How fit?...... Fit to Dive?

[Martin Burnard]

How Fit?.... Fit to Dive? Popped this up on DIR-X and thought some members of this forum might fancy it as well. It could provide everybody with a benchmark to keep assesing thir fitness. Anyway the storey is........

My wife has entered us for a fitness challenge at our health club on the 3rd of December.:eek:
It's against the clock and is the following :-

2500m Bike
60 situps
1500m row
40 seated shoulder press's (infront of face, below chin) @ 25Kg men 15kg women
800m run at 10% incline

Anybody else fancy joining in (use your local gym!) and posting their times?


Now the last time we went head to head the equipment was set for heats of five with Flower and I side by side (they know we are very competitive against each other).

I was off the bike before Flower. however she kicked my ass on the situps, and continued to hold the lead on the rower, then pulled the lead out further on the shoulder press! Leaving me mountain to climb on the run.

This was do or die time mans fate was in my hands....

I caught her and passed her on the last 50m of the run, with a consoling "Kiss my ass, Flower!" The lads cheered, the girls.. not so happy. Good fun though.

For some reason she wants revenge! No way.

Anyway who else is up for it?

December the 3rd. Get training. Post the results.http://www.direxplorers.com/images/smilies/poke.gif

All those up for it say "ME"

I did my first run through today and it took me 26 minutes (that is slow!), last years winner was under 15 minutes.

[Dawn]

I'm in :)

My guess is shoulder press is using a bar, not dumbells?

Row is on a machine - any particular resistance set (if I remember the ones we have at the local gym have a resistance setting).

Game on! :cool:

[Martin Burnard]

You are correct, shoulder press is with bar not dumbells (the weight is inclusive of the bar).

On the rower you should find that the higher you put the resistance the more you move on each stroke. Hence you can be low resistance high reps, or high resistance and low reps and achieve the same time. High resistance, high reps... you animal!

Good to have you in.

Who else?

[Martin Burnard]

Here is today's episode of the hot topic in our household.

Flower and I were going to the gym, our daughter was booked into the creche, and............ we ended up going head to head. Now you must remember that we are extremely competitive against each other, it doesn't matter if it's bashing moles with a malet or leapfrogging parking post!

So here we go splits and narrative :-

We kick off on the bike NO MERCY

Splits were a dead heat 4:12. Argh my legs were burning.

Ok onto the situps

Whoops got my ass kicked here

Me 1:14 , Flower :56

So onto the rower with me needing to make up some ground and knowing that I can trash Flower here :-

Me 6:12 Flower 7.04

The lead is again minehttp://www.direxplorers.com/images/smilies/moonsmilie.gif

Into the shoulder press but I paid the price for blowing too hard on the rower.

Flower kicked my butt into next week!http://www.direxplorers.com/images/smilies/help.gif

Me 3:20 Flower 1:58 (How Fast!)

So now we hit the run with me some 50 seconds or so behind.
Well to say we were really pushing now, with Flower determined not to lose the lead and me determined not to lose, would be an understatement.

My split 6:09 Flower 7:22

VICTORY IS MINE!.

Total times me 21:15, Flower 21:33. Both absolutely knackered!!!!!!!!__________________
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