TRAIN AEROBIC BASE

“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.”

“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.”

“I had was not prepared to to do this test, and I felt kinda sick as I as I started to do the test. They gave me these, like, wipes to wipe down. As I was, like, finishing up, they're asking me how I am and, like, walking me through what the numbers mean and stuff. And all of a sudden, I felt sick and there was a trash can right there, and I just start dry heaving into the trash can until finally I start puking into the trash can that was right next to it. We get into the car, the Uber, and we start driving. We're about fifteen minutes into this drive, and I'm like, pull over. He pulls over on the side of London. I open the door, dude, and, like, a gallon of vomit just hopped inside the car.”

“People had some really big knee jerk reactions to that I that I heard online and listening to other podcasts and stuff to some of the changes. But it's like, why don't we wait for everything to come out before we make it the, like, a decision or because these knee jerk reactions, it's like, oh, why are they doing that? Well, now they're showing you, like, hey, this is a transition year. This is coming. Other things are coming. And it's like, oh, maybe, you know, they do have a plan, and we just don't know it all right now.”

“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.”

“If you follow Triathlon and Ironman, like, you've probably heard of the name Christian Blumberg who's, I guess is one of the most iconic, Ironman, 70.3 and also Olympic distance athletes in the world. He measured the biggest z o two max score ever in history. He cracked a 100. A 102 is his VO two max score. Long story short, the race afterwards, like his first race after doing that VO2 Max max was three or four weeks ago in New Zealand. He placed seventh at this Ironman.”

“You can increase your VO two max and not get any better. Absolutely. Does not correlate to performance. There are a plethora of studies that show that that, like, they're they're just all over the place. If you took a bunch of people that were from 50 to 70, and I'm fifty fifty eight b o two max at 37 years old, if if you have anybody that's in that range, you could not predict the results of a race just based on our b o two max.”

“I guarantee I would I've said this to a a a few people before. I guarantee I'd put my put my house on it that I would not right now, I would not run a sub 6,400 meters. I think Lauren could beat me in a 400 for sure. I know Jess Petro could right now for sure. Lauren, and I think Jess Petro would beat me in a 400 meter dash.”

“If you wanna increase your VO two max, one of the and you're new, especially, like, I'd say low level, it's basically just move. One of the things you could do as the most simple thing is six days a week, either go for a run or ride a bike. Doesn't have to be long. Twenty minutes, maybe. And one of those days, do it on a as a fartlek. So, like, do 10 or eight by one minute hard, two minutes easy. And do that fartlek once a week for four weeks.”

“Matlock revealed that head one is coming, and that stands for head, h e d, is Hyrock's elite division one, which as I understand it afterwards is basically a b heat that'll be run earlier in the day of if first through fifteenth, whatever roll downs, the 15 top athletes compete in heat one at a major next year, the sixteenth to thirtieth rank with x amount of roll downs, it wasn't specific, will be run earlier in the day on the same grid course.”

“It's better to measure something than it is to measure nothing. So that could account for heart rate. That could account for muscle oxygenation. That could account for VO two max. That could account for really anything. It's better to measure something than it is to not measure anything. So if you're measuring VO two max, you can get a rough idea.”

“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.”

“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.”