Like how even like, do you know, you went for the test or whatever?

Oh, we knew.

We knew.

I think it's kind of been more and more obvious, I guess, since like I left school age.

Obviously when you're at school, you're kind of put in a box quite easily and it allows you a bit less freedom to kind of figure out who you actually are.

And once I was allowed outside that box, to kind of discover myself more and what I enjoy doing, what makes me tick, how my brain works, then it's like, okay, here are some things that potentially are more obvious and especially with training and when I get more tired and things become more like my freeze days and I am really anxious, feel like I can't leave the house, feel like having a meltdown because random things don't feel safe.

It's like, those are the things that we started to pick up on and the anxiety, I think, when you get diagnosed, a lot of the time, these things can be comorbid with anxiety and depression.

And do you eat more?

What traits in yourself did you recognise that potentially could be ADHD or autism?

I think I kind of, on the way to my diagnosis, went back and forth over which one I thought it might be until I came to the conclusion that it probably would be both.

For a while, I think the more autistic traits were the ones that stuck out to me.

I was always really, really routine based, someone that really needed that structure.

And it was also the things that you kind of would like classically hear as maybe symptoms, like very easily irritated.

really like quite overstimulated by various things whether that's like noise or kind of busy areas or even like feelings I was told by my mum actually it came from my diagnosis that there was a type of underwear that would be the only kind I would ever wear when I was a child I don't remember this but things like that and Yeah, there were, I remember times when like I'd be doing my hair as a child and I couldn't stand having any bumps, anything like that in my hair.

And it's things that I look back at like that and realize that it has been present all the time.

Would you mind talking us through that time of life and if you've resolved that situation, have you put any measures in place to resolve the situation?

"Good holiday." And it's like, "No, dude, that doesn't count."

I think one of the biggest problems in the sport at the moment is that people don't understand training cycles and, uh, like, periodization and different stages of, like, your time as an athlete.

And I've done this for three years, and I've been in denial that I have taken a proper off-season for three years, and every time I've done this and not taken my off-season seriously, I have suffered in the lead-up to the next World Champs, because you cannot sustain this level of fitness and training year-round.

Um, I don't care what people say.

You won't get the most out of yourself if you are trying to be in intensification or peaking phase 12 months a year.

Um, and I've, you know, said, "Oh, I'm in my off-season," and then I'm there training 20 hours a week, and it's almost been zone two or whatever, or I'm just running and lifting and not doing much actual HYROX because you really need to rest and recovering, and neither is my mind.

And the thing about me is I just, especially in hard training phases where I have to fire more and more and kind of more, more HYROX, I struggle to get to the gym.

Um, but the amount of change that's gone on in the sport since I went full-time is nuts, and I think it's only gonna continue.