Finding A Gym That Offers Variety - Timmie Brann // Spartan ATHLETE 014

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

After a solid 2018, Timmie Brann is on the Spartan Pro Team for the first time in 2019. She talks about opening a gym that allows her to help people of all levels. Her gym gives people the opportunity to try a lot of different things. She also discusses why she is an OCR nerd, and keeping her race day look on point.

LESSONS:
If you want to race fast, train fast.
Try a variety of things in training.
Race day look is everything.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spartan Athletes here on the Spartan Up podcast. We talk to some of the best athletes in the business.
0:04.6	They're going to give you tips and tricks and techniques on ways for you to conquer the course.
0:12.0	Welcome back to Spartan Athletes. I'm your host, Mappy Davis. This is Timmy Brant.
0:15.6	Hey. You train a lot of new folks. I train a lot of new folks. Talk to me about what's the first,
0:21.2	I say, hey listen, I want to do great at obstacle
0:23.4	racing right I'm not that fast and I'm not that strong right should I pick one to
0:27.5	work on first so I call my my gym a hybrid performance gym so we try to encourage everything because the sport of the
0:36.5	sport of or OCR the reason why I do it and why a lot of people I think are getting into it is you
0:41.2	have to be good at a number of things right you can't just be a
0:43.8	runner you can't just be a weightlifter so we really encourage everything so we
0:47.8	have weightlifting classes we have obstacle specific classes we have
0:51.1	running classes we have Olympic lifting classes, so really encouraging
0:55.6	that new person, even if you're new, hey, don't just run, don't just master weightlifting,
1:00.0	like get a little bit of a taste of everything because that's a support of
1:02.8	OCR. So I don't have to get super fast first? No. No. Do you just like work? Do you just do you just do you tell people what if
1:09.6	somebody says well listen I'm okay strong I just want to get faster do you still encourage them to try sort of everything yes I do because I truly believe and I've been doing this sport I'm somewhat new to what I've been doing it since 2017 okay but the biggest thing that I've learned in my personal journey
1:24.9	is you have to be good at everything.
1:27.1	Like if you just focus on running, like yes,
1:29.2	it can be a runner sport, depends on the course. You might be falling off obstacles, you might not get the
1:34.6	Herkoy step as fast, and now it's so competitive, you have to do everything as quickly
1:39.4	as possible without falling. Right? So you do have to still be strong. So So yeah I really encourage people to do
1:45.0	everything. I don't think you should just master one thing for this sport. What if I
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