Music Garden Thursdays

Sam, Steph, and me (and hopefully some others) are going to do the Music Garden Workout after work on Thursdays. Meeting at March Entertainment at 5:30pm and doing a short run where we will hopefully meet Shawn Schwartz at the Music Garden at 6:00pm. (run will probably be to Coronation Park and back to the Music Garden) Perhaps others will make an appearance! If you can make it, come on down.

This is how men bake cakes.

So, when you're not training for Tough Mudder, this is what you should be doing for your significant other.

Baking cake!

Workout 1.0

Today's workout went really well. 9 people showed up despite the wind and bad directions, (sorry Tyler, I had to take that shot at you). This was the first time that most had done the Mudder workout and I think they'll all agree its a tough one. I'm always tired after it.

We will do more of these as the spring/summer commences, (if you want). We were thinking of having one every couple of weeks so there should be no reason to not see all of you at least once. More to come as time moves along.

One thing that came up is most of you are concentrating on the running portion which is great but don't forget the muscle conditioning as well. From what I've heard, if you can run a 5km you will be okay with the running part. The rest of the time you will need those muscles to get you over walls, through fires and of course, to wipe the tears from your eyes. So if you haven't already, start on the prescribed workout from the Tough Mudder website.

Here are a couple of shots from today. There were two folks that had to get back to work before we took these. We'll get you next time.

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http://g.co/maps/m2d4t

SO! Here's the spot that we usually work out that is close to both toonbox and nelvana and just down the street from Arc. It's kinda been a meeting point for all of us who are still doing the training. If this works for Shawn this is where I believe we should all meet tomorrow at 12:15.

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See ya tomorrow guys!!!

Monkey Bar Obstacle Training Exercises

I am most afraid of failing the monkey bars (and I probably will)... and found this video which shows some exercises to do on a chin up bar to prepare for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZeVRdAW5nw

An interesting video I found regarding Tough Mudder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7HE2O4Japw&feature=fvwp&NR=1

Group Workout

It seems the good weather is upon us so I think its time we all got together for a group workout, (those of us that are geographically close anyways). This might take a bit to put together so lets start talking about it now. I think the Nelvana/Toonbox area is our best bet. A lot of you are there already or at least close. Zurbrigg is pretty far but I reckon the jog from London to Toronto would be a good little warmup. I'm suggesting we do the Tough Mudder routine twice through, (if we can). You'll all need to bring your weights. If you don't have some, I have extra I can bring. Alicia, I can pick up yours because carrying those 80lb dumb bells to work is bothersome. I'm open for suggestions as far as location. You guys know the location better than me.

What would work best for folks? Lunch hour, after work, weekends, never? Let me know so we can plan. I would suggest a wednesday noon hour to get things started. Maybe the 28th or the 4th?

On a side note I ran a 10km the other day and had my best time ever, (45:05). Here is the Run Keeper link: http://runkeeper.com/user/ElChan/activity/76806412

I was super happy and surprised at my time. Even though, as my lovely wife stated, I am older. Maybe not quite as old as she mentioned but it goes to show that you can always improve. That being said, the next day my legs ached and I complained like and old man.