#family #fatherhood #strength Watch Sylvania Harrod's face be overcome with an ear-to-ear smile as he talks about his daughters. He lovingly refers to them as "Dottirs", taking inspiration from the patronimic name shared by legendary female CrossFit athletes like Katrin Davidsdottir, Annie Thorisdottir, Thuri Helgadottir, and Sara Sigmundsdottir. "You're probably noticing the change in my voice. My girls, the "Dottirs". They're everything. Because, we work out in the garage, they come out in the morning, they love hanging on the rings, deadlifts, watching Mommy and Daddy work out. For my girls. They get to embrace the beauty in strength. Because, for so long, beauty was defined in these weird kind of boxes that you had to be in. But now it's kind of cool that you can be strong, that you can lift the heavy barbell that you can do pull ups and you can do all these amazing things. And so the sport can show that women can be beauty and strong at the same time. Having that balance for them and also setting the example of eating right, moving your body right, being able to do that, and us as parents being the example for them. It means everything. The Dottirs." For a map of film festivals and screenings: https://www.woddity.com/adapt/ Subscribe on YouTube for three videos per week: https://www.youtube.com/bengarvesfilms/ You can also find us on your favorite social media platforms: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/adaptthefilm/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bengarves IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21860360/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/woddity Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/adaptthefilm LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/woddity/ Weibo - https://weibo.com/u/7635221708 BiliBili - https://space.bilibili.com/1804966151/ 小红书(RED) - https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/60d29868000000000101f6a2 WeChat - AdaptTheFilm Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/woddityfitness/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X16018Yf0xc

For five years, Kristin Holte was quietly one of the most consistent and steady athletes on the floor of the CrossFit Games. The silence ended with Holte’s 2019 performance, a war cry which would echo through the halls of the Alliant Energy Center for years to come. Holte, as a former gymnast and a trained nutritionist, has a background that fuels the fire and feeds the flames of her competitive career. She has been the fittest woman in Norway since CrossFit began tracking in 2015. Holte’s four consecutive top-20 finishes in the CrossFit Open is garnished by her 2019 placement in third. This performance foreshadowed her 5th place finish at the Rogue Invitational, 4th at WODAPALOOZA, domination at the Asia CrossFit Championship, and podium at the 2019 CrossFit Games. When gaps present themselves in Holte’s skills, something incredible happens. She finished outside the top-400 at the CrossFit Open’s one rep max clean event in 2018. After a year of training, Holte’s return to the clean in 2019 placed fifth among the field of women. Another example of Holte’s work is her 31st-place finish at the one rep max snatch event in 2017, which she turned into a fourth-place finish in the Open’s 19.4 muscle-up and snatch event. The way Kristin Holte targets her weaknesses shows in her year-to-year performances. Along with multiple top-three event finishes, Kristin has earned event wins in the 2017 Cyclocross and the 2019 Sprint events. 2019 may have been Holte’s first year on the podium, but nobody believes it will be her last. This defending second-fittest woman on earth has found her voice. Listen for the roar. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YJ_kPsDmcQ

#father #fatherhood #family Two moments which shined to me when doing interviews for the Adapt documentary, and which I absolutely loved revisiting during the edit process were Casey Acree and Sylvania Harrod talking about their experience being fathers. Sly talked about his girls (the 'Dottirs') growing up in a world where beauty and strength were viewed more widely to be synonymous, and Casey talking about how his wife and his son motivate him to lead by example with his work ethic. It's something his parents did for him and something he strives every day to do for his family. Casey Acree: "When it comes down to it, competition and being a competitor can be a very individual, you know, self-centric pursuit, if you allow it to be. So to me, having my family, having a son, it's just given me that greater sense of purpose, to be the best that I can be in everything that I'm doing, whether it's as an athlete, it's as a business owner, it's as a husband and a father. You feel like there's someone who is depending on you. I... what I do now, and the way that I operate myself now, is going to have a lasting effect on who he becomes as a person. And I only want the best for... for him, obviously, as I think most parents do for their kids. How I conduct myself on the competition floor, and in my day-to-day, it's going to kind of carry over into who he is as a person, and I want him to, you know, see me as as a hero, you know, my parents are some of my heroes, they're, honestly some of the hardest-working people that I've ever met in my life. And so I want him to have that same perception of me, I feel like I am a good representation of what hard work can can do for you, if you are determined, and you're not willing to give up on things. I've been thinking about that a lot, honestly, in training, and you know, kind of grinding in the gym and the last few weeks kind of get to the point where all you really want to do is to just get here and just kind of get things going. So I've been kind of keeping him and my wife and the other people who are, you know, super, super supportive of me, in the back of my mind whenever I'm about to start, you know, my third or fourth workout of the day or whatever, and I'm not really feeling like I'm not really wanting to do it. I'd much rather kind of just chill out and relax a little bit, but I know that that's, you know, ultimately it's going to pay off for you know, the people who have made sacrifices for me to be here. The people who have supported me." For a map of film festivals and screenings: https://www.woddity.com/adapt/ Subscribe on YouTube for three videos per week: https://www.youtube.com/bengarvesfilms/ You can also find us on your favorite social media platforms: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/adaptthefilm/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bengarves IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21860360/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/woddity Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/adaptthefilm LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/woddity/ Weibo - https://weibo.com/u/7635221708 BiliBili - https://space.bilibili.com/1804966151/ 小红书(RED) - https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/60d29868000000000101f6a2 WeChat - AdaptTheFilm Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/woddityfitness/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JKGiHhSzCQ

Many know Ben Smith as the CrossFit Games champion of 2015, as seen in the Fittest on Earth documentary. Hardcore fans know Ben Smith as CrossFit’s most durable professional athlete, who has competed on the grandest stage for eleven-straight seasons. What many don’t recognize is the mental fortitude and toughness it took to battle back for the 2019 season. Smith’s decade of performing at the highest level took its toll on his body. In January, he went under the knife to have his knee repaired. By the CrossFit Open in February, Smith was back to competition, but not at the same level he and fans were used to seeing. As the season progressed, he started to regain legendary strength, but a late push for a Sanctional qualifying spot wasn’t enough to return him to the Games. With the community rallying on his behalf, Smith earned a late wildcard invite to set the record for most consecutive CrossFit Games individual appearances. Before his 2019 surgery, Ben Smith had never placed outside the top-100 in the CrossFit Open, with two third-place finishes in 2014 and 2015. From 2013 to 2017, Smith’s average finish at the CrossFit Games was 4th; rivaling some of the greatest in the sport. Where Smith has historically struggled has been workouts with thrusters, burpees, and box jumps, like 17.1 and 16.5. However, Ben’s resume of event wins from the past decade reads off like Dave Castro’s worst nightmare. It makes clear where his strengths lie: with barbells and upper-body pulling. If the workout involves chest-to-bar pullups, squats, snatches, cleans, or muscle-ups, Ben Smith is going to place top-three. With a few more months to regain strength in his knee, Ben Smith’s 2020 season has a ceiling as high as ever. #20point4 #CrossFitOpen #BenSmith ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NycwUdOKEqA