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Recovery For OCR – Foam Rolling
In my last blog ‘OCR Training‘ the first section I mentioned that is important was Nutrition and Recovery. This weeks blog is going to look at the Foam Roller and how it can help you with your obstacle course training – or general training. Foam Rollers are perfect for massaging out tight and sore muscles and can
OCR Training
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
Recovery For OCR – Nutrition
As mentioned in a previous blog (OCR Training) recovery is the first pillar of the hierarchy of needs- in my opinion. We looked at how using a foam roller will aid recovery and in this blog we will look at nutrition. In order to look at nutrition for recovery we first need to look at
OCR Grip Training
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
Foundations – The Pull Up
Continuing on from last weeks blog, Training Foundations for OCR, we are going to look at pull ups, chin ups and other pulling variations. As mention before at some point in an Obstacle Course Race we are going to need some pulling strength. This will be to pull ourselves over walls, pulling a weighted sled,
Foundations – The Push Up
In this weeks blog we are going to take a closer look at the press up and all its variations. Within Obstacle Course Racing we are going to need to push ourselves off the floor to at least get back onto our feet after crawling under something. However, the push up crosses over to the
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