CrossFitter Robert Hartley Completes 31 Hero Workouts in 31 Hours
Performing an endurance challenge is often used to test one’s physical limits. That was the case of Robert Hartley, the co-owner of CrossFit Inevitable in Elizabethtown, KY. On Sept. 12, 2022, Hartley embarked on a challenge where he ventured to complete 31 CrossFit “Hero” workouts within a 31-hour time cap.
I needed to do something to push myself further than I ever have.
A Hero workout is a workout dedicated to a fallen service member to honor their memory. Hartley’s 31 in 31 challenge, to put it simply, was conceived by with the intent of having outsiders feel it was not possible. Additionally, per a caption in an Instagram post, his endurance feat was intended as a tribute to “the 31 Fallen Troopers of the Kentucky State Police,” as Hartley is a Kentucky state trooper. Check it out below:
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Never set a limit on yourself, and know that your mind will take you to places that seem impossible.
Below are the 31 workouts Hartley completed over 31 hours starting from 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 12 and completed at 3:29 p.m. on Sept. 13, 2022. He finished the 31 workouts with only one minute to spare before reaching the time cap.
Toll
Four rounds for time:
- 11 burpees
- 121 single-unders
- 14 air squats
- 121 single-unders,
- 48 sit-ups (butterfly)
Miller
24 rounds for time:
- 141-meter sprint
- 14 overhead walking lunges
Huffman
27-minute AMRAP (as many rounds as possible):
- Five bar muscle-ups
- 19 dips
- 53 jumping air squats
- 299-meter run
Bush
Buy-in: 28 burpees, then two rounds for time:
- 10 V-up
- 11 push-up
- 374-meter run
Then, 28 burpee buy-out.
Tevis
Four rounds for time:
- Five clean & jerks (80-pound sandbag)
- 26 sit-ups
- Five clean & jerks
- 16 back squats (80 pounds sandbag)
Mobley
Four rounds for time:
Uzzle
600-meter run buy-in, then two rounds for time:
- Five chest-to-bar pull-ups
- 28 back rack lunges (95 pounds)
- 19 HR push-ups
- 64 air squats
600-meter run buy out.
Powell
Seven-minute AMRAP:
- Eight burpees
- 18 thrusters (45 pounds)
Brady
Four rounds for time:
- 11 thrusters (95 pounds)
- Nine power cleans
- 17 back squats
Barrett
No time cap, complete:
- 35 deadlifts
Unbroken sets of five, increasing with every set; athlete’s score is total weight.
McNeely
Four rounds for time:
- Two bear crawls — 100 feet
- Nine front squats (115 pounds)
- Seven push presses
Rest for three minutes, then follow with Hero WOD “Childs.”
Childs
Four rounds for time:
- Four power cleans (115 pounds)
- Eight thrusters (115 pounds)
Thurtell
15-minute AMRAP:
- 393-meter run
- Nine burpees
- 29 back squats (95 pounds)
Ward
Four rounds of: five-minute AMRAPs with one minute rest for 23 minutes total:
- Four push press (135 pounds)
- 23 burpees
- Seven sit-ups
- Three bear crawls (32 feet)
Smith
24-minute AMRAP:
- Four power cleans (95 pounds)
- 26 back squats
- 1973-meter run
Hutchinson
Six rounds:
- Seven pull-ups
- Seven push-ups
- Five toes-to-bar
Then, four rounds:
- Seven sumo deadlift high pull (95 pounds)
- Seven dips
- Five hollow rock
Then, two rounds:
- Seven burpees
- Seven thrusters (95 pounds)
- Five strict pull-ups
McCoun
Nine rounds for time:
- Six ring dips
- Nine pull-ups
Then:
Two-mile run buy out.
Pickard
Two rounds for time:
- 26 clapping push-ups
- 26 sandbag walking lunges (80 pounds)
- 26 sit-ups
- 26 sandbag back squats
- 26 burpees
- 742-meter run
Martin
20-minute AMRAP:
- 20 HRPU
- 20 pull-ups
- 20 dips
- 20 toes-to-bar
- 20 burpees
- 20 air squats
- 20 sit-ups
- 20 sandbag lunges
Cunningham
Two rounds for time:
- 24 back squats (95 pounds)
- 24 lunges (95 pounds)
- 24 push press (95 pounds)
- 24 sit-ups
- 24 burpees
- 24 Supermans
- 24 sit-ups
- 24 push press (95 pounds)
- 24 lunges (95 pounds)
- 24 back squats (95 pounds)
Harris
Seven rounds for time:
- Six bar-facing burpees
- Eight empty-bar thrusters
Then, two-mile run buy out.
Clifton
Nine rounds for time:
- Four front squats (70 pounds)
- Seven back squats (70 pounds)
- Five sandbag sit-ups (10 pounds)
Then, one-mile run buy out.
DP
12 rounds for time:
- Six burpee tire broad jumps
- Five tire flips
Buy out: two partner carries — 50 meters
Johnny
12 rounds for time:
- Three sumo deadlift high pulls (95 pounds)
- Six burpee tire flips
- Five tire jumps
- 34-meter bear crawl
Adkins
Six rounds for time:
- Nine burpees
- Nine thrusters (95 pounds)
- Six chest-to-bar pull-ups
JC
For time:
- 800-meter run
- Five squat cleans (95 pounds)
- 50 double-unders
- Five squat cleans (95 pounds)
- 800-meter run
- Five squat cleans (95 pounds)
- 50 sit-ups
- Five squat cleans (95 pounds)
- 800-meter run
Leonard
Three rounds for time:
- 250-meter sandbag carry (80 pounds)
- 28 push-ups
- 250-meter farmer’s carry (45-pound weight plate in each hand)
- 28 sit-ups
- 250-meter run
- 28 burpees
Tribby
25 burpee buy-in, then 10 rounds for time:
- Three pull-ups
- Eight power cleans (95 pounds)
- Seven front squats (95 pounds)
Then, 2.7-mile run buy out.
Chrisman
Three rounds for time:
- Six push press (95 pounds)
- 23 sit-ups
- 15 burpee pull-ups
- 800-meter run
Gibbs
For time:
- 191-meter farmer’s carry (45-pound plate in each hand)
- Five toes-to-bar
- 10 overhead walking lunges on each leg (45 pounds)
- 20 pull-ups
- 30 burpees
- 40 push-ups
- 191-meter farmer’s carry (45-pound plate in each hand)
- 40 push-ups
- 30 burpees
- 20 pull-ups
- 10 overhead walking lunges on each leg (45 pounds)
- Five toes-to-bar
- 191-meter farmer’s carry (45-pound plate in each hand)
Cam
31-minute AMRAP:
- Nine sandbag thrusters (95 pounds)
- Five push-ups
- Four pull-ups
100-meter sprint/run between rounds.
Featured image: @robert23hartley on Instagram