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Daddy, who’s that sweaty guy on the jungle gym? August 30, 2007

Posted by hardly General Cardio, Kettlebell, Run, Strength Training, Uncategorized, Walk Digg! this story! Digg! this story. , trackback

Very exciting, we’re at the beach!

I’ve been looking forward to this to see if I can create a workout on the fly, with the things I find at hand on the beach. And no, the couple that was tryng hard to swallow each other’s tongues somehow didn’t even notice I was doing this. I know. Sorta like finding out a Senator from Idaho has a secret life when he enters public bathroom stalls. Who knew?

There were numerous findings along the way:

  1. Running in soft sand is harder than running on a hard surface. Duh.  Plus, sand in the shoes. Double duh.
  2. As one does situps in the sand, you actually dig your way into the sand. I can hear my coach saying “O.K., gang, we’re going to China today…”
  3. There IS a neet-o jungle gym near Mo’s at Cannon Beach that is just high enough off the ground for an adult male of my size to do pullups! 2 year-olds are shocked that Adults also play on the jungle gym, and what is that pull-up thing anyway? Daddy, can you do that, too?

I won’t say this was the most taxing workout I’ve done of late, but it definitely got my hr going (and I checked my hr monitor just to make sure I was somewhere near where I ought to be). Plus, it was mentally fun to run around on the beach looking for heavy things to pick up

ps. And what, exactly is a toddler squat? That’s where you pick up your toddler and use her as an added weight to your warmup of body-weight squats.
pps When one returns to room, said toddler MUST show Daddy how she has figured out how to do body-weight squats, too!

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Comments

1. Lisa Sabin - August 30, 2007

How much does your toddler weigh? Maybe you could get her to go for a horse back ride on your back while you do pushups? It’s better than airplane rides!

2. Brad Hefta-Gaub - August 30, 2007

I do pullups whenever I take my kids to the park… kids and other parents always look at me like I’m crazy.

3. kimayars - August 31, 2007

I thought toddler squats only happened in the woods?…

Seriously, nice job on the creativity. :-)

4. hardly - August 31, 2007

Hmm.

re: Lisa
I happen to have the toddler’s larger-sized sibling, and she weighs considerably more, and that might be a worthwhile add to the workout, especially since I’d also have to piggy-back her to said push-up site. I could be Luke, and she could be Yoda, and she could say, “Feel the force Luke, the force of gravity…”

re: Brad
I’m very, very certain that this is the only time in your life that people have every looked at you like you’re crazy. We have that in common… ;-)

re: Kimayars
…and yes, the Bear is STILL Catholic!