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“Hands down. It's just a lot more fun. And I don't know how you felt after it, but obviously it leaves you feeling exhausted, and you push yourself, but you don't feel like you got ran over by a freaking train. A lot of those crossfit competitions at the higher level, after you're done, especially if it's a two-day competition, you just feel like you got hit by a train.”

“What they've done so well is they've created a fitness competition of sort that can appeal to like very, I don't want to say low level, but like entry point average people that are really trying to push themselves and try something really challenging all the way up to elite level, like obstacle course racers, and even now professional crossfitters getting in and at it.”

“Training for hyrox is like, you're just, you're building that steady state aerobic system, you can do that all year long. And so that's really appealing, really appealing for me as well. Hyrox, the carryover, you know, building that aerobic system, the carryover onto the farm was great. Like I would get out of the gym feeling loose, limber, got a good sweat, breathe heavy.”

“The whole fricking race is running. It's all running. These other things, they're completely meaningless. You just need to get basically, you just need to get through them without spiking your heart rate like crazy. And you need to be a very good runner. So obviously, as we're seeing, the favorites that are starting to really dominate are longer, lankier athletes.”

“You're able to adapt to these different energy systems very seemingly. And like whenever we were training and we would jump on the row or jump on the ski, like because I've spent so long working on these or anybody that's familiar on these looks at your screen and sees you pulling 2000 calories... it's like that's insane.”