Geometry Class

A workout this week was inspired by a dinner conversation with my son about his math class in school. He's studying Geometry and it didn't take long for the material from class to come quickly back to me.....

Acute angles, Obtuse Angles, Right Angles, Straight Angles, Circles, Triangles, etc.

Of course, I just couldn't resist and had to work in some pull ups that challenged more then my memory of Geometry, but would pay tribute to it by replicating some of the shapes and angles. Here is what I came up with:

6-8 reps each exercise x 2 sets

* Side to Side (Pull straight up, them move to one side, to center, to other side, to center and then down)
* Diagonals (Pull up on an angle to one side, then down and repeat on other side)
* Circles (Self explanatory)
* L-Sit Pull Ups (A right angle that challenges the core)
* Triangles (Side to Side on bottom while fully extended, then up to a point and back down other side to form a triangle)

These were not easy, with a mixture of one sided and single arm strength and balance requirements; humbling actually. This was really a test in "Freestyle" pull ups that I mentioned a few weeks back. I definitely need practice to feel more comfortable doing these and to get them right. We captured some crude video footage of a few of the variations in advance of a fading battery; evidence of my poor form.




Next up.....anyone want to tackle the parallelogram?

Really looking forward to a coordinated workout this week with Blair Morrison from AnywhereFit. He's in Paris studying and our first installment of "Pull ups Across the Pond" will take place this Monday; updates in my post next week!!