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The Adaptive Athlete Podcast is dedicated to sharing the stories of athletes in the Crossfit space and beyond who have pushed past the limits doctors or others gave them.
In these conversations, you'll hear stories of resiliency, adaptation, grit, and determination. You'll also hear about the ways the adaptive space is growing.
Whether you are an adaptive athlete, a coach, or you know someone who would benefit from adaptive athletics and adaptive fitness, this podcast is the place to hear stories and build connections.
New episodes drop every Tuesday.
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In 2019, Ben Fallon was diagnosed with an aggressive form of multiple sclerosis and told to prepare for the possibility of losing his independence within five years. His answer came one night in Hawaii. Overhaul the way he eats—cold turkey—and never look back. Seven years later, he's a two-time CrossFit Games champion. Mat Hotho talks with Ben about living with MS every single day, the strict nutrition protocol he uses to manage it, and the TV segment on a fellow athlete with MS that pu...
Mat Hotho talks with Alexa Serret, an adaptive CrossFit athlete and third grade teacher who found out she had cerebral palsy at 28 from a PT at her CrossFit gym. Alexa grew up in Spain and in her first season she made the 2024 CrossFit Games in San Antonio in a division that wasn't really hers. That trip ended with a decision to move to Texas. Now she teaches in Odessa, runs a Harry Potter–themed classroom, and doesn't let her students say "I can't." She talks about returning to the Gam...
Mat Hotho and Jed Snelson pick up where they left off—on the thing Jed says separates first place from tenth. Mindset. Jed spent years as a strength coach for pro motocross racers, watching guys who were untouchable on a practice track finish seventh on race day, and he built training specifically to fix it. He walks through the pressure-cooker workouts he designed, the two words he repeated to athletes mid-suffering, and one tip he'd give any CrossFitter that costs nothing ...
Mat Hotho talks with Jed Snelson—seventeen years racing motocross, a strength coach for pro racers and X Games athletes, paralyzed in a 2014 race crash, and now one of the few people coaching seated adaptive athletes full time. This is part one of two. Jed's rule is simple and harkens back to the CrossFit methodology: function first, everything else second. He walks through what that means for a seated athlete—core to extremity, out-of-chair rowing, air deadlifts, balancing on the lip o...
Mat Hotho talks with Katie Weymouth, one of the OGs of adaptive CrossFit. She competed at the 2021 WheelWOD Games in a packed affiliate in North Carolina, where nobody left the floor until the last athlete finished. Five seasons later she took second at the 2026 Games in her own backyard, on a final workout that gave her twenty seconds to set up instead of two minutes. Katie is the only bilateral below-knee amputee in her division, the result of bacterial meningitis three we...
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