Week of 12/18/23: Workouts this busy Christmas week.

Hi Folks,

Dear friends, Thank you very much for your generous gift to Sandy and I today after the Saturday workout! Very touching and will mean I can get you heavier weights! (just kidding). It’s wonderful for Sandy and I to have such a close community over the years – it’s a remarkable testament to the members of the workout group for sticking to the outdoor training for so many years. I still see Hunter doing DB Plank Rows at our Northgate location at age 5! May we all keep each other going. Thank you again!

Sunday, 12/ 24/23 day of Christmas Eve challenge: do your age in kettlebell Swings, X5 Goblet Squats, 2 x 8 Incline push-ups. Then enjoy a guilt-free celebration!

SHORT WORKOUT (if you can’t make Wed Circuit.) Two Rounds of:

(X 5 3-count squats - 8-10 Incline Push-Ups – x 15 Swings)

12/19/23 TUESDAY. TEMPO. After the warm-up mile you’ll up the pace to a “comfortably stressed effort”. then picking it up to about 10K pace:

8′ Tempo (1:30 easy) – 6′ Tempo (1′ easy) – 10′ Tempo (1′ easy then to finish of run)

12/20/23 WEDNESDAY. STRENGTH TRAINING CIRCUIT SWINGS & TRAP BAR DEADLIFTS. 8 AM START.

Extra Wide KB Sumo Deadlift

Right, Single Straight Leg DB Deadlifts

Left, Single Leg DB straight Leg Deadlifts

Incline Push-Ups

L/R “Thread the Needle”

Wipers

Right, KB Clean & Press

Left, KB Clean & Press

Landmine Thrusters ( Squat to Press)

KB Rack Carry or Hold

Finisher: Trap Bar Deadlifts

12 /21/23THURSDAY SPEED-WORK at your local track. After your warm-up mile, high skips, 6 x 30 meter pick-ups, a ladder workout:

2 X 200 (200) – 1 x 400 (on 2:30/3′) – 600 (200) - 1 x 1000 (200) - 600 (200) – 400 (on 2:30 (/3′) - 2 x 200 (200)…Then do a stretch for the hamstrings, quads, hips.

12/23/23 SATURDAY. HR/XT/SWINGS/CARRIES/SPRINTS/ TRAPP BAR DEADLIFTS. 8:30 AM start in LOT C of Seminary College ( 201 Seminary Drive). we’ll open Lot C a bit after 8 AM, so you can park and do your warm-up.

X 10 DB Thrusters  /  X 6 R/L Side Plank DB “Sweep & Reach”

(2 x Short - 2 x Sprint)

X 8 DB Burpee & R/L Plank Row - ( 1/2 ”B”)

X 12 R/L Mtn Climbers / X 8 DBL DB Clean & Press - Long

X 6 R/L “Thread the Needle” / X 5 R/L DB O’Head Reverse Lunges

Then it is on to the second half of the workout of sprints/ Carries/Swings/ Trap Bar Deadlifts