It's happening! The next T3 has been officially unveiled!

Team tryouts have been announced!  The most exciting event of our team's agenda has finally been unveiled, and this one is going to be a doozy.  The official date for Mt. Dora Mayhem is 0730 on the 4th of April, 2015.  This is your chance to be a part of our team's inner circle, which have been heralded as one of the most influential groups of crazies you will ever meet!  If you would like to be a part of something amazing, head over to our events page to register, as well as the T3 live page for information about previous events.  Burpee points and pregame challenges become unlocked once we hit the minimum of 5 registrants.  First come, first serve.

Good luck.
 

On the horizon

A couple of cool updates are looming on the horizon!  Spartan race Tampa was a huge success, with Darien earning the first pie piece to his trifecta.  Expect a video of that adventure to be posted soon.

On the topic of videos, we'd like to get started on another new perk for our Regiment Elites - Featured athlete videos.  In these videos, you'll get a 5 minute 'commercial' about the athlete's philosophy, upbringing, workout routine and more.  The goal of these videos is to shine the spotlight on the champions that don't always podium, and to show that anybody has the ability to become that champion.  Some elites have volunteered for the first highlight video already, so expect to see something on that in the near future.

As for events, we'll see you at the Battlefrog Series Miami!
 

Ragnar Relay Series - Key West 2015

Last week, there were a lot of team regiment folks out at the Ragnar Key West relay.  While many took the time to recover in the days after, we were working hard on putting together a video to chronicle our 196 miles of adventure!  This time our video is in silky smooth 1080p quality at 60fps now!  It was a 30 hour upload, but it was worth it.  For other team videos, be sure to check out our videos page.  Enjoy!

 

The 10% training rule? Completely false.

One of the top training techniques taught to beginning runners is to gradually increase your mileage by 10% every week in order to avoid injury and not overdo your training regimen.  Well... about that.

Competitor released an interesting article that effectively debunks the 10% rule, stating that
In 2007, a group of researchers set out to test the effectiveness of the 10 percent rule. The researchers studied 532 novice runners training for a local 4-mile race by assigning half of the runners to a training program that followed the 10 percent rule and the other half to a more aggressive training regimen. Each runner followed the same warmup process and the overall structure of the training was the same — minus the training volumes.

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Warrior Dash 2015 - Team Regiment official video

OCR season has officially begun!  Warrior Dash is where our team started it all, and four years later we're growing at a rate that was never even imagined during our inception.  As a tip o' the hat to the event that started it all, here is our official Warrior Dash 2015 video!  
As always, you can scope out our other team videos over at our videos section.

Sweeping victories

Regiment elites are an interesting bunch.  Over the last weekend, all regiment elites that attended the Masters of all Terrain half marathon trail run managed to podium at the event!  Not surprising, considering what they have to endure to earn their patch anyways.  Good work!
 

Donna - 5 miler, 2nd AG
Kendall - 13.1 ruck, 3rd overall
Neil - 13.1 ruck, 1st overall
Joe - 13.1 run, 3rd AG
 

A new champion of medal holders

Regiment elite Warren designs decorative paddles as a hobby, and naturally he had to show some love to the black and red!  With a design so amazing, it may be possible that a similar one will be given as finisher 'patches' for the upcoming T4 event, which is 2x the pain of a T3 at 24+ hours long.  Yeah, we're stepping it up.

Official Regiment livestream is now up

"I'm new to OCR, how exactly do I train for these kinds of events?"  If we got a nickel for every time our members were asked this question we'd have, like... a couple of dollars or something.  So to help alleviate that itch, we're proud to introduce our team's official livestream!

What does that mean?  It means that you will be able to get a live broadcast of not only our training events, but actual OCR events in the near future!  You're able to livechat during the broadcasts and interact with the person streaming as well in case you've got any questions.  To kick things off, we're going to be streaming our Wednesday OCR 5k session to work out any of the technical difficulties that will in no way arise and everything will be perfect.

So for now you're encouraged to follow/subscribe or whatever social media buzzword surrounds the livestream community.  By doing so, you get a heads up when it's about to go down.  Trust me, you want to be there when it goes down.  Join the livestream page here, and enjoy!
 

The most amazing medal setup

Regiment elite Jason submitted the most badass OCR medal display that wraps itself around the design of our team flag.  If you'd like to get your hands on a team flag or bumper sticker, stay tuned.  We're going to be setting up the Regiment store soon, or R-Mart for short.  For now, feast your eyes on the epicness:
 

10 Misconceptions about exercise, debunked

Mentalfloss has released a very informative video about the exercise misconceptions that a lot of us have mistakenly followed.  With a lot of people starting up a new exercise routine for the new years (provided they're still at it now), this information might be a godsend to a few of you: