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Talking Elite Fitness

Hit and Catch #3 - Tough Times in Turkey and Rebecca Suffers a Setback

Talking Elite Fitness

Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Monster Michael Todd takes his quest for 100 gold medals across the Atlantic to Turkey for East vs. West 6.  Sean and Tommy talk to him about his training leading up to the competition, his match against Kydyrgali Ongarbaev and the lessons he learned from his experience in Europe. Plus, Rebecca Todd talks about how her training focus has shifted after suffering a setback in the form of a knee injury.

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody. Welcome to another Monster Monday. It's hit and catch with Monster Michael Todd and

0:05.1

Rebecca Todd. Sean Woodland and Tommy Marquez here with you, joined by Monster Michael Todd and Rebecca

0:10.1

Todd. Where do we find you today? We are currently in Amsterdam. Woo! Yeah. Okay. But we're still

0:18.5

going to workouts in, so that's good, too. That's very good.

0:22.8

So why are you in, we talked about this on our last episode, but just to refresh people,

0:27.1

why did you make your way over to Europe?

0:30.4

Well, I had an opportunity at East versus West 6, where they bring the best from the East

0:36.2

versus the Best from the West to compete for the

0:39.3

light heavyweight world title that was this past Saturday. Okay. And obviously we want to,

0:45.1

we want to dive into all that in just a little bit. But one of the things that we were planning on

0:48.7

doing last week was touching on some of the prep because I think I maybe had an understanding of what prep

0:55.4

looked like just in terms of general training.

0:58.0

But you sent me a day of training.

0:59.7

And this is extensive to say the least.

1:03.2

And I think it's something that people that are maybe interested in arm wrestling or at least

1:07.2

maybe having some some cannons like you, Mike uh or or just in general some upper body

1:13.0

stuff as well could definitely benefit from so um you sent over a a a day's worth of training and

1:19.9

we want to dive into it um a little bit but first things first bigger picture what does prep look like for a single event like this?

1:31.2

Okay, so the difference is in pro format super match style arm wrestling, which is what this was.

1:36.5

It's one-on-one, best of five rounds.

1:38.7

Sometimes it's six.

1:40.1

So in those instances, it could be a three-three tie, right?

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