February is Black History Month and we have teamed up with Afro Brutality to adapt Syn’s Workouts he has created recognition of BHM.
Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. It has received official recognition from governments in the United States and Canada, and more recently has been observed in Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It began as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African and Black culture. It is celebrated in February in the United States and Canada, while in Ireland, and the United Kingdom it is observed in October.
Each Day we will post a workout you can try and it will be adapted to meet the stimulus and intent for each workout.
February 1st Workout is:
February 1st Black History Month Wod:
“Slavery”
On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. At the stroke of midnight, prayers were answered as all enslaved people in Confederate States were declared legally free. Union soldiers, many of whom were black, marched onto plantations and across cities in the south reading small copies of the Emancipation Proclamation spreading the news of freedom in Confederate States. Only through the Thirteenth Amendment did emancipation end slavery throughout the United States.
But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth,” by the newly freed people in Texas.
Original Written Workout: (adaptions below)
For time:
30, 25, 20, 15, 10, and 5 reps of Virtual Shovelling and Burpees (With an Olympic bar holding only one plate (men use 45 pound plate, women use 25 pound plate), touch the plate on one side of the barrier then the other for one “rep.” Barrier is 24inch Box”
Upper Impairment
For time:
30, 25, 20, 15, 10, and 5 reps of:
Virtual Shovelling and Burpees (With an Olympic bar holding only one plate (men & women use empty bar), touch the bar on one side of the barrier then the other for one “rep.”
Barrier is 20inch Box”
Lower Impairment
For time:
30, 25, 20, 15, 10, and 5 reps of:
Virtual Shovelling and Burpees (With an Olympic bar holding only one plate (men use 25 pound plate, women use 15 pound plate), touch the plate on one side of the barrier then the other for one “rep.” Barrier is 20inch Box”
Neuromuscular
For time:
20, 20, 15, 10, 7, and 5 reps of:
Virtual Shovelling and Burpees (or knee burpees) (With an Olympic bar holding only one plate (men & Women use an empty bar, Major use a 35 and 15lb bar with 10lb plate), touch the plate on one side of the barrier then the other for one “rep.”
Barrier is 12 inch Box”
Seated
For time:
30, 25, 20, 15, 10, and 5 reps of:
Virtual Shovelling and Slamballs (With an Olympic bar holding only one plate (men & women use 10 pound plate,), touch the plate on one side of the barrier then the other for one “rep.”
Barrier is 12 inch Box”
