USA National Team members

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:00.819 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And we'll go. 2 00:00:09.030 --> 00:00:09.880 Ayden Jones: Suzie. 3 00:00:13.050 --> 00:00:14.230 Ayden Jones: this one's. 4 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:44.560 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: All right welcome in to this week's episode of the platform. Podcast I am incredibly excited. This is a special episode, because I am interviewing not one, not 2, but 3 different members of the Us. National team that competed at the Wksf World Championship in Poland in June. So I have Aidan Jones, Paul Klein, and Gianna Kreider with me. 5 00:00:44.730 --> 00:00:47.210 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Say hello all, and thank you for coming on. 6 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:48.939 Ayden Jones: Hey? How's it going? Hello! 7 00:00:48.940 --> 00:00:49.800 Paul Klein: Pillows. 8 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:56.834 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So the U.S.A. team competed. It's in. Can somebody give me? It's i i keep forgetting how to say the name 9 00:00:57.130 --> 00:00:58.640 Ayden Jones: Jeju. 10 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:02.439 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Jejo, I always I forget the which letters are Jejo. 11 00:01:02.662 --> 00:01:03.329 Ayden Jones: Guys no problem. 12 00:01:03.330 --> 00:01:17.450 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Poland in June, and the team took 5th place with 10 golds, 6 silvers and 9 bronzes overall. Remind me how many athletes, did we said, I want to say it was 25 total athletes. Is that is that right? 13 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:18.469 Ayden Jones: That's gotta be close. 14 00:01:18.470 --> 00:01:18.970 Gianna Kreider: That's it. 15 00:01:18.970 --> 00:01:19.850 Ayden Jones: That's about it. 16 00:01:19.850 --> 00:01:20.640 Paul Klein: Man. 17 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:36.703 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Awesome. And we are, we're really really happy with with that number. And how the team did I'm interviewing on behalf of the American Kettlebell Lifters Union. So this is the official team that qualified through the American Kettlebell Lifters Union. And 18 00:01:37.310 --> 00:01:50.039 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I wanna just dive in real quick. Give you guys a chance to introduce yourself and tell us you know where in the country you're physically located. What you competed at at worlds, and just a little bit about yourself. So, aiden, I'll start with you. 19 00:01:50.710 --> 00:01:56.230 Ayden Jones: Sure. Thanks. I'm up here in Kirkland, Washington, just a couple of miles north of Seattle. 20 00:01:56.270 --> 00:02:21.389 Ayden Jones: Started Kettlebell sport about 3 and a half years ago, now competed in the long cycle, and the snatch in Poland so thoroughly enjoy. Both of those lifts started loving long cycle. When I 1st picked up the sport and then kind of slowly drifted towards the snatch, and I really started to enjoy my time with that movement as well. It's a. It's a great challenge. 21 00:02:21.824 --> 00:02:26.920 Ayden Jones: But it always seems more manageable than it really is. So it's very tricky. 22 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:30.630 Ayden Jones: and I enjoy that too long cycle. It's been beating me up lately. 23 00:02:30.630 --> 00:02:32.440 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What weights were you competing with. 24 00:02:32.910 --> 00:02:37.559 Ayden Jones: 24. So the amateurs compete with the twenty-fours in the men's. 25 00:02:37.910 --> 00:02:40.100 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: All right. And, Paul, how about you? 26 00:02:41.074 --> 00:02:54.945 Paul Klein: Hi Jordan, Paul Klein. I live in Seattle, Washington, and I've been lifting kettle Kettlebells for about 10 years. I've been in in competitions for 9. And this year at worlds. I lifted 16 27 00:02:55.480 --> 00:03:00.689 Paul Klein: 2 arm long cycle for 10 min. And I also did 16 snatch 28 00:03:00.850 --> 00:03:02.359 Paul Klein: for 10 min. Yeah. 29 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:03.100 Paul Klein: And. 30 00:03:03.100 --> 00:03:04.450 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Gianna, how about you? 31 00:03:05.203 --> 00:03:12.200 Gianna Kreider: So I'm Gianna. I'm in Las Vegas, and I have been lifting for roughly 5 years since 2,019, 32 00:03:12.370 --> 00:03:20.119 Gianna Kreider: and this year I competed in the amateur 16, one arm long cycle for 10 min and 16 one-arm long cycle. For 30 min. 33 00:03:20.750 --> 00:03:30.470 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, half Marathon. So of of the people on here, you might just be the craziest of all of us, because you're like, Oh, 10 min. Yeah, that's a walk in the park. Why don't I. 34 00:03:30.470 --> 00:03:30.900 Gianna Kreider: Hmm. 35 00:03:30.900 --> 00:03:31.520 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Half an hour. 36 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:31.910 Paul Klein: Yeah. 37 00:03:31.910 --> 00:03:32.649 Ayden Jones: And then leave the top. 38 00:03:32.650 --> 00:03:35.460 Gianna Kreider: Little bit of a glutton for punishment there on that one so. 39 00:03:35.460 --> 00:03:35.900 Paul Klein: I. 40 00:03:35.900 --> 00:03:36.419 Gianna Kreider: It did it. 41 00:03:36.420 --> 00:03:40.629 Paul Klein: Last year, and I didn't do it this year. So. 42 00:03:41.050 --> 00:03:43.050 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yes. January elevation, perhaps. 43 00:03:43.050 --> 00:03:46.360 Paul Klein: Kudos kudos kudos to Gianna big time. 44 00:03:46.360 --> 00:04:09.099 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Well, I I do have. I do have to say y'all look great because you are wearing the official U.S.A. Team uniforms provided by our wonderful sponsor virus, international. And they're they're the sponsor of this podcast episode. They didn't ask us to do this. We just wanted to do this because we thought it would be really cool to to interview you guys. You know as many of you as possible at one time. How do you guys like the uniforms. 45 00:04:10.140 --> 00:04:10.519 Ayden Jones: I love. 46 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:31.336 Paul Klein: I think. Yeah, I think they're tremendous. I think they're tremendous. They fit well. And I have to say, when I put this on, I didn't even have to look in a mirror to know that I looked good. I look like an athlete. You know what I'm saying it. Just you know, you just feel like you're present and ready to go, and you know a lot of us say, you know, show up and suit up, and you know, when you suit up. It's just like. 47 00:04:31.580 --> 00:04:38.830 Paul Klein: you know, it's like you're in your you're in your go gear. And it was really fun to even practice in this before we actually got to Poland. 48 00:04:39.510 --> 00:04:47.109 Gianna Kreider: Yeah, they they gave us a lot of options, too, which was nice, you know. Tanks, different styles of shorts, T-shirts, like it was a really nice. 49 00:04:47.180 --> 00:04:50.149 Gianna Kreider: you know, variety of gear that we could choose from. So it was really awesome. 50 00:04:50.150 --> 00:05:14.440 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, we worked hard with them. And they they've been such a great partner. And I'm happy with that. You guys are happy because we worked really hard on the you know, the aesthetic of the design, and trying to figure out what are the options, what options can we give people that are reasonable to lift in, but that will also give them choices, because, you know, some of us like lifting and tank tops. Some of us don't. Some of us like little itty bitty shorts, some of us, don't. 51 00:05:14.440 --> 00:05:31.590 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You know everybody? Everybody's a little bit different. And and Virus was fantastic as partners working with us, and they took what I will say was basically like stick figure sketches of of what I thought. You know, concepts from the uniform that I kind of threw together in Conva. And I was like, here's an idea of some mockups, and they're like, Oh, cool! Let me have an actual designer work. 52 00:05:31.816 --> 00:05:39.750 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So they they put it together with a real spec and everything and all. And it was it was great. So and they they turned out. They turned out, really, really sharp looking, I think. 53 00:05:39.750 --> 00:05:41.210 Ayden Jones: They are fantastic. 54 00:05:41.210 --> 00:05:44.989 Paul Klein: They feel great, too. They feel great, which I really thought was the big difference. Yeah. 55 00:05:44.990 --> 00:05:46.366 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, super. They, they're. 56 00:05:46.710 --> 00:05:47.880 Ayden Jones: So in all conditions. 57 00:05:47.880 --> 00:06:03.220 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Quality, such high quality on their stuff. Like I I love, I love their especially their shorts. Their compression. Shorts, I think, are are the are the best available. I gotta get one of. I gotta get one of the shirts. But like I was gonna re, I was gonna go buy some of the stuff, and then I was like, should I buy it if I didn't qualify as somebody. 58 00:06:03.460 --> 00:06:03.940 Ayden Jones: It's okay. 59 00:06:03.940 --> 00:06:30.479 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And a coach like should I actually buy it? But I'm going to buy some. I wanted to make sure that the athletes had it first, st but you can still get the USA collection for anybody that's interested. I'll put the link in the episode notes. You can still get the Akl USA collection directly from the virus website, and they print to order and ship it to you directly, which is fantastic as well, because then it's easier on the planet, and we don't carry. They don't carry a whole bunch of extra inventory. It's kind of print. It's kind of print to order. So 60 00:06:30.757 --> 00:06:51.859 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: if you guys, if you guys want it, we'll we'll put it in there. And there's a there's a discount code, a 10% discount for Aklu members. And the team actually got an an extra special 30 discount from from from virus for anything extra above the sponsored provided uniforms that they wanted so big, shout out to to virus, thank you very much for your for your guys partnership on this. 61 00:06:52.090 --> 00:07:19.880 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So with that, I want to get into a little bit about worlds itself. How did you guys feel when you showed up in Poland? Traveling internationally? To go compete at the highest level is one of the biggest challenges that this sport provides right? Because it's always. This is a hard enough sport when you show up at the gym that's just on the street or in your garage, or whatever, but traveling across the world. How did you guys deal with the challenges of traveling across the world? To then go compete. 62 00:07:22.220 --> 00:07:23.569 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Paul, you go first.st 63 00:07:23.570 --> 00:07:35.494 Paul Klein: Okay. Thanks. I. You know the for I I have 1 1 of these worlds under my belt. I mean, I've lifted it worlds 3 times, actually. And once was, it was here in with it here in the Us. It wasn't wksf 64 00:07:36.176 --> 00:07:57.389 Paul Klein: but so I'm used used to being around. You know, a lot of other athletes. And it really, it's special, you know, when you see lectures from other countries, it's it's incredibly special. And you realize how what a wide community there is through the world, you know, throughout the world. But getting to and going to Hungary last year 65 00:07:57.640 --> 00:07:58.773 Paul Klein: was really 66 00:08:00.072 --> 00:08:27.159 Paul Klein: It was. It was exciting. Because you're going to another country. And you know, and English is not gonna be the 1st language. I mean all these things that that would happen with any traveler you know, going outside North America. And I have to say just the specialness of being at a certain place for this sport was really meaningful. You know, I I think because I had the experience. Last year I started my training 67 00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:28.730 Paul Klein: 30 weeks out. 68 00:08:28.940 --> 00:08:53.349 Paul Klein: and you know you don't have to go super hard. But you do have to get started right, and you have to have that you have to have that presence of mind to say that, hey, this workout is gonna matter. This is gonna be a a foundation. So laying, putting those layers down of of all this work, you know, showing up. It was like, you know, Hey, I I'm already ready. It's really about what's the adventure gonna happen in the airport, you know, and I know that 69 00:08:53.350 --> 00:09:15.989 Paul Klein: every single person on our team had at least one story about. You know I missed my flight by 3 min to to get to Jeff from Munich, and so I spent 12 h in the Munich airport, doing pushups and air squats and hanging out at a you know, hanging out of the sports bar and trying to find a salad, you know. So but then, when you get with your you get with your teammates and stuff. 70 00:09:15.990 --> 00:09:41.660 Paul Klein: you know whether they're local or not. You just feel this love and compassion for each other, and you know that they did the work that you did, you know. And there is this. There is this, you know, simpatico, I think that just, you know, just gels when you get together and and a and it's incredible. It's such an incredible feeling. And you just I don't know about my my teammates here, but I just felt like 71 00:09:42.010 --> 00:09:45.079 Paul Klein: it was all worth it, like every minute 72 00:09:45.130 --> 00:09:56.290 Paul Klein: of training in a garage, even when it was 16 degrees was worth this showing up here. So it was a tremendous experience. 73 00:09:57.550 --> 00:10:03.459 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Nice love it, Aiden, what about you? What were what were some of your favorite parts for for traveling to to Poland? 74 00:10:03.700 --> 00:10:16.520 Ayden Jones: Oh, man, yeah, I you know I just love traveling in general. I love seeing new stuff checking out new places seeing how people live day to day I got there early, so I got to see the city for a couple of days. 75 00:10:16.520 --> 00:10:16.889 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh no! 76 00:10:16.890 --> 00:10:19.009 Ayden Jones: Few nights sleep. So 77 00:10:19.372 --> 00:10:40.879 Ayden Jones: you know I've had, you know, kind of back to what Paul was saying. You know. Intention, you know every intention that I had for the last year was placed towards going there and doing that thing, and so getting there early, seeing the beautiful little city, it just kind of all felt like home before I even had to go compete. So I tried to make it as comfortable as I could, and I think it worked out. 78 00:10:41.361 --> 00:10:49.230 Ayden Jones: You know the the Poland was was awesome. The people were awesome. Everybody was super helpful, you know, trying to get me out of the airport so. 79 00:10:49.490 --> 00:10:49.750 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: 3. 80 00:10:49.750 --> 00:10:54.509 Ayden Jones: And it was I mean, it was really cool. So I I mean, I I enjoyed the country. 81 00:10:54.930 --> 00:10:59.036 Ayden Jones: enjoyed the people, enjoyed the food. Yeah. Enjoyed the coffee shops 82 00:10:59.500 --> 00:11:08.689 Ayden Jones: went to the wrong university 3 days early. But you know that's why I got there to explore. So it's just it was so much fun. Man it was. It was cool. 83 00:11:08.880 --> 00:11:11.710 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's awesome. And and how many people live in Sheshav. 84 00:11:12.890 --> 00:11:13.801 Ayden Jones: That's a great question. 85 00:11:14.030 --> 00:11:18.270 Paul Klein: I think it's about a hundred 50,000. I think it's about a hundred 50,000. 86 00:11:18.270 --> 00:11:19.660 Gianna Kreider: Pretty good. Size. City. Yeah. 87 00:11:19.660 --> 00:11:41.139 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Okay, Aiden said. A little city which you know, that's relative to what you're used to. Right? So for some people, when you say a little city that can mean like 50,000 people. For some people's like, Oh, that's like a million people is a little city depending on where your context what your context is. And I had no idea I'm glad. Some. I'm glad somebody knew. Otherwise we were gonna Google, it live. How about you, Gianna, how how did you? How did you find the experience. 88 00:11:41.500 --> 00:12:05.229 Gianna Kreider: Oh, I was just gonna talk a little bit about the challenges of the travel right? Going back to what you're saying. It's you kind of have to get in the mental game, of how many days early do I get there to adjust my body to the time schedule right and to the eating schedules and all that kind of stuff, and then, you know, Jezov is not a major city, so it, you know, for, like me, I flew into Krakow first, st and then you have to figure out, okay, now, how do I get to the smaller city that we're competing in? 89 00:12:05.390 --> 00:12:35.369 Gianna Kreider: And just, you know, just trying to find some people went and found Gyms like, did the research, and looked into where they could go get a training session in for a day or so, or we found a hotel that had a sauna for helping with recovery. So it's just, I think those mental things of figuring out for you and your body how to get best prepared, and then also weather conditions. Right? I live in Las Vegas. I'm not used to humidity at all, so you're trying to get there and be like, all right, how bad is this going to be? How much chalk do I actually need for this competition? So it's just a lot of 90 00:12:35.710 --> 00:12:42.449 Gianna Kreider: getting your body used to what the conditions are going to be like, because you have no idea until you step up there on that platform, right? So. 91 00:12:42.450 --> 00:12:53.659 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, for sure, and that that is honestly something like the humidity is not something I would have. I would have thought of, because I live in the Midwest, and we have humidity all the time. So, like, you know, I'm surrounded by lakes, so I've always got. 92 00:12:53.660 --> 00:12:56.130 Ayden Jones: That's an advantage. That's a training advantage. Yep. 93 00:12:56.130 --> 00:13:12.540 Gianna Kreider: Was a challenge for me with the 30 cause I barely use any chalk I don't use. I don't have someone chalk me. So it was an interesting experience to have to actually have someone come out and do chalking for me mid-set, because it's just something I didn't practice like, how do you do that when you live in the desert right. 94 00:13:12.540 --> 00:13:14.810 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah and well, and who was your chalk? Sherpa. 95 00:13:15.065 --> 00:13:26.549 Gianna Kreider: So Stacy the other. She's from Las Vegas. She was competing as well. So she and then Patchen also did. He chalked my bell the 1st day, but she was my chalk sheriff for the 10 and 20 min mark on the 30 set, so. 96 00:13:26.550 --> 00:13:53.199 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Nice. That's that's fantastic. And I didn't. I didn't ask you guys about about your results. But let's let's let's talk about that. How did you guys feel about your own individual sets? Because, you know, you all talked about the challenges of of travel? Certainly as part of it. And then there's a lot of adjustment to new venue, new bells, new country, new food, and all of those things. How did you feel about your? The results from your sets, John, I'll start with you since you've gone last time. 97 00:13:54.500 --> 00:13:55.520 Gianna Kreider: I mean it. 98 00:13:55.580 --> 00:14:21.690 Gianna Kreider: I feel like we all talked about it, and you do about 10 less of what you expect at worlds. And it's just, I think you you don't know like it's a different bell that you haven't used right. It's you know, some of them are super slick right because they buy these brand new bells. So you're having to. You know, we bring sandpaper. We bring our chalk we like try and get this bell to a position that we're used to in training. But you still get up there, and it's like it's hot. The judges 99 00:14:21.690 --> 00:14:41.940 Gianna Kreider: are. They're tough, you know. If you're not right on point. They're they're slowing you down. They're calling you to hold. They're giving you no counts like it's it's brutal. When you get up there, and you're just trying to like hang in there and figure it out. But my results. I was happy with them. They weren't Prs, but they were enough to win me 2 golds, so I'll take it. 100 00:14:41.940 --> 00:14:53.280 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: There we go. Yeah, we'll definitely take 2 golds. I feel like there's like a it's almost like you should in your head have 2 separate standards like normal Prs, and then, like international travel Prs, and only switch that. 101 00:14:53.280 --> 00:14:53.700 Gianna Kreider: Like. 102 00:14:53.700 --> 00:14:56.690 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Your normal Pr is under normal circumstances. Then, like what you do. 103 00:14:56.690 --> 00:14:57.060 Gianna Kreider: Yeah. 104 00:14:57.060 --> 00:15:14.893 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: We are for international competition with travel, right like between the judging standards and the the effect of traveling halfway across the world like, I feel like there's just gonna be a slightly slightly lower output. Aiden, how did you find your 224 long cycle set? And 105 00:15:15.230 --> 00:15:15.990 Ayden Jones: Oh, yeah. 106 00:15:15.990 --> 00:15:18.190 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: A 10 min, a 10 min! Snatch that I assume. 107 00:15:18.530 --> 00:15:24.129 Ayden Jones: Yes, 10 min. Snatch with the 24. Yeah. The long cycle set was brutal. Man. You know, as day one. 108 00:15:24.745 --> 00:15:25.360 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: All. 109 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:55.129 Ayden Jones: Yeah, you know what? That's a really good point. Yeah, it's no fun. If the 24 is a plus set. So yeah, it was really tough. The bells were a little bit slick. I found them a little bit more comfortable than I tried to. I have some really crappy bells here. I won't say the name brand, but they are not great, so I've been training religiously with them, and I think it really helped, because I found the bells kind of comfortable, but the handles were pretty slick, and I had a really tough time maintaining chalk due to the 110 00:15:55.200 --> 00:16:10.349 Ayden Jones: condition. So it was not good. I it was not good at all, but nobody else had a good day either, so I wound up, taking 4th place on that which was amazing cause it was the lowest rep count. I've ever gotten on a supposed to be 10 min set, so that was pretty humbling. 111 00:16:10.450 --> 00:16:11.349 Ayden Jones: or you might. 112 00:16:11.350 --> 00:16:15.329 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Do you mind sharing what it was? And you said supposed to be? Does that mean you weren't able to finish the time. 113 00:16:15.330 --> 00:16:41.153 Ayden Jones: No, I made it about 6 and a half minutes, and I I got a multiple. No counts for fixation. I I failed to clean the bells I had to reg on during the acceleration pull, and so I failed to clean the bell. Since our drop back down for a second swing. And you're supposed to be yeah. Supposed to stop set. So I got 39 repetitions on that in 6 and a half minutes, which? Yeah, which was rough man, that was. 114 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:46.190 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That is really rough. That is one of the challenges of international rules and the international. 115 00:16:46.190 --> 00:16:46.660 Ayden Jones: Yeah, judge, yeah. 116 00:16:46.660 --> 00:17:01.310 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Standards right? Like that. Second, that second swing. That second swing is an automatic stop set, unfortunately. And that's yeah. That's that's really hard. How did you? How did you mentally recover from that? For for your snatch set. 117 00:17:01.972 --> 00:17:16.889 Ayden Jones: I went in there with the mindset that the that was just a side dish, and I was kind of a you know side quest. I didn't care, one way or the other how I went, but I needed to beat my previous score from last year, because last year in Hungary. I competed solely in the long cycle 118 00:17:17.403 --> 00:17:39.289 Ayden Jones: and and I had what I considered a subpar set there as well. Compared to my previous trainings and qualifications. So it was just me trying to beat me. And I didn't do it. And I was like, that's okay. You're a pretty tough opponent. So let's just go on to the next thing, and then, you know, we just kind of washed it and then fix my mind. I'm getting ready for the snatch set, so 119 00:17:39.565 --> 00:17:58.540 Ayden Jones: Was able to hit for 165 in the full 10 min in the snap set. Had a shoot out at the last last minute there with a gentleman from Poland, and we went rep for rep, for the finish. Took a no count on 1 65 with 5 seconds left, so went up and did another one, and then they counted the last one 120 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:02.279 Ayden Jones: and took the W. 1, 65 to 1, 64. 121 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:04.160 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Nice! Alright! Alright! So. 122 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:18.799 Gianna Kreider: That was the most exciting set. I think of the entire Comp. And you could. I think you could still watch it. I think the streams are still up if you can find it and set. But it was 3 or 4 of them that were slowly dropping out at the last minute minute and a half, and it was a great set. 123 00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:32.209 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So I was just I was just gonna ask like, so when did you aiden on the platform realize that you were in a shootout like? When did? When did you know? When did? When did it stop being about your set? And then you started being aware that you were kind of in a race for 1st place with somebody else. 124 00:18:32.748 --> 00:18:58.319 Ayden Jones: It was. It was actually after patchen set his bell down because he's I know he's a super solid competitor, and he's so consistent, and I had an idea of where everybody was at. There was a few times where I had to rest overhead and kinda check the clock, and you know, figure out what my next plan was gonna be for the next 2 or 3 min. So I I had a rough idea. But I couldn't see the guy on the far end, so I couldn't. I had really no clue where he was. 125 00:18:58.520 --> 00:18:58.920 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Many platforms. 126 00:18:58.920 --> 00:18:59.260 Ayden Jones: Where is? 127 00:18:59.260 --> 00:19:00.490 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Like platforms running. 128 00:19:01.626 --> 00:19:09.823 Ayden Jones: Yeah, they had. They had 8, but I think there were 6 or 7 in this. I think there were 6 in the snatch set. So we were kind of spaced out. 129 00:19:10.380 --> 00:19:21.230 Ayden Jones: so yeah, I couldn't see where he was at. And you know, once Patchen set his down and I kind of took a quick glance, and you know, I saw where he was at compared to where I was at. And I was like, Okay, well, I think I've got a chance, because 130 00:19:21.290 --> 00:19:28.870 Ayden Jones: I don't know if anybody can go much faster than this, because everybody else has already dropped out and my hands are hurting real bad, so I must be close. 131 00:19:28.990 --> 00:19:41.450 Ayden Jones: And then when we got to the minute, Mark, it didn't really matter to me. So I was like, I just got to get as many as I can. I don't think I ever realized it was a shootout until the very end, and then I looked over, and we're like holy shit. 132 00:19:41.450 --> 00:19:47.840 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, that's gotta be a great feeling to realize that you edge somebody by one rep, especially when you just had a no count. And you're like. 133 00:19:47.840 --> 00:19:48.280 Ayden Jones: Yeah. 134 00:19:48.280 --> 00:19:55.650 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I can get one more up, and then that ends up being the difference between gold and silver or tying. I don't know what they do in it in the event of a tie. I'm assuming. 135 00:19:55.650 --> 00:19:58.980 Ayden Jones: Yeah, it goes. Yeah. Covid. 136 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:03.800 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's that is, I'm glad you got that. I'm glad you got that that one extra rough. You. 137 00:20:04.040 --> 00:20:05.050 Ayden Jones: It was cool. Man. Yeah. 138 00:20:05.050 --> 00:20:09.140 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You you did the the 1 65 so well, you had to do it twice. 139 00:20:09.320 --> 00:20:10.426 Ayden Jones: Yeah, exactly. 140 00:20:10.980 --> 00:20:16.939 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: The winning rep to make sure you got it. That's awesome, Paul. How about how about you? How was your how are your sets. 141 00:20:17.396 --> 00:20:26.289 Paul Klein: Before I start with that I want. I want to say something that is kind of undocumented, and that is when you're backstage with your crew. You get to watch 142 00:20:26.420 --> 00:20:30.580 Paul Klein: who who makes it to the platform, and you not only get to see who makes it. 143 00:20:30.610 --> 00:20:47.115 Paul Klein: but you get to see how it affected them, and Aiden's was the best I in, you know, like Johnny said, that set was so exciting. I I had to run out front and watch that. My, you know my training partner, Patchen, was out there, and Course Aid, you know. Aiden's. 144 00:20:47.750 --> 00:21:07.830 Paul Klein: you know, a friend and teammate of mine, so I'm cheering for everybody here. And so when I was backstage when we we were in our presentation block, I'm like, I know who it's again. I know who it's among, and so I'm watching people, and I've never seen Aidan move so fast as when his name was called 145 00:21:07.830 --> 00:21:33.420 Paul Klein: for gold to go to the platform he was beyond pumped. He's a pretty! He's a pretty mellow cat, Aidan is, but he took off there like he was shot out of a rifle and made his way to the platform. And that was just really thrilling to watch. So I just wanted to document that here on the podcast I felt fantastic about my set. 146 00:21:33.420 --> 00:21:40.269 Paul Klein: Jordan, you'd mentioned international and Internet, you know, national and international prs. Well, I haven't. I have a 147 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:50.720 Paul Klein: I have a new set, and it's pre cancer and post cancer. I had was diagnosed with cancer 2 years ago. And I'm cancer free. I've been cancer free for almost 2 years now, completely. So. Thank you. 148 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:51.450 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, yeah. 149 00:21:51.450 --> 00:22:18.994 Paul Klein: This pump there. I really appreciate that exactly. Exactly. That last year was my was, my, was my fucked cancer tour. It was my fuck off cancer tour. I'm not ashamed to say. And so, getting to the platform last year in Hungary and Hood Mezivashere, you know, talk about cities that are hard to pronounce. I practice the heck out of saying that. But you know, just getting onto the platform was it was everything. And I 150 00:22:19.650 --> 00:22:36.169 Paul Klein: you know, for the long cycle I got I got 56 last year, and that felt really good. It just felt like a win to be on the platform, and then snatch is my jam, and I knew that snatch I would do. I would represent myself well, and I got silver last year and in in my age category. It's challenging because 151 00:22:37.110 --> 00:22:49.230 Paul Klein: you just can't figure it out. When you get on the platform. I mean, you can go one to one and stuff. But my, I go across a lot of different age category weight categories, in fact, in long cycle. My, the guy who was lifting with me. 152 00:22:49.400 --> 00:23:05.100 Paul Klein: He, Petro. He's 20 kilos heavier than me, so I can't do that kind of math on the platform, and then I realize it's like, don't get sucked into the game. Just be yourself. And I got 10 more reps this year than I did last year, and that felt like a huge win 153 00:23:05.405 --> 00:23:28.914 Paul Klein: they all felt like a huge win. And then for snatch, I got silver last year, and that kind of left me just like a little bit, you know a little as as our different dearly departed friend Adrian would say. It put a pebble in my shoe, it put a pebble in my shoe, and and this year i i i succeed, really succeeded, and I got 211 snatches in 10 min. 154 00:23:29.220 --> 00:23:32.399 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Fast as you can go at an international competition and get them all counted. 155 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:33.260 Paul Klein: Yeah, I felt. 156 00:23:33.260 --> 00:23:35.250 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: 20 plus rpms is fast, I mean. 157 00:23:35.250 --> 00:23:38.425 Paul Klein: I felt super strong. I felt super strong, and I and I told. 158 00:23:38.670 --> 00:23:39.199 Ayden Jones: That's magic! 159 00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:40.020 Paul Klein: And. 160 00:23:40.020 --> 00:23:43.370 Gianna Kreider: Oh, you left on the best part you did 7 min on your right hand. 161 00:23:43.370 --> 00:23:44.849 Paul Klein: I did 7 min on my right. 162 00:23:45.770 --> 00:23:46.690 Ayden Jones: So. 163 00:23:47.610 --> 00:23:48.679 Paul Klein: Like you for bringing that up. 164 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:49.450 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Was that was that. 165 00:23:49.642 --> 00:23:50.220 Gianna Kreider: Feel it up. 166 00:23:50.220 --> 00:23:56.910 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Because you started on your left, and you needed to switch earlier? Or was that because you started right and just went as deep as you could on your, on your stronger hand. 167 00:23:56.910 --> 00:24:08.699 Paul Klein: I went to town I went to town. It's that's like my. I've developed that strategy over the last 3 years, and it really has paid off for me. If I've got. I do not want to leave 20 reps a minute in my strong arm 168 00:24:08.810 --> 00:24:24.009 Paul Klein: ever, and you know one approach is courses. And you know, this is I mean, it just depends on the lifter, right? But but in my case I'm like, I don't wanna leave that in the tank, and so if I can get to, if I'm under 19 reps a minute, I'll switch. 169 00:24:24.060 --> 00:24:33.413 Paul Klein: And I never fell underneath that. So, and I went 7, and you know all my best sets have been. I've gone 6 and a half or more on the right side. So 170 00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:37.647 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I love that as a strategy, actually, because it's it is a 171 00:24:37.980 --> 00:24:39.360 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: objective. 172 00:24:39.623 --> 00:24:58.369 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It's not. It's not subjective, based on how your hand feels or anything like that, like it's not cause. That's a mental thing. You can. You can. You can convince yourself that it's time to switch, and maybe you had, you could go a lot deeper. But you have an objective like, okay, I'm starting with my stronger hand, and I'm hold. I'm staying with it as long as I can sustain X pace. 173 00:24:58.370 --> 00:25:20.469 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I'm staying there right? And until until that happens I'm not going to my weaker hand, and I think that's a that's a really interesting. You're the 1st person I've heard have that strategy with that particular auto regulation parameter. That is an objective parameter which I actually really freaking love because it's something that you can. You can say, Okay, I I fell off of 20. Now it's time. Now it's time for me to switch, and you switch to your other hand. 174 00:25:20.470 --> 00:25:30.040 Paul Klein: Yeah, I have to say, I learned this with the 24. You know my best 24 was 170 reps, which is not bad, you know. For 10 min. And 175 00:25:30.340 --> 00:25:53.560 Paul Klein: I when, as I was re-watching that set, this is back in 2,019, I saw that my pace had had sunk to 1415, and I thought, jeez I didn't have a prayer to come out of this one with some good numbers. So you know. That's when I began thinking about. Hey? Let's look at what's the what are the Rpms? Right? What am I? What are my you know my reps per minute gonna be. 176 00:25:53.560 --> 00:26:08.430 Paul Klein: And so that that got me you know, into that into that tactical mindset when I'm going into a competition. It's like, Hey, well, this is how I'm gonna you know, carry my carry myself into the set. And this way I was just I just knew you know how he's gonna go about it. 177 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:22.589 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Nice. I love that. You guys, you guys all kind of alluded to it at at various points. That that you really focused on yourself rather than than other people than other people on the platform, or or anything like that? 178 00:26:22.660 --> 00:26:33.269 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Do you find that to be the the best mindset for you to get the most out of your sets is to not be competing against somebody else. But to really just focus on what, on what you can control. And why is that. 179 00:26:34.490 --> 00:26:36.380 Paul Klein: Start off. Here, yeah. Go ahead, Johnny, go ahead. 180 00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:44.439 Gianna Kreider: I would say, I think, especially in worlds, because, like we talked about earlier, you have to have 2 numbers in mind. It's like your personal best, but also your world's best. 181 00:26:44.530 --> 00:27:07.990 Gianna Kreider: And I think you just have to focus on that right because there's a lot of things it's like, Paul was saying earlier. Some are coefficient, based. So you have no idea if the most reps are even going to win you the medal, you may not be competing with all of the people in your class. So you have no idea even looking at other people's. If someone in the next flight is going to beat you right? So I think, really, mentally, it's just about how many 182 00:27:07.990 --> 00:27:21.070 Gianna Kreider: numbers can I put up on that board? Can I beat my own personal best? Can I hit the markers that I want? And I kind of like, for my sense was just like a reps per minute, just like Paul was. It's like if I can hit this many reps per minute 183 00:27:21.080 --> 00:27:33.180 Gianna Kreider: and not be tired like that's the goal, and just get as far as I can, and then you just have to change strategy. Obviously, when you get tired and stuff. But I think it's just yeah working with your own personal best and not really 184 00:27:33.210 --> 00:27:36.090 Gianna Kreider: trying to figure out if you're gonna be the winner at that point. 185 00:27:37.810 --> 00:27:38.700 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What about you, Paul? 186 00:27:39.210 --> 00:27:45.114 Paul Klein: Yeah that. I think it's a great way of putting it that Gianna did, because it does. You do have to go? 187 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:55.970 Paul Klein: Is. That's where your confidence was built. Right? It was. That's how you. That's how you trained right? So to go there and do something completely different. You're really putting yourself at a huge disadvantage. 188 00:27:55.970 --> 00:28:00.752 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I've got a picture up of you. Now I'm gonna be like, I gotta hit 2. I gotta hit 2 10 plus. 189 00:28:01.247 --> 00:28:25.100 Paul Klein: Alright! Alright! That's cool. I don't mind doing that. But I and I and it was interesting, because in the past I man, I would really just beat myself up during my sets, especially 2 arm long cycles. Snatch is a different matter. Snatch feels such like a natural thing to me that I feel like I've developed my own mindset, and I really do stay in it. And you know you can tell when you have a shootout with somebody. And it's fun. 190 00:28:25.110 --> 00:28:52.185 Paul Klein: I mean, honestly, it's fun. It's like we're both pushing ourselves. But in long cycle I have to do this in my training, because, Patchen, he lives faster than I do, and he and I lift a lot together, and when I look over at him out of my right eye. I realize that, you know. you know, 2 months into our training. I'm like, Okay, this is me training for somebody's going faster than me, and I'm not playing that game because I can't, because I can't. 191 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:53.499 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: He's heavier than you, too. 192 00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:55.449 Paul Klein: Yeah, he's a lot heavier than me, but you know. 193 00:28:55.450 --> 00:28:56.280 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And think about. 194 00:28:56.280 --> 00:28:57.179 Paul Klein: Yeah, pretty much. 195 00:28:57.180 --> 00:28:57.910 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And ourselves, but. 196 00:28:57.910 --> 00:29:14.570 Paul Klein: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. But he's, you know, if he's even if he's lived in 20 fours and I'm lifting 16 s. You know. Theoretically we should be close to one another. But that's not the case. He's better at that lift than I am. I think he has better way, better technique than I do. But given that, having said that 197 00:29:14.978 --> 00:29:32.539 Paul Klein: you know my! My! My my comrade Petro to my left. I was looking at his number, and I realized that, hey, Paul, this is a mistake. You stay in your minute. You stay in your minute, and so that's all I did throughout my set. I just stayed in my minute and I focused on my technique. 198 00:29:32.800 --> 00:29:39.189 Paul Klein: And it was interesting, because when I did, eventually my eyes came up, and I looked at the clock instead of 199 00:29:39.290 --> 00:29:45.990 Paul Klein: Oh, God! I have to hang on for 8 more minutes. It was oh, I have time for more reps. 200 00:29:46.940 --> 00:30:14.560 Paul Klein: I, and that so clearly came across my mind and my body, and it let me relax, you know. Let me relax, and I really enjoy. I had enjoyed the heck out of that set, I mean 10 reps more than I did last year feels like a gigantic win, and and and then now I found out. I found out I went, and I looked at the world records. I missed the world record by one I missed the world record by one. So. 201 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:24.278 Paul Klein: But this is a blessing, because now you know what the next 12 months of my existence is dedicated to. It's getting that record at my weight class. 202 00:30:24.620 --> 00:30:25.810 Ayden Jones: Sure. That's right. 203 00:30:25.810 --> 00:30:29.310 Paul Klein: Getting that record getting that record. So anyway. 204 00:30:29.310 --> 00:30:34.620 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I love it. That's awesome. Aiden. How how about you? How did how did you? You, you. 205 00:30:34.730 --> 00:30:35.560 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you know. 206 00:30:35.710 --> 00:30:50.240 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: had the challenge of not being able to finish the time on on long cycle, just due to a 1 bad one. Bad rep, right? But yeah, but you you you also found yourself in in a in a shootout. So how did how did you? How did you stay in the pocket there? Mentally. 207 00:30:51.110 --> 00:31:10.860 Ayden Jones: I think Paul mentioned it when he said, Stay in your minute. There's so many things going on. There's so many things to think about. Your mind is going so many different places. You're looking at clocks. You're looking at the judge. Your heart rate's high. You're trying to breathe. Your elbows got to be in the right spot. Your hand needs to catch like. There's so many things. 208 00:31:11.020 --> 00:31:38.659 Ayden Jones: If you allow all of that information to take over you, then you get slowly crushed by that weight, and then, if you can keep yourself in a positive mindset and stay focused on your technique, on your breath, on your minute. Then you find that these minutes go by much quicker, because you are focused on each moment instead of each minute or each block of time, you know. So I find that if you can slow yourself down 209 00:31:38.660 --> 00:31:48.230 Ayden Jones: when you're in the set that helps a lot. And then when you get out of the set. It's just going back to the most basic thing that all Athletes need to be able to do and 210 00:31:48.280 --> 00:31:49.260 Ayden Jones: not 211 00:31:49.760 --> 00:32:01.789 Ayden Jones: put your self worth on your performance, and understand that you, as an athlete, are not your last performance or your best performance, or your worst performance. You are your next performance. 212 00:32:02.175 --> 00:32:09.219 Ayden Jones: So you have to be able to set that aside, and, you know, go to the next play, you know. That's 213 00:32:09.310 --> 00:32:23.400 Ayden Jones: it's always been a thing growing up in team sports, you know, next play next play. So that's just you know where I had to stay. And I was lucky to have that background. I'm used to going to the next play, and I'm not used to winning all the time. So having a 214 00:32:23.670 --> 00:32:28.929 Ayden Jones: having a loss is not a big deal because I get an another opportunity, and that really excites me. 215 00:32:29.210 --> 00:32:46.519 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I love that I and I love the I love the stay in your minute as a as a mantra, Paul, I'm stealing that. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna come right out and say, I'm gonna I'm totally gonna steal that with some of my cause I love. I love that perspective right. Stay where your feet are, focus on what you can control in time. Block, how do? How do you guys 216 00:32:46.870 --> 00:33:11.570 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: mentally prepare yourself because you've obviously done a ton of work physically to prepare your bodies. And you talked about that, that laying the foundation and building and building upon that. But one of the things that you've all alluded to and have articulated in your own ways is the mental side of the game, and how that's really the hardest part is staying in the right mindset. How do you practice that in your training in preparing yourself, not just physically, but mentally. 217 00:33:15.630 --> 00:33:21.849 Ayden Jones: I think sometimes managing or mismanaging your conditions on purpose can help you with that, you know. 218 00:33:21.850 --> 00:33:22.990 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Tell me more, not. 219 00:33:22.990 --> 00:33:30.740 Ayden Jones: Not putting chalk on your your hands if you're used to it or not. Chalk in your bell, if you're used to it, not wearing your belt. If you're used to it. 220 00:33:30.950 --> 00:33:32.140 Ayden Jones: you know you can. 221 00:33:32.140 --> 00:33:34.340 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Additional introduction of adversity. 222 00:33:34.340 --> 00:33:41.740 Ayden Jones: Yeah, you you can set yourself up for that. You can do a bunch of really hard cardio before you start your super easy. 4 min set. 223 00:33:41.870 --> 00:33:50.339 Ayden Jones: you know you can. You can challenge yourself in ways that put you in a position that would simulate where you might be if you had a really tough set or 224 00:33:50.410 --> 00:33:53.150 Ayden Jones: well rested, or something like that, so 225 00:33:53.260 --> 00:33:55.119 Ayden Jones: you can try to prepare for that 226 00:33:55.610 --> 00:34:02.840 Ayden Jones: that way. But you know, also, on the mental side of things, too. It puts you in a position where you have to manage your thoughts when your heart rates high. 227 00:34:03.315 --> 00:34:09.699 Ayden Jones: Sometimes just having a really crap day helps to, because then you have to actually deal with 228 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:11.980 Ayden Jones: with your own emotions and figure out. 229 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:18.760 Ayden Jones: you know why you're feeling that way. If you're if you're feeling bad about yourself or about your set. And that could help, too, because now you gotta dig. 230 00:34:20.530 --> 00:34:29.990 Paul Klein: I wanna I wanna glob onto that Patchen did this intentionally. You know, he was really thinking ahead about. By the way, Patchen's nickname is Chalk Monster. 231 00:34:30.139 --> 00:34:55.399 Paul Klein: Just so, you know. So Gianna had chalk monster helping out with it. Besides, Stacy, I know that Stacy's good at this the chalk monster. But Patrick was was talking to me about last year, and he said, You know, just showing up. And with these different bells they're just balanced different than the ones we trained in. And so he intentionally went and got a set of Kettlebells that are older. They're older style. They're the handles are a little more narrow. 232 00:34:55.400 --> 00:35:12.641 Paul Klein: and the balance is not the best right. The balance is not the best. I think you know. A lot of us are finding that the that the pro Kettlebell is a really great bell, and it's, you know, it's balanced really well, and it really does support, you know, high rep high reps, and it keeps you from getting hurt. 233 00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:17.463 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Fantastic. It's great to drive a it's great to drive a Ferrari. But how do you show up and race a go-kart. 234 00:35:17.670 --> 00:35:26.011 Paul Klein: Exactly so like, Aiden was saying. This is what Patchen wanted to do. He wanted to introduce this intentional adversity. And so that's what we did in the gym. 235 00:35:26.470 --> 00:35:54.560 Paul Klein: and that really does prepare yourself for your you know, for your sets, for your you know, mentally. And we did. We did. We lifted in the garage when it was 15 degrees one day, and then it was 16 degrees the next day, and I I looked over at him, and I'm like this is Valley Forge, baby. This is Valley Forge mindset and A. A. And our our dearly departed friend Adrian used to talk about this all the time. Used to talk about Valley Forge, about Valley Forge, and how you know, it's just a 236 00:35:54.710 --> 00:36:01.000 Paul Klein: you just go through it. You just do the work right. You just do the work and and you do it. You don't have time to 237 00:36:01.841 --> 00:36:09.779 Paul Klein: don't take the time. Don't indulge in complaining about circumstances that like, yeah, it can be really rough and raw. But 238 00:36:09.780 --> 00:36:33.021 Paul Klein: you're gonna get so much out of making your way through this whatever. If it's a 2 min set, or if it's a 1 min set or a gloved set, you know, you just go and do the work, and and then when you're on the other side of it, you can, you know, kind of give yourself a pat on the back. It's like, Wow, I Ca, I overcame that. I overcame that, and and it really starts. But upstairs, like Aiden was talking about. It's like. 239 00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:39.389 Paul Klein: you know, learning how, learning how to not let that drive us, you know, and just show up and do your work. 240 00:36:40.030 --> 00:36:43.590 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: How about you, Gianna? How do you approach the the mental preparation side of it? 241 00:36:43.820 --> 00:36:52.285 Gianna Kreider: So one of the things that I do is try to learn to tune out all the other noise. Basically. So for me, personally, I'm the crazy person that counts my reps. 242 00:36:52.570 --> 00:36:54.040 Paul Klein: Zogin, mmm. 243 00:36:54.040 --> 00:36:58.960 Gianna Kreider: Staying in the minute I like to go. Okay, this is bitty reps per minute, and I focus on my count. 244 00:36:58.970 --> 00:37:00.700 Gianna Kreider: And if I'm focusing on my calendar. 245 00:37:00.700 --> 00:37:01.640 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: One rep. At a time. 246 00:37:01.640 --> 00:37:09.270 Gianna Kreider: Music. I'm not listening to the crowd noise I'm just focusing. And then I feel like that's how I get on the platform is, I just kind of 247 00:37:09.640 --> 00:37:27.199 Gianna Kreider: blackout. Almost right. I just kind of start. Okay, each rep especially getting through 30 right? I have to. It's minute minute minute. Because if I'm not doing that minute minute minute, I'm like I got 20 min left like what this is going to be. But I wanted to touch on something else with the mental part, too, is when you get no counted in a competition. 248 00:37:27.300 --> 00:37:45.009 Gianna Kreider: being able to recover from that mentally, and not let it beat you up and get you down, because I saw that happen to a lot of people on the platform. They start getting no counted, and they just get so frustrated, and they just want to give up because they don't understand what's happening. And I think it's all about taking a breath. 249 00:37:45.140 --> 00:38:10.729 Gianna Kreider: resetting. If it's a 30 min set, maybe just changing hands and like trying to figure out, because for me, it happened my judge wanted me to stay in the overhead longer. She just wanted like a solid second of being up there. And if you're not used to that, it's you just have to slow down and you just get it up. You take a breath, you make sure she counts it, and then you just keep going. And it was one of those things of I have to learn how my judge works. 250 00:38:10.730 --> 00:38:16.140 Gianna Kreider: so that I can mentally hit those reps so that they're being counted every single time. 251 00:38:16.690 --> 00:38:34.090 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, that I you 100 hit on something that I think is probably the hardest challenge mentally, in Kettlebell. Sport is getting no accounted in a competition. Because you you have, especially if you came in prepared with a plan. And it's going to plan. And then suddenly, it starts going not to plan, and 252 00:38:34.180 --> 00:38:53.650 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I can only imagine I haven't had the challenge of not being able to interact with my judge or understand what my judge is telling me, because they speak a different language, right like in one of my competitions. And you'd be like fixate overhead longer. Right? You would know exactly what to what you need to do, Gianna, but if I said that in Polish 253 00:38:53.650 --> 00:39:06.649 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you'd be like the fuck. Does he want what you know? Right? So I feel like that. That is such a unique challenge. And it's that's got to be really mentally challenging to to overcome. When you, when you get that in in international competition, especially. 254 00:39:06.650 --> 00:39:34.639 Gianna Kreider: Yeah. And I think Aidan can speak to this because he took the international judges course. But you know each judge there's supposed to be hand signals. They're supposed to be like nonverbal communication to help, you understand. But like every human, sometimes, they just don't get it across. Well, and sometimes you're still like. I don't understand what's going on right now, and like, luckily my judge was very good about telling me, you know, hand signals. So I got what she was saying, but I could tell people getting frustrated because they just 255 00:39:34.640 --> 00:39:43.790 Gianna Kreider: some judges would just hit, not hit the clock or not hit the rep count, and they'd be like, what did I even do like? You don't really know what's going on, and it really is all about 256 00:39:43.790 --> 00:39:52.519 Gianna Kreider: just not letting that affect your performance, and just recalibrating your plan to try and get as many reps and do your best. 257 00:39:53.330 --> 00:40:21.549 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Now, how did you guys support one another as as a team, you know. Cause it's an interesting thing bringing together a national team from all sorts of areas of the country people that are members of different different club teams. Some of them are just training on their own. They don't, you know. They're they're like a 1 man, a 1 man band off in their off in their courage corner in the garage, or whatever. So what is it like bringing everybody together? And what were those kind of team dynamics like when you, when you showed up in in Poland. 258 00:40:24.630 --> 00:40:37.129 Gianna Kreider: So at 1st it's a little weird, because, like a lot of us hadn't met. I know the Seattle. We had quite a few from Seattle, so they all kind of knew each other and had done comps together. But again, it's a tough thing, right, because, especially in us, we have so many different Kettlebell Leagues. 259 00:40:37.130 --> 00:40:58.339 Gianna Kreider: So you do the qualifier. But you know you're doing Iko. You're doing Iukl Wksf. There's so many different places to go compete that we, you know I had never run into Aidan or Paul before, but you get there, and you're all just it's all support again. It's you know, people offering to chalk for each other, all of us showing up early to cheer for each other. You know it's 260 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:25.750 Gianna Kreider: it's tough, because it would be nice to all go out and have beers together before the Comp. But that's not really something we're doing when we're doing an athletic competition, right? So you know, we after the last, when people started being done with their, you know, 3 days, then we were able to go out, have dinners, have a few beers, and really start to bond and like, get to know each other. And and it's great. Now, I mean, I think we're all friends. I just worked out. I was in Seattle last week and worked out with Patchen in his garage, so. 261 00:41:25.750 --> 00:41:26.260 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It's just. 262 00:41:26.260 --> 00:41:27.520 Gianna Kreider: Nice to build 263 00:41:27.560 --> 00:41:34.240 Gianna Kreider: more and more of a kettle book community, as we all start to meet each other and become friends, and really like promote the sport right. 264 00:41:34.240 --> 00:42:03.409 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. And I think to to your point about the the different, the different leagues and and tables and things like that, I will say, and this is, I'm going to be completely honest, total, shameless plug for the work we're trying to do at the Aklu we are. We are trying to unify across the across the organizations. Right? So we're we're trying to work with us. Akl, so that if you qualify at a Usakl event that you qualify for for the U.S.A. Team that competes at the Iukl, that you get reciprocity right. All they have to do is send us the results. 265 00:42:03.540 --> 00:42:26.900 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: and if it meets the standard that that qualifies you for the U.S.A. Team for the Wksf, we'll accept that right because we want to build one cohesive community. We're trying to build the unity table where we're working with Iko, to to try and to try and make sure that we have 1 1 standard table that we can use in the Us like we really want to create one lifting federation, regardless of how many organizations there are that put on competitions 266 00:42:26.900 --> 00:42:50.210 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: that we have one Federation for the Us. That can send teams to represent the Us. Internationally. And we know that we have one United States of America team. Right? That's that's that's the goal. So I hope that we can make more progress towards that. And that's that's what we're trying to do for the Aklu. So I just had to put that little shameless, shameless plug in here for that. But 267 00:42:50.210 --> 00:43:04.399 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I think it's really important, because I think that is, I think what you're talking about. Gianna is one of the challenges of being in such a big country. Right? Is, how do you build unity across this really large, this really large country. But the thing that we all find is like, once you show up on Comp. Day 268 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:15.739 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: doesn't matter right? Like we're we're just ha! We're just happy to find other people that are in our tribe that do the same things that we do, that that want to come up and put out their best performance and represent our country well, and like that that unifies all of us. 269 00:43:16.550 --> 00:43:28.339 Paul Klein: Yeah, we do that. There's also the the moment, too, of the day. But before the competition they have the, we have our our ceremonial walk of nations where everybody gathers, and we have somebody with U.S.A, 270 00:43:28.650 --> 00:43:47.857 Paul Klein: you know, a a banner. There was a drill team that was there young a drill, you know. Drill, team, dance athletes, and they were all they all had our U.S.A. signs, and I mean every single country. Poland. And you could see these, you know, like Poland had a gigantic team. They had a lot of members, but it was really cool to see them 271 00:43:48.140 --> 00:44:06.056 Paul Klein: and then look around and see us. And it's like, Okay, yeah, we're we're we're a team, you know, and it begins to kind. You begin to kind of put things together and go. Oh, okay, yeah. I remember her from, you know, from Vegas, or you know, A, and you begin to just stitch these things together and begin to 272 00:44:06.927 --> 00:44:30.309 Paul Klein: make more room for that, because you are competing as a as a team. Once you get there, once we've all done our midnight fly. I got into Jez off midnight the day before the Wednesday before, or the Tuesday before we started to. You know that competition week and stuff. So you know, we all had our our adventures to get you know, into the country and stuff and just get there. But that's the 1st moment 273 00:44:30.635 --> 00:44:40.094 Paul Klein: where you know. Cause we're doing way ends, too, prior to that. So we begin to see each other in lines and stuff. And it's like, Oh, yeah, here, come on up here, you know. We should weigh in with us, or 274 00:44:40.598 --> 00:45:05.140 Paul Klein: so that it begins to fall together a little bit. But but it's it's challenging, because everybody competes in different events. So you know the way for us to get that unity going is to look at the schedule and say, Okay, when's the 1st Us lifter tomorrow, you know. Let's make sure that we're at the venue at 8 15. So we can support this person's 30 min set or 10 min that. And and there's a you know, a lot of that that goes on 275 00:45:05.783 --> 00:45:10.589 Paul Klein: at the competition, which is very heartening. And yeah, it's really great. 276 00:45:11.370 --> 00:45:15.093 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's awesome. Yeah, I love. I love to. I love to hear that. 277 00:45:15.390 --> 00:45:18.650 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What what advice would you guys have for 278 00:45:18.700 --> 00:45:37.569 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: people that want to qualify for the Us. Team next year or that are just getting into their journey. And they're like, man. This sounds awesome. How do I get to the level where I can compete internationally and represent the Us. What advice would you give to those people that are maybe just getting started or want to get started? Now. 279 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:41.249 Ayden Jones: Oh, man! 1st piece of advice, get a coach. 280 00:45:41.370 --> 00:45:49.500 Ayden Jones: It's a you know. It's a very technical sport, and not not even so much with just the list themselves, but have the progressions. It's not. 281 00:45:49.720 --> 00:46:00.960 Ayden Jones: you know. I pick up weights, I get stronger. It's not I do more swings. I swing for longer like there's a lot that goes into it. So having a coach really changes your 282 00:46:01.170 --> 00:46:07.720 Ayden Jones: insight into your exercises, and that helps provide more purpose for them. And. 283 00:46:07.720 --> 00:46:10.470 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Your who's your coach right now? Aiden? Feel feel free to give a shout out, man. 284 00:46:10.470 --> 00:46:13.939 Ayden Jones: Yeah, yeah. I coach James Ross. He's the Australian. 285 00:46:13.940 --> 00:46:16.719 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: No, no, my my boy James, he's been on the podcast. 286 00:46:16.720 --> 00:46:32.100 Ayden Jones: Yeah, yeah. So James is. James is awesome man. And and I was working with a coach, Michael, son out of Israel prior to that, too, and working with the coaches, drastically changed my trajectory in the sport, and I started the 1st year, and it was just myself, and 287 00:46:32.160 --> 00:46:44.949 Ayden Jones: I was able to qualify and all that. And I didn't even know that was a thing. So after I did that, I was like, Okay, well, maybe I should figure out what this, what I do. I don't know how to do this. I don't even know how to be a Kettlebell sport athlete. 288 00:46:45.454 --> 00:46:52.900 Ayden Jones: So it really helps change your understanding and what's going on and why you're doing it. Their insight is invaluable. 289 00:46:53.140 --> 00:46:58.240 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Nice. So you get a coach is what Aiden's 1st piece of recommendation, Gianna, what about you? What would you say. 290 00:46:58.640 --> 00:47:15.190 Gianna Kreider: I think, focus on one lift for the start, right? One lift that you can qualify with, because, especially if you're kind of 1st getting started, you know. Try all the lifts, see? See what you like the best, and and focus for me. It's long cycle, which is why I was crazy and did it twice. But 291 00:47:15.620 --> 00:47:34.860 Gianna Kreider: you know, I I think it's it's ory like Aiden did pick one that you really really love, and then pick one that you want to just see if you can do it. I think, yeah, just try, you know. Just find one lift that you know you can choose and qualify and then focus on that training to really get the best experience. I think. 292 00:47:35.660 --> 00:47:36.788 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: How about you, Paul? 293 00:47:37.070 --> 00:48:01.900 Paul Klein: Then I would. These are all great pieces of advice. Get a coach, find your find, your favorite lift, my very 1st lift. I did snatch. I did snatch only, and it was great because I could just focus on that one thing and get used to this new bizarre, you know. Cowbell sport that I love so much now, 10 years later. But I would. Then then you wanna grab a a ranking table and you wanna look at rank. You wanna look at Rank 3, and you wanna hit rank. 294 00:48:01.900 --> 00:48:21.209 Paul Klein: You want to find out. What is that? What is that right proper weight for you right now to get you to that rank 3 level, and work your way methodically from rank 3 to rank, 2 to rank one, and then go up and wait. And it's such a beautiful progression. I remember when I 1st found out about tables. 295 00:48:21.485 --> 00:48:28.924 Paul Klein: you know, and there's tables in in track and field, and there's tables in rowing, and I was especially excited about finding out that there's masters tables. 296 00:48:29.501 --> 00:48:51.230 Paul Klein: you know, for obvious reasons. I'm 62 and you know I want to. And I wanna play along right. I wanna play along so and this is one objective way that you can find out, though there are differences in different, you know, in different tables across the world. And I'm very excited, Jordan, to hear you talk about that unification because he can help us get more toward 297 00:48:51.260 --> 00:49:05.690 Paul Klein: you know. Hey, what's our standard? What's our standard that we want to put ourselves to? And but when you begin to look at those measures, it's like, Okay, I have to do, you know, 7 reps a minute, or I have to do 8 reps a minute, and then you can 298 00:49:05.950 --> 00:49:20.719 Paul Klein: progressively work your way up. And these are the things that are going to keep you from getting hurt. These are the things going to keep you from getting hurt because I have made the mistake, you know to, and I think all of us, to one degree or another have made that mistake of just doing too much too soon. 299 00:49:20.720 --> 00:49:21.420 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's never. Yeah. 300 00:49:22.436 --> 00:49:24.469 Paul Klein: Really, really. 301 00:49:24.470 --> 00:49:25.539 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Never! I never said that. 302 00:49:25.540 --> 00:49:28.159 Paul Klein: Okay. Well, let me tell. Let me tell you about that. 303 00:49:28.160 --> 00:49:30.505 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Who would do? Who would do such. 304 00:49:31.080 --> 00:49:55.390 Paul Klein: They say you put such pressure. You can put too much pressure on yourself, too. I remember Nikolai, who's my 1st coach. Nicolae puts off my 1st coach, and he's still, you know, really, really good friend of mine, too. Used to work. We used to work for him. Yeah. And and and Nikolai. I remember talking to him about lift 20 fours and stuff, and I just told him what my ambitions were, and he, he frankly said to me, said, I think I think you might be putting too much pressure on yourself, Paul. 305 00:49:55.640 --> 00:50:02.880 Paul Klein: and you know, and he was a hundred percent right because I was not ready to tell myself that right? I was not ready to tell myself that and 306 00:50:03.140 --> 00:50:27.429 Paul Klein: And you need that coach. You need that feedback to say, you know, look back at it objectively, cause they can look and go. Hey, you know, hang on! Let's save ourselves for this competition of 6 months out, or 7 months out or 8 months out. But in order to get there, we need to do these other things. We need to get these other things lined up, and they can really help with your perspective, so that you're not see that you don't get lost along the way, cause it's it's a 307 00:50:27.520 --> 00:50:38.100 Paul Klein: you know the, the, the challenging, it's challenging training. And you have to be very disciplined about your training and and and having that, having that that outside voice there telling you. 308 00:50:38.110 --> 00:50:42.300 Paul Klein: you know, hey, this is enough, for now this is enough, for now is super important. 309 00:50:42.300 --> 00:51:01.460 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. And if I can combine kind of what you and you and Aiden said, like, I think one of the things that coaches can really help with like part of the reason. I'm part of the reason I am a coach, and part of the reason I love being a coach is because when you look at a table and you're like, okay, I need to hit 64 reps on long cycle with 2 twenties at my weight class in order to hit rank one. 310 00:51:01.460 --> 00:51:29.109 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Then you're like, okay. N, now, I need to hit, you know, 64 with 24 s. To get to get to Cms like, how do I? What? How do I get there? Safely, right like like it's nonlinear, right? And so like, that's things that coaches can really help you with, because you get this objective measure, and in your head it might seem like, Oh, it's super easy. I just have to go up 4 kilos and maintain the same rpms, like, you know, 6.5 6.5 rpms for 10 min. And I just have to go up 4 kilos. It's like, yeah. 311 00:51:29.380 --> 00:51:31.339 Ayden Jones: Basically simple, simple, but. 312 00:51:31.340 --> 00:51:32.990 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: But not easy. Right. 313 00:51:32.990 --> 00:51:34.080 Paul Klein: Yeah, yeah, how do I see? 314 00:51:34.080 --> 00:51:45.669 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Safely make that progression like you were alluding to Paul, how do I safely make that progression? And how do I manipulate those variables? Because it's it's it's not so. It's not so simple. 315 00:51:46.010 --> 00:51:46.399 Paul Klein: Yeah, yeah. 316 00:51:46.400 --> 00:52:11.390 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: To actually bring it to fruition. And that's where experience coaches, I think, can really can really help you progress safely and more quickly because they they might actually slow you down at the start. But you'll because you can keep progressing. You'll actually reach your goals more quickly. And that was a mistake that I made, you know as I was joking right. I I hurt myself, you know, when I was younger, because, you know I didn't hurt myself badly, but I I push too hard, too fast, and then be like, Oh. 317 00:52:11.390 --> 00:52:22.310 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I'd be out for a couple of weeks, and then you're like, Oh, suddenly I'm back on the twenties, because I needed to step back from the 24 is because I tweaked an elbow or tweaked to shoulder, or some some weird thing right, and coaches can help you 318 00:52:22.310 --> 00:52:26.670 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: help protect you from your from your own worst instinct. Sometimes I think. 319 00:52:27.170 --> 00:52:28.080 Paul Klein: Absolutely. 320 00:52:28.650 --> 00:52:42.091 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Now, Paul, we know that your aspiration for next year is, break the world record for your for your weight class in your in your age category. Are there any other goals or aspirations you want to call out because I want to ask everybody like now that you got this. 321 00:52:42.350 --> 00:52:42.850 Paul Klein: Oh, yeah. 322 00:52:42.850 --> 00:52:44.419 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Competition under your belt. 323 00:52:44.420 --> 00:52:45.610 Paul Klein: So I. 324 00:52:45.610 --> 00:52:47.470 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What are the future goals and aspirations. 325 00:52:47.470 --> 00:52:52.980 Paul Klein: Alright. Thank you for asking. I appreciate that. So yeah. So I'm on the record. I'm going after that world record next year 326 00:52:53.523 --> 00:53:08.069 Paul Klein: this, which is I just found out today in the Newsletter. It's either gonna be England, Hungary, or Italy. So I'm down with any of those I'm down with any of those but you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna be charging after that long cycle 327 00:53:08.330 --> 00:53:28.669 Paul Klein: record, and I'm gonna go after master report in snatch with a 24 I tried this on. I tried this on for a little bit last year during my training I knew I was gonna do 16 at worlds. But I thought, you know, why don't I try to work this in? And I reached the point my training where it's like. It was just not gonna happen. And I didn't have the capacity to 328 00:53:28.930 --> 00:53:36.109 Paul Klein: train for long cycle and train for snatch. So so that's what's next for me. I currently am recovering from hip surgery. I had my hip 329 00:53:36.110 --> 00:53:59.889 Paul Klein: resurfaced recently, 4 weeks ago, so I don't even think I can do any sport training until probably October, maybe mid September or so. So it's gonna be a slow build. But that's my that's kind of my domestic goal is to, you know, work toward getting that master sport, and which is 172 reps, I think, for me 330 00:53:59.950 --> 00:54:11.449 Paul Klein: 24 to get that master support. But underneath. All of this is the 2416. So I've got this nice sustainable goal to charge after. 331 00:54:11.690 --> 00:54:18.030 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Love it, love it. Aiden, how about how about you? How are you? How are you planning on pursuing your your 2,025 season. 332 00:54:18.890 --> 00:54:34.817 Ayden Jones: Well, I I'm not sure when it's gonna happen. Or at what capacity. But my goals always been to be professional athletes. I'd like to compete in the elite division. I don't know that 2025 is a year, that's gonna happen, but that's the that's the end game. 333 00:54:35.130 --> 00:54:36.430 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Picture I love. 334 00:54:36.430 --> 00:54:36.830 Ayden Jones: All right. 335 00:54:36.830 --> 00:54:52.060 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I love that you that you qualified that because based on what we were just talking about, right? If you'd have been like, well, I wanna compete on the 32 s. Next year, you know. And you're like, Oh, that's a huge jump. 24 is to 32 s. In in a sing in a single year and competing on the international level, I'd have been like, Okay, you know, you've got. 336 00:54:52.060 --> 00:54:52.540 Ayden Jones: Yeah. 337 00:54:52.540 --> 00:55:04.177 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: But I I love that. I love that it you're like, if it happens next year. Okay, cool. But like that's not the that's not your. You're not putting the time constraint on it. You're just like that's the ultimate goal, and we'll see where we will see where. 338 00:55:04.410 --> 00:55:04.880 Ayden Jones: Absolutely. 339 00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:06.209 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Results are coming. 340 00:55:06.460 --> 00:55:29.160 Ayden Jones: Yeah, the one thing I've learned many, many, many times in Kettlebell. Sport is you cannot rush it. It is definitely an art, and all art takes time, so don't don't try to rush to, you know, too fast to one goal, because it'll keep slipping farther and farther away. Just be patient. Keep getting better put in the hours, put in the reps, and it'll it'll get there. 341 00:55:29.370 --> 00:55:37.879 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: One better better than yesterday. Right? That's that's all you can focus on. How about you, Gianna? What are you? What are your goals for? For future aspirations? 342 00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:45.632 Gianna Kreider: I'm pretty much on the same page with Aiden. I had started the 20 doing 10 min with the 20 last year. Actually your competition. And 343 00:55:45.900 --> 00:55:47.010 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I was there. I remember. 344 00:55:47.010 --> 00:56:00.843 Gianna Kreider: You can't do that at world. So I had to make the choice to drop to the back to the 16. And I've just been kind of focusing on that. So this year I'm I'm focusing on getting back to the 20, maybe doing the 30 min 20 set as an elite next year. 345 00:56:01.100 --> 00:56:01.760 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I don't think. 346 00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:11.940 Gianna Kreider: I could quite get to the 24 for the 10 min yet. But you know, like Aven said 2 to 3 years. I'm hoping to be at the 24 level, hoping. 347 00:56:11.940 --> 00:56:13.170 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Love it love it. 348 00:56:13.715 --> 00:56:14.260 Gianna Kreider: Yes. 349 00:56:14.260 --> 00:56:31.039 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So for for anybody that's listening, and for anybody that that went to Nationals and went to worlds, I will say one of the things that we hope we as the Akl. You hope that we can foster a little bit more for next year is to get some more people competing on the professional weights, because 350 00:56:31.273 --> 00:56:56.020 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: part of the reason that we didn't do better than 5th is just because we had so many people competing with the amateur weights and the way that it scored you're capped on, how many points you can earn at the amateur level. But you're uncapped on how many points you can earn with the professional weights. So even if even if people you know like, if I just showed up and was like, Hey, I can do 20 reps on the jerk with 2 32 s. Right. That would be enough for me to place somewhere in the world ranking and still earn points 351 00:56:56.020 --> 00:57:11.150 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: for the for the Us. Team. So we're hoping we can get a few more people competing on some of those professional weights, obviously not just showing up and holding the weights on the platform. But like, we're just trying to encourage anybody that has that that has that potential or that capability be like, hey? You know. 352 00:57:11.150 --> 00:57:32.980 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: think about, think about grabbing that professional weight. And, you know, going up there and competing, even if it's not going to be a PR, or even if it's not going to be, you're going to go win the gold. That's that's okay, like we just want to. We want to see if we can get a little bit more on the, on the, on the professional the professional ranks, so we can earn some more points, because, you know, we we want to do. We want to do better. We want to keep. We want to keep going on and up 353 00:57:33.629 --> 00:57:38.519 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: all you all meddle right, like my! I'm I'm everybody. Everybody meddled here so. 354 00:57:38.520 --> 00:57:39.460 Paul Klein: Yeah. Yes. 355 00:57:39.460 --> 00:57:41.826 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What was what was it? What was it like? 356 00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:50.900 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: standing up on the podium wearing your U.S.A. You know, Gianna, they put a gold medal around your neck like what was, what was that like? What was that experience like for you? 357 00:57:51.270 --> 00:57:58.089 Gianna Kreider: It was crazy, I mean again, let's go back to the non-english. So you're listening really hard to see if it's you 358 00:57:58.270 --> 00:58:24.049 Gianna Kreider: the pronunciation of your name. But yeah, when they call your name, it's amazing. And you get to go. I mean, whatever medal, just getting a medal and being able to stand up there represent the country. Have you know the cheers and all that kind? I mean, it's just amazing. It's just such a high to be part of that. Know that again. You not only like got yourself up there, but then now you're also winning something right? It's it's it's an amazing feeling. 359 00:58:25.300 --> 00:58:35.090 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, that's that's what I'm I'm hoping I can. I'm hoping I can get on a podium and A with the U.S.A. On my chest. That's a that's gotta be an amazing. That's gotta be an amazing feeling. So. 360 00:58:35.090 --> 00:58:36.330 Paul Klein: You can, Jordan. 361 00:58:36.330 --> 00:58:39.819 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, I know I can have to make it happen. Have to. 362 00:58:39.820 --> 00:58:41.019 Paul Klein: There you go! There you go! 363 00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:54.660 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Alright. Well, we're we're getting close on time. I wanna be respectful of everybody's time. So thank you guys so much. 1st of all, for coming on. This has been super fun. I'm smiling so hard I've actually like, tear it up and everything it's this is this is wonderful. I I 364 00:58:54.720 --> 00:59:22.069 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I have. The mission here is to become our best selves through sport, and by by here I mean the Twin Cities, Kettlebell Club. That is, our stated mission is to become our best selves through sport, and I feel like Kettlebell. Sport for me has been the the most impactful thing since I quit playing football, of how I've how I've grown as a person! How has competition or sport, or Kettlebell sport influenced you since you started competing in this in this wonderful sport, Aidan, I'm going to start with you. 365 00:59:22.900 --> 00:59:28.047 Ayden Jones: Yeah, I I mean, it really kind of relit my fire for competition in general, you know. 366 00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:46.540 Ayden Jones: it's you, you phase out of, you know, youth sports and and whatever amateur weekend sports you're doing, and you know they eventually don't get as fun, or you don't train and you get hurt. It's it's a challenge to still chase the dream of being an athlete when you have to live. The everyday realities of 367 00:59:46.610 --> 00:59:54.809 Ayden Jones: you know our existence. So it's it could get to be overwhelming. And so for me, Kettlebell, sport reignited my passion to be an athlete. 368 00:59:54.950 --> 01:00:12.000 Ayden Jones: You know I can do it anywhere. I can. You know whether it's 8 kilos or 28 kilos? I can. It all can get really hard, really fast if you do it right? So it's just one of the things that makes me, you know, excited to be an athlete again. Kind of a sport really 369 01:00:12.140 --> 01:00:17.309 Ayden Jones: does it for me. It just gets me excited to get up and have something to train for and have something to pursue 370 01:00:17.671 --> 01:00:25.560 Ayden Jones: that doesn't interfere with me being a dad and a and a employee and a husband. And you know all these other things that we have to do. 371 01:00:26.800 --> 01:00:28.600 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Love it. How about you, Gianna. 372 01:00:29.560 --> 01:00:46.480 Gianna Kreider: I think what I love about it is, it always gives me the next hurdle to get over right, because that's the thing with Kettlebells like we're saying, there's always the next weight. There's always the next lift, right? There's always something. And for me, that's kind of how I got into it in 2019. I just saw a flyer at the gym 373 01:00:46.480 --> 01:01:16.319 Gianna Kreider: that was doing a Kettlebell compet. I was like, you know, that'd be cool. Let me set a fitness goal this year. I'm going to do a Kettlebell competition. And then that's how it is like, every time you're like, Okay, now, I'm going to hit this PR, or now I'm going to get this competition. And I think that's just it's such a great thing to have to look forward to. And you know, like, is it outside of work and family and all the other life stuff? You have something that I could focus on and go. This is my next goal that I've set for myself, and it's just me trying to hit that goal. 374 01:01:17.160 --> 01:01:17.840 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Loving. 375 01:01:18.440 --> 01:01:23.200 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Alright, Paul. Last but not least, what? How has been impactful for you? 376 01:01:23.500 --> 01:01:50.200 Paul Klein: Oh, it's been tremendously impactful. It has really meant a lot to me like Aiden alluded to about team sports. I've I've been in team sports since I was 6 years old. I started up playing catcher in Little League baseball, and I didn't stop until I got to just got into college. And that really defined me for a long time, and I and I and I also ice hockey. So those 2 things, those 2 sports have always been a part of my life. 377 01:01:50.200 --> 01:02:06.029 Paul Klein: and when I came to calibo sport I was still playing hockey, but I not have to stop playing baseball, and I really missed the technical demands of being a catcher. And all of a sudden I found this little event called the Snatch, and I'm like, Oh, man. 378 01:02:06.110 --> 01:02:08.949 Paul Klein: This is it because it let me 379 01:02:09.390 --> 01:02:32.759 Paul Klein: unlock what, how my body was supposed to behave around this Kettlebell, and how he's supposed to work with it? Right. You really have to work with the orb in baseball. Right? You've got to work with how you throw it and how you hold it, and how you're in the arc of your arm and your body underneath it, and you're positioning. And Kettlebell sport gave me gave me that right. It gave me that. So I had that. And then I was like, Oh, man! 380 01:02:32.870 --> 01:02:47.099 Paul Klein: All of a sudden I can go to the rink, and I'm playing goalie pretty damn well, and it's like, Wow, this is like, so it's really been the central discipline that has helped me to find myself as an athlete 381 01:02:47.170 --> 01:03:13.970 Paul Klein: plus 60 and I. It's done everything for my my joy button, you know. I mean, I'm like, I'm a i'm a personal trainer. I'm a full time personal trainer for the Y.M.C.A. I'm a Kettlebell coach, too. I'm a Kettlebell athlete and and I'm also a a livestron coach. I help cancer survivors get through their get through their post treatment, or even if they're in treatment, I help them to to reach their next level and 382 01:03:14.495 --> 01:03:23.219 Paul Klein: the the discipline and joy and the things that I've learned as a as a coach and as an athlete has all translated into these other 383 01:03:23.430 --> 01:03:52.709 Paul Klein: things, so it really helps to light me up from within, so that I can be a beacon for others to you know, find them best, their best selves. And this this sport really does it for you, because we've all talked about how this just does it for you, physically and mentally and and and emotionally, to getting up on the platform like John I was describing and aiden, you know. I mean, we all were on that top platform, and we all got to hear the Star Spangled Banner, and it was 384 01:03:53.089 --> 01:04:13.540 Paul Klein: it was a pure joy. It's the 1st time I'd heard that Star Spangled Banner where I wasn't singing the lyrics cause they sing it sporting. I sing it sports matches and stuff, and standing on top of that platform, I was so proud to have my hand over my heart, and it was just so. Rewarding and satisfying, so. 385 01:04:14.040 --> 01:04:14.440 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's. 386 01:04:14.440 --> 01:04:16.230 Paul Klein: That's what Cowbos sports done for me. 387 01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:17.760 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Love it. Well. 388 01:04:18.300 --> 01:04:43.582 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Paul Gianna Aiden, thank you all so much for for coming on sharing a little bit about your background and your experience. And I really look forward to to seeing how you guys do in the coming years and staying in touch. And I hope I get to meet you all in person. I've already met Gianna in person at my competition, but I haven't met either of of you, Paul, and Aiden in person. Yet I I look forward to the day that we that we get to meet in threed and slink some. 389 01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:44.610 Ayden Jones: Matter of time. 390 01:04:44.610 --> 01:04:46.540 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And have a great time. So. 391 01:04:46.560 --> 01:04:47.600 Ayden Jones: Yeah, thank you. All like. 392 01:04:47.600 --> 01:04:51.460 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So much for coming on, and really appreciate your time, and we will talk soon. 393 01:04:52.080 --> 01:04:52.850 Ayden Jones: For having me. 394 01:04:52.850 --> 01:04:54.010 Paul Klein: Thank you. Thanks.