What is the Hardest Workout You Ever Did?

TossaBeanBag

In my younger days, I did the Beartooth Run in Red Lodge, Montana, USA. It's an 8 mile, 8% grade, uphill, beginning at around 9000 feet elevation. That was about as hard as the last 7 miles of a Marathon I ran.

Last night, I took a break from lifting heavy and did a lower body workout consisting of 20 reps with weight I could barely do on the 20th rep for squats, leg presses, extensions, hamstring curls, and calf raises. At about rep 20, my heart rate was definitely up (reminded me of a HIIT session). I did about 4 sets on all of these, and on each I almost wanted to hurl on the 20th rep.

What was a memorably tough workout you had?

dbmata

My last session looking for my 1RM with the high bar back squat.
I found 315# was my 1RM, that was rep 175 of a total of 187 back squats that day. Warmup was 200 body weight squats, and I was doing some walking lunges as my rest sessions for the squatting. It was a tough workout, physically and mentally. A week later I beat that 1RM.

TossaBeanBag

dbmata wrote: »

My last session looking for my 1RM with the high bar back squat.
I found 315# was my 1RM, that was rep 175 of a total of 187 back squats that day. Warmup was 200 body weight squats, and I was doing some walking lunges as my rest sessions for the squatting. It was a tough workout, physically and mentally. A week later I beat that 1RM.

Man, just the warm up would have smoked me. I would not be able to squat after that.

dbmata

Eh, you work up to it. I'm recovering from being sick right now, so I know it would kill me now, but you could work up to it.

SnuggleSmacks

I ran up a mountain. Not the whole mountain, but my group walked down a trail to see a waterfall, and I ran the whole way back up the trail. By evening, I was sore, and by the next morning my calves were so sore I could barely hobble.

DojoMaster888

Putting down the twinkie. It was rough, soul breaking too.

logicalinks

Hill run intervals. Was about 35 years old. Ran at about a 15-20% incline for approx. 100 yards as hard as I could, then jogged around two city blocks to get back to the bottom of the hill. Repeated eight times. Threw up at the end.

RockWarrior84

It was a job, forest firefighter. Hiking up mountains and swinging a pulaski (axe), 16 hours a day.

zyxst

Physical fitness test in school. Couldn't complete anything and the pull-ups were especially annoying.

wilsoncl6

Pissed off my drill instructor in Marine Corps boot camp and he destroyed me for two hours. Made me lay a pancho down, fill it up with sweat, pour it out and fill it up again.

Ninkyou

The first one.

Seriously... going from nothing to suddenly doing something... was hard as hell. I remember crying (with joy) when I managed to walk a full mile. And then cried when I had to walk all the way back, lol.

DopeItUp

Every workout is harder than the last.

jstrun

running a full marathon...physically and mentall the hardest thing i've ever done, yet the happiest moment of my life crossing that finish line.

Hornsby

101 miles on a bicycle, 104 degrees outside and 12,000 feet of climbing.

aarar

4 weeks ago I did a 100km ultramarathon; that was tough.

mitchiejo

I did a boot camp workout a couple of years ago. I pulled a muscle in my ribs and was in pain for two weeks. Pain so bad the first week that I cried every time I tried to move.

mitchiejo

I did a boot camp workout a couple of years ago. I pulled a muscle in my ribs and was in pain for two weeks. Pain so bad the first week that I cried every time I tried to move.

sofaking6

3 days crossing the Negev.

bennettinfinity

I remember trying to keep up with a buddy of mine who was home from school for the summer. He was a shot/discus thrower and we spent an hour or so doing some weird pyramid circuit... the weights were in a mezzanine, so I had to walk down stairs after we finished. I was feeling the 'burn', but didn't feel too bad until I hit that first step down and my legs buckled... it was an interesting summer.

jeremywm1977

DojoMaster888 wrote: »

Putting down the twinkie. It was rough, soul breaking too.

It was the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.........funny, I used the word "was". I still haven't put it down yet.

jeremywm1977

wilsoncl6 wrote: »

Pissed off my drill instructor in Marine Corps boot camp and he destroyed me for two hours. Made me lay a pancho down, fill it up with sweat, pour it out and fill it up again.

Thank you for showing me how right I was to not join the Marines 20 years ago.
Much respect to you for doing it, but damn, that isn't for me.

Francl27

Officially feeling like a wimp after reading this thread, lol! For me it's my elliptical workouts, HIITs for an hour with high resistance, I go all out and it leaves me totally beat.

bfergusonii

The Mud Run at Camp Pendleton Marine Base

dbmata

Hornsby wrote: »

101 miles on a bicycle, 104 degrees outside and 12,000 feet of climbing.

Did you find the one hill in the midwest and do laps? lol.

That sounds brutal.

MelsAuntie

Four people, one of them on the tractor, one driving the truck, 1200 bales of hay, finished up after dark driving next to the tractor so the guy baling could see by the truck headlights. got it in before rain, but well after the dew, so we had damp, heavy bales and lost many to mold. easily the worst day ever. Even the men a third my age were stumbling with exhaustion.

raysputin

Five hours in a white water kayak against the current just to get a 15 minute rush coming back down.

LolBroScience

Smolov, and it was only the Jr. version.

dbmata

LolBroScience wrote: »

Smolov, and it was only the Jr. version.

Yeah, thinking of GVT or Smolov here soon, once LP stalls.

rageginger

The Spartan Sprint, 2 years ago, after absolutely no training or regular exercise of any kind for the year prior. 4.5 hours of pure Hell and the hardest thing I've ever done.

missdibs1

The hardest workout I ever did was my first session at my highest weight ever 235 pounds. I was over weight and out of shape. I was self conscious and very intimidated. Glad I got over it

CarlKRobbo

LolBroScience wrote: »

Smolov, and it was only the Jr. version.

x2 for Smolov.... Only managed the Base meso, that was brutal enough!