B.E.S.T. Man Competition

A week ago a few friends and I were doing some late night hanging out. As usual this consisted mostly of a couple of drinks, some NHL action on the XBOX, lots of talking, and even more laughter. Then things took a turn for the interesting.

I believe it started when I complained of being ridiculously sore from the previews night's lifting at the gym and then things escalated rather quickly. Before you know it the four of us are talking about what we need to work on most at the gym and what we excel at. We quickly realized that two of us, myself and Buddy, lift a lot but really need to improve on the cardio. The other two, Stew and Elijah, are ridiculous at cardio and wish they could lift more. Naturally, being the competition obsessed idiots we are, words like, "competition" and "contest" made their way into the conversation rather quickly. We decided that we needed some kind of competition.

We would team up, 2 on 2, and after a month of training we would compete to see which team would win some kind of competition. But before we could come up with what exactly the competition is comprised of, we had the more important task of naming said event. Didn't take long at all. We were after all in a competition to see who was BEST and we are all men... ohh... and our names are Buddy, Elijah, Stew, and Thor. B.E.S.T. See what we did there. And that's how the B.E.S.T. Man Competition started. After much discussion on what would take place during this competition we decided on a couple of things. The contest would be split between lifting and cardio. Individual scores will be added to the team, for a team winner. There are 2 cardio contests. The quarter mile sprint and the 3 mile race around Lake Johnson. Not really looking forward to that. We take the race times for a time score. The quarter mile sprint counts double. So, for example. Let's say the quarter mile sprint takes you 1:30 seconds. You have a score of 3:00. Then you add that to your lake race... let's say that's 30 minutes. Now your personal score is 33:00. Add that to your team mates score. Now we factor in the lifting. Bench Press, Leg Press, and Lat Pull. You put on as much weight as you want (minimum half your weight) and do as many reps as you can in one minute. So, for example, on the weight bench you put up 100lbs 30 times in one minute, you moved 3000 pounds. Same goes for all the other weight exercises. Now, for every 1,000 pounds you "move" during the weight exercises you subtract 1 minute off your "time score" from the cardio events. So the idea is to have the lowest team time score. Easy enough.

This friendly competition is serving as some great inspiration. Regardless what the outcome may be we are all focusing on more rounded trips to the gym, and that's the real goal. My times are showing some decent improvement just in the last week. I probably won't post about the winners or specifics of the outcome but I'm sure it'll be "fun". Anyways, the events take place on or around October 1st. There will be trophies.