Best Hour of Their Day | Podcast

What would Quality Assurance look like in the CrossFit Space?  Who would determine the standard?  What aspects of the Affiliate would be scrutinized?  Would your gym make the cut?  What would the benefit be?   Todd and Fern dive deep into this discussion and shed light on what that would look like and what that outcome would be.

We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best Hour of Their Day" and for the audio book he took a deeper dive into each chapter.  Interviewed by James McDermott, in each chapter you'll get loads more information, stories, lessons, and more, not available in the original book. You can buy the paperback and ebook versions of "Best Hour of Their Day" on amazon, here is the link. You can buy the audio book on audible, here is the link. If you love the book or this podcast, please leave us a review.

Should you buy a gym during Covid?   Should you open your own?  Should you wait?  Fern and Nick talk through his though process for considering opening up a gym during these times.  There are multiple lenses to view this through and Nick and Fern go back and forth asking and answer questions,  This will be valuable for anyone considering opening a gym right now

In today's episode we answer a listener question from two coaches whose box is deaffiliating.  We navigate how they can potentially handle this massive change.

In this episode Fern dives deep in a solo podcast and talks about 10 of the biggest mistakes he's made over the last decade as a box owner.  Most gym owners will make all of these mistakes.  Get you note pad.

We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best Hour of Their Day" and for the audio book he took a deeper dive into each chapter.  Interviewed by James McDermott, in each chapter you'll get loads more information, stories, lessons, and more, not available in the original book. You can buy the paperback and ebook versions of "Best Hour of Their Day" on amazon, here is the link. You can buy the audio book on audible, here is the link. If you love the book or this podcast, please leave us a review.

Fern and Todd do a follow up on our previous episode about coaching large classes as well as some things to consider as reopening happen and covid cases see an increase.  You need to keep your coaches sharp but have to ensure people are safe and you don’t cripple the entire staff with covid cases.  We also discuss the return of a Nicole Carroll to CFHQ and some new CrossFit Games News.

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Much to Jason's surprise, a few "Best Hour of Their Day" book clubs have sprung up around the country.  So, when one based out of San Fransisco asked Ackerman to come on, he was thrilled.  In this episode we discuss the final few chapters of the book as well as diving into the current state of CrossFit.

Luis Lopez owns CrossFit MDI in Orlando, Florida and regularly travels the country judging at CrossFit events.  Recently he had his first experience judging the online only Rogue Invitational.  In this fun and entertaining episode we hear all about what it was like for both the judges and athletes at this very unique event.