To Joe De Sena’s credit, he never seemed out of breath, despite conducting a recent, 20-minute phone interview while climbing flights of stairs. “I’ve got a little routine,” explained the 47-year-old ...

Inspired by brutal 7th century training tactics of their namesake, Spartan, the organizer of some of the world’s toughest obstacle course races, has introduced the Agoge event. The race, which takes ...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- In ancient Sparta, young men were required to attend Agoge, a school which instilled the principles of and taught the skills necessary for being a part of a ...

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Teddy Rojas and his girlfriend Sarah Ingraham didn’t expect the Spartan AGOGE 002 event to be easy. And it certainly wasn’t. The pair recently returned from their first grueling AGOGE series endurance ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Jumping logs, doing walking lunges, climbing rope and doing lots of push-ups... Jeff ignatowski will do all of that and more this weekend in Vermont when he takes on an epic ...

Japan has welcomed its first Spartan Agoge as competitors went full throttle from the heart of Tokyo to the ancient capital of Kyoto They fought through the maze that is Tokyo, took on the brutal ...

Amy Palmiero-Winters, of Hicksville, had her left leg amputated below the knee at the age of 21 after a motorcycle accident. Running had been part of Palmiero-Winters' life before she lost her leg — ...