Since retiring as a professional runner, former Olympian Nick Symmonds has undergone a bodily transformation, pivoting to weight training and accumulating more than 20 pounds of lean muscle While participating in a series of force and fitness challenges on his YouTube channel. In his latest video, he reveals his ambition for 2022: to rank in the top 10,000 globally at the CrossFit Open.
“As a guy who spent 20 years learning how to run in circles, I can definitely tell you that those skills don’t translate to the CrossFit gym at all,” he says. “One of the things I like most about CrossFit is that it tests you in so many ways.”
With only one round of three remaining, Symmonds meets Justin Medeiroswinner of the CrossFit Games 2021 and the sport’s current reigning “Fittest Man on Earth,” before going through the open workout, which consists of 21 butterfly push-ups, 42 double jumps, 21 95-pound push-ups, 18 chest bars, 36 double jumps, 18 115-pound push-ups, 15-bar Muscleups, 30 double jumps, and 15 135-pound push-ups
“There is no big separator,” says Medeiros. “All of this, for a lot of the elite athletes, they can all do these moves very easily, so it depends on how fast you can do them. And that’s when it really starts to hurt… If you get to the bottom and that 135 pound bar feels light, you did something wrong, you were too slow on everything else… You just want to feel like you’re in attack mode the whole workout.”
Medeiros ends up completing the training in 4 minutes 29 seconds, the second fastest time in the world, breaking his own goal which was to finish in less than 5 minutes. Then it’s Symmonds’ turn.
“Butterfly pushups are really hard to do,” Symmonds says of the controversial move. “After three years of daily CrossFit classes, I still can’t do a single one… It will immediately become apparent that I’m not likely to beat Justin’s time today… But that’s okay because his performance has inspired me to dig deeper.” . , leave it all in the gym, and finally achieve my goal of being in the top 10,000 in the world.”
Symmonds can’t complete the workout in 12 minutes, which means it will be his total reps of 170 counted as his score, not his time, and he manages to rank in the top 10,000, ranking 9,139th globally.
“I dropped everything I had in that gym and I’m proud to say it was good enough,” he says.
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