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Make Your Rest Days Count

Trio Fitness OCR

Feb 6, 2018
3 min

Make Your Rest Days Count

Everyone has their own reason for following a fitness program; some want to lose weight, maximize sports performance, improve lifestyle, recover from injury, or feel better overall. But, no matter what fitness program you follow, there will always be one key factor that will make a massive impact in whether you successfully reach that goal or not. That key factor is getting proper rest. To ensure you reach your fitness goals, you not only need to work hard but you also need t

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How to Become An Elite OCR Athlete

Trio Fitness OCR

Jan 15, 2018
4 min

How to Become An Elite OCR Athlete

If you’ve run an OCR, chances are, you’ve run two OCR’s. Really, you’ve probably run 3+. The sports is addicting! Individuals from all walks of life are running these races all over the country (and world) for fun, as a hobby, for group bonding, and for some, for competition. Some of us want to step up and become one of the best in the sport. Some of us want to conquer the course and stand on a podium with a gold medal around our neck and a check in our hands. I’m in this cam

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OCR - Should I Just Train Hills, Carries, and Climbing?

Trio Fitness OCR

Jan 5, 2018
2 min

OCR - Should I Just Train Hills, Carries, and Climbing?

Obstacle Course Racing is growing and changing at a lightning fast pace! New race venues are popping up literally all over the world! Of course, with so many new race venues, there are also a multitude of new obstacles being created. But, most obstacles you’ll find in OCR are based off of just a few core challenges. Hills: These are the death of me…. For a lot of races, it’s actually mountains, not hills. Most athletes struggle with hills because of leg muscle and cardiovascu

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Wintergreen II: Spartan Race Experience

Trio Fitness OCR

Dec 13, 2017
2 min

Wintergreen II: Spartan Race Experience

September 24, 2016 - My brothers and I had spent the night before the race in a cabin on the mountain. I believe I slept just about five hours which is never a good start. For reasons too long to explain here, we were late getting to the race. We rushed to put on our bands, bibs, and store our bag. We had JUST enough time to use the restroom and immediately rushed to the starting line. I was tying my shoe as they released the wave. Thankfully I was far enough back that I was

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Wintergreen I: Spartan Race Experience

Trio Fitness OCR

Nov 28, 2017
2 min

Wintergreen I: Spartan Race Experience

"None of us had ever done a Spartan Race before, and without knowing it, we were about to attempt one of their hardest courses!" It started as a humid, foggy, and rainy August morning. Cars were piling into the muddy field that was used as a parking lot. We went across the field, got into a bus, and drove for about 15 minutes up to the top of a mountain. At the top we could see the Start and Finish lines! My three friends and I were at the 2014 Spartan Race Super in Wintergre

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Hobie Call - OCR Royalty

Trio Fitness OCR

Oct 3, 2017
3 min

Hobie Call - OCR Royalty

Here at Trio Fitness we believe that Obstacle Course Races are a phenomenal way to keep in shape and stay healthy. They require a strong balance in training and very good nutrition. They are also SUPER FUN! That's a large reason why we offer training for Obstacle Course Races and why we've decided to provide our audience with the training history, achievements, diets, and current training methods of some of the top athletes in OCR today. Hobie Call Though Hobie has said that

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From a 5K to a 10K

Trio Fitness OCR

Sep 21, 2017
2 min

From a 5K to a 10K

Occasionally the running bug bites. It's certainly not something everyone experiences, but for those who do experience it, they'll need to train properly in order to have a long running "career". Proper progressions are the best way to build up your distance and pace. Your 5K is done and passed and now you're working toward double that distance; a 10K. Most people who have run a 5K can very likely go outside right now and run a 10K. It may be painful, slow, and exhausting, bu

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How To Begin Endurance Training

Trio Fitness OCR

Sep 14, 2017
3 min

How To Begin Endurance Training

For those new to endurance training, figuring out what exercises, rep ranges, weights, sets, times, etc. can be a real challenge. That's why I'm here to tell you how you can progress your endurance workouts from novice to expert! I'll be discussing exercise formats in HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) and Circuit training workouts specifically for this article. If we included running, sprinting, and rowing individually this could go on forever. Exercises: Always begin w

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Top 5 Carbs

Trio Fitness OCR

Sep 14, 2017
1 min

Top 5 Carbs

You need fuel right? What kind? Unleaded? Supreme? Diesel? If you said Diesel you came to the right place! I'm listing off the top 5 sources of carbohydrates for your long-term fueling convenience! Carbohydrates are your body's GO-TO source for energy! It's extremely important that power lifters, weight lifters, and any type of endurance athletes get lots of carbohydrates. 1: Brown rice! Brown rice, in a single cup serving, contains 45 grams of carbs. That's a lot of carbs. I

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Protein Supplements - Which to Take?

Trio Fitness OCR

Sep 11, 2017
2 min

Protein Supplements - Which to Take?

The fitness market is FLOODED with every type of protein supplement for every possible goal. There are the really popular brands like Gold Standard Whey, Muscle Pharm, JYM, and Syntha but there are dozens of others; each one promising they hold the key ingredients for the best results. So how do you decide which to take? Do you even need to take a protein supplement? We'll try to help you answer those questions by the time you finish reading. Confession: While I am not agains

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The Death Circ(le)uit

Trio Fitness OCR

Jul 10, 2017
1 min

The Death Circ(le)uit

Most people like a challenge when it isn’t too, well, challenging. When it comes to your workouts, you HAVE to challenge yourself. Progress is only made when you challenge yourself (appropriately) more and more. The circuit you’re about to learn, fittingly entitled the “Death Circle”, is one that will challenge your entire body with advanced exercises. Circuit Training is great for burning lots of calories and getting a full-body workout done in a much shorter amount of time

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30 Exercise Circuit

Trio Fitness OCR

Jun 8, 2017
3 min

30 Exercise Circuit

With the popularity of endurance challenges and races on the rise, we here at Trio Fitness wanted to conduct an experiment on how far endurance can be pushed (safely) in a gym setting. More specifically, we wanted to see what it might look like to do a circuit comprised of 30 exercises all in a row with no rest at all. We work closely with our OCR athletes, so when Joel found out about it, he volunteered to try it. The idea was to create a format which would burn out one musc

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