DrTri HomeWork for 11/7/10

So, out of the 38 replies/guesses I got, only 1 person has guessed what the 8th Human Movement is...
(I did tell one person, but she promised not to tell anyone else... I’m weak...)
Keep your minds engaged and see if you can guess what the 8th Movement is.

This week we move on to Movement #2.
Pull.

Simple, go pull something.

This is a very overlooked movement and nobody, and I mean nobody, in our modern 2010 society “pulls” nearly enough...
The best rowers I know spend 2 to 3 hours per day “pulling”,  and this does not even come close to balancing out all the unhealthy movements that we do every day.  And yes, I have seen the Deadliest Catch, and yes those men pull on ‘frozen ropes’ and crab pots for hours and hours at a time.  But, they only do this a few months out of the year, and then they are just like us (only now famous for ‘doing a dirty job’) and they return back to normal society and spend most of their days participating in all the unhealthy movements we do.
Remember when lots of teenage kids had door mounted pull-up  bars?  You know, the $29.95 special from Big-5 Sports or GI Joes?
We lost a great deal of our health when kids got rid of pull-up bars in their bedroom doorways and started staying in the room and playing Wii...

Now, back to the simple task at hand.

Go pull something.
If you are so inclined (and want the extra credit for this week’s HomeWork), your HomeWork is to go purchase one of those $29.95 door-mounted pull-up bars for either yourself or your son or daughter.

http://www.rei.com/product/787205?preferredSku=7872050013&cm_mmc=cse_froogle-_-datafeed-_-product-_-7872050013&mr:trackingCode=4F43B1FE-FB85-DE11-B7F3-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007IS840/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00029A7C0&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=135YZRS67NYVXGV9ASKY


Even if you mount it and they only use it for a week or two, that is money well spent.  For at least you gave them an inexpensive option to a myriad of video games...  And I will bet you that if you give them a $1 for every pull-up they can do in 6 months time, they will practice almost every time they walk through that door.
If you choose this option, then you must ATTEMPT to do 5 pull-ups per day this week.  I don’t care if you can even budge an inch, I just want you to grab that bar and pull with all your might! 5 times per day.  All at once or spread throughout the day, does not matter.  The simple act of gripping and starting the pull will do more for your forearms and shoulders than 8 to 10 hours of typing on your fancy keyboard.

If you are not inclined, I refer you to http://www.drtri.com/videos.html and exercise #46, “Standing Arc-Pause-Slide”.

Your HomeWork this week is to do 10 reps of this exercise each day.  I don’t care if it is 2 at a time - 5 times per day, 1 at a time - 10 times per day, or all at once anytime throughout the day.  Simply do 10 reps each day this week.
This exercise will serve to help “Pull” your shoulders back closer to where they ‘should’ be...

Have fun with this and keep the guesses coming in!

Have a great week,
DrTri

“HEEEAAAD”!!!!