Challenges
Gym Challenges
The April May Challege has been extended to May as it is being run to raise
money for Caring for Kids. The Challenge is to bench press half your bodyweight
keeping time with a metronome. The prize is a specially designed sporran designed
by famous sporran maker Marcus Eagleton.
The March Challenge was twice your bodyweight on the leg press and doing as
many reps as possible in 90secs.
The winner was
Vicky McCann with 103 reps and 2nd was Shane
Geraghty with 89
Deadlift Hold: Putting twice your bodyweight
on the bar hold the bar with no straps for as long as you can. The winner
was Shane Geraghty with 151sec 2nd Guy Addison
with 95 secs and 3rd Johnny Sinclair with 92sec well done that was a killer
Dips then Press ups: You do as many dips as you can in 1 minute
then 20 secs rest followed by as many press ups as you can in 1 minute.The
winner is Shane G with a score of 120
followed by Vicky Mc with 105 then in 3rd place Gary Wilson with 101 in 4th
was Guy Addison with 99.
The hanging challenge -hanging
from a bar with close grip for as long as possible this was won by Scot
Logan in a time of 5mins 35secs.Close behind was his brother Matthew
with 5mins 5secs.
The Bench Press challenge -
benching with your bodyweight for as many reps as possible Vicky
won that with 31 reps (although as a woman she got 25% of her bodyweight)
Shane G was 2nd with 30 reps at his bodyweight of 105kg (very impressive)
The dumbell challenge- 20kg
dumbells over head one at a time each time you get a dumbell over your head
counts as a rep. The winner was Graeme Barron
with 107 reps awesome, followed by gym owner Guy Addison with 83 reps and
in 3rd place Mark Alexander with 63 reps. very impressive scores.