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We are not affiliated with any race series. We train the people who enter them, and we have watched enough first attempts to know where they come apart.
Race day preparation here means running the movements in sequence, under fatigue, against a clock. Not because it is harder, though it is, but because the sequence is the skill.
The transition is the event
A sled push you can do fresh is a different exercise entirely at minute twenty with your heart rate at threshold. The specific thing that breaks people is the first sixty seconds after a station, when the legs have changed job and the breathing has not caught up.
You cannot train that by doing the stations on Tuesday and running on Thursday. It has to be trained joined together, which is most of what our sessions are.
Pacing as a number, not a feeling
The single biggest improvement available to a first-timer is knowing their sustainable pace as an actual figure rather than as a sensation. Sensation lies badly in the first ten minutes of a race, when everything feels easy and people spend the day's budget in the first two stations.
Our conditioning sessions are where that number gets established, because the machines report it every session and you stop guessing.
The strength underneath it
Race formats are strength events wearing endurance clothing. The sled, the carry, the lunge and the wall ball are all limited by how strong you are, and no amount of conditioning fixes a sled you cannot move.
That is why race members keep lifting through a training block rather than dropping it. If you want the extra sessions on your own schedule, open gym access is included in group training. Why farmers carries work covers the single most race-specific thing we do, and recovering between hard sessions matters more in a race block than at any other time. If the block starts producing aches, when to train through soreness is worth reading before you push through anything. There is more from the gym floor if you want the rest of it.