Trog Log: Transforming a 170-pound weakling into a highland athlete.

[LitTrog]

Some speed exercises this morning, as much as I could do indoors since it was snowing pretty hard...

Trog Frogs

Jump Lunges

Landmines (really getting a good range on these--with some pushes at the end, I'm quite winded after each set)

Alternating sets of pushups and chinups, no rest between

Some basic triceps work


So my 7 year-old boy likes to come up to the park with me when I throw, taking my spare length of pipe and "throwing hammer", or pretending it's a caber (I've made him watch countless training videos with me). It seems he tried to explain what he was doing to his teacher, because at our parent/teacher conference this morning she asked me what he meant by throwing hammers and "capers." I explained highland athletics a little and used my phone to show her the recent Seaside thread. Her husband used to compete in shot and discus and has been itching to get back into it or do something similar. Hopefully we'll have another heavy out here next spring.

The ex-wife also heard from my son what we're doing. "That's kinda dumb." Nothing quite like her disapproval to confirm I'm doing something right.