Yes, I will judge. I am impartial, I have not only given the fittest man title to myself but also montecore and then feel wrath.

For cardio you can substitute running, cycling, rowing etc etc. And you can use squat or deadlift. And you can use bw bench or pullups. Tie breaker is aesthetics. Lets see some work for 2021 champ.


Loco -1000
Field +700

How do you know I didn't stop? I could've walked the first half. Maybe I'm just really fast.

But Montecore and feel wrath only row? Though Feel does drink heavy

Arjun overall fittest

10 days dry now

Lol. Got a good chuckle.

Training

5x5 Strict Press 57.5kg - 5,5,4,5,4
3x8 DB Press 24kg
3x8 Bent over Row - 75kg
3x10 Hammer machine Pull down - 100kg

then Assault Bike 100 calories 2.44, a PR by 8 seconds.

yuk to the Assault Bike, the instrument of extreme torture.

I went out relatively slowly with the hope of maintaining my pace. 42 cals in minute 1, 75 by end of minute 2 and managed to hold it together for the end.

I'm obviously not the fittest (thank you though lozen, you made me smile), but I think it would be close vs you at the tactical strength challenge. We can even replace kettlebell snatches with a mile run, since there is no technique involved. I would out-deadlift you, you would out-run me, and idk about pull-ups. It should be close. If you can do 20, you probably win. Bet?

I think I would beat most people on here at least 2-1 at this. I would out-lift the cardio guys, out-cardio the lifters, and should be able to do more pull-ups than most. feel wrath would beat me with a little training (perhaps even none), but he doesn't deadlift now and I haven't seen him log pull-ups. Monte probably could if he ever lifts again. It's possible rich and beesch could out-cardio me, but I am not sure. ISF would smoke me 3-0 and is probably the fittest here. He definitely beats everyone at least 2-1 and most 3-0.

I obviously know this test isn't the be all and end all, but it is still interesting to think about.

Incredible.

I am moving houses in 2 weeks and am thinking about getting an assault bike. Change my mind.

You do you but I honestly don’t think I’d use it enough to justify these expense - for me it’s something to test my fitness on every now and again when I’m at the gym and I want to hurt myself.

I rarely if ever ‘train’ on it and I think rowing is a more enjoyable and more scalable (ie do more things with it/on it) cardio machine workout in every way

I would actually probably buy a peloton or decent stationary bike before I bought an assault bike I think (though I won’t buy one of these either)

Lol not even close. While my endurance has improved a little the last 2 months from losing weight and adding in some cardio, I’m pretty sure my mile time has just gone from “terrible” to just “bad”. I think I would out DL anyone in this discussion fairly easily but would lose at the cardio portion to you and almost everyone else. So it would just come down to pull-ups. Don’t know know how many you and everyone else can do or even how many I can, but I have been training them twice a week the past couple months. Recently did +100 on weighted chin-ups

Yeah that time is fast. I have an Echo Assault bike and in May Ill be going to more crossfit and it will get lots of use.

As for competition I think I could get 3rd on a row but would lose in all aspects of lifting. Though I could crush max weight sled push

Id be looking for a long chipper. Pull ups or run i lose

took an unscheduled rest day today.

woke up sore and just felt stiff and tired all over my body - quads, lower back, shoulders. I went out for my morning walk as normal and for literally the first time in 12 months of doing it, I actually got overtaken by someone. Made me realise that maybe the body needed a timeout. I'm not a real 'listen to your body' guy...I generally just drink more coffee and train through it...but the body was shouting today so I think it was correct to pussy out

All of which means, my training plan for the week is slightly off and I'm going to take advantage of feeling fresh tomorrow to attempt a fast 5k. Coming into this PR quest, this was the record that I thought was the toughest for me to beat, but I think I'm ready now.

PR is 18.43, which is 1.52.3/500 ave. I did 18.47 about 6 weeks back, which wasn't a PR attempt but was RPE 9.5 and I did it as a negative split, doing the first half in 1.53.5 and then bringing it home a lot quicker for an average of 1.52.7. I think this pacing structure worked well for me so we'll be following it again

tomorrow the plan is to go through half way in 1.53/1.52.9 and then slowly ramp up and see what I can hold on for. Goal is sub 18.40 (1.52.0/500) but all I really want is the PR at this point. If I get it, then the next time I do a 5k time trial in 6 weeks time, I'll potentially be a little more aggro with my pacing, but I really respect/fear this distance and I don't want to blow up.

Flash in the pan training coming home to roost.

I suspect you'll find 18:40 to be trivial; definitely interested to see how it goes.

Paul's Law says he is good for 1:50.3/500 for a 5k. But low weekly meters rower gonna decouple. So his goal very reasonable.

Well...didn’t find it trivial, but we got her done.

Basically followed the race plan I’d laid out yesterday. Detail in the photo but after 10 quick strokes I settled into a rhythm and went through the first half of the race in 1.52.8/500 average and then slowly turned the screw between 2500 and 4000 before ramping it up more. The last 500 was just under 1.47



Potentially not the most efficient way to row this distance, needing such a marked acceleration in the final 1k, but definitely less traumatic than going on goal pace the entire time.

In the final 300 when I knew I had the PR locked up, I was telling myself that I would ‘retire’ this distance and concentrate on the shorter distances but I think it’s inevitable I do it again in the jest few months. If/when I do, I’ll pace it 0.5 secs/500 faster in the first half and then attempt to ramp up the finishing pace a little earlier and I think I could probably get closer to 18.30....particularly if I commit to more distance work moving forward


Looking at my times logged on the C2 website, even this new time is a relatively weaker time vs my peers, compared to the 1k and 2k. I’m approx 90th percentile for 1k and 2k but approx 84th percentile in 5k. These will
Improve as I move into the 50-59 group in a few months time but the 5k is relatively weaker still.

Not sure if this is because they’re more popular distances, an indication that I’m not doing the distance work or purely a reflection of my relative athletic ability at short vs medium distance

Never in doubt! Fantastic pacing, and great job overall. Feels like 18:30 is there, although I think breaking 18:20 (sub-1:50) is the cooler goal.

Re: the difference in age ranking, seems like an effort thing to me (in addition to just normal variance) - my impression was that your 1k and 2k were relatively more intense than today, and I'm sure if you RPE 10'd this you'd be up where you expect.

obviously if my Fitbit ever managed to take my ****ing heart beat accurately I would have a better idea.

Idk, it’s definitely less scary to go balls out over the shorter distances (albeit you found out that a 1k can feel like a long time too when you blow up). So maybe I lost a few seconds but iirc 90th percentile for the 5k among 40-49 in Australia is 18.23 or sth and there’s no way I have that right now and I think that...along with 18.20 would be a stretch goal requiring a lot more training.

Idk, this distance still scares me, maybe I’m being a pussy

Damn that's fast Nice Job

+1, very nice

ty ty

Training today in the home gym

Bench 5x4-92.5 (supposed to be 5x5 but didn't feel strong/confident enough to do it without a spotter)
3x8/8 super set DB Flye/DB Bench 22.5kg
3x7 Close Grip bench 70kg
3x8/8/8 tri set 40kg Barbell Curl, 12.5kg Hammer Curl, DB Face pulls

feeling a little sore today again and tired. Running really does **** my knees and I reffed a 60 min soccer game early yesterday morning. Also played poker last night til after 12 and only got 5 hours sleep. Have been for a long walk with the wife and done my training plus now have about 90 mins work to do in the back yard. Am roasting an eye fillet for the family later and then will hopefully get a really good night's sleep.

Plan for next week is some slightly less intense but longer rowing sessions and to keep

13 days sans booze is a personal victory...Sunday afternoon is a weak spot as I'm generally cooking a big family dinner and it's natural for me to reach for a few drinks, but am do as much as I can to hold out

50 min slow row. 11,382m 2.11.7/500m

fell off the wagon yesterday and drank a bottle of red. Slept surprisingly well but felt a little dusty today so just did a long, slow row to get a sweat on.

have slightly unusual pain on the joint of both knees at the front. Guessing it's tight ligaments from the running/changing direction I've been doing coaching and reffing my son's soccer over the past week. I didn't feel it during rowing and the knees actually feel better since I finished....albeit that could be adrenalin, endorphins etc. we'll see

haven't done my schedule for the rest of the week yet but the plan is to get some distance work done this week a UT1 session, a long UT2 and then also a longer interval session...either 1500s or 2ks.

they've announced the standards for the competition. you get two mins from the end of your row until the barbell has to be under your control for the start of the bench. no warm up reps allowed

it doesn't make me any more or less interested in doing it, but just fyi

https://www.roguefitness.com/challenges#/leaderboard

leaderboard attached for the medium division that most of us would be in.

the dude in front came 13th in the crossfit games Open and 1st in the 35-39 age group...

6.17 2k row and then 36 bw bench press reps at 85kg...pretty damn good showing.