!st Official Gameday Games!

What's up, Sports fans? I don't know about you folks, but I'm fired up about the return of football and all the associated activities: grilling, fantasy football and, of course, Gameday Games. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea, Gameday Games is the practice where we assign certain exercises to various actions in football games. This approach can be applied to any sport or other event with quantifiable results. I prefer football.

Today, we watched the afternoon Redzone games between the Packers and the Niners and the Rams and the Cardinals. For these games, we did 10 weighted lunges per first down (50 lb for me, 23 lb for the wifey). For each point scored, we did one inchworm with feet on the swiss ball. This move consists of plank with your feet/shins on a swiss ball. You raise your butt up in the air and then straighten back out into plank, keeping your core, butt and quads super tight. If you don't have a swiss ball, just do a plank where you walk your feet toward your hands and then back out into plank. For each sack we did 10 kettle bell deadlifts (again, me with 50 lbs and wifey with 35 lbs). For each turnover we did a one minute wall sit. The totals: 95 points scored = 95 inchworms, 45 1st downs = 450 lunges (!), 6 turnovers = 6 minutes of wall sit (painful after all the lunges) and 6 sacks = 60 deadlifts. We were both glad when this round of Gameday Games finally ended. The lunges were brutal.

I hope y'all give this a try. It's a fun and healthy way to watch the game.

Jack

PS - After a high volume of exercise focused on a certain body part (we abused our legs today) it is important to stretch and mobilize said body part. We took turns using the roll stick on each other's legs. We will reap the benefits tomorrow when we can actually walk up and down stairs.