6 days a week.

Nice!! Finishing in the top 20 is really moving thru the course.

I didnt keep track of my time but I know I was not in the top 20 thats for sure.

Here's a few pics from my tough mudder -> http://imgur.com/a/UDGnN#0

Sounds like a fun workout! I hate the weight gym but love cycling, boxing and karate. Would really love to do my first mudder this year

Jillian Michaels kicked my ass for 50 min in my living room this morning. Just my mat and her vid is all I needed and I was gasping for air and sweating like I been running for my life for 2 hours. love her

It was top 20 overall. Did it in 2:19, but I was WAY behind the first place guy. Luckily I met a marathon runner at the start and we did it together. He paced me on the running and I helped him on the obstacles.


To train, I would recommend running every other day. Start at 3 miles and work up to 12 miles. (don't run the last week before the race). On the days in between running, do weight lifting with high reps, LOTS of chin ups, and explosive jumping exercises.


Super fun overall, and buy some really cheap shoes that you can throw away or donate at the end.

P. S. You will be bruised, scratched, gouged, stiff and sore for days afterwards, and on the electrical obstacles, don't go slow, just push through as fast as you can.


ENJOY!



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I run once a week for 30-40 mins but i make sure i sweat everyday!

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Well the one here is in September, so will definitely follow your advice about the running and weights.

Thanks for that, looking forward to it. When you say electrical, i'm wrong in thinking you get a shock ?

Oh and for the top 20 overall - big congratulations on that, blown away by that, you must be pretty damn fit.

Thanks, I've stayed in pretty good shape, but I think the two biggest factors have been that I've been a long distance runner since I was 14, and I've always been very very stubborn about giving in to pain.... :)


There are two obstacles involving electricity. One is the Electric Eel, with a rack about 2 feet high, 10 yards wide, and about 15 yards long. You have to low crawl on elbows and your belly in 4 inches of cold water, and hanging from the rack are hundreds of wires that are randomly giving out 10,000 watt shocks. (The amps are low, so it won't kill you)..... It HURTS at times. My tactic is to start cursing like a pissed off drunken sailor and just go through as fast as I can. If you go slowly you are only going to get shocked more often.

The second is called Electo-shock therapy. It happens right at the end of the course. Same as the first, except it's standing height, and you run through thick mud as you are going through the wires. The shocks may knock you down. Don't try to crawl through, it will only hit you in the head and hurt more. Just get back up and keep moving.


Those two obstacles, and the plunge/swim through ice water (called the chernobyl jaccuzzi), at the beginning of the course, are my least favorites.

It's all good though. :1orglaugh





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Started Crossfit a couple weeks ago, brutal and I love it.

lol where the hell does several "bong hits" work into the discipline of getting in better shape?

Sorry but is this one of those new California exersise routines? :1orglaugh

P.S. georgeyw. Make sure to start as early as possible, The first heat is obviously the best one to start in, as during later heats a wait can build up at the obstacles, with people going slow or falling off of them, and needless to say you want to be at the front at the starting gun.




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going to gym 2-3 times a week. Hope one day I will have six pack instead of fat belly :D

swimming and gym in colder weather, hard core mountain biking during warm weather :thumbsup

I ain't really into self-preservation ...