Iron Gauntlet · 2 to 30 Nov

November
Plate Club

Four lifts, each loaded with plates. Lift all four in November and you’re in the club. And while we lift, we’re raising money for Movember.

Free to join · Join any time until 30 November
The four parts

Press 60. Bench 100.
Squat 140. Deadlift 180.

LiftPlates a sidekglb
Strict pressOne60135
Bench pressTwo100225
Back squatThree140315
DeadliftFour180405

A plate is a 20 kg plate (45 lb in the US), on a 20 kg bar (45 lb). One rep counts.

How it counts

It’s a club, not a race

01

Join in the app

Free, any time until 30 November. Keep your own plan, or let Brodin write you a block.

02

Lift it

A part ticks when you log a set at or above the weight, in November. Iron Church counts it from your logged sets, so nobody posts a score.

03

You’re in

Tick all four and you’re in the club, and you keep the honour. There’s no ranking by weight.

Brodin’s block

Brodin writes the four weeks.
You lift.

Brodin, the coach inside Iron Church, writes a four-week block to peak your lifts for an attempt. He reads your estimated max and tells you what’s in reach.

Your plan pauses for four weeks, then picks up where you left it.

Start your block by 3 November, so your attempt week falls inside the event. After that you can still join and lift on your own plan.

Week 1Build
Week 2Build
Week 3Heavy
Week 4Attempt
Start your block by 3 November
Why November

We’re raising money
for Movember

November is when the world grows a moustache for men’s health. Brodin already has a full one, so we’re lifting instead.

We’ve set up an Iron Church team page on Movember. If you can give, that’s where to do it. Giving happens on Movember’s own site.

Give to Movember

Nothing is paid or collected in the app, and giving earns nothing in it. The honour comes from lifting.

Iron Gauntlet · 2 to 30 Nov

Load the bar for November

Iron Church is on iPhone, and in your browser at theironchurch.co.uk. Join the event in the app.

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