All By Myself
During these times we’re doing all we can to stay as healthy and as safe as we can. Mostly, for us, that’s meant smaller workouts with more one-off AOs cropping up so that everyone can still get work in without too much worry. Some of us have been totally turtling. My reason is a 6-year old girl named Layla. As many of you know she ends up in the ER every time she has croup and one of the most frequent times that happens is now, when there is pollen and the changing of seasons. If she gets anything it can turn itself in to croup and we really don’t want to go to a hospital. So, aside from the virus, we’re concerned about bringing anything home. Most of my workouts have come in my garage, following someone’s backblast from that morning. Maybe there are others out there that don’t want to venture out either. Maybe in the coming days the government will tell us we can’t. So why not start a live stream workout? It’s worth a shot, right?
0529 the live feed fired up. Would anyone join? Who knows. Would I embarrass myself? Highly likely. Was it worth it? I like to think so.
0530, lets go.
FNGs: Aside from a few sleeping spiders in the corners of the garage, I didn’t see any.
Warm Up:
SSH x15ish (keeping cadence count in my head is hard)
Windmills x10 IC
Daisy Pickers x10 IC
Imperial Walkers x10 IC
Hillbillies x10 IC
The Workout:
Trying to plan a regular workout knowing that we were going to be mostly stationary was daunting. I put together what I thought was a pretty solid plan, but would it fill the time? It was a circuit based work out so doing it over and over was part of the plan but that would get really old, really quick. I hoped it would work.
Arms
4×4’s – Start upright with arms raised, burpee down in to 4 merkins, 4 mountain climbers IC , back up – 5x
Air presses – 20x
Curls for the girls – 20x
Bat Wings – 20 circles forward, 20 backwards, 20 seal claps, 20 overhead claps
Legs
Aiken Legs – 20 squats, 20 box jumps, 20 lunges (10 each leg), 20 split jacks
Step ups – 20x
Apolo Ohno – Speed skaters – 20x
Bobby Hurley – 20x
Core
LBC 10x
Big Boy Sit-Up-Ups – All the way to feet 15x
Deadlifts 20x
Chilly Plank Jacks 15x
After the core set we did some active resting.
Hold plank and alternate raising arms and holding it
People’s Chair
BTTW (We didn’t do this on the repeat, it was against my garage door and it was loud and I was also terrified that the door would fall and I’d become an internet sensation for all the wrong reasons)
Once the first set was fully done I looked at my watch. 20 minutes! Hey, alright, this might actually work out. We did the circuit again, this time at the end adding in some pigeon pose to round out the resting (read: I wanted to kill a few more minutes).
Mary:
American Hammer x15
Low Slow Flutter x10
Freddy Mercury x10
Heel Taps x10
Homer to Marge x1o
Pickle Pounders x10
Announcements:
Lots of stuff happening. Check Slack for local, small group AOs. Reach out to your neighborhood PAX and put something together. Free to lead.
Marathon running tomorrow. The culmination of Skidmark’s Corona 100 ends tomorrow. All the hard work that ShamWow, Maybellene, Aquaman, and so many others comes to a head tomorrow. Not in the way initially intended but still 26.2 none the less.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Boy George for being there with me, virtualy, this morning. Thanks for making me not just talk to a phone for that time!
Fromunga for watching the workout and following along several hours later. I encourage everyone to do this. Find time in your day if you have to in order to find time to work out.
Prayer:
All those dealing with the virus, either suffering through it or caring for or about someone who is. The medical professionals who risk their own health to be there to care for others. All the thoughts and prayers that PAX keep in their hearts and minds.
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