An in depth analysis of the Programming in the CrossFit landscape ranging from CrossFit main site to the CrossFit Games everything in between. If you want to know how to program for the ultimate test of fitness and how to train for it, you came to the right place.
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Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel presents conversations with artists, musicians, scientists, filmmakers, authors, innovators, cultural leaders, activists, and creative change makers from across New Mexico and around the country who are creatively exploring the world. Listen at chasedaniel.com or on most podcast platforms at Coffee and Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel.
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Paula Roland, Gina Telcocci, and Linda Ingraham
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42:05We5 is an ad-hoc group of five visual artists who are participating in the Santa Fe Studio tour, Paula Roland, Gina Telcocci, Linda Ingraham, Diane Rolnick, and Robert Wilhelm. Three of the artists visit with host Matthew Chase-Daniel to talk about the joys of visiting an artist’s studio, the relation between art and nature, hiking the spiny Organ …
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Top 4 things we DO and DON'T want to see at The 2025 CrossFit Games
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1:27:26It's that time of year again where the CrossFit Games are around the corner and we sit down to speculate about what we will love to and not love to see at the CrossFit Games this year.By chase ingraham, bill grundler, john young, j.r. howell
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RE-Analyzing the Mayhem Classic | Does it still hold up?
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46:51Chase and Bill sit down and RE-analyze the programming of the Mayhem Classic using their new scoring system they developed for the Games season.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Are the CrossFit Games a Sport? w/ Matt Souza
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1:27:34Is the CrossFit Games a sport… or something bigger? In this episode we break down why the CrossFit Games defy traditional definitions of sport and stand alone as the world’s most comprehensive test of elite fitness. Unlike football, basketball, or even Olympic events, the Games don’t measure who’s best at a single skill—they measure who’s "The Fitt…
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Analyzing the Last Chance Qualifier | Did we go long enough?
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1:26:20The Last Chance Qualifier is BACK and... better than ever? 5 Coaches were given the opportunity to program the events as the team from CrossFit Mayhem curated and tweaked them for the final version. Was this the right path? Did we get a good test? How balanced does it really need to be after semifinals? Angelo DiCicco jumps on the show as a surpsie…
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Analyzing the Far East Throwdown | Is Testing running a MUST?
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1:01:17Of all the running that we KNOW will be at the 2025 CrossFit Game and have always been at the CrossFit Games how do you NOT testing running at your Semifinal?By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Tonya Turner Carroll/ Nadya Tolokonnikova
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41:41Tonya talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the upcoming exhibition by Nadya Tolokonnikova at Turner Carrol Gallery in Santa Fe, as well as Tonya’s approach to art-making and her recent durational performance at MOCA in L.A. which was shut down because the police state came to the neighborhood. Also presented are some excerpts from some of the…
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Analyzing the NorCal Classic | What went wrong and why?
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1:39:39The Northern California Classic has been steadily growing over the last several years and has now gotten their first opportunity to send athletes to the CrossFit Games.... and perhaps their last.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Analyzing the Torian Pro | Best qualifying event of the season?
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55:46The Torian Pro never disappoints but in the meek landscape that was this years Semifinals was this the best one of the bunch? Did the programming rival that of J.R. Howell and the Syndicate Crown?By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Analyzing the Rebel Renegade Games | Is 9 events too many?
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1:01:42The Rebel Renegade Games had the longest Semifinal competition and most events of all of the in person qualifiers. Do more events allow for a better test or does that open you up for more chances to screw it up?By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Analyzing the Programming | 2025 Syndicate Crown w/ J.R. Howell
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1:35:59Are we going to have our very first "Perfect 10.0"!? The man behind the Syndicate Crown programming, J.R. Howell, joins the show to make sure that doesn't happen. You read that correctly....By chase ingraham, bill grundler, j.r. howell
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Previewing the Syndicate Crown programming w/ J.R. Howell and John Young
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1:33:26The biggest weekend of Semifinal Events is looking with 4 qualifiers all over the world will be sending athletes to the CrossFit Games. Today we are join by the mastermind behind the Syndicate Crown programing, J.R. Howell as we take a peak behind the programming curtain.By chase ingraham, bill grundler, j.r. howell, john young
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Why a HYROX race should have been IE01 at the CrossFit Games
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44:52We had a chance to do something incredible... and missed it. Chase sits down with Bill and tells you all the things we COULD have had with a HYROX race to start off the 2025 CrossFit Games.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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CENTER has a new photography gallery space in Santa Fe and the inaugural exhibition is being co-curated by Mary Anne Redding. She has long involvement with CENTER and is senior curator at The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in North Carolina. Rubenstein is one of four artists in the exhibition. All four are past CENTER awardees and explore issue…
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Analyzing the Programming | 2025 French Throwdown
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1:10:408 events in 3 days seems quite like a beefy amount of events for a semifinal but was it really too much? Chase and Bill sit down and determine if the French Throwdown accomplished the task of finding the fittest without over programming the competition.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Chase programmed a week of CrossFit Affiliate Programming
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1:10:21Chase got invited to program a week of CrossFit Affiliate Programming again. Chase comes on the show and breaks down the whole week and why he choses the workouts he didBy chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Jennifer Schlesinger and Jennifer DeCarlo (on Luis González Palma)
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42:17Jennifer Schlesinger and Jennifer DeCarlo The Jennifers are both gallerists and curators. They discuss the exhibition Möbius, by Luis González Palma, on view at Schlesinger’s Obscura Gallery in Santa Fe. Luis González Palma is a Guatemalan artist/photographer, living now in Argentina. His works address identity, sorrow, trauma, and beauty. His curr…
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Previewing the Programming | 2025 French Throwdown
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43:09The 2025 French Throwdown kicks off this weekend with 8 EVENTS over 3 days. Bill and Chase preview the programming to see what's in store for these athletes.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Analyzing the Programming | 2025 CrossFit Games Online Semifinals
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48:32We liked what we saw on paper, but did we like what we saw on the "competition floor"? Chase and Bill sit down and analyze the programming of the 2025 CrossFit Online Semifinals.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Analyzing the Programming | Wodland Fest w/ Lucy Campbell and John Young
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1:31:33This years CrossFit Games qualifying season is the Wild West once again and we are still just getting started. Chase and Bill focus their programming analysis on the most recent IPQE (In Person Qualifying Event), Wodland Fest. Did they step up to the task to of finding the fittest athletes? Or did they get lucky and the fittest athletes just happen…
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Can Rich Froning Qualify for The Games? 2025 Semifinal Events Preview
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1:27:35Chase and Bill sit back and break down the 2025 Individual online Semifinals Events and answer the burning question..."Can Rich Froning still qualify for the CrossFit Games?"By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Analyzing the Programming | 2025 CrossFit Games TEAM Semifinal Events
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1:06:31Chase and Bill sit down and analyze the programming of the 2025 Online Team semifinal events using their new and improved point system. You thought programming running online was controversial? What about limiting your athletes ability to lift more weight?By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Amber Dawn Bear Robe chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about Native Fashion Week Santa Fe, taking place all over the Railyard from May 8-11. The 4-day series of events includes talks, runway shows, shopping, and more. This is the first year of Bear Robe’s new project and she brings many years of experience in curating shows of Native Fashion and Arts…
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Analyzing the Programming | 2025 Copa Sur
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1:20:574 more athletes are making their way to Albany, New Year this coming August. Chase and Bill sit down and unveil their NEW analyzing protocol for programming to see if this event really sent the right athletes to the CrossFit Games.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Previewing the 2025 CrossFit Games Team Semifinal Events
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1:34:34The 2025 Online team semifinal events have been released! Bill and Chase sit down to preview each event and give teams the best strategies for each one.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Programming Overhaul | The CrossFit Games Open
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59:39Chase and Bill sit to design and program a COMPLETE overall of the CrossFit Games Open.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Banks and Chase-Daniel talk on and on about dinosaurs, ostrich eggs, deep time, fossils, Georgia O’Keeffe, bomb shelters, archeological digs, paleontology, and inspirations for Banks’ upcoming exhibition, Species Pending, at Axle Contemporary, part of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Mobile Artist in Residency program.…
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Analyzing the Programming | 2025 Mayhem Classic
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1:20:08The 'in person qualifiers" to the 2025 CrossFit Games have begun! Just like they did for The Open, CrossFit Mayhem has come to the rescue to kick the qualifying season off with the Mayhem Classic. Powered by Rich Froning and his team, the Mayhem Classic took a, for lack of a better word, CLASSIC approach to the competition. 20 athletes, 5 events ov…
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Analyzing the Programming | 2025 CrossFit Age Group Semifinals
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1:31:00After ALLLLLL the flak the WFP qualifier got for having no squatting in it..... this happens. Lucky for everyone else, Bill and Chase are here to save the day but FIRST they will "analyze the programming" of the 2025 CrossFit Games Age Group Semifinals.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Recapping the 2025 Mayhem Classic w/ John Young and J.R. Howell
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1:18:57We have our "FIRST FOUR" to qualify for the 2025 CrossFit Games! John Young and J.R. Howell sit down with the guys and recap everything about the 2025 Mayhem Classic and what this means for the Semifinal season moving forward.By chase ingraham, bill grundler, J.r. howell, john young
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FIRST LOOK | 2025 CrossFit Games Age Group Semifinal Events
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45:22The Open is over and here come the Semifinals! Chase and Bill sit down for their FIRST LOOK at the newly released CrossFit Games Age Group Semifinal events and no... it's NOT an April Fools trick.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Levy and Watts chat with Matthew about Levy’s upcoming artwork, Missing Waters, which will be created by a group of volunteers in the Railyard Park in late April. They also talk about water, control and freedom, beavers, rain, the origin of the word “thalweg,” if whirlpools reverse direction in the southern hemisphere, Watts’ eoartspace organizatio…
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TFX Invitational | The oldest CrossFit event in the space w/ Jeremy Thiel
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54:11What was once called "The Fittest Games" that was created to give Texas it's very first and longest standing CrossFit competition and has been going strong for the last 17 years. The man behind what is now called "The Fittest Experience", Jeremy Thiel, joins the show as we talk all about what we can expect from The Fittest Invitational.…
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INSIDE THE LEADERBOARD | Full 2025 CrossFit Open Report
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1:28:53Week 3 Inside the Leaderboard is back as the boys recap the aftermath of 25.2. After 3 weeks of the CrossFit Open we look at who's IN and who's OUTside of the Top 1% advancing to Semifinals, see what the Community Cup levels are shaking out to be and do an early programming analysis.By chase ingraham, bill grundler, john young, barclay dale
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Did "the leaks" get it right? Did the announcement of 25.3 live up the hype? Did we get the right programming to filter down the Top 1% moving on to Semifinals? We answer all that and more as we review the final week of The Open.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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INSIDE THE LEADERBOARD | CrossFit Open Week 2 Review
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1:10:51Week 2 Inside the Leaderboard is back as the boys recap the aftermath of 25.2. After 2 weeks of the CrossFit Open we look at who's IN and who's OUTside of the Top 1% advancing to Semifinals, see what the Community Cup levels are shaking out to be and make some predictions on what we can expect for 25.3…
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For the past nine years, Rose Eason has been the Executive Director for GallupARTS, tirelessly organizing for the arts and the community of McKinley County. She chats with Chase-Daniel about the upcoming (March 29) opening celebration of the Gallup New Deal Art Virtual Museum, a project conceived in 2017 and coming to fruition now. They also briefl…
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Week 2 Review of CrossFit Games Open 25.2
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1:08:13We called it! 25.2 is a repeat of 22.3 for Week 2 of the 2025 CrossFit Open. The guys breakdown all things 25.2, the Open Announcement itself and what we can look forward to for 25.3.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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INSIDE THE LEADERBOARD | CrossFit Open Week 1 Review
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1:21:55Inside the Leaderboard is back! After 1 week of the CrossFit Open we look at who's IN and who's OUTside of the Top 1% advancing to Semifinals after 25.1, see what the Community Cup levels are shaking out to be and make some predictions on what we can expect for 25.2By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Recapping CrossFit Open Workout 25.1
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1:17:35Chase is back from Cookeville and The Open is in full swing! The guys sit down and recap their experiences with 25.1 and all the feels that came from the Open Announcement at Mayhem.By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Inga Hendrickson chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about biological processes, color saturation, sewing fruit, motherhood, motivations and inspirations, cities and towns, The physicality of sculpture, and her exhibition at Axle Contemporary, These Cracks Weep.By Matthew Chase-Daniel
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The GREATEST CrossFit Games Open announcement of ALL TIME
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1:27:03The CrossFit Open began in 2011 and the first official "Open Announcement" as we know and love when unveiled in 2013. Since then we have been everywhere from garage gyms to arenas and everywhere in between, but which was the best Open Announcement evBy chase ingraham, bill grundler, john young, J.R. howell, andrew hiller
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"How can a movement of such enormous import stir such little interest? It doesn’t make sense that the pull-up doesn’t inspire the same discussion, analysis, and overall attention that so many other movements do like the bench press and squat." - Greg GlassmanBy chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Pando Speer and Dain Daller are an artist couple living one the land near Abiquiu and El Rito. They moved to New Mexico 15 years ago and learned to weave here at the Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center. They show and sell their weavings as Warp Zone and travel the world to learn and share. They also built their own home and studio, an Earthship. They…
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Why the 2025 CrossFit Games Open programming will need to change
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1:18:15The 2025 CrossFit Games season has changed and CrossFit is now sending 1% of all athletes around the World to Semifinals both "online" and "in person" for the first time since 2018. Bill and Chase sit down with John Young and discuss why the programming must change to accommodate the huge task ahead to finding the fittest field for the 2025 CrossFi…
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Artist James Gould chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about SPRICKLE, his new sculpture just installed in the Railyard Park, about, the balance between control and freedom, about inspirations, about the benefits of age, about the Erie Canal, and about his fathers collection of old boards.By Matthew Chase-Daniel
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Analyzing the Programming | 2025 TYR Wodapalooza Miami
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1:17:382025 TYR Wodapalooza moved locations for the first time in 12 years from Bayfront Park to Miami, Beach. One of the biggest question coming in this year was could they keep the WZA Magic alive? What we got in return was the most dramatic finishes in TYR Wodapalooza history for every single elite division across the board. Was the new venue, the athl…
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BREAKING NEWS from the boys | TYR WZA Event Preview Show
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1:11:12Chase and Bill and some breaking news for the Podcast and they preview ALL of the events for both Team and Indi for the 2025 TYR Wodapalooza Miami!By chase ingraham, bill grundler
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Kyle Paoletta’s new book, American Oasis, is a deep dive into the history of Southwestern cities, including Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, and Las Vegas. Paoletta helps us to learn from the past to help us prepare for the future of the Southwest and elsewhere as water resources evaporate and populations grow in a fragile environment. He cha…
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Adrian Bozman talks all about the CrossFit Games "Community Cup"
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37:51Adrian Bozman joins the show LIVE and gives us all we need to know about the 2025 CrossFit Games "Community Cup"By chase ingraham, bill grundler, adrian bozman
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