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Empire Hour is the official podcast of Empire Training Academy in Raleigh, where training, mindset, and real talk come together. Hosted by the crew behind the gym, this show dives into everything from fitness and recovery to motivation and life outside the weight room. Whether you’re an athlete, a coach, or just trying to level up, you’ll get unfiltered conversations, stories from inside the gym, and practical takeaways to keep you moving forward.
Fresh off a bender. Yes, sir. Dylan Scott showed up a little bit late today, texted Stephen and I, hey, just got into a little wreck. Nothing serious, I'll be there soon. That's why I love you, bro.
Speaker 1:You're just like, hey. It's all good.
Speaker 2:I just, you know, just kissed a bumper.
Speaker 1:I love it. There you go.
Speaker 2:Just give it a little spooch.
Speaker 1:Episode six. I am joined today by, again, very similar to Steven, a guy that I have admired from afar, but honestly, you know, we've become great friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:No, I'm extremely thankful for that. I remember watching a High Rocks. It might have been the Vegas one before last year. When was your, like, second or third Elite fifteen race?
Speaker 2:Maybe DC?
Speaker 1:DC, I think it was DC.
Speaker 2:Yeah, would have been DC.
Speaker 1:I remember watching DC and seeing you in the race, we had no idea who the hell each other was then.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Which is awesome, and now we're at this point. Yeah. It's
Speaker 2:pretty sick.
Speaker 1:Dylan Scott, I mean, don't even know where to begin, this is awesome. Talk to me about, I mean, give the crowd, give the crowd, I'm talking like fricking an arena over here.
Speaker 2:The crowd vetty. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, there's Ed right there.
Speaker 2:And Steven.
Speaker 1:And Steven, we have a crowd of two today, but no, give our listeners just a little bit of background, right? Like who you are, where you grew up, like, you know, a little bit of insight to your journey, which we'll get into obviously, but you know, obviously you're one of the best of best, so.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I come from South Carolina, come from a very small town called 96 South Carolina. So yeah, probably nobody really knows where that is on the map until I show them. Grew up really in that area and it was there for the first, you know, twenty four years of my life. Just kind of stayed within that sort of small town community. Started like I did kind of your normal sports growing up.
Speaker 2:Played soccer, played a little bit of basketball, played a little bit of baseball, like but nothing really clicked until I started running. Which actually soccer I was decent at, but running was what I found, hey, I like and I'm pretty darn good at. Even though I wasn't that great when I started. Like, my very first run that I went to for cross country practice was hilarious.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I didn't know we were even having practice. Like, they just put out, hey, we got a cross country meeting at 04:00, you know, after school. I was interested in it. And I was like, sure, let's go run cross country. I'm gonna go do that so that I can be better for soccer, because we run cross country in the fall and then soccer's in the spring.
Speaker 2:So I was like, bet. I go home, eat some ice cream. We're having a meeting. That's what I'm thinking. I show up in a polo and a pair of khaki shorts, is actually hilarious seeing that I've raced in khaki shorts multiple times now at High Rocks.
Speaker 2:But show up, the only
Speaker 1:I throw up to that at par games too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, true. The only thing that I legitimately had that made any sense was I was wearing tennis shoes. So that was cool. So we talked for like fifteen, twenty minutes. They're And like, alright, let's go outside.
Speaker 2:Now this is South Carolina in early September.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's hot, man. Like 90 degrees. Scorcher. And I'm in a polo and khakis with a belly full of ice cream, and I ain't done no running. I have not run one lick, like in terms of training.
Speaker 2:I've ran around kicking a soccer ball or something. And so they're like, alright, we're gonna go, like, for our newer guys, we're gonna run this loop. Again, I'm not expecting to run that day. We're gonna run this loop. I don't know the loop.
Speaker 2:For the other guys, y'all are going to do two of y'all are going do one of this loop and then one of this loop. Okay? So we all start running. Doesn't take long for me to get dropped because everybody else has been training to some degree and I have not been training at all. So I am by myself.
Speaker 1:Just in the back of the pack.
Speaker 2:I'm just in the back of the pack. No, there's no, no, the pack is gone.
Speaker 1:The pack is gone.
Speaker 2:I am alone. I'm alone and You're anchor
Speaker 1:at the bottom of the ocean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm like looking off. I needed binoculars to be like, hey, I think they turned left up there. Like, I got left pretty quickly. But in that day, like I ended up just running around the town and I got lost and I was so far behind everybody else that they got done. And then the coach was like, where's Dylan at?
Speaker 2:We have no idea. So they went out looking for me. I'm still running. I think I ran like five miles that day. My dad passed me.
Speaker 2:I was running down the side of the road and he just hugged his horn. He's like, What are you doing? I was like, We had practice. And so I get back and like, I mean, it was terrible and I loved it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's where running started for me. So like I had probably the worst introduction you could have into a sport experience. And I was like, Oh, being miserable is great. Yeah. And that's kind of how it all got kicked off.
Speaker 1:I love it man, it's awesome. So, that was what age? 13. And you're how old now?
Speaker 2:Just turned 30.
Speaker 1:Okay, just turned 30. Same here bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, 30 bro, so
Speaker 1:I hate turning 30. But anyway, so seventeen years ago, right? Yeah. That's when you discovered running, that's when you decided that you really, really liked it. Before Hirocs was a thing, what were you doing in terms of I guess once high rocks dropped and became a thing,
Speaker 2:what
Speaker 1:were you doing besides that? Just kind
Speaker 2:So, I mean, again, I was distance runner through high school, was gonna go run-in college, got a back injury going into my very, my senior year of high school. And then that really just kind of derailed like everything. I still went to college red shirted.
Speaker 1:Where'd you go to school again?
Speaker 2:I went to Winthrop originally. Winthrop was over. So went to Winthrop originally, red shirted there. Couldn't get healthy. Like, my back wouldn't comply with basically my right leg, and so my foot and Achilles and all that were just completely tore up every time I tried to run.
Speaker 2:Would just have terrible referred nerve pain, and I was like, this is not, it's not possible. Like, I always thought I could just tough through something, but it's like, nah, nah, you wake up with chronic pain every single And I went on for like three years. And it would've been real easy to just kind of give up during that time period and like stop trying. I tried every kind of training that I could even think of that could maybe keep me in some sort of shape during that whole time period. So also during that was when I started like studying medicine and was looking to go be a doctor.
Speaker 2:And I switched my major to pre med, transferred schools, went back to Lander University and was studying there and was like, I think I'm going to go that route. Mostly hinging upon the selfishness of wanting to try to figure out how do I fix myself. And during all that time, I mean, like I was staying in shape to a degree, to the best degree you can with a chronic injury.
Speaker 1:Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:But I was nowhere near the kind of like fit I am now. Right. So finally got sort of the back injury fixed. I mean, by the sense of like, have to take medication for every day. But it allows me to train like I do.
Speaker 2:And it's a pretty low dose medication that has very little side effects. So at this point, I'm like, Hey, we'll play that game. And I get out of college and I'm just working out, started doing some obstacle course racing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Wasn't great at that. And then High Rocks drops. And, you know, I'm in a garage and I get like a DM from somebody who's telling me about this. Hey, got there's this thing called the Hyrox Virtual Championships Fitness. Like, maybe we should give it a go.
Speaker 2:It's like, cool. Yeah. This is right around the time when COVID's happening and like the world's just kind of weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:To be honest. So weird. Like it's so weird. It's almost like it's I got through college, got out of college, started working and then college got extended again. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's what it felt like. I was like, yeah, that's what it felt like. And so I do the first VCF and do pretty good in that. And then from there, I get to actually go race my first one. So the first VCF I did was in like the 2020.
Speaker 2:And then I'll hop into the second VCF in the 2020. And then I go race my first Hirocs in April 2021 down in Dallas and just kind of hopped onto the scene and was pretty good pretty early.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It's hard to find someone, and this is one of the things I admire about you, it's hard to find someone that like loves training as much as you do. Like you will have a rower in your bedroom. If you have to. Like, it's actually, like, I give a lot of credit to Maria, your wife, For
Speaker 2:putting all the weight.
Speaker 1:If I fucking brought a rower into my bedroom, Aaron would be like, what the hell are you doing with that? So I give you a lot of credit because you love training. And like, honestly, like I see so many workouts you're posting, I'm like, This is the craziest day I've ever seen. And you have a passion, like for training that like I've never seen anyone have. Have you always had that or is it just like the work that you know you have to do in order to get to where you want to be or is it a combination of
Speaker 2:both? Dude, I've always been like a workhorse when it came to sports. I, like I said, from that very first experience where I like, dude, this terrible experience, I love it. Like, yeah, I mean, I think that to a degree, there's the, I'm doing the work that I think I have to do to be the best. But I think there's another degree that I really do just derive a lot of joy from training.
Speaker 2:Do I always? No. Like, Steven hears me when I come into, like, workouts at Empire and stuff, like, we're I to come train in and I bitch and moan like there's no end. But in the end, I do the work. And that being said, hey, Maria uses that rower too.
Speaker 2:What if there's She rows in the house too.
Speaker 1:You sweat like a madman, you're putting a blanket on your carpet.
Speaker 2:That is, yes.
Speaker 1:I'm like, this dude is dialed
Speaker 2:right Yeah, yeah. And I mean, what's funny is like, I often think about when she and I first like started dating. And and we were starting to get serious.
Speaker 1:When was this, by the way? Like, did you guys start dating?
Speaker 2:We started dating. This would have been in 2020 as well. Okay. So it's kinda the the 2020 sort of deal.
Speaker 1:Did you have to, like, warn her, like, hey. Like, I I'm a very avid, like, trip. Like, did you have to, like, bring that up at all? Like, on the first date, like, hey, like, if this is one thing about me, should know?
Speaker 2:I've got a Okay. I've got a really I've got a good story that I'm not gonna tell on camera.
Speaker 1:I'll tell it after.
Speaker 2:I will tell you after. I'm not telling the story on camera. But it set the tone very early on. We go. There we go.
Speaker 2:But also I think about like her, I was training a lot, and her dad was like, Are you sure you want to be with somebody who's training this much? Which was a valid question.
Speaker 1:I mean dude, give her a lot of credit, Y'all are in Empire Saturdays and Sundays afternoons, know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's psychotic, to a degree. But, like all that said, the amount that I train, there's this extra portion that you get to that I'm doing from an intensity standpoint, that these are all the things that I think that I really need to do to make me better. And then there's like the low key stuff where it is like what seems crazy, rowing in the house, like biking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, actually. I just
Speaker 2:like that. I really do. Like, I can get into a rhythm on a rower, and I can watch a movie, or I can just sit there and think. And sometimes it's great to just like, I love sitting and dissecting a thought or an idea or something like that. And it's kind of similar to me at least, if you row easy enough, it's like going for a walk.
Speaker 2:Like, that's what it So feels I'm going for a walk and I'm just thinking about something. And so it gives me time to mull through ideas or, you know, plan, something like that. So it's almost like meditation to a degree. But ADHD meditation because I have to be moving.
Speaker 1:Right, no, of course. No, I love that. So you do your first high rocks in Dallas, That same year there was a world championships, or when did
Speaker 2:they have a world championship? Yeah, yeah, yeah. My third race, I was in Germany for worlds.
Speaker 1:Okay. Third race when were in Germany for worlds. Yeah. How, like, like that first experience until now, like how has it changed every year? Like, how do you, I guess, like how do you like differentiate like year after year, like what you have to work on?
Speaker 1:Because obviously like, yes, it's a predominant running race, but like I see you getting so specific in your training where you're doing, it could be a random number of like 27 burpee to plate, like you're very wired and very like specific when it comes to your training. How do you know exactly what you have to work on?
Speaker 2:Well, mean, luckily, like, the more and more you race, the more you start to get a feel for exactly, you know, needs to be done. And as the race changes, you know, the race, the first High Rocks race that I ever did to the last High Rocks race that I did, it's changed. Mhmm. You know, from the way that the sleds feel and move to just all that kind of stuff. Like everything has shifted a little bit, even down to the kettlebells.
Speaker 2:Kettlebells being different, smaller handles, easier to go on broke, like all that kind of stuff has changed from my first one to this one. And the pace of the race, and the way that like racing at an elite level, the way that the race goes off and the race moves, the people you're racing against, Like, they've cycled in and out. Now, have been some names that have been there from the very like, from my very first world championships and out. There's still a couple of guys that
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you race with, yeah, like, lot of the same guys.
Speaker 2:A lot of the
Speaker 1:same Year after year after year.
Speaker 2:Exactly. But, like, in totality, what you try to do is you try to basically pinpoint from a race that you've done, where were all of my strengths at? Do I need to build upon my strengths to continue to progress cutting my time down? Or is there a weakness that is so weak that that's the lowest hanging fruit? For me, for a long time that was wall balls.
Speaker 2:And so like when I look at a race
Speaker 1:Wall balls because you're taller, right? So it takes you a lot more to get that leg.
Speaker 2:Yeah, also just because I'm shitty wall balls. Like, just, my legs are weak.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you could do a thousand in a row, so like, I mean, if I take that as shitty, guess. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2:you gotta compare it to the feeling.
Speaker 1:Of course, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, my cycle rate is slower and everything, but like, I was not finishing off races going unbroken or everything like that. So I needed to get that shored up. So I started fixing that, so now I'm going unbroken, but now I'm like, hey, even though I go unbroken, I give up twenty five seconds here. Now how do we speed up our cycle rate? So you really start pinning down all of the things that you do well, everything you do poorly, is it better to build upon your strengths, sort of shore up your weaknesses from a training allocation standpoint?
Speaker 2:And then you go race and you go see, hey, was what I did back here the proper algorithm to give me the output that I needed on race day? Lately, it has been because I've raced really well.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We'll see come Atlanta if like it continues to translate. I do feel like I've had a tough time since I got back from Hamburg.
Speaker 1:Mhmm.
Speaker 2:Like clicking. Yeah. But that's kind of the name of the game if you're going do this professionally.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're to have ups and downs all the time.
Speaker 2:You're have ups and downs and you're going to have to figure it out.
Speaker 1:How do you, I think this is a very important question to ask because I've always had this issue where like you have a profile where people really look up to you. Yeah. How do you deal with, obviously, right, like the ups are the ups, but how do you deal with the downs in terms of like, you know there's a lot of people that really look up to you. Let's say a person is expecting you to, I mean, and obviously everyone can, obviously like everybody has like their own opinion, but like you have a lot of people that are going to be expecting you to go to Worlds this year and win, right? How do you deal with any like scrutiny, like that you can, you know, like seeing on social media and obviously like, you know, like what happened, like in the relay, right?
Speaker 1:Like how do you, how do you kind of deal with like the negatives of like what the fans are outside, you know, that kind of stuff? Because it could be very taxing for an athlete sometimes, you know, like you're so yeah.
Speaker 2:I think you so. I think you have to stay pretty grounded with stuff and have perspective on things. And sometimes this is what I can think about while I'm rowing. First off, can think, Okay, I come from a town of 2,000 people.
Speaker 1:Literally 2,000 people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, literally 2,000 people. Two stoplights. That's it. That's what we got. And you've made it to where you're competing on world stage.
Speaker 2:Congratulations. You've gone a lot further than you ever thought you would. So like, if I look, yeah, I I can look at myself and be like, dude, you've gone pretty far. Like, you should, alright. Now, do you think you can go further?
Speaker 2:Do you think you can win it all? Yeah, possibly. But damn, if you don't win it all, like, how mad can you be at yourself? Because, it's not for lack of trying. So I'm not gonna like, if somebody's like, well, know, Dylan never found a way to win world championships.
Speaker 2:I'm like, dude, if you asked me at 15, I never thought I'd be at a world championship.
Speaker 1:Well, you literally set a record, but then someone else set the record right there as well. So like, there's no way of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so like, okay, how am I gonna be, like, I can't be that mad. And then from a scrutiny standpoint, I think that if you speak earnestly and honestly and you're a genuine person with what you put out, if whether it's good, bad, whether you're saying something that you're like, Hey, don't agree with this person doing this, or whether you're supporting somebody else, As long as what it is, is it's 100% and you've thought about it for a minute and you've gone, This is what I think. And this is what I believe. And now if somebody brings up a really good point and it changes my mind, I gotta be open to that as well.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:But I'll say like, don't be wishy washy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like honestly, stand on business. Stand on business. Stand on business. I love it. That's all right.
Speaker 2:Stand on business.
Speaker 1:Love
Speaker 2:it. I've had, like, I've had pushback where people didn't like the way that I approach things. That's fine. Bring it up to me. If you really care that much about it, we can talk about it.
Speaker 2:And if you still don't agree with me, okay, then we're not going to agree. But like, first off, just because we don't agree on one singular instance or issue does not mean that I just write you off as a person. Like, I don't have to agree with you on everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't agree with my wife on everything. Love her. Like, but there are things that we do Yeah, are things we do not agree on. And that doesn't mean that our household is just suddenly like, well damn it, we can't come to a consensus. We're done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:So I see that with other human beings and other people and I don't know. Just think you don't get bought in too much to one issue.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's an awesome way to put it. I mean, like the fact that you could stay grounded, but you know, like that with like such a high profile is awesome. Was there ever a time over the last few years in your training or like in your journey where like, Did you ever hit like a really, really, really tough time where you wanted to win a world championship? Sorry, wanted to win a world championship so bad, you didn't. Like, was there any time where you were like, fuck, I think I'm just gonna give it up or?
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was one. But it was never that I was failing to accomplish a goal, like winning a world championship or anything like that. Was when I felt like I was just failing in general as a person, and I was like, I'm putting so much into this, I'm not getting results out of it, I'm letting my family down right You're
Speaker 1:a husband, you have a kid, like there's lot to think about.
Speaker 2:Dude, and for me, like, my moment for that was Amsterdam. Like, that's when, I mean, I was just I finished that and I didn't know what happened. I was like, I have poured so much into this right now. And I go over here and I finish dead last, and I have the worst race, and I've taken a week and a half away from my family, and I know I gotta go back and I gotta go on a work trip, and, like, all I'm thinking is that, like, I'm robbing my son of time together, of having his dad around. I'm so fucking busy pursuing this sport while having a job, and I just sucked it up on the world stage.
Speaker 2:Like, why am I doing this? And it was more so the externalities that other people were facing, along with the internal side of like, I know I'm better than this but I can't seem to show it.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And so, that's probably the closest I ever was to like hanging it up. But that's why you need to have really good people around you. Cause I called my buddy Marcus Friesen, who he's someone I met when I first got into the sport. And he talked to me in the Amsterdam Airport for like two hours, and really helped me through it. And he was the guy that I started the coaching business with.
Speaker 2:Like, he brought me in as a coach and then I've been able to branch that off into my own coaching business. Like that dude has been integral to my success. Definitely on multiple levels. But he was someone who helped me so much in that moment to get my head back right and to be like, all right, just push away forward. And we did.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. No, I love that, man. I mean, you, I mean, like just overall dealing with the highs and lows of just being like a premier athlete is, mean, honestly, like it's what makes the journey beautiful. You know, it's, it's, it's awesome to see. I mean, it's awesome to see you doing so well.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think, I think it's, I think it's crazy. Like you mentioned you have a job, right? Like a full time job. Like how do you, how do you balance that? Like, know, I know you said there, there gonna be a time where you may be able to, you know, I was gonna focus on high rocks, right?
Speaker 1:Like, you know, full time? But like, how do
Speaker 2:you got great news for you. That time is now. Like, I literally just left my job. Like, before, we haven't really spoken too much since. So right before I left to The go over to
Speaker 1:shit you find out.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I love it. You find out live. So that I was able to, like, my coaching business was at a good enough point. Contracts with sponsors had gotten to the point where we looked at the finances and said, We can do this.
Speaker 1:I bet if you didn't go through that downtime, like, who knows if this would have happened, you know?
Speaker 2:No, I mean, you've got to take your licks in life. You've got to take your licks. It's going to happen. Like, I'll honestly say, I feel weird when things go really well for a long period of time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's almost like you're waiting for that one thing where it's like, what's
Speaker 2:What's gonna unfair. It And I don't know what that is, like mentally that causes it to be that way. And I don't know if everybody feels that way, but like you get on a streak of like, dude, why is life going so good? And I think it's just because maybe you have the perception of, you know, everything that's going on in the world and everything around you and you're like, well why the hell would my life be good? Why is this person getting like, and some of that just, if you get up in your head too much, can make sense of it.
Speaker 2:Can't make heads or tails.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. If you had a piece of advice given or if you ever had a piece of advice given to you that really resonated with you throughout your journey, what was it?
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think if there was any advice that was given to me through this journey that's just I don't know if I've had singular pieces of advice that I just sat with think there's certain things that I think about, particularly just like you have to be patient with fitness. I tell myself that often when I want to really like, I want to push the envelope, but I've got like a little problem going on and I'm like, should you really do that today? And of course, as I'm getting older, like, you know, again, 30 now, I'm still recovering well, but I'm not going to recover like a 22 year old. Just you're not going to. So when you've gotten to a point where your fitness is really, really good, where you're running, you know, second, third fastest time ever for something, and then you're coming back and doing it again two days late, don't get greedy.
Speaker 2:I think that's, it's more of a piece of advice that I want to tell people. Don't get greedy with your fitness. If you try to rush it too much, you're going to end up hurt or sick or overdone. Doesn't mean you shouldn't take risk because you're gonna have to take risks sometimes with that. But if you're looking at a six month time horizon to get something done and you try to cram it all into six weeks and you're refusing to ever like, I've got this problem going on, I should adapt my training today.
Speaker 2:And you just refuse every time to do it. You're going pay a price.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2:So I think just having people tell me sometimes to slow down and be patient with fitness is definitely I
Speaker 1:love that. Last two questions. Yeah. One, what is the craziest workout you've ever done? And I've seen a lot of your crazy ones.
Speaker 1:Mean, like the whiteboards are filled every time you come into Empire. But two, I know you train multiple times a day. Yeah. What kind of sessions do you in every single day? Does it vary?
Speaker 1:Is one lighter? Is one more intense? So, yeah. So what's the craziest workout you've ever done? And what are your training methods every day, like, throughout the course of the seven day period for a week?
Speaker 2:Okay. I think the craziest I think the craziest workout I ever did was the push up marathon.
Speaker 1:Push up marathon?
Speaker 2:I would need to go back home Strava and find it.
Speaker 1:The hell is that?
Speaker 2:I went out to the I went out and did a trail marathon.
Speaker 1:26 miles on Burpee and Broadridge.
Speaker 2:26 miles. It was 26 miles. I had created some rep scheme, it was all based off the marathon. And this was around the same time that Kipchoge was trying to break two hours. I had too much free time.
Speaker 2:So I went out and I had a clock going and it was every one fifty nine it was every two minutes and forty seconds. I was getting because that was, yeah, it was every two minutes and forty seconds. I was stopping to do 42 pushups. It was so random. I think that that was the math on it.
Speaker 2:And I don't know why that's the math on it. Or no, was every two hundred seconds. Was every two hundred seconds 200 was going to equate to like So the two hour every two hundred seconds I had to stop and do 42 because 42 kilometers is how many kilometers a marathon is.
Speaker 1:Got it.
Speaker 2:And do 42 pushups. How long did that take you? I got to look it up. It was in, like, the four ish hour range or right below it.
Speaker 1:I mean, was still faster than people were in front
Speaker 2:Dude, crazy. I think I did, like, 2,000 something push ups while running the marathon.
Speaker 1:Ed, how long do you think that would take you, buddy?
Speaker 2:I have the Strava for it.
Speaker 1:42 push ups every two hundred seconds for a marathon. Man. Probably take you nine hours. Yeah, the twenty four hours. That would take me twelve hours.
Speaker 2:It I'm was totally confident. Dude, I'll say, and it was a trail. So it didn't matter. Like, if we were uphill, I got lucky. The uphill, the push ups were uphill.
Speaker 2:Was in the
Speaker 1:middle of the woods too.
Speaker 2:Dude, in the middle of the woods. Yeah, it was absolutely nuts. I think this was also in, like I said, 2020 was a weird time.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, that's incredible.
Speaker 2:So that might be the craziest.
Speaker 1:2020 brought out the best of people, right?
Speaker 2:2020 brought out
Speaker 1:We all realized our full potential. Those guys doing a marathon of pushups, I'm sitting on my deck freaking, I don't know, slamming cookout and playing PS2. I even know what the hell I'm doing.
Speaker 2:Dude, I spent I had twenty twenty was weird.
Speaker 1:Twenty twenty was weird. All right. So, obviously, I think you train what? Twice? Three times a day sometimes?
Speaker 2:Normally three times Okay. A
Speaker 1:Break that down. I know you said, I know you told me in the past, a lot of times in the morning, you're just on the bike for two hours.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Easy, steady state.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And then you kind of have like a hard intense session. What's the third one?
Speaker 2:So it really depends. It depends on like what the hard intense session was at lunchtime. And the hard intense session might not exist. Like, not every single day is going have intensity It in might be three easy sessions, all just different modalities.
Speaker 1:Gotcha.
Speaker 2:So it might be a bike in the morning, a ski in the afternoon, and a trail run. But like, at least two times a week, I try to hit something that's around sixty minutes to seventy minutes within the same heart rate zones that a Hireox would give me. And then I try to have, so I'll try to have like two hard, hard sessions. One of them more run based, one of them more machine based. And then I try to have like two kind of shorter Metconi stuff, anywhere between twenty to forty minutes.
Speaker 2:That's maybe a little bit more cross fitty. So it's going to have a little bit more dumbbell, barbell movements and stuff like that. Yeah, doing, yeah. Just trying to be a little bit more versatile.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Dude, God bless your water bill for the amount of laundry you probably do. It is. God bless Maria for that.
Speaker 2:We, no. Well actually, I normally give Maria a lot of credit. Laundry in our house, it don't get done. It's terrible. It gets washed, like, I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 1:You're probably shuffling through seven outfits during the day. I know if I get a drop of sweat on me, I'm changing right after
Speaker 2:the Oh no, next I'm not that bad about it. But I sweat so much, so if I get a drop of sweat, I got 100 drops of sweat. Yeah. But that said, yeah, we are so far behind on laundry that I'm probably going to do that when we leave here. Not going to lie, the laundry monsters kick
Speaker 1:in the ass. Dylan, it's been fun to watch your journey. I mean, like granted, I think we've only known each other, I don't know, like five, six, or seven months, but it's been awesome getting to know you, man. It's honestly Six,
Speaker 2:seven months?
Speaker 1:Six, seven months, I would say, yeah, yeah. But no, it's been awesome getting to know you. It's admirable what you're doing. I have a goal in life, and I told this to Steven, one day I want to race doubles with you and Not you and Steven, but I want race doubles with you one day and I Steven one
Speaker 2:was going say this. We just put together a relay.
Speaker 1:Put together a relay? I don't want to hold you. I'll probably you'll probably carry me on your shoulders so I could just say I raced with you.
Speaker 2:No, that's fair.
Speaker 1:And, you know, we'll just go about it that way. But no, one day my goal is to race the doubles with you all, both individually, because, I mean, like, if I can be half the athlete that you all two are, it's impressive to watch.
Speaker 2:Well, I gotta say, there's gonna at least be a percentage of the athletes that we are that will come to you letting us train at Empire the way you do. Dude, you're always welcome. I've always dreamed of having an awesome gym where somebody just opens the doors, like, they come in here and train and like, do Always the best welcome. You So appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, man. It's been a pleasure. Thanks for popping on.
Speaker 2:Same
Speaker 1:bro. Episode six. Thanks y'all for tuning in.