Jordan Mitchell-Love's Official Blog: Three Challenges In One!

Ok guys, so I'm getting ready for the TRX Mission Readiness Challenge.
Here's the deal:

You have to perform 5 exercises. Each exercise lasts one minute, with 30 seconds in between each one, for a grueling workout. You have to perform as many reps of each exercise for the minute (or until failure). After, you add up all of your repetitions, and that is your score. And you're competing for prizes!

The top person in each branch of the military and civilians will win the following, from the TRX official blog:

Meet and greet with Brian Stann himself. A decorated Marine who completed two tours in Iraq, Stann has been training relentlessly in an effort to contest for the middleweight title, taking his functional training regimen to another level, utilizing the TRX FORCE Kit.

All-expenses paid trip to Camp Pendleton, California to compete in the TRX FORCE: Mission Readiness Challenge Championship against the top scorers in the other branches. This is your chance to represent (for active duty/veterans only).

Trip to TRX HQ in San Francisco train at our world-class training center with the creators of TRX Training (for civilians only). Get hands-on instruction from the masters. We guarantee your training will never be the same.

TRX FORCE Kit, the best-in-class, lightweight, all-body training system developed in the Navy SEALs to build mobility, strength, power and core stability ANYWHERE. Get the same training used pervasively throughout the military, by first responders and by MMA fighters.

The Grand Prize winner gets this:

Airfare and tickets for two to see a UFC fight. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for you and a lucky friend to see two of the biggest names in ultimate fighting today step into the Octagon for a battle of brute strength and sheer will. Who will come out on top? You’ll be one of the first to know.

TRX FORCE: Mission Readiness Challenge Trophy. Who doesn’t love a trophy??

Bragging rights and the peace of mind that comes with knowing you are the most functionally fit service member in the TRX Community, which at last count was well over 100,000 individuals. Respect.

My goal: to get the grand prize.

Now in order to do this, I think I have to get around 255-260 repetitions of the following exercises:

Hamstring Curl: 60ish

Low Row: 50ish

TRX Lunge (each leg): 50ish/leg

Pushup with a Pike: 45ish

This will require a lot of power and endurance for bodyweight, so I gotta kick things up a notch.

Here's the link for how to do the exercises (I'm going to post a video of me demonstrating the exercises later this week):

Feel the testosterone!

In order to do this, my workout schedule is going to consist of this:

5 days of "hard" workouts, with a combination of weights and TRX, with a bit of straight cardio thrown in. Lots of high-intensity interval training, and very little rest. This will push me beyond the brink, and will most likely make me cry more than once.

2 "easy" days consisting of yoga and cardio to up my aerobic capacity. These will be more "active rest" days.

No straight out rest days.

The workout schedule will be done for 5 weeks, with each workout being made by me personally.

On November 28th, after a couple of days of active rest, I will record my workout to be submitted to TRX, and hopefully the grand prize.

Each Monday, I will be submitting my measurements to track my physical progress. I will also be getting my resting heart rate each morning, and seeing if there are any improvements, either up or down.

But that's not all!

In addition, I'm going to be doing some nutritional challenges as well.

Check out the video for more, and wish me luck!