Trevor Chichosz: World’s Toughest Mudder Athlete

Final Project on Trevor Chichosz: World’s Toughest Mudder Athlete

Introduction

The World Toughest Mudder (WTM) is an annual obstacle racing course event that

require athletes to complete several obstacles that test the mental strengths, physical abilities, and

team spirit of participants within twenty-fours. While the event appears like an endurance

marathon, the running, climbing, jumping, and crawling that is involved in WTM is designed to

test the consistency of the athletes to repeat the same set of activities as they overcome the

obstacles alone without losing the mental concentrations that are critical to avoiding the injuries

that could end their careers. As the obstacle course racing event that features unique obstacles

per mile that test the pain threshold of the athletes, the events require the coordinated use of

special skills and techniques to attain the performance levels that make winning possible. Sports

biomechanics is a science field that investigates the physics in the movement of different parts of

the body for the execution of various skills that are used by professional athletes to remain

competitive. Therefore, this capstone project is a case study analysis of Trevor Cichosz, who is

an elite WTM athletes that won the competition several times, including the phases of the

sprinting and climbing skills that he is expected to utilize during the event and the adjustments

that he needs to make to these skills during the completion of the obstacles and increase his

performance levels.

The project is divided into six core sections that discuss different aspects of this sport that

can help coaches and other athletes to prepare for the WTM and become a top performer. In the

Outline of Skills and Phases section, I will discuss the various phases of sprinting and climbing

skills, which is required as the background to understand their importance to the identification of

the biomechanical principles that athletes need to apply for their execution. The Athlete