Building My Body, Mind & Spirit for the Death Race | Death Race Part 6

So I actually have a home workout. It's actually something that I created with a friend of mine several years ago. All right, I've got four miles in on my ruck. Repetition from my chest. That's a bench press seeing more behind the frame future bright but feel the shake thinking ain't nobody feel the way I do but someone gotta feel the same on the bright side. Yeah, this music here became my only lifeline thing. I'm going crazy. I'm not in my right mind. Yeah, welcome to my life. Welcome to my life. Yeah. Welcome to my life. Yeah, welcome to my life. Welcome to my two weeks out from the death race. I felt like my preparation and my training and workouts have been coming along nicely continue just to improve the cardio and just learning to rock. So I've learned how to do that a little bit better and just overall fitness trying to toughen up my feet my legs and my hip flexors just things that I really haven't used in a long time because of the bulge disc in my back. So these last couple months have really been trying to increase all that and I feel like my body's doing well. I mean, obviously I'm a little sore and it's kind of pushing it but in a healthy manner. I'm not trying to do too much where I go in injured, but obviously I've got to do enough to again prepare. So two weeks out. I am in a dorm room at the moment. Yeah, probably not the ideal situation being. Yeah, you see everything probably not the ideal situation being two weeks out. However, this is a Christian camp that I've been coming to for years as a as a kid as a student and then as a youth pastor bringing students to this camp and now chaperoning and then I have two of my sons here Colin and Gavin. So didn't want to pass up on that obviously being this being here to experience that with them and never can build the spirit enough, right? I need my spirit to be on top of my game when I go into death race as well being focused on God and Jesus and grateful for all that. So preparing the spirit this week, but obviously still got to do workouts. So I actually have a home workout. It's actually something that I created with a friend of mine several years ago. Never really published it and maybe work on doing that and getting it published but I'll show you kind of what that looks like. So here's just kind of briefly what I'll be doing today. This is kind of a phase two where I'll be doing some alternating high plank toe touches and this is all the supersets. I'll do 10 rips of that then go into a side plank. We are going hips to ground and then raising and then doing some arm circles and then some mountain climbers squat jump sidestep squat shuffles some leg flutters and then wide push-ups wide grip wide stance push-ups against all body weight. Don't need a gym for it workout. We wanted to create something where you know, God forbid if another like COVID type, you know lockdown happens and you don't have gym equipment or maybe you're traveling like me this week. I don't have access to a gym or weight equipment. What is something that you can do here in a dorm room and get a good body workout? So that's what I'll be doing today. And then I actually do have to do a ruck. You see my rucksack obviously I couldn't bring on my weight and my axe and all that good stuff, but I do have just some stuff lying around some bottled water. So that kind of stuff that I'll throw in the pack just to kind of weigh it down and just going to walk around campus. The good thing is I'm up at North Greenville University up in like North part of South Carolina and there's there's some pretty good Hills here. So I'm going to go out and do maybe like a four mile ruck today and then camp itself is active. So I'll get plenty of steps in. I think the last two days I've been averaging. I think the first day I was 10 miles second day. I think I was like eight miles. So look camp is busy. It's up and down Hills. It's walking around. It's playing ultimate Frisbee and and volleyball and just being super active. So I got plenty of activity. So that's a good thing being on my feet a lot and just getting a lot of steps in. All right, let's get some workout in. First exercise is my alternating high plank toe touches 10 reps. Let's get it. One, two, three, five, nine. All right now side plank hip raises. Yep. Drop down, raise up one, two, ten. Switch sides. All right and superset arm circles. Some more large circles. All right, go ahead and do 20. Reverse. I like to tuck my wrist under. Big circles. Feel it in the shoulder. Shake it out. Mountain climbers. Cross the body. Two, three, four, seven, eight, nine, ten. And I have squat jumps. Fifteen. You know, this is a superset. No rest until the end. So squat jumps. Fifteen of those. Side step. Squat shuffle. Side step. Squat shuffle. Side step. Leg flutters. Hundred. And wide grip push-ups. All right, leg flutters. So a hundred flutters. All right, a hundred. Now wide grip push-up. Wide. All right, fifteen. So that's round one. So I'll rest for how many minutes? One or two minutes and then do it again. Rest one or two minutes and then do it again. So we got three rounds of that. I'm going to cut the camera here. Finish up this workout and then we'll get ready to go ruck. All right, I've got four miles in on my ruck. Actually 4.27. I've been going for 87, actually 88 minutes now. I'm almost done. Kind of see my ruck pack and just been walking around campus. There's a really steep hill around the backside. So I've just basically done three laps around campus. And then I kind of wandered off a trail at one point and found like a pond where they do like kayaking and some hiking. So anyways, it's hot. It's like midday. It's noon. Super hot out here, which is good. Makes me have to enjoy the heat. The pack is not as heavy as I would like to have been but I had to deal with what I have, which is okay. I'll do another probably big ruck. Hike through the woods when I get home. That'll probably be the last big long ruck that I do at some point and then start kind of, you know, just recovering and tapering and just getting prepared. All right. It's been a good day and heck, it's just noon. So we have a lot of activities left for Fuge. So I'll probably be playing volleyball a little bit because there's a tournament and I may be doing some Ultimate Frisbee or something else active. So still staying active, still be doing a lot more miles today. Just walking around campus and just being on my feet. All right, guys. Let's hope the training is paying off. We will see when we get to Vermont. Subscribe. My man, Murph Squad. Let's go. Shout out to the boys.