Recent Newsletter Highlights – Crazy Training

December 14, 2008 on 11:41 am | In Strength Training | No Comments

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Most of your week should be well planned and intellegent training, but sometimes it feels good to try something different!  I was intending to have one of those normal training days on Friday, but I forgot my crazy younger brother was coming home from college.  By the time I got home he had the tires out in the driveway and had one of our sleds filled to the top with weights.  It also is important to mention that it is winter here in New York and there was a few inches of snow on the ground and it was frigid!  I don’t recall exactly how much it was, but it was in the neighbor hood of 5-7 plates.  We tied our 60 ft of 1 and 1/4 inch manilla rope to the front of the sled. 

I sat in one tire, and he sat in the other about 60 ft away.  I rowed the weight to me, stood up and threw the rope to him (or as close as it would come).  He rowed it in and we repeated it for 10-15 minutes.   At that point the snow was gathering on the rope and it was nearly impossible to grip without slipping.  My upper back, bis, hands, and forearms are still feeling it today! 

We went inside, warmed up, and had a normal Dynamic Lower day with a focus on deceleration work.  After some crazy training like the snow work, a normal workout seems easy!  The workout finished with a competitive core training exercise from the upcoming Bull Strength Manual.  It was a sandbag exercise that was just awesome doing with a partner. 

STAY WARM!

-J. HASHEY, CSCS-