Spartan Pro and Head Coach at Hosek PE and I discuss the race week taper. It looks weird and feels strange to do, but it’s the precise formula to keep your body stimulated yet primed to peak on race day!

This dude is not only an incredible OCR athlete, he’s just an outright incredible dude!! So grateful he was open to spending time and digging into some of his specific training techniques… Even if you’re not an OCR athlete, still some great mindset insigt=hts included as well;) Enjoy!! And, if your an OCR athlete who’s…

Stuck in a rut? Ruts comes in all types and impact many areas of our lives… but today I pondered the literal ruts we can sometimes find ourselves in and why it can be so difficult to escape them. Although this wil start off with the literal rut out on the trail, the metaphor will…

Rich Ryan, 2020 Spartan Pro Team member joins me to discuss… you guessed it, OCR racing! We dig into the details and reveal some little secrets to help improve your race day performance. Among many things, we’ll discuss Ryan’s explanation of optimal fitness, some training techniques, and who his racing influences are! Ryan has an…

Rich Ryan, 2020 Spartan Pro Team member joins me to discuss… you guessed it, OCR racing! We dig into the details and reveal some little secrets to help improve your race day performance. Among many things, we’ll discuss how Ryan has incorporated the kettlebell into the OCR training regimen and other insights that will provide…

My son has this mini football, It was gifted to us from one of my close friends, but what’s unique about this particular football is that it already has plays inscribed on the ball. For those of you who used to play school yard, back yard, or side yard football, you simply drew the paly…

So this little podcast is simply the telling of a story that started out innocently enough. It was another concert event except for this time it was on home turf, a 15-minute drive, little effort, and planning required… except getting there, and, well…. maybe having an actual ticket;) Just when things weren’t looking very promising, […]

I was so looking forward to this race!!! The 2018 Savage put me “on the map” so to speak. It was the days leading up to this race that had me thinking about the possibility of having a top 5 finish… or maybe even a podium!! What?!?! No way… so I did something unexpected and […]

Long story short – I hacked Keto. After failing at it, and ultimately bagging the whole effort, I eventually recognized that if optimizing my performance and optimizing myself was what I was after, then this needed to be a part of my life — simply put, I knew I could be great if I had…

I read that you are not the same person once you have completed an Ultra Beast — I experienced first hand the truth in that statement… www.liveoptimized.life