I’ve been thinking lately of creating some sort of virtual challenge for the readers of my humble blog. It’d be nice if we could all gather to one place to see each other, compete, show off a little, eat, drink and be merry.
But that ain’t gonna happen.
A virtual competition might be fun, yes? Most of us are power endurance athletes, or are training as such. Perhaps we could put together an online challenge for each of us to complete in some set amount of time.
My initial thoughts are something like:
- 2k row
- 100x TGU @ 16kg/35#
- 5k run
- 20x Clean & Jerks @ ¾BW
- 50x Deadlifts @ BW
Maybe you have to complete all the tasks within 7 days. Your score is your total time. We’d all be on our own honor to perform and report accurately, of course.
I don’t know. Just some thoughts.
Of course, the invitation would extend not only to those regulars who leave comments - JB, Doc, Jesse - but also to you never-commenting lurkers - Gus, Matt, Nick, TJ, Parth, etc.
Thoughts from anybody? Any event you’d like to see added? Removed? Time limits enforced? How long would you want to train for it?
Leave comments. Let me know.
Workout From Yesterday
- Warm Up
- 1x Power Snatch + 10x Overhead Squat @ 45#
- 1x Power Snatch + 10x Overhead Squat @ 95#
- 1x Power Snatch + 10x Overhead Squat @ 115#
- Work
- 5x Deadlift @ 225#
- 5x Deadlift @ 265#
- 10x Side Press (5x ea. arm) @ 35#
- 3x Deadlift @ 310#
- 10x Side Press (5x ea. arm) @ 40#
- 3x Deadlift @ 310#
- 10x Side Press (5x ea. arm) @ 45#
- 3x Deadlift @ 310#
- 10x Side Press (5x ea. arm) @ 45#
- 3x Deadlift @ 310#
7 Comments
Maybe…most Jaegerbombs consumed in a 3 minute period. Winner barfs on the loser.
That’s a good idea.. well except the 5k run. I don’t run more than 400m any more.
Also, there are a few bike tours that in a perfect world would be cool to meet up and do: the seattle to portland ride, the horribly hilly hundred in wisco.. though we don’t live in a perfect world.
I like the idea quite a bit.
The TGUs would take me a long time @35# as would the C&J’s at 135# (I’d pretty much be doing singles on power cleans because I know that I can’t do proper catches @135. I presume this would be ok?), but I’d be game for trying. I’m not a runner or a rower, but those are easier events to standardize than a bicycle TT.
I don’t really have an event that I’m good enough at to warrant wanting it added to the roster, so it sounds pretty good to me as is.
Horribly Hilly Hundreds. *Shudder* I remember losing peripheral vision, thinking my kidneys were failing, and pushing my bike up the final death march to the finish line alongside a one legged man at the ‘06 100k.
I would like to see who can sleep the most in a weekend. I almost did 30 hours a couple weeks back — that takes endurance.
That may be the last time I encourage participation from those yahoos.
Ughh.
Jesse,
Without a real bike, is there a way to standardize simulated bike riding?
The Schwinn Aerodyne Bike or some other exercise bike likely available in a gym?
How about parachute running?
http://www.uncrate.com/men/gear/sports/nike-sparq/
We’d just have to have the event setup such that the power vs. speed curves were consistent across the board.
If we were using stationary bikes, we could standardize by setting them to a resistance level such that you get one consistent “speed” for one power output across the board. Though that would require a pretty substantial effort on the part of the rider to somehow map power vs. speed on a given bike.
If we all had access to the same model from the same year, they would presumably have the same power vs speed curve–or at least be close enough for rock and roll.
I dunno–I don’t use stationary bikes often and am not really sure about their resistance mechanism.
I primarily work with my road bike and a trainer.
How do you standardize an erg such that power corresponds to a certain velocity no matter the model? Presumably we could do the same on stationary bikes?
I imagine the power calculation on these units is more accurate in an absolute sense than the “speed” they report.
Perhaps a better way to do it (on both the erg and a stationary bike) might be to assign a total workload–500kJ (just throwing it out there) that would be somewhat representative of a 10k Time Trial. Then instead of saying 10km TT, we make it a 500kJ TT.
That is, of course, assuming we can get gym equipment to report kJ rather than Calories. I am unsure of their calorie calculation–if it’s based purely on power output and converted to calories, or if it’s based on rider weight.
Something to think about anyway.
It’d also work on the erg.
The other big problem with an indoor bike TT is that times will almost certainly scale with rider size–as there are no equalizers like headwinds, hills, etc–and a larger rider is typically capable of larger outputs.
Again, we could scale the goal output by body mass. Watts/kg is typically an accepted power scale when comparing two riders. Report your time to achieve your given power output as well as your average Watts/kg over the course of the TT.
I’ll think about it some more….
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