Death by GHD (or abmat)
With a continuously running clock, do one situp the first minute, two situps the second minute, three situps the third minute, and so on, continuing as long as you are able.
Hint: Death by GHD will be MUCH more painful than death by abmat. Like the difference between being eaten by a shark and passing on quietly in your sleep.
Some musing on form and weight. *Don't do the weight if you can't do the form!* We're all guilty of this, instructors included, because we want you to see your (and our) weights go up! But the bottom line is this: you should be doing whatever weight you can successfully maintain your form at. No more. No less. If we all abided by this rule, I think it's safe to say that we would all see our lift numbers go down. But: we would see them go back up again as our superior technique assisted proper development, and ultimately, your numbers will go higher when you have proper form.
Beware: I've unleashed the dogs- the guys will definitely be on you more these days about *proper* form, and don't be surprised if you see plates getting pulled off your bar when your form isn't accurate. This is non-negotiable. We subscribe to high standards at our gym, and that includes high standards when it comes to form!
7 comments:
Rob 13 Abmat
Elena 16 Abmat
Diana 19 Abmat
Wendy 19 Abmat
Dave 20 Abmat
Ken 20 GHD
Margo 21 GHD
Kyle 13 Abmat
Julie 15 GHD
Jeremy 19 GHD
Angela 19 GHD
Why so many Abmat people? WAR ABMAT! Go GHD!
:)
Jenn
this is without added weight, correct?
yes
Okee dokee. Being the ever number-conscious math guru that I am (please: no applause), I volunteered a handy conversion table at the 7pm class to calculate the total number of reps being completed at a given round. And, being caught up in the magic of math tricks (like isolating the incidences of sums of 20 by adding 1+19+2+18+3+17+4+16+5+15=100, then adding 10 and isolating the two 15 sums in the remaining single digit rounds), I forgot to add the sum of the 11 - 14 series, which you will recognize easily from that popular 3rd grade song, presents two incidences of sums of 25, which equals 50, hence the total reps at round 19 was 190, not 140. Yeah, I know: kindergarten stuff and I still made the mistake.
So here's the real conversion table: here's the tricky part -- realize that if you completed ONLY 1 round, your total reps would be only 1. Got it? Good.
Rnds — Reps
001 — 001 | 008 — 036 | 015 — 120 | 022 — 253
002 — 003 | 009 — 045 | 016 — 136 | 023 — 276
003 — 006 | 010 — 055 | 017 — 153 | 024 — 300
004 — 010 | 011 — 066 | 018 — 171 | 025 — 325
005 — 015 | 012 — 078 | 019 — 190 | 026 — 351
006 — 021 | 013 — 091 | 020 — 210 | 027 — 378
007 — 028 | 014 — 105 | 021 — 231 | 028 — 406
And did you know that you can determine the product of any double digit number and 11 simply by splitting that number and placing the digit sum in the middle of the two digits? (e.g., 11 x 35 = 385; see, 3 + 5 = 8, which you just slip between the two digits of the subject number, in this case, 35). Also, I proved that if you can do 23 GHD rounds at 6pm, you can still do 23 abmat rounds at 7pm if you want to.
Yes: I am available for booking at parties.
John 10 GHD
Jay 19 GHD
Alison 25 GHD
Luis 21 GHD
Mustafa 23 Abmat
Good work guys!!!
G=ghd A=abmat
MikeV 19g
Jeff 11a
Jason H 15g
Jon 17g
Jesse 17g
Jim 27g
Victoria 27a
Carmen 16g
Moose 23g
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