Last week that AH Pax endured a brutal beat down.  More details available here, but in sum it involved plate pushes/coupon carries up a big hill followed by full field burpeecides. Having set the bar high, last week’s co-Q’s wondered how to turn things up a notch as they once again took the Q reins: Should we just run it back? How could we make it worse? From there, a thought experiment emerged.  What if we switched the order? Would it be worse to exhaust your heart, lungs and arms before the plate pushes? Or would a little cardio simply make us stronger as we proceeded up the hill.  Today’s PAX were the subjects in this experiment.

Warm-Up

25 SSH/30 seconds OYO

The Thang

Bear crawl down to field

Full soccer field suicide (6, 18, half, 18, 6, endline) w/ 10 merkins+10 burpees every round (ended up being 60 each).

Mosey to bottom of Curtis Hill where 5 plates and coupons greeted us.

Plate push up Curtis/partners carry coupons

The Result:

Today was materially worse than last week.  The sequence took longer, bodies were in more pain, the 30,000 foot stare spared no Pax.  Unfortunately, halfway up the hill, Appomattox pointed out that the experiment was fundamentally flawed as the controls were inconsistent.  Last week teams of 3 pushed plates up the hill while this week we opted for team of 2, thus resulting in a 50% increase in plate push distance per Pax.  So while today was materially more painful, was it 50% more painful? 45%? 55%? Seems like there’s only 1 way to find out….