This past weekend my husband (Kevin) sister-in-law (Erika,) brother-in-law (Bill) and I participated in our first Warrior Challenge. The Challenge was on a beautiful property just outside of London. This was Erika's idea and I have to admit I wasn't so sure about it, I'm not into team sports. I like to run, it's up to me and my legs to get to the finish line. We (with some coaching to my husband, he too doesn't like team sports) decided to take on this challenge and honestly so glad we did, had the BEST time. We even had t-shirts made up and a team name "It RUNS in the FAMILY", thanks to Erika & Bill and their creative minds. I think we worked awesome together - as a TEAM.
Our training consisted of making sure everyone could run 8km comfortably, as that was the distance of the course. Obviously we did Pilates, lots of CORE work, wanted to make sure our backs were safe while doing the obstacles. I was worried about my upper body strength so worked on Yoga Sun Salutations to get in the arm work with plank, chataranga, up dog into down dog and all the good STRETCHING. Finally the TRX, which included a variety of moves mostly standing work to challenge the body in different ways. I added a few burbies for the fun of it.
The run was easy, the obsticles were fun minus the biggest challenge being the cylinder tube we had to crawl up, there really was no best way to do it. And then there was the mud at the very end. My biggest challenge to get over was the MUD but once I did, I embraced it and went for it, even got it in my teeth.
I am now thinking of great ways to train my clients that might want to do one and I highly recommend as it was a whole lot of fun!!!