You Can Achieve Perfection – via the Push-Up

Date: 2023-08-08
AO: delphi
Q: Pop Fly
PAX: Hightower, K-Pop, Chuggz, Nano, Juneau, Rocket, Doodles FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
The PAX were on time and ready to go. So we made the most of it.

WARMUP:
SSHs, Arm Circles, 10x squats, Cherry Pickers, 10x Fwd Lunge, the World Famous – DLSRL (Double Leg Swing into Reverse Lunge), Calf Stretch, Hip Flexor Stretch, World’s Greatest Stretch, Supine Rockettes, Downward Dog.

THE THANG:
Round 1: The Perfect Pushup
– PAX lined up on the goal line and performed 10 perfect (chest to deck) pushups. Then run to opposite goal line and back to the 10 yd line
– PAX, now at the 10yd line, performed 10 perfect pushups. Run to the opposite goal line and back to the 20 yard line (PAX dropped 10 yards on every return run)
– PAX continued this process – doing 10 PUs each set – perfectly – until PAX completed 100 PUs total.

Round 2: PAX found themselves on the wrong side of the field from where they started. They had to – had to – get back. Best way to do that was….
– 4 sets of 25 IC Over-head Army Claps + 25 yd Bear Crawl. PAX did a set of 25 and bear crawled for 25. It took us 4 sets.

Round 3: The Mt Rainer!
– For 4 minutes, PAX walked up the hill from the field at Delphi back towards the parking lot. – 3 Lunges + 1 Squat. Repeat for 4 straight minutes.
– PAX really enjoyed the break from the upper body work we were doing earlier.

MARY: American Hammers, LBCs, Superman’s, Glees

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
(a) 9/11 Stair Climb
(b) 28 Oct Sunrise climb up Old Rag
(c) 2nd F West Side Social is coming

COT: Perfection is not possible in our lives. However, perfection is possible, and it is required, when we are working out. Not being able to do 10 proper pushups is cheating yourself. When we do an exercise the right way, we probably can do less than we think we can. When we do them the wrong way, we also risk hurting ourselves. The pursuit of perfection in your workout should be a driving force. When you can’t do the rep perfectly anymore, you’ve hit your limit. You rest and then try again. That is where the real gains are made.