Squat or Lunge….What’s the Difference, Really?

Squat or Lunge….What’s the Difference, Really?

7 PAX conquered the fartsack for a cold morning of 28 deg.  YHC arrived at Calvary at precisely 516 for the latest Q of Meathead.  Parking lot abandoned, was hoping for a few others to do awkward old man broga with me.  Alas it’s me, my dirty yoga mat, and my degenerative lumbar spine.  Cue Simon and Garfunkel “Hello Darkness My Ole Friend….”  Get out of the car, boy it’s cold….stretchy stretchy.  519  Uncle Leo arrives and now we have two dudes doing some stretching.   Now we’re cooking! My downward doggin’ and Uncle Leo with some magical Mark Spits stretches. Head lights of the Anvil Pax gather over yonder.  Rest of Meathead PAX arrive at near launch time.

PAX: Hoover, Ickey Shuffle, Mighty Might, Sloglow, Uncle Leo, Unplugged, Voodoo

COP:

SSH IC X 20

Windmill IC X 10

Squat Stretch – Left, Right, Center – Repeato

Baby and Poppa Arm circles IC X 10 each

Thang: Goal 250 swings with some unilateral work to test our balance and build awesome obliques.

Round 1:

• 20 swings
• 10 rack squats – Left
• 20 KB merkins
• Rest-ish
• 15 swings
• 10 1-leg RDL – Left
• 10 KB LBCs
• Rest -ish
• 15  swings
• 10 clean and press – Left
• 10 Bull Dogs/Louganis
• Rest-ish

Round 2 repeat on right side; Round 3 – repeat left side; Round 4 repeat right side.

Recover for real this time

Round 5 – Alternating 10 1H swings with 10 rack walking squats lunges

• 10 swings – 10 rack walking lunges – left
• 10 swings – 10 rack walking lunges – right
• 10 swings – 10 rack walking lunges – left
• 10 swings – 10 rack walking lunges – right
• 10 swings – 10 rack walking lunges – left

3.5MOM

• Plank 1 min
• Hollow Body Hold

DONE!

Molskine:

Boy was it cold today!  PAX put in tremendous work doing some different  exercises.  The rack squats and walking lunges were a crowd pleaser.  I added some unilateral training to work on balance under load and get the core working for longer.  Time under tension.  The cold induced my asthma which is usually a sign that either the workout is beasty or it’s cold as a steel jockstrap.  I think both, particularly the latter.

It was great to have Hoover back out after his families COVID encounter.  All immediate family are negative so he’s back at it.  He was dressed in all black.  Some PAX (Ickey?) commented that he looked like every Disney movie burglar.   YHC was a bit O2 dep and asthma’y this morning so he miscalled a few of the exercises.  Much laughter and levity was had when I called for rack walking squats (meant lunges).  Hoover said I get to add that to the Lexicon.  Thanks Voodoo for the playlist assist.  One of these days I’ll have a weinke and a playlist and a speaker.

Thanks for letting me lead.

Unplugged Out!

Fin!