Camilla Salomonsson Hellman’s 2025 season begins at TYR Wodapalooza.
Final up to date on November eleventh, 2024
Within the fall of 2023, little did anybody know that four-time CrossFit Video games athlete Camilla Salomonsson Hellman was filming and competing in Sweden’s model of SAS: Who Dares Wins.
- This tv present challenges contestants to grueling bodily and psychological assessments meant to imitate the coaching protocol of the UK and Swedish Particular Forces.
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Flashback
Within the fall of 2021, whereas pregnant, Salomonsson Hellman and her associate watched a previous season of the present. She mentioned aloud whereas watching the contestants, “I might do this.” Her associate agreed, and the seed was planted at the back of her thoughts.
Two years later, Salomonsson Hellman utilized to be on the present. After a spherical of bodily assessments and an interview, she was chosen to movie final 12 months’s multi-episode season.
- “It was tougher than I believed. Bodily, I dealt with many challenges and felt ready from coaching CrossFit and Practical Health.”
Nonetheless, the opposite part of the competitors, the psychological side, proved most tough.
- “The psychological aspect — it examined plenty of adaptability — coping with surprises, issues that I discover scary, and feeling insecure. I used to be requested beforehand about what makes me uncomfortable. I’ve issues dealing with chilly water throughout longer intervals or holding my breath underwater, and there was plenty of that. Additionally, the hunger and sleep deprivation didn’t assist,” she shared.
Testing the unknown and unknowable to an excessive diploma.
Salomonsson Hellman was restricted in what she might reveal in regards to the present because the season was being launched and streaming. Nonetheless, she added that it was probably the most tough problem she has ever confronted, far more tough than any of her years on the CrossFit Video games.
Flash Ahead
It was after Salomonsson Hellman filmed SAS: Who Dares Wins that she started her 2024 CrossFit season with the Open after which the Quarterfinals, solely to be hit with main penalties and miss out on qualifying for the Semifinals.
The blow hit extraordinarily arduous, and it took time for Salomonsson Hellman to get well.
Regardless, Salomonsson Hellman continued on and cast her personal season, competing on the Swedish Nationwide Championship in useful health in June and qualifying for the Worldwide Practical Health (iF3) World Championships in Hungary in mid-December.
As an envoy for the Swedish Basis of Practical Health, Salomonsson Hellman explains what the function and the game means to her.
- “The game is rising; it’s getting massive in Sweden, and we can have near 100 Swedes taking part within the World Championship in Budapest.
- “In Sweden, this sport…is reliable as a result of a federation leads it, and this federation bonds us. It seems like most Swedes consider in it as an actual sport, so to say, it needs to be a federation,” Salomonsson Hellman explains.
For that reason, and due to this background, Salomonsson Hellman holds the Skilled Health Athletes’ Affiliation in such excessive regard.
As a voting member, Salomonsson Hellman is aware of her voice and perspective are invaluable. With a lot unknown concerning the 2025 season and so many selections nonetheless to be made, her precedence for this 12 months is to help her fellow athletes and do no matter she will to assist the game of CrossFit change for the higher.
- “I’ve one 12 months left as a voting member of the PFAA, and I don’t know what number of extra years I’ll have past that. If I could make a change, I’ll attempt. I need to characterize the athletes and use my voice to try this,” Salomonsson Hellman says.
Subsequent Up
Later this month, earlier than her journey to Hungary, Salomonsson Hellman will be a part of fellow European athletes on the Belgrade Video games to compete in honor of their good friend Lazar Đukić.
- “I’m going to honor Lazar, which shall be very particular. I’m going there to be current and compete in his title,” Salomonsson Hellman shared.
- Salomonsson Hellman will compete for the second 12 months on the identical group at TYR Wodapalooza alongside Maria Längfors and Antonia Fält-Kottulinsky in January.
Past Wodapalooza, the remainder of Salomonsson Hellman’s season is unknown. Like many athletes, she awaits updates from CrossFit whereas supporting the PFAA’s efforts.
Featured picture through Kronan Throwdown
