Ironpax Challenge Week 1 – Game on!

Ironpax Challenge Week 1 – Game on!

4 men showed up (in person) to SCMS at 0530 for our first (official) week of the Ironpax Challenge.  Some pax joined via Zoom as well (thanks Wild Turkey).

This is the first official week of the Ironpax Challenge, last week was a warm-up.  This week the scores, or times, REALLY count.  Here’s how it went down.

Pax: Geraldo, Cheese Curd, Wild Turkey (plus some zoomers)

Tha Thang:

Set your timer for one minute and repeat.  At the top of each minute do 3 burpees.  If that isn’t motivation to finish fast, you must love burpees.  After your three burpees begin the exercises.  At each minute, stop what your doing, do your 3 burpees, then pick back up with wherever you left off.  It’s harder than it sounds, especially in the gloom, when you’re trying to track more than 100 reps.  Here’s the exercise breakdown, completed in the order below:

50 double hand release merkins

100 leg raises

150 jungle boy squats

200 big boi situps

250 forward lunges (1 = 1)

Humid Moleskinny:

The phone said it was 74, the car said it was 77, it felt like YHC was breathing split pea soup while nursing a bad case of emphysema.  So yeah, it was humid.  It had also rained the day before and the pax all agreed that a patch of grass was needed.  So we were going to get wet and as OBT once said, “you only get wet once” #TWSS  or #TWOBTS.  At one point the air was visible under the lights in the parking lot.

But enough about the humid weather.  This was a legit challenge to get through.  The burpees were tough but the pax all agreed that 200 big boi situps were likely the worst.  The trick for YHC was set a goal for each minute to complete a certain number of reps of said exercise (for example, 25 leg raises per minute with three burpees).  That would make completing this manageable instead of one long slog.  It also helped YHC to keep count between the burpees.

The RFYL crew was back out in force today.  Hi-viz tanktops and all.  YHC had developed a loud AC/DC only playlist for the workout and there were some (envious? nervous? curious?) glances our way between Wild Turkey chanting “Oi” to the opening of TNT or our regular chorus of “BURPEES!” at every minute.  Rumor has it C-Span was on the Zoom, but I’ll let Wild Turkey sound off with the online pax.

Cheese Curd decided he wanted more after completing this week’s challenge, and ran a quick lap on the track.

Geraldo and Wild Turkey chose wisely, and accepted that this was a smoke session.  No need to go running.

YHC’s time – 41:15 (that’s 123 burpees) and the last one in the gate.

Sound off in the comments below with anything YHC missed.

Thank you Wild Turkey for the take-out

Announcements:

Blood drive in SOB land 10/23 – Details on slack

Levi has the Q at Rock Zero on Saturday

YHC has the Q at Tweet and Meat on Wednesday