The Octathalon is a race over eight gym exercises and has evolved from out of 12 years of gym competitions of all sorts in the UK, of which the pinnacle has now become the Octathalon Cup. The Octathalon Cup has been running since 2005. The Octathalon has three difference courses, all with the same eight exercises but with different amounts of weights distances and repetitions.......Learn more about the courses. It was designed with all gym members in mind and a course can be set up using existing gym equipment.

Personal trainers will find that running Octathalon Induction courses and Octathalon classes opens new markets for them from within their clubs. These courses offer a personal trainer substantial increases in their hourly rate of income. An on going training and development plan, in association with the new sport, will open new doors to personal trainers which will lead to financially attractive careers...........Learn more about the benefits the Octathalon can bring personal trainers.

Clubs will find, amongst the many benefits, that their levels of member retention will rise higher as the Octathalon and the courses appeals to its members. The sport will offer clubs new and additional income streams which will not affect any of a clubs other activities as Octathalon courses will only take up space in the gym that other classes use........Learn more about how gyms and clubs will benefit financially.

Competitors, or anyone just loving a challenge, or even if you are a natural goal-seeking individual, will love the variety of events that are now becoming available. There will be many to choose from with team events between local clubs and gyms, operating under a handicap system, to National knockout Cup events.......... Learn more about the National Cup event ..............Learn about the local team handicap events

Gym and Club members, including those people who do circuit training classes, will find that the Octathalon course offers them a fantastic all round strength and cardiovascular workout in a very short space of time. Learning how to run through the course effectively will rapidly increase levels of fitness and will lead to one of the greatest secrets which is the feeling 5 mins after having done the course........ Learn more about the natural secret Gym members will find they get one to one attention from their Octathalon trainers in ways that will lead to bespoke training programs, but not at one to one prices. They will learn correct equipment skills and techniques as well as develop a growing mind body awareness through the heart rate based focussed training programs. This will give them the confidence to progress their training through to the more beneficial end results stages........ Learn more about the Induction program and its benefits

The Octathalon Cup event has been running every year since 2005. The 2008 event's main sponsor is POWER HORSE with Suunto also helping with prizes and in the heart rate monitoring of the event. This is unique to the sport as it allows all competitors to see their opponents heart rates live during the racing.

The thing that makes the Octathalon unique amongst all sports in the world is the instant feedback the equipment gives you in training and in competing and in how your body is responding to a workout. This feedback has allowed training to be fine tuned to such a degree that never before levels of fitness have arisen within people. Much of this revolves around heart rates and heart rate training and this is at the very centre of the training programs that have been devised for the Octathalon Induction classes, the Octathalon trainer and the Octathalon coaching programs........... Learn more about the heart rate training programs.

Although a new sport, the Octathalon already has an extremely high calibre of competitor. Octathaletes that have reached the Cup event in the past have come from top level competition in Gymnastics, Football, Decathalon, Triathalon, Athletics, Rugby & Basketball as well as from the Royal Marines and other forces.................Learn more about the past champions and their times for the Cup couses