Willow Collins The Newest Track To HYROX Athlete. Mo Iqbal On FitLab. Plus Aaron Travers

Willow Collins

• Breaking Gonzaga’s 3K school record at the time
• Running 15:50 in her first 5K
• Finding HYROX after college
• Racing in New York, at Worlds and in Salt Lake City
• Improving burpee broad jumps and wall balls
• Her goal of breaking 60 minutes
• Racing Women’s Doubles with Molly Chambers
• Olympic Trials ambitions in the marathon

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“Mo” Iqbal

• The original FitLab vision and why it made sense on paper
• Why operational experience and discipline matter in fitness acquisitions
• What happens when founders leave after their companies are acquired
• The role Nike’s partnership may have played in investor confidence
• Why FitLab’s use of merchant cash advances raised concerns
• What the fitness industry can learn from FitLab’s collapse

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Aaron Travers

• Moving from Gaelic football and boxing into HYROX
• Running a 56-minute HYROX while weighing more than 240 pounds
• A 16:28 track 5K and a 16:43 road 5K at 253 pounds
• Winning the ATHX events in Dublin and Copenhagen
• His goal of winning the ATHX World Championships
• Training with Chris Baines to improve his strength and mobility
• Holding records in TRYKA and The Hybrid Games
• SkiErg marathon record - 2:29:52 with no breaks
• Why DEKA, Deadly Dozen and other fitness races may suit him next

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