Scott Sinclair acknowledges that the responsible move is to stay at home and get creative with your regular workout routine.
Whether or not your gym is closed due to public health concerns, Scott Sinclair acknowledges that the responsible move is to stay at home and get creative with your regular workout routine. This week, Georgia football’s director of strength and conditioning took to twitter to demonstrate.
Don’t have dumbbells at home? No problem. Use a jug of water or laundry detergent. Get those shoulder presses in.
Need to do four sets of ten step-ups or calf raises? Grab a sturdy, flat seated wooden chair.
My personal favorite: an exercise he calls “how much can you carry at the grocery store?” Sinclair proceeds to pick up a jug of water and bag of oranges and recommends at least 100 squats.
Others include using a four-fold ladder as a squat rack:
In another, he simply loads his wheelbarrow with items from his garage, runs uphill, goes down hill, rinses, repeats:
This is what made me keep up with these videos in the first place. If you haven’t seen it already, the soup can shoulder raise:
And perhaps the most elaborate post, he outlines a game involving a deck of playing cards, workouts assigned to each card, and an imaginary jump rope:
Sinclair implores us to attack the day even when we’re stuck at home. Based upon the work he’s doing at home, the days he attacks have to be waving white flags by now.