NerdStrong Gym - Are You Out Of Your Vulcan Mind?

Today's themed workout was created in honor of a beloved actor who we lost a few days ago, Leonard Nimoy. He's most remembered for his unemotional and very logical character Mr. Spock. The title to this workout is "Are You Out of Your Vulcan Mind" and after seeing the actual workout you can understand the title. We had 31 minutes (that was the year Mr. Nimoy was born 1931) to complete 60 Tempo Squats, 50 Leg Lifts, 40 Tempo Pushups, 30 Tempo Slamballs , 20 Negative Ring Pulls, 10 (:30 sec) Overheard Holds and then back up 20 Negative Ring Pulls, 30 Tempo Slamballs, 40 Tempo Pushups, 50 Leg Lifts and finally 60 Tempo Squats.

When I first saw this workout my heart sunk as this looks very daunting. But then Andrew went on to explain that we are to partner up and this is the total for both of us so that meant we would cut those numbers in half.. but still, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 and 10, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 is still alot. He then went on to say that we didn't have to do all of these. If you noticed most of the workouts have "Tempo" in them. This means a much slower and controlled workout. For example with the Squat, instead of doing it within a second he wants us to do a 3 second count while going down, then hold for a second and another 3 second count going back up. Sounds easy but it's not.

I was teamed up with my buddy Derick and together we managed to get the 60 Tempo Squats, 50 Leg Lifts, 40 Tempo Pushups, 30 Tempo Slamballs , 20 Negative Ring Pulls, 10 (:30 sec) Overheard Holds done before time ran out. I think we did a pretty good job, it was a great workout and a nice way to honor our fallen hero.

RIP Leonard Nimoy