Balancing Training and Building Mental Toughness with 2x HYROX World Champion Meg Martin

There's a part of High Rocks where you have to really love to hurt. It attracts a lot of athletes that are in sports that require a lot of mental strength. If you're gonna achieve something, one, you've obviously gotta believe it's possible, but two, you've gotta put in the work to get there. And I think a lot of people might be willing to put in the work but don't believe in themselves enough to believe that it's possible. When people train every day hard as much as possible, it's normally out of the place of fear, as in fear that they won't win or fear that if they don't train today, it's gonna result in a bad race on their race date. Whatever it is, I think a lot of the time, it does come from fear. So if you can teach people how to just be focused on the session that they're doing on that day and experiencing that session and learning from that session. And if you have a bad session or a session that, you know, you feel really fatigued, don't get down. Don't take it so personally. Meg Martin, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much. I'm so pumped to be here. Well, I'm so pumped to have this conversation. You are just, like, an absolutely epic human. It's so nice. Oh, no. It it's it's so impressive, I think, what you've been able to do, in the world of High Rocks. And talk a little bit. So just so listeners can orient themselves around, how did you get into High Rocks and kind of what was that breakthrough moment for you? My background was I was a gymnast really young. After I finished gym, I sort of focused on my studies to finish school. I was an I was a really young elite gymnast, and then after that, I got into gym and running. So I was kind of already living in that hybrid athlete life before it was technically called being a hybrid athlete. And then it was actually friends of ours. So Lucy Davis, you guys, I think, interviewed her. Yeah. She's another epic human. Yeah. So epic. That's awesome. She we met, her before Hyrax came to Australia. So, obviously, it's only been in Australia for three years and recommended to us to do Hyrax because we were already kind of competing that way, but we had no expectations of how it would go. And then Will and I raced our first race in Melbourne, had no idea what to do in High Rocks. And I think we got a 58 something, which, at the time, I think the record was 56 in mixed doubles. So we were only, like, two minutes off the record, and it was our first ever race. So we thought we're actually pretty good at this. The components of that race? Are you familiar with the workout of firearms? Yeah. But I think for …