Assume the workout stops at 1 hour. If your workout is longer than 1 hour, choose the most intense (highest heart rate/hardest in your opinion) hour of your workout.

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  1. I’m running Super Squats again.

    I doubt the average American could compete. But there would still be millions that could.

  3. I mean I don’t believe the average adult exercises in most of the world. I feel like a 2 mile run at a moderate pace would shake off most people.

  4. The average American could eventually do my workout. I lift for two hours and do 30 minutes on the elliptical every day. It just takes commitment (and a significant helping of body dysmorphia).

  5. I’ve brought fairly fit people to do my workout with me and they struggled. It incorporates flexibility which most people neglect.

  6. I believe I’m average. Workout several times a week but not a bodybuilder (more of a sculptor), or training for a marathon/triathlon (I walk 5k’s), not athletic but play sports through parks and rec, nor engage in any other high intensity workout. But I’m not part of the sedentary group either so I’d guess they split pretty evenly on either side of me.

  8. Could the average American run and lift weights? Yes.

    Could they do it at the same pace and with the same weights? No, not at first. If they’re younger than I am (I’m literally the exact median age) and male, they’d probably get there with a year or so of consistently working out.

    Source: casual observations of other people at my commercial gym

  9. No. My most intense sustained workout is my lagree class. I couldn’t even do it when I first started and I was already pretty athletic.

    (Lagree is movements done on a moving platform rig that uses springs to generate varying levels of resistance. Each move you do is 8 counts- 4 in and 4 out. So, think of slowly rolling out a resistance ab roller over 4 counts, holding for some push ups or pulses, then slowly bringing it back in over 4 counts.)

    But it works. I can plank for close to 3 minutes now.

  11. Likely no.

    I almost was a college athlete (though it didn’t end up happening).

    Although I’m not in as good of shape as I was 5 or 6 years ago, I still stay in pretty good shape, because covid taught me that if I don’t it doesn’t go well.

  14. Considering my workout is 90% my job working in a beer distributor and 10% a five miles bike ride on the weekend/walking up steep hills, likely.

  17. I regularly run half marathons and occasionally do triathlons. I’m not even fast and I’ll say no.

  19. The average other 26 year old? Probably. The average counting babies and old people, no shot..

  20. I run 15-20 miles a week. 3 dedicated runs and 2 bootcamp style workouts. I seriously doubt most people could do it.

  21. Could they do my new normal workout? Yeah, if they pushed themselves. A 30min jog, 20 mins on the elliptical, mini an workout, and 20 mins bike (to gym and back) could be done. Would suck but doable if they were really determined.

    But I work a manual job so my workouts aren’t as tough. Even with lower/no weights, I don’t think they could keep up the old routine I used to do.

  22. Average American? No. I’m not *that* fit but working a blue collar job means that I’m vastly more fit than anyone else besides gym rats and other blue collar workers.

  23. That would be an 8-10 mile run depending on how hard I am trying, so I’d imagine a pretty comfortable majority of people couldn’t do that.

  24. I’m not strong enough to brag about but I do work out so I’m stronger than someone who doesn’t work out at all so… no probably your average inactive couch potato could not do the workout I did today.

  26. Probably, I lift weights 4x a week and cardio the other 3 days but it’s not crazy high weights or super intense cardio (usually I run 5-10k)

  27. My weekday workout is just walking my dog a mile or two, so yeah, most could do it easily. Not sure most could keep up with my weekend activities though. I ski at a very high level in the winter and spring and backpack extensively in the summer and fall.

    I’m uncomfortable boasting, but it’s quite difficult for me to find people with the combination of skill and conditioning to handle the sort of stuff I like to ski.

  28. Depends on if it’s my average or my twice a month workout. If it’s the latter I would say probably 98% or higher are incapable of completing the workout. They’re martial arts based and called “I want my momma” drills for a reason and it’s one of the reasons why I can spar for a very long time, and quickly recover my stamina better than most with short breaks. It’s an extremely intense 30 minute cardio workout with only 1 minute breaks between rounds and you do 3 rounds. All strikes are against a target that provides resistance like a heavy bag or a person holding a shield. A round is 1 minute of rapid front kicks, 1 minute of rapid burpees, 1 minute of rapid knee strikes, 1 minute of rapid squats, 1 minute of rapid straight punches, 1 minute of rapid v sit ups. When I say rapid, I literally mean as fast as you can. Correct form doesn’t matter much here (it just needs to be close,) it’s about doing everything as quickly as possible within the 1 minute period. After that’s done you get 4 minutes of slow paced jogging, then it’s right to 5 minutes of fast paced jogging. I guess if your really want to stretch it to an hour, I will often cool down with meditation afterwards, that could go for another 30 minutes easily.

    This is the kind of workout that doesn’t just push your body to its limit, it pushes your mind too because if you give up when your body wants to quit, you will not be able to complete it. This particular workout isn’t about performance so much since it’s “as fast as you can,” but just about making it through to the end.

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