Holly Gabrielle #10 Chasing times while Angelo whines

[lifegoss1]

2-3 years… surely they could have done this alongside traditional work and annual leave. Like I know training for things varies but this just seems stupid

I found it more of a back handed compliment. He didnt really need to mention the womens division and the mens.

Holly worked hard and has the drive to get where she is at the moment.

 

[Icing _on_ the_cake]

I bet it's Angelo's idea to do this. And if he does poorly it'll be because he didn't sleep and was tired from travelling.

 

[Magallanes]

It's actually just hitting me now how nuts it is, going to the gym is fully the beginning middle and end of every day for her. Over and over again for months.

even professional athletes do not train everyday, and when they do, they don't train all day long. a few, well spent hours, are truly better than locking in the gym for the whole day doing a total of 6 different workouts!!!

 

[Axl4]

And neither has Angelo! I don’t doubt if he had some meat on his plate then she have a bit! But he seems to have just as disordered eating as she does

You can pretty much work out from his Instagram that he has narcissistic traits. Can't be ideal for Holly's family - seeing your mentally ill child with a disordered partner.

As to whether Hyrox is good for Holly - yes, it's good to get out of a slump (like the last however many years in her case) but if you can only move forward in life in response to external stimuli like competition, that poses a much bigger obstacle than succeeding at whatever short term, tangible goals you have set yourself. When you're past that goal/it's no longer relevant, in Holly's case she will be in her 30s with no professional experience or real direction. Holly probably doesn't see that as an issue because she is used to short term goal setting with objective evaluation as to whether the goal is met, but I think it's far more of a concern (from an adult life perspective) than whether she wins at Hyrox.

 

[Lola123]

She took loans out so presumably that's what she has been using a portion of her youtube funds for since she graduated. There was a video when she was in her dorm room and she very condescendingly explained that her housing and schooling was being paid for through loans and that she had to pay it back. It's probably paid off by now unless she's one of those people who just pays the minimum so that the total length of time her accounts have been open is higher to increase her credit score.

In the UK because everyone has them, it’s not really a big factor in the credit score, for her mortgage they won’t even really had had to work it out, just what her income actually was

 

[Nemolife2]

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

I’m vegan too and I’ll say it again they eat the weirdest, blandest foods lol

 

[hpprotego]

Angelo shouts out the wall ball judge first- saying ‘that support made all the difference’, and all Holly gets is a FoR AlwAyS bEinG thERe…. HUHH? I mean, come on. She’s not just there Angelo, she’s shouting you out, supporting you, probably guiding you and keeping your motivation levels up. God knows he seems to need the motivation/positivity Holly brings with his mindset problems we have seen before…

And then we have Hollys shoutout, not only does her shoutout to Angelo come before mentioning anyone else (unlike angelos where he literally shouts out hyrox itself before the person he ‘loves’ (?)), but she also acknowledges he is her rock, partner in crime, how he believes in her. She actually articulates it and expresses how she feels. Shame Angelo doesn’t seem to show the same level of insight into his relationship- he needs to step up if he’s going to be doing this alongside Holly who is both articulate and emotional online. He needs to work on himself and his content ALOT.

 

[yerdasellsavon]

Well, he looks pleased

 

[korma]

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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.

I really think that Hyrox is filling the void that was left by not becoming a dancer. With ballet especially, you have to start SUPER young, do a pre-pro course at age 14-18ish, and then join a company and try to make it up through the ranks.

Holly chose university instead and basically missed the opportunity to be a professional ballet dancer. But I think she would have loved the "essentialist" (if that's what we're calling it) company lifestyle - you're taking ballet class from 9am, rehearsing throughout the day, performing in the evening, and when you're not doing any of those things you're probably getting sports massage/ physio/ conditioning training etc. It's a lifestyle that is incredibly regimented and organised around just one thing.

So, to me it looks like she's trying to replicate that sense of extreme structure and dedication in an alternate field (Hyrox), now that she's definitely way too old to get into a professional ballet company.

She could have gone the alternate route of being "essentialist" about a science career, but actually a science career is *somewhat* less rigidly hierarchical. I think the lack of exams/ hoops to jump through after the Masters level freaked Holly out. The idea of actually applying her knowledge to solve real-life problems in messy, real-life scenarios, where perfect outcomes aren't guaranteed - rather than just being tested on her excellence continually - freaked her out - which is why teaching, medicine, and research never seemed to appeal to her.

She's in pursuit of perfection, which as we all know isn't an attainable thing. But sport allows her to at least be ranked within a very tightly controlled system.

 

[crowleyskeeper1]

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"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.

The whole reason for the nomadic lifestyle is Hyrox so this is just an excuse for if Angelo doesn't qualify. Her reasoning literally doesn't make sense.

 

[Cheapwhiskey]

Is she actually joking about not training for Farmer’s Carry? Like how can you be trying to be elite and not practice one of the stations?!

 

[hollowcrown]

I watched the end of the men’s Elite 15 Hyrox race on You Tube. I thought it was exciting and looked like a great atmosphere. Albeit a crazy endeavour that seems really bad for potentially getting injured!

Also watched a documentary about how Hyrox got its start and how it has grown. The sport has really taken off this year. Interestingly the founder doesn’t want to work with influencers who aren't actually competitive gym people. (I am talking to you James Charles lmao )

So, are people here against Hyrox per se? Or more against Holly’s training and competing to the nth degree and her lofty goals, and Angelo making statements like he and Holly are progressing faster in their Hyrox training than any other Hyrox athletes in the world?

I think Hyrox is a stupid made up sport but I guess people can do it if they want but to me it seems like one of those sports that's been made to sell a product rather than something that's organic.

What's fun about running is being outside, fresh air, seeing the scenery change and being out and about. Hyrox is in a big indoor arena mainly right? So that's the main appeal of running gone.

Similarly - the strength training stuff I enjoy is the progressive overload, seeing my numbers go up over time - other than that it's pretty boring.

Hyrox has none of the aspects I enjoy about either running or strength training so for me it is a pointless endeavour.

 

[yerdasellsavon]

I did stop watching her for a couple of years so I completely missed the porn site thing, wtf

Know someone said it isn't a "porn site", it 100% is. It may also include educational content, but that doesn't mean it's not a porn site on the whole. Look at the above image. Does that not look like a porn site?

 

[Cheapwhiskey]

You can tell how excited and happy Holly is to have performed well as she rightly should be and amongst that she still praises Angelo but he says NOTHING about how well Holly does.
I said it perform but I’ll say it again, this was his idea and he’s bitter that she’s outperforming him. I’m really sad that it feels like he’s dimming her light.

 

[Axl4]

I think 100% she is lying and it's begging / a money grab. The fact she (twice) has given a range of how much it's likely to cost; mentioned accommodation, etc. - it's quite obviously grifting.

Charitably, I could believe at a push that it's a symptom of her chaos / underdeveloped competence at medium to long term (medium, let's face it) planning and/or qualification at Warsaw was relatively easy and she would risk being embarrassed by higher quality competition - but I think its grifting.

 

[Cheapwhiskey]

I’m so happy for Holly, she did brilliant!

Angelo really should be hyping up her achievement more. He hasn’t shared anything on instagram about her podium position. In his latest post he gives her a shout out for supporting him.

Purely from a monetary perspective, her success could lead to sponsorships which will prolong the experience for both of them. They should both be shouting it from the rooftops.

The Wall ball judge gets a bigger mention than Holly.

 

[yerdasellsavon]

People commenting to try and get Adidas, Puma and Lululemon to sponsor a Hyrox athlete averaging 3,000 views on YouTube and 500 likes on Instagram reels is sending me

 

[judgingyourlife]

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.

This is the most accurate comment I've ever read

 

[hpprotego]

At this stage with the excessive exercise addiction driven career choice she’s making here, i wonder why she didn’t just commit to dance professionally from the beginning?!!? She’s basically using Hyrox to fuel her body image obsession/health obsession, honestly if she trained formally as a dancer she’d be back in that west end stage and probably with a far bigger social circle and life to show, not wandering the world with Angelo 🫠🫠 know she can’t change the past but is slightly infuriating that she made a point of going to Cambridge and not doing dance professionally that it astounds me now that she’s doing Hyrox for a living

 

[Lola123]

So the question comes, what happens if Holly makes it in say 6 months and he doesn’t?
does he force her to give up? Do they give it up and return to London?
I just don’t get good vibes from him, I don’t think he’s good for Holly