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Unbuckled Chinstrap with Jules Heningburg

Kyle Hartzell: The Fittest Player in the League?

Unbuckled Chinstrap with Jules Heningburg

PLL

Sports

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Hartzell has pioneered a new generation of longstick midfielders who are equally adept at scoring the two-bomb and throwing a takeaway check. As one of Paul's best friends in the league, the two intimately discuss his rise as one of the best players in the world (17:50-20:28), how he first started playing lacrosse as an attackman (16:38-17:49) and his intense workout regimen (05:16-14:01). Kyle also explains the origin of the American Psycho Instagram posts (31:53-33:37) and his pregame routine with Paul (33:38-35:00) Let us know your favorite bits from the episode by tagging us at @UnbuckledPod, and you can follow Kyle on Instagram and Twitter @khartzell81. Enjoy the show!

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back. This is an all new episode of Unbuckled Chinstrap.

0:07.0

I'm your host Paul Rabel and I'm also very excited for this one. We welcome on today's show a very close friend of mine, Atlas

0:14.4

teammate, that's two weeks straight of Atlas teammates. This show is not partial.

0:18.9

This person is also though the self-proclaimed fittest athlete in the

0:24.0

PLL that's right bitches

0:26.2

Kyle Hartzel he's like me a 34 year old still at the top of his game

0:31.0

and he trains relentlessly and on the show we talk about his training routines.

0:35.0

We also talk about how for most of his career he's gone on notice.

0:37.6

Under-recruited, actually not recruited, played at Jukko, we'll hit on that in a little bit.

0:42.6

Everything that fuels this guy,

0:44.6

even how he posts on pre-game

0:47.4

Instagram pictures of Hannibal Lecter.

0:50.0

He's got a few screws loose.

0:52.4

But throughout the show, we also sprinkle in a few reactions

0:54.6

from the opening weekend in College lacrosse,

0:57.0

which was wild.

0:58.5

So let's get it 81.

1:00.2

All right, we are here at the POL podcast studios and I'm sitting across from a dear friend of mine.

1:10.4

He's actually like my best friend, Kyle Hartzel. What's up guys?

1:15.8

Quadrupling down on your athletic career now you say you want to play till your

1:19.5

40? Playing until I'm 40 maybe 50 we'll see not how it's 50

1:24.0

We'll get the we'll get the 40 first and we'll make a decision if you're 34 34 so I prefaced opening it with sitting with one of my great friends because

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