Mere Green's Challenge double up!

As is our tradition every Halloween, we will be running two challenges for the rest of the month of October, this will be the regular monthly challenge of the Pause and Press, as well as the Halloween themed challenge of the Pumpkin Plank!

The pause and press has so far been shown to be very difficult for a lot of people, for men having to move 50% of your bodyweight in a shoulder press from a seated position, the bar must come under your chin before you can once again go back up for another rep. The same rules apply for women other than you will be moving 25% of your bodyweight for as many reps as possible! Juniors will be running the same challenge, just on the shoulder press machine, still using 50% of their bodyweight but through a much more controlled method! With a week to go the current winning score for the men is 33 Reps, for women it is 17 reps and for Juniors it is 20 reps! one week to go if you think you can beat these scores!

For the pumpkin plank, everyon will be planking with the same pumpkin placed on their back by one of the team, the pumpkin weighs just over 6KG making a regular plank much harder, for this challenge you will be timed and the highest time for each catagory will win! We always begin these challenges half way through the month of october, so if you think youve already done a challenge this month its time to get yourself straight on the leaderboard for number 2! Again with just a week to go on this challenge the mens leading score is 3 minutes and 30 seconds, for the women it is bang on 3 minutes and for the Juniors who have taken a big part in this challenge so far the leading score is 3 minutes and 1 second!

If you fancy your chances at either of these challenges, give one of the team a shout and we will be more than happy to come and ref it for you! Best of luck everyone!