The Virtus Podcast: Recent Episodes
Virtus WLC
A podcast aimed at talking to elite weightlifters about all things weightlifting in order to help raise awareness of the sport and to help lifters of all levels progress.
Hazel Baughn, who was an international 1500m medallist as a teenager and ran with Mo Farah, talks to us about mental health in elite sport, the impact of training too hard as a 'recreational' athlete, how to spot the warning signs of unhealthy obsession and her experiences as an elite runner pushing her body and mind to the limit.
Timings:
01:30 - Hazel's intro
4:50 - "I haven't had a period for 11 years", REDs, Hormones
7:20 - All in mindset, nutrition, injuries
8:40 - Taking care of your body
13:00 - Hardcore mindset in recreational athletes
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16:05 - Resources to help you out, @train_brave.
19:30 - Female athlete triad
22:40 - Signs of unhealthy exercise habits
24:30 - Obsession
27:05 - Injuries happen
31:18 - Training hard is very close to sickness
33:10 - High intensity training protocols (running, CrossFit, weightlifting)
35:50 - Getting depressed when you're forced to stop training
40:00 - "Hazel", not "Hazel the runner"
41:00 - There is more to life than training
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