i would still watch LS videos even if it was him staring at a wall. keep up the recovery - you'll be back in no time!

I broke my foot 3 years ago, first time in 35 years that I could not run, could not walk, for 10 weeks. I cried too.......thanks Lionel for the honesty and sharing.

It’s amazing how good he is for being a solo rider and not having a unit of training partners like Javier Gomez and Patrick Lange. I always see those others guys training with several people. Lionel has always been primarily solo. He’s probably like me....too competitive to ride in groups and hate small talk.

Really appreciate these videos giving an incite into the mind of an elite athlete under both good and bad times. You do a great job of promoting Triathlon even when you are injured, we need more people like you in the sport. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

This video should be required viewing for athletes. God bless you, Lionel Sanders!

One thing I've noticed after watching LS videos is he seems to be wrapped up in his own mind over thinking/analyzing things. Training the mind to be open and free is just as as important as physical training. Untie the knots and enjoy life!

Sanders, Crowie, Frodo, et al., are what champions really are about in my book. People who have an impact on others both, in and out of the course. All the best my man.

We are glad you are here in Tucson! You are doing great, stay tough!

Lionel, thank you for being real. You are genuine, I really appreciate you! I wish you the best in recovery. Keep fighting man, I believe in you! I really look forward to you racing healthy, strong, and aggressive. Stay on your path Lionel. Talbot, your videos are awesome man. Keep up the great work!

I’m going through this right now. My doctors insisted I had a disc issue in my back and it wasn’t until I figured out it was a stress fracture an pushed for an MRI that I started climbing out of the darkness, even though I’m at my least active.

Great to hear you are getting better! You will heal and beat them all. Keep up the good spirits! Go Lionel!!

You're awesome Lionel! You're still relevant to me! Your words about mental health really ring true to me. Stay positive and I can't wait to see you back at it again!

Lionel you are the champ of champs! I would watch you watch golf any day! Stay positive and patient! You keep me going!

Recover very well. You are a great athlete and a gladiator in life. You will never be irrelevant. but it's good that you look for the real reasons why you do what you do. I wish you the best. All your thoughts resonate in the head of many of us. take care.

Never Irrelevant Lionel, you are an inspiration to so many!

Some great lessons and as many insights in this as the training vids - thanks for sharing.

You will make it! You inspire lots of people.

I have been a fan of yours since I first saw you win at Racine 70.3, but watching your human journey is really special. Keep it together and keep plowing forward.

We love you Lionel!

Way to stay positive in a difficult time!! Keep taking the right steps to come back healthy and strong. Hopefully there will be races in the future where we can compete together. No Limits!

I Appreciate that this channel shows the highs & lows of a professional athlete 👏🏻👏🏻

You should start reading man, that helps a lot.

Thanks Lionel - best of luck with the recovery. You one of a list of like 3 people who have inspired me in 44 years.

keep fighting ma man - cannot wait to see you on the start line again - remember though DO NOT come back too quick you can be relevant for years to come

Thanks for the update! Your missed my man

Great insight Lionel.. I’m 3 weeks into an intercostal muscle injury. Happened when swimming and caught me completely off guard. The mental stress of being new to swimming and being down to race my first 70.3 in 2 weeks time was tough. I swam yesterday and can not express the relief of how recovered I felt! Feeling stronger than before 👍🏼

Same mentality. Put every ounce of energy and willpower into this recovery, do it the best possible way, and it will end up being a huge victory.

I can relate to a lot of this. Love your honesty

Keep up Lionel. You can do it.

Missed seeing you in oceanside, get well!!!!!

Always the good words, Lionel.

14:20 , yep, the gun goes off and you find out what you are made of. I love that to man. Keep it up.

I'm sure you will win Kona some day, if not this year it's the next one. You have it all!

Recover well pal. We miss you. Regardless of the outcome we’ll be there with you.

Dude, you are the real deal!

hear a lot of sense in there, the kind i've not heard after pre Kona 2017... Good job, keep up the spirits, do the foundational work with professional attitude and come back stronger and get a result in Kona!

Does the bike need a service? at 10:52 the chain looks to be hanging... Too many links?

wish you well, its never easy !!!!!

I can't wait to see you back racing again, Lionel.

It’s been 6 month since my knee started to inflame cause of bicycle training. After a while I discovered my acl was inflaming. I remember me watching you videos this winter and getting emotional because I saw you doing all the thing I wanted to do. But I kept watching because I thought “I am going to get there”. I are all coming back

I am watching this feeling very nervous before doing Ironman Lanzarote in 2 days. Thanks lionel for the inspiration you are giving, Def. helped me get my spirit back up.

Keep at it. No one said it was gonna be easy

Get well, Lionel!

As a best friend once told me, a setback is a setup for comeback. Setbacks always give you a chance to reset and consider your circumstances, but they also provide an incredible opportunity to start fresh and build to something greater. Stay true to your roots and what got you to #2 in Kona in 2017. You can get there again.

Lionel much respect, you need a coach who would advise you to hire a sports psychologist who would help you through the recovery process mentally. This is a no brainer.

Very good video. Thank you for sharing lionel. Lionel the Lion. Also 13:30 wow that really hit home. Like really truly. This is a bit of a wakeup call for me as well. We should never put all our eggs in one basket of self worth. I can see myself in that statement.

Jesus fuck can I relate. It makes me feel normal when I hear this coming from someone else. Especially someone I look up to. Thanks bro 🤘🇨🇦

Hi Lionel, Hi to the community, my English is a little poorer, sorry for that. It‘s always really interesting to listen to the very honest words which reveals so much more of an inside of an athlete. I don‘t know any other professional who shares his thoughts as Lionel do. In the End it‘s not for us, not for the community, he shares his insides only to be here under us. And still that ist just Great, because it‘s the opportunity for us all to be part of an excellent and even intellectual interesting live in sport. I‘m a professional screenwriter from Germany and I‘m a Triathlet too. My profession is looking on story’s in a wider bow, looking on psychology, looking on Dramaturgie, on the ongoing of a story and the way it is build. Lionel, you, is, are in the midle of a,of his story. It is the part when the hero goes down to some darkest points of his live (till now), of his career in his sport (Lionel). It is not only the point to stand up again, the hero will stand up, Lional, you will stand up, now question! But it is even the point, where the hero will gain new power, where a kind of transformation will happen and where the hero has something to learn. We will be part of the process and we should feel us honored to be part of it. Thanks again for sharing your story. What can it be that could be the lessen for the hero? I think the injury won‘t come out of the blue. Lionel maybe now in the situation to find a new balance between his own hard, no, very hard intensity training and the new impulses of new trainers. The training with a more structural plan is necessary but it is NOT all. It is important to get near to world class, bit it is in the same way important to be oneself, to stick to the inner space, the inner personality Lionel has. What do I mean? Lionel wants to be a, the hero. He ist the hero of his live, but for his, your personality,it is not enough. His words about being worthless after such a shot time shows not the reality,but it shows his insides. And it is honest! Respect! It is absolutely important for an athlete like him to respect his wish in the way he wanted to be respected from us and the world. Lionels personal drive is to be respected in his way of his live. He is coming from nowhere in our sport and he reached the absolute world class in an a very short time! His accident happend because his personality was caged in some way. He should train only with a straight plan. And that is still making a lot of sense - BUT every trainer should now, should lean, what kind of athlete he trains. Lionel is not like other athletes, everybody should see that. He needs a mixture of training with a plan and high intensity hero workouts. This is no joke! It is highly important to let Lionel his motivation, his heroines, his personal motivation - I apologize because Lionel for sure will talk about h´this much better. Conclusion: Lionel will come back, the gun will send hin on the course again,no doubts. Now should not be the time to collect doubts or ask really for depression, that are only followers of this period, of this short time in live. No, again, it is time for the hero to stick to his plan, to learn for the next step, to go for the next (inner) level. Planing is important, but personality leeds. Lionel, you will learn and you will be the hero of YOUR live. Thanks for sharing it with us. Respect! Fabian Thaesler, Germany.

As written before: Lionel, start to read! Use the time to learn about all the other aspects of the sport (nutrition, training, recovery, ...). It´s all out there

Need to start a podcast would love love love to listen to that !

Take note of Holly Lawrence's comeback after a stress fracture in her foot at Oceanside last year. 3 races, 3 wins..

sorry for saying that, but this is good staff for injured people :). so thank u!

your my inspiration I am eleven years old and aspire to be like you and do ironman and I already do marthons and biking and lots of swimming your so cool

I have been following this channel for awhile and I feel like there is a lot of over training. And the guy seems like a practice champion. Puts out crazy training power and run times but hits the races and just can’t make it happen. Suppose to recover but can’t help but still train I have my doubts about this recovery

Chin up chap, you’ll be back :-)

Damn your daily routine sounds like mine! I interchange between Netflix and Hulu, instagram and KZfaq until about 3 am!

Get it

Hey you may like to check out Evo Ultrafit. They are in Phoenix. They train you while injured AND most importantly make sure your nervous system and muscles fire in the right order. This sequence can get disrupted from a fall/ impact/injury,..and can lead to more injuries.

Real talk as always

Lionel, I think it is time for you to start training with a triathlon group, a pro triathlon group. Good luck man

at 10:55 is that chain a little loose or is he riding oval chainrings?

All you need to do Lionel is remember what Starykowicz went through. You're gonna be just fine.

You ever considered meditating/visualising things as if you’re still training as normal? I have heard of injured athletes using super intense visualisation to try and maintain fitness. Sounds crazy i know but could be worthwhile

Evo Ultrafit can make you a better runner without ever running!!

One thing goes wrong and the wheels fall off? That’s not good.

I'm not up to date, coming out of offseason. What happened?

Please tell me that open turns are ok!

you could do coaching

If you're a triathlete... we should all be super GRATEFUL to spend $,$$$ and do triathlons. Billions live in poverty and leisure sport is a joke when you try to survive! Volunteer or work abroad - do "real life impact work" - and your life gets a healthier perspective.

Who would down Vote this?

You should stream fortnite dude😂

Instead of just watching Netflix and TV all day long, you should work on your training, nutrition and equipment on a scientific basis, otherwise you'll never beat the Germans.

Uhm.. when can we play Fortnite together??

Worst interview questions I have ever heard.

well Lionel, I placed my bet on you last year in Kona (no money, just a guess) and we know what happened. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of yours; but in my HO if you keep using the tube here as if it were the stupidest self portraying profile on FB or a psychiatric help's couch, you never gonna win Kona. And it's a shame because you really have the potential.