Hang in there, Hong Kong: more essential training tips for surviving the Spartan Race
The fourth week of training suggests some of us have bitten off more than we can chew with game day less than three weeks away
“Hang on for dear life” goes the saying and as of Wednesday morning I know if I ever have to put the phrase into practise, I’ve got roughly 30 seconds to live.
Not that the Spartan Race in Hong Kong on April 14 is life or death, but less than three weeks out from the event the 30-burpee penalty for failing an obstacle has suddenly become very real.
This week’s session saw us work on the skills required to climb, hang and pull our way through and over the race’s various obstacles and, as seems to be the case with these sessions, things were going relatively well until the end of the warm-up.
Funnily enough, deadhang holds are not something you come across all that regularly in a newsroom and, unsurprisingly, sitting behind a desk does little to prepare one’s hands for the rigours of hanging from monkey bars.
As personal trainer and boot camp coach Andrew Power of AJ Power Fitness says, this torturous exercise is administered to test grip strength and it served its purpose with aplomb.
