Fergus Crawley

So there's a lot of research and history on concurrent training, which is training for two disciplines at the same time for a specific outcome, i.e.

strength and conditioning.

So you're training...

Strengthen the gym to become a better rower.

You are not, in and of itself, training strength to become a better powerlifter.

You're doing it for a sport-specific purpose.

Whereas Alex tried to solve the problem with the methodology of, I want to be a better rower and a better powerlifter.

And that's sort of where the idea came from.

So that always fascinated me when I was a powerlifter until I was sort of a competitive powerlifter after rugby from 2017.

2013 to 2017, and always liked the idea of trying to be strong, and I'd always wanted to do a marathon.

Growing up, I don't know about you, growing up I had friends whose dads had done marathons, and I thought, what, this is mental, so normalised now, which is crazy to think on, and I wonder what kids' perceptions is on it now, but I really liked the idea, but I never had the confidence to give it a go.

And it was 2018 when I started training for a Movember charity project where I kind of accidentally started building my aerobic base, keeping my strength training, and then built it from there.

And then 2020 was in CrossFit level one, Dave Castro said the ideal CrossFit athlete would be able to squat 500 pounds and run a five minute mile in the same day.

And me and a guy called Adam Klink over in Virginia inadvertently kind of got into this arms race by training for it at the same time.

And he did it the weekend before I did, frustratingly.

So he was the first person to do it.

But the process of training for that opposing end-of-the-spectrum strength outcome and opposing end-of-the-spectrum speed outcome was what really sparked that enjoyment for me.

And I've sort of followed that same model since.

So I very much like and enjoy

the concept that you've coined in the untapped game setting because it is that, right, parameter here, parameter there.