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Health Advice From The Fittest Doc

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On November 24, 2025

In The CrossFit Podcast

Dr. Nick (aka The Fittest Doc) joins Jocelyn Rylee to unpack how CrossFit shaped his approach to medicine. They dig into lifestyle versus pharmaceuticals, the role of identity in lasting change, and why doctors need to prioritize their own health.

Topics Covered

  • How CrossFit reshaped Dr. Nick’s discipline and medical practice
  • Lifestyle-first vs. pharma-first approaches to chronic disease
  • Performance as a predictor of future health
  • Building credibility: Should doctors practice what they preach?
  • The role of affiliates in bridging healthcare and community

Resources Mentioned

Community Highlight

The Phoenix is built on one idea: recovery is stronger in community.

Since 2006, they’ve reached nearly a million people impacted by substance use and mental health challenges — and CrossFit has become their most popular program. More than 100,000 people have found sobriety and support through Phoenix CrossFit classes, with 83% staying sober beyond the three-month mark.

We spoke with Gavin Young, a Phoenix leader and longtime CrossFit athlete in recovery, who shared how daily progress in training — one more rep, one more pound, one more second — becomes a cornerstone in rebuilding lives.

From Boston to Denver to Philadelphia, The Phoenix is proving what’s possible when fitness meets recovery: a resilient community built on hope, accountability, and shared struggle — one workout at a time.


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[CFMS SERIES] Dave Durante on Life After the Olympics (EP. 053)

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On November 17, 2025

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This marks the seventh episode of a special CrossFit Podcast collaboration with the CrossFit Medical Society. 

Olympian and Power Monkey Fitness co-founder Dave Durante joins the CrossFit Podcast to talk about the transition from elite competition to lifelong fitness. After representing the U.S. in gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Dave discovered CrossFit, and it changed his life.

He shares how CrossFit helped him stay healthy and strong beyond his competitive years, the story behind Power Monkey Camp, and why gymnastics remains one of the best foundations for athleticism at any age.

TOPICS INCLUDED

  • Life after elite sport: finding purpose and health beyond competition
  • How CrossFit reignited Dave’s passion for training
  • The creation and evolution of Power Monkey Camp
  • Building bridges between gymnastics and CrossFit
  • The importance of play, curiosity, and community in adult fitness
  • Why gymnastics is the ultimate foundation for all sports

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Community Highlight

After two decades studying cancer genetics, Dr. Jennifer Beebe-Dimmer wanted to give patients something they could act on today. That’s how the CAPABLE program was born, a free, 12-week, CrossFit-based intervention for cancer survivors.

Coached by Level 1 trainers, participants train three times a week and complete pre- and post-testing for strength, conditioning, and biomarkers. Since 2019, more than 275 people have gone through the program, most of whom had never done anything like it before.

The results speak for themselves: significant improvements in quality of life, body composition, sleep, and A1C, with cognitive function up next.

Beebe-Dimmer calls CrossFit the “secret sauce,” not just for the workouts, but for the coaching and community that keep people coming back.“

When I look back at my career, this will be the most meaningful thing I’ve done.”

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[LIVE] Understanding the Return to Forging Elite Fitness® (EP. 048)

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On November 7, 2025

In The CrossFit Podcast

“Forging Elite Fitness®” has been part of the CrossFit brand since 2003. And now, it’s representing CrossFit front and center once again after a few years of lurking behind the scenes. But what does it really mean? And what doesn’t it mean? And why are we bringing it back? 

In this show, Denise Thomas is joined by Nicole Carroll, Craig Howard, and Jocelyn Rylee to unpack the phrase that debuted its revival tour this week in our new “Forging Elite Fitness” video and accompanying article. They’ll talk about where the misunderstanding often lies: Is it only about Games athletes? Is “elite” too aggressive? Or does it perfectly capture what CrossFit does for anyone who walks through the door, from grandparents to Games competitors?

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[CFMS SERIES] The Healthcare Revolution Starts in The Affiliate (EP. 047)

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On October 27, 2025

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This marks the sixth episode of a special CrossFit Podcast collaboration with the CrossFit Medical Society. 

CrossFit affiliates are the force transforming how the healthcare system operates.

Zia Rohrbaugh of CrossFit Counter Culture and Josh Plosker of Invictus Boston have turned their gyms into full-service “health homes,” offering blood panels, IV therapy, and access to Community Care health plans — all built around CrossFit’s foundational principles.

In this conversation, Jocelyn Rylee explores how affiliates bring these systems to life, how members save money through HSA and FSA programs, and what it means for the future of CrossFit and community-based healthcare.

TOPICS INCLUDED

  • How affiliates are transforming into “health homes”
  • Partnering with the CrossFit Medical Society
  • Offering blood panels, IV therapy, and telemedicine in gyms
  • How Community Care provides affordable health coverage
  • Using HSA/FSA and TrueMed to make CrossFit memberships tax-free
  • The future of CrossFit as a global healthcare model

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Community Highlight

In 2011, Jaeho Woo discovered CrossFit as a college athlete in Seoul. What started as training for basketball became a lifelong passion — one that eventually took him to the most remote place on Earth.

After serving in the Korean military and coaching CrossFit, Jaeho opened an affiliate in Seoul — then shipped 500 lb of equipment to Antarctica to found the first CrossFit affiliate on the continent.

For 10 months, he’s coached his 18-person crew in a tiny gym surrounded by glaciers. When the endless dark set in and isolation hit hard, Jaeho kept showing up — knocking on doors, reminding his teammates: When you train together, you feel better, and you’re never alone.

As he prepares to leave Antarctica, Jaeho’s message is simple: Isolation is real. Resilience comes from connection. Wherever you are, don’t go it alone.

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[CFMS SERIES] Calley Means and the Fight to Fix a Broken Healthcare System (EP. 045)

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On October 20, 2025

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This marks the fifth episode of a special CrossFit Podcast collaboration with the CrossFit Medical Society. 

Calley Means is a former food and pharma lobbyist turned healthcare reform advocate. He co-authored “Good Energy” with his sister, Dr. Casey Means, and co-founded TrueMed, a company working to make root-cause health solutions like exercise and nutrition eligible for HSA/FSA dollars. 

In this conversation, Calley explains why our healthcare model is built to manage disease instead of preventing it, how CrossFit and lifestyle interventions are effective, and what policies and cultural shifts could finally turn the tide against chronic illness.

Topics Covered

  • Why the U.S. healthcare system is built to manage, not prevent, disease
  • The role of food policy, SNAP reform, and FDA guidelines in chronic illness
  • Calley’s personal journey from industry lobbyist to health advocate
  • The promise of functional medicine, biomarkers, and personalized care
  • TrueMed and making fitness/food eligible for HSA/FSA healthcare dollars

Resources Mentioned

Community Highlight

Nick Johnson founded CrossFit Liminal, a nonprofit affiliate outside Atlanta serving one of the most diverse refugee communities in the U.S. What started in his garage with five members from Syria and Nepal, has grown into programs for Afghan women, refugee youth training for free, and community events like “Ruck for Refugees.”

As Nick puts it: “Trauma gets you out of your body. CrossFit gets you back in it.”

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[CFMS SERIES] CrossFit Behind Bars: Freedom, Sobriety, and Leadership (EP. 043)

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On October 13, 2025

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This marks the fourth episode of a special CrossFit Podcast collaboration with the CrossFit Medical Society. 

Redemption Road CrossFit started inside Colorado’s prison system, where a small group of men turned CrossFit workouts into the first affiliate behind bars. Today, it’s a nonprofit changing prison culture through mentorship, accountability, and community — cutting recidivism to just 1.6% compared to the national average of 80%.

This week, we welcome Redemption Road CrossFit’s founder Nick Wells and founding member Gino Aviles to the show. Nick and Gino share their journey, from addiction and life sentences to freedom, sobriety, and leadership, and show how CrossFit’s methodology can transform not just fitness, but lives.

Topics Covered

  • Personal journeys from addiction, incarceration, and transformation
  • The origins of CrossFit in Colorado prisons
  • Building Redemption Road: the first affiliate inside a correctional facility
  • Overcoming stigma, violence, and systemic barriers through community fitness
  • Partnerships with CrossFit HQ and the broader community
  • Redemption Road’s measurable impact on recidivism and prison culture

Resources Mentioned

Community Highlight

Troy Peterson founded ValorFit to connect veterans with CrossFit affiliates across the U.S.

For him, it’s personal. After serving in Iraq and earning a Purple Heart, Troy came home battling addiction, depression, and suicidal thoughts. At 300+ pounds and dependent on pills and alcohol, his wife gave him an ultimatum. That’s when he walked into a CrossFit gym and asked for help.

“I didn’t want to take the substances anymore because I wanted to go work out.” That shift changed everything.

Today, ValorFit covers six months of affiliate memberships for veterans — over 4,000 so far. The only requirement? Show up three days a week.

“Free breakfast on Veterans Day has never changed anyone’s life,” Troy said. “But showing up to the gym three days a week can.”

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[CFMS SERIES] Top Affiliate Owners on the No. 1 Limiter to Growth (EP. 041)

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On October 6, 2025

In The CrossFit Podcast

This marks the third episode of a special CrossFit Podcast collaboration with the CrossFit Medical Society.

In this episode, Jason Fernandez, longtime coach, Seminar Staff member, and co-founder of Best Hour of Their Day, and Matt Souza, 12-year affiliate owner of CrossFit Livermore, join host Jocelyn Rylee to dig into the overlooked fundamentals of hospitality, first impressions, and soft skills in CrossFit gyms.

They share hard-earned lessons on onboarding, reducing friction, building community, and why trust is the ultimate currency. Understand the type of service top CrossFit affiliates provide and how that’s the road to reducing the intimidation factor. 

Topics Covered

  • Why hospitality is as important as coaching skills
  • How first impressions shape member retention
  • Onboarding systems that actually work
  • Reducing friction inside and outside the gym
  • Collaboration between affiliates and local businesses
  • Building trust as the ultimate foundation of community

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Community Highlight

David Needham seems to do it all: full-time firefighter, owner of two CrossFit affiliates, contributor to WheelWOD and the Adaptive CrossFit Games, and mentor to other affiliate owners on business growth.

One of his biggest passions is serving on the Adaptive Athlete Foundation of Maryland, where he helps athletes secure life-changing prosthetics through insurance. Watching someone regain the ability to move and train is what drives him most.

And when asked what CrossFit means to him, David’s answer is simple … and very firefighter:
“Because of CrossFit, I can save people from burning buildings.”

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[CFMS SERIES] Daniel Chaffey: Unpacking CrossFit’s Evolution and Affiliate Success (EP. 039)

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On September 29, 2025

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This marks the second episode of a special CrossFit Podcast collaboration with the CrossFit Medical Society.

This week, we welcome Daniel Chaffey, a longtime leader in the CrossFit space. He owns CrossFit Louvre in Paris, one of Europe’s most established affiliates with over 3,100 members across three locations. 

He also founded the major European competition, The French Throwdown, and Operating With Excellence, a workshop platform dedicated to helping affiliate owners build thriving businesses. 

In this conversation, host Jocelyn Rylee dives into the essentials of CrossFit affiliates with Daniel: leadership, hospitality, and community. Chaffey, known for never mincing words, shares point-blank perspectives on everything from the future of CrossFit to the responsibility of affiliates in shaping that future. 

Topics Covered

  • The role of leadership in affiliate success and sustainability
  • The difference between service and hospitality in gyms
  • Building and maintaining community in CrossFit
  • CrossFit’s role in health across generations
  • Optimism, anxiety, and the future direction of CrossFit
  • The importance of education and HQ’s role in supporting affiliates

Resources Mentioned

  • Jordan Peterson/Peterson Academy (leadership courses)
  • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (applied to member experience)
  • CrossFit Level 1 and Level 2 Courses
  • Affiliate gatherings/events (e.g., Banff, Canadian Affiliate Gathering)

Community Highlight

Saxon Panchik is having a full-circle moment.

With six CrossFit Games appearances, he’s now putting more energy into giving back to the community that built him.

His message:

  1. Get into an affiliate and be active.
  2. Uplift those around you.
  3. Keep each other accountable.

“It is life-changing. We all have things we wish we knew when starting our fitness journey. Take a minute to share that with someone just beginning.”

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[CFMS SERIES] The Future of Health (Care) in CrossFit Affiliates (EP. 038)

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On September 22, 2025

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Over the next few weeks, we’re rolling out something different: a special CrossFit Podcast collaboration with the CrossFit Medical Society. Why? Because the CFMS isn’t sitting quietly on the sidelines. They are in the fight to cure chronic disease and put affiliates in the driver’s seat as the true health homes of their communities. This is a grassroots health revolution, and everyone should be paying attention. The mission is simple: empower affiliates, coaches, and members with real tools to reclaim their health and step out of the sickness economy. No quick fixes. Just CrossFit.

In this episode, Dr. Tom McCoy and Jenn Pishko, founders of the CrossFit Medical Society, join host Jocelyn Rylee to break down how affiliates can become the front line of community-based health care.

Recorded live at the 2025 CrossFit Owners and Coaches Conference and the 2025 CrossFit Games, the conversation digs into physician burnout, the launch of CommunityCare, and why the affiliate model is poised to be the future of preventative health.

Topics Covered

  • Burnout rates in primary care and why doctors are leaving medicine
  • How CrossFit affiliates can act as community health hubs
  • Launch of the CrossFit Medical Society and its goals
  • CommunityCare: a new model challenging U.S. health insurance
  • Biomarkers, bone density, and measures of health in CrossFit
  • Building trust between affiliates, coaches, and members
  • Shifting from “sick care” to true preventative health

Resources Mentioned

Community Highlight

Bobby Peters is the assistant superintendent of a rural California school district. He’s also an L2 trainer, a garage gym guy, and the founder of CrossFit Sierra Pacific, a nonprofit affiliate based in a public high school.⠀

It started small. A few local P.E. teachers got their L1s. Then came a weight-room renovation, a CrossFit course for students, and a 5 a.m. class open to any staff who wanted to move before the school day.

But Bobby didn’t stop there.

He helped launch a CrossFit program inside a juvenile incarceration facility. The setup is simple — bikes, sandbags, bodyweight movements — but the impact is massive.

“These kids didn’t talk to each other at first,” Bobby says. “Now they cheer each other on. They fist bump. They give feedback. It’s completely different.

”Bobby’s building confidence, leadership, and the possibility of a different path. His vision is clear: help these kids earn their L1s and reenter the world with something real.

He’s also pushing to get CrossFit recognized as a state-approved high school fitness curriculum — and he’s laying the groundwork to make it happen.

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[LIVE] Cutting Through the Noise on Nutrition (EP. 037)

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On September 19, 2025

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Nutrition is one of the most debated topics in health and fitness — and it’s central to CrossFit’s methodology. 

In this livestream, host James Hobart sits down with Jocelyn Rylee, Joe Alexander, and Jenn Pishko to talk nutrition. The conversation tackles CrossFit’s nutrition principles, how they apply in real life, and what the science actually says.

With so many competing voices in the space, we cut through the noise to address strategies for everyday CrossFit athletes, elite athletes, and those battling chronic disease. Expect honest discussion on food quality vs. quantity, calories in vs. calories out, the 80/20 rule, food addiction, and more.

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