HCP #102 - Cold open with Lauren Weeks!!! What have we been doing, THE Affiliate, Listener Qs

**Lauren Weeks** (0:00)
You're gonna start it.

**Anthony** (0:02)
I'm so excited. I don't know how I'm gonna start this. So I thought of it as I pressed the record button, but I am very excited for coming back to talking on the Hybrid Coaching Podcast, which we might change the name. We haven't just talked about it yet. First thing I wanted to bring up is that JK and I obviously hadn't had a podcast come out in about a month now since before Worlds. He was just busy traveling and being at Worlds and stuff. And then he's got a lot going on when he got back.
So he messaged me the other day and insisted that he is going to step away from being the co-host of the podcast because we couldn't line up our times to consistently get a recording out or an episode out. So future changes might come to the podcast as well, but we wanted to get it going on a weekly basis again for everyone out there. And to do that and from here out, I'm very excited. You can't tell. I get to announce my wife, Lauren Weeks, as my new co-host.
I don't think I've ever been so excited and I don't know if I will be this excited again until maybe 14 years down the road when maybe Lily joins the show.

**Lauren Weeks** (1:23)
So I don't know if that was like a whole minute or so. I haven't gotten a word in. No, I'm super excited to be part of this. And I can totally relate with JK. Like, there's a lot on so many of the athletes' plates in terms of, like, he's juggling coaching, he's juggling, like, creating websites, he's training, he's going to events, he's supporting his athletes at events, he's traveling tons, he's going to gyms that he's part of. So trying to all the way from Australia line up a time with somebody in Vegas every week, I know, is a lot on his plate. So it was super cool that he had done it for so long. I can't believe he was able to make that work in his schedule.
And no, I'm excited to be part of it. I'm excited to take over. So thank you, JK, for giving me an opportunity.

**Anthony** (2:15)
And him and I are still in contact. We're still friends. Don't worry about that. And right now, we're still coaching athletes. So we have that going. It's just the podcast that he is stepping away from for a little while, or for now. And then what I want to do is also, there might be other changes coming up as well, because now that it's me and Lauren, we've talked about maybe changing the name or something, but we didn't want to let everything JK and I had built through this just be done, so we are taking it from here.
And we want to add in doing things like backing up the Hybrid Engine training theory with and adjusting our own theory as well, our training theory as we go with educational sources and things and bring that and provide value to everyone that listens and or watches on that end.

**Lauren Weeks** (3:16)
Yeah. So hoping that like each week we can kind of give an update of what we've been doing, what we're going through, but also make sure that we're giving tangibles that people can take away from every single episode in terms of educational purposes. Like I'd really love to bring specific research articles in to kind of back up some of like the training theories that we're currently going with. So you're not necessarily just going off of, sure you're going to hear some of our opinion-based pieces and we'll make sure to say that they're opinions but also to back it up with like the research that we've been going through in terms of when and why we're doing things.

**Anthony** (3:51)
Yeah.
And I'm very excited because I don't know if a lot of people know this, but I see Lauren as the best coach in the world. So I'm way excited to get to.

**Lauren Weeks** (4:04)
Highly biased. Highly biased.

**Anthony** (4:05)
Very, but that's okay.
I'm excited that I get to have these discussions with you. So, but before we get into that, let's talk about, I don't think you have done a podcast or anything else since World. So let's start there and just talk about from Worlds up to this last month, everything that's been going on. So first from HYROX World Championships happened about a month ago, actually a month ago tomorrow. How are you feeling? Are you recovered?

**Lauren Weeks** (4:36)