Light tire workouts.

Yeah.

So because of some temporal scheduling malfunctions and the uncalculated factors of unforeseen events yesterdays physical workout deviated from the planned course.

It didnt happen.

We had no time for the regular workout, so what we did was we went to an auto-repair shop in åkersberga and grabbed four of the heaviest car tires we could find, they were unfortunatly no more than maybe 18-24 pounds but it worked out nice.

These are the excercises we made up:

• Tire Horse: Pick up tire, throw tire at friend / Catch returning tire in any way possible without letting it reach the ground. You can either hold the tire flat in front of you looking through the hole with one hands at each side, or you can hold it in one palm, stabilizing with the other hand and throw it in a putting movement. As its gets easier, try doing the raising of the tire as well as the putting movement and the catch using only one hand/arm.
• Relentless Rolls: Competitive. Stack a few tires beside yourself, then with your buddy some 5 meters away, start rolling the tires towards him. His job will be throwing them back to the stack as fast as, or faster, then you can roll them. Do this until one person buckles and falls over, then switch places.  NOTE: This can get out of hand easily, after a few minutes we were more or less just throwing the tires at each others faces and shouting.
• Overhead Stacking: Co-op. One person holds a tire flat over his head with an even and wide grip. The other person can then, depending on your balance either throw or put another tire on top of it. And another and so on until it all goes falling over. Lots of large adjusting movements are required to remain upright, so besides the obvious shoulder stress this also trains your core.
• Tire Launching: Put the tire upright on the ground in front of you, take a snatch-like postiion holding your hands on the lower sides of the tire. Explode up and forward, porpelling the tire into the air. See how far/high you can get, and maybe use a teammate as a “Golf flag”.
• Tire Bounce: Take a grip around any point of the tire so you are holding it out in it, put it up behind your head, resting on your back (this position should so it could roll down you back if you let it go, you are gripping the inside of the tire). Then crunch your abdominals, pull with your lats and focus all your strength slamming the tire forward into the ground making it bounce up towards your buddy who quickly repeats the same movement.
• Tire Race: Put the tire flat on the ground, then put you hands on it and try to run/push it forward. How much of your bodywight you put on the tire makes a big difference here, so its a cardio/strength/stability excercise. Works on grass, probably not so good on asphalt. Oh, and the way we used this was for racing the tires around, and eventually finishing it off with a chicken race.

We did lots of other stuff too, but these were to most structured excercises. We found that working out with tires was very simple and pretty fun too. We got very dirty but hey, careface…

These excercises gave a good workout of the entire body, and they are great for sharpening general motor-skills and teaching yourself to handle heavy impacts and lifting stuff at odd angles. Another plus is that we look completely bonkers doing this in the sunset at a schoolyard grass plain, and we like looking like idiots and/or maniacs.

Try it out, its fun!

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