The celebration of fitness is giving UAE participants the chance to take on DEKA Fit, DEKA Mile, DEKA Strong and the DEKA Trifecta all in one day!
The decathlon of fitness, DEKA, is on the hunt for the UAE’s fittest and toughest competitors this March as it returns to Dubai on Saturday 12 March 2022 with its epic functional fitness events ‘Dubai Holding DEKA Fit’; ‘DEKA Mile, presented by Dubai Holding’; and ‘DEKA Strong, presented by Dubai Holding’.
Participants who have taken part in the ‘Dubai Holding DEKA Fit’; ‘DEKA Mile, presented by Dubai Holding’; and ‘DEKA Strong, presented by Dubai Holding’ events will also have the chance to take on the Super Bowl of fitness, the ‘Dubai Holding DEKA Trifecta’ challenge, and get their hands on the highly coveted ‘DEKA Trifecta’ medal on the very same day.
Taking place from 7:30am at Dubai’s Business Bay Canal Lawn, each DEKA event will challenge competitors to functional fitness tests that will include completing a certain number of reps or distance at each of the ten fitness zones that include movements and machines such as Reverse Alternating Lunge, the Rower, Box Jump Overs, Med Ball Sit-Up Throws, the Skierg, a Farmers Carry, Assault Air Bike, Deadball Wall Overs, Tank Push/Pull and RAM Burpees.
‘Dubai Holding DEKA Fit’ will feature ten fitness zones, all preceded by a 500-metre run and ‘DEKA Mile, presented by Dubai Holding’ will challenge participants to the same ten fitness zones but with a 160-metre run between the stations. ‘DEKA Strong, presented by Dubai Holding’ will feature the same ten fitness zones but without any running in between.
Built on a Trifecta event model, participants must take part in all three DEKA events to earn the full DEKA medal with the fourth event, Dubai Holding DEKA Trifecta, challenging participants to all three variations of DEKA.
Inspired by the Greeks who were the first on record to gamify and test fitness, DEKA is a well-rounded functional test with challenges that are based on rudimentary movements such as carrying, pushing, pulling, kneeling, jumping, stepping, or climbing over something, and getting up and down from the ground. The event’s challenges also include three basic forms of transportation: row, ski, and cycle.
Tickets start from USD 60 for each individual event and five different ticket options are available to purchase including DEKA Trifecta, a two-event ticket combo, and tickets to each individual DEKA event, DEKA Fit, DEKA Mile and DEKA Strong.
