Conjugate & CrossFit w/ Jesse Bifano

And you see a lot of, uh, major camps talking about utilizing it in, in different ways.

Mm-hmm.

When you first started working with Justin, was that the first CrossFit context that you have sort of applied that system to? Like, um, or had you sort of been utilizing it consistently up to that point? And then sort of, I guess, I mean, that's the first question.

And then I guess, what were the main sort of considerations that you and sort of like Adam would speak about, right? Like managing this, 'cause yous are obviously programming like different components of his training.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

I mean, we've been using that system with, uh, local athletes in our, like out of our gym for CrossFitters since, man, I feel like 2010 is when we first started using.

'Cause before that we were doing like Mark Rippetoe Starting Strength.

Okay.

And then like that early, um, those early like CrossFit, uh, journal videos of like them meeting with Dave Tate, uh, first and then they switched to like, you know, interacting with Westside.

They had some Westside videos that came out.

I, I think those came out in '09 or 20- or, uh, 2010.

And, um, and then we-- I went, um, to the first seminar they offered that wasn't, uh, HQ staff.

So, uh, Jordan, who's at CrossFit Whistler, uh, and still around, I mean, he's 20 year, uh, gym.

The two of us flew out there and took that first seminar and read the, uh, book of methods and, and just, it felt like you were talking about the same things.

Like in the same of like constantly varied functional movement from high intensity, it felt like you were kind of up to the exact same things with conjugate.

Like why, why would we not switch barbells? Why would we not, um, use sumo and conventional deadlift and implement a box and, you know.

And then you just have this broad and expanding set of tools to solve problems, right? We also have a gym that runs a full clinic out of it.

So we have, you know, three physio, uh, three massage therapists, chiro, like all of these, um, practitioners are operating out of the gym.

And inside of there, you're dealing with the same kind of thing, right? So dealing with an injur- or injured athlete and dealing with a performance driven athlete, I mean, the more tools you have in the toolbox to solve problems, the easier it is to solve them and the quicker it happens.

Yeah, 100%.

[chuckles]

Um, so I guess that's like, I mean, so yeah, we've been up to it for a very long time, uh, as far as like the space goes.

I mean, I guess that's like maybe 15 or 16 years we've been using the conjugate system, um, myself included.

Like I switched and I've, and I've been training that now for however long, I think 16 years or more.