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Originally Posted by Evermont  Wow, yeah - that's a real workout there! I could certainly do it if I paced myself and made a day of it, but if I tried to hit all that in say 1 hour, I might need medical intervention (j/k). How much time should it take to complete this?
I like a good benchmark, I think I'll try this 2-3 days before bootcamp, then again after and see how long it takes and how it feels. Before and after photos and vital stats too.
I like some of the ideas in your earlier post too, thx Scratch. |
When I did it last weekend, it took me 58:31 to complete it. But I've been working pretty hard for a while to get ready to do something like it and I've had a lot of days in the past 3 months where I would end up doing triple digit numbers of pull ups and push ups. So I already knew I had the work capacity for it although I was a bit nervous that trying to do all of it at once I was potentially going to find myself tanking as it went on.
Probably a good way for you to get a measure on how ready you might be for it would to be do some death-by-exercise name sets. It's a pretty decent way to get an idea of things are going.
You need some sort of timer that'll go every minute.
If you're doing pull ups, at the start and minute 1, do 1 pull up. When the timer goes off and minute 2 starts, do 2 pull ups. At 3, do 3 pull ups. Keep going up until you reach a number that you can't do that number inside of the minute. So it just keeps building up and you lose recovery time as the minutes go by.
On 4-7, when I did death by pull ups, I was able to go 10 rounds + 8 pull ups, which is a total of 63 pull ups. For push ups, I got 13 rounds + 10 which was a total of 101 push ups.
And of course, always remember the idea of scaling, you know? While right now I may wish I could do squat workouts with 200 lbs or more on the bar, it wouldn't do me much good. So you might find it useful to scale Murph down to a half-Murph.
For me and where I am now, it was brutal. I didn't do any workouts the 2 days following Murphy, but I loved doing it. In some of the later rounds it began to feel like if I tried to do the squats too fast I was going to puke.
I don't really know where you're at for conditioning, so obviously I'm going to caution you a bit. Seriously try do a death-by-pull ups and push ups first to get a rough gauge on your work capacity. That can at least give you some idea of whether you have a decent chance to complete it in under an hour and I'd seriously suggest that if it looks like it would take you more than 60 minutes, scale it down to a level where you'd be able to finish inside of 60 minutes.
