Category: Fitness
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First Day Back at the Batting Cages and Learning How to Power Clean: I’ve Decided to Play Baseball Again
This week has been pre-work for the offseason training I’m about to start doing in preparation for the Spring baseball season and the Spartan Races I will be running. I’ve been looking online for pre-made strength and conditioning programs I could follow and ended up finding a 16-week program that had just enough flexibility for me…
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The Trifecta is Upon Us (Part Two)
The weekend has come to make the drive up to Vermont for the Beast. For those who are unaware, the Beast is the third longest installment of Spartan Race’s trifecta. The trifecta consists of a Sprint (3-5 miles), Super (7-9 miles), and Beast (12-15 miles) all within one calendar year. I’ve already done my Sprint (one…
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The Trifecta is Upon Us (Part One)
So today was the day I committed to racing the Vermont Beast to finish my New Year goal of completing the Spartan Race Trifecta for 2018. I purchased the ticket, and picked up a new pair of shoes to race in (Salomon Speedcross 4’s because my barefoot Marrott sneakers were NOT cutting it). Only thing…