Alex Honnold

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2,584 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 14 Aug

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Science Friday · How extreme athletes like Alex Honnold keep their cool · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

But I was just training in the gym two mornings ago and it was kind of like a meet and greedy sort of event.

So there were a lot of people there watching and there were like a couple of people just filming nonstop.

And I was kind of sucking, you know, just like just a natural training day where you're kind of like, oh, it's not my best day.

I was like not feeling great.

My shoulders kind of hurting.

And I just wasn't any good.

You're kind of like slightly.

It's just way more embarrassing when there are people watching.

And I actually kind of think that's a real weakness of mine as an athlete is performing in front of other people.

I mean, the building thing being kind of a notable exception just because it was relatively within my comfort zone.

The climbing wasn't too hard.

It was kind of fun.

And I was able to sort of rise to the occasion and embrace the crowds to some extent.

But that was kind of my first experience ever doing something with a crowd.

And I think, I mean, that must be a huge challenge for other athletes is managing the crowd.

I mean, because that's, you know, I've never liked public speaking or basically being in front of people.

I'm curious, how many of the athletes do you think thrive from that kind of pressure and how many wilt under that kind of pressure?

Because I think of myself as more of a wilter, like I hate the public watching.

I mean, is that basically just the difference between introvert and extrovert?

Like, is that just internal characteristics?

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