I love a good challenge – Lunges of Death

August 1, 2009 on 1:29 pm | In Strength Training | 2 Comments

Smitty over at the Diesel Crew has laid down the challenge – Lunges of Death.

When we trained this weekend Smitty showed me this Bulgarian Sandbag used, and it is all of 50 lbs.  I tested a few lunges out in the parking lot, and realized this is going to be realllly hard.

Just beacuse it is hard, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try it though!  I’m taking a bunch of my athletes down to a local field to see if we can beat his time of 1 minute and 53 seconds.  I’m hoping these lanky legs of mine are going to come in handy!

On top of winning a strength challenge, Smitty if going to give away a FREE Combat Core DVD set to someone that beats that time (loaded 50 lbs, DBs, BSS, or regular sandbag).  The names that beat the time will be placed into a drawing for the free DVD giveaway.

Here’s the movement performed:  Lunges of Death

I know many of you read both websites, but more important to me than the free DVDs – I want the title of fastest Lunges of Death to come back to a reader of Synergy Athletics!

That means I need you guys to get my back if I can’t do it myself! I’ll be filming it up on Saturday, so who knows what will happen.

Head down to your local field with a pair of DBs (has to be 50 lbs, doesn’t have to be a bulgarian sandbag) and catch the action on your camera and phone.

Let’s do this!

- Joe Hashey, CSCS

UPDATE – I just did a Ustream with Jedd and Smitty out at Jedd’s new garage gym (great place).  During the Ustream someone sent in a video of getting it in 1:51!  Mine will be up by Tuesday.