Workout: Tuesday Torment

Low Intensity: 10 mins

Concept 2 Row (Warmup) - Minimum 2000m
 

Medium Intensity: (repeat the below for 10 minutes)

 20 metre Farmer's Walk (2 Kettlebells/Dumbbells as heavy as you can carry)

 5 rep Push-Up Variations (choose 3-4 different variations, incline, decline, diamond, wide grip, etc)

 10 metre Crocodile Walk

 10 metre Bear Crawl

 10 metre Crab Walk

20 metre Waiter's Walk 

High Intensity: (Repeat Circuit below for 15 mins)

8 Pull-ups

20 Kettlebell/Dumbbell Snatches (or shoulder presses)

20 Kettlebell/Dumbbell Squats (go heavy)

20 knee to elbows (use a pull-up bar and lift knees to touch elbows)

20 Air Squats

20 Burpees

Workout: 300 (Battle of Thermopylae)

aka "Battle of Stamford"

Warmup:

5 minute Indoor Row

10 Push-Ups

10 Air Squats

10 Sit-Ups

10 Pull-Ups

Workout:*

50 Double Unders**

50 Jump Pull-Ups

50 Walking Lunges (with 25kg plate arms fully extended overhead)

50 Tricep Dips

50 Floor Wipers (with 25kg plate overhead)

50 Burpees (with 2 Push-Ups between each rep)

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i.e. 300 Reps in total.

Finisher:

"Cliff Hangers" - 12 Pull-Ups - (alternating grips and moving from left to right after each rep - without feet touching the ground).

30, 20 and 10 second rounds of Treadmill Drivers ***

* Complete these 300 reps as quickly as possible, completing each set of 50 reps before moving onto the next exercise.

** To perform a double under, jump up higher than usual swinging the rope twice per jump.  With minimal bending of the knees and staying as upright as possible.  To substitute do 200 single jumps.

*** Treadmill is stationary, sprint as fast as you can holding the handles in front of you (as if you are pushing the treadmill forward).  Tougher than it sounds!

"We are taught never to retreat, never to surrender" - King Leonidas

300 Times:

Edwards: 18:30

Barker: 20:50

Keshani: 25:48

Mitch: 26:06

Workout: 300

 

 Spartan Workout:

25 x Pull-up  (any grip)
50 x Deadlift @ 60kg 
50 x Push-up  
50 x Box Jump  (24 inch box)
50 x Floor Wiper @ 60kg 
50 x KB Clean and Press @ 16kg (KB to touch floor between reps)
25 x Pull-up (any grip)

= a total of 300 reps.  

This challenge got me exciting about fitness again.  It seemed so fresh and an interesting approach to working out.  I first completed this in late 2006 and have done it about 6 times since, every 4 or 5 months.  The aim is to complete this as quickly as possible, with minimal rest but with quality reps.  

It's not so much a workout, but a challenge, a benchmark of general physical capacity.  Used as a one time test for the actor's in the film 300 devised by Mark Twight of GymJones.

My first attempt at this took around 50 minutes, my best attempt to date 19 minutes.  Good luck!

KB = Kettlebell (substitute with 18kg DumbBell)