Running
BOOM!
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Had one of them sessions at BMF tonight. 15 burpees into a hill sprint x4 sets. Lots of running, tricep dips on the parallel bars in the park (I can’t do them) and with a set of tabata squats thrown in at the end of the session.
Sat in the car barely able to work the pedals with my shaking, wobbly legs.
And then this song (courtesy of Matt) came on the stereo. BOOM!
Courage Wolf says:
Let's hope there is, or I'm going to be pretty pissed off…
Random act of kindness
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30 gifts to 30 strangers in Sydney. A few words from the film maker:
Hello! My name is Lucas and I’m Brazilian. Since I arrived in Australia a lot of beautiful things happened in my life, so on the day I turned 30 I decided to celebrate in a special way, being grateful to the people of Sydney. :)
Just wonderful.
9/11
I remember very clearly the events of September 11th 2011 from my point of view. I was in work and it was a pretty quiet day. A friend of mine was unemployed at the time and therefore at home sent me a text along the lines of “Oh my God, have you seen what has happened”, so the few of us in the office that day, headed to the internet and specifically CNN.com which we figured would be a good news source to start with.
If you look at CNN you’ll see that much like the familiar BBC news website it contains a multitude of stories, links, features etc. On that day however, presumably overwhelmed by traffic, the whole site had been pulled and replaced with a quickly put together page of basic code, free from any stye sheet or corporate branding said:
CNN.com
BREAKING NEWS: America under attack, airliner strikes World Trade Center.
Below it was a photo of the burning building
MORE TO FOLLOW.
That was all there was. And even that took nearly 5 minutes to load.
So, in addition to what we were getting from the various texts and phone calls, we watched and waited as the CNN site sluggishly refreshed.
It was so far away, but it didn’t make it feel any less real, or less scary. Sad times.
Boxing WOD
We were working in pairs; each time there is an asterisk, I was resting and/or wearing the pads while the other was punching. Onwards…
Warm up:
Seated double overhead punches 1min
Seated left/right overhead punches 1min
*
Left/right jabs 2min
Star jumps to tyre
20 overhead tyre presses
20 30cm hurdle jumps
20 press ups
Star jumps back to start
*
Left/right jabs 1min
Left/right body hooks 1min
Star jumps to tyre
20 overhead tyre presses
30 30cm hurdle jumps
25 press ups
Star jumps back to start
*
Left/right uppercuts 1min
Left/right body hooks 1min
Left/right jabs 1min
Star jumps to tyre
20 overhead tyre presses
40 30cm hurdle jumps
40 star jumps
25 press ups
20 burpees
*
Sit-up to double punch 1min
Sit-up to left/right hook 1min
*
Warm down and try to regain breath.
