Strength & Speed OCR: Obstacle Course Racing Lessons From Other Sports

S4E36: Steeple Chase Athlete & OOFOS Regional Manager Natalie Bullock

As a lifelong athlete and collegiate steeple chase competitor, Natalie Bullock knows a thing or two about fitness.  She joins Evan on the podcast to share her thoughts on training as well as how her steeple chase background applies to the world of Obstacle Course Racing.  She currently works as a Regional Manager for OOFOS, the world's best recovery shoe/sandal/clog/slide and they dive deep into the technology that makes you perform better thanks to their patented OOfoam. 

 

Music provided by Dino Sinos

S4E35: OCR Thoughts: How to Get on a Pro Team & Gender Specific Lanes

The newest female athletes on the Conquer The Gauntlet Pro Team, Miranda Huber and Jenny Overstreet (both podium Age Group medalists from North American OCR Championships) join Evan to discuss a wide variety of topics including:

-If obstacles should be scaled for men/women

-How to earn a spot on a Pro Team

-How to train and complete Pegatron

-Brands leading the industry in races in 2020

-Conquer The Gauntlet's new obstacle "Pay the Piper"

-Training, racing and challenges in 2020

Finally, the episode ends with some little known facts including figure skating and hearing loss.  Plus some fun information that "will tear your soul apart."

 

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Music provided by Dino Sinos (check out his other music on YouTube).

S4E34: Everyone Loves Qs and As

Listeners ask questions and Evan gives answers topics include:

-Solomon Speed Cross vs. VJs

-Pre-race fueling

-Pre-race acohol

-Training/racing with pumped out arms

-General training schedule for those racing ultra and short course

-Updates to Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite OCR

-Ideal multi-lap race distance (per lap and time)

-Starting your own brand/business/team

 

Episode brought to you by Yolked, use code Strength20 for 20% off every order.

Music provided by Dino Sinos

S4E33: 3rd Degree Black Belt John Givelis & Pit Crew

3rd Degree Black Belt in Goju-ryu Karate and a specialty in fail weapons, John Givelis, comes on the podcast to talk about martial arts training and what lessons can be applied to the world of OCR.  Although John isn't a racer, he did pit crew for Evan for two of his Toughest Mudder podiums and for 2019's World's Toughest Mudder giving him a unique perspective.  Topics covered include basics of different types of martial arts, if Karate is still applicable in a world full of MMA, opinions on OCR from a pit crew perspective and John also shares his opinion on some of Evan's favorite 90s martial arts movies/shows in a quickfire format.

 

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Music provided by Dino Sinos

S4E32: Spartan Pro/HYROX American Record Cali Schweikhart & Psychology of Performance

Cali Schweikhart is a Spartan Pro and set the American Record for HYROX double competition with one of our previous guests Morgan Schulz.  Both with degrees in Psychology, Cali talks with Evan about lessons learned from her backgrounds in soccer and basketball along with the psychology of sports performance.  Cali's got some great insight in this episode packed with a ton of content.

 

Episode brought to you by OOFOS, recovery shoes and sandals designed to take you to the next level.

Music provided by Dino Sinos.

S4E31: 9/11 with Inspector (ret) John Kassimatis

What would it be like to be in the base of World Trade Center Tower 1 while Tower 2 is collapsing and live to tell about it?  Evan talks to his Godfather, Inspector (ret.) John Kassimatis, who responded to 9/11 as a NYC Port Authority Police Officer.  John talks through his experience, his mindset, how he made it out alive along with details about the heroes that responded to the terrorist attack on that horrific day.  Some of John's actions were portrayed in the movie "World Trade Center", but you need to listen to the story directly from the mouth of one of the heroes from that day.

 

Link and info for the 9/11 Museum and Memorial: https://www.911memorial.org/

Details on the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church: https://www.stnicholaswtc.org/

Music provided by Dino Sinos

S4E30: A Cheerleader, a Mermaid & a Bigfoot Hunter Walk Up to a Bar

This all Conquer The Gauntlet Pro Team episode features the newest female Pro, Jenny Overstreet.  Jenny has been winning all the races that come through Kansas City over the last several years and won her Age Group at 2019 North American OCR Championships 15k.  She talks with Ultra-OCR Man Evan Perperis and guest co-host Lisa Nondorf fresh off her first CTG win.  The episode gets a little weird at the end with surprising facts about the teammates.  (Podcast Clarification: Gigantopithecus lived sometime between 2.5 million years ago and 11,500 years ago.)

 

Episode brought to you by HYLETE, the makers of the best fitness apparel available.

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Podcast Link: http://annunciation.podbean.com/

Music provided by Dino Sinos

S4E29: Driven with Green Beret Mark Ballas

Driven (formerly Green Beret Challenge) is one of the few multi-state Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) series still holding events this year.  Evan sits down to talk with former Army Ranger and Greet Beret Mark Ballas about the re-branding, the history of his race series, the origin of F**K BALLAS and how they build better humans.  Plus, Mark shares some of his thoughts on why some soldiers make it through Special Forces training while others come up short and Evan shares his secret on how to make your shoulder not hurt during Green Beret Challenge or military selection courses.

 

Episode brought to you by Elite Ops Energy Strips, use code CTG10 for 10% off every order.

Link to Ultra-OCR Man: From Special Forces Soldier to Record Setting Obstacle Course Racer: https://www.teamstrengthspeed.com/ultra-ocr-man

Music provided by Dino Sinos

S4E28: Expedition Length Adventure Racing & COVID in Elite Athletes with WTM Champion Stefanie Bishop

2016 World's Toughest Mudder Champion and 4x Death Race finisher Stefanie Bishop is a pro/elite level adventure racer who specializes in expedition length racing (that's like 3-7 days in length).  Long Island natives, Evan and Stef talk training for multi-day events, mental aspects of racing that long, using the "bathroom" while racing, her future plans in Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) and her recent battle with COVID-19 (including if she is experience long term effects).  Plus, plans for the future OCR-windwood band start to take shape.

 

Episode brought to you by Compex, makers of Electrical Muscle Stimulators (EMS) and the Fixx massage gun.

 

Music provided by Dino Sino (check out his YouTube page here)

S4E27: The Future of OCR Media with Stoke Shed’s Bobby & Victoria Ross

Bobby & Victoria Ross run the Tulsa based film making company, Stoke Shed who often cover aspects of the sport of Obstacle Course Racing (OCR).  We often hear opinions of OCR media coverage from other athletes and rarely from the people who craft the art themselves.  This makes Bobby and Victoria's opinions especially valuable as we discuss race coverage, Spartan National Series, documentaries, music videos, producing American Ninja Warrior submission videos, quality and where OCR based video coverage should be headed. 

 

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Episode brought to you by OOFOS, the most comfortable shoe or sandal you can own (stick around to the end of the episode to hear more about them).

Music provided by Dino Sinos