Fittest on Earth: A Decade of Fitness

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in 2007,

a handful of friends

Got together on a small

northern california ranch

To determine who among them

was the most fit.

The event was known

as the crossfit games.

A decade of fitness later,

the sport has outgrown

the ranch

And expanded its reach

worldwide,

Further validating the title

of fittest on earth.

In sport, the margin

between winning and losing

Can be traced back

to fractions of a second.

A slip on the blocks

or a flick of the wrist

Could be the difference

between victory and defeat.

The sport of fitness

is no different.

this is it,

to close out

The 2015 reebok crossfit games.

I can still get him.

He's right there.

smith with a no-rep!

And here comes mat fraser!

I swear, if I

have to get introduced

As the second fittest man,

I want that now.

second last year

to rich froning,

And fraser will have to wait

at least another year

Before he stands

on top of the podium.

Today, superman

does not wear a red cape,

He wears a crossfit games jersey

and a gold medal!

Ben smith is

the fittest man on earth!

it wasn't a fluke last year.

I trained, if not harder

than anybody else out there,

Every single day, all year.

I feel like I have a shot to win

anytime I go to the game,

So that's why I've always

thought that in the past.

You know, this year is

absolutely no different.

I'm feeling better than

I've ever felt.

your 2015

reebok crossfit games champion

Is katrin davidsdottir!

back-to-back wins

is a huge statement.

It proves what I've done

is no fluke.

I'm fitter than I've ever been.

I'm stronger

than I've ever been.

Where I am right now is enough

to win the crossfit games.

I think about it

every single day.

here's sara sigmundsdottir

Who could be seeing the title

of fittest woman on earth

Slipping through her fingers.

I was like,

I'm gonna think

about that moment

Every day now

when I want to give up.

I don't ever want to feel

like that again.

The crossfit games

are fun to watch,

And they are frickin' cool.

The misconception is that

the crossfit games

are a crossfit.

It's not the case.

And you're gonna see

people just like you

in a local community.

You're gonna

see your soccer mom,

High-powered ceos

working out next to janitors,

People from all walks of life,

all trying to pursue

A better version

of who they can be.

What we're trying to accomplish

through crossfit.Com programming

And our affiliates is getting

people good at life.

so crossfit's

really a lifestyle.

It's a philosophy,

it's a belief.

It's a way of taking care

of your body

And preparing yourself

for anything

That the world throws at you.

we're fighting

chronic disease,

getting people better.

It's life goals, it's,

"I wanna be a better person.

I want to have more discipline,

I want to lose

a little bit of weight,"

Or just be better, period.

regular folks

that have a job, have a family,

Have other things going on.

We're not trying to be

the fittest person in the world.

We just want to be

in great shape

And have a high quality

of life and avoid

All the metabolic diseases

hitting the world.

You can go to the gym,

hit one workout,

Hit it super hard,

stretch a little bit,

Go home, eat clean--

you're great.

and the crossfit games

is very different,

And then it's a test

to determine the number-one man,

Number-one woman

in the entire world

Who is the fittest.

A crossfit athlete does

one workout, rests,

Does another, rests,

does another.

so when a crossfit games

athlete walks into the gym,

They're doing the same thing

that those people are doing,

But they're doing

so much more.

You look at some

of the top athletes,

They've gone beyond controlling

every single lifestyle factor--

Sleep, what passes their lips

and goes into their bellies.

Some of them are talking

to sports psychologists

Just trying to get

that one extra edge

to visualize performance

In order to maximize

their abilities

On the competition floor.

I think that you can move

the needle outside the walls

of the gym.

I don't know what's gonna do it.

I don't know if it's gonna be

from self-reflection and diary.

I don't know if it's gonna be

from recording your macros.

I don't know if it's

gonna be from, make sure you

don't have any processed foods.

But we're gonna do all of it

and hope that some of it works.

Our athletes now

are professional athletes.

- Ow! Ow! Ow!

-they're

committing their lives to this.

They suffer really hard.

Very few people in any sport

in the world outwork them.

Being a crossfit games athlete

is basically a mental illness.

all I want to do

every single day is

wake up and train

And become better.

I don't think

about much else right now.

You know, I think about

working out, preparing myself,

How I'm eating, and then I go

to bed at nine o'clock,

And then I wake up

and I do it again.

you can't have

anything else.

That's just how it is.

You can't work,

you can't go to school.

I do train all year,

and I think I train

Almost just as hard

in the off-season

as I do in-season.

I don't really think

there's an "off-season."

I love the pain

and I love the suffering.

the more and more

I keep training,

The more and more I realize

There's so many more things

that I need to get better at.

it's kind of like

a continuous process

Of learning, failing, growing,

And then going and repeating

that over and over.

champions

don't have balance,

And the reason that they are

exceptional at what they do

Is because they focus all

their time and energy on it.

Could my nutrition be better?

Can my sleep be better?

You always want to maximize

everything.

I want to be a tiger,

so I don't think I, like...

We used to talk about this

with my grandma.

I think we're like a deer.

That's like our animal.

Like inside, we're a deer,

but I wanna be a tiger.

I don't know, deer are

so like, I don't know,

like, light and hopping,

And it's got light

inside of it.

It's what we want.

We want to... We want to have

light inside of us.

But tigers are like so fierce

And like, you know, they want

to be out in the field,

And they, you know...

"put me in, coach."

That's the tiger.

Since winning the games in 2015,

my life has changed.

There is so much more

attention, and...

They'll look at my arm,

and it looks like...

I get to go to reebok

and build shoes

And my own tank top.

Inside of my shoes,

it's kind of cool.

Like inside of one sole,

I have my signature,

And then the other one,

it has, "be the best me."

And the same thing on my shirt.

So it has like "dottir" going

across the shirt

And then "be the best me."

it means a lot to me.

Everyone's talking

about competing against others.

You're put against others,

you're put in a line

And told who can go the fastest,

and they think that, you know,

To be the fastest

that you can be

or to be the best athlete,

You have to go faster

than other athletes.

No, you have to go

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