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Dominate your Day, Training and Obstacle Races with Yancy Culp

Written By Health, Energy, Performance - Daniel Weiss on Tuesday, Feb 19, 2019 | 12:54 PM

 
All the shownotes available at https://danweiss.eu/yancy-culp/ Shownotes Yancy’s Background 00:03:34 How Yancy got into OCR 00:06:00 What makes OCR such a popular sport 00:17:30 What is Yancy’s training all about – the Yancy Camp 00:19:39 The five pillars of training for OCR: running climbing carrying OCR specific strength ability to tie all of those together 00:22:15 Yancy talks about his non-linear training approach 00:26:33 Yancy on periodization for the elite athletes 00:30:49 training approach for the open wave athletes – amateur athletes need to juggle priorities like training for OCR and family, therefore the structure of training is important and you need to get the most out of your session 00:34:27 Mental health, mental conditioning,motivation and the power of social network mental conditioning is 51%, physical conditioning is 49% OCR and communities getting up motivated the power of social community 00:43:44 Yancy on the importance of being in the trenches how racing it helps him with programming for his athletes 00:46:00 The essential equipment – What is the best equipment to invest in? Place to run and do aerobic conditioning suspension training system, pull up bar some type of sandbag (sand disc, sand bell, sand bag) rubber bands Non-essential: kettlebell or dumbbell, tire drag system 00:49:13 Yancy on using rubber bands for workouts 00:53:30 Yancy on tire drag system 00:56:42 Yancy and I speak about Altra shoes and running 00:58:31 Running in zero drop (0mm drop) shoes and how to get used to it 01:03:28 Motivation and mental conditioning from Yancy to dominate your day!