Fitness challenges are a trend of late where influencers engage in varied competitions to display their strength. Apart from giving a break from the regular training routine, these challenges are also well received by the audience. So, often influencers post videos of them taking up unique fitness challenges.

One such fitness YouTuber who is popular for his fitness challenge videos is Austen Alexander. With 1.24 M subscribers, his channel mostly consists of military tests and physical challenges. His recent video is a women’s strength challenge between US Marines and fitness influencers.

US Marines v/s Fitness Influencers

The video started with Alexander introducing four women who would compete in two teams. Sheniya Sillers and Daniella Ramos were the US Marines competing as a team while Allie Lizarraga and Danielle Bailor were a team of fitness influencers. “Today these marines are going to get crushed by these Fitness influencers in three different Fitness events,” he said. The competitions include an obstacle course, a swim relay, and the last strength competition.

The first challenge is to complete a race by overcoming a series of obstacles within a two minutes time span. The fitness influencers won this event earning 2 points. The next in line is the swim relay where the Marines and influencers who had to swim in a relay and collect bricks that have strength exercises written on them for the next phase. 

The task wasn’t that easy as the bricks weighed around 6 pounds and the four women found it difficult to swim while bringing a brick back. One of the fitness influencers, Ali, even dropped the brick while swimming back. The women in the Marines team won this challenge by selecting bricks with pull-ups, push-ups, push presses, and bench presses which are all upper-body workouts.

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They all entered the third event of the strength competition with equal points. This was the last event and could fetch the winners 4 points. Each competitor had to complete as many reps of the four exercises as possible within 60 seconds. The event started with the bench presses and ended with push-ups. The Marines won the bench press, pull-ups, and push-ups, while influencers only won the push-presses. 

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