Week 19: Beach Workout

Went for a lovely 1.5 hour walk with Nick along the waterfront and on the beach. At a nice driftwood strewn stretch of beach, we got a little functional fitness in, primal-style. Using the logs and hungs of driftwood all around us, we ran through a nice collection of standard movements. Doing these with uneven hunks of wood rather than uniform hunks of metal added a fun component, as did the gorgeous and oxygen-rich seaside local!

25 Partner Log Carry Side step-overs (holding a relatively heavy log with Nick, we side stepped up and over another large log. Uneven elevation on either side of the log made this fun from a stability standpoint)

25 Squats (to ~15"Log depth)

25 Good Mornings with Driftwood Log (Estimate 25# log)

25 Log Step Ups (~18" Log)

25 Log Tri Dips

25 Shoulder Press with Smaller Log (Estimate 10# log. Really light, but the larger ones were too big around to grip securely. I ended up doing 10 regular presses and 10 single-arm presses each side to somewhat compensate for the light weight. Next time we find rocks for this.)

25 Push-ups in Sand (fun!)

25 Log Deadlifts (Lifted up one end of a really heavy log. I would estimate aprox. 95# pull equivalent, with was more of a Sumo/KB deadlift style because of hand position together, directly under torso and fairly turned-out leg position. The "handle" point on the end of the log made it nice to grip, but hard to finish the stand because the point wanted to whack me in the ever-larger belly!)

Nick added in 25 Curl and 25 Curl-to-Press with the ~10# log after shoulder presses while waiting for me to finish the DL.

Walk was gorgeous! We saw a seal and the weather was just perfect--soft ligth on the water but patches of sun in the sky. Excellent!