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I'm looking at Snake Eater's Delight. I'm thinking of treating these challenge sessions as mini-events that I work up to over the year. Any of you crazy bastards attempt the challenges yet?

I did Duku-Duku x 12 with a 55lbs kettlebell once. I'll admit that I have no desire to try Snake Eater's Delite. I'm a bit of wimp about sleep!

Haha, admittedly the first time I read Snake Eater's Delight I was about halfway through when I said hell yeah, someday. Then K.B. said only the crazy would like it...

J-Madd wrote:I did Duku-Duku x 12 with a 55lbs kettlebell once. I'll admit that I have no desire to try Snake Eater's Delite. I'm a bit of wimp about sleep!

Seriously? How was it? Any tips? The idea of lugging around that KB while sprinting up and down a hill without putting it down sounds like sheer hell.

grouchyjarhead wrote:Haha, admittedly the first time I read Snake Eater's Delight I was about halfway through when I said hell yeah, someday. Then K.B. said only the crazy would like it...

Yeah, my family and some of my more vanilla friends think I'm from another planet when it comes to some of the stuff I do in training. They just stare and go "But why?". I have no answer for them

StayGrey wrote:

J-Madd wrote:I did Duku-Duku x 12 with a 55lbs kettlebell once. I'll admit that I have no desire to try Snake Eater's Delite. I'm a bit of wimp about sleep!

Seriously? How was it? Any tips? The idea of lugging around that KB while sprinting up and down a hill without putting it down sounds like sheer hell.

Reading it on paper, I was expecting it to be a real horror show, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be (though certainly no picnic). I find a really tough Apex session (15+ rounds with the 48KG) is harder. I shouldered the KB when running up the hill, which really took the grip factor out. The next time I try it, I'll give a 70lbs KB a try.

grouchyjarhead wrote:Haha, admittedly the first time I read Snake Eater's Delight I was about halfway through when I said hell yeah, someday. Then K.B. said only the crazy would like it...

All the other challenges I said "someday", but snake eater was where I drew the line. The next one I want to try is "Burpees for the Mentally Disturbed." I doubt I can pull it off, but it's worth going down swinging.

StayGrey wrote:Yeah, my family and some of my more vanilla friends think I'm from another planet when it comes to some of the stuff I do in training. They just stare and go "But why?". I have no answer for them

Some of the bodybuilders and powerlifters look at me horrified when I tell them about some of the sessions in TB2. "Why would you do that to yourself" seems to be the prevailing questions to the conditioning sessions.

The hill I do most of sprints on is on a street adjacent to the campus where I teach -- you can see it in the Apex videos I posted with my Apex article at TB.com. When I first started using that hill for workouts several years ago, it caused a lot of gawking attention form students and colleagues: "What the hell is Prof. Madden doing?" Now seeing me do stupid shit on that hill is just a common fixture in the community that is barely called to notice: "Oh never mind, that's just Prof Madden doing his stuff." In one of the videos you can actually see one of my colleagues drive past as I causaully say "Hi Pat" mid swing.

By the way, I often ponder the irony that across the parking lot of that hill is a multi-million dollar facility the college just built, because our students "didn't have a place to exercise."

J-Madd wrote:

StayGrey wrote:

J-Madd wrote:I did Duku-Duku x 12 with a 55lbs kettlebell once. I'll admit that I have no desire to try Snake Eater's Delite. I'm a bit of wimp about sleep!

Seriously? How was it? Any tips? The idea of lugging around that KB while sprinting up and down a hill without putting it down sounds like sheer hell.

Reading it on paper, I was expecting it to be a real horror show, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be (though certainly no picnic). I find a really tough Apex session (15+ rounds with the 48KG) is harder. I shouldered the KB when running up the hill, which really took the grip factor out. The next time I try it, I'll give a 70lbs KB a try.

I can see shouldering it making it a little easier....but still. Apex does seem like a natural build-up to Duku.