Alex Honnold

But I think that that lays a good foundation to be able to do things.

Like I'm going to be in Yosemite this season, and I'm aspiring to climb stuff on all-cap, not free-souling necessarily.

not free-selling at all but maybe some like rip-selling maybe some speed stuff maybe whatever but either way i just want to be able to climb 3 000 feet relatively quickly without being that tired and so it seems like for running or for mountain climbing it's like oh you just have to be able to do that kind of vertical without getting too fatigued yeah i think the one day a week long run one uh one day a week like 30 minute run at a faster clip and then one day a week sprint training

That's three days a week of running though.

And I'm like, I don't know.

crazy looking so there are a lot of dog breeds like that where you're like that dog yeah hard to believe it came from a wolf exactly so inbred so right the the healthiest version of something can move best is always fairly balanced it seems like climbers are very balanced i think climbing is is one of the healthiest sports and like lifestyles and and also just it's so fun like going to a gym you hang out with your friends it's like it's mostly really chill you mostly hang out and chit chat and like if you do a gym session you feel like you just went and hung out with your friends all the time but then you also wind up fit and mobile and you know pretty strong and

And so much of climbing is strength to weight.

And so you just wind up kind of like lean and not like a big gym, gym bro kind of thing.

Thank goodness I've never put on that much muscle.

No, you just don't really cramp.

You don't cramp?

Yeah, not really.

I've never...

I mean, sometimes if you're trying to climb El Cap in a day, like an 18-hour ascent or something, like climbing with a rope.

but free ascents like basically if you're doing really long climbs some of my friends sometimes will cramp because you're like late into you know post 12 hours into an athletic activity you're just a little more likely but i never i never have pretty much in general all my athletic performance is always a steady decline where i start and i'm doing great and then over the next you know 10 to 48 hours i just slowly get worse at a relatively linear rate

except that normally before sunrise of the next day it starts to drop quite a bit more you know like as you start getting close to 24 hours you're like I'm pretty fucking tired it's like but then when the sun comes up you've really like boost back up again and so then you're pretty good again you just keep on the linear decline so these are all night climbs

Yeah, I mean, I've done quite a number of things now that are, like, more than 24-hour outings.

You know, I mean, that's typically, like, climbing or mountain climbing.

So you're, like, hiking and climbing and then hiking some more and climbing some more, doing whatever.

But, yeah, generally, you know, by 24 to 36 hours, you're just...