Leggy

JT Scott | 08/17/2020 | 2

Hi folks! It’s Sunday night, and that means another long update from JT.

The world is still on fire. For those of you with kids (like me), you’re watching the Somerville Public Schools try to figure out what to do about the coming school year.

Now I don’t normally opine a lot here about “what we should do” in a context larger than the gym, because the gym is what I’m actually (kinda) in charge of. But looking at countries around the world in comparison to what we’re doing here it is painfully obvious that we never intended to develop the kind of testing and (especially) tracing apparatus needed to get a handle on what’s going on. That’s why what we’re seeing now is far more akin to the polio epidemic of the late 1940s and early 1950s than a modern health care coordinated response with public policy. That was a lot of years of pain.

Combine that with the possibility that even naturally-incurred immunity (i.e. you got sick and got better) to SARS-CoV-2 may only last for 3 months, and no knowledge of the effective duration of any potential vaccine… we’re going to be in this cycle for a while. So if there’s an adjustment that you need to make to make this current state of affairs sustainable, MAKE IT. Don’t wait for this to blow over, because it isn’t going to.

Nelly and Mike and all of us are working on a plan right now that may allow some of you back into the facility in a way that keeps everyone safe, and will help me keep paying the mortgage. In the meantime though we will absolutely continue serving up spicy workouts for you to get after at home.

And this one today is spicy like WHOA. I remember doing it a few months back… lunges always wreck me, but this one was something special. Grab a weight or a backpack or just about anything and give it a try! You’ll definitely know you did some work when your DOMS starts screaming at you in 24-48 hours.

For the Swings, just take it from between your legs up to arms extended overhead; this is the easy part – the rest. For goblet squats, put that same weight up under your chin and lock in a nice front rack hold, then make sure your butt gets all the way below your knees at the bottom. Use a target if you have to! For Deadlifts… okay I lied THIS is the easy part. Just pick it up and put it down 10 times. But then you’ll need to clean that weight back up into your front rack to do 20 LUNGE STEPS – yes, that’s 10 each leg. Keep that torso upright and maintain good position, no matter how tired your midline might get.

“Leggy”
5 Rounds
10 Kettlebell Swing (or backback or DB or something else)
10 goblet squats (same weight)
10 Deadlifts
20 Front Rack lunges