Welcome to Spartan Athlete here on the Spartan Up podcast. We talk to some of the best athletes in the business.

They're going to give you tips and tricks and techniques on ways for you to conquer the course.

We're here with Ashley Heller.

Welcome to the program.

Thank you for having me.

How's it going?

Good, I'm excited to be here.

It's so pretty out here.

Yeah, man, it's awesome.

Yeah.

Let's talk about something you hate.

She told me she hates lifting weights.

But I think that, so I think for someone who needs to train

and do well for obstacle races, there's a lot of people.

I hate lifting weights.

I like running.

So tell me how do you get strong for this stuff I do it anyways I've run a lot but I have incorporated the cross training to make sure that I you know cover all aspects since it's required in order to do

are you, are you, do you push weight as they say? Do you do body weight exercises?

All of those things. I do a lot of functional training actually so a little bit more dynamic and I do incorporate a lot of body weight resisted stuff too.

Such as like body weight deadlifts, pushups, pull-ups, squats.

Have you messed with the cross-fit at all?

No, I mean I do these things called circuits.

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