Holly Gabrielle #10 Chasing times while Angelo whines

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I'm no expert but this full day of eating from this post looks very lacking in appropriate nutrients.

She has no protein at all until 1pm - and by this point she's already done 2 workouts and one bike commute. The lunch contains a BIT of protein from the edamame and lentil chips but barely enough.

We have a ton of ultra-processed foods - nutrition bars, gels, flavoured lentil chips and crumpets (anything "pizza flavoured" that is "accidentally vegan" is going to be incredibly processed), protein yoghurt, sugary cereal and fake-meat sausages.

I was expecting the dinner to at least have a decent amount of protein but it's almost entirely fibre. Two measly pots of pistachios, a protein yoghurt and some veggie sausages doesn't really cut the mustard after a day of 5 (5!!!!) workouts and barely any protein in the other meals.

She's gonna absolutely destroy her body in no time if she carries on like this.
If she spent the huge amounts of money she seems to have on a nutritionist, physiotherapist and personal trainer, I can guarantee that she’d be in a better position than she is now because this is ludicrous. Three workouts in one day combined with processed food doesn’t scream someone who knows what she’s doing.

I’m sure she’d go with the line that she “can’t afford it” while also spending £15 out on lunches and paying £350 per month for the gym.
 
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If she spent the huge amounts of money she seems to have on a nutritionist, physiotherapist and personal trainer, I can guarantee that she’d be in a better position than she is now because this is ludicrous. Three workouts in one day combined with processed food doesn’t scream someone who knows what she’s doing.

I’m sure she’d go with the line that she “can’t afford it” while also spending £15 out on lunches and paying £350 per month for the gym.
She thinks she knows better. With her ED, if she went to therapy, she'd probably be able to get referred to a dietitian for free. She had a physiotherapist that she was seeing when she was injured, but I think I remember her getting private care from someone who was kind of sketchy instead.
 
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I'm no expert but this full day of eating from this post looks very lacking in appropriate nutrients.

She has no protein at all until 1pm - and by this point she's already done 2 workouts and one bike commute. The lunch contains a BIT of protein from the edamame and lentil chips but barely enough.

We have a ton of ultra-processed foods - nutrition bars, gels, flavoured lentil chips and crumpets (anything "pizza flavoured" that is "accidentally vegan" is going to be incredibly processed), protein yoghurt, sugary cereal and fake-meat sausages.

I was expecting the dinner to at least have a decent amount of protein but it's almost entirely fibre. Two measly pots of pistachios, a protein yoghurt and some veggie sausages doesn't really cut the mustard after a day of 5 (5!!!!) workouts and barely any protein in the other meals.

She's gonna absolutely destroy her body in no time if she carries on like this.
This is so weird, it's like the food you'd eat if you weren't able to cook at home and had to just get takeaway etc.
 
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All those energy gel packs can't be recycled and I keep seeing discarded packets in my local park. Surely loose energy bars/cubes etc are better for the environment.
 
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She thinks she knows better. With her ED, if she went to therapy, she'd probably be able to get referred to a dietitian for free. She had a physiotherapist that she was seeing when she was injured, but I think I remember her getting private care from someone who was kind of sketchy instead.
I think a nutrionist/dietician would recommend such radical changes that she wouldn't be able to handle it. There's also no way a therapist/dietician wouldn't call out her patterns of excessive exercise (which seem to be spiralling at the moment). As always, I wonder why her family don't step in to help her, given her issues are writ large on social media, but I guess there's a limited amount of intervention you can do with somebody nearly in their 30s.
 
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I think a nutrionist/dietician would recommend such radical changes that she wouldn't be able to handle it. There's also no way a therapist/dietician wouldn't call out her patterns of excessive exercise (which seem to be spiralling at the moment). As always, I wonder why her family don't step in to help her, given her issues are writ large on social media, but I guess there's a limited amount of intervention you can do with somebody nearly in their 30s.
Any good nutritionist would be recommending therapy and, as you say, porbbably not basing her life on exercise so there's no way she'd take this advice
 
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This feels incredibly relevant... That full day of eating homegirl posted ytd had 0 large now I think of it - meaning she can't absorb the vits and minerals from her veggies either.

Holly's already discussed some of these symptoms - fatigue, training plateaus, declining performance over time. I'm actually worried atp.
 
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So they're doing Hyrox Istanbul in 4 weeks time.

I think this has to be the critical race for Angelo in particular. They'll have been doing this full time for seven months by August, so if Angelo underperforms again, that has to be a reality check for them. I mean, it gets to a point, right? Surely they can't persist with something that is unattainable and this seems a solid point to reassess.
 
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I'm sure that even if Istanbul goes badly for Angelo, there will be some excuse and recalibration, like the magical thinking from last time where he subtracted several minutes from his own time after bombing the wall balls (or "wuul buuls" as the two of them pronounce it - makes me laugh every time).
 
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So they're doing Hyrox Istanbul in 4 weeks time.

I think this has to be the critical race for Angelo in particular. They'll have been doing this full time for seven months by August, so if Angelo underperforms again, that has to be a reality check for them. I mean, it gets to a point, right? Surely they can't persist with something that is unattainable and this seems a solid point to reassess.
I'm starting to think that maybe it was never really about Hyrox for Angelo, but more so the fact that he was jealous that Holly is wealthy and has never had a real job unless you count contract work for Ali Abdaal. All the 9-5 slander (coming from someone who has a 9-5 and agrees that it's a big time suck) makes me wonder if he convinced Holly to financially support him (because I am doubtful that he would've had the funds to quit his job and pursue Hyrox without her) and is using Hyrox as sort of a cover/side quest. Hyrox is probably something that he enjoys doing, and I think he was into it before he even met Holly, but I don't think he wants to podium because he wants to feel accomplished at the actual competition, but because he feels ashamed that Holly is outperforming him, and because otherwise he doesn't have an excuse for quitting his job.
 
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Do they spend time with anyone other than each other, they will burn out so fast
This is also what concerns me generally! Holly has gone from being in her own/her family’s company 24/7 (minus the rare catch up with a friend or meeting someone who also edited for Ali) to spending 100% of her time with either herself, Angelo, or her parents. It’s stunted and will not help her mentally train for being a pro Hyrox athlete. You need to be mentally flexible and she has the most rigid set up you could get. Training isn’t just about lifting the heavy weights, it’s about making sure you’re balancing it out with other activities and having a LIFE. Holly surely could appreciate this to some extent when she was doing both dance and school? Still v insular but at least it’s not just sport.
 
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Take a shot 🥃 any time either of them says 'like', 'honestly', or 'obviously' in their Youtube videos 😅
 
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Their latest video is a series of tedious tests. They both seem to have developed chronic injuries (Holly's wrist; Angelo's back) and fatigue. At one point, Angelo calls the testing "high risk and low reward" - you can say that again. The comments on the video are mostly calling out their poor form in the various lifts.
 
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Their latest video is a series of tedious tests. They both seem to have developed chronic injuries (Holly's wrist; Angelo's back) and fatigue. At one point, Angelo calls the testing "high risk and low reward" - you can say that again. The comments on the video are mostly calling out their poor form in the various lifts.
Their deadlift form is truly shocking. I‘m no gym rat and have only started lifting in January, but seeing their deadlifts made my back hurt just looking at them.
 
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So glad they’re being called out for it in the comments because it’s genuinely concerning! Given Hollys perfectionism and ability to absorb information i am surprised at her lack of research before undertaking these lifts. I’d be terrified to break my body or do things wrong in case I injured myself. Considering they’re 4 weeks out from instanbul this was both reckless and stupid.
 
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I just don't see why they couldn't have spread these different tests out over several weeks rather than doing it all in one week. Surely the tests from later in the week won't be truly representative anyway because they're still carrying fatigue from doing max attempts earlier in the week.
 
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Old video of Holly Archer, 13 years ago when she was on an athletics scholarship in America. Holly W was doing what in 2013?
 
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