Some Lavercizes

Dan and I played lava today at the Platt playground near Washtenaw. It was mostly uneventful but we did get a couple of sweet pics including Dan performing this crow's nest.

Also we rocked some sweet workouts, including a lava walk. What is a lava walk? Well, to understand the lava walk you have to understand one of my favorite lava exercises--the lava chin up. The lava chin up is the same as any other chin up except that you tuck your knees up to your chest while performing them, scrunching up just like your body would be in a real life challenge. They are as sweet as possum poop.

A lava walk is when you take the lava chin up position and then traverse to the end of the monkey bars and back, either turning at the end or simply climbing in reverse. It is awesome, because, scrunched up, you have to use all upper body strength to go back and forth.

And now for today's move of the DAAAAAY!

Orangutan

The Tarzan (no one calls it that) – The orangutan is a hanging transfer reminiscent of the arm-swinging primate for which it is named and is most useful on challenges that require a pole to pole transition. To perform an orangutan, the lavaist must reach arm-first from a pole hold, secure a handhold on a second pole and then their lower body to the new pole. Because the orangutan is most useful on challenges of narrow passage, often this swing requires an extreme contraction of the lower body and requires the core strength to suspend one’s knees up into the body while twisting from one pole to another—another feature of the move that lends to the primate appearance.

Hasta marinara! Until marinara!