Wednesday 11-11 Bricks

Another good turn out for a rainy Wednesday. Kaffee, Prancer, Amy, Jimmy, Holly, John M., Gary, The Preacher, Lisa M., Anne, Carolyn, Shana, Lisa, Reba, and last but never least, Harriott (mother of the great Harriott).

The Rain was more like a mist. It was not too cold so we were comfortable. We warmed up by running up the center stairs, along the top ridge, up the far stairs, past the stump garden and around the front of the school down the driveway past the new construction , back to the track up the front stretch and back up the center set of stairs. After two laps, we stopped at the stump garden and rested in push up position with a hand on each stump. Then we started exercising: 10 push ups, right hand plank for 20 seconds, 8 push ups then left hand plank, then 6 P.U. rh plank, 4 p.u. l.h. plank, then two more push ups. Sounds easy but we did them real slow. As in "down 3...2...1... up." Now the fun starts. We grabbed a 5 pound brick with each hand and started running around the school. We stopped at the top of the driveway and rested with the bricks held over our heads for 30 seconds. Then we held them shoulder high in front of us. First the right hand went down and up then the left hand. We did 40 of those before we ran down the driveway and along the front stretch to the bottom of the center stairs. We held the bricks over our heads for another 30 seconds before 20 scarecrows (upper arm parallel to the deck elbow's bent, hands decline to chest high then back up). Then we ran up the stairs and back to the stump garden. We did 40 back rows per arm in plank position. We ran with bricks in hand for a while, then stopped for military press then ran with bricks some more back to the stump garden. Then we went back to left hand plank and held a brick high over our head and did 40 tricep presses, then switched and did 40 more on the other side. Then we ran with bricks some more. There were at least two more sets of shoulders before we did a 10 minute ab workout. We found a dry spot, laid on our backs, pressed our lower backs to the ground and hammered out sets of various ab exercises. Then we got up and went back to running with bricks. In all, we ran over a mile with bricks in hand, stopping along the way for exercises. We always try to hold back a little so we can recover enough to come for the rest of the week.