Get With The Programming

Get With The Programming treats CrossFit competition workouts as a set of choices someone made and could have made differently. Chase Ingram introduces each recent episode, and Bill Grundler is there alongside him. Between them, the talk runs from rep schemes and time caps to tickets, travel and family logistics. The recent window follows the 2026 season through several stops. There are recap shows for Open workouts 26.1 and 26.3, an episode titled Dave Castro's Hint + 26.1 Workout Predictions, a look back at the Fittest Experience, and a preview of the Mayhem Classic. The previews are practical. Ahead of the Mayhem Classic the pair note six events across three days, one more than the year before, and single out an event they hope the coverage will include. Predictions are looser. With only a hint to go on before 26.1, they sketch a hypothetical workout out loud, complete with checkpoints where faster athletes can bank time while everyone else still gets to play. Once workouts are public, the analysis sharpens. In Reprogramming the 2026 CrossFit Open + Quarterfinals, the two rework what athletes were given, trading views on a 60-40-20 rep scheme against 40-20 and on whether a 15-minute time frame makes every movement in a workout count. The Fittest Experience episode brings in a first-hand view: one of the two took part, with events that differed slightly from the elite field's, yet the conversation deliberately keeps to the elites. The 26.3 recap turns to leaks. The pair had expected that workout to get out early once WZA was involved, it did not, and they lay out their own theory of how semifinal events leaked in an earlier season. There is industry chatter too: affiliate owners getting an exclusive window on CrossFit Games tickets, the Games heading to San Jose for its 20th anniversary, and Open sign-ups well up on the previous year. And there is plenty of life around the edges. One of them squeezes 26.1 into the gap between a trip to his son's school and afternoon pickup, with his training partner Jules and a pair of strained calves. Elsewhere, Jules's semifinal qualification and invite to Del Mar get a proper celebration. Sign-offs lean affectionate, thanking listeners for being part of the show, and at least once promise that Bill will burn the whole thing down next time. It adds up to programming analysis delivered as loose, joking conversation, where the detours are part of the appeal and the workouts remain the subject.