Procrastination is the assassination of your motivation.
In this episode of The Coach Pain Experience, Coach Pain and Heather discuss procrastination: where it comes from, what it looks like, and how heavily it can impact you. Coach talks about finding your motivation and using it to push you to the level you want to be at, and then even further.
Be sure to follow along every Wednesday for the newest episodes of this series - they're short, to the point, and excellent for some midweek motivation!
Heather shares her thoughts on the Spartan Beast in Montana, and grabbed some live interviews while she was there. She spoke with Faye Stenning, Alyssa Hawley, Rea Kolbl, Austin Azar and Cole Schwartz about how their races went, and their thoughts on the course and the competition.
We spoke with elite OCR competitor and author of the book Nutrition for the OCR Athlete: Laying out the details and strategies to help remove the guess work from your diet.
He tells us about some must have supplements, and things we should be taking pre and post workout or race. He talks about ways to sort through the junk online and find out what is really good for you regarding supplements.
Josh also shares with us the reason behind why pro athletes can get away with eating more junk food than the rest of us, but still be competitive. He also talks about some best practices of how to maintain good pre-race nutrition while traveling.
What makes you so special?
In the latest episode of the Coach Pain Experience, Coach Pain and Heather discuss what that question really means, what indeed makes you special, and taking your unique qualities to impact the lives of others.
Be sure to follow along every Wednesday for the newest episodes of this series - they're short, to the point, and excellent for some midweek motivation!
In this episode we talk to Alyssa Hawley who recently won the first Spartan Championship Series event in Seattle.
Alyssa tells us about how she got into OCR in 2015, and was quickly on the podium. In her short OCR career, she has been made a Spartan Pro Team member, and won a Championship Series event. The also tells us about her full-time job, and how she manages to maintain the training of a pro athlete with a full-time job. Lastly, Alyssa gets Heather even more scared of bears.
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Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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In this episode, we are live at the Spartan Race Championship Series in Seattle. We talk with Faye Stenning, Mark Batres, Robert Killian, Nicole Mericle, Ryan Atkins and Lindsay Webster about their race and what they thought of the course and competition. Additionally, Heather and I talk about our experience during the race, what we thought of the course, and the comparison between the Championship Series races and your average weekend Spartan.
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If you are looking to get a wetsuit for your next Toughest Mudder, or are just preparing early for Worlds Toughest Mudder, check out Xterra Wetsuits!
Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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In this episode we talk to Lindsay Webster about Toughest Mudder, her training, and her goals for this season.
Lindsay shares with us her experience at the Toughest Mudder West. We talk about how she was able to do so well, and the course not being anything like she imagined. She talks about how she really likes the Toughest Mudder platform and that she plans on running as many Toughest events as she can this year.
She talks with us about balancing her training for endurance events, but maintaining speed for events like Spartan Race, as she plans on running as many of the Spartan Championship Series races as she can as well.
Lastly, she talks a bit about her burpee showdown with Faye Stenning from Spartan World Championship last year.
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Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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In this episode of The Coach Pain Experience, Coach talks about learning to love yourself. He shares with us his experience with someone who was clearly lacking love for themselves and how Coach helped him find it again. He reminds us that if you don't have love for yourself, when you are done with the race, and everyone goes home, you still have to face yourself in the mirror.
Enjoy this weekly dose of motivation and let Coach show you how to love yourself again.
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Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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In our second episode of the Coach Pain Experience, Coach Pain and Heather discuss the topic of failure: what it means, how it affects us, and why it's important.
It's a topic that we not only encounter in the OCR world, but also in our everyday life, and it's a topic that Coach Pain is very passionate about. He goes into detail about why failing is learning, and why we should never settle even when we conquer failure.
If you're needing an extra dose of motivation, this is the episode!
Heather talks with Cindy Lynch, experienced marathon/ultra marathon runner, elite OCR competitor, and owner of the running apparel company Runningskirts. Cindy shares with us how she got started with OCR and what makes them different from the marathons and ultras she has faced before. She talks about the challenges she faced with OCR, and how she manages to maintain an elite performance while running her company and making time for her family. Lastly we talk about her company Runningskirts: how it was born, what it provides, and the new brand Runderlust.
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In our first full episode of the Coach Pain Experience, Coach and I talk with OCR athlete Justin Hammond about keeping your eyes forward and not worrying about what’s behind you.
Justin trains under Coach Pain, and is consistently on the heels of the top competitors. One issue he has been facing is being too concerned about the racers behind him, which has led to some less than desirable finishes at recent races. Coach talks about how to keep your eye on the goal in front of you, not only in your race, but in life as well. He talks about training to achieve your goals and takes a second to talk to Justin’s wife about her contribution to his success.
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Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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Today Heather and I talk about our experience at the first ever Toughest Mudder in Los Angeles. We take you through the rules you’d need to know for running a Toughest Mudder, the new obstacles, and the course itself.
We also cover the gear we used, specifically our wet suites provided by Xterra Wetsuits as well as what we saw others doing on the course. Lastly we take you through the elite race, and some lessons learned for us and for Tough Mudder from this event.
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Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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Coach Pain and I debut our new weekly segment “The Coach Pain Experience” where we take your questions about training, motivation and anything else that will help you live a healthier life.
We talk about why we started this new segment, why it’s important to us and what the format will be. This will be an interactive show, so we want your tweets, Facebook messages and emails! You can find Overcome and Run on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. You can find Coach Pain on Facebook, coachpain.net or email him at CoachPain.Life@Gmail.com.
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Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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In this episode, I talk to Josh Stryde, elite OCR competitor and author of the book Nutrition for the OCR Athlete: Laying out the details and strategies to help remove the guess work from your diet.
We start out talking about the paleo diet and being a fat adapted endurance athlete. We move on to talking about eating the appropriate foods to build glycogen for longer races and what’s best to eat for races like World’s Toughest Mudder. We also cover goal setting and how to plan your meals to meet your goals, how you should ease into a new meal plan or diet, how to break through a plateau and research-based nutrition vs. current fads.
Josh goes on to talk about how sleep plays into your weight loss and training. and a good rule of thumb for the amount of water you should be consuming on an average day.
Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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In this episode Heather talks to Joe DeSena, owner of Spartan Race. Joe shares some news with us that hasn’t been put out officially from Spartan Race yet.
Joe explains how and why they were selected to host the U.S. National OCR Championships in Florida. He shares additional details about what Spartan Race brings to the table for the race and what their plan is for the race. Unfortunately, he wouldn’t tell us who the Race Director or Course Designer will be, that information is being held Top Secret till the race in April.
We talk about his goal of getting OCR into the Olympics. I accidentally gave Joe the idea for scales for the bucket brigade, good luck everyone who will now have to be sure that they full their buckets past the holes.
Lastly, I ask Joe about Shirtgate and he had a pretty great answer. I didn’t expect the answer or the reveal that he had on the show. You will have to listen to the end to hear this one!
Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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In this episode Heather talks to Adrian Bijanada, the guy behind OCRWC, USOCRC and OCR United.
She starts out finding out the idea that started OCRWC and how it has grown. Adrian shares that he doesn’t want OCRWC to grow so large it loses its core values though. He also talks about what to expect in 2017. He couldn’t share any details, but he said there will be obstacles that have never been seen before.
He talks about what led to USOCRC, and how he found out about the course from Mark Ballas owner of Green Beret Challenge, and hints towards what to look forward to this year.
Lastly, he shared the concept of OCR United and how its bringing races together in a way that benefits racers. We all found out that the first two races on board were Conquer the Gauntlet and Bonefrog Challenge, but he tells us that there are more coming soon.
Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
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In this episode we talk to Spartan’s youngest pro-team member Veejay Jones. Veejay slow rolled his way into OCR and has quickly rose to the top of the sport. This was a great episode where I get to dive into the behind the scenes of a racer I see out at the races every weekend.
Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
This episode is sponsored by Lucky 13 Coaching with Nickademus Hollon.
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In this episode we talk to Brenna Calvert. Brenna is a Conquer the Gauntlet Pro-Team athlete, and has moved into the business side of OCR as a full time build team member for Conquer the Gauntlet. We also talk about how she works with other races like Terrain Race so she can help spread the word for the lesser known races.
In addition to competing and building, she finds time to host the Strength & Speed Podcast with Evan Perperis where they talk in depth about training for Obstacle Course Racing.
We wrap the podcast up by talking about how amazing the OCR community, and more specifically the community of us media hosts are in this community. In true OCR spirit we are all friends instead of enemies in business.
Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
This episode is sponsored by Lucky 13 Coaching with Nickademus Hollon.
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In the episode we talk to husband and wife team Mark Batres and Natalie Miano about how they manage their family of 4, work and personal life while consistently standing atop the podium. We had a great time talking to them about how they’re able to manage family time, work, personal life and training.
In addition to family talk, they share their story of how they got into OCR, and why the sport is so important to them. These two are up and comers in our sport, and I expect to see great things from them in the coming seasons. This was a super fun episode for Heather and I to be on as we can relate to so many of the things they shared about being a married OCR team, and Heather and Natalie definitely share the same lack of love for walls.
Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
This episode is sponsored by Lucky 13 Coaching with Nickademus Hollon.
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In this episode I talk to Ian Dory and Noah Kauffman who you may know from the Wolfpack Ninjas. Ian and Noah tell us about their Wolfpack Ninja Tour, as well as their Wolfpack Ninja Podcast.
The Wolfpack Ninja Tour will be coming at you on April 29th and 30th in Denver Colorado. The guys talk about why they started the tour, and how the event benefits Colorado Children’s Hospital. We also talked about how having a tour like this will promote fitness and a healthy lifestyle for kids.
Noah and Ian share with us some behind the scenes details from American Ninja Warrior that you wouldn’t have known without having competed on the show. Without giving away the juicy details I will just tease it and say one story they shared with us is that you run the course regardless of conditions. If it’s wet and you slip, there are no retry’s.
Evan Perperis sent us his book “Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing” to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.
This episode is sponsored by Lucky 13 Coaching with Nickademus Hollon.
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We have a very special anniversary episode for you today with Chad Trammell and Matt B. Davis.
We start the episode with Chad Trammell who you may remember from episode 1 (if you have been listening that long) where we talked about his World’s Toughest Mudder win in 2015. In this episode we talk about his 2016 performance where he teamed up with Robert Killian to take a shot at Tough Mudder’s $100,000 bonus for winning AND reaching 100 miles. Chad shares with us the difference in running alone as well as with a team, and talks about his impressive 100-mile finish. Unfortunately, one team beat them out with 105 miles, so they didn’t get the $100,000 but Chad said it wasn’t about the money to begin with. It looks like Chad is looking to go back to WTM 2017 and will be joining Heather and I at L.A.’s Toughest Mudder in March.
For the second part we have Matt B. Davis who was on the show before in episode 22. Having Matt on was especially important to us because he has been a major contributor to the success of this show. He also talks to us about his upcoming Tough Guy race. If you have seen Rise of the Sufferfests: A Documentary you will know exactly why Matt is a bit intimidated by this race even though he has been racing for years. You can hear and read more from Matt over at Obstacle Racing Media.
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In this episode I talk to Laura Messner, elite racer and member of the ComebackKids, winners of Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge. She shares with us what she and the ComebackKids did to get accepted for the show and took me through some of the experiences in filming. She talks about what shes done since winning and her hopes to come back for season 2.
Laura also shares with us some real motivation! She tells us about the vlog shes working on that will undoubtedly spread the same motivation she shared on the show.
If you want to hear more from the ComebackKids you can check out Beni Gifford in Episode 43, and Matt Campione in Episode 20.
This episode is sponsored by Lucky 13 Coaching with Nickademus Hollon.
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In this episode I talk to Brian Lohr the owner of All Day Ruckoff and Charity Challanges. When Brian was looking to do his first ruck event he wasn't able to find out what the event consisted of, how to prepare or even know if he was ready to do it. So he createdAll Day Ruckoff that helps you prepare to do a ruck event. He shares with us what a ruck event is, how you know if you are ready for one, and why should take the plunge into rucking.
After some time with All Day Ruckoff he set out with his buddy to start Charity Challanges. It started from a pull-up challenge and grew to a business that's donated almost $50,000 to Team RWB and The Green Beret Foundation.
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In this episode I talk to author/ host of Dirt in Your Skirt, and Editor-in-Chief of Mud Run Guide, Margaret Schlatcher.
Margaret started out her OCR journey or odyssey as she calls it as working at a boarding school and running early Spartan Races. She was called stupid for leaving her full time job and pursuing OCR full time. Several years later, look at what she has done in OCR.
She recently started a podcast called Dirt in Your Skirt where she interviews women (Many in OCR) who are doing awesome things. You can catch Dirt in Your Skirt on iTunes, Stitcher, I Heart Radio and any other podcast app.
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In this episode I talk to Spartan Pro Team member Glenn Racz. Glenn is an extremely busy guy who is a husband, father, engineer, and Yancy Camp athlete. He has to manage his work/life balance to be successful.
Additionally, make sure to check out the Spartan Race World Championships on NBC on Christmas Day.
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For more about Spartan World Championships 2016 check out Episode 38 With Faye Stenning and more about Yancy Camp Check out Episodes 44 with Yancy and Miguel, 42 with Beni Gifford and 37 with Yancy Culp.