For time:
Fast & Heavy
Dumbell "Thruster" 21 reps
Run 1/4 mile (400m)
Dumbell "Thruster" 18 reps
Run 1/4 mile (400 m)
Dumbell "Thruster" 15 reps
Run 1/4 mile (400 m)
Notes:
"Thruster" is a deep front squat to a push press all in one explosive movement.
Time routine from start to finish.
Ranking is a composite of load used in "Thruster" and total time.
Submit body weight because load value is based on percentage of body weight.
Dumbbell deadlift 10 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Dumbell deadlift 8 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Dumbell deadlift 6 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Dumbell deadlift 4 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Dumbell deadlift 2 reps
Hang from pull-up bar and slowly curl body until toes touch the bar 15 reps
Cycle two minutes at high resistance
Cycle two minutes at high RPM
Cycle two minutes at high resistance
Notes:
Increase the deadlift weight each set.
Maintain perfect form or you'll cripple yourself.
Cycle effort is all out; this is not a cruise.
On the bar-toe touch, move in slow motion, i.e, no swing at all.
10 Dumbell deadlift
15 Toes to Bar
8 Dumbell deadlifts
15 Toes to Bar
6 Dumbell deadlifts
15 Toes to Bar
4 Dumbell deadlifts
15 Toes to Bar
2 Dumbell deadlifts
15 Toes to Bar
Cycle two minutes at high resistance
Cycle two minutes at high RPM
Cycle two minutes at high resistance.
Notes:
Increase the deadlift weight each set.
Maintain perfect form or you'll cripple yourself.
Cycle effort is all out; this is not a cruise.
On the bar-toe touch, move in slow motion, i.e, no swing at all.
5 Sets of pull-ups. Fast-slow-fast-slow-fast.
The fast ones are fast and sloppy; the slow ones are excruciatingly perfect.
This is, of course, high rep and low rep, alternating.
The following circuit contains three elements and is a powerful whole body workout.
Each element is 45 seconds with a fifteen second rotation
(not one second more or you start over).
Make five rotations. That's exactly fifteen minutes.
If you don't know the elements you haven't been paying attention.
(It's partly our fault; we're working on a page of descriptions and illustrations.)
Email us for details if you can't find them off of the archived routines and links.
"Wall Ball"
Hollow Rock
Romanian Deadlift/Upright Row combo movement
From the U.S. All-Round Weightlifting Association, USAWA: “The lifter will have loaded onto his/her shoulders a weight equal to 150% of bodyweight. The lifter will then carry the weight a distance of one mile. Gait is optional. Resting is allowed, but neither the lifter nor the weight may be supported. Records will be kept in both pounds and time. Should the weight be touched by any aide once the lift has begun, the event is terminated. The lifter may be handed refreshments during the lift.”
This is hard, and for many impossible. Start with 150% of bodyweight and see how far you can take it. Then, if not able to make the mile, rest and start again with largest load you estimate can be carried for a mile regardless of time. Post load, bodyweight, and time to comments.