When I was doing HIT stuff with a guy I used to work with.
I thought my heart was going to beat right out of my chest. Great stuff!
Hardest workout:
Cant pin point one that was the hardest, but the most brutal ones were all leg days.
Hardest non weight lifting workout memory,
my brother and i had a challenge:
Ran 10 miles, swam 3 and then played 3 games of one on one basketball.
He won.
Hardest workout ever wasn’t a weight workout but a lactic acid training workout.
Running up sand dunes at Cronulla. My training partner vomited and I was dry retching. Nasty stuff
I just started Hip Belt Squats.
They are extremely hard on your ego.
[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
hueyOT wrote:
supermick wrote:
bikemike wrote:
Believe it or not, it was the last arm workout in the bigger arm challenge:
weighted 20lbs chin
50 seconds up, 40 seconds down;
curls 11 reps with 60 lbs;
weighted 20 lbs negative only chin
5, then dropped the weight and did 4 more.
weighted 20 lbs dip
45 seconds up, 20 seconds down;
extensions 8 reps with 35 lbs;
weighted 20 lbs negative only dip
4, then dropped the weight and did 4 more.
It was craziness.
Lol…
i know… how fucking stupid does it get? bigger arms in two weeks? only if you’ve never trained them before!
I almost thought I was going to agree with hueyOT for once, but my fears were allayed. I do think that a person can make a visible change in his or her physique in two weeks - just not with that particular program. A high frequency program such as Quattro Dynamo would probably work. But four workouts won’t cut it.[/quote]
ok look, i’m not gonna disagree that progress is progress whether or not it’s year to year, month to month, or day to day.
but it’s just dumb to think that you can make considerable gains in a given muscle group over the course of a two week time frame if you’re not a noob.
[quote]hueyOT wrote:
ok look, i’m not gonna disagree that progress is progress whether or not it’s years to year, month to month, or day to day.
but it’s just dumb to think that you can make a considerable gains in a given muscle group over the course of two weeks if you’re not a noob.
[/quote]
Oxymetholone 150mg/day 
[quote]t-ha wrote:
The 2nd Day of CT’s Pillars for Strength, the one with the high volume of leg work capped off with Bulgarian Squats. Dunno - maybe it was just so different from my usual leg workouts but it half killed me![/quote]
Agree.
Also, I puked 2 years ago when I first tryed to squat 10x10, 60 sec. rest.
[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
The Smolov Squat Routine. I couldn’t finish it. No pukey feelings during the workouts necessarily, but by the end of the week I just felt trashed. [/quote]
agreed on this. i puked during the base cycle only once. and i got sick twice during the intense cycle and had to call it quits. great gains though. very painful
[quote]Tim K wrote:
Which is worse, picking the hay up out of the field, or tossing it up in the loft on a 100+ day? For me, it was the loft. Being a short guy (5’ 6"), I was always the one stuck up in the loft. It has to be 110 degrees up there, not enough room to stand upright, and the bales just keep on coming.
Only had heat exhaustion once though… [/quote]
Both.
Actually the worst part was that laaaast second of break between the field and the barn or the barn and the field. When you’re completely drained and can’t seem to move, yet you know what is coming.
[quote]jsbrook wrote:
Not a lifting workout. But 16x400 for track. Fast intervals. Adequate recovery but you’re still ready to puke by the end. And I have several times.[/quote]
Mine was a track workout too.
800 race pace
300m ~40sec
50 sec rest
200 ~28 sec
15 sec rest
100 14 sec
3 min rest
repeat until you can’t make the time. Usually on round 3.
I ventured into serious HVT training at one point and attempted the worst leg workout that ever existed, I was aiming for 100 total sets, mainly consisting of compounds no more than 90 secs between sets, numbers were hugely diminished I only got to like 88 sets but holy shit, my legs did’nt hurt for 3 days they just had a hard time supporting me day 4-10 was pretty much the worst pain in my life. I’m not even kidding, I waddled everywhere and I had to walk a k to work everyday, normally I bike but it was’nt possible I had to waddle. Anyways here it is.
back squat 10 sets
front squat 10 sets
sldl 10 sets
bulgarian squats 10 sets
lunges 10 sets
leg press 10 sets
leg extension 10 sets
leg curl 10 sets
and then I think I got about 8 sets of calves.
i’m not kidding when at one point my eyes were tearing up, it was’nt because it hurt in fact I was numb half way through it, but I was just like stumbling and had no morale by the 50 st marker, thats prolly why I did’nt make it to 100, I know i’m a quitter.
I’ve had a few 60 set back workouts that I think actually helped alot. And this is what I hold responsible for seeing a vein in my lats at 15%.
Give it a shot one day, it’s pretty fucked, I really think this would yield good results if I were juicing.
[quote]X-Factor wrote:
back squat 10 sets
front squat 10 sets
sldl 10 sets
bulgarian squats 10 sets
lunges 10 sets
leg press 10 sets
leg extension 10 sets
leg curl 10 sets
and then I think I got about 8 sets of calves.
i’m not kidding when at one point my eyes were tearing up, it was’nt because it hurt in fact I was numb half way through it, but I was just like stumbling and had no morale by the 50 st marker, thats prolly why I did’nt make it to 100, I know i’m a quitter.
[/quote]
This could be the dumbest workout I have ever seen. Did you also try the getting hit with a bat workout or the running in to a wall extreme training session?
[quote]mica617 wrote:
Tim K wrote:
Which is worse, picking the hay up out of the field, or tossing it up in the loft on a 100+ day? For me, it was the loft. Being a short guy (5’ 6"), I was always the one stuck up in the loft. It has to be 110 degrees up there, not enough room to stand upright, and the bales just keep on coming.
Only had heat exhaustion once though…
Both.
Actually the worst part was that laaaast second of break between the field and the barn or the barn and the field. When you’re completely drained and can’t seem to move, yet you know what is coming.[/quote]
I know exactly where you guys are coming from! I used to work on a farm and my dads business is buying, hauling and selling hay. He does this every day, has NEVER touched a free or machine weight in his adult life and is strong as an ox! I always hated unloading the truck at these horse farms in Va and Md in the summer. I was either in the loft sweating my ass off or on the truck having to throw the bales up through a small opening. Both sucked ass!
Kind of a funny story:
At one point when I was young my dad decided he was going to make his own hay to sell. He bought some old second, possibly third or fourth, hand equipment. A John Deere “A” tractor, haha! The baler was one of the early kick balers. The problem was that he didn’t buy kick wagons, just the regular flat ones with no sides. He said “your a big boy, you can handle it” He drove the tractor and my job was to catch and stack the hay. After several times of getting knocked of the wagon he final took off the kicker, haha.
I got nothing but respect for farmers. It’s a tough way to make a living!
Meltdown I by far. Only work out that had me thinking I was going to throw up at the begining of the 4 - 5 week workout and at the end.
[quote]petrainer wrote:
X-Factor wrote:
back squat 10 sets
front squat 10 sets
sldl 10 sets
bulgarian squats 10 sets
lunges 10 sets
leg press 10 sets
leg extension 10 sets
leg curl 10 sets
and then I think I got about 8 sets of calves.
i’m not kidding when at one point my eyes were tearing up, it was’nt because it hurt in fact I was numb half way through it, but I was just like stumbling and had no morale by the 50 st marker, thats prolly why I did’nt make it to 100, I know i’m a quitter.
This could be the dumbest workout I have ever seen. Did you also try the getting hit with a bat workout or the running in to a wall extreme training session?
[/quote]
haha! i wasn’t even that dumb when i was 16!
[quote]DPH wrote:
hueyOT wrote:
ok look, i’m not gonna disagree that progress is progress whether or not it’s years to year, month to month, or day to day.
but it’s just dumb to think that you can make a considerable gains in a given muscle group over the course of two weeks if you’re not a noob.
Oxymetholone 150mg/day ;)[/quote]
[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
hueyOT wrote:
supermick wrote:
bikemike wrote:
Believe it or not, it was the last arm workout in the bigger arm challenge:
weighted 20lbs chin
50 seconds up, 40 seconds down;
curls 11 reps with 60 lbs;
weighted 20 lbs negative only chin
5, then dropped the weight and did 4 more.
weighted 20 lbs dip
45 seconds up, 20 seconds down;
extensions 8 reps with 35 lbs;
weighted 20 lbs negative only dip
4, then dropped the weight and did 4 more.
It was craziness.
Lol…
i know… how fucking stupid does it get? bigger arms in two weeks? only if you’ve never trained them before!
I almost thought I was going to agree with hueyOT for once, but my fears were allayed. I do think that a person can make a visible change in his or her physique in two weeks - just not with that particular program. A high frequency program such as Quattro Dynamo would probably work. But four workouts won’t cut it.[/quote]
My apologies for this being completely off topic.
The bigger arm challenge was a two week experiment. A break from normal workout routines. You guys haven’t a clue how we regularly workout.
Any 20 rep squating programme.The last time I did it with significant weight,suffered lower back spasms which necessitated lying down for 10 -15 mins post squat.As a warning I will add that my lower back has never been the same since.Sets took about 3 mins,maybe I was doing them wrong?
[quote]X-Factor wrote:
i’m not kidding when at one point my eyes were tearing up.[/quote]
Umm that happens to me every single workout but it can be accomplished in 10-16 total sets done right. 100 sets? I would think that at #1-90 you’d realize you have so much left you half-ass it and keep some in the tank. Probably only the last 10 sets counted for anything.
Toughest workout I ever did was push my truck down my street 3 blocks while my brother drove. It was a very slight incline but it felt like Mt. fucking Everest. Took 18 min to go 3 blocks and had to stop several times to prevent passing out. Try it I garauntee you won’t be disappointed.
Hardest workout was definitely the weekend long special training I did for karate. Basically, you arrive at the gym (basketball court) on Friday night, train for 3-4 hours straight (lot’s of basics, staying in stances for a half hour, etc.) then get a 3 hour break. You eat and sleep in the gym. You then train for another 2-3 hours, then break 3 hours. This continues until late Sunday afternoon.
I’m not sure what all the numbers add up to, but definitely hundreds of forms, thousands of basics, a painful amount of duck walking and bunny hopping, and then there’s Sunday. Sunday was some sparring combination basics (lots of bruises from that), 1000 situps, 1000 pushups (though no one ever does all 1000 pushups, at least not with good form), 1000 squat kicks, and 100 front kicks each leg from a deep front stance and a guy equal to your size on your shoulders.
The bitch of that drill is that all the kickers stand side by side so that the people on the shoulders can link arms. If one person screws up, the whole line goes down and you start back at 0 kicks. Add to that sensai walks around with a kendo sword (the proper name escapes me right now) and lays into you if he catches you cheating or not focusing.
It was fun, definitely made me feel like I could do anything afterwards, all about that mind over matter thing. Definitely left a lasting impression. And by that I mean when I was in my bed at home Sunday night, I woke up doing crunches…
Take it easy,
Toby