Mindset After Not Making It To The CrossFit Games, Current Training Methodology and Why Josh Bridges Is So Dangerous - Dan Bailey - #004

Dan Bailey opens by complicating the story he is best known for. Making the CrossFit Games matters to him, he says, and being "the fittest man on earth" has been a goal he has chased for years — but he immediately places a condition on it: there are many other things he would like to be remembered for. His test case is deliberately blunt. If his gravestone carried nothing except a year and that title, he would be disappointed in himself, and he says he would read it as "more of a failure than not making it to the games." The claim is worth taking seriously because it inverts the usual ranking of athletic outcomes: the failure he fears is not a missed qualification but a life that could be summarized in one line.