OCR

The monkey bars are a common hurdle in most obstacle course races. There are a few different ways you can attack them and some ways you can build up to doing them better.

Dips are an advanced exercise, which means not doing a proper warm-up could lead to injury. Here are a couple exercises you can do to warm-up your muscles before hitting the dip bars.

If you’re having trouble doing dips or you don’t have anywhere to do them you need some different exercises to target the same muscles. In this video we have a great push-up variation that can […]

Quickly completing the parallel bars obstacle in obstacle course races is essential in having a good race. In this video we show you a couple of different ways to do it.

Balance is really important, it can help you prevent falls, it can help you improve at sports and it can help you have better foot control. The balance beam exercise hits all three of these, […]

The Bearcrawl exercise is a really effective way of getting your whole body active and is a really effective exercise to do when training for Spartan and Obstacle Races.

This obstacle is not easy and requires a good level of upper body strength. Ideally, once you approach the obstacle and mount the bars with both arms, make sure they are straight and try to […]

Balance beams come in different styles during races. Navigating across it may be difficult for the obstacle could be only a few inches wide arranged in a zigzag manner, or be something wobbly or loose. […]

A low crawl is a very common obstacle that is part of almost every Obstacle Course Race in some capacity, sometimes you might have to go under something aggressive like barbed wire, something slimy like […]

Running may be the most important component in obstacle racing as it is the fastest way to complete the course. Running however isn’t easy and it sure is trickier when navigating on uneven terrain (i.e. […]