Ethan and Tony talk with Nick, who is part of their Covid Tuesday afternoon socially distanced track workout group. Like everyone else, quarantine has been a great time for injuries and backsliding. Ethan seems to think a WOD of 700 air squats in a weight vest is a bit much. Tony points out tho that it’s prudent if you’re working up to 1,000. You d…

Anna Tew is not your typical pastor. She's funny, irreverent, and a badass CrossFitter. The boys catch up with her mid-pandemic to talk Jesus WODs, Zoom sermons, Alabama football (just for a tick) and a whatever else needed talking. Preach! Anna! Preach! Now, on NoRep.

Coach Lauren K. is 21 and has broken her arm 12 times. She shares with the boys her accumulated wealth of actual information about fitness and training and how she applies it to actually improve herself. Ethan finds out his running form is as destructive but thankfully less contagious than Covid-19, and Tony learns his deadlift is deserving only of…

Level II Coach Mel has worked and worked out with Games athletes and gurus, and her passion is scaling CrossFit for everyone. She drops wisdom on staying motivated at home, how boxes promote community and nutrition, what it's like to train with Games athletes and more. Tony wants people to eat for optimal junk food intake. Ethan calls bullshit on T…

Planting A Seed. While the world lives through a dry run of the apocalypse, Ethan and Tony talk to local farmer and avid CrossFitter Emma Golonka of Golonka Farm. Before things get silly, the boys announce their plan to run a community garden in conjunction with the Fit Community Project and Pioneer Valley CrossFit. Ethan alienates NoRep’s avid Can…

Just because you have a doctor on your podcast in the midst of a pandemic doesn't mean you have to ask him about it. This is NoRep, after all. Coach Tony introduces Coach Ethan, a guest on multiple shows, as the new co-host. They talk to PJ Helmuth, MD, a primary care physician and long-time CrossFitter. They talk motivational shame, what PJ sees i…

This week Ash and Tony bring Ethan back to talk about personal CrossFit goals, their approach to the 2020 open and their take on the evolution of the Games. Ethan announces his retirement from competitive CrossFit after a career performance in 2019, where he was bested by only 6783 men in the entire world. Ash and Tony help Ethan navigate the exist…

The boys chatted with the funniest man in CrossFit, John Wooley of Instagram’s Make WODs Great Again. John is an every day CrossFitter who happens to train at a box that has produced a number of Games athletes, including Scott Panchik and Julie Foucher. His IG memes humanize the world’s fittest and help us all laugh our way to better health. He giv…

Pakistan women's National Champion Mishka Murad speaks her mind, which is good for NoRep because she is goddamn hilarious. And smart. The boys get her take on being a national champion, CrossFit's decision to cut more than half the individual women after the first Games event, the down side of dedicated training and just what CrossFit is trying to …

When You're 43 But Your Ego is 23. The boys talk to local CrossFitter Eric Wilson, whose competitive nature led to frustration and injury on his first - and second - CrossFit go-arounds. Eric overcame the 'just rub some dirt on it' approach instilled in him as a kid, learned to take a more humble approach and is now on the road to a healthier Cross…

The boys catch up with Level III coach, box manager, individualized programming guru and maniacal devourer of fitness knowledge Damian Pagano. In this wide ranging interview, Damian explains body building vs. strength training, what happens when you do Murph 5 times in 5 hours, why he has accepted his wife’s athletic superiority, the future of Cros…

Dave and Tony welcome Haley York to the program. Haley is a former Division I rower at The University of Massachusetts. Originally from California Haley has recently begun taking her CrossFit training seriously - she seemed to come out out of nowhere to finish inside the top 250 in the U.S. in the 2019 CrossFit Open. And she’s just getting started.…

Tony and Ash break the news that Seth has left the program. After discussing Seth’s place in history, they introduce World Class Dave as the new co-host. The newly constructed crew talks current training and goals and then dives into Tony’s recent experience taking the CrossFit Level I Certificate Course. Along the way, Ash gets too honest and the …

This week Seth and Tony sit down with definitely the hardest worker in the room Adee Cazayoux. Adee is coincidently the founder and CEO of Working Against Gravity, one of the largest and most respected one on one nutrition coaching groups in the world. Adee focuses the conversation on the central role of food in our lives and how a flexible but int…

This week the boys talk to Pamela Gagnon, a former D-1 gymnast, a three-time masters Games athlete and a Lead CrossFit gymnastics coach. Pamela has been flipping, twisting and summersaulting for decades, but she still loves to teach beginners the progressions they need to achieve their individual goals. Of course, Seth and Tony just want to try the…

Justin LoFranco is the founder of The Morning Chalk Up, which began as a small daily CrossFit news email and now goes out to over a hundred thousand people each day. Their website and media coverage has quickly become THE source for CrossFit news and information. Justin spent years on Capital Hill building a career in national politics before he de…

With CrossFit HQ spreading the word that CrossFit is for everyone and deemphasizing the Games, Seth and Tony talk to author and long time CrossFitter, J.C. Herz, whose book, Learning To Breath Fire, delves deeply into the essence and evolution of CrossFit. J.C. discusses CrossFit’s growth from underground fitness Fight Club to mainstream, worldwide…

Margaux Alvarez is a six time Crossfit Games athlete and brings her passion for competing to everything she does, and she does a lot. Seth and Tony caught up with her as she prepares to compete on American Ninja Warrior. She will then head to the Rogue Invitational and throw in an appearance competing at the World Long Drive Championships. Oh, and …

Seth and Tony kick off season two with a fascinating, wide-ranging interview with an American original: Sean Sweeney, "the CrossFit Cowboy." Sean just secured his third invitation to the Games by winning the South African Sanctional. He tells the boys about his transformation from wild child to elite competitor, owner of two CrossFit boxes and budd…

Seth, Tony and executive producer Ash Crawford reflect on the success of season one of the NoRep Podcast and hint at upcoming guests for season two. Ash is on his way to Iceland. Seth is hanging up his barbell. And Tony is still in back squat Ground Hog Day. Together they are pretty sure they that season one went great and season two will be better…

In this updated version of the Christmas classic, Seth and Tony put down their mics and settle in for their winter break. They pay homage to their guests of the past year and wonder if there will be more in the new year. Executive producer Ash Crawford appears, playing Santa, promising the gift of more guests to come, including a few he has already…

This week Seth and Tony sit down with Mael Walkowiak, long time CrossFit Instructor, strength training enthusiast and proponent of a science-based approach to fitness. Mael explains his belief that strength is king, in life and at the box. Mael’s personal journey encompasses everything from Stoic philosophy to the super secret squirrel program, giv…

Nationally ranked canoe racer Jack Morse leaves his breakfast kilt and his bonnie lass in the highlands to do battle with Seth and Tony. His fitness goals even make CrossFitters shake their heads. He’s a rocket scientist and a roofer, and his house is the place to be in a zombie apocalypse. Tony can’t catch him at Cindy and Seth can’t avoid a hilar…

Episode 1.28 Seth and Tony’s guest, Mike Shields, shows up 45 minutes late to the episode, feeling awful. Seth and Tony make him feel worse. Mike was killing it at the office but couldn’t overcome fitness inertia until he started doing one on one training at PVCF and doing what he was told. Mike tells his story. Along the way we learn about leather…

NoRep welcomes Janna Breslin, cover model and CrossFitter, to the program. Janna has her own fitness app, a 'basic bitch dog' and a crazy story about overcoming heavy metal poisoning and the boredom of body building through the miracle of CrossFit. Oh, and she and Seth put together a WOD, 'The Janna,' designed to destroy old, short men who lack mob…

Kylie Feldman, badass mother of two little ones, talks to Seth and Tony about CrossFitting while pregnant, work/life/fitness balance and, um, pelvic floor health. The recorder crashes - literally. Seth describes with vivid imagery his irrational fear of babies in utero. Kylie attempts a benevolent usurpation of the episode while Tony tries to keep …

Go to noreppodcast.com for Show Notes. Davey Fisher, model, personal trainer, brand ambassador and all around social media influencer, sits on his porch in Santa Monica and talks to Seth and Tony about balance in all aspects of life. Except for eating. Sometimes. And training. If you have health insurance. Or not. But balance, really. And flying al…

This episode starts off just fine, but then Colette starts talking double under peeing and things spiral from there. Seth is not sure he will ever look at GHDs the same way again.

Moorea Spoljaric from M2 Performance Nutrition joins us to dish about eating for your goals and within your lifestyle, which is possible even if you have a life, unless you have a life like Seth’s.

Two time Olympian Katie Monahan reveals her CrossFit inner dialogue to Seth and Tony, who are better off if they can't hear themselves thinking.

Model and former professional golfer Ash Crawford joins Seth and Tony to discuss whether there is one right diet (there isn't) and how, and why, he mixes it up when it comes to his own diet. Tony announces he is going Keto and Seth and Ash alternately mock his lack of preparedness and offer suggestions.…

Seth, Tony and Sean "Bueno" Buenaventura talk about 'being your best self' and if CrossFit competition and nutritional offerings help us to get there.

Squat Club Saturday founder Michelle Lafond talks power lifting, power bellies and the squat train out of skinny town.

Bryan 'The Torso' Snyder reveals that health scares, vanity and living arrangements helped him transform from hobbit to hottie.

PVCF owner Ayn Toppin crashes Seth and Tony's discussion of movement standards and quality. She tries to explain that standards should drive better movement and fitness, not competition. It is not at all clear that Seth and Tony were buying it.

Seth and Tony welcome CrossFit Games aficionado Sean McCarthy to break down the announced changes to the Games.

Katie B joins Seth and Tony to talk persistent weaknesses and whether it matters.

Australian Ash Crawford talks local competitions with Seth, Tony and World Class Dave.

Seth and Tony discuss whether the CrossFit Games are - or are not - relevant to every day CrossFitting.

Need some extra programming to get to the Games podium? Ya, neither do we. Listen in as Seth and Tony welcome back Ethan to calm us all down about workouts beyond the WOD.

Seth and Tony dig deeper into diet, accountability and the best training mindset, which neither of them possesses.

Olympic athlete Katie Monahan floors Seth and Tony with her approach to CrossFitting.

Seth and Tony share their frustrations about CrossFit and Tony tells Seth how much he cares.

Lifting heavy is central to CrossFit and that suits Seth just fine. (Also: people who lift heavy get to ride unicorns!)

Seth and Tony welcome Ethan to talk moving and finding a new box, what to look for and how to fit in.

Seth and Tony talk CrossFit do's and don'ts. Turns out one person's do can be another person's don't. Guest appearances by Mukunda and Sean, pictured here wearing a tank top (Pro Move or Bro Move?).

Seth and Tony welcome professional dancer Sage Wilson to the program to talk flexibility with somebody who has some.

Seth and Tony talk accountability. Tony is pretty good; Seth's not. But does it matter?

Seth and Tony welcome Colette to the program as they discuss the pros, the cons and the comedy of competition in CrossFit.