The Original 300 Workout

Back awhile ago, I posted this workout by Craig Ballantyne on a great 300 workout.

I was at a seminar a few weeks ago where I found out the Original 300 Workout was actually only 3 exericses: Pullup, Pushup, and Squat. You did 100 Pullups, 100 Pushups, and 100 Squats and tried to get that done in 30 minutes.

Now i don't know if this workout was created by someone recently who is calling it by that name or whether this is actually a workout that was done 2000 years ago in ancient Rome.

I tried it out last week and it was pretty good. I made one slight adjustment in that I did inverted rows instead of pullups (I might be able to squeak out 50 pullups, but I'll be honest, there's no way I could have pulled out 100 of them).

How I did it though was I did everything in sets of 5 in circuit fashion. I did 5 inverted rows, 5 bodyweight squats, and then 5 pushups and then repeated that over and over again until I had done a total of 20 sets.

My time wasn't too bad. 14:30 the first day I did it, 13:45 the second time I did it.

I'll tell you what though, for a workout that lasts less than 15 minutes, I was drenched in sweat when I was done and boy did my upper body feel it the next day.

Another good example of how designing workouts effectively using the biggest muscles you've got can cut down on the amount of time that you have to workout but give you the same (if not better) results than if you worked out longer.

Give it a try and e-mail me at mike@leanbodyfitness.com to let me know how you did.

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