Todays Workout - The Jet

5 Pull Ups
10 Sandbag Push Press
10 Sandbag Shoulder Squats (change shoulder each round)

Complete as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes.

Men aim for a 30kg sandbag; women aim for 15kg.

Record your score.

Train hard!

Todays Workout - The Devil's In The Details

100 Sandbag Shoulders.

Men aim for 50% bodyweight; women aim for 50% bodyweight.

Record your time.

Train hard!

Todays Workout - The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

15 - 1 of the following exercises (perform 15 repetitions of each one, then 14 etc.):

Sandbag Floor Press
Sandbag Shoulder Get Ups (switch shoulders at 5)
Sandbag Zercher Squats
Sandbag High Pulls

Men aim for a 40kg sandbag; women aim for 20kg.

Record your time.

Train hard!

This could well be a pretty long workout for you, so here's a nice long music video to go with it!

Todays Workout - "I Ain't Goin Down No More"

5 Sandbag Clean and Press
Max Pull Ups

Rest for 3 minutes and repeat for a total of 5 rounds.

Aim for the heaviest sandbag you can handle for 5 reps and record both the max weight and max repetitions for you Pull Ups.

Train hard!

Todays Workout - Matt and the Wheeled Warriors

Todays workout was inspired by one of my favourite cartoons as a kid - Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors. Check out the video below if you want a blast from the past!

Run 400m
10 Push Ups
20 Sandbag Cleans
30 Sandbag Back Squats

Repeat for a total of 3 rounds as fast as possible.

Men aim for a 40kg sandbag; women aim for 20kg.

Record your time.

Train hard!

You might be wondering what it was about that cartoon that inspired this workout. They drove a lot and this workout contains some running - that's it. A fairly tenuous link you'll agree. 

Sandbag Training For Tough Mudder

I recently had an article published here in the UK in Outdoor Fitness Magazine. It covered a few specific sandbag training programmes that would help you get through the Tough Mudder. I know that many of those following the blog have been unable to get a copy as they don't live in the UK so I thought I'd provide a taste of the training info here.

For those of you that can get hold of the magazine, I urge you to grab a copy - it really is very good.

Click here to check it out

For everyone else, here's a taster of some of the sandbag training exercises that you can use to get around the course.

Try this workout to build endurance

Complete 5 rounds of the following sequence:

1 Sandbag Hill Sprint (top to bottom)

10 Sandbag Thrusters

10 Sandbag High Pulls

10 Sandbag Chest Throws

Use a sandbag weight that challenges you to complete all 5 rounds.

Sandbag Hill Sprint

Thruster Start

Thruster Finish

High Pull Start

High Pull Finish 

Chest Throw

Todays Workout - You're Not Serious...

I felt like getting really stuck in today. I've been at the computer too much recently and wanted to get a lot of energy out. It worked.

100 Sandbag Shoulder Squats (switch shoulders as you wish)
100 Sandbag Push Jerks
100 Sandbag Cleans (Power)
100 Pull Ups

Men aim for a 30kg sandbag; women aim for 15kg.

Record your time.

Train hard!