Holly Gabrielle #10 Chasing times while Angelo whines

[yerdasellsavon]

"Angelo and I are still figuring out where we'll be in June".

Well, surely if you don't know at this stage, you'd probably choose to base it around the opportunity you've just been given? Which is the thing you decided to give your whole job up for in the first place? I'm not an expert, but if brands are going to be scouting Hyrox for sponsorship opportunities and the like, the World Championships seems the most likely place. It seems mental that she's even considering not taking it when this is what she wanted and she's achieved it in record time.

I can guarantee you that the reason she's hesitant is because of Angelo. She feels bad that he hasn't got an invitation and they're not "in it together". If he was a supportive boyfriend, he'd be telling her to go for it. He would go and watch, cheer her on and hope she smashes it. If she doesn't accept, it's going to be very telling, and my opinion of Angelo will go down significantly.

 

[yerdasellsavon]

I'm pretty sure if you weren't spending £15 on overpriced salads every lunchtime and actually meal prepping and cooking for yourself, the amount you spend on food would decrease dramatically.

 

[graceiona95]

Based on the fact the gym they go to is super expensive and they’re still eating out in London multiple times a day, I think they don’t know the meaning of “having no money” and it’s starting to wind me up with the constant moaning that they have to budget. Going to take a wild guess that they actually do have a very generous safety net and back up from parents but are both too middle class to understand what poor even means and think having to check their bank before a big purchase counts as slumming it

 

[Mabelsonthetable]

The winner Saskia Millard manages to juggle been a A&E doctor with hyrox training

 

[holainit]

If she doesnt go I am almost certain its because Angelo convinced her not to. This is literally THE GOAL so why wouldnt she go. Ok they planned to potentially be on the other side of the world but who cares. Its not like they have fully committed and also she can just fly for the competition and continue to be on the other side of the world after. There is basically no good reason to say no to this opportunity. But I can think of some jealousy/bitterness related reasons.

 

[yerdasellsavon]

Their response to why they don't meal prep or cook for themselves has actually infuriated me.

They can't spend an hour a day meal prepping or cooking because they're focused on their brand, recovery and training. There are people with real commitments, whether that be childcare or just a 9-5, that get home and cook a meal even though they may be exhausted from work.

But no, Holly and Angelo can't spend an hour a day cooking because they need to make an Instagram reel or focus on "recovery". Can you not "recover" and cook at the same time? Confused at the logic here.

I live in London. They're probably spending roughly £30 per day on food each. They're out her begging for sponsorship and talking about how they need to watch their money while eating £15 salad bowls. How disingenuous and privileged can you get?

 

[korma]

As someone else in the comments said, that was a tough watch. It's unpleasant to see, but also just boring.

Their diet is so freelee coded lmao. Bananas, oats, golden syrup, rice, jam etc...

It's such weird ED content. Holly's literally been making insta posts recently like "kinda chic not to track calories" then drops this whopper (also she posted on her insta today that she's tracking food this week "to make sure she's eating enough" which I fully take to mean she's actually trying to limit her intake following this one day of overeating).

Angelo's comments about Holly having a "suspiciously large appetite for such a small person"... Weird weird weird. The literal last thing you should do to an ED'd person is comment on 1) their size and 2) how much they eat/ want to eat. Also has he not considered that she has a large appetite due to 1) overtraining and 2) having been in deep restriction for most of her teens and adult life?!?! Extreme hunger, hello??

Just a super uncomfortable watch, really giving YouTube mukbang/ calorie challenge vibes from like 2016. Super clickbaity and sensational.

It's like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for content ideas. I think they were banking on being much more successful in Hyrox by now so they'd have more exciting stuff to post about (like when Holly was preparing for Worlds, that was exciting as it felt like real progress in their journey). But they are now just chugging through Pro level races and not making much improvement in terms of race times. This type of content just feels so stagnant and I feel like that reflects the fact that they're not making the progress they'd expected at the outset.

 

[emm]

I find it interesting hat she hypes him up so much and it's dead silence from him about her performance. Surely you... want to see your partner do well?

I really get terrible vibes from him. Huge red flags

 

[yerdasellsavon]

Excuse me?

2 to 3 years? They have no real source of income and their channel only has around 1k subscribers after a few months. I've seen no indication that they're going to become influencers.

Holly must have earned A LOT from her YouTube days and have it saved up or their families are really helping them out because how on earth are they going to survive financially for three years? And if they don't make it? What then? I'm at a complete loss now.

 

[holainit]

Im so glad he posted this but the skeptic in me feels like he only did this because we talked about how he didnt celebrate her finish

 

[StatusWoe]

Their south korea trip seems to have had about 0 thought put into it.

Next they'll book lapland in December and complain it's too cold for outdoor training.

It would make for some interesting subpar performance excuses.

Angelo:
I didn't do as well as I hoped on the last training day. There was a herd of reindeer watching me run and I found that very distracting. I'd have done better if the reindeer hadn't been watching.
The sled pull was harder than I expected because Santa was sitting on it and he's fat. My time would be better if Santa stopped eating mince pies.
I didn't meet my goal because I went running outside and my sweat froze. I was stuck in a sweat cube until the sun defrosted me. Very disappointing training day.

And so on.

 

[Lola123]

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With all this time on their hands surely Angelo has time to trim or push back his cuticles?? The lack of self care between these two is astounding and it really doesn’t seem like they hold each other accountable on that front….

Sorry his monobrow should be the pressing issue

 

[violastoad]

Why are they complaining in their video about there being nothing to do in Stafford... as if they ever do anything? Idk if they're right about Stafford bc I've never been there but they were in the beautiful city of Lyon for months and did nothing but go to the gym and the supermarket

 

[emmer_moans]

Apparently it's allowed, but gains are marginal because of the heat build up and presumably.... sweat?? (Hello, Angelo!)

I swear, I've learned more about Hyrox than I have ever wanted to because of these two

No offence to anyone who participates in Hyrox here, but, I keep seeing the wall ball segment and thinking this feels like a made up game someone invented in their garden Like triathlon I can understand, it has the 3 distinct disciplines whereas Hyrox is like run 1k then carry some weights then tap a ball against the wall many times then run a 1k then ski then push a sled. Don't get me started on watching the participants do burpeees with varying success. I get that it is endurance etc but it looks like it's a money spin. Just my impression. It seems to be everywhere on my feeds. A friend of a friend seems to be obsessed with training for it too, though he does work full time but now his weekends seem to involve being on the gym and not with his kids or wife

But, this is the most interesting Holly has been to me in years so here I am

I don't like Angelo, I get sour grapes vibes, bet he's miserable.

 

[yerdasellsavon]

I’ll have a side of plain tofu and a whole raw carrot with my burger and chips, please.

 

[Icing _on_ the_cake]

This is the issue, she hasn't got over her eating disorder/psychological issues its just transferred j to overexercise which can cause huge physical issues

It does really look like she quit her job so she could be at the gym all day. The Insta story post about how being focused on one thing is how to live life...but that's a massive luxury. Most people have to work or child care alongside whatever self-development or alternative career goal they have in mind. That is just not what real life is like.

 

[hpprotego]

ah yes, we love covering up Hollys incapability to do more than 2 things at once with ‘essentialism’. Yeah sure if everyone working on their office jobs for 100+ hours a week labelled their life as ‘essentialism’ everyone would laugh in their face, but put the same label onto fitness/going to the gym full time and all of a sudden it’s positive?

I do not in any means view what Holly is doing in a positive nor realistic light. I do not think it is mentally healthy to put all your eggs into one basket, and reduce your world so much to the point where the only people you see are your partner, family (only because they are in circumstances which has forced them to stay with family), and random faces at the gym. By reducing her world to such a small, insular scale, Holly will probably do quite well at this Hyrox thing. But at what cost? Her social skills are down the drain, no wider friendship circles who she’s regularly in touch with, no career prospects (other than Hyrox, but her body won’t be in its 20s forever), just seems like such a sad small world to be a part of.

 

[graceiona95]

Angelo's V02 max being 54 is hilarious. Couldn't stop laughing at the reveal. What are they playing at!

Also love how in Hollys video it’s all about what a great measure Vo2 max is, but suddenly when his is worse that hers, it’s all relative and actually it’s better that it isn’t too high

 

[emmadoww]

If we can move on from their living arrangements, because I honestly don’t care (sorry), can we introduce a drinking game where we do a shot every time the “we quit our jobs to pursue Hyrox full-time” line comes out?

 

[nobluefrogs]

Holly should train with other high level hyrox women, and angelo should go and get a job.