Gnarly Workouts

It's been awhile since I've posted but that doesnt mean the Gnarly workouts have stopped. I'm a week late in posting this, but last week was the Gladiator Rock N Run. It was your typical 5k obstacle and challenge run. However, what made this one GNARLY was the fact that it was hilly as crap and it just happened to fall on a morning that we were having armageddon like weather - 40 degrees with insane wind and rain - which made for an extra muddy course. It ended up being a blast despite the ospitious start. To those that participated, they know all about the bus fiasco. haha

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The newest Gnarly Workout

Conquered Iron Mountain today in the 2nd of 4 races of the King of the Hill trail racing series. This particular race was a 9 mile trip to the top of iron mountain via my new nemesis, Ellie Lane. For those that don't know, Ellie lane is a 3.5 mile rock infested, rut laden utter suckfest en route to the "normal people" start to Iron Mountain. Definitely more technical than Woodson and much more challenging from a footwork perspective. For people who love punishiment, it was a great time.
My official time: 1:47:44

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No doubt this one goes into the GNARLY column

Here goes:
This workout took place back on Dec 12th. We called it "Sled Stupidity"
10yd sled push(180lbs), 6-24k swings, 5 reps 135lb bench press x 20 rds

Dec 13th: "find a 1rm chin up"
Rope Slam x 30, Seated sled (180lbs) rope pull x10yds, Sled Bear Crawl x 10yds, Crawl back x 7 rds

Dec 14th: "Man Test"
Deadlift 5/5,4/4,3/3,2/2,1/1 with a 10 yd farmers walk between each set. Ex. 5 reps, walk, 5 reps, walk, 4 reps, etc....

Dec 16th: "1 RM Sled Push"
10 yd sled push increasing in weight either 50 or 90 lbs (25's or 45's) until a 1 rm 10 yd push is reached.
Max BW Chins
BW Bench Press Rep Max

Dec 24th: This is only "Gnarly" because it was christmas eve and near freezing conditions in Chicago.
Early AM tempo runs: 80yds at 80% x 6
BW Circuit: Squats,Hindu Pushups, RFESS, Plank Reach x 10e for 15minutes

We're going to play a little catch up with Gnarly workouts. We had a handful before christmas. In fact we had an entire week of gnarly/stupid workouts (thats what happens when the athletes are gone and christmas break with all its glorious cookies are just around the corner).

The pics below also represent the forest friday 2 weeks ago, which was truly GNARLY. It started off with all the usual suspects but if I remember right was more biased with climbing. We were in a more playful mood that day and came up on a log and from there thought of everything we could do with that log. We squatted it, pressed it (one and two hand), lunged with it, Axel carried it (ala strongman), walked and pressed and manuvered it around tree's and finally did a few turkish get ups. But we hadnt gotten to the gnarly part yet. I had the great idea that we should pick up this 10ft 250lb log and carry it around the woods. So we did......for 20 minutes, changing grips and carry positions, even changing carrying order (front, middle, back) but never setting the log down. Epic hand and trap soreness. I wish we had gotten pics of that day.

The pics below of are of my and crew and I doing our normal "forest friday" workout experience. This particular forest day(two days ago) had all the usual suspects, a little climbing, balancing, bear walking, tactical jumping, chasing each other through the woods, swinging on branches, pulling ourselves up, etc. The pics below are the product of us coming up on some logs we decided to carry in different fashion and we actually turned it into some what of a circuit. This day ended with a game we called rock golf- basically we found an opening high up in trees and saw who could throw it through...first.