Remember the fantastic May 70s Big Challenge where Andres had chest hair sprouting over his shirt? Well, the fine folks at 70s Big have another strength Challenge for us and we will do it tomorrow (or Wed). No change to the schedule. Just come to your normal class and you do not have to dress up although some of us (as was pointed out to me especially) didn’t have to stretch that much to dress for the 70s Challenge in the first place. The Challenge is an upper body one this time. It is max rounds in 20min of 3 strict shoulder press and 3 strict (dead hang pullups). For men, the press is at 0.625 x bodyweight and women is 0.5 x bodyweight. So hop on your scale. Some of us will stay awake tonight wondering if we should round up or down or maybe assume our scale is a little off. There will, OF COURSE, be scaled versions of the workout. Otherwise we wouldn’t do it. I actually had someone who did not do the last challenge because they thought you “had to do it rx’d”. That will never occur here unless it is an off-normal class time special event. Every now and then it is pretty fun for some people to pit themselves against other folks and see how they stack up. Here is a chance. This does mean, obviously, that if you are doing this Challenge as rx’d then we will be ruthless about what counts. Strict presses and non-kipping pullups (any grip, small frog kick tolerated). So far, we have had one woman (to remain nameless until you all are done) complete the challenge as rx’d with 23 rounds. We have had one off-site man do it with 30rnds. The bar has been set high! Let’s press and pull.
