From 550 Pounds to Kettlebell Sport Coach w/ Jeremy Olson

WEBVTT 1 00:00:21.410 --> 00:00:36.910 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Alright, welcome in to this episode of the Platform Podcast. I am pleased to welcome in another Vegas native, my brother from another mother, Jeremy Olson, the Las Vegas Viking himself. Jeremy, welcome. 2 00:00:36.910 --> 00:00:47.409 Jeremy Olson: Into the podcast. It has been, too long. I've been threatening to bring you on for… I mean, since we met, basically, so, thank you for coming on, dude, I really appreciate it. 3 00:00:47.900 --> 00:00:49.599 Jeremy Olson: Oh, no problem, thanks for having me. 4 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:59.270 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah, of course, man. So, first and foremost, tell the people, who you are. Who is Jeremy? Why are you on this podcast? How do you connect with Kettlebell Sport? 5 00:01:00.140 --> 00:01:10.199 Jeremy Olson: I'm Jeremy Olson, obviously, but my connection to kettlebell sport, actually came from my CrossFit background. 6 00:01:11.170 --> 00:01:16.470 Jeremy Olson: Kind of an interesting… twist on it. I got asked to put together, 7 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:26.119 Jeremy Olson: a specialty program at a CrossFit Psyched in Henderson. I went ahead and started building it off of a… more of a kettlebell fitness. 8 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:29.370 Jeremy Olson: Which you'd call hard style. 9 00:01:30.140 --> 00:01:33.180 Jeremy Olson: Doing some research on that, reading materials. 10 00:01:33.180 --> 00:01:35.269 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Kettlebell sport's so easy. 11 00:01:36.980 --> 00:01:40.100 Jeremy Olson: I will never call it soft style. 12 00:01:40.100 --> 00:01:55.689 Jordan Kunde-Wright: No, no, that, that, that is very disrespectful. Okay, so you started from a fitness, fitness kettlebell background, more in the, in the Pavel tradition, where you, did you get, did you get an RKC, or how… or did you get a CrossFit, like, L1 kettlebell cert? How did you get, how did you get introduced? 13 00:01:56.500 --> 00:02:00.190 Jeremy Olson: Honestly, I kind of went on my own, I bet. 14 00:02:00.460 --> 00:02:02.769 Jeremy Olson: Not quite an RKC, I did… 15 00:02:03.700 --> 00:02:07.450 Jeremy Olson: Reach out to some people, over social media. 16 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:13.509 Jeremy Olson: like, I don't know if you know who Aphrodite Steele is, she's a Greek, 17 00:02:14.010 --> 00:02:17.429 Jeremy Olson: SFG1 over in Greece. 18 00:02:17.610 --> 00:02:19.110 Jeremy Olson: Okay. And don't get me wrong. 19 00:02:19.110 --> 00:02:23.230 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I don't know… I don't know that name, but I would remember Aphrodite, I'm pretty sure. I don't… 20 00:02:23.230 --> 00:02:23.779 Jeremy Olson: I'll take a note. 21 00:02:23.780 --> 00:02:24.630 Jordan Kunde-Wright: that name. 22 00:02:25.440 --> 00:02:30.190 Jeremy Olson: Her, handle is stateofsteel on Instagram. 23 00:02:30.550 --> 00:02:36.649 Jeremy Olson: She's got a lot of good material, and she helped me out with, getting started with, like, learning how to snatch at first. 24 00:02:37.070 --> 00:02:40.740 Jeremy Olson: So I could introduce that into my kettlebell class, because 25 00:02:40.940 --> 00:02:48.639 Jeremy Olson: CrossFit, all I do is a lot… mostly is Russian swings and American swings. Heck, CrossFit invented the American swing. 26 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:53.979 Jeremy Olson: But I wanted to do more than that, and… You mean just a deal? 27 00:02:53.980 --> 00:02:58.499 Jordan Kunde-Wright: The stupid version of the two-handed snatch? You mean that one? 28 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:02.990 Jeremy Olson: I wouldn't call it… I wouldn't call it stupid, huh? I would. 29 00:03:02.990 --> 00:03:26.460 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I would, and I can explain why, but, you know, the center of the grav… center of gravity on a bell is on the bottom, and when you let the bottom of the bell swing up, it forces you into external rotation, and that bell wants to go backwards. There's no fixation point, and it puts a lot of… it puts a lot of strain on the shoulders and kind of predisposes you to some shoulder issues. Whereas if you just go thumbs into the handle. 30 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:42.220 Jordan Kunde-Wright: The Russians call that Prochia, I believe. My Russian's not great, but that is the two-hand swing variant, or the two-hand snatch variant, where you actually insert your… you let the bottom of the bell stay down, and you insert your thumbs in, and you stop the bell overhead in fixation. 31 00:03:42.220 --> 00:03:52.240 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Same effect, you're still moving it the same way, you're just, much less, much less injury risk. But, anyways, that's not, that's not the point. You, you started… 32 00:03:52.620 --> 00:04:03.510 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Started in a, in a CrossFit, in a CrossFit, traditional, traditional style, it sounds like, and then, when did you decide you wanted to come over to, the dark side? The dark side? 33 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:06.779 Jeremy Olson: Honestly, I was actually, 34 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:12.839 Jeremy Olson: Pavel, if you want to go back to that. I have read a book called Kettlebell Axe. 35 00:04:12.980 --> 00:04:20.360 Jeremy Olson: that he had written. It was about building strength, endurance, and using snatches as its basis, and… 36 00:04:20.470 --> 00:04:22.950 Jeremy Olson: Claims and jerks are launch cycle. 37 00:04:23.220 --> 00:04:27.959 Jeremy Olson: So, and I was reading that, I was doing research, and then suddenly, I started getting 38 00:04:28.170 --> 00:04:34.340 Jeremy Olson: stuff on my Instagram feed and my Facebook feeds, showing these crazy people doing, like. 39 00:04:34.750 --> 00:04:38.660 Jeremy Olson: 30 minutes of snatching, 40 00:04:38.820 --> 00:04:41.590 Jeremy Olson: see, like, Denis Vasilev doing, his… 41 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:45.980 Jeremy Olson: insane, crazy long cycles, and I'm like, this looks interesting. 42 00:04:47.890 --> 00:04:51.419 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That looks sufficiently terrible. How can I… how can I guide me out? 43 00:04:51.420 --> 00:05:08.650 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Sign me up for some of that. So you mentioned your CrossFit background. Elaborate on that a little bit. When did you get into CrossFit? Because we've got a whole other… we've got a whole other journey to talk about here, other than your journey into kettlebell sport, which is really your journey into fitness. So, like. 44 00:05:08.650 --> 00:05:16.160 Jordan Kunde-Wright: How far back do you want to go with, kind of, your origin story, and how you… how you went from, where you were at to where you're at now? 45 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:20.010 Jeremy Olson: Okay… Well, my… 46 00:05:20.420 --> 00:05:32.640 Jeremy Olson: fitness journey started back in, 2016. 2016, I weighed about 550-ish pounds. It was really hard to get an accurate scale, being that 47 00:05:33.060 --> 00:05:36.060 Jeremy Olson: That, you know, Large of a person. 48 00:05:36.060 --> 00:05:36.480 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 49 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:46.329 Jordan Kunde-Wright: How tall are you, just for… I know, because we've met in person, but give people a semblance of how big of a Viking are we talking about here? 50 00:05:47.110 --> 00:05:51.059 Jeremy Olson: I usually hover around 6'3". 51 00:05:51.840 --> 00:06:00.869 Jeremy Olson: before the weight gain, and back when I graduated high school, I was around 6'4", so the weight did compress my spine a bit, so I am floating about 52 00:06:01.050 --> 00:06:05.639 Jeremy Olson: in the morning, I'm 6'3". By the time I go to bed, I'm, like, closer to 6'2. 53 00:06:07.070 --> 00:06:10.559 Jeremy Olson: Best way I can describe it, so I climb 6'3", and I've got to keep that height. 54 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:15.419 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I'd probably round up. I'd just say, yeah, I'm 6'4", 6'5 on a good day. 55 00:06:16.550 --> 00:06:34.809 Jordan Kunde-Wright: You know, okay, so you're a big… so you're a big… you're a big guy with a big frame, but you obviously got, to what would, by any… by any objective standard, be considered an unhealthy, an unhealthy weight, and you were… you were over 500 pounds, we'll just say, you know, somewhere between 5 and 600 pounds at your heaviest, it sounds like. 56 00:06:34.810 --> 00:06:35.440 Jeremy Olson: Yeah. 57 00:06:35.810 --> 00:06:38.920 Jeremy Olson: So… I went… 58 00:06:39.330 --> 00:06:51.099 Jeremy Olson: used every toolbox I could… every tool in my toolbox, and got myself down. It took me about a year and a half to get down to a weight I'd actually feel… a body I would actually feel comfortable 59 00:06:51.470 --> 00:07:03.599 Jeremy Olson: stepping into a gym. I mean, I was hitting the global, global gyms at the time, like, we've got an LVAC here at Athletic Club. I was going in there, I was doing swimming, and I was just doing walking. 60 00:07:03.780 --> 00:07:05.669 Jordan Kunde-Wright: What is LBAC for, for the. 61 00:07:05.670 --> 00:07:06.150 Jeremy Olson: So… 62 00:07:06.150 --> 00:07:08.820 Jordan Kunde-Wright: that are in the Midwest or not out west. 63 00:07:08.820 --> 00:07:22.870 Jeremy Olson: It's a global gym. It's a big, it stands for, Las Vegas Athletic Club. There's a half dozen, you know, it's one of those where you pay, like, 25 bucks a month, but they make you sign a guaranteed contract for, like, 4 years. 64 00:07:23.620 --> 00:07:26.289 Jordan Kunde-Wright: So, like a Lifetime Fitness, or. 65 00:07:26.290 --> 00:07:26.730 Jeremy Olson: Yeah. 66 00:07:26.730 --> 00:07:27.530 Jordan Kunde-Wright: You know, one of those high… 67 00:07:27.530 --> 00:07:28.280 Jeremy Olson: My job. 68 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:33.580 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh, like a budget lifetime, like La Fitness, as I like to call it, LA Fitness? La Fitness. 69 00:07:33.850 --> 00:07:34.730 Jeremy Olson: Yeah. 70 00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:37.890 Jeremy Olson: And I got down to… I… 71 00:07:38.580 --> 00:07:43.330 Jeremy Olson: I remember this because I stepped on a scale my first day before I went into a CrossFit gym. 72 00:07:43.500 --> 00:07:45.849 Jeremy Olson: But… it was 2.35. 73 00:07:46.100 --> 00:07:50.490 Jeremy Olson: So I'd lost well over 300 pounds at that point. 74 00:07:50.490 --> 00:07:52.480 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Wow. How long did it take you to do that? 75 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:54.809 Jeremy Olson: Almost 2 years. 76 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:07.110 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That's really… that's really impressive, man. Like, that is… very few people can say that they've lost… there's plenty of people that have gained and lost 100 pounds multiple times. Very few people have made that big of a… of a… 77 00:08:07.110 --> 00:08:10.560 Jeremy Olson: drop, and been able to maintain it. Like, that's… that's huge, dude. 78 00:08:11.650 --> 00:08:12.970 Jeremy Olson: Take care. 79 00:08:13.520 --> 00:08:17.740 Jeremy Olson: It was with a very severe calorie deficit. 80 00:08:17.950 --> 00:08:23.249 Jeremy Olson: I think I was lucky if I was getting, like, 1,200 a day at my size and frame. 81 00:08:23.940 --> 00:08:27.179 Jeremy Olson: But it did the trick, I got down there, but then I started wanting, you know. 82 00:08:27.780 --> 00:08:34.239 Jeremy Olson: losing weight that quickly, it saps from the muscle, too, so I also got incredibly weaker, comparatively. 83 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:34.549 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 84 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:40.009 Jeremy Olson: Which really affected me a lot, because, you know, I was always the big, strong boy, you know. 85 00:08:40.869 --> 00:08:50.509 Jeremy Olson: I… when I first moved to Vegas in 2006, I would… started at a Lowe's, and I could just grab, you know, like, the big grills off the shelves and just put them on the cart. 86 00:08:50.699 --> 00:08:53.489 Jeremy Olson: Without having to go get, you know, a dolly or anything. 87 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:55.579 Jeremy Olson: But I lost all that strength. 88 00:08:56.599 --> 00:08:59.899 Jeremy Olson: And I started researching, 89 00:09:00.319 --> 00:09:06.609 Jeremy Olson: this is 2016, 2017, or no, this was towards the end of 2017. I started researching, and I… 90 00:09:09.379 --> 00:09:14.539 Jeremy Olson: came across CrossFit, I'd heard about it, I mean, I've seen… I'd seen all the memes at the time, you know. 91 00:09:14.859 --> 00:09:15.619 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Bye. 92 00:09:15.809 --> 00:09:17.089 Jeremy Olson: joint, 93 00:09:17.319 --> 00:09:21.419 Jeremy Olson: It's the first, how can you tell if someone does CrossFit? Because that's all they talk about. 94 00:09:22.540 --> 00:09:27.540 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Unlike You know, totally normal kettlebell sport people that don't talk about it all the time. 95 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.460 Jeremy Olson: Oh, no, not at all. 96 00:09:32.030 --> 00:09:35.609 Jeremy Olson: Yeah, but I reached out to CrossFit Las Vegas, 97 00:09:35.850 --> 00:09:38.870 Jeremy Olson: That was my first, box here in Las Vegas. 98 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.879 Jeremy Olson: Went in there and… I got hooked on it, Dom. 99 00:09:44.820 --> 00:09:49.020 Jeremy Olson: that was probably one of the biggest steps I had ever done is, I mean, I got walked in there, and I… 100 00:09:49.410 --> 00:09:54.540 Jeremy Olson: so completely deconditioned, and had no idea what I was doing. 101 00:09:55.150 --> 00:09:58.760 Jeremy Olson: Not since I played football in high school. 102 00:09:58.930 --> 00:09:59.490 Jeremy Olson: Did I ask? 103 00:09:59.490 --> 00:09:59.970 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I was just gonna add… 104 00:10:00.300 --> 00:10:17.430 Jordan Kunde-Wright: your athletic background before that? Like, did you have… did you have… did you have any experience playing high school football, like, with any of those lifts? Like, did you guys do… did you guys do any of the… the power cleans, or any of the oldies, or any… any of that stuff at your high school, or… or were you… or were you, like, Bambi walking in, and this was all new? 105 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:21.159 Jeremy Olson: I didn't… my high school didn't do any OLLI. 106 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:23.350 Jeremy Olson: It was all powerlifting. 107 00:10:23.760 --> 00:10:29.050 Jeremy Olson: You know, you want to… I was a center, I started all four years, and… 108 00:10:30.570 --> 00:10:38.650 Jeremy Olson: center tackle, nose tackle. I usually played as much as I could, both offense and defense, until I got injured in my senior year, and… 109 00:10:38.890 --> 00:10:41.200 Jeremy Olson: That was probably where my weight gain started. 110 00:10:42.190 --> 00:10:42.970 Jeremy Olson: But… 111 00:10:42.970 --> 00:11:02.359 Jordan Kunde-Wright: And you were in North Dakota, right? So this was… this was… this was small town… small town, Midwestern football, Ironman football, like I played, you know. We played… we played 95% of the snaps, you know, the only thing I didn't do was punt coverage, or kickoff coverage, you know. It sounds like your… your experience was… was pretty similar. You were on the field. 112 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:03.320 Jeremy Olson: Yeah, very much. 113 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:13.500 Jordan Kunde-Wright: The biggest guy, probably the biggest guy at your high school, or biggest guy on your team, you know, played all the time in the center of the field, as close to the middle as they could put you. 114 00:11:14.050 --> 00:11:14.750 Jeremy Olson: Oh, yeah. 115 00:11:14.990 --> 00:11:20.190 Jeremy Olson: I was always one of the biggest down there, but this is North Dakota. We also had a lot of big farm boys. 116 00:11:20.190 --> 00:11:22.269 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Fair. Fair point. 117 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:24.179 Jeremy Olson: Hi, man. 118 00:11:24.290 --> 00:11:26.590 Jeremy Olson: very Norwegian background, 119 00:11:27.530 --> 00:11:35.320 Jeremy Olson: And the school I graduated from was actually a Native American-dominant school on a Native American reservation. 120 00:11:35.620 --> 00:11:41.559 Jeremy Olson: And a lot of my fellow classmates were just as big, if not bigger. 121 00:11:41.870 --> 00:11:42.380 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh, wow. 122 00:11:42.380 --> 00:11:42.940 Jeremy Olson: So… 123 00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:54.759 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That's… that's, that's rare. I mean, even… even in the Midwest, like, having… having that many big… how many… having that many big guys. So, it was probably, like, a run-and-shoot offense, I'm assuming, 5 wide, you know. 124 00:11:56.040 --> 00:12:06.289 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I'm obviously being sarcastic, I'm assuming it was 4 yards in a pile of dust, and just line them up and bang heads and run the ball, you know, 90% of the time, I'm guessing? 125 00:12:07.010 --> 00:12:14.589 Jeremy Olson: We would have been very well if we would have adopted the tush push back then. 126 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:28.030 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That's too soon, man. It's too soon. We can't… we can't talk about the birds yet. It's… it's still… it's still too raw. It's still too raw, but… Jeremy and I are both… are both Eagles fans, for… for those of you that… that don't know, we're in a… we're in a… 127 00:12:28.030 --> 00:12:41.210 Jordan Kunde-Wright: a little group chat with me and him and Big Tim, all die-hard Birds fans, and our hearts are broken by, I'll say by Kevin Petullo and the incompetence of the offensive coordinator, but, you know, that's… that's not… that's not what we're here to talk about. 128 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:58.979 Jordan Kunde-Wright: So, we'll leave that be. So you did some powerlifting in high school, but you didn't know Ole at all. You've now lost 250-plus pounds, you're walking into a CrossFit gym for the first time, and you're starting to see OLI stuff, and just like, I gotta do this. 129 00:12:59.870 --> 00:13:07.080 Jeremy Olson: Actually, the first thing I saw was the coach I was supposed to meet up there just busting out bar muscle-ups like you wouldn't believe. 130 00:13:09.070 --> 00:13:10.689 Jeremy Olson: I almost turned around and walked right back. 131 00:13:10.690 --> 00:13:13.999 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I was gonna say, that's not intimidating at all. 132 00:13:14.530 --> 00:13:18.079 Jeremy Olson: He comes walking up to me, he's all shirtless, he's got this mohawk, 133 00:13:18.450 --> 00:13:22.509 Jeremy Olson: I mean, his arms are like this, because he's got nothing but lats, and I'm like. 134 00:13:23.500 --> 00:13:26.269 Jeremy Olson: Okay, I'm in the wrong place, but… 135 00:13:26.980 --> 00:13:30.210 Jeremy Olson: convinced me to stay, and I… 136 00:13:30.990 --> 00:13:36.809 Jeremy Olson: tried out that first workout, I mean, I couldn't even do a real push-up. I was doing, like, wall presses. 137 00:13:36.810 --> 00:13:37.440 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 138 00:13:38.140 --> 00:13:42.220 Jeremy Olson: But I got into the program, I started going 3 times a week. 139 00:13:42.350 --> 00:13:45.969 Jeremy Olson: I just jumped in with both feet and just went crazy. 140 00:13:46.530 --> 00:13:52.020 Jeremy Olson: I'm gonna speed it up a little bit. That gym moved across town, so I went, 141 00:13:52.120 --> 00:14:02.429 Jeremy Olson: one of the other coaches there, Luke Stoker, opened up his own gym called CrossFit Psyched in 2019. I followed him over there, he… 142 00:14:02.820 --> 00:14:07.800 Jeremy Olson: wanted me to learn to coach with him. He mentored me into coaching. 143 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:13.330 Jeremy Olson: I got my L1 at that point, CrossFit Trainer L1. 144 00:14:14.220 --> 00:14:18.169 Jeremy Olson: It's like the first level of coaching. Since then, I've gotten my level 2. 145 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:23.780 Jeremy Olson: I've also got… at that time, I also, got my NASM CPT, 146 00:14:23.940 --> 00:14:26.830 Jeremy Olson: Nutrition coaching through PN Nutrition. 147 00:14:27.100 --> 00:14:30.400 Jeremy Olson: I'm a Sertown. I love knowledge, I… 148 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:31.880 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 149 00:14:32.070 --> 00:14:41.069 Jeremy Olson: something tickles my little, OCD slash ADHD brain, and I hyper-focus, and I can't stop until I learn as much as I can about it. 150 00:14:42.580 --> 00:14:51.630 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah, that's… I think that's… I think that's a pretty common… pretty common theme among, kettlebell sport people, people that gravitate towards this, really like to focus on… 151 00:14:51.710 --> 00:15:08.250 Jordan Kunde-Wright: itty-bitty details and hyper-focus on something, they can do it over and over and over again, but you have a pretty broad, a pretty broad swath, though, between CrossFit, nutrition, kettlebell sport, you know, fitness. You've now started your own kettlebell sport team out of 152 00:15:08.250 --> 00:15:21.239 Jordan Kunde-Wright: the CrossFit Psyched, so we have the Psyched Kettlebell sport team there in Henderson, right? Where is Henderson relative to Vegas? I know it's… I know it's Greater Vegas area, but I'm… I'm forgetting where Henderson is relative to. 153 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:24.469 Jeremy Olson: Henderson… Henderson is southeast, 154 00:15:24.670 --> 00:15:31.820 Jeremy Olson: southeast portion, it actually butts up right against Las Vegas. You could cross from Las Vegas into Henderson without even noticing. 155 00:15:32.180 --> 00:15:39.259 Jeremy Olson: So, it's a suburb… I think it's actually the largest suburb there is in the U.S, I think. 156 00:15:39.450 --> 00:15:40.080 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Okay. 157 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.020 Jeremy Olson: But… or it certainly feels like it some days. 158 00:15:43.020 --> 00:15:59.850 Jordan Kunde-Wright: So we just had… we just had Gianna, Gianna and… and Stacy on. How far are you from… from their gym? Because I know you guys are working, I will say, collaboratively to build the community out there in Vegas. How far… how far are you from… from their gym, the… the CrossFit Rhino, that they… they train out of? 159 00:16:00.750 --> 00:16:05.450 Jeremy Olson: It takes about 15 minutes to drive from Crescent site to Camp Rhino. 160 00:16:05.450 --> 00:16:06.080 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh, camper. 161 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:13.400 Jeremy Olson: And I got… Camperino's also a CrossFit gym, also, that they work out of. 162 00:16:14.420 --> 00:16:24.450 Jeremy Olson: Where… it's just a little subtle difference there. They're… they take up space at Camp Reno, whereas Psyched Kettlebell is actually an integrated part of CrossFit Psyched. 163 00:16:24.690 --> 00:16:32.059 Jeremy Olson: I do Cross… I do CrossFit classes there, or I do… I coach CrossFit classes, I coach a kettlebell fitness class. 164 00:16:32.270 --> 00:16:36.569 Jeremy Olson: And, some of the athletes, I started off to. 165 00:16:36.570 --> 00:16:54.309 Jordan Kunde-Wright: And then I'm still throwing programming at you, you're… you're… so you're like, okay, this is my fourth workout in the last two days, or fifth session… fifth session in… fifth session in three days, or sometimes you're like, yeah, I've done 7 sessions the past 2 days between coaching and 166 00:16:54.310 --> 00:17:03.399 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Coaching and participating, so you're, you're pretty, you're pretty, busy, with, with all, with all that you do. How do you manage the load on that? 167 00:17:04.919 --> 00:17:09.019 Jeremy Olson: I'm not really familiar with what sleep is. 168 00:17:10.189 --> 00:17:13.729 Jeremy Olson: I… if you love something, you make time for it. 169 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:16.419 Jeremy Olson: If it's important to you, make time for it. 170 00:17:17.229 --> 00:17:22.729 Jeremy Olson: My kids… I make time for them, I make time for my wife, make time for… 171 00:17:23.239 --> 00:17:28.509 Jeremy Olson: my side personal business, because I do the personal training and nutrition coaching on the side. 172 00:17:28.669 --> 00:17:31.689 Jeremy Olson: I do have, 173 00:17:32.189 --> 00:17:41.569 Jeremy Olson: a girl I'm coaching, kettlebell sport, that's not a part of psyched, but she coaches under your brand, or she competes under your brand, my apologies. 174 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:43.300 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Alright. 175 00:17:43.300 --> 00:17:48.109 Jeremy Olson: She actually ordered one of the rare white, Twin Cities shirts. Yeah. 176 00:17:48.110 --> 00:18:04.140 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah, the one-offs, the very rare, occasional, it's like the albino, you know, it only occurs in the wild there very rarely, because they don't really survive very long. Yeah, I saw the order come through, I was like, oh, she got the white variant of the Legs Feed the Wolf shirt, like, that's, 177 00:18:04.180 --> 00:18:08.399 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I do actually, I do actually really love the way that shirt looks. 178 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:08.980 Jeremy Olson: It does. 179 00:18:08.980 --> 00:18:19.410 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I don't… I don't really like the way it looks on me, per se, but, you know, it is a cool… I think that is a pretty cool design, actually. I like that one quite a little bit, but, you know, that's… 180 00:18:19.410 --> 00:18:20.740 Jeremy Olson: Yeah, that's a good design. 181 00:18:21.330 --> 00:18:36.510 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Thank you, thank you. Me and ChatGPT are very proud, very, very proud of that. I have very little art skill, actually, you know, but design, like, the concepts, I can always come up with, so that's where the… that's where the AI skills kind of, kind of help a little bit there. 182 00:18:37.050 --> 00:18:39.170 Jeremy Olson: I'm in the same boat there. 183 00:18:39.170 --> 00:18:49.010 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Well, yeah, and you work in technology, for your day job as well, I know, but, we're not… we're not here to nerd out about nerd stuff like that. We're here to nerd out about nerd stuff around fitness, but… 184 00:18:49.550 --> 00:18:59.610 Jordan Kunde-Wright: So when did you start picking up, kettlebell sport? When did you decide that you wanted to compete in it, and then when did you decide you wanted to coach it and start building a community? 185 00:19:01.310 --> 00:19:05.890 Jeremy Olson: Well, alright, so I've been with you about 2 years now, I believe. 186 00:19:05.890 --> 00:19:08.570 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I don't know the answer to these questions. 187 00:19:10.470 --> 00:19:18.819 Jeremy Olson: Well, Originally, I was… Toying around with it, you know, just testing myself, you know, like… 188 00:19:19.050 --> 00:19:34.139 Jeremy Olson: I'd grab, like, you know, a fitness kettlebell, not a comp bell, like a Rogue, like, 53, and I'd snatch it, like, 3-4 times each arm. I'm like, hmm, wonder how far I could push this, and just kept doing that, building up a… then a Rogue actually, 189 00:19:35.370 --> 00:19:38.180 Jeremy Olson: put out their Slingshot challenge when, 190 00:19:38.860 --> 00:19:41.390 Jeremy Olson: I was like, I should try this. 191 00:19:41.970 --> 00:19:51.319 Jordan Kunde-Wright: When Lorna and Dennis just… just went and housed everyone, and all the… all the CrossFit people were like, who are these, who are these people? And this isn't fair. Yeah. 192 00:19:52.350 --> 00:19:54.570 Jeremy Olson: And I put in, I got… 193 00:19:55.090 --> 00:20:05.709 Jeremy Olson: 50 reps in, like, 5 minutes, and I was like, yeah, I'm doing great, and then, yeah, I watched Dennis suddenly appear on there, and I'm like, well, I'm not getting anywhere. 194 00:20:05.710 --> 00:20:09.380 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh, there are levels to this. 195 00:20:10.210 --> 00:20:12.439 Jeremy Olson: Oh, I figured there was levels to it, like, anything. 196 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:12.810 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 197 00:20:12.810 --> 00:20:17.249 Jeremy Olson: But I went and I looked up some of his videos also. 198 00:20:17.730 --> 00:20:21.500 Jeremy Olson: on Instagram and YouTube, and I was like, wow! 199 00:20:21.670 --> 00:20:24.060 Jeremy Olson: And then I saw, of course, it's competing, and then… 200 00:20:25.260 --> 00:20:28.369 Jeremy Olson: I saw he had an event coming up called NorCal. 201 00:20:29.310 --> 00:20:32.530 Jeremy Olson: So I'm like, oh, I should probably get some training for this. 202 00:20:32.980 --> 00:20:38.989 Jeremy Olson: So I started doing some researching, and, like, kettlebell sport coaches, and… 203 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:45.719 Jeremy Olson: Just going through the list, and all of a sudden, oh, they've got, like, biking symbology here. 204 00:20:46.590 --> 00:20:47.680 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh… 205 00:20:48.210 --> 00:20:51.310 Jeremy Olson: And I looked, I'm like, oh… Jordan? 206 00:20:51.590 --> 00:20:55.850 Jeremy Olson: about my build, about my size, I could relate to that. 207 00:20:55.850 --> 00:21:01.629 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Little did you know how similar we truly, we truly are. It's almost eerie. 208 00:21:03.070 --> 00:21:06.210 Jeremy Olson: I mean, seriously, I mean, when we clicked, it was like, boom. 209 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:17.740 Jordan Kunde-Wright: very, very similar background. It's, yeah, it is… it's fun. That was one of the cool things. It is always cool when you meet somebody… when you meet somebody that you're like, oh, this person just gets me, like… 210 00:21:17.750 --> 00:21:29.159 Jordan Kunde-Wright: It's very… it's… it's almost… it's almost odd. You're like, I don't really… I don't really have to explain myself. This is… this is very interesting. So, yeah, you and I… you and I clicked on a… on a lot of levels, 211 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:37.779 Jordan Kunde-Wright: And so, you've now got how many people training? You've got a few Valkyries out there. It's all… it's all women, if I remember right. You've got… you've got all Valkyries right now, right? 212 00:21:38.210 --> 00:21:47.619 Jeremy Olson: I actually have a guy now that's, gonna sign up for, Love of Bells, Chris. Oh, nice. He's gonna be a… he's gonna be a beast. He's just jacked. 213 00:21:47.730 --> 00:21:54.240 Jeremy Olson: You'll come out and… He started in my, Fitness class, 214 00:21:55.240 --> 00:22:07.319 Jeremy Olson: And I'm like, oh, here's how you do, like, a log cycle. You know, you do the clean, and then you do the jerk. He's like, okay, I like it, isn't. He walks over, I turn my back to around, he's already going with, like, a 20KG. 215 00:22:08.830 --> 00:22:12.679 Jeremy Olson: Alright, alright, that's cool. Very nice. 216 00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:15.039 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Just took to it like a duck to water. 217 00:22:15.270 --> 00:22:20.120 Jeremy Olson: Yeah, and I got… In Psyched Kettlebell, I have… 218 00:22:20.420 --> 00:22:23.120 Jeremy Olson: 6 scrolls right now? 5 or 6? 219 00:22:24.150 --> 00:22:25.810 Jeremy Olson: Just think real quick. 220 00:22:26.390 --> 00:22:29.479 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Don't leave anybody out. There's gonna be a quiz later. 221 00:22:29.840 --> 00:22:30.380 Jeremy Olson: Yeah. 222 00:22:31.280 --> 00:22:33.640 Jeremy Olson: I'm gonna say 5 girls right now. 223 00:22:33.780 --> 00:22:34.400 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Nice. 224 00:22:36.260 --> 00:22:37.239 Jordan Kunde-Wright: And they're all… 225 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:37.960 Jeremy Olson: Right. 226 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:41.269 Jordan Kunde-Wright: They're all competing at Lava Bells here in, in February. 227 00:22:42.770 --> 00:22:50.099 Jeremy Olson: One might not be, because she's running into… she ran into the same issue you did. She's got a daughter that's maybe in a state tournament that weekend. 228 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:55.110 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Those kids, man. Those kids taking us… taking us away from our kettlebell sport. 229 00:22:55.580 --> 00:22:56.880 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That's alright. 230 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:02.969 Jeremy Olson: But she's gonna compete remotely, and I built a platform, and we're gonna make it a little event around her. 231 00:23:03.170 --> 00:23:12.779 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Nice, nice. Are you guys gonna do that… you guys gonna do that at Psyched? Because, like, the first time… the first time you competed, that was one of the things I thought was super cool, when you, when you submitted, like. 232 00:23:12.780 --> 00:23:18.319 Jordan Kunde-Wright: And this is one of the things I do love about the CrossFit community, right? It's like, if you're part of the tribe. 233 00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:40.990 Jordan Kunde-Wright: and you're like, I'm gonna do this crazy thing, like, there was, like, 7 people that were just there cheering you on. Like, just… just yelling at ya, hollering, you know, like, come on, Jeremy! Come on! Get 5 more! You know, and I'm just sitting there laughing while I'm… while I'm judging your video submission, but I thought that was really, really cool. Are you guys… you guys gonna be doing that? Is the… the whole team gonna be getting together for, like, a virtual hub, type of… type of situation? 234 00:23:41.970 --> 00:23:43.420 Jeremy Olson: Oh, absolutely, yeah. 235 00:23:43.580 --> 00:23:54.049 Jeremy Olson: I'm gonna get every… as many people as I can involved, you know, show up. It is… we do have a very much of a CrossFit mindset, where, you know. 236 00:23:54.380 --> 00:23:57.800 Jeremy Olson: One person shows up, you know, we come en masse. 237 00:23:58.090 --> 00:23:58.890 Jeremy Olson: Stop. 238 00:24:00.280 --> 00:24:10.329 Jeremy Olson: We do this at just about every event, or every competition, you know, like a psyched athlete will show up, there's always going to be at least a half dozen to a dozen people that show up to just cheer that person on. 239 00:24:10.530 --> 00:24:22.299 Jeremy Olson: Especially at Psych, we've got a really good community. Everybody's friends, and that's something we've nurtured since we opened the door. I'm one of the OGs there. I've been there since day one. 240 00:24:23.060 --> 00:24:25.740 Jeremy Olson: And… Since day one, we just… 241 00:24:26.270 --> 00:24:29.010 Jeremy Olson: Try to make it a safe environment. 242 00:24:30.450 --> 00:24:41.040 Jeremy Olson: Everyone's getting fit, everyone's there for a reason, everyone supports each other. It's… it's fantastic. I haven't been in a true community feeling like this in a very long time. 243 00:24:41.560 --> 00:24:50.399 Jeremy Olson: And that's translating into our kettlebell sport team, too. We're all really good friends. We've all actually gotten a lot closer, we all support each other. 244 00:24:51.280 --> 00:24:54.570 Jeremy Olson: We're all locked into a group chat together. 245 00:24:54.980 --> 00:25:00.059 Jeremy Olson: You know, the saying, you know, I haven't been in jail, but I've been in a group chat. 246 00:25:00.150 --> 00:25:15.220 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I hadn't heard that before now, but I like it. That's great. I… I leave group chats that I don't want to be a part of, but, you know, that's… I just… I just do the Irish goodbye, where I just disappear. You know, that's just me. 247 00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:21.900 Jordan Kunde-Wright: What do you think, kind of, the secret sauce is to community building? Like, do you feel like there's… 248 00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:32.729 Jordan Kunde-Wright: something about that environment? Is it that psychological safety? Is it passion? Like, what do you think it is that is, like, the key to building a strong community like that? 249 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:39.920 Jeremy Olson: It starts with the coaches, it really does. Coach has to be into it, has to be excited, has to be welcoming. 250 00:25:41.230 --> 00:25:49.789 Jeremy Olson: You walk into Psyched, a brand new person, like, just off the street, you're gonna have people come right up to you and just start chatting with you, and just 251 00:25:49.890 --> 00:25:53.750 Jeremy Olson: Friendly, and get to know you, ask you questions. 252 00:25:54.300 --> 00:25:57.589 Jeremy Olson: Then immediately invite you to go, you know, die in a workout. 253 00:26:00.690 --> 00:26:10.119 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Start with… start with a little bit of… start with a little bit of honey before you go… before you go kick their ass a little bit, but… I mean, that's why they walked in the door, right? They… they came… they came for a reason. 254 00:26:10.120 --> 00:26:10.830 Jeremy Olson: Yeah. 255 00:26:10.830 --> 00:26:18.219 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I think that's… I think that's a big part of it. How… how do you… how do you keep it from being intimidating? Because… 256 00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:34.049 Jordan Kunde-Wright: you know, it's kind of the double-edged sword of being a big guy, right? Like, you're a big guy with a beard, like I am, right? You know, and you know, for some people, that can be really intimidating, even though you probably don't consider yourself intimidating, but you've also felt intimidated walking into a gym, like, coming from. 257 00:26:34.050 --> 00:26:38.779 Jordan Kunde-Wright: you know, I know, like, when I walked into a gym at, you know, 350 pounds, I did not feel… 258 00:26:38.780 --> 00:26:49.099 Jordan Kunde-Wright: super comfortable being… being there. You know, I felt like, you know, even though I had a history of working out, you still feel… I don't know if intimidated's the right word, but, like, uncomfortable, right? 259 00:26:49.100 --> 00:27:04.170 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Right? You know, so how do you, how do you feel like, how do you feel like you show up there? How does, how does that, your background and, like, how do you combat that, that feeling of, you know, because you could be intimidating if you want to be, I know that you're not, but, how do you, how do you make people, feel comfortable in that way? 260 00:27:05.210 --> 00:27:10.709 Jeremy Olson: I… honestly, I just grow up, I be myself, I be my genuine self. 261 00:27:10.890 --> 00:27:14.369 Jeremy Olson: And you know me, I just… I'm friendly, I go up and I… 262 00:27:14.590 --> 00:27:19.520 Jeremy Olson: within a minute of talking to me, I'm already cracking jokes and putting people at ease. 263 00:27:19.520 --> 00:27:20.110 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 264 00:27:21.530 --> 00:27:24.519 Jeremy Olson: Even if it can be a little self-deprecating, you know. 265 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:30.870 Jeremy Olson: But, yeah, just proctoring, be myself, try to see what… 266 00:27:31.260 --> 00:27:37.459 Jeremy Olson: ask them what they do for a living, ask them about themselves, you know, get to know them, then sure. It's a whole back and forth. 267 00:27:37.610 --> 00:27:40.649 Jeremy Olson: I don't just go up and start peppering them with questions, 268 00:27:41.700 --> 00:27:45.059 Jeremy Olson: Ask them, you got any questions for me? No. 269 00:27:45.220 --> 00:27:47.400 Jeremy Olson: provide as much information as I can. 270 00:27:48.660 --> 00:27:55.860 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Now, with the… the scaling component of CrossFit, I feel like that's one of the things that, 271 00:27:56.340 --> 00:28:13.230 Jordan Kunde-Wright: was true back in the day, but has not… a lot of people's mental model hasn't really gotten updated, where I feel like it's a lot more welcoming than it used to be, right? And I feel like… I feel like there's a lot more… there's a lot more adaptability to it, and a lot more scalability to it, and it feels like a lot more coaches have… 272 00:28:13.300 --> 00:28:26.279 Jordan Kunde-Wright: accepted scaling and… and really… and really actually try and, like, actively encourage some of their new athletes to… to scale? Like, how… how do you guys approach… how do you guys approach that at… at Psyched, and how do you approach that as a coach? 273 00:28:27.550 --> 00:28:28.170 Jeremy Olson: Huh? 274 00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:36.669 Jeremy Olson: Well, first of all, I scale a lot of movements, too. I still, you know, have trouble with, like, pull-ups and bar muscle-ups, because I'm still a big guy. That's still a lot of weight to move. 275 00:28:38.280 --> 00:28:43.479 Jeremy Olson: A lot of it is, is here's what I like to do if I can't do something. 276 00:28:44.840 --> 00:28:57.470 Jeremy Olson: I don't consider scaling to be… I don't like that whole RX scale, you know, divide that a lot of people get into their heads. It's all about meeting a… it's all about meeting a stimulus. 277 00:28:57.800 --> 00:29:00.190 Jeremy Olson: This is what we're trying to achieve. 278 00:29:00.410 --> 00:29:03.769 Jeremy Olson: And this is the best way to do it at your skill level. 279 00:29:04.390 --> 00:29:06.059 Jeremy Olson: I would rather you, you know. 280 00:29:06.370 --> 00:29:12.350 Jeremy Olson: If you can't do pull-ups, how are you going to do a pull-up with, or a workout that's got 20 pull-ups in it? 281 00:29:12.490 --> 00:29:13.240 Jeremy Olson: Or, like. 282 00:29:13.670 --> 00:29:24.360 Jeremy Olson: You're not going to be able to, but the best way to get that same pulling motion is, you know, maybe ring rows, maybe throw a band on there, whichever is the most difficult that you can still meet that same, like. 283 00:29:25.580 --> 00:29:27.680 Jeremy Olson: grade of perceived effort, RPE. 284 00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:36.370 Jeremy Olson: Like, I want you to go at 80% here, so… but you can't do that if you're trying to do a one rep, you know, max, which is one pull-up. 285 00:29:37.350 --> 00:29:38.090 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 286 00:29:38.250 --> 00:29:46.200 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I like that, I really like that, that, adapting it based on RPE, and being like, we're doing a vertical pull motion, and I want to 287 00:29:46.200 --> 00:30:05.749 Jordan Kunde-Wright: To be an RPE of 7 to 8. If that's a… if that's a pull-up, great. If that's a ring pull-up, great. If that's a band pull-down, great. If that's a, you know, if that's a ring row, great, right? Like, we're… we're looking for a particular stimulus and at this particular intensity, and whatever that is for you is… is fine, right? Because it's all about that… 288 00:30:05.800 --> 00:30:17.369 Jordan Kunde-Wright: that progress, right? It's about… it's about, like you said, getting that… that minimum clinical effective dose of stimulus to… to get adaptation, because that's how you get stronger, so that, you know, if, you know, one pull-up is… 289 00:30:17.370 --> 00:30:32.199 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Okay, great. If you can do one pull-up, great, but it's probably not nearly as good of a stimulus as, you know, 8, you know, band pull-downs at that, you know, at a better… you know, you're gonna get more training volume and more training stimulus in there, so that you get closer to being able to then do pull-ups. 290 00:30:32.940 --> 00:30:33.590 Jeremy Olson: Right. 291 00:30:34.210 --> 00:30:52.580 Jeremy Olson: Exactly, and the same goes across all of the different movements. There's always something that we can adjust to. We actually have a number of adaptive athletes that work out at our gym as well, and we make the same stimulus adjustments with them. If someone's in, like, a limited with their walking. 292 00:30:52.730 --> 00:30:56.670 Jeremy Olson: Instead of, you know, like, doing, burpees, they could do sit-to-stands. 293 00:30:58.770 --> 00:31:03.020 Jeremy Olson: And to get as close to the possible stimulus as possible. 294 00:31:04.490 --> 00:31:05.170 Jeremy Olson: Hmm. 295 00:31:05.940 --> 00:31:12.950 Jeremy Olson: We've even, tried experimenting a little bit with, speech dictation on our… 296 00:31:13.370 --> 00:31:24.229 Jeremy Olson: We use televisions for our whiteboards, and we've even experimented with, like, you know, using, like, a speech-to-text dictation that goes on these whiteboards, because we have a couple of hearing impaired athletes. 297 00:31:25.330 --> 00:31:43.499 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Well, that's awesome. So you guys are… you guys are really trying to make it welcoming across all fronts, and that's… that sounds like that's a big part of the… of the ethos of… of the gym, is really trying to make it as welcoming of an environment and, pardon the reference, but, like, as big a tent as possible, right? As many people as possible. 298 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:45.949 Jeremy Olson: Exactly, Amy. 299 00:31:47.320 --> 00:31:48.150 Jeremy Olson: Right. 300 00:31:49.010 --> 00:31:51.520 Jeremy Olson: We don't… we're not a bunch of meatheads, or we're not… 301 00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:54.650 Jeremy Olson: Like, you would think… like, you would run into at a… 302 00:31:55.280 --> 00:32:00.230 Jeremy Olson: a Globogem, or… even though most of those are the nicest guys you'll ever meet, too. 303 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:03.829 Jordan Kunde-Wright: How, how do you, how do you think it is that, that, 304 00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:16.059 Jordan Kunde-Wright: so many, so many people in the fitness space, like, have gotten, or people have gotten this, this impression about the fitness space, because I find it, like, especially when you dig in on the, like, the niche sports. 305 00:32:16.060 --> 00:32:24.860 Jordan Kunde-Wright: And, like, you know, strongmen, and CrossFit, and kettlebell Sport, and, you know, like, all of these different strength sports, powerlifters, like. 306 00:32:24.860 --> 00:32:45.600 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I find those communities to be incredibly welcoming. They're just like, oh, you're weird like me? Cool! You wanna, like, you wanna do Highland Games? Awesome! Like, you know, I got a kilt you can borrow. You wanna come toss the cavers? Cool. You know, like, I've never found it to be anything but welcoming, and yet I still hear… and I, you know, I hear real stories from real people about how they've had bad experiences and felt… 307 00:32:45.600 --> 00:32:50.560 Jordan Kunde-Wright: intimidated or had coaches that didn't listen or didn't feel welcome at particular communities, like. 308 00:32:50.560 --> 00:32:55.769 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I've just never personally experienced that very much, so I don't know where that… where that comes from. Have you experienced that? 309 00:32:56.300 --> 00:33:02.649 Jeremy Olson: I've had bad coaches, but it was more from neglectful coaches that… 310 00:33:03.120 --> 00:33:11.570 Jeremy Olson: For example, I injured myself early on in my CrossFit career. I was doing GHD sit-ups. 311 00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:24.460 Jeremy Olson: And the coach kept pushing me beyond my limit, which is good in most situations, but on a GHD, you've got that hyperextension, and you're pulling yourself all the way up, and your abs start to… 312 00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:32.029 Jeremy Olson: hurting, and you should stop at that point. He kept pushing me beyond, you know, normal pain, and I ended up getting an umbilical hernia. 313 00:33:32.210 --> 00:33:33.060 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Boom. 314 00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:34.440 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Ugh. 315 00:33:35.030 --> 00:33:35.970 Jeremy Olson: Yeah. 316 00:33:35.970 --> 00:33:36.600 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 317 00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:45.319 Jeremy Olson: Of course, I heard it first, and then I didn't notice. I figured, you know, nothing was wrong until I, you know, realized… started bleeding out my belly button, and it's like… 318 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:49.070 Jeremy Olson: Yeah… Go to the doctor. 319 00:33:49.070 --> 00:33:53.360 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Something's wrong here. Yeah, that, that is… yeah, that is… 320 00:33:53.460 --> 00:33:55.350 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Coach, coaches are one thing, like… 321 00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:05.160 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I know that's a big… that's a big thing, like, we always say, like, don't get hurt in practice. We don't get hurt in practice, right? Like, that's… that's a big part of our philosophy, is… is, 322 00:34:05.330 --> 00:34:24.069 Jordan Kunde-Wright: intelligent auto-regulation, being smart, like, we know it's… sometimes it's time to push, it's okay to tear your hand in competition, we don't want to do it day in and day out. Like, that's not a badge of honor, right? Like, you know, we… we have to… we have to push… we have to push our boundaries of comfort, but never to the point where we're… 323 00:34:24.070 --> 00:34:28.949 Jordan Kunde-Wright: potentially risking injury, especially in practice, right? Like, that's… that's… 324 00:34:30.150 --> 00:34:33.659 Jeremy Olson: No, that wasn't at Psyched. At Psyched, all the coaches there are great. 325 00:34:33.940 --> 00:34:40.649 Jeremy Olson: We've… from early on, when we start coaching there, one of the first things that's drilled into us is athlete safety. 326 00:34:40.909 --> 00:34:41.499 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 327 00:34:42.739 --> 00:34:54.049 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Well, I mean, because hurt somebody, they're not coming back. You know, it's bad business, too, right? Like, I mean, obviously, there's ethical reasons for not hurting people, but it's also just bad business, right? If you're trying to build a community. 328 00:34:54.050 --> 00:34:54.760 Jeremy Olson: Oh, exactly. 329 00:34:54.760 --> 00:35:01.760 Jordan Kunde-Wright: like, taking care of people is, is incredibly important, and keeping them safe is a big part of that. So, yeah, that… 330 00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:08.980 Jeremy Olson: Yeah, and especially in, you know, like that, boutique-style gym, you know, you get a bad reputation, you're not going to survive. 331 00:35:08.980 --> 00:35:23.650 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. Yeah, bad press spreads fast, and I do think that actually might be the answer to why… why those stories… because everybody remembers… everybody remembers the bad. Like, you remember those bad stories, you hear those horror stories, you hear those, you know, and… 332 00:35:23.650 --> 00:35:47.970 Jordan Kunde-Wright: You know, it's not like… it's not like you're being like, yeah, man, like, I just… my coach just took really good care of me. I just, you know, I could have gotten hurt, but I didn't, you know, because that story's happened a dozen times, you know, but the one time, you know, or more, you know, ideally, you know, there's all sorts of times where you could have gotten hurt, but a, you know, a thoughtful coach is like, maybe scale that back, or maybe try a different movement, or hey, your form is breaking down, like, this is probably the time that you should 333 00:35:47.990 --> 00:35:58.689 Jordan Kunde-Wright: it's okay to call it, and move on to the next movement, or take rest, or reduce the weight, or whatever it is, right? Like, I think that's a… I think that's a… a big part of that. That's a big part of being a good coach, too. 334 00:35:58.690 --> 00:35:59.990 Jeremy Olson: Oh, right. 335 00:36:01.500 --> 00:36:03.340 Jeremy Olson: Sorry, as a co… go ahead. 336 00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:04.840 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh, go ahead. No, go ahead, please. 337 00:36:05.290 --> 00:36:14.269 Jeremy Olson: As I say, it's just about a big part of coaching. You know, we've talked about this many times, is we almost want our athletes to succeed more than we want to succeed ourselves. 338 00:36:14.600 --> 00:36:15.510 Jeremy Olson: I'm in. 339 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:23.459 Jeremy Olson: I cheer on my… all those, all my girls, all my chalk monsters. I want them to do better than me. 340 00:36:23.730 --> 00:36:24.310 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 341 00:36:25.210 --> 00:36:29.120 Jeremy Olson: They all can, and I know they're all going to listen to this, so… 342 00:36:29.270 --> 00:36:36.430 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I mean, I… I'm the… I'm 100% that way, like, you and I are very… are wired very similarly, like, that… that… that… 343 00:36:36.430 --> 00:36:58.799 Jordan Kunde-Wright: that aspect, I think that… and I, you know, I texted you just the other day, like, this is what makes you a coach, right? It's like, there's a reason Michael Jordan wasn't… wasn't a great basketball coach, and it's because he was a player, and he wanted to dominate people, and he couldn't… he couldn't understand why other people couldn't meet his level. And then there are… there are, you know, all sorts of examples of guys that were mediocre players. 344 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:10.680 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That go on to be fantastic coaches, because they care so much about that success, and maybe they had other attributes that got them to a certain level of athletic success, but they were never gonna be those… they were never gonna. 345 00:37:10.680 --> 00:37:11.080 Jeremy Olson: Who knows? 346 00:37:11.080 --> 00:37:29.709 Jordan Kunde-Wright: monsters, and they, they just, they're wired like a coach, and they care so much about other things. And, like, I think once you kind of click to that mindset, of being a coach, and once you have a group of people that are, you know, that are your community of people that are counting on… you want them, you want them to be better than you, and you, like. 347 00:37:29.750 --> 00:37:38.850 Jordan Kunde-Wright: It's such a weird dynamic, because you don't have any direct impact on how they actually do on the day of, you know, and so, like, it's completely out of your control. 348 00:37:38.850 --> 00:37:50.680 Jordan Kunde-Wright: But you want it for them as badly as they want it for themselves, you know, so you're living vicariously through these people that you can't control their outcome, but you just hope that you put them in the position where they can be as. 349 00:37:50.680 --> 00:37:51.500 Jeremy Olson: Oh, exactly. 350 00:37:51.500 --> 00:37:53.120 Jordan Kunde-Wright: As successful as they can. 351 00:37:55.120 --> 00:38:04.709 Jeremy Olson: And as a coach, you know, that passion that you put into the athletes, too, other athletes see that, and then they come, hey, I want to be coached like that. 352 00:38:05.270 --> 00:38:21.819 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah, and that's, again, that's that word of mouth, and that's how… that's how, you know, people start, and that's how that community builds, right? They… they start seeing… they start seeing results, and they start seeing people, you know, kicking ass, and they're like, oh, okay, there's something… there's something here, right? There's something… there's something good happening here. 353 00:38:22.570 --> 00:38:29.959 Jeremy Olson: And that's kind of how… where, actually, Psyched Kettlebell came about, too, is I was just doing the kettlebell fitness class, where I was 354 00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:36.099 Jeremy Olson: you know, I'd be like, yeah, no, let's do 10 snatches left, 10 snatches right, as part of a workout. 355 00:38:36.220 --> 00:38:43.180 Jeremy Olson: Which is already pretty unique, because, you know, CrossFit doesn't do a lot of kettlebell snatches or clean and jerks. 356 00:38:43.860 --> 00:38:49.730 Jeremy Olson: So it was a very unique class already, which got… which had people sign up 357 00:38:50.570 --> 00:38:53.420 Jeremy Olson: Did it just because it's something different. 358 00:38:53.420 --> 00:39:06.769 Jordan Kunde-Wright: It's unique, yeah, yeah. Like, oh, I'm gonna go do… I'm gonna go do the CrossFit class with the big Viking guy that does all the weird kettlebell shit, right? It starts like that, and then now you've got them. Once they're… once they're hooked. 359 00:39:06.770 --> 00:39:19.239 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Like, then it's like, hey, there's… there's a whole other… there's a whole other dimension we can go down. You wanna… you wanna come over here? You wanna see that body? Go, come here, come here, I'll show you, I'll show you the weird stuff. 360 00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:38.819 Jeremy Olson: Well, that's kind of what happened, is I was doing your programming, in addition. As you know, I use CrossFit for GPP, so I would do your programming around a CrossFit session, so I'd be at the gym already, but I'd be off doing my, I'd be doing, you know, my intervals, you know, and they're just watching me going. 361 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:44.279 Jeremy Olson: what is that guy doing? And then, some of my kettlebell class, would… 362 00:39:45.780 --> 00:39:49.470 Jeremy Olson: I remember who it was, it was Hillary, she came up to me and… 363 00:39:49.830 --> 00:39:53.039 Jeremy Olson: She's like, what are you doing? Can I do it? 364 00:39:54.850 --> 00:39:56.759 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That looks terrible, how do I get in? 365 00:39:57.390 --> 00:40:06.329 Jeremy Olson: Exactly. And I'm like, alright, so I come in at 6 AM on Saturdays, and I do sport at the gym. 366 00:40:07.150 --> 00:40:09.819 Jeremy Olson: Huh, so she started doing that, and then… 367 00:40:09.820 --> 00:40:23.879 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I… I can't… I can't get with the 6 AM stuff, man. I don't know how you do it. I did that for a long time, and, like, I can't… I can't, like, be dry… dry scooping pre-workout at 5.30 in the parking lot just to be, like, awake to go do kettlebell sport. I just… 368 00:40:23.910 --> 00:40:42.649 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I can't… I can't do it, man. I can't… I'm not wired like that no more. I don't know how you guys do it, but shout out to Hillary and the rest of the 6 AM Chalk Monsters. I look forward to meeting… I look forward to meeting that crew in person, because they sound… they sound insane in the best way possible, and I can't… I can't… I can't wait to… can't wait to meet those ladies. 369 00:40:43.590 --> 00:40:49.009 Jeremy Olson: But yeah, I just enrolled from there, like, and then I started incorporating more sport into my, 370 00:40:49.270 --> 00:40:50.920 Jeremy Olson: Kettlebell class, and… 371 00:40:51.030 --> 00:41:02.039 Jeremy Olson: September, right after, Twin Cities kind of opened, I did a sports seminar, where we just went over, you know, long cycle and snatch, but I had 28 people show up. 372 00:41:02.560 --> 00:41:04.509 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh, that's awesome. That's great. 373 00:41:05.230 --> 00:41:08.110 Jeremy Olson: I'm like, you know, there's something to this. 374 00:41:08.570 --> 00:41:22.029 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I love that. That's fantastic. Well, cool, man. I'm… I'm curious, how does… how does your, like, personal… your personal journey inform your coaching perspective, too? Because that's… I think that's a… I think that's a big part of… 375 00:41:22.030 --> 00:41:36.790 Jordan Kunde-Wright: of why you're such a good coach, because of the journey that you've been on, but I'm curious to hear it from your perspective. Like, how do you… how does that… how does your own… how does your own path… how do you bring your own experiences, into it, both good and bad? Like, how does that inform your coaching perspective? 376 00:41:38.250 --> 00:41:40.240 Jeremy Olson: I stay relatable. 377 00:41:40.450 --> 00:41:44.490 Jeremy Olson: I… I've done every diet under the sun. I've done… 378 00:41:45.210 --> 00:41:51.940 Jeremy Olson: every, you know, gimmick under the sun. I mean, I've done the weighted hula hoop, I've done, you know, just right… 379 00:41:52.500 --> 00:41:53.640 Jeremy Olson: Bullshit like that. 380 00:41:53.640 --> 00:41:59.169 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah, yeah. Anything and everything, right? Like, if I could turn good money at it, I would. 381 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:05.060 Jeremy Olson: I mean, people… and I challenge myself, too, I mean… 382 00:42:06.610 --> 00:42:18.169 Jeremy Olson: Most of my kettlebell crew and my, in my class, it's very female-dominated, so I went to… and I took the Girls Gone Strong and got my certified women's coaching specialist. 383 00:42:18.570 --> 00:42:18.970 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Nice. 384 00:42:18.970 --> 00:42:23.579 Jeremy Olson: just to challenge myself to, you know, hey, how can I help these people more? 385 00:42:23.830 --> 00:42:24.750 Jeremy Olson: Yeah. 386 00:42:25.550 --> 00:42:29.369 Jeremy Olson: I think they get a feel for that, like, hey, this guy cares. 387 00:42:30.530 --> 00:42:33.449 Jeremy Olson: This guy wants me to be my best. 388 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:38.589 Jeremy Olson: And he's not just a big scary guy over there. 389 00:42:38.590 --> 00:42:56.139 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I, yeah, I will say that that authenticity shines through, like, you know, having met… having met you in person and having interacted with you as much as I have, like, I just, like, your genueness, especially when people meet you in person, like, your genuineness just really, just really comes through, and I think that… I think that is a… that is a big part of it. 390 00:42:56.140 --> 00:43:05.040 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I know, me personally, so I'm gonna ask this question because I've got my own… my own perspective on this, and I'm curious if you've experienced it similarly, like. 391 00:43:05.260 --> 00:43:10.269 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I struggled, especially early on in my coaching career, with a lot of imposter syndrome, and feeling. 392 00:43:10.270 --> 00:43:11.030 Jeremy Olson: Oh, jeez. 393 00:43:11.030 --> 00:43:17.769 Jordan Kunde-Wright: And feeling like, oh man, who am I to be… you know, like, I, you know, I would have… I would have people that I'm like, you're… 394 00:43:17.810 --> 00:43:25.960 Jordan Kunde-Wright: fitter than I am, you're better, you know, and they're like, yeah, but you know more than me. You know, they're like, they're like, you know, it was weird for me at Lifetime Fitness when people would be like. 395 00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:39.169 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I don't want to work with these other trainers, like, because I'm like, this guy's a frickin' fitness model, like, what is this… why is this person coming up and asking me to help them lose 50 pounds when, like, they could go talk to Michael, who's got ripped six-pack abs, and like… 396 00:43:39.170 --> 00:43:48.520 Jordan Kunde-Wright: you know, can just, like, eat whatever he wants, and they're like, yeah, that guy's intimidating to me. So, like, it took me a long time to get over that imposter syndrome, and, like. 397 00:43:48.990 --> 00:44:03.420 Jordan Kunde-Wright: certification hunting was part of it, but I'm similar to you, like, it's not just… it wasn't just that, it was also that mental, like, you know, that insatiable curiosity component is certainly part of it, but, you know, if I'm honest with myself, part of it, too, was, like, I need to have, like. 398 00:44:03.650 --> 00:44:27.810 Jordan Kunde-Wright: all the credentials, so that when somebody's like, well, who are you to coach this program? And be like, well, I've got this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, you know. They're like, okay, you know, you've spent $15,000, you know, on, you know, certifications. And then the CEU's continuing education expenses, I was like, oh god, I can't… I can't keep all of these certs active, you know. Right. But, you know, because that alphabet soup after the name gets expensive to keep up with, but… 399 00:44:27.810 --> 00:44:31.370 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Is that… is that part of your journey, too? It seems like, from your reaction. 400 00:44:31.370 --> 00:44:39.960 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh, yeah. It's been part of your journey, too. How have you, how have you… how have you, navigated that? I won't say overcome it, because it can kind of be an ongoing struggle, but I'm curious how you. 401 00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:40.510 Jeremy Olson: Oh, ease. 402 00:44:40.510 --> 00:44:41.530 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Battled with it. 403 00:44:42.220 --> 00:44:44.760 Jeremy Olson: It's 100% ongoing. 404 00:44:46.720 --> 00:44:52.220 Jeremy Olson: Honestly, I love angry music before I go into a class. 405 00:44:54.380 --> 00:45:11.930 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That is… that is also one of the most curious things, right? Like, you… you and I both love heavy music, and we're both, like, incredibly friendly, nice… nice people in person, so it's like, those two things often, like, people are like, wait, how are… how are you… you're listening to, like, the heaviest… the heaviest, craziest shit, and, like, you're just… 406 00:45:11.930 --> 00:45:16.100 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Like, isn't that too angry for you? It's like, no, this is… this is great for me. 407 00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:19.989 Jeremy Olson: Honestly, it's the… it's very similar to… 408 00:45:20.780 --> 00:45:23.730 Jeremy Olson: I would say kettlebell sport. Like. 409 00:45:24.570 --> 00:45:38.800 Jeremy Olson: everyone is so friendly and welcoming in the sport… in the sport community. You go to, like, a… like, an Imano Marth concert, everybody there is friendly. They're like, oh, hey, where'd you see them? Yeah, yeah. It's all like, yeah, let's go have a great time. 410 00:45:39.020 --> 00:45:42.059 Jeremy Olson: I mean, let's go get in the pit and the pit on someone. 411 00:45:42.060 --> 00:45:43.000 Jordan Kunde-Wright: out of each other. 412 00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:45.709 Jeremy Olson: Yeah, that's great, let's suffer together! 413 00:45:45.710 --> 00:45:46.320 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 414 00:45:47.130 --> 00:45:59.629 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I was… I was… I took Kira to that… to that Hailstorm concert, and she was… she was standing on her chair at one point, like, looking at the pit to see what was going on, and I could see the, like… I could see the, like… 415 00:46:00.210 --> 00:46:13.989 Jordan Kunde-Wright: you know, she's, she's, you know, 11 years old, so I could see there was, like, a little bit of, like, intimidation, like, wow, that's kind of crazy, but then I also saw the, like, I want to go down there. And she at one point asked me, she's like. 416 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:30.430 Jordan Kunde-Wright: how old do I have to be before I can go to the pit? I was like, I was like, you are 100% my child, because she… she loved the heavy rock, and she wanted to get down, like, as close to the front row as she possibly 417 00:46:30.430 --> 00:46:40.839 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh, yeah. Just to… just to get in the mess, and I was like, it's like, maybe in a couple years, when you're a little bit bigger, a little bit older, and I'll come with you. You know, but I love that. That's… that's fantastic. 418 00:46:42.660 --> 00:46:44.999 Jeremy Olson: And if you get knocked down, someone's always there to pick you up. 419 00:46:45.320 --> 00:47:04.720 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah, 100%, 100%. I know you've got a hard stop here, and I'm gonna be respectful of your time, so I'm gonna ask you a couple of questions that most people probably know what's coming, but one of them is, you know, as someone that has been through the journey that you've been through, this isn't kettlebell sport specific, but it's a variant of that question, right? Like… 420 00:47:04.810 --> 00:47:16.230 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Of the mistakes that you've made, and the things that work, and all of the things, right? If you could distill it down, like, as somebody that's lost 300 pounds and kept it off, like, what would be the keys that you say, like, hey. 421 00:47:16.330 --> 00:47:36.070 Jordan Kunde-Wright: don't make the mistakes I made, here's the keys to successful weight loss, successful nutrition journey, fitness, you know, however you want to take that, right? Like, what would be the things that you're like, for anybody that's just looking to transform their body, transform their health, like, what would you… what lessons would you try and… try and impart to somebody that's trying to go on a similar… a similar journey like that? 422 00:47:36.790 --> 00:47:47.700 Jeremy Olson: First of all, it's not linear. There's gonna be hips and, dips and spikes and all of that good stuff. I didn't, you know, just drop 300 pounds and stayed there. 423 00:47:48.600 --> 00:47:59.379 Jeremy Olson: Through COVID, I actually, second time I had COVID, actually, like, broke something, or triggered something, and it caused a big depression, and I went on depression meds for a short time, and… 424 00:48:00.110 --> 00:48:04.110 Jeremy Olson: turned me into a zombie, I didn't care, and I gained back, like, almost 100 pounds. 425 00:48:04.350 --> 00:48:07.430 Jeremy Olson: And then I lost it again, and that's where I'm at now. 426 00:48:07.690 --> 00:48:12.540 Jeremy Olson: After I've kicked the meds, and… Got my balance back. 427 00:48:14.240 --> 00:48:21.060 Jeremy Olson: So, it's not linear. There's going to be peaks, spikes, all that good stuff. Sometimes you gotta take a step back to go too forward. 428 00:48:21.990 --> 00:48:22.670 Jeremy Olson: Yep. 429 00:48:22.890 --> 00:48:27.509 Jeremy Olson: I've talked a lot of people off the ledge, like, oh no, I gained a pound this month. 430 00:48:27.680 --> 00:48:34.040 Jeremy Olson: It's all right. It happens. Something could be going on, like, did you drink enough water? Did you… 431 00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:36.479 Jeremy Olson: This, that, and the other. 432 00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:37.520 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 433 00:48:37.670 --> 00:48:46.519 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah, you told me a pretty crazy story about one of… well, she'll remain nameless, but you mentioned somebody was like, yeah, they dropped, like. 434 00:48:46.520 --> 00:49:05.870 Jordan Kunde-Wright: 12 pounds of just, like, water retention and inflammation, because I finally got them to, like, sleep and, like, start changing some of their… and it was like, they were like, holy shit! Like, I was eating more, and I lost weight, and, you know, like, just… just some of the… getting that homeostasis, response sometimes is… is kind of crazy, too. 435 00:49:06.730 --> 00:49:10.590 Jeremy Olson: Right, and I guarantee that person's going to recognize that right off the bat. 436 00:49:10.590 --> 00:49:16.460 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I, I hope, I hope that's not, I hope that's not a bridge too far, but it was, it was a great. 437 00:49:16.460 --> 00:49:17.860 Jeremy Olson: No, no, it's all good. 438 00:49:17.860 --> 00:49:26.449 Jordan Kunde-Wright: It was a great coaching success, and a huge, huge non-scale victory, too. Like, regardless of the weight loss, you know, part of it, it was just a, like, lightbulb moment, where it's like, oh… 439 00:49:26.530 --> 00:49:43.789 Jordan Kunde-Wright: this shit works, right? Like, you're gonna try some of these counterintuitive approaches, like, hey, you might need to eat more. And then suddenly the stress response from your body from no longer being in a constant state of deprivation, and it's like, oh, okay, boom, there goes 10 pounds of water retention, and, you know, it's like, oh. 440 00:49:43.790 --> 00:49:44.630 Jeremy Olson: Exactly. 441 00:49:44.630 --> 00:49:45.100 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That was fantastic. 442 00:49:45.100 --> 00:49:46.550 Jeremy Olson: Sometimes you gotta eat to lose. 443 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:47.360 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah. 444 00:49:47.530 --> 00:50:06.460 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Yeah, that is… that is one of the least… that is still one of the least intuitive things, I think, for a lot of people, is like, oh, sometimes you need to eat more, right? There's a… there's a window. There's a window that you… that you need to hit, and it's always sliding, too. I think that's part of the trick bag of it, right, is it's… it's a dynamic window. It doesn't stay static, unfortunately, so there's always… 445 00:50:06.460 --> 00:50:15.310 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Hence why it's nonlinear, to your point there. Alright, so then the last question here before you gotta go take care of your kids and be with your family, 446 00:50:15.460 --> 00:50:33.570 Jordan Kunde-Wright: As you know, you know, you're two years into this journey, but you're much longer into your fitness journey. What do you tell your athletes that are just getting started? What is kind of like that number one tip that you start people with? What is the number one thing that you would recommend to anybody that's listening, that's starting their kettlebell sport journey? 447 00:50:35.270 --> 00:50:38.410 Jeremy Olson: Embrace the suck. No, I mean. But… 448 00:50:38.410 --> 00:50:40.200 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Nothing wrong with that, that's good advice. 449 00:50:40.780 --> 00:50:48.659 Jeremy Olson: I do say that a lot, but honestly, it's all about the community. You just… you can do it, just start lighter. 450 00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:53.469 Jeremy Olson: And… If you're flopping it and hitting your wrist, you know, it'll come, just… 451 00:50:53.730 --> 00:50:56.560 Jeremy Olson: Throw on a little bit thicker wristbands, and… 452 00:50:56.840 --> 00:51:02.800 Jeremy Olson: work on that rotation up, and you'll get it. It just takes… like everything else, it takes time. 453 00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:10.830 Jeremy Olson: I've got… probably hundreds of thousands of, you know, snatches and wrong cycle reps under my belt. I mean… 454 00:51:11.410 --> 00:51:14.420 Jeremy Olson: Nothing compared to people who have been in the sport longer than me, but… 455 00:51:14.420 --> 00:51:18.159 Jordan Kunde-Wright: And I still have technique feedback for you, right? I'm still giving… I'm still giving you tips. 456 00:51:18.160 --> 00:51:35.080 Jordan Kunde-Wright: We're working on stuff, right? We're always… and that's not a knock on… you've made a ton of progress, right? Like, your technique's way better, but there's always… there's always something, right? Like, even Dennis, even Dennis is still tweaking stuff, right? Lorna's still taking her notepad out and being like, oh, I'm gonna try, you know, I'm gonna try this now, and like, you know, I think… 457 00:51:35.080 --> 00:51:36.839 Jeremy Olson: Call you out on stuff. 458 00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:55.370 Jordan Kunde-Wright: 100%, yeah. Yeah, my… yeah, I've got all, like, I love… and I love getting that feedback from people that are intentional and mindful about it. I hate when I get it from, like, a CrossFit bro that's like, you know, or a hardstyle bro that's like, ugh, you're not doing that, you're not doing that snatch right. I'm like, okay, dude. 459 00:51:55.600 --> 00:52:01.879 Jordan Kunde-Wright: We're trying to accomplish different things here, but, you know, that's neither here nor there. 460 00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:09.920 Jeremy Olson: Yeah, Grid League snatches are different than… because I've seen Grid League do those, double snatches, and it's like, oh, let's see, right? 461 00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:14.640 Jordan Kunde-Wright: I'll take stress fractures or impact fractures for 500, Alex, but… 462 00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:21.010 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That's, you know, salvie. Everybody's got their thing that they're doing, so long as they're safe and comfortable with it, that's alright. 463 00:52:21.020 --> 00:52:34.899 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Well, Jeremy, I really appreciate the time, man. It's great connecting, as always. You know, Skull, I'm having… I'm having… I'm having a beer. You're probably… you're probably not, but that's okay. I hope you have a great evening. Thank you for coming on. 464 00:52:34.900 --> 00:52:48.790 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Thank you for coming on the podcast, and we'll talk soon. How do people follow you? How do they… how do they come take your classes? You know, how do people… how do people get in contact with you, and all that good stuff. We'll make sure that people can get at you. 465 00:52:49.630 --> 00:52:52.770 Jeremy Olson: Instagram, I'm at LV underscore biking. 466 00:52:52.930 --> 00:53:04.360 Jeremy Olson: It's CrossFit Psych, just pop that into Google and it'll pop up. You'll be able to get into any of my classes, or any of the CrossFit classes there. They're all great, all coached. 467 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:08.240 Jeremy Olson: Yeah, just hit me up. 468 00:53:09.220 --> 00:53:24.249 Jordan Kunde-Wright: If you're competing at Love-A-Bell's in Vegas in February, Jeremy will be there, Gianna and Stacy will be there, there'll be a whole community of people, crazy, crazy psyched, kettlebell people there, screaming, and they'll scream for everybody, I'm sure. 469 00:53:24.250 --> 00:53:27.369 Jeremy Olson: Oh yeah, we're a very loud bunch. 470 00:53:28.300 --> 00:53:35.149 Jeremy Olson: And we're also, and we're also competing at, Psych the Kettlebell as a team, Chalk Monster's competing at the Cherry Blossom Open, too. 471 00:53:35.150 --> 00:53:55.579 Jordan Kunde-Wright: Oh, fantastic! You're gonna… you're gonna do a, you're gonna… we're gonna talk about that, because I'm doing a… I'm gonna do a remote one… I'm gonna do a remote one here for… for Twin Cities, so, maybe we can… maybe we can coordinate between… between our teams and… and, and get some people screaming on Zoom, too, because we got… I got some people up in Canada that… that probably aren't gonna be able to have anybody in person, so maybe we can… 472 00:53:55.580 --> 00:54:00.480 Jordan Kunde-Wright: We can, we can talk about how we, how we coordinate the community a little bit and get everybody, get everybody. 473 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:02.320 Jeremy Olson: Oh, absolutely. Love that. 474 00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:11.280 Jordan Kunde-Wright: That's awesome, man. Well, thank you very much, I appreciate it. Go spend time with the kids and the wife, and I appreciate you hopping on, brother. We'll talk soon. 475 00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:12.500 Jeremy Olson: Talk to you later. 476 00:54:12.500 --> 00:54:13.230 Jordan Kunde-Wright: See you, Jeremy.