Name: Playbook - Sam Sweeney - W1/D7 Gut Check Challenge
Uploaded: 2023-06-03T13:16:10.307Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: W1/D7 Gut Check Challenge

Caroline

Kiki

This was HARD but we did it!! 
I wrote it down, so that means I had to do it. I didn’t want to.. after the first set of pushups (on my knees) my brain said “nope.” 
We did it though!

Crystal Duchesneau 

Even months later this is so challenging but I feel my strength and growth

Ya I would have paired a burpee instead. That’s crazy

Aubrey

Stormy

Made it to round 15 with my chest touching the ground every time!! Made it to round 10 with doing push ups with my knees. I can’t feel my arms.

Kate

Dead 💀 made it through round 17 in 42 minutes. That’s 289 push ups and 153 squats. Had to stop lol my muscles were fatiguing. Not bad for my first try

Francesca

Holy crap! First. I only did 10 push ups from my toes at the very start. The rest from my knees. When my arms started to fail me I modified further to a TRX chest press. Finished in 45min 😵‍💫

Megan

Alice

Made it to 19-7 😵‍💫 Only go up from here

Hannah E

DECEIVINGLY HARD. I completed 9 complete rounds and my arms gave out at the 16 push-up mark but I completed all the rounds up to 25 squats. Felt great when it was over

Sydney

Krystal

So hard! I did it all but my push-ups were modified and the first 10 rounds were like...half push-ups because I'm starting from scratch! I did full ones towards the end. 😅 Took 43 min.

Brittany

Emily

yangBAE

I didn’t get to four push-ups and however many squats. I was shaking and felt like throwing up 🥲

Natalee

Good. Burnt out my quads. Switched to planks instead of pushups halfway through

Meg K

I kinda completed it 😂😂 I didn’t think I could handle that many push-ups so I started at 20… only took 25-30 minutes. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ll have to try the full 25 next time!  That is killer on the push-ups

Sarah

So simple but a lot harder than expected! Great workout!

Adriana

Traci

Got to round 11 it was rough!! Now I have a place to beat!

Marissa

Jordan

Lindsey

Week 1: Day 7: Gut Check Challenge 
Instruction: Welcome to your first (of 6) Challenge workouts. This will give you a great starting point to see where your endurance lies. Set a timer for the amount of time you have available for this workout (don’t spend any longer than an hour here). It’s possible this one may be tough to finish the first time, and that’s ok. It’s simple and deceivingly difficult. You will begin with 25 reps of push ups (modify push up by dropping to knees) + 1 rep air squats (increase difficulty by choosing squat hops). Each round you will drop a rep from the push up and add one to your air squats (the first couple rounds are written out below as examples). The goal is to move as quickly as you can through each round, and rest as little as possible. 
The entire workout only consists of two movements: push ups and air squats. Make sure you are familiar with the correct form on both movements and modify as needed.

Time Cap: 1 hour

25 push ups + 1 air squat 
Modify push ups on knees Increase Difficulty by choosing squat hops 
24 push ups + 2 air squats 
23 push ups + 3 air squats 
22 push ups + 4 air squats 
21 push ups + 5 air squats 
… 
1 push ups + 25 air squats

- Start with your hands just outside the shoulders 
- Bend at the elbows to come down 
- Keep your core tight as you come down 
- Extend your arms engaging your chest as you come up

Push Ups

- Stand with feet shoulder width apart
- Lower in to the bottom of a squat pushing your hips back and down
- Stand up out of squat to full hip extension keeping your chest up
- Your knees should be inline with your toes

Air Squats

Gut Check Challenge 1

W1/D7 Gut Check Challenge

Xenia

Lorena

Great workout with my 14yr old daughter 😅😅

Heather

W1/D1 Bodyweight Bootcamp

Serena

Ok this was fire 🔥 I didn’t know what to do for full body HITT today. I came across this one… Sooo goood, thank you Sam!!!💪

Pascale

Only did half for my add on for hiit/ cardio did leg day in get strong at home week 2 🥵

Lauren

W1/D3 Heavy HIIT

30 minutes I didn't push too crazy outside at baseball practice so I did 5 rounds.... I'm proud because I was going to rest today 😝

Sovi

W1/D5 AMRAP Endurance

20 min elliptical; 20 min 10% incline walk … I get bored easy with indoor steady state cardio

Zachariah Burdick

W1/D6 Optional Steady State Cardio

Kept on progressing in the rounds throughout the sets!

W2/D1 Bodyweight Bootcamp

Ran out of time! 😭 finished 4 of the 6 tri sets in 45. Needed 28 more min at least

Brutal, it was 10x worse. Did the running back to back 😪

Chimena

W2/D3 Heavy HIIT

6 rounds within 47 minutes! And i am drenched!

W2/D5 AMRAP Endurance

So I did 30 minutes because tomorrow is going to be a killer day

Krystal Gomez

20 min stair stepper, 20 min infrared sauna.

W2/D6 Optional Steady State Cardio

45 mins completed 21 reps of reverse bp and 21 reps of pike press. Dead

I did pull ups and lunges. Made it all the way down to 15 for both. Pull ups were killing me.

W1/D7 Gut Check Challenge

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