And what happened was that about a year

and a half ago, two years ago, a pattern

emerged in our efforts. We saw it in the

data. We saw it in our analysis. And

that's what I want to share with you to

hear today, which leads me to what I

hope isn't a it doesn't seem as a

an insult to any of you. So, I'm just

kind of prepping you for this. But

here's what we discovered. We found that

if we took on a graph, and I hope you

can see this.

Can anyone see that axis working? It's

pretty simple idea. What we want to do

is put power on this axis. Power. And

what that is, it's work divided by time.

Force times distance divided by time.

That's very important. Force times

distance divided by time. I want to know

what you weigh. I want to know what the

load you're working with weighs. I want

to know how much you displace it and I

want to know how long it took. And if

you give me that, I can tell you what

the power output was for the activity. I

can do this on the concept two rowing. I

can do it with squats. I can do it with

pull-ups. I can do it on a rope climb.

It's hard in some uh uh domains like

running. Very difficult nettles some

kind of thing, but fundamentally doesn't

matter because when we compare these

power changes, the uh error are is is

zero order and cancels. It's kind of

getting a little mathy here, but let it

go. But it wasn't important to the to

the science. So what we did is we put

power on this axis and we put duration

of effort here. Time of effort that says

duration.

Now what we want to do is take an

activity that takes about 10 seconds for

instance, but it doesn't matter. Just

something on the short end. I don't care

what it is. But we what I want to do is

I want to find something that takes

about 10 seconds and I want to graph the

power output. And let's do this at three

different places, three different

activities. So, let's look at a a one

rep max weighted pull-up. Let's look at

a front squat to drive overhead single.

And that will at max weight might take

10 seconds to lock out. You with me

there? And then three poles of the

rower. And let's do the math and find

out what the what the power is and get a

data point here. Let's do this at 20

seconds. Let's do it at a minute. Let's

do it at 20 minutes. kind of creating a

logarithmic scale here that works for

me. Um, let's do this at 1 hour and

let's do it at 10 hours. And let's just

get these data points here and average

them.

And what you'll do is find that we get a

curve that represents an athlete.

And truth is I can do this for a

company, a battalion or a universe. But

what I have here now is a graph of the

power output from short duration to long

duration

averaged against a handful of of of

disciplines or modalities at each time

point. You with me? Here's the technical

name for what we have here. It is in

fact cut to the punch line here. If you

look at the area under the curve for

this athlete or a company,

what this is when you integrate the

power curve, what we get that area, the

the area under the curve represents with

precision and accuracy the work capacity

of that individual across broad time and

modal domains.

The work capacity of the individual

across broad time and motoral domains,

broad modal domains doing all kinds of

different things.

broad time domains from short duration

to long duration. Here's what we have. I

have a quantifiable, accurate, and

precise measure, a scientific measure in

fundamental physical units of fitness.

All of a sudden, guess what? This has

held marvelously to our to our three

operational models. And in fact, we

don't really look at them anymore. I

want to know what's the work capacity.

What's the work capacity?

This is significant. This is

significant.

Performance physical movement is always

in every in in in all of science is

looked at MKS

meters.

What's the displacement? How far or long

did it go? Kilograms. We're just working

metric here. Kilograms. What is its

mass? And good enough for our use. same

as its weight. Actually, the weight is

the mass applied towards an

acceleration. But don't worry about it.

It's weight works even better. What's it

weigh? And time. How long did it take?

There is no aspect of Newtonian

mechanics of kinematics that isn't

derived from meters, kilograms, and

seconds.

I need to know its mass. I need to know

how far it went. And I want to know how

long it took. and almost everything else

is irrelevant in the macro sense.

Why has this not been done with human

performance? Now it is it is my

contention. I got this from Colonel BP

McCoy or Marine Colonel friend. He said

that the human body, the human being

is the chassis of every known weapon

system.

I thought, wow, do I do I buy that?

Yeah, I think I have to. Why wouldn't we

be looking to optimize this performance?

Why? I don't have an answer for that. I

don't have an answer for that. But it

needs to be done. And I'll tell you

this, um, CrossFit's going to do it.

You're going to do it or someone else is

going to do it. But it is the future. We

We have not found this single aspect of

kinematics in the entire universe that

doesn't need to be described in

fundamental physical terms. That hasn't

happened here. What we've what we have

here is fundamentally a dereliction of

scientific responsibility to start

looking at these things at these outputs

in this in this in this in this manner

and I think we've been remarkably su

successful with it. Um,

every workout that we do and you saw

Helen here and Diane, it looks like a

lot of fun, a lot of excitement,

sweating, a lot of rigor and all, but

what you have in every workout is a data

point, a measurable, observable,

repeatable data point that can speak

specifically to that athlete, that

individual or that company, that group's

performance at that moment.

And I can use this data to make

meaningful assertions about efficiency.

What is the time rate of ad efficacy?

What is the what is the adaptation of

the exercise? What does it do? Is it

going to improve cardiorespiratory

endurance? Is it going to uh boost your

capacity in that mid-range uh uh

metabolic pathway? Are we just trying to

increase flexibility? Do I want to

improve uh obstacle course time? What am

I doing specifically? What does the

program engender in terms of results?

That's its efficacy, efficiency. What is

the time rate of that adaptation? It's

great to have 50 pull-ups. There's a big

difference between getting there in two

years versus seven, right? Big

difference. Big difference. What is the

efficiency? What is the time rate of the

adaptation? And safety. How many were

sidelined along the way?

That's important. I'll tell you what, I

got a program that starts with 10 guys

and the gals at the end of a year only

one of them's living but a great

athlete. I'm not I don't know if that if

the trade-off was worth it, right?

doesn't sound like a program I want to

be a part of. Um, that's a normative

kind of judgment there. We don't even

need to go there. What we need to first

be able to do is speak to the efficacy

of a program. What are the results, the

efficiency? What is the time rate of

that adaptation? How long does it take

to get these results? And safety, who

was left standing, and what were their

injuries along the way.

You're not going to get to that point

until you can start collecting

measurable, observable, repeatable data

that distills to the fundamental

physical units of all movement. Whether

you're talking motorcycle, Humvey, uh,

uh, jet, there's nothing there's nothing

that doesn't use those fundamental units

to look at human per to look at

performance except for when we get into

physiology. All of a sudden when we get

to human performance, we shift from from

foot-pounds per minute, which is the one

we use regularly, to things like here

was a study I saw recently, cytochrome C

transferase reductase

disinhibition in in

uh uh it was a a

supplement taking high six high school

seniors.

So you look through this stuff and you

read it and there's some good science

there. What does it suggest about

performance?

What does it tell me about footp pounds

per minute? What does it tell me about

power? What does it tell me about work

capacity? Fundamentally, nothing. What

would the what where would that study

get significance for us? It's real easy.

If I got a hint or a tip or a suggestion

in the study that trained that altered

the way we trained so that we got

improved work capacity now it's

significant and not until

and not until

I couldn't recommend more strongly

enough that those of you that are in the

position to uh be decision makers to

impact the military's uh uh fitness that

you take us commercial vendors out of

the

We have not done you well. There is more

fraud and BS and nonsense in my industry

than any industry I know of.

It's horrible. It's horrible. And the

military's bought in hook, line, and

sinker.

Hook, line, and sinker. If combat were a

NC2A division one sport, all of your

training staff would be fired. They'd

get rid of all of you. Anyone that was

doing physical training would be removed

from the job. Is that true? John played

in the NFL.

There's a huge mismatch between my

perception of your needs and what it is

that's currently been done. And the

problem is not the soldiers. It's the

problem is the soldier's problem, but

it's not the soldier's fault. It's the

commercial vendors.

It's the commercial vendors. And I'm a

big free market guy. So, it's kind of a

weird thing. And I' I've mold this

message around for years now that uh gez

is the is this a wrong place for the

free market. And I don't know if that's

the answer or not, but I know this that

um there needs to be a transparent and

competitive mechanism for assessing uh

fitness programs.

And if a guy tells you that he's got a

got a program that's going to make a

difference, um I think you have a right,

a burden, a responsibility and just a

fundamental bit of intellectual uh

responsibility to ask what is the

effect?

What is the efficiency on it? How long

would it take us to get that effect and

what will this what will the impact be

along the way? And what is the work

capacity of the athletes doing this

program? Now, these tests I pick here,

guess what?

I'm not going to pick them. I'll let

someone else pick them. Someone wants to

compete their program against what we're

doing, fine. And by the way, I have I

have no fear of finding that there's a

better approach to doing things than

than the CrossFit method because guess

what? We have developed our charter so

that any advancement in performance that

can use measurable, reservable,

repeatable data and give me increased

work capacity, we're going to adopt it.

My commitment is to human performance,

not my method. You understand? Our

method is open charter enough that if it

comes down the pike, we're going to see

it and we're waiting for it. We're

looking for it because alls I want to do

is advance human performance.

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