Meg Reardon is a multi-time CrossFit Games athlete living and training out of New York City. One of America’s fittest women, Meg gives insight into the life of an elite CrossFitter training at the top levels and working to make a living in the sport. She also discusses a recent Open-related injury and her current training game plan. What’s it like to train for the CrossFit Games when you can only do upper body movements?
In this episode of the BarBend Podcast, David Thomas Tao talks to Meg Reardon about:
- Meg’s recent knee injury and getting ahead of nagging and repetitive injuries (1:30)
- Do CrossFit Games athletes bench press? (4:00)
- Meg’s planned season schedule (note: this was recorded before many Sanctionals competitions were canceled due to COVID-19) (6:10)
- Was the 2020 CrossFit Open more difficult than normal? (6:40)
- Wodapalooza from an athlete’s perspective (9:20)
- How even a brief gymnastics background can help with other athletic pursuits (11:50)
- Looking to teenage athletes for confidence and inspiration (14:20)
- Benefits of the new CrossFit competition schedule, specifically for athletes looking to make a living off the sport (17:00)
- Meg’s ideal CrossFit Games super team (19:37)
- Games athletes who intimidated/inspired Meg in her first years competing (23:15)
- Strategizing CrossFit Games events (25:00)
- What Meg would like to see from future CrossFit Games events (27:28)
- Competitors to watch at the 2020 CrossFit Games (31:00)
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