just finished 35 ton workout...

[Humble Narcissist]

what a waste of fucking time

No kidding.

[TheFranchise]

cephissus, do you still live rent free with your boyfriend, in exchange for cooking for him? 

He has to throw up the sperm since it’s “too many daily calories” for him.

[French]

Can you recommend some joint-sparing workouts

Follow F.Zane advice

my gym is now full of great machines, there's free weights too but I just don't use them as much, especially barbells. My slogan is "Ifit hurts, don't do it", the anti-thesis to the popular bodybuilding maxim, "No pain, no gain". Pain is not a good word.

[FitnessFrenzy]

Looking forward to hear about Basile's 80 ton for 80 workout.

[cephissus]

cephissus, do you still live rent free with your boyfriend, in exchange for cooking for him? 

haha no, moved out about 7 years ago i think

He has to throw up the sperm since it’s “too many daily calories” for him.

Follow F.Zane advice

i dont think machines are any safer, sadly. these days, i'm thinking more and more of ways to reduce both lifting and running risks, though.

Thanks cephissus! But it was shockingly hard, and I failed it pretty badly. However, I am confident that one workout alone will make me that much more likely to finish it next time. 

Our birthdays are so close, that I decided to try to copy you on the fly without adequate rest. My chest was not recovered from a heavy workout just prior to trying my hand at your workout.

That being said...I am 100% certain I would have missed no matter what.

I'm glad I tried it though - because it made me realize how much I regressed due to the gym closures we had here in Canada. 

I'm not sure why anyone would say this workout is a waste of time - of course this workout isn't a typical workout. That's the point! But man...did I ever realize how out of shape I am in some ways.

It's all a trade-off: if we want to be our leanest, we lose strength. If we want to be our strongest, we lose speed, etc.

I like the idea of doing your challenge, because I think it's one good indicator of overall fitness, IMO.

I know it's unconventional - but I HIGHLY received other Getbiggers give it a shot! 

Out of curiosity, are you in that condition year 'round?

I'm sure you can get it next year, and I'm glad you got something out of the challenge! To prepare, I did about three 100+ rep workouts for squats, and maybe 2 for deadlifts, over a period of a month and a half or so. I also took it easy with a round of bodyweight workouts for a couple days prior to the workout.

Ever since I built back up from my "eating disorder" days about 6 or so years ago, I have been in the same shape year round, more or less. When it comes to working out, I might be "morbidly consistent".

Looking forward to hear about Basile's 80 ton for 80 workout.

Is he still among us?

[Matt]

Back in the 1990's there was a guy at Golds Gym Venice that would lift 1,000,000 pounds each year on his birthday.

Late 40's. Just a fitness/exercise nut job.

Showed up at 4am when the joint opened and finished his "million pounds" around 9 pm I seem to recall.

Wrote down every set. Lots of stuff like...

Angled leg press 300 x 30
Low pulley rows 150 x 20
Standing calve raises 350 x 10

For the week afterwards he would walk around showing people his workout book. Nice enough guy.

I attempted to keep up with the pace required to do this, and before hitting 7,000-lb, I was already slowing down a little.

I have no doubt I could find a way to make it work to hit 100,000-lb over a time frame that long...but a MILLION POUNDS??

Even doing angled leg presses at 300-lb per rep, assuming the leg press sled weighs 120-lb, that would be 2x 45-lb plates per side. Not that heavy...but that's 30 reps, to get to 9,000-lb, on the road to one million.

You would have to do 112 sets of that to reach one million pounds.

That's one set every 9 minutes 18 seconds for 17 hours straight, without taking breaks.

And you'd have to include the 30-rep set on that time.

I could likely finish 30 reps of a 2-plate per side angled leg press in one minute 18 seconds, with proper form, and do it again after a nine minute break, and then so again after another nine minutes.

And again.

And again.

And again.

But for 17 HOURS???

A 30-rep set of 2-plate per side angled leg press is not heavy...but 112 sets of that??? That's a lot.

Was the person The Father of The True Adonis?

I'm reminded of a post that Ron posted of a guy at the 2004 Arnold Classic who was doing something like lifting a 45-lb dumbbell overhead with one-arm [Circus Dumbbell form, possibly, but I can't recall, and i had no idea what the CDB was at that time], and would challenge others to lift it for more reps than him...and he ended up beating everyone.

It's been almost 18 years since that thread, so I can't remember who this guy was, and I have no way to search for him. Does anyone remember any of those details?