Week 8 - Epilogue

Ah, my Team Training friends......here we are. What to say, what to say? It's been a blast and, in the spirit of the awards season presently upon us (Up In the Air, by the by, was the best movie of the year and I won't be convinced otherwise), I will use my Week 8 blog to give my Best Exercise award.

The nominees for Best Exercise are:

1. The Hall of Death (popularized by the ancient Mandarin tradition of carrying large water buckets up long flights of stairs, reinvented by OBC in the form of carrying heavy weights while lunging up and down the gym while treadmillers laugh at you, and then jumping onto a speeding treadmill....and early favorite).

2. The Upper Junk Killers (who the hell knows where this one came from, but it involves placing a too-big exercise ball between your feet while lying flat on your back, engaging your abs and junk region, and lifting said ball toward said junk repeatedly until you blackout...also a good one).

3. The Slippery Step Move of Death (only available in your local BodyStep class, this involves sweating a quart of fluid onto the floor around you for forty minutes, only to realize you have done this when OBC turns on the "speed step" track and you spend the ensuing three minutes trying to run, not slip, and not die while smiling because OBC gets mad when you don't smile).

4. Planking - front and side (we all know this one....theorized to engage your core, planking was first discovered in Dante's fifth circle of hell on the other side of the river styx...planking is horrible, utterly and completely...planking is like country music mixed with waterboarding multiplied by Kara DioGuardi).

And the winner is.....wait for it....





THE FUN EXERCISE BALL Sitty-Standy Uppy Thing!!!! Wow...a complete under dog. Congratulations exercise ball, you rule, and all of RK2 can now do this.

Congrats to all on an awesome eight weeks. Let's do it again sometime.