Workouts

No Excuses Week … Get to the West Steps

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no-excuses-largeOkay this week is when people travel … err come into Sacramento for the Thanksgiving holiday. This also means plenty of people have either Wednesday and or Friday off of work with the Thursday holiday. With this being said it, there is no excuse to miss a workout or both of them.

As your friends and family come in tackle the holiday eating with a couple of 9RUN6 workouts, so you can feel a little less guilty when you chow down on that grub!

In case you are unaware of when and where to meet up here is the info …

Every Wednesday and Friday at 6:25AM (running only groups also meet at 5:30AM & 6:00AM at the corner of 10th & N Street) in front of the West Steps of the Capitol, here is the address: California State Capitol , 1315 10th St, Sacramento, CA 95814 (West Steps are the steps facing the Tower Bridge).

For those of you planning on your Black Friday shopping, we want you to know that some of the 9RUN6 members will be trolling Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to call you out on Friday if you aren’t able to make the workout, complain that we meet up too early, yet are able to get your ass out of bed and go shopping at some ridiculous times of the day.

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2015 Winter Streak Challenge

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The challenge is really pretty simple, all you have to do is stick to it! Figure out some sort of activity that you want to streak with (push-ups, running, walking, anything active that involves exercise), set a minimum numerical value to that movement (1-mi, 10 reps, 1 minute hold, etc) and do it every day from November 26, 2014 through December 31, 2015. Try to have a streak that is different than one that you have already done or are currently in. If you are doing a running streak maybe select some sort of body weight exercise like push-ups or pull-ups, etc. You get the picture now make the pledge….

1) Use the photo above and caption it announcing your commitment to staying fit from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or your blog and use hashtag #9run6

2) Hold yourself accountable by making the goal realistic. Your streak can be whatever you want but it has to have a minimum (such as 1 mile a day or 10 burpess, 1 minute plank) of WHATEVER YOU WANT! It’s your streak we just want to help you during the holiday season!

3) Announce that you completed your activity each day on social media …. here you can even cut and paste the following: I just did (ran , cycled) _______ to complete my daily commitment for #9run6 Winter Challenge.

4) Have fun with it, you can even post your commitment in the comments section below and check in on others to see how they are doing.

This is all about having fun while supporting one another achieve individual goals. It isn’t a competition, no matter if you run 1 mile or 10 miles a day or do 100 burpees or 10 pushups, keeping yourself active is all that matters!

Make the pledge and join the fun!

So What’cha Want

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IMG_2763So the group started of strong with the 5:30AM and the 6:00AM run only groups that meet at 10th & N Street … but when the hard stuff started at 6:25AM on the west steps of the Capitol, only the strong survived it and were ballsie enough to stay for workout.

Today’s strength workout was the 99 problems remix … yup 99 push ups, 99 sit ups , 99 squats, followed by some running … then adding on with the extended version of 100 step ups and 100 tricep dips … then it was all over BOOM.

It wasn’t anything too fancy today but we got the $hi7 done in the 30 minutes on the west steps for the strength workout.

What’s on tap for this weekend for you guys? Also can we get some commitments for next week? Leave it in the comments section below and get with us …

I’m Coming Home

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Normally it would be this time of the week that you’d have Captain Rosemont, aka Chris pushing a blog post your way. Well this week is different as I, @Run_BMCrilly , the fastest Architect (licensed in California), am the one to be pushing this post out to all of you.

Today was a special day. I’ll tell you why, but first you should know the back story. A couple of weeks ago I blew out my ankle while not paying attention to my surroundings on a run. It was just after 6am on Capitol Ave in Sacramento, right by the Tower Bridge. I rolled my ankle into a tree well while attempting to get out of the way of an oncoming runner, but instead ate ____. I heard a snap and a pop. It did not sound good, did not feel good and later on did not look good. Did one person stay behind? No. Each person (except a couple that needed to lead the morning workout at 6:25a) walked the near mile down Capitol Ave with me. I later went to the doctor and after an X-ray discovered a horrid sprain and a small fracture. 2 weeks min o
ff my feet unless I felt good was the order.

At that moment, I didn’t cry but I can tell you I felt down. Really down. I run because it’s fun, I get to experience the built and natural environment, and I enjoy the friends I have made over the past year in doing so. To think that I could not enjoy something with these friends was a flashback to childhood and being grounded. Everyone else gets to play while I get to sit in my room.

Let’s make this clear for everyone. @9Run6 is free and you don’t have to show up if you don’t want. There’s no contractual obligation whereby you are forced to show up each week. Come and go as you please, but I challenge you to come for just a few weeks in a row and experience the friendships and our joy for fun, free, fitness.

Now on to the actual workout for today…

Well, coming home today was something special. The breakfast club set out at 5:30a to get our early miles in before meeting the rest of the group for 13 sets (pushup, leg raises and knees to chest). Pull a card card and complete the number of reps associate, but this was all face cards.  Pull a Joker and you were hosed. It meant double of your reps. Pull a joker and a suicide king and you were f’d, double burpees. Some of us were so f’d and  some weren’t even close. Either way we’re all better for it.

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OMG THEY KILLED KENNY …

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Okay no one really died, but we did have a new face show up to the workout this morning, who is named Kenny. After getting called out last week on the blog he did show up today. He even made the mistake of committing to next Wednesday’s workout.

The workout today involved a deck of cards and a game called WAR. Yup today’s folks went head to head in the workout with the cards deciding the number of reps. If you won in the round you did 10 push-ups, 10 squat jumps and 10 v-ups … if you lost then it was 20 of each. However, the catch was this … each consecutive lose added 5 more of each movement to your total … Poor Ethan aka the ogre of the group ended up totaling like 40 of each at one point.IMG_5432

Between each round a short run around a number of trees was incorporated. Kind of like this one ..

At the end of the workout we welcomed Kenny with “the tunnel”.

Today Was Epic …

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Update: (10/3/2015) A link to all of the awesome photos have been added to this blog post (scroll to the bottom) which were all taken by @momentscaptured11 on Instagram.

First let’s address what happened on Wednesday … we had a member go down … yup Brian aka RUN_BMC went down and is now out for about 2 weeks due to a sprained ankle … here is how it went down.

So we started our workout like a couple of champs with the good old Deck of Cards workout where folks test their luck by selecting a card out of a stack of two decks. Each card’s value determined the number of push-ups, sit-ups and squats. Pull a Joker and you double the value of your next card. Each pull of a card was also followed by a lap around the West Lawn.

Today’s workout was even more epic because he had a real deal photographer come out and shoot some photos … those photos will be posted on our 9RUN6 Facebook within the next couple of days.

Have a kick ass weekend!

Click Here to checkout the awesome photos from last Friday!

Old Skooling It

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6:25AM rolls around and where are you? Probably being a lazy ass and still in bed, while the cool peeps of 9RUN6 are working their asses off at the west steps of the Capitol.

This morning was pretty f’ing awesome as we broke out a new workout that had elements of jazzercise and those stupid line drills that your high school PE coach probably made you do at some point during your teenage years. The workout was simple but left our body parts screaming by the end of the 30 minute workout.

The workout consisted of 50 push-ups followed by a set of line drills from the 10th Street sidewalk all the way to the west steps. Then came along 50 sit ups followed by another set of line drills. To close off this first part of the workout we did 50 squats with another set of line drills.

Then we moved onto the bench area of the 10th Street side, where we did 100 step ups (switching our lead foot after 50), followed by 100 dips then closed off the entire workout with 100 jumping jacks.

Yup, today’s workout had some elements of some old school moves but had us blasting our muscles and smiling at the end.

Check out some photos from today’s workout on our Facebook.com/9RUN6 page.