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[00:00] Introduction to The Push Press Podcast

[00:39] The Lone Star Summit Experience

[00:54] CrossFit HQ Seminar Insights

[03:49] The Importance of Partnerships

[05:48] Future Plans and Team Energy

[06:55] Conclusion and Wrap-Up

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Dan Uyemura (00:00): Welcome to episode one of the yet to be named Push Press Podcasts,

Nick Reyes (00:04): Episode one. Why are we recording episode one here?

Dan Uyemura (00:08): So we're at the Lone Star Summit, push Press, lone Star Summit, and we're big believers in Don't Talk about it, be about it. Do what you're going to say, right? Do what you say you're going to do. Yep. So we've been talking about doing a podcast forever. We got media here, we got two chairs here. We got a cup of coffee here, and we got an hour in the morning

Nick Reyes (00:29): And we got an hour in the morning.

Dan Uyemura (00:30): So let's just fucking do it.

Nick Reyes (00:32): Absolutely. Absolutely. It feels like we're getting the monkey off the back. This is good.

Dan Uyemura (00:36): Yeah. Knock some rust

Nick Reyes (00:37): Off for sure. And so big week here, we had the entire company come into Austin, Texas, awesome resort in order to bond, get the team together, do some 2025 planning. But we also had something a little unique. We had CrossFit HQ and the seminar staff come into town and do kind of, what would you call it? Like a mini seminar.

Dan Uyemura (01:02): They're calling it their fundamentals course. Basically they're trying to compress a level one into a four hour thing. It didn't earn anyone in L one, obviously, but kind of an exposure and fundamentals to what CrossFit is, why we do what we do, et cetera.

Nick Reyes (01:17): Right. I can tell you, as someone who has taken the level one, there's so much information to boil down into half of a day that it's

Dan Uyemura (01:28): A weekend's already compressed,

Nick Reyes (01:30): Compressed a lot, but their ability to take that information and deliver it is best in the world, in my opinion.

Dan Uyemura (01:38): So the feedback I actually got from our recruiter who I guess took classes in speaking is she was very impressed with the ability for, I think his name was Matt. Matt's ability to convey, hold an audience, change directions, keep people on point. It wasn't just about the information. It was like she was like, he was an excellent speaker.

Nick Reyes (02:07): Always impressed even when we did breakouts and we went over movement, our own Zach Forest who's on seminar staff. Just the humor, the ability to get people bought into being coached. It is absolutely mind blowing anytime you can see it or be a part of it.

Dan Uyemura (02:25): And ultimately, I think it goes back to the fact that they just get a lot of reps.

Dan Uyemura (02:29): That's their job to convey information. They're on stage two or three weekends a month. Zach took one of my speeches, I remember, and he went up and did it with no rehearsal and he nailed it. Of course he did. Nailed it. And this was when I was early in speaking, so it was like I was still very much struggling with it, and I was like, he gave it better than me. And he just looked at the slide and talked about it. Didn't even practice. So there's something to be said for if there's something important you got to do, just get as many reps in it doesn't matter. And then you end up like them. Amazing.

Nick Reyes (03:03): Yeah, absolutely. So we had 'em down here. Where did that idea originate from?

Dan Uyemura (03:12): We were looking for a programming to fill this weekend of things that were impactful. Allie had this idea that it would be awesome if every one of our team had an L one. So she's like, maybe we can get them to get an L one while we're all together. But that would've taken two days. It would've taken two days. So that was off the table. But then they came back and said, well, we're working on this new fundamentals we're course, which is kind of a corporate, it's exactly for this. Come in at a corporate event, get a hundred people in a room, explain what CrossFit is, yada, yada, yada. So we're like, let's do that.

Nick Reyes (03:45): Yeah. Yeah. Well, I thought it was absolutely amazing. And it's also great that we just have an opportunity to work so much closer with CrossFit then I think we ever have. I think it's actually maybe a little bit of a shift in what we look at within the industry and the way that we work with maybe different entities in order to really try to help gym owners and affiliate owners grow their business, change their business.

Dan Uyemura (04:10): I mean, if you look back at our history, I think we've always believed in partnerships. We always have believed in a one plus one equals three type equation. I can't say CrossFit ever has, but I feel like they do now.

Nick Reyes (04:21): Yeah. Yeah. I agree. And it just goes back to that definition of insanity. If every company is going to continue to support gym owners in the same way that they always have gym owners and those companies will always have the same results. And

Dan Uyemura (04:36): So

Nick Reyes (04:37): I'm excited for maybe a future where we work closer with CrossFit, we work closer with the other help first companies in the space that are truly excited to change the path for gym owners.

Dan Uyemura (04:51): And I think that's actually absolutely needed. In my keynote this year, I tell the gym owners that they're on the tip of the spear. They have to show up every day and provide a better experience in a better gym and get more people excited about fitness. But it's up to companies like us and CrossFit and the mentorship groups out there and the equipment providers to innovate and create an environment and an industry that is more exciting, more interesting, something that people buy into more. So yeah, I think it's happening.

Nick Reyes (05:23): Absolutely. Absolutely. And you can see these starting to form. We've been close with HSN, we've been working tighter with it with Best Hour today or this week. Having Crossfitted here feels like working closer there as well. But that's just like the tip of the iceberg. There's so much more that needs to be done.

Dan Uyemura (05:41): Yep. And we're moving the needle here,

Nick Reyes (05:45): So it's exciting. Yeah, I'm super stoked for it. What do you think is next? What's on the horizon? Where do we go coming out of this week's event here, this summit, this opportunity to have our team

Dan Uyemura (05:59): Together? Yeah. I mean, honestly, I don't know how you feel, but I feel like this team is rallied. The energy's high, the stakes are high. I think everyone understands what we got to do. People are bought in and we're just get back and keep working, keep doing what we're doing. We got a lot of product to build. We've got a lot of software to build. And we've got some gyms of support. So we'll get to that.

Nick Reyes (06:20): I'm pumped. I'm ready to roll. I need maybe a day to recover from this week. It was a lot. Yeah, I all do. I think we all do.

Dan Uyemura (06:28): Intense is kind of to the speech I did yesterday. It's like you can only be intense for so long, but intensity provides value. And I think we spent three, four for us. Four.

Nick Reyes (06:41): Yeah. Yeah. Got it on Sunday.

Dan Uyemura (06:42): Four mega intense days here. So take a day or two, get the weekend past and then let's get back at it on Monday. Job's not done. Job's not done. Job's never done. Alright man.

Nick Reyes (06:55): Anything else for episode one? All right, episode one. Episode one. Done. Let's go.

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