Wednesday 080430

Workout
"Lynne"
Five rounds for max reps of:
Body weight bench press
Pull-ups

For Lynne as rx'd, each "round" is 5 minutes long. Start your BP on the minute, complete as many as possible without racking the weight. Once you have completed the BP, start your Pull-ups. Complete as many Pull-ups as possible (your set is complete once you release the bar). Now rest for what remains of the original 5 minutes (e.g. if it takes you 2 minutes to BP and do the Pull-ups, rest 3 minutes). Repeat 4 more time. Got it? Post reps for both exercises in all rounds

Compare to:
TITANFIT: Thursday 080117

ESPN The Magazine recently wrote an article about the good old medicine ball (link below). An excerpt for the article reads:

From the dawn of athletics to the first round of this month's NFL draft, the medicine ball has rolled through the centuries, its elemental formula unchanged and unsurpassed: Sphere + gravity = fitness. The medicine ball has toned presidents, altered Olympics and sculpted empires. It has survived wars and plagues. Thanks to a recent resurgence, it just might outlast performance-enhancing drugs and Jack LaLanne. And though most people, when they think of the medicine ball at all, think of it as a smelly, brown-leather boulder abandoned in a dark corner of a middle school gym—or as the thing Rocky used after beer-bonging his eggs each morning—nothing less than the course of humankind's athletic evolution can be traced by its epic, transcultural path.

Enjoy...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3336435