Episode 649: Alyssa McElheny

Were you staying in touch with your, uh, like, where does this, this, I mean, high rocks is an aerobic based sport.

Anybody can argue against, especially on the women's side.

I feel like running leads the way without question.

Um,

yeah, we're seeing that more and more.

So, I

mean, yeah, you can't, you can't look away at this point.

Um, so the strength side of things though, Yeah.

Yeah.

It's definitely been something that's popped up in the last decade every so often.

It's not something I was consistent with.

There's a two-year stretch where I coached boxing.

There was a couple years after college where I ran a lot less boxing.

And I went to the Y every day and did like really basic like I would I would like do like heavy back squats and then bench.

But like I didn't know what I was doing.

There was no programming.

There was no like, you know, method to the madness.

The last handful of years I would, you know, I coached high school girls and like to me.

getting them comfortable in the weight room was a big deal so we would do things in the weight room um so yeah nothing nothing consistent nothing um truly planned out but yeah I've always been like comfortable in that setting so it's it's not wildly new to me but the stations were wildly new to me you know I've never pushed a sled pulled a sled road skied burpee broad jump front like I'd never done any of these things but I think I'm also like a pretty trainable athlete um Not that I was great at the stations to begin with, but I think I was able to pick up on things and make changes pretty quickly and pretty efficiently with good coaching.

So do you innately, do you feel like you're stronger by nature? Yeah.

I think that's what my

body is like, what it leans into naturally for sure.

Yeah.

I'm, I'm never going to be like a, um, like I'm never going to be your classic marathoner for sure.

Body-wise.