Former professional runner and two-time Olympic medalist Nick Symmonds and US Navy veteran. austen alexander both have forged new paths on YouTube, where they face all kinds of fitness challenges since strong man workout to join the 1,000 pound club. In a new collaboration, Symmonds challenges Alexander to a game of HORSE to see who is the fittest of the two.
The game is simple: each man will perform the same exercise, but the one who completes the fewest repetitions or takes the longest has to take a letter. Whichever of the two ends with five letters, that is, enough to spell HORSE, loses the game.
Alexander chooses the first event, 100 meters on the rowing machine, and finishes in 16.48 seconds, beating Symmonds by about half a second. “Mass moves mass,” Symmonds acknowledges, gamely accepting the “H” from him before choosing the next exercise: double jumps.
“I’ve been practicing hard for the CrossFit Open,” he says, and it looks like the work is paying off, as he hits a PR of 74 reps. Alexander, meanwhile, tops out at 16, losing this round.
The third event is a full-pull tank push, exerting the equivalent of at least 400 pounds on a sled, Alexander says. He completes two laps in 15.4 seconds and Symmonds loses this event with a time of 21.46.
The next test is to determine who can perform the most consecutive barbell muscleups without going down. Symmonds completes 6 uninterrupted reps, but Alexander struggles to do just one. They then each work up to their respective single rep max for the back squat and compare the numbers. Symmonds’ maximum is 275 pounds, which Alexander easily beats 355 in a squat before deciding it’s time to move on to the next round.
Alexander almost bests Symmonds and wins the suicide drills, then challenges him to a 100 meter hill race. Symmonds wins this one in 12.7 seconds, with Alexander right behind him. “You literally had me for 100 yards,” he tells Alexander. “I grabbed you by the shoulder.”
To balance things out, the next round is definitely more in Alexander’s wheelhouse, a 50-yard swim, but Symmonds wins this one, meaning they’re both neck and neck with a “HORS” each. For the tiebreaker, they see who can last the longest in a deadlock, and Alexander falls off the bar first, making him the HORSE and the loser of the game.
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