Page 43 - Muscle & Fitness (December 2019)

By M&F Editors

We actually met at a mountain
bike race. A mutual friend
introduced us, and I thought
she was cool. We’d go for bike
rides together and do cross-
country skiing.

Who motivates whom more?
I’d say she motivates me more

in training. I always think
about how focused she is with
her training and how dialed in
she is. We’re not competitive at
home, either—we just support
and encourage each other.

How did you train for
this specific race? DREAM
A lot of running. I’ll run, TEAM
like, 3,000 vertical feet Together, Atkins
as fast as I can, and then and wife Lindsey
I’ll do 800-foot meter Weber have won
nine OCR
intervals of flat running.
championships.
I’ll add some type of grip
work and a bunch of plyo-
metric and core work with a
focus on twisting motions. I’m
making myself as fit as possible
in every dimension, because
you never know what’s going
to come at you in the race.

What about mental training?
I do a lot of visualization and

self-talk to get me ready for
the race. I’ll also write down
my goals and how I’m going to
achieve them. After a race, I’ll
go over it and see what went
well, what didn’t, and what I
can learn from and apply to
my next race.

You and Lindsey are both
competing in the new
Spartan Race series, where
the points winner of three
races takes home $1 million.
C O U RT E S Y O F S PA RTA N money if you won?
What would you do with the

We’ll put it into our savings
account. Or, actually, we just
bought a house, so maybe

we’ll pay for that.

D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 9 / M U S C L E & F I T N E S S 4 1