Physical Subculture

Obligation-based giving does not make for true holiday spirit.  Because guilt has a gun to your head? I want others to join me in my commitment to ease the holiday burden on others.  If the need to give me anything somehow overwhelms any of you out there (it won’t, don’t worry), donate $10 to your local animal shelter or SPCA.  In fact relieve your debt of giving to a large chunk of your recipient list by adopting an animal in their names.  Call up Aunt Gerty and your favorite cousins and a few of your closest friends and say “I’m adopting a kitty/doggy/bunny as a gift to you.  Every day I spend with this new creature in my life I’ll be reminded of your spirit and kindness.” You’ll be unburdening the planet with one less unwanted bundle of goodness, and it will be in the names of those closest to you.

I’d accept that as a gift indeed.  So go give to the animals.  That’s as much as anyone could give me, and that is the extent of my holiday list.

And a jet ski.

Meanwhile, give to yourself.  Let’s lift some stuff.

We’re going to duplicate last Thursday’s workout and try to improve on it (at least I am… it was hard).

Deadlifts with bands.  This is the one deviation from last week, the addition of the bands.  Let’s work to a series of heavy singles with the bands.

The carrying combo. This is what trashed us last time. Hang snatch/overhead walk, clean/racked walk, deadlift/farmer’s walk.  I found that using two different bars for the snatch and the clean was helpful, being that hang snatches tend to be a bit harder than cleans.  Then we used the FW handles for the deadlift.

6 hang snatches/ 100 foot walk, 6 cleans/ 100 foot walk, 6 deadlifts/ 100 foot walk. Our original goal was to see how many times we could do this in 15 minutes.  Last week the answer was sort of embarrassing.  So this week we’ll try again.

Ninja Mike and his band deadlifts.