Name: Mat Fraser Has Won 5 Straight CrossFit Games
Uploaded: 2021-03-12T16:31:11.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Mat Fraser Has Won 5 Straight CrossFit Games' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Mat Fraser Has Won 5 Straight CrossFit Games' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-12. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience the physical strain that you guys put your body
through is fucking insane
and until you watch like you guys compete and do all the shit like rocking like
running with the
weight vest on and everything yeah it's insane yeah yeah the games so like the
games are like
the big competition it's like it's it's a wild show because it's sometimes it's
five days sometimes
it's three days and we'll have like usually between 12 and 15 events over those
days do they
let you know in advance what you're gonna have to do some like we might find
out an event sometimes a
week or two ahead uh but then like we'll have others where we're literally
finding out the event
as we go like as we're competing so we don't even know what we're doing on the
competition floor
they'll be they'll be like all right start lifting that weight we'll tell you
when to stop when you
hit your number of reps you know stuff like that it's uh it's interesting to
train for because you
don't know if you're training for a one rep max or a hundred uh you don't know
if you're training for
a 40 meter dash or a marathon you know it's yeah it keeps it interesting like
we've had we've had
events that are like 20 seconds long and then a couple years ago we had to row
a marathon on like
the stationary concept two rowers so like 42 000 meters so was that 26.2 miles
rowing yeah yeah
for yeah 42 000 something how long does that take i think the average time was
about three hours i think
a couple people were like three and a half hours yeah because you can't row as
fast as you can run
right kenya i mean i would prefer to row a marathon than run one just because
it's easier on the joints
oh okay like your ass goes numb just from sitting on the seat um but yeah i
mean it was just easy on
the joints they did it because they're like we tested it and like after you run
a marathon like
you can't walk for a couple days like your body's just trashed with rowing a
marathon like you're sore
but you're good to go the next day it really doesn't really though depend on
the person and what
kind of condition you're in because my friend cam haynes that runs a marathon
every day yeah
i think if you're conditioned for and that's all you're doing yeah you know and
but he lifts weights
too yeah yeah i've met cam i met him a couple years ago he's got problems does
he yeah he's crazy
he's legit legit crazy like david goggins crazy there's a few people that i
know that i'm like
what are you doing yourself yeah you know yeah i i i'll watch cam and yeah he
runs a marathon every
day it's like why what are you doing well he seems terrible he likes those
ridiculous ultra races like
those the more at 240s and stuff like that yeah i got a buddy that does all
those like 200 mile
couple days long yep and it's like all right like i get that that's your thing
i don't get it but
but more power to you they're just testing i mean for cam he's just testing his
mind yeah he wants to
find out when it breaks you know and he he can't break it yeah and every day
strengthens it so every
day he's running massive amounts of miles he'll run like 19 miles in the
morning yeah he'll run like
six miles in the afternoon and i mean i wonder if like if he's ever played with
like other challenges
you know instead of just running because i know like if i'm practicing the same
thing over and over
yeah you adapt to it you get better at it you get more comfortable with it and
it's like when those
curveballs get thrown at you of something that you're not used to mm-hmm and i
mean that's basically
that's crossfit right that's what our training is yeah we're trying to think of
different things
that can be be the test for us and figure out like all right if this comes up
how do we deal with it
how did you get involved what was did you just walk into a class one day and
get excited about it so i
have a background in olympic weightlifting did that for 10 years lived at the olympic
training center
like my goal was to go to the olympics for weight lifting and then that didn't
pan out and like
started focusing on school and then i just kind of i guess just gained the
freshman 15. so i was like
all right i either need to start working out again or change my diet so i was
like oh i'll start working
out and uh you know trying to find an olympic weightlifting gym is there like a
needle in a haystack
but crossfits are everywhere and so i just like googled crossfit near me
because they they use all
the same equipment like the barbells and bumpers and so i just showed up
introduced myself was like
hey like i don't want to do your crossfit thing i'll be in the back room just
doing cleaning jerks
and squats and uh just kept doing that kind of showing up on a irregular basis
and then one of the
girls from the gym who was a competitor was just kind of like bribing me into
workouts every once in a
while like oh you might be good at this one give this one a try give this one a
try and the uh the
owner of the gym actually signed me up for my first competition because he's
okay i think you have
potential in this you should give this a try and uh so we made a deal that he
signed me up and paid my
entry fee and then if i won any money he i had to buy a pair of crossfit shoes
and what are crossfit
shoes i mean at the time it was like the reeboks like the minimalist shoes like
i was working out in
air max 90s and so he's like anything's better than that and what year was this
this would be back in
like 2012 and uh so anyways i i won the competition got a couple hundred bucks
and was like yo this is
kind of cool like just pocket money for a college kid like are there more
competitions like this and so
they showed me where to find these competitions and i just kind of started
driving around the northeast
like all of new england and if there was prize money at a competition i was
signing up and so i
basically looked at it like a part-time job of like while i'm in school full-time
and broke i can make
some pocket money and uh yeah just kind of i was like all right if i want to
keep winning these
competitions i need to work on my weaknesses get better and then just kind of
fell in love with it and it just
ratcheted up bit by bit until like i'm at the world championships and i'm like
oh how did that get here and then you won over and over and over again which is
crazy yeah it's
a weird start man to something that you not just excelled at i mean i think you're
the winningest guy
ever right yeah i've won one they've been on the podium seven times and i've
won it the last five years
that's bananas yeah i mean for someone who started off as a lark yeah i'm i'm
not blind to it like
i'll be sitting with my fiancee like you know just when these cool
opportunities get
plopped in front of me and i'm like how how did i end up here like this wasn't
supposed to be my life
you know i was a mechanical engineer you know like i thought my sports career
was over with olympic
weightlifting you know i broke my back like it was a whole what did you do to
your back uh broke my l5 in
two spots oh yeah how uh just training too heavy too often and uh it just fractured
the actual bone yeah yeah
like the little wings off the side oh and it was on two separate occasions too
it was like they were
like a week or two apart from each other and so wait hold on you broke one and
then you kept lifting
yeah i didn't really have a choice so i was living at the olympic training
center and like there was a
lot of pressure on the program to like produce and i was on the junior world
team i was leaving for
romania in a couple weeks to compete and uh yeah i was just i don't know i wasn't
training as smart as
i should have been and so the first one where i was doing like a clean pull so
just like a deadlift
with a big explosion at the top and like loud pop on one side i dropped the bar
and like
it have you ever seen those heat packs that have the little clicky thing in
them
it was that's what it felt like when it like clicked and then it's just like
the inflammation
just spreading and uh and so you know go to my room lay down for a couple days
and then you know
it was it was oh i knew something was wrong like i've never had an injury like
that you know i couldn't
move did you get an x-ray did you get an mr no because it was like the i was
leaving for the competition
in like two weeks so it was like too late to call the alternate to replace me
so you wait wait do
they know that you're this injured i mean i told them like hey i and they're
like suck it up i'm
injured and i was told like hey there's a difference between pain and injury
and i was like okay uh i'll
get back to lifting and so then a couple days goes by and i'm being super
cautious like basically
stripped all the weight out of my training i'm just moving and then uh what was
it was heavy back squat
and like load up and you're going for like a new one rep max like a week before
you get on the airplane
and uh yeah hit the bottom of the hole left side goes oh jesus and so anyways i
got went to the
competition did terribly you know like the coach was like hey what's your goal
for this competition i was
like i just don't want to bomb out i just want to make one lift one lift in
each and uh he's like okay
we'll make sure that happens i i only made one snatch one clean and jerk and
then it was when i got back
i like put my foot down i was like hey i'm not i'm not lifting shit until i get
an x-ray and like
they x-rayed it and they're like oh yeah there's break right here right here
and what did the coach feel
bad uh i mean i feel for him now that i have a little more life experience and
like you know at
the time hated the guy um but now that i know the situation he was in he was
under pressure for keeping
his job to like hey you need to produce athletes like none of the american
athletes are doing well on
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