than me, Sara and Katrin. Like, she was at the game

12 times. So that's... She's been to the games like eight times. Six times. And this year, she placed 13th. Two years ago,

she was 9th. So she, you know, she years ago, she was ninth. So she, you know, she's, she's representing Iceland very well. Also, do you think it helps a Bjorgvin's cause that you brought her name up? Or do you think it hurts that he forgot?

Like he would have been better off just forgetting her. Like when she texts him later on today, she can be like, Hey, thanks for mentioning my name. Or she can be like Bjorgvin, you asshole. No,

you, you asked him about those three women. You forgot her, not me or him. All right, Bjorgman. Well, it was nice talking to you. That sums up our podcast for the afternoon. Thank you for listening. Please tune in again tomorrow.

Oh, shit. God damn it. Oh, I wasn't going to use that phrase. Darn it. I was trying not to say anything blasphemous in this show. I got two DMs from two people who were being really, really sweet, and they're like, hey, cut down on the Jesus Christ comments and the God damn it. And I was really going to try not to say those in the show, and I just said one of them. I apologize. And I just said one of them. I apologize. Someone from Iceland. I think someone from Iceland just made a comment, but I wasn't. I was going to ask him what it meant.

And he's gone. You think he'll try to come back on? Or you think he's faking his phone connection went out? He's like, hey, this is going to be a bad connection. Oh, you got your podcast t-shirt yesterday. How's it fit? I like because uh it fits a little bit just perfectly around the arm so it makes me look a little more swole than i am and it fits my chest and shoulders nicely it's a little bit long con con oh bjorn bjorn clark goodmanson i didn't even

get to my questions i wanted to chastise him he. He did a Coca-Cola commercial and I wanted to tell him that when he goes to the pearly gates of heaven that he will need to answer to that. He trains with Gunnar Nilsson. Björkman has an agent. What's his agent's name? Snorri. Snorri. Snorri. What a great name is that guy icelandic ah snorey baron i'm not sure he might be i think he is but he is he's just really really human also like bent like power lifting numbers are through the roof yeah so i wanted to let bjorgvin that the only reason why we had him on the show was just so that we uh, that was our way of courting his agent. So I could get gunner Nelson on the show.

UFC fighter, amazing UFC fighter. My goodness, my goodness. Uh, giddy up says he's not faking it. His, he was sounding like a chipmunk for a while.

How come the resolution is only seven 20 P a Yandy. I don't know if that's something we can adjust in the settings. I'm not sure. You know what it says on here is that it's – sometimes it will say it's going live at 240. Manny Serrano. See how I rolled my R. Love you guys. All great podcasts.

Thank you. I don't know if they're all great, but we try. There was – man, there were a couple great things there was a picture on his instagram of him with dave uh is the guy's name dave grohl from the foo fighters the guy was in nirvana oh uh i'm not sure i wanted to ask him about that he just bought a new house he wears a heart rate monitor i want to ask him what the downside of that is. I want to ask him about his girlfriend. He just bought a house. His girlfriend? Wasn't it Betty?

Yeah, yeah. But I was going to ask him more. You know, like what he finds attractive in a girl, how they met. We didn't even ask him how he found CrossFit. I think we were about. I was going to ask him what grip he uses in his chest-to-bar pull-ups, the split grip, monkey grip, or what are the grips? You would have helped me with that.

Are you talking about like a grip company? No, no, which grip he uses. Does he use the chin-up grip or the pull-up grip or like what he was using in the chest-to-bar pull-ups? Like what he uses. Like if he ever switches. You guys should do all your podcasts in 240. Oh, I think I see BKG trying to get back on. No.

I could. You know what's funny? He didn't give us his phone number. He was one of the only guests that we had to email the link to. Why did we have to email it to him? Does that mean he doesn't like us or trust us? It's just an Icelandic thing. He obviously knows the mountain, but he doesn't know his phone number either. I don't know anyone who owns a snowmobile. But I get, oh, and then there was this, in the gym he works at, there's a, his rope climb is at the top of a flight of stairs. It looks like a very dangerous place to have a rope climb.

Is that the gym that has that like mural of a balsa? Like this pixie pixie? I don't know you should have asked him about him having his hand in his pants on the elevator with con porter yeah I don't know what you're talking about ironically fit but that is a question that's right up my alley he didn't but the law Ahmed Khan says he didn't give them the mountain his number either. Yeah, good point. That's good.

Thanks for making us feel better. How long was this podcast? Like an hour, 20 minutes before you left. All right. And, you know, he's at the pool and people like the mayor are coming up to him. No, it's good. I mean, there's definitely some stuff we can come on again sometime. All right. What a great guest. Huge mistake that we didn't have him on.

Oh, thank you, Nick of Time. When is Rich coming on? That is, I think, my fault. We've been texting back and forth, and as soon as I get off the phone, I will bug Rich again. I have a whole page of questions to ask Rich. Maybe I'll go live later today and get a bunch of questions from you guys also. Ironically fit his IG. Oh, you mean like DM him and be like, yo, where'd you go? on august 2nd 2013 he also made a post that said he will crossfit for life and i thought that was pretty cool okay brian here i have a question for you before we go

i have to pee bad now um do you know who logan collin is logan collins yeah. Oh, maybe it's Logan Collins. Yeah, do you know that name? American CrossFitter. Is it? Someone sent me a DM saying we should have him on the podcast, but I don't know who he is. And for some reason, that name stuck with me. Guys, if you're going to send Brian and I suggestions for podcasts, send us their IG also.

Send a link to their IG. So many people send suggestions, and then also. Send a link to their IG. So many people send suggestions and then they don't send links to their IG. I know who Logan Collins is. Is he a crossfitter? Has he made it to the games? Is it a dude? Four consecutive...

19. I think he finished 11th. 11th. Finish 13th, 15th, something like that. He's had some good finishes. He competed in the Atlas Games semifinals this year, which I thought was a choice because it was a very stout Canadian field, most of whom were forced to compete there,

and I thought it decreased his chances of making it this season, and he didn't make it. I don't even think he made the last. That Atlas Games men's field was very very tough but a live competition he would have had a chance to make it this year and do you think the little bit we just talked about him now is enough for um enough time for him on this amazing podcast you know i really don't know much about him outside of maybe he's a maybe he's an interesting guy but i don't know i i him outside of maybe he's an interesting guy,

but I don't know. I'm going to put – oh, I was going to say the Logan Collins. Logan. I'm going to type his name in here, Collins. CrossFit. And if he's handsome, we'll have him on. If he's not, that's just how I roll. I'm superficial like that, guys.

You know. Oh, yeah, He's handsome. Yep. Sunglasses. Good body. Good pistol. Did he shave his head? In one picture I see him,

he's got hair. In another picture I see, he's not got hair. Yeah. He did shave his head at some point. Yeah. He's a stud. Maybe we'll have him on.

No, I mean, that's being presumptuous. Like, like he would come on. Maybe we'll have him on. No, I mean, that's being presumptuous. Like he would come on. Yeah, he'd come on. Get Lazar on again. We will definitely get Lazar on again. I think one of the shows that Brian and I were talking about doing the other day was to get Lazar Jukic on and basically do the same thing we did with – who did we go through every event with? Hopper. Hopper, yeah. Basically do the same thing with Lazar. I basically saw Lazar do a post saying he's going to do a post going through every event,

and I quickly DMed him and said, hey, will you do that on our show? He said he would. So I think our producer, Matt Souza, is scheduling that. Get Brent on. We definitely would like to get Brent on, uh carrie pierce bethany shadburn i've been really wanting to get all those people on and we've just been dealing with their schedules um and then when i see that they've gone on other podcasts i start seeing that uh you know that just makes my just punishes my ego because i'm like hey man you should have done our

show so then i start being i start throwing myself a pity party and start getting angry at them. Is there any chance we can see Dan Bailey in the podcast? No, there's no chance. Meh met a Dini. I want to leave you guys on this note real quick. Cause I didn't get to do my rant in the beginning of the podcast. real quick because i didn't get to do my rant in the beginning of the podcast um if you were to ask a girl out on a date and she were to say no to you do you think it would be smart then to start calling her a bitch and a cunt and start bad mouthing her what do you think that that do you think that that would be effective or do you say okay i understand um and then maybe like spend another month let's

say it's some girl at your gym spend another month maybe like making sure you shower before you come to the gym and like doing nice things to her and like trying to you know court her peacock impress her do things and it could go both ways man or a woman i don't mean to to say either way but if you ask someone out and they say no do you think it then then you're the proper response is to attack them because i would propose that if you do attack someone after you would ask them out on a date that all they're getting is clarification that that they made the right decision, why would someone want to go out with someone who the second they hear no, they throw a temper tantrum?

There was a, many, many years ago, I'd say three or four years ago, I went to check on Dave Castro's Instagram account and I couldn't find it. And I called Dave and I said, Hey dude, I can't find your account. What's going on? And Dave goes, Oh, I blocked you. And I go, Oh, why did you do that? And he goes, just so you know how it felt. I was like, Oh, that's cool. Thanks. Sucks. I understand that like you might be offended if someone blocked you, but if it's your character to then attack the person who blocked you, one, it's deeply and profoundly embarrassing for you, I think. I mean, I would be deeply and profoundly embarrassed if I threw a temper tantrum. Like if Brian blocked me and he said he wasn't going to come on the podcast and I did the next three podcasts telling you what an asshole he was that would be weird i mean that would just show my insecurity my weakness um and even if i wanted

to attack him i would push that shit down i wouldn't want to expose myself as being a little bitch so that's it that's it so if you ask a girl out and she says no don't attack her because i don't think i think that all you're doing is is revealing your character like that that's it that's it so if you ask a girl out and she says no don't attack her because i don't think i think that all you're doing is is revealing your character like that that's like that she made the right decision like yeah that's that's not someone i would have wanted to go out with i i wanted to go out with a strong confident man and not uh or a strong confident woman not someone who's a uh little bitch and then if you really want to fuck with them, just start dating their brother or sister. You know. All right.

I think Sevan, Matt, something is a merch opportunity. I think Sevan. M-A-T something. That's what you said. Oh, thank you. There's some words that I don't like i i don't like the word merch i don't like the word click the like button or oh seven also some people clarified some people clarify what what he had meant was not a scandinavian scandinavian wipe it was was a Scandinavian vibe. That was probably another word you don't like. No,

I like vibes. Good. So he says swipe, swipe and Iceland, white, white. So white, white,

you have a, we have a very good wipe. Bjorgman. If you're listening now, the word is vibe, but whatever you do, you, you do you.

And then that, that does make me feel better about that and and when and when you do use words like that bjorgvin it um it gives brian the opportunity to do something on the podcast and get clarification and be smart so that was good that see see see that positive outlook I have positive optimism uh ladies and gentlemen thank you guys for tuning in I tried to shoot the shit and make

up a bunch of shit to give Bjorgman time to get back on but you know now he's in the pool he don't give a rat's ass about us so I guess I go over to the I'm running the live stream today so I guess I go over to the. I'm running the live stream today. So I guess I go over to the live stream. And I just hit end stream.

Does anyone want to say anything. To Brian. Before we. Before we. Oh wait I'll read this. Iris John's daughter. That Icelandic. Go with your gut.

Impress if you think it's worth it, but being a passive-aggressive idiot says everything about you. Attacking is the same. Thank you for the interview with Björn. Yeah, that was our pleasure, actually. The fact that we didn't have him on during the games was a complete shitshow and a failure on our part, and I own that. Hands down the best CrossFit podcast.

Keep up the good work. Does anyone have any questions for Brian? Do you want to ask Brian? I'll give you, Brian will give you two minutes before he has to like run off and start studying numbers for the games next year. Brian could easily narrate a meditation routine. I so agree.

Nick of time. What a great voice, right? Great relaxing voice. He's the exact opposite of me. Ryan, what are you? Alyssa Carr wants to know what you're doing today. Woo!

Speaking of passive aggressive, that's passive aggressive. Like, do you want to go out with me? Oh, it's a nice day here. So I might go. Well, I'm looking forward to writing this one. And then I might go throw some disc golf before coaching this afternoon. So, so predictable. And here, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Brian is going to play disc golf by himself.

Is that correct? People that have 1 to 3 p.m. free in the afternoon. I think Brian likes to spend a lot of time alone and I think that's healthy and I think that's all I got. I'm playing in a tournament at the end of the month, so I got to practice a little bit. You'll probably wear noise-canceling headphones when you go to that tournament with a shirt that says, don't talk to me.

Brian only does this podcast because it takes him out of his comfort zone. Every time he does one, it's like Fran. Yandy wants to say, I think this is for you, Brian, is there a public database for CrossFit games or CrossFit data? to say, I think this is for you, Brian, is there a public database for CrossFit games or CrossFit data? I don't think, I think that the

there is publicly available, and it's for sure. Other than that, man, I have to pee so bad. All right, guys, I'm going back over. I'm ending the stream thank you ironically fit thanks guys for uh tuning in i will try to get this up on itunes and uh spotify and whatever those

things are later on today peace