Thursday Night Blowout

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, and in class, there's little chance of anyone getting out without said acceptance...

If there was a common theme this week, it was the theme of built in rest...with a catch. 5 for 10. Five barbell front squats each minute for ten minutes. So once you finish your reps, you've got the whole rest of the minute to rest until the next time. The catch is that you rest. The weigth doesn't. At no point can you rest the barbell on anything other than your body. So the test becomes, how can you work with, around, over or under the weight to take as much pressure off your muscles and rest the load on

your frame between sets. Learn how to work with your body. It's the most advanced and versatile tool you'll ever use.

Then into the court for "Hellion 1." You're going to make five trips

through the circuit, performing each movement for 50 seconds before moving on to the next. six stations, five rounds. One of your

stations is specifically a rest station. Every 6 minutes, you get one minute recovery. With 50# of sand, kettlebells, and a couple of our other choice greatest hits movements in the mix, and your only having one solid minute of rest in every six, you have to focus in part on slowing your heart rate and reoxygenating as much as possible during the ten second transition into the next movement.

In any movement, sequence, complex or combination, there are

those minute moments that you can recover, there are those unlikely positions and postures that allow different batteries to charge while others take over for a bit. Learn to look for them and exploit them for all their worth. It can make a huge difference in your experience and results.

Great job guys.