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Spencer Kankel

Spencer Kankel

CrossFit coach and co-owner of ATP Eugene (formerly CrossFit Evviva) in Eugene, Oregon, and guest on The Fitness Movement podcast.

Sep 22, 2026

20:14
Yeah.
20:17
I would say if you did use an objective measure like that, it could be a good tool to...
20:28
Underrated, overrated? I think it's overrated.
20:34
I think that it's a good tool to give the athlete a green light to maybe punch a little harder if, uh, things are going well.
20:44
So, cause I'm, I'm a big fan of like striking when the iron's hot.
20:47
Like if, if an athlete is having a really good session and let's say I'm like, all right, we're going to go do power snatches and, um, Like I'll have a guy like one of my athletes will text me a video like Wally's training and it's like 225.
21:02
It looks like it's a paperweight.

24 MINS LATER

45:11
But what are the, um, what, what, like when you've done training camps before then, or even like if you've attended some like Spencer, what are the things that people have inherently said that they got the most value from? Like when they've left that they're like, this part of it was the best.
20:39
Yeah.
20:39
Cause they're like, and they're like, what do you think? Or like, you know, what do you think about this or that with how like CrossFit's, you know, ethos is or whatever.
20:49
Um, And I've always been like, I think that running any sort of sandbag movement and like a pull up and a bar muscle up are probably like the three things that are actually going to have the most functional carry over to your real life.
21:04
Like in squat, like squatting, of course.
21:07
But like.
21:09
If you can like do several different movements with a sandbag and then you can like run and you can.
21:17
do a muscle up, then you're gonna be pretty well set up to handle any sort of situation that you might be in in real life.

50 MINS LATER

71:19
Oh, you rode in high school?

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