Holly Gabrielle #10 Chasing times while Angelo whines

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juy7nhio

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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.
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'essentialism' babe its called an eating disorder and OCD :cry:
 
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formerly_sitkx

formerly_sitkx

juy7nhio said:
'essentialism' babe its called an eating disorder and OCD :cry:
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I was just about to say the same thing.
Essentialism to Holly = “I can dedicate 100% of my time and energy on maintaining and perfecting my ED, eliminating all other factors that take control away from me doing so”
 
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Redrose97

emm said:
Almost every professional athlete in the Olympics for example has another job don't they? I actually cannot work put what she's doing or planning to do long term it's just bizarre
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She's retired as an athlete now, but a girl I went to school with was doing her teaching training at university and working on her family farm while she was competing. She ended up retiring after she was in the winter Olympics and is now a teacher. Another girl I went to school with was quite high up in squash and ironmans. She retired from that and she's doing a PhD and she works in nutrition for athletes, and does nutrition workshops in schools and for sports teams whist doing the odd marathon.

The thing is with Holly is I do wonder what she is going to try and do after she's reached a certain point in hydrox. I saw she's been sponsored by an energy gel company so I'm assuming she's going to be promoting products as an 'athlete.' I could see her going into coaching of some sort and I do fear that it would be nutrition coaching as well , especially as there would be people seaking out vegan athlete coaching, but she would be the person who is least suitable for that.
 
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emm

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She's retired as an athlete now, but a girl I went to school with was doing her teaching training at university and working on her family farm while she was competing. She ended up retiring after she was in the winter Olympics and is now a teacher. Another girl I went to school with was quite high up in squash and ironmans. She retired from that and she's doing a PhD and she works in nutrition for athletes, and does nutrition workshops in schools and for sports teams whist doing the odd marathon.

The thing is with Holly is I do wonder what she is going to try and do after she's reached a certain point in hydrox. I saw she's been sponsored by an energy gel company so I'm assuming she's going to be promoting products as an 'athlete.' I could see her going into coaching of some sort and I do fear that it would be nutrition coaching as well , especially as there would be people seaking out vegan athlete coaching, but she would be the person who is least suitable for that.
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How could she coach without any formal training though?
 
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Redrose97

emm said:
How could she coach without any formal training though?
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I kind of figured out that she would get a qualification or she would be very much banking on her followers and her experience to make her 'qualified,' to coach like many influencers do.
 
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Axl4

I thought when they claimed to have sponsorship that it was a legitimate brand. But instead they have what is probably a freebie deal with a random gel/nutrition company. I would need somebody to explain to me how this could possibly keep two adults afloat, but that is assuming a lot of other factors are normal when obviously they aren't...

Edit: Angelo also received a free backpack. The grifting was clearly worth it.
 
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I thought when they claimed to have sponsorship that it was a legitimate brand. But instead they have what is probably a freebie deal with a random gel/nutrition company. I would need somebody to explain to me how this could possibly keep two adults afloat, but that is assuming a lot of other factors are normal when obviously they aren't...

Edit: Angelo also received a free backpack. The grifting was clearly worth it.
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Yeh im confused is it a gift/freedie or are they paying them a monthly salary.
 
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Almost certainly a freebie - very little chance those kinds of things could pay a monthly salary.
 
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emm

Redrose97 said:
I kind of figured out that she would get a qualification or she would be very much banking on her followers and her experience to make her 'qualified,' to coach like many influencers do.
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I don't know how good she was ay tutoring but she doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd be good at training other people, she wouldn't empathise with anyone wanting to do somwthing/push themselves too far/deducate so much time to training etc
 
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Icing _on_ the_cake

emm said:
I don't know how good she was ay tutoring but she doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd be good at training other people, she wouldn't empathise with anyone wanting to do somwthing/push themselves too far/deducate so much time to training etc
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It's be the coaching equivalent of Hollygemia. She doesn't want to interact with people in real life.
 
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JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter while a single mum, doing I think books 2-3 while also holding a normal job. By the time she could live off the books alone, she was also working on the movie adaptations and founding the Lumos charity.

Sports do require a huge amount of focus, but many sports people still have other activities - or their job as a sports star means other related work.

There are very few people who only do one thing, and very few people who seek the isolation that Holly has curated for herself.
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I always thought J. K. Rowling had said she was on benefits and didn’t work at the time she wrote Harry Potter?
 
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She spent 5 years writing it before she took it to the publishers. My understanding is that she got the idea on a train in the UK, began writing it seriously when teaching in Spain and married to that abusive man. She then returned to the UK where she was unemployed single mum on benefits. Then around book 2 she got a normal job but was able to quit it around book 3 and 4.
 
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Trixie747

Icing _on_ the_cake said:
She spent 5 years writing it before she took it to the publishers. My understanding is that she got the idea on a train in the UK, began writing it seriously when teaching in Spain and married to that abusive man. She then returned to the UK where she was unemployed single mum on benefits. Then around book 2 she got a normal job but was able to quit it around book 3 and 4.
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She said here she was living in Portugal?
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Trixie747

Trixie747

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?
 
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emmer_moans

Trixie747 said:
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?
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I'm not against Hyrox per se, more intrigued because it's sort of appeared suddenly. There is however a local man I know who has also made Hyrox his entire personality and keeps his facebook friends updated on how may sets he's practicing on the gym and it does make him come across a bit of a narc. Like he went to the new local gym at 5pm on a weekday and was moaning how it meant the ski erg wasn't free because it was being used by a circuit training class 🙄 maybe don't go at peak times then, you melt... Thing is he works and has kids but seems to spend every evening and weekend in the gym doing his mini hyroxes as training. Like it's taken over his life 😅 don't think his wife will let him quit his job though.

Holly on the other hand does have a chance at getting somewhere. Though the all or nothing mentality worries me. What will she do once the Hyrox fad wears off? Will she try ironman?

Angelo on the otherhand, I think there's probably a lot more men at his sort of time frame so he's going to struggle to break out at the front.

I'm here with the popcorn, anyway.
 
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