Dynamic Squat: 8x2x55% or 285 lbs

-Mastodon Bar and low box with my new EliteFTS top cushion

Dead Lift off a one inch deficit: 8x1  Because I hate doing math, we just used the same 285 lbs

GHR:

2x10

4x6x25 lbs vest

 

Reverse Hyper with a moderate weight: 4x10  We usually make the set/rep adjustment based on what the last person used and left on the RH machine, or as I like to call it...Strength through laziness.

 

Prowler Suicides:

20 yard intervals using five cones.

BOY O BOY was this harder than I expected.  Forget the temperature is rising faster than the Highway to Hell...(interesting that there is a Stairway to Heaven but a Highway to Hell). Forget the legs were mush from the squats and deads...This was just MURDER because of the low handle hand placement.

Shoot, my breathing sounded asthmatic.

I need to get into shape...

Sprints: 10x50 yards

This past Labor Day weekend was invested into my son's Hockey Pre Season camp and scrimmages with the level of player ABOVE where he is now.

Remembering my guy is in the THIRD grade, he was up against kids in the 6th and a few Jr. High guys.

Now this isn't a story about a miraculous victory and my kid was the star.  Quite the contrary...we got BLOWN out as one would expect, but this is more about Player Conduct in light of the malicious and felonious hit the two high school football players put on an unsuspecting official.

It was taught in my house, and is now customary that Hunter shakes the hand of every coach on his team and "THANKS" them for their time and patience.  At this point, it is autonomic.  Done without requesting.

What my guy did after the scrimmage yesterday was beyond my expectation and comforting to know HE is part of the future.

H, went around our locker room and thanked each coach as usual, and THEN went next door to the opponents locker room, sought out each of their coaches and shook THEIR hand saying, "Thanks for letting us play against your team, coach...that was a LOT of fun".

Want to know the impression he made?

That was the talk in the lobby afterward.

"Hey did you hear that kid #52?  Yea, the little red helmet kid with the legit skating and puck handling skills?  He THANKED us for letting play AGAINST us.  We have a bona fide athlete in the making here."

Mind you, they don't know me yet.  (YET)  They have no idea that the little red helmeted #52 is MY boy.

The question arises, how do you think he learned and took it upon himself to show and extend that class act?

The next question is then, who taught those two high school football players how to demonstrate the "Assault and Battery" charges they should now face?

The things that make you go...hmmmmmmmm.