Fitness Challenge 2024-1

 

Fitness Challenge 2024-1

This Challenge starts January 1st, 2024, and ends on March 31st, 2024.

On January 1st, all participants will test all seven of the exercises in the order listed in a session supervised by at least two other participants. Scores, along with the names of the witnesses, will be forwarded to the Challenge administrator. This initial testing establishes the participants’ baseline. Obvious sandbaggers will be shamed mercilessly for lacking honor, and 25% added to their baseline.

At the end of three months, all participants test at 0700 hours on March 31st in the order prescribed. Percentage of improvement will be calculated for each exercise. Percentage of improvement will be ranked for each exercise and participants will be ordered starting with “1” and continuing for the total number of participants. Ties in exercise will be scored as the lowest position of the number of people tied. For example, if three people tied for fourth place, each will receive six points. Failure to do any exercise will result in an automatic last place score in that exercise. Injuries are not an excuse; modifications to the routine in general and the exercises in particular will not be made for any reason.

Number of ranks for each exercise will be added with the lowest number being declared the winner. Second and third place will logically follow.

Buy-in is $25. Money will be held in a safe place by an impartial non-participant. Participants can pay in installments if needed. Winner shall receive 50% of the purse. Second place shall receive 30% of the purse. Third place shall receive 20% of the purse.

In the event of a tie, participants will do one proper burpee every 10 seconds until one participant remains.

All rule clarifications or other issues will be resolved with ⅔ of the participants agreeing on a reasonable resolution. Sportsmanship matters; we work in a profession where integrity is our most important virtue. Cheaters will be immediately disqualified, their buy-in will be forfeited, and participation in future challenges will be forbidden. Quitters will also forfeit their buy-in.

All participants will be divided into teams; the number of teams will be determined by the total number of participants. Each team will be responsible for motivating their teammates. The winning team, as determined by the lowest aggregate score, earns bragging rights.

Challenge Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/authentology/
Challenge Blog: https://authentology.blogspot.com

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“THERE IS NO EASY WAY. There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline. DISCIPLINE.”
- Jocko Willink

Prescribed Exercises

Two Minutes:

• Pullups
• Grab the pullup bar with your palms down (shoulder-width grip.)
• Hang to the pullup-bar with straight arms and your legs off the floor.
• Pull yourself up by pulling your elbows down to the floor.
• Go all the way up until your chin passes the be bar.
• Lower yourself until your arms are straight.
• No kipping or swinging is allowed.
• Pushups
• Start at the top with arms fully extended.
• Go down until your chest touches the ground.
• Push up until your arms are fully extended.
• Body must be kept straight; knees and crotch cannot touch the ground.
• Air Squats
• Stand with  your feet shoulder-width apart.
• Squat down by pushing your knees to the side while moving hips back.
• Break parallel by Squatting down until your hips are lower than your knees and your butt touches a five gallon bucket.
• Squat back up while keeping your knees out and chest up.
• Stand with your hips and knees locked at the top.
• Burpees
• Start standing with your feet shoulder-width apart.
• Squat down, placing your hands flat on the floor inside your feet.
• Leap your feet back into a pushup position, squeezing your shoulder blades, abs, and glutes. Your feet should be slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.
• Bend at the elbows to lower your chest down to the floor. Control this movement rather than throwing yourself straight down.
• Press back up into the pushup.
• Leap your feet forward back to the initial squatting position.
• Explode straight up into the air powerfully, with triple extension through the ankle, knee, and hip.
• Land back on the floor under control.

Timed:

• 400 meter run
• One lap around high school track
• 1600 meter run
• Four laps around high school track
• 5 kilometer Mile Run
• Complete designated course