When Did The 5 and 500 Challenge Start? Explained
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Fitness freaks are always ready to take up any challenge and you know what there’s a challenge called the 5 and 500 challenge. Internet is flooded with the recent fitness challenge and it isn’t something so easy to try. You must have seen the videos on the 5 and 500 challenge and only fitness lovers are trying to give it a try.
5 and 500 challenge has been doing rounds on the internet for a while with content showing a really vigorous exercise. However, it’s advisable often with such challenges not to give it a try. Only experts in such exercises are advised to attempt it.
The 5 and 500 challenge is a tough challenge wanting the fitness freaks to deadlift or squat about 500 pounds and on the same day to attempt to run about a mile in just 5 minutes. Indeed it’s not an easy challenge to take up. However, you can find videos of many fitness lovers attempting this difficult 5 and 500 challenge.
Yet you can find the 5 and 500 challenge videos coming up with an advisory to not attempt it unless it’s really possible for one to try. It takes lots of experience though to take up the challenge and complete it successfully.
When Did 5 and 500 Challenge Started?
Well, unless one tries nothing comes in trend. But you would be surprised to know that the 5 and 500 exercises were actually mentioned in a book and weren’t taken up by anyone because it was thought to be too tough to try.
However, after a gap of 3 years, a fitness coach of Virginia Adam Klink gave this 5 and 500 challenge a try for the first time and set a trend for all the fitness enthusiasts to try it.
Why The 5 and 500 Challenge Tough For Many?
The problem with the 5 and 500 challenge is that it takes a lot of time to strengthen a body to do such an exercise within a single day. Moreover, deadlifting is known to build up muscles but running a mile after lifting is damaging often to the body and hence one cannot try it without any experience.
Yet, a lot of fitness lovers have given the 5 and 500 challenges a try and successfully completed it proving they are super fit to try it.
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