Today’s circuit training was a little different than usual, since we were cut down to a 400M recovery run between sets rather than our normal 800M. As always, we started out with our 1.6 mile warmup run - I chatted to Jay on the way over - and went into our drills. The weather felt nicer today than it has been in the past, although you couldn’t tell that from the way I was sweating up a storm; I’ve been told that sweating is a Good Thing, but really, surely there are limits.

For each set we did our 20 accelerated step-ups, wall slides, “superman” arm/leg lifts, push-ups, lunges, and weird assisted lower-ab crunches. I should probably explain that last one a little.

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you have a workout partner, one you don’t mind inevitably dripping at least a little sweat onto you. They stand, you lay down on your back with your head at their feet and grab onto their legs for support. Keeping your legs perfectly straight, raise them up vertically. They will then push them down, either to the left, straight, or to the right. You have to arrest that motion and return them back up to vertical again. It makes more sense once you do it, and its a real PITA - at least for me. And yes, that A was for Abs. After about 10-12 of these, swap places and make them go through the same process.

Anyway, after that was all over (we did five sets this time), we formed up into a line and started cycling through some standing jumps. I don’t know the best way to describe this, but imagine around six 12" hurdles set up with about 30" between each one. We jumped, feet together, between these trying to achieve two goals - fast turnover, and high knees. After each pass we got back in the line to do it again. Pretty fun stuff actually; someone mentioned that it felt like junior high football practice.

That was it today; no fast feet, no holding our breath and doing sprints, just the jumping followed of course by a nice easy cooldown run and around 10 minutes of stretching.

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