Monday, March 22, 2010

Week 8, Mar 21-27

This week is from Paul Fern, who finished the last challenge but was not able to do this one. He couldn't come up with a workout that he felt "was going to be hard enough" for our challenge, so I'll do it for him.

Max-Out!

Find your max reps/weights in each of the following exercises:

Pull-ups without letting go of the bar
Push ups in 2 minutes without knees touching the floor
Sit ups in 2 minutes
Bench Press (if you have a spotters!)
Deadlift
Squat
Overhead Press
Double unders in a minute
1600M run


Here's the deal this week: You can do these exercises split up any way you want. I kinda plan on doing them over several days. For the super-observant, I put the CrossFit Total in there (DL, Squat, Press), along with the strength portions of the Army PT test :P, so it might make sense to divide those two up into separate days.

I just wanna see my bench press max right now, so I put that in there, make sure you have spotters for that one! Plus, I expect to see Darcy turning in sub 4:00 miles this summer, so that's in there too.

Remember, good form is the most important thing, don't get hurt!

Here's a video of what I expect to see!

Good Luck!

2 comments:

  1. Well, it took me 2 weeks, but I managed to get all of it done.

    Pull-ups without letting go of the bar: 21
    Push ups in 2 minutes without knees touching the floor: 53
    Sit ups in 2 minutes: 55
    Bench Press (if you have a spotters!) : 265
    Deadlift : 415
    Squat : 255
    Overhead Press : 155
    Double unders in a minute : 12
    1600M row (can't POSE run distance yet): 7:07

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  2. Wow, that one took forever. Thanks, now I'm 3 weeks behind!

    Pull-ups: 25 (new PR!)
    Push ups: 56
    Sit ups: 51
    Bench Press: 165# (new PR, haven't bench pressed in years!)
    Deadlift: 345# (new PR)
    Squat: 225# (new PR)
    Overhead Press: 125#(new PR)
    Double unders: 36 (new PR)
    1600M run: 7:24

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