I’ve spoken before about some of my favourite RIPT exercises. This morning, I added a new one to my list. Now you need to know that I was basically a walking zombie for the first half-hour of today’s class. I’m a bit knackered (some lingering aftershocks from Week 04, I guess), and it took me a while to get out of Neutral this morning. Fortunately, Neil – who was one of the coaches who did my pre-#MHStaffChallenge assessment; and who is one of my favourite RIPT coaches – had something special planned for the final section of the class. We’d done the heavy lifting, and we’d done the METCON (huge fun, as always)… and all that was left was the final burn. So out came the
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2015 Staff Challenge: #TeamRIPT Week 06
“Active Rest”. It sounds like a contradictions in terms… you know, like the ones language professors make unfunny jokes about. Pretty ugly. Independent colony. Liquid ice. Government planning. Military intelligence. Working journalist. (You get the picture.) It really does sound like a bad joke, though… and at this morning’s RIPT class, I wasn’t the one laughing. During the METCON portion, we did a circuit of seven stations: battle rope / one-leg hurdles / weight plate frontal raise / lunge with rotation (medicine ball) / ab rollouts / crunches with bar / kettlebell swings (it’s all in the picture below). We did each station twice, for 20 seconds at a time, with a 10-second break in between. Now here’s the thing: usually I would spend those 10 seconds standing around, goofing off, taking a 45-