Mat Fraser Fittest Man on Earth | Documentary

but the one line I always liked was going to do today what other people aren't willing to so I could do tomorrow what other campus I always love that line whenever I'm training by myself kind of always like run run lines like that to my husband son people aren't willing to do this right now you're the only one and then when I get to a competition and I'm able to outperform someone on something I did yesterday with what you didn't what I can do today what you can't just knowing of trusting the hard work out put me right now he'll pay off maybe not today mike gillich tomorrow but okay what I was doing [Music] I look at my metal from 2015 I hate that metal because because I didn't do it right you know it's like second place I got second place in 2015 I should be proud of that result I was the second fittest man in the world but I just looked at that and I'm just hate that here because I'm not proud of the effort I put in I'm not proud of the corners I cut [Music] I I really like 2014 I had the same results 2014 2015 I the exact same results completely different feeling about both seasons 2014 right I was so excited I felt like I'd won second place 2015 exact same results I felt like I had lost and gotten 2nd place oh it's just both the effort you put in the expectations and set for yourself and of 2016 you know quit cutting corners start doing it right the results showed for it mm-hmm so as long as I'm training I'm going to keep trying to do it that way and see what the results reflect before the games you know it was still training because that's where my friends were that's what they were doing type thing never taken seriously not put in any long hours you know she was like our to in and out of the gym that summer the 2014 games I was working full time an engineering internship at an aerospace company so you know that consumed a ton of time and I think before that like I never met any other games athletes in terms of like like actually been with them outside a competition so like I always just assumed they were in another league you know I didn't know what they were doing for training I didn't know what they were home lives were like I didn't know anything about them so I just assumed there these untouchable athletes and then at the games there's couple different scenarios you know kind of sit down like athlete briefing and I sat down next to one of one of the really good guys and Lord can be like no they're my size like I'm like we're in little chairs in town look at my quad neck severe is unlike those like out legs are the same size like you know like this superhero everyone has on a pedestal okay maybe I can compare with you and I mean rookie year of the games I mean you don't know what you're about to get hit with but I mean held up fairly well made some really dumb mistakes had some really good moments and came out of the wash and second place I was like okay I think I can do this 2015 was just like uh being dumbass end up getting second again but then by by the 2016 season you know I kind of figured my stuff out kind of figured out what I need to do what I need to change that I've coming season you know really dedicated myself I wasn't in school anymore so really dedicated everything day revolved around my training it wasn't just my time in the gym because when I put in the work you know I started putting in the work outside of the gym as well I think that was a big big game-changer and that was when I realized like okay I I can I can do this they kind of corral everyone you know they called the heat tell you what Lane you're in everyone gets in your your little Corral for ten minutes and in that ten minutes I usually usually dry-heave puke you know just the nerves of that waiting that anticipation of I mean it's half knowing like this is about to really hurt like I'm where I'm about to push myself to a level that's not enjoyable but then also like the fear I'm always so scared going out of a competition floor you know thinking all these guys are more capable than they like what gift things don't go like just being really scared you know all these guys who train all year with no one showing up trying to win second place everyone go to try to get first place so it's that's pretty nerve-racking to me I don't want that fear to go away I mean like I hate it it's a very unenjoyable feeling but at the same time it's like when I'm scared that I'm not capable on a workout you know I really focus you know I really I know like are there is no room for error there's no room for slacking off anything so anytime any time I have that fear you know I'm willing to go to a darker place to make up for that for that being uncomfortable or not feeling confident in that movement for example in the regionals name that Mel 2016 season you know that worked out I was petrified of that workouts know what I did in training I I got eight eight rounds plus something out of a 10 round workout I wasn't close to finishing it and you know you see all the videos of guys online you know pump help set the ten strict muscle ups with a wave and it's like oh I'm in trouble like this workout could derail me so I'm going to not work out just like absolutely petrified and then and then I end up doing well no I ended up I mean I won the workout my region no it was like I didn't let my mind wander for a second I didn't care how much anything hurt during that workout I was like no it doesn't it doesn't matter you can't afford to slack off him for a second so I was like just counting and then there was other workouts where I was so comfortable so wax going into it as soon as suddenly started to hurt a little building all just back off a little bit you know what this team go away and then I pull a 10th place in the workouts Lee [Music] so part of it is like I don't want to get rid of that here you know it really pushes me to strive for excellence and then on the other end of things like when I am feeling comfortable like not letting that affect my performance not letting that that comfort creep in and you know make me slack off make sure try it when you're coming out of your third day of training and nothing's going right and like everything's feeling added and then usually on top of it that's when it seems like everything is going perfectly for everyone else so it's like you just sit there like oh man what's happening right now like this is this is my job this is my full-time job and I'm not doing well at it like this isn't good but you know it's those moments that you know you have to I wanna say like trust the process but you know like stay on the grind it's a guy well things aren't going well make them go well you know like why are they not going well is it I'm not getting enough sleep and might die a little bit off you know my traveling too much like you're in control those things make the changes and I mean when I'm going on like week four of you know I'm just staying home the only person I'm seeing throughout the day is the girlfriend it's not like a friend's dropping in from out of town to train it's not like camera crews around all the time 99% of time I'm in this room alone no one there to you know slap me on the ass and tell me good job like nice PR it's no me telling myself get the back on that treadmill get back on that row or start squatting again you know anytime I'm sitting in between training sessions like just messing around on my phone it's me telling myself like put down your phone and get back to training but you could be doing something productive right now like why are you just sitting here looking at looking at Instagram like put your phone down go stretch be productive they all better yourself instead of resting on your laurels yeah I mean that that's the stuff that I mean no one wants to see that it's not exciting it's not exciting to like walk into the gym and see me sitting on the platform stretching for the third hour straight like I'm cares but I mean that's what goes into it behind the scenes you know I think I think before it happened I never really thought too much of women would be like or what it should be like anything like that and all the changes kind of happened in little progressions you know it wasn't just like an all sudden like light switch type change and like this is your life now you know I kind of I have to remind myself a lot of times to like know people people see the highlight reel it's very rare that someone someone will post or like show the world the non glamorous stuff like the stuff that isn't sexy don't post that go up are the videos of PRS going up in the videos of when things are going well when things are looking good it's someone post up the video of like oh man now I have all these tears on my hands and I'm missing 245 snatches over here and okay no one wants to see that you know I get a lot of messages well you know like people see the footage of the games you know see the footage of the 2016 games like oh that's so cool I'm like you're looking at a five day window of my entire year like that is just like a flash in the pan [Music] please good content really good I'm not doing we're not doing too much today just one quick workout no barbells and I feel like that just kind of put the pedal down high intensity low impact stuff and then I'll all squat tonight but that's basically it Oh nah not too much going on easy doing all right feels good you know kind of take these days of like you know total workout time is like I can be in and out of the gym in an hour so you know try to take a lot of that extra time but I don't usually after the day you know to do body work you know stretch roll out kind of fix any of the aches and pains but kind of accumulated a lot of heat make sure that next week going into training all feeling healthy have a percent no no aches and pains just feeling good [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] when I'm done with cross you know I'm not gonna try to I'm not gonna try to stretch out my career longer longer than I should you know I don't want to stay in the game longer than I longer than I should you know I want to keep my health I want to I want to leave the sport still loving it you know like I did a limping weightlifting for 10 years and when I left the score I hated it and you know it kind of sucks cuz you know what a lot I had a lot of great friends [Music] that I met over the years you know like I grew up with them you know started competing when I was 12 years old and had the same guys at every competition and like we were trained together we could get together in the offseason and remember for a long time after after I finished weightlifting and it was I mean it was it was really bad on my part that because of my resentment against weight looking I didn't want to hear from them I didn't want to see them because it just brought up my bad blood whether that was jealousy envy and just kind of disappointed in the way things worked out for me so you know I've kind of reached back out and kind of rekindled a lot of those friendships but you know at the time it just wasn't wasn't happy for me so you know the day that I decided to stop competing and CrossFit you know I want to make sure that I'm still happy you know like I don't I don't want to leave it badly [Music] it's that constant reminder of whether I go all out and finish this in a minute 54 slack off get rid of this pain in my chest and go at to ten in ten minutes whichever route I take I'm going to feel fun in ten minutes I will be up walking talking I'll have a drink of water and I sort of feel fine in ten minutes regardless of which route but which one is going to make me feel better about the effort that's put forth that day you know if if I slack off at twenty seconds for my total time little leave I'm going to leave the gym that day thinking like man I didn't really give everything I had today like yeah next time next time next time or I can push myself to the limit where like as soon as as soon as I see that that finished finished shot on the on the screen and just like collapse tennis later won't have a metric water I want to think I'm proud of myself I'm proud of that effort I put in today I did everything I could today to push myself to that final goal if you just win like who gives a you know like it's not the wind that feels good it's all the work that you put in prior to like if you didn't do any work and just won some random competition by a fluke are you gonna be like marchons down with the medal around your neck like so proud of that you won probably not but like the fact that I 51 weeks out of the year like I trained my ass off waking after going to bed was all about that you know going into the gym like hand literally dripping blood and be like nope like I got it got to do some muscle ups today you know like like it was it was but halfway through the 2015-2016 season I had to go in and get MRIs down my hips because I thought I had bone spurs in my hips because I was doing so much work and it's coming back from stuff like that like I had to go and get x-rays on both my hands on that that box of fractures and both my hands from flipping that pig so many times that's why that metal felt felt good like like if I had one in 20 2014 I probably wouldn't give a about this like because I wouldn't have had to work for it I don't think it's the wind that feels good I think it's the hard work paying off that feels better do you think you're still working as hard now as you did last year yeah [Music]

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Id: L3tjaPZU3FE

Length: 21min 27sec (1287 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 26 2017

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[u/jmalone1187]

Something that will stick with me from this video was when he said, "What are you doing when no one is watching?". That is actually very deep.

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