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Physical: 100 Remains Gloriously Pointless

Name another show that makes you wonder, Can the moving-van guy do more pull-ups than me?

Move to any metropolitan area and the only steady co-ed fitness options tend to be gym classes, hermetic adult obstacle courses in dilapidating indoor malls, and recreational sports leagues ranging from soccer to … dodgeball. We have seen a combination maze run-sandbag haul, an elaborate mine set with monkey bars and more sandbags, an elimination round where players painfully hang on to a bulky wooden pole, and a race lugging giant 330 pound rollers. Here I am grittily hoisting groceries from the trunk of a car to the house in one go, or pushing furniture across apartment building hallways to avoid extra labor charges from the moving van, increasingly becoming hyper aware of how all my Sisyphean movements could make for exciting games, too.

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