Alex Honnold

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,

And it's just a little slower, probably.

But it's hard to say, though, because a lot of that's just having kids and just having different demands of time in life.

Yeah, I mean, I was living in a van.

I was basically, like, you know, super low overhead, no team, no support.

I'm just living in a car doing the thing nonstop for, you know, a decade.

And so that's a pretty scrappy approach, and I think that in the years since then, climbing has professionalized a little bit, and there's a little more money, there's a little more support, and there's just a higher level of competition.

I think it'd be harder to achieve things doing just that now.