How To Balance Being An Elite Crossfit Athlete While Working In ITU - Dr Carys Webster

Welcome to The Progress Theory. In this episode, we catch up with Doctor and elite Crossfit athlete Dr Carys Webster. Cary and Phil discuss how to balance working in ITU during a global pandemic while training as an elite Crossfit athlete. An amazing episode for anyone looking for tips to help balance a high workload yet still achieve their goals.

In this episode, we discuss:

Start 0:58
An introduction to Carys’ lifestyle 1:53
Why Carys started a Postgraduate degree and her goal of signing up to the Sport and Health medicine speciality training scheme 2:51
How the medical career started 5:46
Sport and health are permeating into more professions allowing people to apply their passion for sport in new ways 8:06
Where Crossfit started for Carys 9:19
What developed the passion for Crossfit? All about community 10:52
Carys’ goals in CrossFit 12:33
Carys’ coaching team and her current training 15:36
- The Success of Red Pill 16:49
- Professionalism in Crossfit in comparison to other sports 17:12
Training in Lockdown 19:09
Coach athlete relationship - Transparency with how Red Pill has programmed 20:00
The aim of Carys’ exercise physiology blog 20:53
The importance of being open-minded and critical when viewing Instagram 24:33
Work/training/life balance 27:10
Sleep schedule 31:28
Progressing training whilst in lockdown 32:34
Off-season or pre-competition season? 35:21
Collaborators 36:14
How to contact Carys if you have any questions 37:05