Obstacle-specific training guides, programming, injury prevention
You’re two miles into a race, legs already burning, and you round a corner to find an eight-foot wall. The runner ahead of you takes three bounding steps, plants, and is over the top in …
The first time you crawl out of an ice-water dunk tank at 28 degrees and watch your hydration pack hose freeze solid before you hit the next obstacle, you understand something veteran mud runners have …
There is a moment in every obstacle course race when the course stops testing your speed and starts testing your willingness to suffer. That moment usually arrives the second you wrap your arms around a …
You have trained for months. Your grip strength is dialed in, your running base is solid, and you can knock out thirty burpees without cursing (much). Then race day arrives in July, the thermometer reads …
You already run through mud, rocks, and roots for fun. You climb hills that make road runners weep. You have probably eaten a bug mid-stride and kept going without breaking pace. So why does the …
You trained for months. You crushed the wall climb, powered through the sandbag carry, and flew across the monkey bars like you owned them. Then, somewhere between mile four and the finish line, something tweaked, …
There’s a moment on every OCR course where the crowd goes quiet and athletes stare up at a dangling rope like it personally insulted them. The rope climb is one of the most feared obstacles …
The monkey bars and the rig. Two obstacles that separate the committed from the casual in obstacle course racing. While many racers will power through burpees and jump walls, these overhead hanging challenges demand a …
There’s a moment every first-timer hits — usually somewhere between a rope climb they can’t quite finish and a mud pit deeper than expected — when they think: how did I get here, and why …
Most OCR training programs emphasize the obvious: pull-ups for grip, burpees for conditioning, distance running for endurance. What gets overlooked, almost universally, is hill running. And that’s a problem — because hills replicate the demands …
Race day is circled on the calendar, your training block is wrapping up, and now comes a phase that a surprising number of OCR athletes get completely wrong: race week nutrition. What you eat in …
You can have the grip strength of a climbing champion and the lung capacity of a marathon runner, but if your legs give out halfway through a Spartan Beast — when you’re grinding up the …