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I Did Will Tennyson’s Crazy 100,000lbs in 100 Minute Challenge

Last weekend, I had a blast doing a challenge that famous YouTuber Will Tennyson made up. You can find his video on the challenge here. I chronicled the challenge in a video I posted to my YouTube channel. I’d love for you to check it out, like it and post a comment.

Challenge Rules

Tennyson’s challenge was to lift 100,000lbs in 100 minutes and then eat 100 things within an additional 100 minutes. Here are the specific rules:

  • Lift 100,000 lbs in 100 minutes
    • Max of 20,000 lbs per exercise (can’t just deadlift for the whole time)
    • No machines or cables, this is free weights only
  • Within 100 minutes of finishing, eat 100 of an item
    • He chose McDonalds Chicken Nuggets (4600 calories)
    • I chose Starbursts (2,000 calories)

Lifting Portion of the Challenge

The lifting part of this challenge was incredible hard. I set everything up and scattered the equipment around the gym. I picked exercises that would require minimal switching of weights or setups and exercises that would make use of all my equipment. That meant doing deadlifts, trap bar deadlifts and DB Romanian deadlifts. See this picture for the plan.

I wrote it out and put boxes for each set. Then, my son would check off boxes for me as I went from exercise to exercise based on how I felt. As I finished off different exercises I would clean up the weights and equipment. That made it really satisfying as I went through all the exercises.

This is different than what Will did in his video. He chose to do supersets of two exercises at a time. I like my method better.

Eating Portion: 100 Starbursts

With the hard part out of the way, we headed to the basement with all the Starbursts and started phase 2 of the challenge. Each individual Starburst needed to be unwrapped first, which took at least 15 minutes. Unwrapping them was made far more painful that it would have been if I hadn’t lifted 100,000 lbs just before.

Once they were all finally unwrapped, the plan was to make a giant ball out of them and then take a big bite out of it like an apple. They weren’t very soft, so it took a long time and lots of squeezing before the individual pieces became a single large piece.

Mentally and physically exhausted at this point, eating the Starburst was really easy and a great reward for the work put in.

I would recommend this challenge to anyone with the means to set up all the exercises. It was a fantastic bonding experience with my son to help me track all the lifts and then for us to make Starburst balls and eat them together. Let me know if you try it and what you choose as your food!

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