20120429 – 08h30 – The @Rannoch.Donald-100
Today is the birthday of Rannoch Donald (http://www.facebook.com/rannoch.donald) – the creator of the 100 rep challenge (http://www.facebook.com/100RepChallenge).
We decided to do a bit of a birthday workout to honour this fine creation…. with a twist.
The 100 rep challenge is simple… One Hundred Repetitions of the activity of your choice, every day.
We took a bit of a different approach to make it a 100 rep CHALLENGE of challenges.
Instead of 100 reps, which we’ll call a “Rannoch”… we did 100 x Rannoch’s.
100 sets…of 100 reps (=10,000 reps in total)
We also made it a fund-raiser – hoping to raise R10,000 for the SPCA (100 people each contributing R100 will make this possible – hint, hint!!!)
We have never tried anything at this volume before, so went with the ultra-conservative 12kg (in retrospect, thank goodness!).
On the 96,97th sets we bumped it up to 14kg, and for the final 3 sets to 16kg. I seriously doubt we’d have made it on anything >12kg for any appreciable number of sets.
one-handed swings (ONLY!! NO alternating swings) in sets of 100. Simply put, 100L…100R…etc. Do NOT stop, do NOT rest, do NOT put down.
In all this took just on 4.5 hours.
Thanks to @Rannoch.Donald for the inspiration, and to @SteveCotterIKFF, without whose teachings it would have been impossible.
Well done to all those who took part. Happy Birthday @Rannoch.Donald