For this week’s workout you will need a partner. This is a perfect workout to get you ready for the team death race. Try to choose someone that is a similar size to you unless your looking for a challenge. Push your partner to the limit to get the most out of this workout.
Peak Death Race WOD #15
Melody Haz i+ Mark Webb
Spartan Warm Up
2 to 10-mile Group Trail Run with:
5-20 Buddy Carry
5-20 Partner Squats
5-20 Partner Push-ups
Perform 3 sets of each exercise Spartan Cool Down
Time to buckle down and do some push ups. This week, Marshall gives us a wide variation of push ups to help strengthen multiple muscles. These different push ups will help strengthen your shoulders, triceps, abdominal, and pectorals muscles. How many can you do?
A lot of push and pulls this week to help strengthen your upper body. Great for those times you are either wrestling the bull in the traveling death race or helping your teammate get over a wall in the team death race.
Peak Death Race WOD #13
Shannon Francis
Spartan Warm Up
5-20 Pull-ups w/wide-front grip
5-20 Standard Push-ups
5-20 Pull-ups w/reverse-grip
5-20 Military Push-ups
5-20 Pull-ups w/closed-front grip
5-20 Wide-armed Push-ups Spartan Cool Down
This is a great workout to test your limits just like the Warman Ride that Peak Races offer. This is a workout focusing on your core strength along with legs.
Peak Death Race WOD #12
Ted Coffin
Spartan Warm Up
5-20 Burpees
3x 1-minute of rocking
3x 1-minute of Superman to Banana
3x 1 minute Scorpion (each side)
5-100 Lunges
5-100 Backwards Lunges Spartan Cool Down
A full body workout for this week’s WOD. These work outs are a great and intense way to get ready for the death races coming up. Go Beyond Your Limits in this workout and you will see it pay off in the race.
Peak Death Race WOD #11
Christopher Fern
Spartan Warm Up
Run 1-3 Miles
(Repeat x 3)
5-20 Clean and Press (w/sandbag)
5-20 Man-maker (modified-burpee)
5-20 L-sit Pull ups
5-20 Weighted Side Lunge Spartan Cool Down
This week’s WOD is a great workout to improve your explosion. It could be good prep for steep mountain pedaling in the Peak Mountain Bike Race. This workout will give you the explosion needed to conquer that mountain.
This week’s WOD is all about working your abdominal muscles out. These 4 exercises will help strengthen your core for those long Peak Ultra Runs. No time to waste, start working out.
Peak Death Race WOD #9
Sean Manning
Spartan Warm Up
Swim 1-2 miles (or run)
Perform for 30-120 seconds 2 to 3 times:
Scissor Kicks
Flutter Kicks
Hello Dollies
Leg Raises Spartan Cool Down
This weeks WOD with David will not test just your strength but your cardio as well. This pyramid is a full body workout and you will indeed break a sweat.
Are you ready for a full body exercise? This week includes a bit of everything to jump start your day. Start with your upper body, working to your lower body and ending with your abdominal muscles.
This week’s workout is great for building your endurance for long mountain trail runs during the Peak Ultra. You will mainly be working out the legs focusing on the hamstrings, quads, and your glutes. You will be sweating after this intense workout.
Peak Death Race WOD #6
Michael McClean
Spartan Warm Up
Run 1 mile
100 squats w/sandbag throw-ups (3-10 sets of 10-30 reps)
5 minute chair with leg raises
5 minute high knee touches
100 lunges w/sandbag Spartan Cool Down
This workout primarily focuses on your upper body. You will be mainly strengthening your shoulders, biceps and your lats. This workout could help you in the death race with climbing or pushing objects.
Peak Death Race WOD #5
Andy Souvalian Spartan Warm Up
3 sets of 3-5 ascents and descents
3 sets of 3-10 curls
3 sets of 10-30 push ups Spartan Cool Down
Spring is here (most of the snow is melted anyway!) and we are already gearing up for our summer events. We are excited to announce our latest addition: The Pittsfield Farm Throwdown! Coming July 12-13, this event will be nothing short of incredible. We have teamed up with CrossFit Hail Fire of Orwigsburg, PA to bring you 2 Days of WODs held at Riverside Farm in Pittsfield, VT. Expect barbells, Atlas stones and a crazy time trial straight up Joe’s Mountain!
Sunday
1) Mountain summit time trial (~3 miles with elevation)
Further workout details and videos of WODs will be posted in the coming weeks.
The event registration will be capped at 75 males & 75 female participants with amazing prizes for each winner. Cost of the event is $150 until May 31st ($160 until event). Get in on the Saturday night buffet dinner with our founder Joe DeSena! (Catering provided by The Pittsfield Original General Store)
Stay with our athlete lodging partner, Trailside Inn. Promo code “Throwdown” gets you 20% off a standard queen room.
Peak Winter Death Racers were asked to demonstrate a typical endurance ultra athlete workout of the day during the 2012 Spartan / Peak Winter Death Race in Vermont.
Peak Winter Death Racers were asked to demonstrate a typical endurance ultra athlete workout of the day during the 2012 Spartan / Peak Winter Death Race in Vermont. Here’s Mark Harvey’s WOD:
You may remember we required EVERY racer in last year’s Winter Death Race to demonstrate a Death Racer’s W.O.D. (Workout of the Day.) We’ll be sharing them here.
Death Racer Workouts WOD #1
Amelia Boone’s workout
Workout #1: The Spartan Warm Up
Run 3 to 5 Miles
5 to 20 Burpee / Pull-ups
5 to 20 Sandbag Cleans
Spartan Cool Down and Stretching
