Top 3 Reasons To Spend Your Summer At Tough Mudder

We’ve put together three very logical reasons why you need to get off the sofa this July. Keep scrolling to reveal.

Vitamin D, obviously. Your body has spent months surviving on office lighting and takeaway deliveries. Now that the sun has emerged, don't waste it. Commit to a weekend of obstacles, mud, and a cold finish-line beer.

Plunging into an industrial skip filled with ice water is a form of torture in October. In the middle of a July heatwave? It’s basically a luxury spa treatment. We build loads of water obstacles into our summer courses on purpose, so between freezing your socks off in Arctic Enema and launching yourself into our deep-water drop zones, you’ll spend half the day cooling down. It beats sweating through your shirt at a backyard barbecue.

If the thought of running on a treadmill makes you want to rock back and forth in a dark room, this is the solution. Because you’re constantly stopping to climb a wall, army crawl under barbed wire, or help someone out of a ditch, you actually forget that you’re doing cardio. It’s the easiest way to trick your body into running 15 kilometres.