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Strength & Speed podcast focuses on Obstacle Course Racing ( OCR ) improvement by pulling in lessons learned from other sports. Hosted by Pro OCR athlete and Army Special Forces veteran Evan Perperis. Evan is a NSCA-CPT, the author of 8x books on Obstacles Course Racing, with an undergrad from Johns Hopkins and has a Masters from KU. An accomplished OCR athlete with 100+ OCR podiums including winning the team division at the 24 hour long 2018 World’s Toughest Mudder and 2nd place Pro Coed Team at North American Obstacle Course Racing Championship. Visit the team’s website for all things Obstacle Course Racing and multi-sport Fitness: www.teamstrengthspeed.com for articles, BleggMits, OCR books, motivation and more.
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Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Andrew Potter is a renaissance athlete competing in a wide range of activities from triathlon to running to climbing and even dabbling into Obstacle Course Racing. This Army Veteran served in both the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment in numerous deployments to Afghanistan, now works as the co-owner of ROKC (an epic climbing gym in the Kansas City area). Andrew talks with Evan about the military, mindset, training for performance, improving on climbing and more in this content packed episode.
Episode brought to you by Volition Chiropractic, a chiro clinic owned and operated by OCR World Championships competitor Alexis "Alex" Buford.
Music provided by Dino Sinos
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Stoke Shed's Bobby Ross joins Evan Perperis to add some commentary to his book "Ultra-OCR Man: From Special Forces Soldier to Record Setting OCR Athlete". If you don't own the book, don't worry you can still listen to the podcast and get a lot of great information, however, it works best when used in conjunction with the book (available in hard copy, digital or audiobook, available here: https://www.teamstrengthspeed.com/ultra-ocr-man )
Evan and Bobby talk about some fun and interesting stuff including the Kentucky Waterfall, comics, how mental toughness develops, what it's like deploying and a whole lot more. Hold on because things get a little heavy towards the end as they talk about losses in combat and fallen military veterans.
Head over and check out Bobby Ross at www.StokeShed.com
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Professional Boomerang Thrower, 4x American Ninja Warrior Veteran, 4x Spartan Pro Team Athlete and OCR World Championship Pro Team World Champion Logan Broadbent joins Evan and his cohost AC Hale for this content packed episode. Logan's broad background in everything from boomerangs, to triathlon (world championship qualifier) to diving (All-American athlete) brings a lot of great information and lessons learned to OCR.
(Since the initial recording, Spartan confirmed Logan is on the Pro Team for 2021)
Episode brought to you by Egg Weights, a training tool for your arms and cardio simultaneously. Used this link for 10% off: https://eggweights.com/?ref=ctgproteam
Pick up a copy of "The New Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing": https://amzn.to/3oZ908O
Music provided by Dino Sinos (Subscribe to his YouTube here)
Friday Jan 08, 2021
Friday Jan 08, 2021
Which is worse, bear crawl for 3.3 miles? Clean & Toss a 75 lbs. sandbag that length? Or lunge walk the length of Warrior Dash? In the latest episode Evan talks to OCR athlete and former pro bodybuilder Josh Andrews who has done all those self created challenges to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (https://specialops.org/). They talk further about crossover points with bodybuilding and Josh's upcoming challenge, a 100 mile run with 2x ChopFit Choppers.
Episode brought to you by HYLETE, your favorite workout, recovery and now formal athletic fit apparel. Use this link for $20 off your order
Ultra-OCR Man: From Special Forces Soldier to Record Setting Pro OCR Athlete now available on hard copy digital and audiobook: https://www.teamstrengthspeed.com/ultra-ocr-man
Music provided by Dino Sinos (subscribe on YouTube)
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Without Mud Run Guide's annual Muddies awards, a couple members from the staff took it upon themselves to talk through some of their favorites for the year. Despite limited racing, there was still a ton of stuff happening and so much we had to breeze over some topics. Spread the positivity and pick up the gaps we left on our Facebook page by leaving some of your favorites underneath this podcast post. We tried to mention any brand that we think someone in the OCR industry would enjoy and tried to get outside of our natural biases as much as we could. We hope you enjoy and continue to support brands that support our sport.
Athletes on the podcast include Amie Jacobs, Kathleen Davis, AC Hale, Doug Snyder, Lisa Nondorf, Alexis Matera and Evan Perperis.
Topics include:
1. Best Positive OCR Moment
2. Best Race with Three or More Live Events
3. Best Race with One or Two Live Events
4. Most Entertaining OCR Male on Social Media
5. Most Entertaining OCR Female on Social Media
6. Best Temporary Pivot From OCR
7. Best Inspirational OCR Personality
8. Most Impressive OCR Physical Accomplishment
9. Best Home OCR Training Tool
10. Best OCR Training Supplement
11. Best OCR Recovery Tool
12. Best OCR Recovery Supplement
13. Best OCR Writer
14. Best OCR Podcast
15. Best OCR Video Content Producer
16. Best Training/Racing OCR Shoes
17. Best New Obstacle
18. Best Virtual Event (Short Course)
19. Best Endurance Virtual Event (5+ hours or 20+ Miles)
20. Best European Event with One or More Live Events in 2020
21. Best International Event with One or More Live Events in 2020
22. Best Motivational Group-Reason
23. Best OCR Training Gym
24. Best OCR Permanent Course
25. Event Looking Forward to the Most in 2021
Episode brought to you by BleggMits, order your Extreme and Lyte BleggMits from the only distributor in the USA here
Music provided by Dino Sinos
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Pre-order now open for "The New Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite OCR" digital book (being released on January 1st, 2021): https://amzn.to/2W1Df27
Pick up copies of Evan's books from Amazon: Guide to Elite OCR, Ultra-OCR Bible, Ultra-OCR Man and Mud Run Guide's OCR Bucket List
Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Regardless where you live int he country, 2020 had less races for you than you had originally planned. This left OCR athletes with an option to pivot to other interests and opportunities that could improve their OCR performance in the future. In our largest podcast yet we bring on:
-6x American Ninja Warrior Amy "Magic" Pajcic
-CTG Co-owner and Conquer Youth owner David Mainprize
-Battle OCR owner Sid Morris
-S&S athlete Ian Periera
-S&S athlete & CTGFamily AC Hale
-CTG Pro Team Power Couple Doug Snyder & Lisa Nondorf
Lots of topics covered in a short time and lots of options for how you can stay motivated including topics like ultra-running, climbing, martial arts, permanent OCR facilities, becoming a race director, building race courses and lots more.
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Music provided by Dino Sinos
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Pre-order now open for "The New Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite OCR" digital book: https://amzn.to/2W1Df27
Pick up copies of Evan's books from Amazon: Guide to Elite OCR, Ultra-OCR Bible, Ultra-OCR Man and Mud Run Guide's OCR Bucket List
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
After her recent 80 mile win at the 24 hour long Casa Garcia Ultra-OCR and a 2nd place finish at the final Savage Race of 2020, Rachel Watters joins the podcast to talk training and racing with Evan. They deep dive into her experience at Casa Garcia, her weekly training, endurance fueling and tips. At the end of the episode Evan covers his own experience at Kimberly's 24 hour Ultra-Mudder. Listen to this podcast from the only two athletes to overall win a 24 hour Ultra-OCR in 2020.
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Pre-order now open for "The New Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite OCR" digital book: https://amzn.to/2W1Df27
Episode brought you by Hammer Nutrition, use ref#240887 for 15% off your first order from www.HammerNutrition.com
Music provided by Dino Sinos
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Back into the science of Obstacle Course Racing, this time focused on rig technique, altitude and the Army Fitness Test. Jared Renyer of JRen Fitness joins Evan to talk about what he learned about rig technique from a paper for his Master's degree as well as the science on why running at altitude is hard. Finally, the two share their opinions on the Army's new physical fitness test which is being implemented after 40 years of no major changes.
Plus, since I know you want to watch/listen to it now: Glory of Love: Karate Kid Part II Music Video
And New Found Glory's cover of Glory of Love
Pick up copies of Evan's books from Amazon: Guide to Elite OCR, Ultra-OCR Bible, Ultra-OCR Man and Mud Run Guide's OCR Bucket List
Episode brought to you by Compex, makers of EMS, massage guns and more recovery products to make your body race ready.
Music provided by Dino Sinos
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
2019's 100m OCR World Champion and 4x top five finisher at OCR World Championships, Thomas van Tonder joins Evan to talk about the South African OCR scene. The two talk about South Africa's Warrior Race, his training and his big plans for 2020: a 50m rope climb world record attempt for the first half of his 94m rope climb occurring on November 16th, 2020.
Pick up copies of Evan's books from Amazon: Guide to Elite OCR, Ultra-OCR Bible, Ultra-OCR Man and Mud Run Guide's OCR Bucket List
Episode brought to you by MudGear, the world's best OCR socks.
Music provided by Dino Sinos
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Another Q&A episode with William Shell asking a lot of great questions about training, the future of the sport and more. Plus, Matthew Knight asks "What is the purpose of a pro team?". Topics include:
-If OCR is getting stale
-The future of OCR
-How OCR can change your life
-Collegiate OCR vs. standardized OCR vs. high school OCR vs. Pro OCR
-How to overcome obstacles you are stuck on
-Obstacle difficulty opinions (hint the answer is found in Csikszentmihalyi...which I purposely didn't try to pronounce on the podcast)
-Balancing racing, training, marriage and work
-How to get to the top
-Recommended podcasts (Free trial of Audible subscription here)
-Favorite awards
-Recommended books for maximizing training
-Overcoming low points
and much, much more.
Episode brought to you by Atomik Climbing Holds
Music by Dino Sinos