Play Ball!

It was opening weekend for Caleb's baseball team!

Though I had some reservations about the time requirements and costs, I'm glad we signed him up.  He's had nothing but fun so far, and it was fun for the rest of us too to enjoy the sunny weather while we watch him play.  Watching a group of 5 to 7-year-olds play baseball is quite entertaining.  They can hit, but their fielding is a little wild.
Regardless, his team won both games, 17 to 5 and 17 to 11, and Caleb led the team in RBIs both games.  More importantly, he's learning about hard work and being part of a team.

We'll see you at the ballpark!  Go Nationals!

Videos from Sandpiper Bay

This was a note I found that Caleb had written...

"We are going to have fun at Club Med."  How right he was!  Here are some fun videos from the Super Hero performance:

March 2020

Arms

3 x 8-10 & 60/40/20

standing curls

rope press down

reverse grip shoulder press

sprint on elliptical

rope hammer curl

overhead triceps press

lateral raise

mountain climbers

behind back curl

leaning rope press down

reverse fly

180 burpees

reverse grip barbell curl

kickbacks

front raise

plank jack

Legs

3 x 8-10

squats

deadlifts

calf raises

Smith machine single leg squats off step

lunges off step

calf raises (toes in)

cable glute squeeze

banded squat with knee raise

finisher - 30s each x 3

box jump

lying ham curl on ball

jump rope

weighted plie squat

Tabata

elliptical sprint/ hollow rock x 4

jump squat/rock the cradle x 4

burpee/weighted reach and tap x4

plie squat jump/pike x 4

finisher:  all exercises

Back & Chest

3 x 8-10

lat pull down

machine chest press

machine row

chest fly

reverse grip low cable row

incline press

high row

high cable cross over

lat pull over on ball

push ups

Abs & Glutes

45s x 3

Turkish get up

weighted glute raise

slider side to side burpees

glute press x 2 (each side)

roll ups

bear crawl

deadbug

saw

woodchop x 2

Club Med Sandpiper Bay

We just returned from what was probably our best family vacation yet to Club Med Sandpiper Bay in Port St. Lucie, Florida.  The drive there and back was not too terrible (Atlanta traffic notwithstanding), the weather was perfect (except for the rainy and breezy last day), and the kids had a blast.  Of course, it didn't hurt that they also participated in the Mini-Club a few hours each day.  It was a win-win:  they were able to play with other kids and do fun stuff like the trapeze, sports, splash pad, arts and crafts and such, while Mom and Dad were able to relax by the peaceful adult only pool for a few hours.  The kids even participated in a fun Super Hero Show, which was the main entertainment one evening.  Caleb bemused everyone as Batman, Wren was wonderful as Wonder Woman, and Judson was superb as Super Man.  One day we ventured off the resort and went to a local children's museum and Jensen Beach, where the waves were huge!  Back at the resort, they truly enjoyed all the trips to the buffet (where they all ate their weight in chicken nuggets and fries during the course of our stay and enormously enjoyed drinking from fancy glasses, of which we (Judson) only broke two), swimming, and playing at the beach.  We also discovered (due to out lack of having brought any bedtime books) that they are all enthralled by my made up stories at bedtime.  Though I do not consider myself to be any master storyteller by any stretch of the imagination, it was sweet to see their anticipation of the night's story and their rapt attention and wide eyes as I unfolded the plot.  We'll have to see if we can work that into our bedtime routine at home.  Or maybe it will just be a special vacation tradition...Either way, we made lots of memories, and it was a nice way to break up winter.  We're all looking forward to our next trip to Club Med!

"Mom, I'm just too cool for this banana."

February 2020

Chest & Biceps with intervals

30s each or to failure, AMRAP:

sprint on elliptical 

push up

barbell curl

sprint on elliptical

bench press

dumbbell curl

sprint on elliptical

bicep push up

drag curl

sprint on elliptical

svend press

rope hammer curl

Legs & Core

Romanian deadlift 8-12 reps x 3

tempo back squat 6-8 reps x 3

wall squat 45 s x 3

barbell hip thrusts 8-12 x 3

flying 30s x 6

front/back single leg hops and stick 6 (per leg) x 3

2 to 1 jump 5 (per leg) x 3

30s intervals x 3:

lateral cone freeze

scissor shaper

plank

crunch with swivel

thread the needle

oblique to vertical leg crunch

Back & Triceps

8-12 x 3

split-stance 1 arm band row

overhead rope press

shrugs

face pull

overhead triceps press

single arm band straight arm pull down

lat pulldown

triceps push up

wide row & rotation

reverse grip row

kickbacks

behind back raise & upright row

db row (palms face in)

band single arm tricpes press down

Run

23:43

Shoulders & Core

30/5 x 4

lateral Raise

mountain Climbers

V-sit

upright row

burpee to shoulder press

hollow rock

reverse fly (pinkies out)

plank up/downs

reverse crunch

plank knee to elbow

side plank

other side plank