Mini: How Spartan Athlete Ryan Atkins thinks about training / Spartan ATHLETE 021
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Atkins is the current Spartan Race Ultra World Champion and the winningest obstacle racer of all time. Ryan talks to Matt B Davis about a winning mindset, how he approaches his weaknesses, and how he mixes his training up to keep it fun and enjoyable.
LESSONS:
• Adding fun training like mountain biking or stand up paddleboarding.
• What he eats.
• Making workouts can be intense AND fun.
• Getting better at running uphill has improved his performance.
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CREDITS:
Host: Matt B Davis (@mattbdavis)
Show Notes: Matt B Davis
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spartan Athlete here on the Spartan Up podcast. We talk to some of the best athletes in the business. |
| 0:04.6 | They're going to give you tips and tricks and techniques on ways for you to conquer the course. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm here with world champion at a lot of things you were a |
| 0:14.3 | unicycle world champion yeah I was you're the ultra Spartaned world champion current |
| 0:19.6 | remaining are you are you excited to defend that title in a new country? |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, I'm really excited to go to Sweden. |
| 0:25.0 | I've been to Sweden before. |
| 0:26.0 | Everyone there is super nice and it's going to be cold, which I enjoy. |
| 0:29.0 | It's not cold right now. |
| 0:30.0 | All right. |
| 0:31.0 | So you post a lot of wacky training stuff. So is it let me ask you real talk is it all fun in games or do you have a super |
| 0:38.6 | Regiment and you just kind of show us the fun stuff? I think it's a bit of both. I have a few workouts every week that are like |
| 0:44.8 | super specific that I kind of want to do and do properly and do really hard and then I |
| 0:49.1 | have a lot of stuff that's just a ton of fun and I see as training and cross training and a good way to you know stay fit |
| 0:55.0 | stay in shape and have a lot of fun at it. |
| 0:57.7 | So how would you recommend other folks keep it interesting like that if they can't say |
| 1:02.1 | travel in a great RV and you know travel |
| 1:04.2 | the world as you seem to do. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah I think find something that you're passionate about that requires some level of fitness |
| 1:10.7 | whether it's almost, and paddleboarding or surfing or swimming or |
| 1:15.7 | something that you get really excited to do on top of Spartan Racing and the training for that. |
| 1:20.1 | And it's not going to seem like work. |
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