How ChrisMatt will dominate his challenge

[ChrisMatt]

Hello everybody.

As it turns out, I've been doing what I'm supposed to be doing here in my 6 week challenge thread. So naturally, I'm moving it. The link to my challenge is in my signature.

So this week I've decided to do week 5 of the "Rugged Regimen." Its a bit different than what I have been doing (again see my challenge thread) but I've decided it'll be nice for a change of pace.

So today, I ran for 4 minutes, then stopped and did ten reps of one of the following exercise

Squats

Push-ups

Mountain climbers

Lunges

Plank to push-up

Repeat until every exercise has been done. It was fun, and I did it bearfoot but the heat made it very difficult.

If you want to see the full rugged regimen click here

[ChrisMatt]

Just finished Week 5, Day 2 of the rugged regimen.

It went:

Tall Box Jumps

5 reps

Renegade Row to Press (you may want to watch the video for this one, can be found in link in first post)

10 reps

Pistol Squats

8 reps (each leg)

Pull-ups

8 reps

Diagonal Chop

8 reps (each side)

Push-ups

15 reps

If you have clicked on the link, you may notice push-ups weren't in today's workout. I added them myself because I felt there wasn't any chest/triceps exercises. And cause I'm an overachiever

As for tomorrow I've decided not to do the prescribed workout. I'm going to run for distance, because I haven't done that in a while.

[ChrisMatt]

Well, very good workout day today.

Ran my 3 miles with a final time of 25:46. I also found out what I did last time was less than three miles so I improved by 10 seconds while also adding more running. But that's not all I did...

After my run I get home, eat, and shower. Then I get a call from one of my friends. We are playing Pick-up basketball. I can't refuse, so I go and play basketball for two hours in very humid weather. Hey the more exercise the better right? Tomorrow I'm going to do some sort of active recovery like walking and the day after tomorrow is rest, rest, and more rest.

[ChrisMatt]

Remember how I said I was going to do active recovery today. Well instead I tried my first crossfit session. It was horrible.

Here's how it went:

Warmup (do each for 15 reps)

Jump rope (3 minutes)

Prisoner Squats

Push Presses (no weight)

Lunges

Run around the building, about 200m (about)

1 minute of dip hold (hold yourself in dip position)

Run

1 minute bar hangs

Run

1 minutes Plate Pinches (each arm)

Run

2 minute handstand hold

Run

3 minute squat hold

Run

3 minutes of some hold when you are on all fours but your knees are only an inch off the ground

Run

4 minutes of holding 45 lb bar overhead

Run

2 minutes holding one leg at 90 degrees and balancing on the other (each leg)

Run

As you can see, lots o' static holds and running. Well it's a good thing static holds are my least favorite thing...

But it was fun nonetheless and I will definitely be doing it again.