![]() ![]() This challenge also combines my Dad’s technique, which he’s done as long as I can remember, parking at the back of a parking lot, or towards the back center of the lot. You could also do this with your dog on the way into a pet friendly store or a park, as long as the dog isn’t a Pit Bull or Rottweiler, as it may engage it’s predatory instincts and maul you. Some people in the parking lot probably thought it was a terrorist attack, or at least the women who screamed as she threw her belongings in air, while running in the opposite direction (kidding). For the record I thought I would smoke him, but it was a close finish. The only person I’ve had accept it, was my energetic, Adonis legged cousin Syed, who gamely raced me via full sprint to the front entrance of the Missoula, Montana Home Depot back in 08′. If in a library, or another quiet place, an option is to speed walk, or hold Horse position while looking through books, movies, or CD’s.Ī great aspect of this challenge is that if you happen to be with someone, you can encourage them to do this exercise as well, and even make it a race, but good luck as most may scoff at it. I just realized not being able to even remember the last time I walked up a set of stairs, or didn’t jog down them sideways, this exercise has become so routine. This movement becomes habitual after a little while. Especially when going up stairs, being mindful of the footing, whether outdoors or indoors. Take a cue from John Rocker and just keep your focus straight ahead, while being mindful of the ground if it’s icy, or wet. If it’s icy enough, I’ll quickly do a shuffle skate on the shoes, so as to keep a respectable pace. ![]() You may get looks, but it’s not as if you’ll be getting batteries or water bottles thrown at you. In the book she talked of a guy who set a distance record, which stood for a while, and one of his preparation techniques was that he was pretty much always hustling around, and never moving at an average or slow pace.Įver since reading that, the thought occured to borrow that idea, as everything adds up, so since then, often when I get out of the car, whether it’s the grocery store, or especially when crossing a street (nothing worse than a deliberately slow cross walker,) I break into a jog or a sprint, and I’m going to suggest that you should try it. ![]() Many years after he retired I read the book, “ Ultimate Fitness,” by Gina Kolata which dispelled a lot of common fitness myths, and also had interesting historic information regarding fitness, a lot of it involving endurance training, particularly running. Though the pre football game ritual that former NFL defensive lineman John Henderson requested is equally memorable. It was always entertaining to watch, one of the more memorable rituals that an athlete ever did to psyche himself up before a game. When he was on the mound, if someone was on base, his head movement from the basemen to the batter would snap like a possessed alligator on steroids. If it was an away game there would be often be objects thrown at him from the stands (you can see a water bottle thrown towards to the left of him in the above photo). The crowd would go crazy if it was a home game. When his name was called, he would maniacally break into a full sprint from the bullpen, looking wide eyed and stone faced straight ahead into some mental abyss, chugging along with the determination someone might have if they were trying to outrun regrets from their past. The focus of this post isn’t that incident though, even though that’s what he’s mostly remembered for, rather the focus and inspiration for this mini exercise challenge is his routine when he was called upon from the bullpen to go out onto the mound to relieve the pitcher. He received a lot of flak for it and was labeled a racist, homophobic hillbilly among other things. If you do it’s probably not for his pitching acumen, but his 1999 Sports Illustrated Interview in which he gave a number of controversial statements about a wide variety of subjects and people he disliked, particularly the city of New York and the Met’s fans, in the process coming off as a fire breathing redneck with anger management issues. Remember John Rocker, the giant flame throwing relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves in the late nineties? ![]()
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