May 5, 2020

Now the ever reliable weather service has predicted 16 degrees and beautiful blue skies today, fingers crossed because a 1 mile run in the rain is far from fun. Thankfully the Scottish weather is eminently predictable, so sunshine it is. With this run let’s try and get a bit of a pace on, I want you running as fast as your little legs will carry you, when you get back you should be gassed, heart rate high and breathing heavy.
When we get back take a couple of big breaths and straight into the burpees, no wandering around, taking a drink, preparing a quick snack, I want you into the next part of your workout whilst you are still suffering, it’s just burpees, you’ve done a million of these.
Pistols are pistols, you’ll go through all the variations available in the warmup, if none of these are to your taste then you will perform negative pistols to a chair, or a step, or a box, or something around knee height or just higher, these will work you balance and strength, helping you on your journey to the pistol.
V-ups are hard! There’s no way to sugar coat this, these are a strict abdominal movement that very few people can perform correctly, they take a huge amount of control and strength. Fortunately they are part of a chain of progressions, just like the pistol, you can perform them with a shorter range of movement, you can keep your hands on the ground like a pike pulse and work the leg raise alone, you can even drop back to tuck crunches because we all know how easy they are, right?
So the finisher, Frog stand to head stand practice, these are 2 basic gymnastic movements that everyone should master, today we will be working the 2 movements. If you are new to these then you will be practicing the movement, if you have had a little exposure then try to move from the frog stand, into the tucked headstand, extend the legs, hold for a count of 10, back to the tuck and then try to move into the Frog stand, it’s harder than you’d think. Time to get frog strong!