The Misc Weekly Lifting Challenge:

General Info:

This competition is meant to be fun, interesting, and dynamic. The rules will be simple and encourage creativity while expanding your comfort zones.
The Weekly Lifting Challenge will begin on Monday and close on Sunday of each challenge week.
The lift itself will be chosen by Iceman1800, either from the Misc’s suggestions or by Iceman himself.
In the event of a challenge utilizing a prescribed weight, females may use 65% of the weight, rounded to the nearest 5lbs.

Note: If a particular challenge is ‘easy’ find a way to make it more challenging using creative techniques such as pause reps, slow controlled reps, ect. The idea is to impress the Misc with your lift more than your competitors have.


The Entry:

The submission video must be uploaded to YouTube within the contest week (videos of old lifts are not valid). The title of the video must include a reference to the Misc’s Weekly Lifting Challenge. The camera angle must clearly show the entirety of the lift or set.


The Winner:

The winner can be chosen in a variety of ways which include:
-A simple quantitative victory in weight lifted, amount of reps completed, or time in some cases.
-A subjective poll where the Misc will simply decide whose lift was the most impressive. The poll will be attached to the following weeks lifting challenge thread.
The winner for the week will receive a mod rep + additional contributions in the form of additional reps or other incentives to sweeten the pot.

The Challenge:
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This one starts on page 34

In.

I'm picking Tom Muttafis or a crossfit brah to win.

1st...

If Tom enters, the unaware miscers will discover one of the best resources for strength gains we have on this site.

He's a beast for sure

For real. Misc is unaware the a Pro 105 strongman posts regularly.


Slightly disappointed that the first challenge is some CrossFit chit though. Out on this one

Great thread - who was the miscer who suggested this type of thread last week?

Want to rep them for the awesome idea

allianc3

most x in y seconds, brb the few miscers that lift get injured.

This. He actually wrote the wording in the OP.

brings back memories from the misc vs swamp boys thread.

Dude has unreal push strength, not sure I've seen many of his other lifts. Seems like one of the friendliest guys around here too.

Anyways, I was already factoring in doing this on my shoulder day this week which will be Thursday.

Don't disappoint misc, you guys record yourself reenacting gifs for far less reps, go record yourself making an attempt at this.

Also meant to ask, hang cleans or a full clean from the ground?

Full from the ground

this... lol

I figured it was something more people can do instead of just pure strength.

I'm cool with that. Plus you need to make it something that can be done with the most basic gym equipment.

Maximizing the competitors is going to be crucial to seeing this succeed.



I will be repping all entry submittals

In for this [to witness not compete lol], I wouldn't win this

Fukkin in. Will rep winners of course

Ageed and since it's only a week, it's never long before there's something else potentially more relevant to your interests.

Would be nice to average a few submissions a day to give me a reason to look forward to getting on the misc each day and actually have lifting videos to give a look.

tfw when you doubt you could do more than 2

Tfw you know your cardio isn't ready for it

In for this. Shoulder has been a little off for the past week so may sit this one out but next week for sure.

I decided to do some clean presses after my leg day, bad idea. No cardio endurance left.

Bump

Wasn't gonna post this half-ass set because I only had the stamina to hit about 40 seconds worth of clean presses after a leg workout but I'll post again later in the week on shoulder day when I start with them.





I figure 16 reps in ~40 seconds should leave me around 20-24 reps in 60 seconds. I really don't see how it's possible to hit more than 26-28ish in that time frame. The movement requires about 2-2.5 seconds.

Mirin that gym

Do you give bonus points if we recently had surgery and have a bum, atrophied leg? Would've rocked this contest if I was healthy, prolly would've done it with one arm.

There's a crossfit workout called Grace that's floor to overhead for 30 reps with 135 and Derek Poundstone and Brian Shaw have the top two times...both did it in under a minute.

Edit: shaw did it in 1:01, but Poundstone did it in under a minute

Well fuk, every rep in under 2 seconds is quick as hell. 60 seconds of a compound movement for speed is a bitch, I couldn't catch my breath which is why I kinda gave up. Hopefully continuing for another 20 seconds won't be too bad if I'm starting with them while fresh.