Free Fitness Movement. All you need to do is show up!
We went into the shortest month of the year with one of the biggest collabs happening on the banks of the river Charles. The Esplanade association teamed up with us to keep us motivated, warm and fueled while we hit the pavement, grass, docks, turf and bridges in (normally) one of the coldest months of the year.
Sometimes it’s all about a little shift in perspective.
This morning I rolled right out of Chitown where I was lucky enough to watch NPCHI do their bouncy house at 6:18 Wednesday mornin’ and straight into the Bean to watch NPBOS do their own version. Both of these i found myself right in the mix, standing watching our fearless co-leaders perform, respond to the crowd, crack some jokes and motivate us to move through the windless hills of Chicago and the concrete lake beaches of Boston… something like that right?
A Monday morning like any other, except this morning we were joined by some friends, old and new, around the famous Arthur Fielder Head Statue down by the banks of the river Charles. The Esplanade Association has graciously partnered with us to host a MONTH of Monday workouts along the river and offered to not only share with their community but also keep us fueled and warmed with some post workout snacks and treats.
It basically felt like 2° (in case you were wondering how to pull off this fancy trick option+shift+8; I’ll be looking forward to seeing it in all your IG captions this winter) so here’s the 2 things you need to know on this two degree day.
1° the ML6k8 @ 8 : This Monday we’re having our regularly scheduled 6:30am workout in the seaport at the free fitness park here. BUUUT after this workout we’re moving over to the ice rink for a 6K on Sk8s – – The first official ML6k8! at 8am. So if you don’t have to work please join us for some fun as Seaport Boston is graciously hosting us in the space!
Have you heard the Lungeon Dungeon? If you were at the workout this morning you probably dreaded the Dungeon at first. It seemed like too many lunges, but then oddly fell in love with it because it was your well needed break from wall sitting.
We overheard someone who couldn’t believe he was saying it but was looking forward to the burpees in the workout because it gave him the relief from wall sits.
Commit now.
So whether you showed up at 5am, 6:30am or 6:37am we all saw the remnants of a few panting soliders trudging up the hills as they finished their last of the WOahMAN.
All winter long we’ve been committing to a WOAHMAN on PR Day at the hills (2nd Friday of the month). We know that winter can knock some of us down so we tried to encourage ourselves to knock down winter and set those alarms at an ungodly hour to race what might be the hardest workout this entire movement has ever created….
Talk about trying something new today…
We introduced some new moves to spicen’ up this holiday seasons. If you showed up you saw these moves first hand, if you missed out…. heres the cliffnotes:
LATKE LUNGES:
We lunged through the safety meadows pressing our heels to the ground and creating beautiful little patties in the remaining morsels of snow.
This morning I called Lexi Ladds out on the spot to right a blog post. In front of a crowd of people so that she had really HAD to write it. Straight from the SMS of Lexi’s Iphone to yours…. Here is today’s blog:
There it is. We’re currently in talks with Penguin Random House on how to best publish this art.
Let’s get right to it.
This morning was alright. We bounced. We sweat. We hugged/High-fiv’d. We watched the sunrise. We were surrounded by Boston’s finest.
There was nothing different about this morning. Or was there?
There was something, an X-factor. Something was in the air that made this morning unique, special and high energy. I can’t pin point this x-factor. Sometimes it shows up, sometimes it less evident. But it’s always there. Today it was out in full force.
Wahhhhhttt happened?!?! Where were you?! I missed you!
At 5:24 am this morning when my alarm went off (again) my first thought was woah. It’s awful bright for 4:30. Wait a minute, it’s wayyy too bright for 4:30. In a shuffle rather than checking my phone i ran to my microwave which revealed that i was ACTUALLY 5:25am…. woof.