Miles Chamley-Watson

Great movie, but I'm like, you know, people are like, oh yeah.

I'm like, no, no, no.

People died 50, 60 years ago.

because it's an actual sword, right?

I do the foil discipline, but so I'd say it's like physical chess, is what I tell people, where it's just as taxing mentally as it is physically.

It's such a unique sport because it is grip strength as well as core and your legs, because you're in a squat the entire time.

And I think, you know, as you saw, it's so explosive.

And it can be over in five minutes or 40 minutes.

So you have to have a great VO2 as well.

Get your heart rate from, you know, 160, 170 back to the low 70s, 80s.

So yeah, it's a crazy sport.

So I would say pre-season, we're doing a lot of cardio and it's like...

Similar to boxing, right?

So we'll do 10 rounds on the salt bike.

It's 20 seconds on, 40 seconds off, 10 times.

And we'll do the ski erg and do sprinting.

We don't necessarily need too much distance work, but it's more like high intensity, get the heart rate down, get that right back up again.

And then I like to train four to five times a week.

So Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday is big fencing, which is sparring, kind of get the fencing stamina.

And then Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,