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A sport

The Octathalon - A race over 8 gym exercises - same order - non stop over all 8 as fast as possible. It is short, sharp, sweet and intense and will get you fitter faster than almost anything else in the time given. Learn more.........

 

Enjoy the Octathalon in your gym with friends

Unique graded Octathalon Group Personal Training Sessions - fantastic value in the gym - build great CV, build a terrific shape and have masses of fun . Read what people say.............

 

 The video above is a Sky promo on the Octathalon featuring clips from our 2008 National Cup competition

Mens Masters Final 2008 - click here

 

Training books

Get started & Get graded

Octathalon Trainers - earnings rising through the roof with the graded guidebooks. Go on to find out why and how.....

Top performances - Octathalon training diary - some of the most precise heart rate training plans ever devised. Have a look at it ..........

 

Octathalon for everyone

Personal trainers and Clubs can and will benefit financially.

Club members will find it fun with the variety of great training programs that can be done along with other members.

Competitors will also enjoy its various courses as they suit all body types.

Sports people will find the pre season programs one of the fastest ways to bring on incredible levels of fitness in a short space of time.

Audiences love watching the close racing.

 

Latest news

Last updated 09-03-2010

New Octathalon gym opens

Have a look at a quick compilation video -

Fitness Queen

- New 2008 Octathalon Racing Videos - including the MENS CUP PAIRS

 

Video pages

Have a look at some of our training videos. They are designed to help you train for the Octathalon. Over the weeks, they will vary and more will be available in our upcoming members area.

 

THE MENS MASTERS OCTATHALON CUP 2008 is now up as a video for you to see on this site. Truly incredible racing from the UK's finest Octathaletes. If you are new to the sport, you will be shocked, stunned and amazed by what these guys can do.

 

More and more local internal Octathalon events are being arranged for their members. A few are now opening up to wider audiences. We expect to have at least 2 of these Regional events happening in Q4 2009. One up in Lancashire and one in the South West. Keep checking the events page for details

 

Current WOA World Recordholders & times
Mens Open Chris Lord (2008)
9.21
Mens Masters Neil Cameron (2008)
9.51
Womens Open Jacqui Macquisten (2008)
10.59
Mens Pairs Nik Kandola & Jason King (2007)
9.38

Womens Pairs

Trudi Hawksworth & Sam Saunt (2007)
11.21

Juniors U.19

Connell Macquisten (2008)
9.59

WORLD RECORD HOLDER HISTORY

 

The fastest people in age and gender category for all type of Octhalon events are found here. Try a run through of one of the Octathalon courses and see how you would fare against these Octathaletes.

 

If you want to assess how fit you really are, try our fitness challenge and compare your time with the times of our Octathletes. You may suprise yourself.

 

Contact us

IF ITS NOT ALL READY AT YOUR CLUB GET YOUR INSTRUCTORS TO CONTACT US AND TELL THEM HOW IT WILL BENEFIT THEM

The Octathalon is an event designed and run by one of the UK's fittest women - Jacqui Macquisten. Jacqui is promoting the Octathalon and is available to help personal trainers set up the Octathlon training sessions in your gym. Just contact us via the menu links.

 

Chris Lord (left)

receiving the 2008 Octathalon Cup from 2006& 2007 Champion Cassius Frankson

 

More about the sport

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 six different 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 Group Personal Training Sessions 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 courses offer 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 a few 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. As a sport it is now attracting some of the fittest people in the UK as they know they are going to enjoy the challenge presented to them on the day and they know they will leave having been tested to the full and having met some great competitors. Many find good new friends and they also often learn new things from them that enhances their own training experiences and future performances.

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

 

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