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General Discussion => Fitness & Exercise => Topic started by: Matt Emery on July 09, 2007, 08:08:28 PM
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Pick one of these exercises and count how many you can do in 3 minutes.
Post your results here on this board.
Exercises using body weight only;
- Pull-ups or Chin-ups.
- Push-ups.
- Handstand Push-ups.
- One legged squats, alternating (no weights).
- Dips
- Burpees >> Example Video << (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkq992WdToA)
Exercises using weights;
- Push-up/Pull-ups with 22.5kg (45lb) of weight for each arm. >> Example Video << (http://www.cavemanpower.com/videos/Exercise_-_pushups_and_pullups/)
- Clean & Jerk with 50kg (100lb) of weight. >> Example Video << (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luwR_F7bN1Y)
- Alternate Shrugs with 20kg (40lb) of weight for each arm (video demonstration soon...)
I'll add more challenge exercises as we go along :)
For your results, please update a single post instead of making multiple posts.
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Matt Emery
Clap PushUps - 52
Dips - 47
Chin Ups - 30
Push-up/Pull-ups with 22.5kg - 36
Clean & Jerk with 50kg - 12
Dan
Clap PushUps - 53
Luke
Push-up/Pull-ups with 22.5kg - 69
Alternate Shrugs - 190
Matty B
Dips - 28
Wide Grip Chin Ups - 14
Chantelle (15 years old!)
Dips - 14
Jason
Dips - 58
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My *3 minute challenge* is pretty simple. I just want to do burpees as they're the best indication of total body fitness. I may add other excersises in the future though. But for now, I'm sticking to burpees. My goal is to do 100 burpees in less than ten minutes.
Tues 10th july-
30 burpees
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just found this....
pushups: 187
pull ups 37
will try the other ones....
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Matt Emery,
Did you do all the events together? I can do probably two events with high results, but I am pretty sure the third one will be just a grunt, (smiling).
Chris
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I saw the workouts and wanted to see how I can manage; I did 12 muscle ups (3 sets of 4, 1 minute break), 17 dips, and 23 pull ups. All you veterans out there, is that a good start or not. This summer is my 1st time toward crossfit. I started the diet with workouts on March 23rd 2011. Please let me know, I want to be able to beat Matt's record..and I will film it..(smiling).
Matt is a genius!!! This lifestyle is what I have been searching for!
Chris,
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Are you doing the dips from a bench, heels on the ground, or suspended?
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Heya,
I'm definately not the fittest person on earth (far from it actually with my 114kg frame), but I gave this a go. I didn't have the ability or resources to do a couple of the suggested workouts, so I did the following;
Pushups - 35
Dips - 60 (using my coffee table with my heels on the ground)
Situps - 57
Squats - 60
I'll try this again in a month (maybe with burpees ;D ) and see how I go :)
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ebonitis, that's great - way to go!
Right, I want to try now...
:P
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I thought I'd give you my results hot from the floor, where I'm currently collapsed in a sweaty heap!
Push Ups - 38
Squats (no weight, thighs parallel to floor, bottom going backwards) - 73
Sit ups - 41
Dips 33
Burpees - 25
I'm going to do them again in a week or so in reverse order to see whether the results differ much as I was pretty exhausted by the time I got to dips and burpees - which, I have to say, are the Devil's exercise!! :-\
Falcon
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Once Warren is born I will be doing this :D I am very excited to try it out!
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so out of shape... ha ha, 50 push ups 3 min. Guess you have to start some were.
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Disappointed I let myself get so out of shape. I used to be able to do over 100 sit ups in 3 minutes.
A few minutes ago, all I managed was 60 in 3 minutes :(
Will keep it up everyday and record my results again next week.
Going to do some dips and stuff now... after some water!
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decided to try this caveman diet. not out of shape, but everyone has room for improvement in my mind. i'm 5' 9", 135 pounds, and 13 years old. thought i should post my scores before i started to see how much i can improve. 50 push ups, 6 pull ups (need to work on these) 49 dips, and 87 sit ups. any ideas for some goals i should set?
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Pick one of these exercises and count how many you can do in 3 minutes.
Post your results here on this board.
Exercises using body weight only;
- Pull-ups or Chin-ups.
- Push-ups.
- Handstand Push-ups.
- One legged squats, alternating (no weights).
- Dips
- Burpees >> Example Video << (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkq992WdToA)
Exercises using weights;
- Push-up/Pull-ups with 22.5kg (45lb) of weight for each arm. >> Example Video << (http://www.cavemanpower.com/videos/Exercise_-_pushups_and_pullups/)
- Clean & Jerk with 50kg (100lb) of weight. >> Example Video << (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luwR_F7bN1Y)
- Alternate Shrugs with 20kg (40lb) of weight for each arm (video demonstration soon...)
I'll add more challenge exercises as we go along :)
For your results, please update a single post instead of making multiple posts.
If you did these exercizes one after the other non stop, it would be similar to army circuit training. There are a couple of different things here, but you get the picture
(http://www.brianmac.co.uk/pictures/circuit%20training/circuit10.gif)
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I started Crossfit one month ago and did the 3 min. Challenge doing push ups. On June 2nd I was able to do 52. Today July 4th I was able to do 70. Making progress.
I'm a 48 year old Male
5'8"
150 lbs.
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I have just found this....
pushups: 180
pull ups40
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Wow, those are tough. Good for you guys. I will try some reaching that far, little by little I guess. ;D
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I started Crossfit one month ago and did the 3 min. Challenge doing push ups. On June 2nd I was able to do 52. Today July 4th I was able to do 70. Making progress.
I'm a 48 year old Male
5'8"
150 lbs.
Update,
Today Aug. 19th up to 80 Pushups in 3:00.
Making more progress.