Fitness races and obstacle-course races are all the rage right now.
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So who can do these races, and how do you train for them at Fit2Live?
Here are your answers!
Racing: A Ton of Fun
If you do a Google search, you can find all sorts of fitness and obstacle-course races around the world. You can find them locally, too.
Most of these races involve running, as well as objects and obstacles.
For example, you might run to a wall and climb over it before running to a heavy bucket you must carry a set difference. Then you might run to monkey bars you must traverse. Some of these races involve hills, mud and water to increase the challenge.
Other indoor races involve running, rowing, skiing, sled drags and pushes, sandbag lunges, and similar movements, hello Hyrox.
Races usually have many divisions, and some offer team, relay and pairs formats in addition to solo races. Almost anyone can do some version of these races after working with a coach to prepare.
What’s the point?
Some people really like to compete, and they train hard to perform well at these events. Serious racers will travel a long way to compete.
Other people use events like this to keep them motivated as they train for general fitness.
Having a goal will give you a reason to show up every day, and using your fitness in a fun event is a great way to celebrate your progress. The pride you feel when you cross the finish line can’t be measured!
Whether you’re a tough-as-nails competitor or a new exerciser, races are just a lot of fun.
How Do We Train For These Races at Fit2Live?
If you’re interested in fitness races or obstacle-course races, a general fitness program can help you prepare, and a personalized program will produce results even faster.
Even better, the same race-training program can help someone accomplish common fitness goals such as improving strength and conditioning, losing weight or reducing body fat.
Most of the races involve a lot of running, so a good program will help you improve your speed and endurance.
But you must also have the strength to traverse obstacles and deal with implements, weights and odd objects.
This is why strength training is an important part of race prep.
At Fit2Live, we specialize in both strength and conditioning and we use all sorts of workouts and exercises to help our members prepare for races.
Our philosophy of training is to be generally prepared across all fitness domains.
We want our members to be as well balanced as possible in strength, speed, power, endurance, stamina, coordination, mobility, flexibility, balance, and agility. You can read more about the 10 fitness domains here.
For example, we might have a member perform a 400m interval runs to work on speed on one day, and we might program a 3 rep max deadlift and 1k row on another day to improve stamina. On other days, we might perform upper and lower body strength training in 3 sets of 8-12 reps. And then we might toss in some high-intensity interval training with constantly varied functional movements to round things out.
We always ensure our workouts are well balanced, sustainable, scalable, varied and functional.
Our goal is to keep our members well balanced and generally prepared for whatever life throws their way, even an obstacle course.
The exact combination will depend on the client, their workout history and their goals, always scaled appropriately by our coaches.
For example, if a great runner has never done rope climbs and will face them in an upcoming race, we’ll make sure the upper body is strong with more grip and lat work.
If an experienced lifter wants to do a race, we might spend more time building endurance or improving running mechanics.
The short story: We can help anyone prepare for any race because that’s what we train for at Fit2Live, being prepared for whatever life throws our way.
Our program will give you the foundation to tackle whatever active endeavor life throws your way.
From chasing kids to knocking out obstacle races, we’ve got you covered!
The best plan is to book a free consultation and meet with us to talk about your goals, you can do that HERE.
Be sure to bring the date of the race and all the details about its length, obstacles and implements.
If you have other goals—such as greater strength or weight loss—we want to hear about them, too.
We’ll review everything and lay out a perfect plan to help you succeed on game day.
Then we’ll cheer you on as you cross the finish line.
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