Take care of yourself

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

I'll hire a couple of you to come workout in my kitchen and backyard, then.

The place is getting dirty and the grass needs a good trim.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

I love yard work. It's a very Zen time for me.

 

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I find mowing does count as a workout. Especially when your mower is a $119 Weed Eater 20 inch push mower from Wal-Mart (it's called "What kind of mower can you buy on a sportswriter's salary?").

I love working out in the morning vigorously then in the evening I try to either walk or ride bikes with my wife or do yardwork. That second calorie burn makes a big difference.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

Today
"Grace", clean and jerk 30 reps. I went with 80 pounds (too light by about 10 pounds) and finished in 4:04.

Deadlift, each set by 5: 135, 155, 175, 195, 215.

Hanging L: four sets

Back extentions: 20, 20, 20, 10, 10.

Drank too much beer at the hole in the wall down by the Missouri River.

Joe

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

"Grace" Clean and Jerk? Explain

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/excercise.html#Girls

Check out the "Grace" Tosh video. There's your "Grace", albeit at the big-boy 135 pounds instead of the 80 pounds I did. I could do probably 100 pounds, but it would take forever, so I scale it to something I can handle.

Joe

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

It just looks like a regular clean and jerk. But it does remind me that it's probably the single best lift one can do and so many are scared of it now. But all the big muscles get worked on it and if you want to see results, exhaust those big muscles.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

It's just one of the "girls named" workouts. "Grace" really means nothing other than you do 30 to do that specific workout.

Legs, forearms, shoulders, triceps and a little chest. Yeah, the clean and jerk is a whole-body workout.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

Yet when you go to the gym, does anybody do them? I doubt it. Unless it's real light in a Body pump class. That's the irony. In the Body Pump class at my gym, you have women doing clean and jerk yet none of the heavy lifters in the regular weight room will do it.

The only lifters I see do them are a couple of NFL guys who come in during the off-season.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

Pretty much me and the dude who turned me on to crossfit are the only ones who do any of the Olympic type lifts. Everybody else is doing the traditional bench exercises. I can't remember the last time I did those.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

Uhhh, I'm lucky to be alive right now.

On my ride to the race last night, a car ran a red light five lanes away and up the road from me. It swerved to avoid another car and started fishtailing then was coming right at me.

I accelerated when I saw the direction it was going and barely got out of the way. It missed me by a bike length at most and was probably going 50-60 mph.

It t-boned a car with a young family in it and whipped around, hit the curb, went in the air and flew down an embankment into a parking lot.

Amazingly, no one was injured. but the driver told police he had no license and no insurance. Great.

I was a little too rattled to race so I just watched.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

Damn, dude. As the sarge used to say on Hill Street Blues, let's be careful out there.