Calling it
If you haven’t seen already, we’ll be shutting our doors for the time being at the request of the city to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This goes in effect starting Tuesday. Below today’s WFH you’ll find what was sent to all members in an email today going into greater detail.
MOB: 3-5 rounds
10 hip hinges
:30 plank
world’s greatest stretch and/or couch stretch
WOD: Death by ________
Choose push ups, air squats or burpees (choose burpees for maximum flavor)
Start a clock. In the first minute, do 1 rep. On the second minute, do 2. Continue in this fashion until you can no longer complete your assigned number of reps in the minute. This starts slow, but accelerates fast…
Hello CFSV,
As I said before, conditions change fast and we’ll be changing with them.
Today the Mayor has declared a local state of emergency in Somerville and has expanded closure requirements to all gyms, health clubs, theaters, entertainment venues, social clubs, and houses of worship through at least April 6. I suspect it may be longer than that.
Obviously, this includes us. While I feel good about the rigor and thoroughness of the preparations we undertook to keep y’all safe, I cannot really disagree with this call. Not everyone can (or will) be as thorough as we were in pursuing public safety, as we saw from the crowds at bars and restaurants this weekend. This means our in-person classes are canceled for the time being.
In addition, our parks and playgrounds are now closed to the public – another measure which is unfortunate, but makes sense. When designing our WFH WODs, we’ll be keeping all this in mind and making sure these are workouts you can do without needing a lot of space.
Because we will be continuing to release those WFH WODs and providing you with pics to encourage you! Our focus is now shifting entirely to engaging with you digitally by being active on this blog and responding to your emails. If you have fitness or COVID questions, please send us an email and we’ll be in touch with you to help!
In a similar vein, I am starting a new FB Group called “CFSV Shenanigans” located here: https://www.facebook.com/ groups/834990357012573/
Join up and post photos, memes, bad jokes, gripes, other nonsense. You know, basically like our warmup chatter. It’s going to be a long month or two, and it helps to pass the time with friends. (Nelly is already in there getting up to trouble, and I anticipate many off-color memes from Augustine shortly.)
Since we won’t be seeing you in person at the box, help us “keep an eye on you” and keep you moving by participating digitally – whether on the blog, over email, or in the FB group. It’s also a great way to ask for help if you need it, whether that’s with grocery runs or other support you need while in this extended “social distancing” period.
As always, we are here for you. Your coaches do this because they love what CFSV means to them and want you to have the same warm and wonderful experience that led them to call this place home. Even though the doors may be closed for now, that sense of community is still absolutely present and vital.
With love,
-JTS
10 Burpees for the WoD.
Did some posture exercises during the warmup and did a little bit of kettlebell work at the end.
Turns out my dog thinks burpees are play time.
WOD: 10+5 pushups
My first wfh and I gotta say, it’s pretty tough staying engaged without coaches there, especially during mobility. I kept getting bored and distracted by other things in my apartment
Completed 12, then went down to 8 to finish 15 minutes. Oof! Thanks for posting these!!
LOL Dan!
Completed the round of 16 burpees for the WOD. Right up on the minute.
I got up to 10 push-ups, scaled to a table in my apartment that’s probably about 20 inches. this did get hard fast!
I didn’t do the planks, but I did do hip hinges and torso swivels for MOB. Then onto the WOD. My chosen poison was scaled-pushups (30″ height dining table) followed by air squats in the SAME round.
11 Rounds! I could have gotten started on a 12th, but I was pretty burned out.
Turns out I suck at working out alone! I miss the crew and the coaches.
MOB: hip hinges, perfect stretch, inchworms
WoD: ran ~3 miles. 5 rounds of:
5 push ups
10 sit ups
15 squats
Various interruptions, no idea on my time
9 burpees.
I hate burpees.
MOB. I dusted off my yoga mat after several months, did sun salutations and yoga stretches.
WOD. I chose jumping squats. It was really slow at the beginning but became challenging after a while. 27 reps. Next time, I will try burpees (thanks, Jenna) or 2x each round.
So hard to be by myself. Miss you, guys.
It’s nice to see everyone’s comments and results!
Burpees: 13 rounds complete.
Don’t know what my neighbors in the condo next door must have thought. It’s clear to me I have to vacuum.
Thank you, CFSV Coaches!
Decided to do them all. These are great to do during videoconference meetings.
Burpees: 13 (91 total), kept up a good pace, but ran out of time to do the volume
Push-ups: 12 (78 total), the pace slowed down significantly around 10
Air squats: 26 (351 total), kept a steady pace until the last two rounds; had to stop to take a phone call; 30+ is within reach
Death-by-* WODs are a good lesson on the challenges of dealing with something where the rate (reps/round) is increasing with time. It seems trivial at the start. But quickly becomes overwhelming, especially when having to deal with the lasting effects of the previous round. If only there were something in current events this could teach us about.
> If only there were something in current events this could teach us about.
Dude, we’re all tired of hearing about Tom Brady by now.
Ran 2.6 miles with an 18 lb weight vest,
straight into death by push ups: 12
WoD: 14 + 13 burpees
Bill: 12+10 burpees
Sue: 12+12 burpees
I did pull-ups and my wife did pushups
We both got through the round of 8.
WOD: Completed 15 push-ups. Began scaling at 9.
4 rounds of MOB.
How are the chickens? Started a notebook to keep track of home workouts
Recovering from a cold, first WOD back, feels good.
MOB: What is MOB again?
Planks got shaky by the end of the 30s.
WOD:
10 Burpees. Failed on 11, took 12 off, then finished the 15 minutes with 5-5-9