How do you train for an eight-day multi-discipline event that includes running with a heavily-laden wheelbarrow and warding off crocs? Seriously. Chris Ord takes a look back at this year’s XPD expedition adventure race in Cairns and talks to the winners about how to conquer one of the hardest physical competitions on the planet. You can’t train for true pain.
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The Bing Lee LG Ocean Series
Looking back over the history of Ultra FIT you can find an array of stories focussed on the early ironman events, all of them clearly showing the excitement of a truly Australian sport.
My Hundredth Marathon
I am the first Australian female to complete one hundred marathons…
but I am no elite athlete. I am the mother of three teenagers and a suburban housewife who used to do a bit of jogging for health and fitness reasons. I decided one day to try and run a marathon as a personal challenge, and then I just kept going.
Sarah Clasen admits it: She doesn’t have the motivation to exercise by herself. She has good intentions but they never eventuate. Her thinking changed when she found her exercise motivation; she joined a fitness boot camp.... 
Having been training with the Bulgarian Bag for around three years now, one of my favourite things about it is the fact you can easily combine strength and cardio to create a highly effective metabolic workout.... 
One of the greatest benefits of training on the TRX is its ability to force the athlete to strengthen the extremely important, yet oft en under conditioned, stabilising muscles. Th is full-body workout has been designed to not only increase...