Hit and Catch #3 - Tough Times in Turkey and Rebecca Suffers a Setback
Talking Elite Fitness
Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland
4.8 • 1.2K 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 |
| 0:04.4 | Michael Todd and Rebecca Todd, Sean Woodland and Tommy Marquez here with you joined by monster |
| 0:09.0 | Michael Todd and Rebecca Todd. Where do we find you today? |
| 0:13.2 | We're currently in Amsterdam. |
| 0:18.1 | We're still going to work out the answer. That's good too. |
| 0:20.0 | Right. So that's very good. So why are you in, we talked about this on our last episode, |
| 0:26.0 | but just to refresh people, why did you make your way over to Europe? |
| 0:30.4 | Well, I had an opportunity at East versus West six, where they bring the best from the East |
| 0:36.1 | versus the best from the West to compete for the light heavyweight world title. That was this past |
| 0:42.1 | out of it. Okay. And and obviously we want to we want to dive into all that and just a little bit. |
| 0:47.2 | But one of the things that we were planning on doing last week was touching on some of the prep |
| 0:51.6 | because I think I maybe had an understanding of what prep looked like just in terms of general |
| 0:57.3 | training, but you sent me a day of training and this is extensive to say the least. And I think |
| 1:03.3 | it's something that people that are maybe interested in arm wrestling or at least maybe having some |
| 1:08.6 | some cannons like you Mike or are just in general some upper body stuff as well could definitely |
| 1:14.4 | benefit from. So you sent over a a a days worth of training and we want to dive into it a little |
| 1:22.5 | bit. But first things first, bigger picture, what does prep look like for a single event like this? |
| 1:31.1 | Okay. So the difference is in pro format super match style arm wrestling, which is what this was. |
| 1:36.4 | It's one on one best of five rounds. Sometimes it's six. So on those instances, it could be a three |
| 1:41.6 | three time, right? But the preparation is more, you know, you just have to, you know, you know, |
| 1:47.1 | you're only going to get one person. So you can pick apart their style. You can you can do a lot of |
| 1:52.0 | different things like that in me, the prep for far strategy prep. But the training for me is always |
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