What’s on tap for Thursday? Push-ups, of course. We’re doing a ladder up with squats, back down with sit-ups:
1 push-up, 1 squat
2 push-ups, 2 squats
3 push-ups, 3 squats
… up to
7 push-ups, 7 squats
Then do 30 squats
7 push-ups, 7 sit-ups
6 push-ups, 6 sit-ups
5 push-ups, 5 sit-ups
…down to
1 push-up, 1 sit-up
Then do 30 sit-ups. For all the sit-ups, feel free to use your new hollow-body skills to do V-ups if the urge strikes you.
Here’s the amazing former U.S. Poet Laureate (and current Emory professor & Atlanta resident) Natasha Trethewey’s opening poem from her spectacular Native Guard collection:
Theories of Time and Space
Natasha Trethewey (2006)
You can get there from here, though
there’s no going home.
Everywhere you go will be somewhere
you’ve never been. Try this:
head south on Mississippi 49, one-
by-one mile markers ticking off
another minute of your life. Follow this
to its natural conclusion – dead end
at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where
riggings of shrimp boats are loose stitches
in a sky threatening rain. Cross over
the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand
dumped on the mangrove swamp – buried
terrain of the past. Bring only
what you must carry- time of memory,
its random blank pages. On the dock
where you board the boat for Ship Island,
someone will take your picture:
the photograph – who you were –
will be waiting when you return.
8 responses to “Thur. – 5/7 Ladder up and down + Nathasha Thethewey”
Anushka
May 7th, 2015 at 07:52
Done.
Cindy Lutenbacher
May 7th, 2015 at 10:28
Go, Anushka!!! Just thinking of you doing these workouts gives me inspiration.
Yep. Subbed inversion for squats.
Are we awesome or what?!?
Roan
May 7th, 2015 at 11:31
Done. those v-ups, omg.
Cindy Lutenbacher
May 7th, 2015 at 12:08
Dang, Roan…you are a monster. I think I was able to do, um, maybe one V-up…
Cindy Lutenbacher
May 7th, 2015 at 12:11
AND…I adore the Trethewey poem. She is a monster with words. Remind me to tell y’all a funny image on that stretch of Hway 49. I know that highway all too well, but to share this image in this space seems somehow disrespectful to Natasha Trethewey and her magnificence.
Eunice
May 7th, 2015 at 13:32
done.
efiada77
May 7th, 2015 at 16:45
Done! Ladder V-ups-last 30 were struggle situps! lol
Glo
May 7th, 2015 at 16:59
Check!