3x HYROX World Champion 4x HYROX Record - 53:22 3x Broken Skull Champ 4x Mud Run Champion 6x OCR World Champion 4x OCR National Champion GORUCK Champ MURPH World Record
Yess the Sheriff is back, love it!! Missed that entertainment, tough love! Interesting guests Ryan Atkins (topic to join a Hyrox) and Jonathan Albon (he is also altitude tent believer)
Great honesty. Wish you all the best! Been dealing with a bulging disc. So you are not alone. But we don’t quit. Just keep moving. And btw please do a Podcast with wodscience ❤
The marginal gains are killing the whole story. Thanks for this insight and story hunter. I have also been overtrained while training for the Worlds in Ironman and I have also seen this in many top performing athletes. Before Team Sky went on to win the Tour they struggled with the basics of recovery and training. Marc Allen struggled to win Hawaii many many times and Dave Scott overdid it before Mark Allen won his first Hawaii and unfortunately never came back. Lance had two coaches: Michele and Chris. Michele although having a dark history was nevertheless one of the best exercise physiologist and very top notch (authoritative guy). Very smart guy that focuses a lot on the whole basics of the physiology (always staying below LT2 to increase threshold). My POV is: The low weights are probably just possible in extreme endurance sports. The whole german federational system of track and field overtrained so many good and talented athletes with a too much intensity, too little calories and too little recovery system. RED-S is just so very common in endurance athletes here and a big big hazard. I guess you even induced more stress with the altitute tent or this system ;). When you look at rowers or XC Skiers (Huge VO2 Engine) they also have a bigger frame. I guess the ultimate capacity in Vo2 (in l/min) is more important than your relative (ml/min/Kg), ex. 7L vs. 73ml/min/Kg, for hybrids or Hyrox Athletes. But also you see some Athletes (like Kristian Blumenfelt or so), that have a bigger frame with superb relative VO2 values. Excited to see your next races! Will be good!
Question,, why be obsessed with Tour de France?? Most drug abusers in sport. That should have been a question of yours. Surely. I think at this stage in your career you should stick to a single principle of training. Chucking the monitors is great start. Trust your own process. Good luck bruv
Big video from a big man! thank you for sharing this and being vulnerable, with us and for us. Get up on the horse and get going my man. We all believe in you.
Incredible - as Hyrox fans we all spend too much time watching 20second Insta reels of someone smashing out 'yet another' WoD - but its THIS that represents reality. Congrats to you Hunter, you're a better champion for this.
I had alot of your same symptoms, I am not elite athlete but, for me it turned out to be lingering co vid stuff. I did HBOT and my heart rate and effort got back on track for me.
Massive respect, it seems like you just over trained and your body just blew up right before you meant for your body to peak. Regardless you will be back Hunter!!!
32:15-32:55. Applies to World Class companies, world class athletes, world class teams. Never stop trying. Keep that attitude of positive discontent. You are a World-Class person Hunter.
Braylon Tender offered you his coaching services. Oh well. Braylon would have told you that Tour de France contenders care about power-to-weight ratios for one reason only. They race up hills for long periods of time. Gravity is trying to pull you back down the hill and you have to exert power to overcome that force. The greater your bodyweight, the more power you need to overcome that force. So Tour de France contenders are obsessed with achieving the lowest bodyweight possible, consistent with exerting sufficient power to compete at the highest level. Hyrox has no hills. It doesn't even have a station where you have to directly exert power against the force of gravity, like a pull up station. That was a royal blunder, champ.
Burpee broad jump and lunges are two exercises going directly against gravity I get your point though and do think mass and endurance is better for the other stations
