Alex Honnold

And so like you may as well have a job or.

And so a lot of my friends who like write code for a living or, you know, do things like that are very, very strong climbers because of the, the, the schedule that allows the structure.

Um, that said, I think if you want to be a great free solist or like a big adventure climber, you're probably better off living in a van and just doing the thing nonstop.

Because for that, you're not trying to have that peak muscular performance.

You're trying to just learn a skill and do something all the time.

And so then like hours of practice, I think matter more.

Is it just basically sleep?

No, I push my three-year-old on the swings.

That's how I recover is I play with the kids on the swings.

I try to eat relatively well.

I try to sleep enough.

I do all the basics for recovery.

But no, I basically just survive in between.

I was actually just joking with somebody that I think as a 24-year-old living by myself in a van,

I would have crazy days of climbing.

And then on a rest day, I would like binge watch an entire season of some show while eating an entire flat Oreos, just like never even leave the bed of my van.

And then the next day go out and like do a speed record on something or just be like, I'm, I'm so psyched, you know?

And now I'm like, I'm definitely not doing that now.

Or at least no, I haven't done that in forever because I just don't have the time and don't have, um, yeah.

So I think now it takes a little more effort to recover and,