Today’s episode is a realty check about our human nature. Over the course of the last 2.5 million years, you have evolved to have your heel flat on the ground (or a flat surface). You are an engineering miracle. The length of your heel cords is not an accident. Any systematic deviation away from heel flat isn’t natural (Sure oly shoes are legit, but you don’t cruze the hood in them do you? And check out the crappy ankle range of motion in some of those oly lifters eh?) You need your heel cords to be full length and functioning at full length. Why are you wearing sneaker/tennis shoe/joggers/running shoe versions of high heel shoes? Oh, you are an adult. You do have the right to hobble yourself (ask my wife when she’s wearing her cute going out shoes..) But your kids? I’m not going to be all crazy and say that putting young kids in shoes with an elevated heel is the equivalent of the old Chinese custom of foot binding, but it kind of is? Seriously, heels flat. An elevated heel is an upstream mechanical nightmare expressing itself at the foot, ankle, knee, hip, low back… You can have some padding and traction of course. But keep that differential between heel and toe to a minimum. Besides, I know you crazies out there want your kids to be smart and super jocks. Don’t hobble them out of the gate. Give them a chance to be badass.
Focus: Paying Attention
Down Walking Lunges
10 Perfect Air Squats
*Last one done is the winner!
Staring Contest with Partner
Warm-Up: Paying Attention Drill. Kids will run towards the garage door until the trainer says freeze. Kids stop in their tracks and do one burpee. If kids don't immediately stop and drop to a burpee, then they have to come back and start over. First one to outside wins.
Game: Farmers & Lumberjacks
Set up cones with 2 teams. The lumberjacks try to knock all the cones down while the farmers pick them all up. If at any point all the cones are up or down, then the game ends with that team winning.
WOD: Working on the Ranch
2 Rounds
1:00 Stations /Rotate
1:00 Min Rest at end of Round 1
Station #1 Hay Bale Squats (goblet squats with KB.)
Station #2 Take water to the Farm animals (Farmers Carry with KB's)
Station #3 Cow Pie Jumps (Box jumps)
Station #4 Roping on the Range (Jump Rope)