Sevan Matossian (00:29):
Oh shit. Bam. We’re live. Wow. 28 seconds without a word. Hey, good morning. Good morning. Open. No, bam. Sorry, Libby. Oh, bam. We’re live. I started making some last minute changes to this morning show and I forgot where I was. I forgot my name. I apologize. I apologize. Unacceptable. We’re all professionals here. There’s no need for that kind of sloppiness. Geez, Louise. Good morning everyone. Golf Fox. Trott Yankee. Good morning, coach. Ken. Good morning, Logan. Mars. Good morning. Wow. What’s up, Logan? You’re back in the game. Mike. Good morning. Hey, what’s up dude?
Mike Turnquist (01:21):
Good morning.
Sevan Matossian (01:22):
Oh, have the wrong audio on. My bad. Hey, thanks for coming on, dude. Short notice. Yeah,
Mike Turnquist (01:29):
Sure. Yeah, this is exciting.
Sevan Matossian (01:32):
You’re doing a level one at your gym?
Mike Turnquist (01:35):
Yeah, it’s pretty cool. We’ve had Dustin Virgil training at our gym for a while, and he’s a little connected with the HQ staff and we got the opportunity to host an L one a couple years ago, and they liked the gym, so they keep hosting them and it’s such an awesome opportunity to have him here at the gym locally, which is
Sevan Matossian (02:03):
Cool. Hey, Mike, why did I think that he owned, do you call it Atascadero or a Tuscadero?
Mike Turnquist (02:11):
Atascadero.
Sevan Matossian (02:12):
Atascadero, okay. I thought that was the joke way of saying it, like Nirvana or Crit?
Mike Turnquist (02:17):
No, no, it’s actually Translate. Yeah. Translates to Mud Hole. I believe in Spanish is the local joke.
Sevan Matossian (02:28):
Is that true?
Mike Turnquist (02:30):
I believe it is. I wanted it to be true, so I’ve never verified it.
Sevan Matossian (02:35):
Okay. For those of you who don’t know, a task Aero is now, correct me, Mike, 250 miles north of Los Angeles and 93.2 miles south of San Francisco.
Mike Turnquist (02:52):
It’s probably about halfway in between both of those, almost exactly in the middle.
Sevan Matossian (02:57):
Okay, so I screwed up. Okay, so right on the Pacific Ocean, not spoken about a lot, a really cool place. Everyone drives by it when you’re on your way to the Sugar Capital. Disneyland from Northern California to the Sugar Capital, Disneyland and a cool Place Wine. Is it Wine country too? Atascadero?
Mike Turnquist (03:19):
It’s pretty close. Paso Robles is the next Napa and we’re 10 minutes away, so we get a lot of spillover when people stay, they can’t find something good, they stay in Atascadero. We’ve had a lot of drop-ins of summers. Interesting.
Sevan Matossian (03:36):
Oh, from people doing Wine Country or Atascadero? CrossFit’s, A place to go to work out in between your hangovers,
Mike Turnquist (03:44):
Correct? Very correct.
Sevan Matossian (03:46):
In between trying to pretend like you’re sophisticated and you’re taking your wife fans somewhere fancy.
Mike Turnquist (03:52):
That’s correct.
Sevan Matossian (03:55):
How long has the gym been around and why did I think Dustin Virgil own that gym just because he’s so famous in the community? Or did he used to own it? Well,
Mike Turnquist (04:03):
He used to own it and then he sold it to a buddy of ours and they changed it up. So for a period of three or four years, it wasn’t a task or a CrossFit. They were still doing group classes and stuff, but it wasn’t a CrossFit affiliate then. And when that guy moved out, I snagged up the building and I asked Dustin if he would allow me to use his name, used the name that he built and he was all for it. And so we brought it back April 1st of last year. So it’s been pretty cool and it was kind of nice to just honor what Dustin built. I mean, it’s a small little town and everybody knows him, so
Sevan Matossian (04:52):
I played off that. Can I ask you something totally inappropriate?
Mike Turnquist (04:55):
Of course, I wouldn’t expect anything less.
Sevan Matossian (04:58):
Is this lady go to your gym right here in the white top?
Mike Turnquist (05:01):
No.
Sevan Matossian (05:02):
Oh, shit. Okay. I was going to be like, God, what a fucking specimen. That’s the kind of person when you look like that, everywhere you go, someone’s staring at you.
Mike Turnquist (05:12):
Yeah, I’m a little behind on swapping out because when we built the website, we didn’t have any pictures yet, so I’m a little behind.
Sevan Matossian (05:20):
Alright, fair enough. Fair enough. I know, I knew it was inappropriate for several reasons. It was going to put you on the spot, not inappropriate for the reasons that some people think, God forbid you admire someone else’s beauty while you’re here on planet Earth. Hey, how many level ones have been done there
Mike Turnquist (05:41):
At this gym? We’ve done, I believe two. Our most recent one, we had an L two here, which was amazing, and I got to just be a fly on the wall for that. I cannot wait to take that one myself. And then at Old Gym up in Path Robles, we had a couple of L ones over there.
Sevan Matossian (06:02):
When did you take your L one? Do you remember?
Mike Turnquist (06:07):
I’d done it twice, most recently in 19 or 18 at the ranch, and then I think it was in 2014 at NorCal CrossFit.
Sevan Matossian (06:20):
Oh wow, wow, wow. Are there still spaces available at the one that, what’s the date on the one that you’re doing?
Mike Turnquist (06:28):
That is
Sevan Matossian (06:30):
September 18th. Is that what I saw?
Mike Turnquist (06:33):
I believe it was the 16th. If I have that right, I should know I
Sevan Matossian (06:41):
Well, you’re doing a lot of things when you’re in a CrossFit gym, I’m going to give you, what do they call it? Biblically, it’s called Grace or something like that.
Mike Turnquist (06:47):
Okay,
Sevan Matossian (06:49):
Hold on, I got it too. September 16th and 17th,
Mike Turnquist (06:53):
Correct. You
Sevan Matossian (06:55):
Taro.
Mike Turnquist (06:59):
Okay. Yeah, 16th and 17th. Yeah, there are still some spots available. We just had one of our teenage members snag up a spot last night and he came to me and said, how do I pitch this to my dad? We’ve already paid for it. It was pretty cool. So he’s doing it with his mom. His mom was one of the spots I got her in and then he wanted to do it with her, so he snagged up the spot.
Sevan Matossian (07:29):
Ladies and gentlemen, probably most of you already know, and I speak in no hyperbole, when you take the level one, there will be gifts in there that you will carry your whole life. And you think, oh, so what? Well, I ask you, how often does that happen at any time in your life that something happens where you carry it your whole life? Not only will it benefit you your entire life until the second you’re dead, but people around you, there are so many gems in there. This isn’t a sales pitch, it’s not an exaggeration. I’m telling you, there’s things you’re going to learn in there. No matter how advanced you are in CrossFit that you will take with you your entire life, that will make your life better. It is, no, not herpes, solid guess, but on the other end of the scale, but thank you Dick. No, you won’t get herpes. Appreciate you for any confusion. It’s kind of a dumb world we live in, Mike, so people say some crazy shit.
Mike Turnquist (08:27):
Yeah, they think it’s about like, well, I need to do this so I can coach. And I’m like, nah, CrossFit, if you’re into just living healthy this weekend will kind of blow your mind. And to think that I get to participate in every single one that we’ve done here, I’ve really done it five or six times except I’m not on the floor, but I sit and I watch, I don’t open the door and then leave. I sit there and I watch every single time and just pay attention. You get new stuff out of it and it’s equally as mind blowing the last time. It was the first time.
Sevan Matossian (09:03):
You bring up a great point. The reason why people think that it is to coach is this, the information in there is so good and so life-changing that you won’t be able to stop talking about it. It’s like those people who just found God or they just found veganism, they’re so excited about what they found that changed your life or someone who just found the carnivore diet. They can’t believe they’ve had peel skin their whole life. They get on the carnivore diet. They can’t stop talking about it. There’s stuff you’re going to learn in this thing that, I mean, you’re going to sound like a coach. Even if you don’t want to be a coach, you’re going to start sounding like a coach, right? Be a little bit of a know-it-all with some good shit.
Mike Turnquist (09:40):
Yeah. I remember at NorCal crosswalk back in the day, we’d break into the little groups and Kpa was running our little circle and it was first day and he is like, okay, raise your hand if you guys are excited to coach. And I was the only one who didn’t raise my hand. I’m like, I’m just here for fun. And then here’s where it took me, but I wasn’t there to be a coach at that time.
Sevan Matossian (10:06):
Lick Seban talking a lot about God recently. Hey dude, my whole point in life is in the esoteric realm is to figure out where I was before I was born and where I go after I die and while I’m here, my kids are my legacy. That’s it. So what do you mean just started? But I appreciate you licks giving an opportunity to address that completely. I see how this is related to the conversation, Ken. Every time I’ve gotten an M R I, they’ve said they would put music in the headphones and never do seems intentional. I’m telling you that Mike and I are not lying to you like the people who do the M R I. You will walk away with gems at the L one that you’ll take your whole life. Fuck those people who do the M R I. Right? Right. Mike, this is a different thing. This is no M R I. This is very different. You’re going to get bits of wisdom in your earphones. We don’t treat you like they do at the hospital at the L one. And Mike, you and I each get 10% of all the L one sales for this. Jen, you and I take a back.
Mike Turnquist (11:07):
That is not correct. That is not correct.
Sevan Matossian (11:16):
So you’re the owner of the affiliate or the owner of the building or both?
Mike Turnquist (11:20):
The owner of the affiliate.
Sevan Matossian (11:22):
As the owner of the affiliate. Why would you want people in your community to take the L one
Mike Turnquist (11:32):
That hook in ’em? It gets ’em even more motivated than they were before and they start making different choices throughout their life. You go to spills, everything, it’s interlock. Just what CrossFit does is what was that cure’s the world’s most vaccine problem? Well, the L one just gives you more tools and more information to be able to do that. And then that just spreads through the community. The more people that come here that do the L one or just talk to other people and it just becomes infectious and then all of a sudden we’ve got some really beautiful looking people running around that you could appreciate.
Sevan Matossian (12:21):
You would go to the crossfit.com, click on seminars. It is the level one that’s on September 16th and 17th. It’s directly in the middle of Los Angeles and San Francisco hotels there are very affordable relative to the rest of the state. It is a beautiful area. Like he said, it’s in wine country and you won’t be disappointed. And Mike, I got to have you back on. I’d love to know all about your affiliate and the history of your affiliate. It sounds fascinating and you come from an amazing pedigree. Virgil’s an amazing dude.
Mike Turnquist (12:55):
Right on. Yeah. I love
Sevan Matossian (12:56):
That. Yeah. Alright brother. Team, you posted and I’ll be in touch and I can’t wait to hear about how the level one went and if any of the participants who took it want to come on and talk to me about it. It it’s a passion of mine. I think it’s the best two days. It’s up there in the best two days of anything you could do with your life. For sure. And I mean that. I don’t say that lightly.
Mike Turnquist (13:17):
I totally agree. Totally agree.
Sevan Matossian (13:19):
Alright dude, have a good day. Thanks for coming on and helping me spread the good word.
Mike Turnquist (13:24):
You got it. Thanks Sivan.
Sevan Matossian (13:26):
Peace. Atascadero, CrossFit. September 16th, 17th. Middle of California. Never done one of those. I just ran into this guy on Instagram. We’re talking and he’s like, Hey, we’re doing an L one at my gym. I have someone else coming on here in a second. Also in the CrossFit space. This fucking CrossFit space. Don’t tell me Jay, are you? Armenian is I call you Armenian. Don’t tell me Mr. Harle that there’s a different in the chat. It is not convo. It’s not a different convo. I can make the connections. I know. I know. I know. I don’t think tank. I don’t think tank. It’s a big deal that he was a pharma guy. I don’t think it’s a big deal that he took Soro money.
(14:22):
Yes, se Armenia. Okay, good. Does your next guest look like Millie Vanilli similar hair? Way more attractive, way fitter. Maybe one of the most attractive human beings that’s ever walked the planet. Definitely in the top. In that top 1% of 1%. You guys will be excited. You want to guess who it is? Townend. Good. Guess. Guess. Good guess. Complete opposite skin complexion. This person’s translucent, but same beautiful like Mr. Townsend for sure. Crazy hair like Mr. Townsend body. That looks like something. Looks like peptides. Yeah. I said it. I said it. James. James Newberry. No. Another great guess. I think this person washes their hair, but we shall see. You want to know if it’s a boy or a girl? Lemme see. Okay, I’m ready. Let’s do it. Let’s do it. I’m ready. Okay, here we go. Oh, anyone want to guess Sporty Beth? No. Good guess anyone else want to guess? Con Porter Con doesn’t have as good a hair as this guest. Anyone? It’s Craig Richie. Nope. Nope. Anyone else? Either JR Howell or the Dave Castro? The Dave Castro’s Good guest. He has great hair. Shelby Neil. Woo. Okay, here we go. Hi.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (16:20):
Hello.
Sevan Matossian (16:21):
Miss YouTube.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (16:24):
Miss YouTube. That’s true.
Sevan Matossian (16:26):
No, I didn’t say I miss you, but I do miss you. I said YouTube, but I love it. Miss YouTube. I love it that you thought I said miss you.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (16:33):
No, I thought you said Miss YouTube.
Sevan Matossian (16:35):
Oh, oh yeah. Miss YouTube, miss Universe? Yeah. Oh yes. Yeah. Oh, okay. I thought you were saying miss you. I’m you too.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (16:42):
I miss you too. It’s okay.
Sevan Matossian (16:46):
I saw Sarah recently in a power meeting. I was at a restaurant and I was spying on her and she was in a very high level meeting. I could tell with some very high level people. And I took a picture of her
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (17:00):
And I sent it. It was the most creepy picture I’ve ever received.
Sevan Matossian (17:04):
And I sent it to her and she said, why didn’t you visit? And I said, I was too shy. I was too shy.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (17:09):
You’d never be shy. Someone never, you just didn’t want to interrupt. You’re so respectful.
Sevan Matossian (17:14):
Thank you. And it was a long walk. I’d already done my workout for the day. I’d have to go down those stairs. There’s a lot of
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (17:19):
Steps there. Yeah, exactly.
Sevan Matossian (17:22):
What would I type in? What is your YouTube station? How do I find this new YouTube station?
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (17:28):
So you type in Sarah Sig start.
Sevan Matossian (17:32):
Okay.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (17:33):
Simple as that. And then I’ve already put up four episodes.
Sevan Matossian (17:39):
Oh, do you know how cool? I’m going to tell you how cool I am. I typed in Sarah Sigmund’s daughter and the podcast I did with you a month ago came up. God, I feel so good.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (17:49):
Oh, do you know what came up? And I typed it in the pockets We did when I was in Dubai with the caption. Are you a lesbian?
Sevan Matossian (17:58):
Oh, have you seen the comments on that?
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (18:01):
No, I haven’t. Do I want to see them? I
Sevan Matossian (18:06):
Just, people just get offended so easy.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (18:08):
Yeah,
Sevan Matossian (18:10):
They think it’s inappropriate. I think relationship talk is, that’s a good question. Yeah. I think relationships are, oh my God, you already have four videos on your YouTube. Yeah,
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (18:21):
We’ve been working.
Sevan Matossian (18:24):
Why did you wait so long to do a YouTube station? Great header photo, by the way. Awesome header photo.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (18:34):
It’s Red Rocks. It’s so cool. Yeah. Why did I start so late? I mean, it’s one of those things that you just procrastinate. It’s never the right time to start. That’s how it was for me. I was just like, oh yeah, this year I’ll start. I’ve been wanting to do YouTube probably since 2019, and then it’s just always been, next year I’ll start. This story isn’t going to, or the buildup to this season. It’s not the right time. Now I’m going through this and this. So this year I just started. It’s never going to be the perfect time of starting it. And so just took the bandaid off and made it public. We’ve been recording for a while, so it’s got to be a lot of stuff.
Sevan Matossian (19:27):
I said I was too shy to come down and visit you. Is any part of it that you were too, that you didn’t start it because maybe you were shy or you didn’t, was there anything like that? Or was it just hours in the day or? I
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (19:40):
Think it’s mostly just hours in the day. And you also think of why would people want to see anything on what I’m doing? My life is, yeah,
Sevan Matossian (19:47):
That’s what I kind of think. Why would she want me to come down there and interrupt her? That would probably be it more than being shy, just kind of low. I dunno if low self-esteem is the right word, but Sarah, why would I bug her?
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (19:59):
Yeah. Why would I ever want, why would people subscribe on my YouTube channel? There’s nothing interesting. You just go straight there. But then you also, if I would think of my favorite athlete, like Kobe Bryant, I’ve probably watched all his videos so many times, just put it on when I’m cleaning at home, just listening to it. And maybe I am one of those athletes for some people in CrossFit, and I’m like, if I can help them and give them inspiration on how my life actually is and what’s going on behind the scenes, then it’s just giving people a little bit of an insight of how I actually am as a person. It’s way more personal than your Instagram profile or something like that. You actually see the people that I’m around. You see how I am when I’m traveling. You see when I’m stressed. You can see all the things that you sometimes don’t want to show the world, but it’s very important to show the world to actually show that you’re human.
Sevan Matossian (21:06):
What won’t you show people? Let’s just go straight there. What about relationships?
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (21:14):
Those are very personal and I think that what the YouTube will do is that it’s going to open up a lot of things that I maybe haven’t shared before.
Sevan Matossian (21:24):
So
(21:26):
Relationships are so interesting in this era. So we know people who have, well, I’ll just pick this person because I had him on the show, but James Newberry a high profile Australian athlete. He had a girlfriend when I had him on the show. I was going through his Instagram and he had a post on there that he separated from his girlfriend. And then I started thinking sometimes when I dig back in people’s profiles, I see that they have Xs in there. You know what I mean? And I don’t know what the conventional wisdom or protocol is on that because especially someone as high profile as you, it kind of twists them up into your life. And it may not even be that you want to keep it private or that it’s too personal. It’s just that it could be a distraction from your true core message.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (22:21):
And people are also very keen on judging right away of like, oh, Sarah’s with this guy. Oh my gosh, this is
Sevan Matossian (22:29):
Lucky him. Lucky him. Yeah,
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (22:31):
Lucky him. Wow. But it’s just a lot of, and also you have to be quite sure that you’re committed. That’s at least for me to be able to post about it. And it is a serious thing and that’s why I want the world to know. If it’s nothing that’s going to be, you don’t want to have something public unless it’s going to last. You know what I mean? I don’t want to have three different boyfriends on my Instagram from the last four years. It needs to be something that’s the final destination. You know what I mean? So that’s how I look at it. It needs to be that personal, but that’s more of just how much personal life will you share. And I think that’s a challenge for me is I’m maybe not a shy person, but I’m a little bit of a private person also. I love to keep my private thanks to myself and the world doesn’t quite know everything about me, but I still want to be a inspiration for people that look up to me and I want them to see actually who the real me is and how human and how clumsy I am and everything like that. So it’s good for people to see a little bit of their private life, but then you also have to keep it balanced so you don’t get lost in sharing too many things. I think
Sevan Matossian (23:57):
Your journey to go to the CrossFit games, I think Dave said it to me first, and then the first time I ever heard it was from Dave, and then I heard it again from Andrew Hiller in his separate talk that one of the pieces about CrossFit, and I’m putting my spin on it that people don’t talk about is how vulnerable, the reason why people don’t like it is because of how vulnerable it makes you. So you see these bodybuilders and they’ll be like, CrossFit’s stupid. And when you dig into it, it’s probably just because it makes you so vulnerable and so on so many levels in the immediate, because you couldn’t, at the end of a workout, you couldn’t defend yourself from a kitten. But also because the whole world, one of the goals in our sport is to go to failure
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (24:51):
And
Sevan Matossian (24:51):
Flirt with that. Go
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (24:53):
Ahead. Yeah. You’re also, I don’t know if composed is the right word, but you have these challenges that you have no idea if you can face them or not showing up at the Crossy games and you get a PAC board and you’re like, I have to climb that in front of everybody here on live camera. What if I fail? What if people see this side of me and then that maybe happens? How do you deal with that afterwards of not judging yourself from what the criteria is judging you from? So I think that’s the biggest challenge with CrossFit. It’s just like you have to put your ego to the side and you sometimes have to start from step one to be able to go to step four. And that’s like when I started cross it. I could not kick up against the wall to do a hand stand hold. It was my biggest fear. I was like, yeah, if I go on my hands, I’m going to fall on my neck and I’m going to break my neck. Really?
Sevan Matossian (25:51):
You didn’t go upside down in the beginning. That didn’t come easy or natural for you. Wow. Interesting.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (25:55):
I was terrified. And then finally when I kicked up, I kicked up to a wall. There was a very thin wall and I broke it and I was like, it didn’t start very well. But that’s the beauty of CrossFit. Now I’m walking over stead ramps and I’m walking over stairs and it’s just like you have to just put your ego to the side and you have to learn it. A little kid that just started gymnastics and is learning how to stay in line before running into a flip or whatever. You just have to go so far back in some areas. And people Judge, oh sorry. Can you hear me now?
Sevan Matossian (26:39):
I can. I can.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (26:40):
Okay. Sorry. Somebody called me girls famous.
Sevan Matossian (26:44):
I understand. I understand. Hey, where are you? Say that again Sarah. Where are you?
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (26:54):
I’m at home now. Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (26:56):
In which country?
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (26:58):
In Iceland.
Sevan Matossian (26:59):
Okay. Okay. If you say home, does that mean Iceland?
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (27:03):
Yeah. Iceland is always home and heart.
Sevan Matossian (27:06):
Okay. So going back to the upside down thing, there are a lot of journeys on the road to the CrossFit games that are captured, right?
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (27:20):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (27:24):
Have you watched those or is there anything that you think about that you’d like to share about that journey? I thought you were about to say something and maybe you were along the lines of you’re going to start this journey and there’s a chance you might not make it right. Only 40 girls around the world get to go. And that’s another crazy vulnerable part too. Especially if you’re not going to wait until the end to put it out. So people are, there’s this eminent failure or success on the horizon no matter what.
Sara Sigmundsdóttir (27:56):
Yeah. I mean, how I look at this YouTube channel now, it’s just like, okay, I was this successful. That made it almost to the top of winning the crossing games a few times, and I did some off season competitions. Me and Tia were head to head at Rogue was there was a lot of things, and I was just there at the top. Then I get an injury and I go all the way down and I’m still fighting my way back. And it’s been, when I tore my A C l, I was like, I’ll give myself six months here. I’ll ask Dave if I can be on the demo team here in August. When I tore my a c L in March, I was that optimistic that it would not be as much of a struggle as people had told me. I was just like, you don’t know my mindset or anything.
(28:47):
But it has changed so many things. My perspective on how thankful I was to be at the top and how good I actually was. I never appreciated myself there at the top. I didn’t know how good I was until I wasn’t that good anymore. And now the constant struggle for three years of just like I’m on my way up again, this happens. Oh, I’m back down. How do I mentally react to this? And this is what I look at sports of sports teach you so much with life of when you experience loss. If you lose somebody that you’re close to that you love, you go through all these stages of grief, anger, sadness. This is the exact same thing you go through and disappointment in sports. So sport is actually preparing you for life. How I look at it, and I look at this, I’m like, if I give up after an injury, because it’s very easy to just say, okay, I’ve tried here for this long time and it’s not happening. It’s so easy to just put my shoes on the side and be like, Hey, I’m done here. I’m made it to the top. I’m not.
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