This is the fittest human on the planet - Can I keep up for 24h?

Imagine running uphill for 20 min. at over 2k meters and having a heart rate of 125. 😂 That is certifiably ludicrous.

"look how light this bike is" Guy whose arm strength impressed Eddie Hall lifts bike Well I've learned nothing from this demonstration

I'm a triathlete and have ran a 2:40 marathon. The crazy thing is if I swapped place with Magnus this video would turn out exactly the same. I wouldn't be able to keep up with Kristian for 50m of a swim and I'd be dropped on the climb. 27k run up that climb is insane. Most people don't realise how good elite endurance athletes are because walking around they look like normal people. But hidden underneath their normal look is a superhuman.

To be able to say you can take a nap and still beat David Goggings without even bragging because it is just facts is so funny to me.

A rest day with a 15km run and 4km swim 😂

Its crazy that if you saw Kristian on the street you wouldn't think he's an athlete. Our perception of being fit is very flawed

Gotta say, Kristian comes off as super humble and down to earth, super polite and respectful, doesn't fret about his sessions being 100% or Magnus interfering with them at all, even goes out of his way to accommodate Magnus. Class act, I don't know that all elite athletes would be as cool as that

"Hopefully we can catch him in the car." lmao

magnus: 179 bpm kristian: 125 bpm dude is still in his zone 1 pace! crazy!

I've seen alot of Magnus' videos. Magnus is a BEAST when he's compared to "normal" people. To see him humbled like this is insane, Kristian must be superhuman.

I would like to push back a bit on this "natural ability stuff" that I see a lot of. Norway was not Triathlon nation but then the team you see here started an incredibly data driven program that resulted in not one, but two unrelated Ironman World Champions popping out of the same little town (ref: at 270k population it would be the 83rd biggest city in the US): Kristian Blumenfelt and Gustav Iden. Like the odds of that being a coincidence are astronomical. That indicates that it was not just down to randomly stumbling on a generational talent with unique genetic advantages, but that the extremely scientific approach they took combined with athletic individuals who were willing to make this project their entire lives is what allowed them to basically outperform the entire established Ironman elite. It's very fascinating cause it's obviously not like triathletes weren't training hard before, but there were these established ideas of how much was too much and that your body would tell you when you were approaching those limits. And it turned out that some of those signals like feeling completely exhausted, tired and demotivated sometimes don't accurately reflect what's actually going on in the body. So they started doing extremely frequent tests like seen in the pool here, that way when an athlete says "I'm on the limit right now" they could either say; "actually you're not it just feels that way, you've pushed harder before" or "yes you actually are, and this it what that actually feels like" and work from there. And funnily it kinda comes back to the David Goggins/Navy seal 40% idea of "when you're entire body tells you it's time to quit, you're only about 40% of the way to your actual physical limit". However they took this general mental concept, heightened it with frequent scientific testing and applied it to sport specifics and that has allowed the Norwegians to perform previously unheard of training volumes. As an amateur Ironman myself it's been incredibly cool to see the established "rules" of training change so rapidly, now I just need a personal scientist and data analyst so I can implement it myself!

Just wanna say I don’t care that you had to stop on the run, that’s literally what makes the video interesting is seeing when you can’t keep up as an above average elite athlete

This guy needs more recognition.

125 HR up that hill OMG. Dude still casually talking not even in Zone 2 lol

When magnus complains about things being tough you know they are brutal. He has such a high threshold.

Kristians bodyshape is really unique even in the Triathlon scene. Most tri- athletes have a way "fitter" frame if you think of the other greats in this sport, e.g. you look at Jan Frodeno and you just know that this is not a normal human being. Even Gustav Iden (his training partner) looks way more like the ultra fit dude. But Kristian is like a tank rolling haha

I mean Magnus’s heart rate being at 179 should tell you how insanely tough that run was. The man is fit. The fact Kristian’s was at 125 is NUTS.

Magnus: "You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like"

I like how he is factually 50% faster/tougher then Goggins but doesn't have that bragging tough guy vibe at all. Just a regular guy who happen to run and swim a lot.

Magnus stuffing his face eating Nutella, while speaking about how fit Kristian is pure GOLD. I just wish Magnus was eating Nutella in the car following Kristian up the hill LOL