Over the past six months I’ve been working with a personal trainer to regain a functional level of fitness. The difference has been incredible and my entire family benefits from my ability to not only do the things we want to do, but also do all the heavy lifting.
I’ve reached a point in my training where I’m looking for inspiration to try a new challenge. So, with the blessing of my trainer, I’m on a quest to become a hero for fun.
If you’re not familiar with the reference, I’m referring to Saitama, who is the main character of “One Punch Man.”
For context, this whole idea was inspired by re-watching the show and finding a silly workout app.
Saitama claims that the source of his amazing abilities mostly comes from a strict, daily workout regimen of:
- 100 pushups
- 100 situps
- 100 squats
- A 10 kilometer run
Of course, Saitama isn’t real and his workout is obviously a joke. Moreover, it’s a terrible idea to run 10km a day, so my running goal will include the ability to run 10km at least once by the end of the challenge.
Also, it’s incredibly imbalanced to do 100 situps a day in particular. I will be using my own judgement and research to find the best path toward being able to complete a One Punch Man workout in a single day. I will still do as many reps as fast as I can, to the peak of 100 repetitions, but I will experiment with rotating muscle groups.
I will be training for 90 days to try to achieve my goal: Be able to perform the One Punch Man workout. The silly app suggests time limits to do my repetitions. For me, these are aspirational goals. I will try to do all the repetitions in the prescribed times and make adjustments where I need to. If I fail to move fast enough, I will keep going until I have done all of my repetitions.
The silly app also has 3 levels of difficulty: Beginner, Amateur and Pro. Each level is 30 days. Each difficulty change results in a significant jump in difficulty. Instead, I’m going to increase the repetitions until I reach a new point of failure. This should offset the madness of weird difficulty jumps.
If you care for it, there is the link to the RSS feed: RSS
Sessions
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Day 8 -
Day 8 of the One Punch Challenge: 35 bodyweight rows, 35 squats, 35 crunches, and a 3 minute run. -
Day 7 -
Day 7 of the One Punch Challenge: 35 pushups, 35 squats, 90s plank, and a 2.5 minute run. -
Day 6 -
Day 6 of the One Punch Challenge: 35 pushups, 35 squats, 35 crunches, and a 2.5 minute run. -
Day 5 -
Day 5 of the One Punch Challenge: 35 pushups, 35 squats, 35 situps, and a 2.5 minute run. -
Day 4 -
Day 4 of the One Punch Challenge: 30 pushups, 30 squats, 30 crunches, and a 2-minute run. -
Day 3 -
Day 3 of the One Punch Challenge: 30 pushups, 30 squats, 30 situps, and a 2-minute run. -
Day 2 -
Day 2 of the One Punch Challenge: 30 pushups, 30 squats, 30 situps, and a 2-minute run. -
Day 1 -
First day of the One Punch Challenge: 30 pushups, 30 squats, 30 situps, and a 2-minute run.