Friday, December 12, 2008

Un-motivated

Given how much fun this was last time, we'll scale it back a bit. Motivation: the harder you work on the deadlifts, the easier the TGU will be.

"Deadly Motivation"

It's three rounds of bodyweight 135# deadlifts followed by Turkish get-ups. Here's how the reps/load will work:


Round 1:

  • Max reps BW 135# DL in 3 minutes
  • 10 TGU per arm @ (100-Reps DL)lbs

Round 2:

  • Max Reps BW 135# DL in 4 minutes
  • 10 TGU per arm @ (100-Reps DL)lbs

Round 3:

  • Max Reps BW 135# DL in 5 minutes
  • 10 TGU per arm @ (100-Reps DL)lbs

Round all loads up to the nearest 5lbs


Explanation: Load up a bar with your bodyweight 135# and perform as many deadlifts as possible in the time given. Subtract the number of reps performed from 100. This number (rounded up to the nearest 5) is the weight of the DB to use for the Turkish Get-ups for that round.


Post loads and overall times to comments.



Results:
Jason - 35:47
    1. DLs - 50, 5 TGU per arm @ 50#
    2. DLs - 40, 5 TGU per arm @ 40#
    3. DLs - 40, 5 TGU per arm @ 40#

Seth - 28:38
    1. DLs - 63, 10 TGU per arm @ 40#
    2. DLs - 45, 10 TGU per arm @ 55#
    3. DLs - 50, 10 TGU per arm @ 50#

Justin - 2.5 rds in ~29 min
    1. DLs - 65, 10 TGU per arm @ 35#
    2. DLs - 45 (in 3 min), 10 TGU per arm @ 40#
    3. DLs - 45, DNF

Melanie - 2 rds in 19:27
    1. DLs - 72 @ 45#, 10 TGU per arm @ 10#
    2. DLs - 68 @ 45#, 10 TGU per arm @ 10#
    3. DNF

Jennifer - ~35 min
    1. DLs - 70 @ 45#, 10 TGU per arm @ 5#
    2. DLs - 70 @ 45#, 10 TGU per arm @ 5#
    3. DLs - 70 @ 45#, 10 TGU per arm @ 5#

3 comments:

jason said...

man that was a lot tougher than i thought it would be. i had to scale the TGUs to 5 reps per arm and with less weight or i'd have been doing this all day (apparently i suck at them);

1. DLs - 50, 5 TGU per arm @ 50#
2. DLs - 40, 5 TGU per arm @ 40#
3. DLs - 40, 5 TGU per arm @ 40#

i could've pushed harder during the deadlifts to earn my 40# TGUs, but i couldn't get over the mental hurdle today.

jason said...

oh, and total time was 35:47.

SethHarder said...

Dropping the weight from BW (195 last time) to 135# definitely helped, but was still plenty tough.
Those TGU are tough and exhausting.
I was glad we didn't have to do any pull-ups today.