Obstacle-specific training guides, programming, injury prevention
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 …
If you’ve been following the endurance sports world lately, you’ve heard the buzz around Zone 2 training. Elite marathoners swear by it. Ironman athletes structure entire training blocks around it. And increasingly, smart OCR athletes …
If you’ve stood at the base of a rope with burning forearms and nothing left in the tank, you know the feeling. Upper-body obstacles are where OCR races are won or lost — and where …
There’s a specific kind of frustration that every OCR racer knows: you’ve trained hard, you show up to the start line feeling strong, and then you hit a rope climb — or a wall — …
Ask any experienced obstacle racer what separates finishers from DNFs, and grip strength will come up in the first three answers. More athletes fail on monkey bars, rigs, and rope climbs than on any other …