Meet Obstacle Course Racing Kate In this weeks blog we meet Kate who went to the obstacle course racing world in 2018 and is the person who first introduced me to Obstacle Course Racing. I sent Kate a server of questions to answer and she has come back with some great answers for those of […]
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So you want to do your first OCR or want to improve for your next one? Where do you start training? There are many aspects of an obstacle course race that you need to train for and all are of importance if you want to do well on the course. So what do we need
If you are new to obstacle course racing or are looking to improve on some of the obstacles then grip training should be part of your training. Grip training will help you massively with rings, monkey bars, rope climb, log carry or many of the rigs as well as other related exercises such as deadlifts
Although these blogs are aimed at obstacle course runners these principles can and should be applied to any training plan. As Ross Edgley states: “Be general in your foundations so you can be specific in your goals” –The World’s Fittest Book, 2018. This ties in perfectly with the third section of my hierarchy of needs for
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