Gabriel Garcia Marquez Could Write About This
There’s a lot to be learned about how to handle – or not handle – our current situation by looking around the world. Particularly of interest this weekend is Melbourne Australia, which is an area of almost exactly the same size and population as the Boston Metro area. They haven’t yet had the kind of bad start that we had here in Boston, but are implementing stronger measures as they start to see a spike in cases over eight months into this pandemic.
It’s a reminder to me to stay vigilant about our individual behavior, and also to remember that it doesn’t take much for COVID to get out of hand somewhere, fast. The numbers in Melbourne are not much higher than Boston’s currently (about twice as many daily cases) and they’re sending all students home and going into more restrictive lockdown than we’ve ever done here (no travel farther than 3 miles, no exercise outdoors other than 1 hour, with no more than one other person present, etc) for the next six weeks in order to try to quash their current outbreak.
It will be very interesting to see how successful that is at getting them back to “normal” (vigilant and cautious) operations. I’ve heard from various people that we’re only 6 weeks away at any given moment from quashing the spread of infection – this will be a case that shows us how true that is.
Looking at Somerville, we’re still doing quite good – and that’s due to continued restrictions that have been in place. The City announced that the Phase 3 Openings will continue to be delayed at least another 2 weeks, which means at least til Mid August. Y’all know where we stand on this, so we’ll just keep providing you with these at-home workouts and asking you to stay home and stay safe. Whether our passions are too intense or too sterile, we all need to continue to exercise lest we fall off a ladder.
Today’s workout is a delightful little ditty – nothing too fancy or too challenging, but definitely good for building strength. I’m encouraging you here to focus on the QUALITY of your handstand hold. Don’t just stay on the wall with a passive shoulder, hanging on your shoulder joints – GET ACTIVE and really drive those hands into the floor, drive your shoulders into your ears. If you manage to do all of these as free-standing handstands, post to comments and let us know!
WOD:
5 Rounds for Time:
:30 Sec Hand Stand Hold
20 Air Squats
(bonus points for getting the blog reference in the title and embedded in the second paragraph)