Build self-confidence and motor skills by designing and traversing an outdoor obstacle course featuring materials from nature. Add places where you can jump, throw, balance and bend, and have lots of ...

Conner Schroeder, a senior at Guilford High School in Rockford was prepared for minor fog. But he and his teammates were unprepared for a “torrential rain” on the obstacle course. Knowing there wasn't ...

Nolan Kombol, head of course design for Tough Mudder, tells SI.com the 11-month process of reevaluating the group’s 40-plus obstacles was the first broad sweep of changes in course history. While ...

How do I set up an obstacle course in my backyard? Ninja warrior may have started as an obscure Japanese tournament, but it has exploded into mainstream Western culture with television shows based on ...

Like marathons and triathlons, obstacle-course racing requires specific training. But the skill set is wildly different. To finish an OCR, you’ll need endurance, upper-body strength, good balance, and ...

It may seem asinine to pay hard-earned money to sign up for a day of crawling under barbed wire, jumping over fire, and schlepping weighty logs, but obstacle courses provide an exciting challenge that ...

The obstacle-course format popularized by the television show Ninja Warrior will help shape the new-look modern pentathlon.