After this first week of our 31-day Push-ups (+ poems) Challenge, we trust your push-ups are a little bit stronger and your ear a little finer tuned to the beauty of words.
For those of you in Supergroup, see you at Brownwood at 10:00 for our Saturday workout. One word: deadlifts.
The dare for the day:
5 rounds of:
5 jumping squats
10 lunges each leg
turn around
5 jumping squats
bear walk back to your start line
If you’re able to do this outside in the grass somewhere, double points for you. If you’d like to switch out your walks, you can choose other animals: alligator walk, crab walk, inchworm.
Then…50 perfect pushups in as few sets as possible.
In the comments let us know your animal(s) and the number of sets it took you to do 50 perfect pushups.
The poem for Saturday is June Jordan, who wrote this for Fannie Lou Hamer. This is only the first bit of the poem – for some reason, wordpress doesn’t hold on to tabs, and you should click over to the poetryfoundation.com to read the whole poem, formatting intact.
June Jordan
1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
May 8, 2015
KungLi
3 responses to “Sat. – 5/9 Animal walking + June Jordan”
Cindy Lutenbacher
May 9th, 2015 at 09:12
Awesome poem. But so are all of Jordan’s. So are all the poems you’ve shared, Kung Li.
Okay, so most of today’s workout are knee-forbidden. I’m going to figure out substituting all the animal walks I can for the lunges and squats. Maybe with some situps, too. See y’all there at Brownwood and here at the blog!
Anushka
May 9th, 2015 at 14:41
Inch worms on grass and jumping squats on warm sand. Push ups in sets of 15 and 12.
Cindy Lutenbacher
May 9th, 2015 at 20:52
Done, Anushka! Subbed crab walks and inchworms for the lunges and squats. (I tried the alligator walk, but no go.) In essence, I animal-walked up and down the backyard. Push-ups in sets of 13 and 12.