SATURDAY 070106

No Excuses

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"The next time someone says they don't have the equipment to CrossFit send them this pic. A new guy sent it to me. Its his set up for overhead squats for "Nancy". Got to love the inventiveness."

-Jeff Martin, Brand X Martial Arts

My gym is closed today and tomorrow, as I found out when I showed up there... So I went back home, drove out a quarter mile route in the car from my front door, and made myself a 22.5 lb squat bar:

1 broomstick (2 lbs)
2 of my roomie's aerobic handweights taped to each end (3 lbs. each)
1 partially used 2 gallon container of Tide laundry detergent with the broomstick run through the handle (14.5 lbs)

It worked pretty well, actually. Having the Tide hanging from the stick forced me to work on my form, because otherwise it would slide to one end or the other...

So, 3 rounds of:

480m (.3 miles) run, plus ten steps back to my front porch where the "squat bar" was
15 reps overhead squat

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