Prodigies Podcast: Exploring Youth Fitness

Listen to Steph and Stacy Rolfe talk about the unique challenges of parenting teenage CrossFit Games athletes. Best tips for how to help keep them balanced and enjoying the sport while also meeting big goals.

In this episode, Steph goes live with Brock Yost, executive director of the Teenage CrossFit Games, to talk about updates to the competition. Both the Pit Teen Throwdown and the Pit Collegiate Throwdown will be part of the Games celebration. So 270 athletes ages 14-22 total will be in Southwest Michigan to cap the 2024 season.

Meet Kali Heivilin, Alivia Knapp, Kylee Nash and Gabby Charvat, all collegiate athletes homegrown at Triple River CrossFit at The Pit Fitness Ranch in Three Rivers, Michigan. For this podcast, we're listening in to the first in a series of roundtable discussions produced by Pit Media about raising up "LND Lifestylers" as teenagers. These young ladies play softball, soccer and row at large universities after modest beginnings in the gym in a small Michigan town. Can't wait to listen as they talk with Coach Brock Yost about their lives, their athletic pursuits and more.

Hear from Bella Martin, CrossFit event emcee ad brand consultant, about social media, branding, ethical and responsible coverage and the 2024 CrossFit season and why she dresses modestly when covering a teen event. Bella, 27, tells teens and young adults how to build an authentic brand, working with "be yourself" as a worthy strategy. Lots of great wisdom in this CrossFit media personality who traveled 28 weeks to events in 2023 and is sure to be with us in 2024.

Emily Avery, 19, lost her arm two years ago in a car accident. She's used CrossFit as her "physical therapy," and just recently won the WheelWod Games' Upper Extremity: 1 Point of Contact first-place podium. This young athlete credits her friends, community and coach at The Pit for helping her learn to push through, to get stronger and - most importantly, she said - to enjoy it. Hear from this wise teen (almost 20 LOL) about 1-armed push-ups, learning to do many things differently, and why CrossFit is a perfect modality for youth health and wellness.