Three-time Fittest American Woman Kari Pearce on Preparing for the 2020 CrossFit Games PH166

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Kari is among the top 5 Fittest Women on Earth who are about to take on Stage 2 of the 2020 CrossFit Games. Kari has a background in gymnastics and competed for the University of Michigan where where her team won 4 Big Ten Championships. There she also earned her degree in Movement Science from the School of Kinesiology and was three time Academic All Big Ten. In addition to being a full time athlete, Kari has used her experience with gymnastics, CrossFit, and coaching to develop PowerAbs, which is a core program done by thousands of people around the world. In this episode we caught up just a couple weeks before Stage 2 of the 2020 CrossFit Games to talk about some of our shared experiences growing up doing gymnastics in Michigan, her collegiate gymnastics career, how she found CrossFit, some defining moments in her Games career thus far, and how she has approached all the twists and turns of this unprecedented season.

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0:00.0	I approached it similar to I do any competition.
0:03.2	It was definitely different though just not
0:05.5	being next to an athlete because I think that's
0:08.1	part of why I love competing is being side by side with people,
0:11.4	having the spectators cheer you on and scream you on and just being in that environment.
0:15.8	It's just like so much energy and you push yourself and you don't think as much about the pain as when you're doing a workout by yourself.
0:24.4	But I'm thankful that there was like, Coach Crossfit ended up sending judges, so it's nice
0:28.9	that we had a judge and the gym that we were at had some of their members come and spectate and it was really
0:36.6	cool also like having my coach right there next thing which is different than you know any
0:41.0	other sort of competition.
0:43.0	So it kind of felt like a competition,
0:45.2	but also didn't, like I said, just because of those factors,
0:49.3	but I did my best to keep it the same
0:51.4	as a competition setting because I bet similar to you being an
0:54.5	athlete and growing up in gymnastics just that competition mentality nothing is like it and you
1:00.5	just like bring yourself a little bit higher up than in training.
1:03.6	Hello and welcome to pursuing health.
1:08.6	Hello and welcome to pursuing health.
1:10.8	I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former cross-vigames athlete.
1:15.0	Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine
1:20.0	and support your journey toward your healthiest self.
1:23.0	Thank you so much for joining me.
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