Pro Wrestling Training effects on Ironman?

So I have taken up Pro Wrestling two months before Ironman Florida. And while obviously I don’t have the body to be a pro wrestler by any means, I am training to be a referee. Still much easier said than done.

Been practicing taking bumps & having huge arse 400 lb. guys run into me. I also get tossed out of the ring here and there. Its awesome! I do this at a local pro wrestling school & quite honestly I am a bit banged up…but man is it a blast. My wife thinks I am nuts (probably so) & can’t understand why I am doing it. Ironman Florida is a couple months away but what the heck…you only live once.

I figured I would share this with you guys & will keep you all posted on my shenanigans… I will have a couple matchs (my first matches) the night before I do the Florida Challenge half here in Clermont, Fla.

Sounds like good prep for your next bike crash.

Ha. Exactly. I was telling my one tri-training buddy a few kicks in the head at the beginning of the IM swim will feel like nothing…

Why do I get the image of you trying to climb up onto a buoy so that you can go “off the top rope” on the clown that was drafting you and hitting your feet?