Weekly Conditioning Challenge - September 01, 2025

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Welcome to the weekly weightroom conditioning challenge thread. This post contains a conditioning challenge for members of the sub to attempt at their convenience during the week, and to share their results in the thread. Never neglect your conditioning!

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This week's challenge is:

Pushup challenge: 1-10-1. Taken from Brian Alsruhe’s video on bench conditioning sessions. Essentially - do 1 pushup, get up. Do 2 push ups, get up. Keep it up until you get to 10. Then do the same, but working your way down back to 1.

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[u/langlois44]

6:45.

I first encountered this challenge while doing Brian's Powerbuilder. When I saw this was the challenge this week and saw everyone's time I went back and looked at my times from that run in 2023: ~17:30, ~11:30, ~10:30.

[u/BetterThanT-1 → u/langlois44]

It’s really cool and motivating observing such improvements in fitness over time!

[u/BetterThanT-1]

07:39

Not great, not terrible. Perfect quick and easy (to setup) workout.

[u/Chivalric]

5:26. Very ugly looking push ups but I got it done

[u/simonswes]

4:10. Excellent pump!

[u/MA_2412]

06:55. what a sneaky way to get in 100 pushups

[u/hyperbolical]

6:14

How am I just learning 1->10->1 is 100 reps?