The usual suspects rolled in from the Gloom at their usual times this morning, Maverick hitting the tarmac just in time to join the warmup of dynamic stretching exercises up and down the fake train platform at the Covington trailhead: lateral SSHs, lunges with a twist, lateral lunges, a variety of skips, and some additional soccer style exercises to get the blood flowing.
Mosey to the front of the Justice Center for a set of 7s: pistol squats to Marios using the benches at the bottom of the stairs and ice skater hops (Bonnie Blairs or Apolo Ohnos) at the top. We attacked the stairs laterally to keep with the theme of the day, moving sideways to move forward.
Mosey to the side of the Justice Center for 3 sets of: 10 T Merkins and 10 jackknives each side with a lateral bear crawl around the circle and back thrown in for good measure.
Mosey to the back of the Justice Center for an exercise YHC learned while posting with Charlotte Metro a few weeks ago: the railwalk. Pole dancer might be a more appropriate name but, at any rate, it involves finding some railings on a ramp and then walking up the railing laterally with your hands and feet, essentially a suspended lateral plank walk with extra motivation to avoid a face plant. Gauged by the mumble chatter, the PAX found this exercise plenty challenging and of course it was consistent with the lateral movement theme of the day.
Another quick mosey to the Justice Center benches for a sequence of Bulgarian Split Squats (we’ve been missing you Steve…come home soon), two foot lateral hops, lateral step ups, left leg lateral hops, lateral box jumps, and right leg lateral hops. 10 reps each and then moving directly to some agility work with lateral shuffles, crossover runs, and caricoa.
Mosey back to the trailhead to finish off with some Mary: Nolan Ryans, Scuba Steves, and a one leg/two leg lift combo to close out the day.
Countorama, nameorama and then Einstein prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead guys.
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We attempted to EH a guy on the fly this morning. We hooked him for a little while but the railwalk may have been too much. We’ll see.
Monday Night Ruck and Football October 8th. Meet on the Mandeville Lakefront for rollout at 1815 and then we’ll head over to the Barley Oak for some F2 and to watch the Saints (hopefully) smoke the Redskins.
NOLA Convergence October 13th at City Park 0700 hours. Clown car from the old Winn Dixie parking lot near the causeway. Rollout at 0600. Don’t miss it.
EiEi reportedly is back from Siberia and training locally for the 2nd Annual Krazy Ivan which, save the date, is scheduled for January 19th at 1900 hours on the Mandeville Lakefront. Don’t say anything to the Southshore guys at the Convergence. We want to spring the whole thing on them at the last minute.
