Workout.
150 Squats
There are some things about our youth that we would prefer to forget
In fitness terms, youth is mobility. When people see someone who’s been on the planet for 80 years still going up & down stairs, carrying their own groceries & headed to the dance hall a couple times a week, they often...
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Today’s workout.
20 x 50m sprints.
Sprint down, walk back & immediately go again, the walk is your rest!
Yesterday’s post was about functional capacity. Today’s will address the lifting of heavy things.
I think we can all agree that if you can lift 100 lbs off the ground, you can easily lift a 30lb box of copier paper....
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Workout
150 Squats
50 Pull-Ups
There are a lot of things we read in health or fitness magazines, or see in the general media which may not apply to everyday life, or functional capacity.
Functional capacity is defined as your ability to do work. For the purposes of this post, we’re considering work in the mathematical/mechanical sense of moving...
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Ah the Beach..
5 rounds for time of:
12 Med Ball Slams
15 Meter Lunge
12 Dumbbell Swings
15 Meter “long” Jump
Today, for the first time ever, Lisa beat her friend Amber in a workout….by 6 seconds! This is an incredible accomplishment. When they first started working out, Amber had a consistent lead over Lisa of anywhere from a minute...
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Had two ladies really push themselves today.
5 rounds for time of:
10 Front Squats
10 Push Press
15 (each side) Medicine Ball Sit & Twist
Each used a “ladies” bar weighing 33 lbs, with a 9 lb med ball. . They both finished in under 10 minutes. Well done.
I call today a “good” workout because, I could see in...
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