All Packed Up and Ready To Go! Plus a Back Workout!

The NOLS Southwest Spring Semester students packed all of their bags, measured out all of their food and learned to cook on their Whisperlite stoves today. Tomorrow morning, bright and early they will roll off into the mountains on the first section of their semester!

I will be driving tomorrow to pick-up the NOLS Southwest Outdoor Educator students from the KOFA Wildlife Refuge and be bringing them back to the base before their climbing camp begins. I will be working out early in the morning tomorrow and will not be posting until sometime on Saturday. Saturday will be my scheduled rest day from the weights for the week. It is a 5 your drive to the KOFA through some of the most beautiful desert in the world!

Today's quote is from Terri Windling:

"I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did."

Workout: Back
Warm-Up: Perform each exercise for one minute.
Jump Rope
Trunk Twists
Barbell Good Mornings
TRX Rows
Crunches
Weight Training:
Wide Grip Pull-Up, 5 sets of 7-10 repetitions
(Primary muscles worked: Latissimus dorsi, infraspinatus, teres major and minor)
Close Grip Pull-Up, 5 sets of 6-8 repetitions
(Primary muscles worked: Latissimus dorsi, rhomboids major and minor)
Upright Barbell Row, 3 sets of 8 repetitions
(Primary muscles worked: Upper trapezius, deltoids and biceps brachii)
Bent-Over Dumbbell Row, 3 sets of 8-10 repetitions
(Primary muscles worked: Latissimus dorsi)
Dumbbell Pull-Over, 3 sets of 6-8 repetitions
(Primary muscles worked: Latissimus dorsi, posterior deltoids, rhomboids and serratus anterior helps stabilize the scapula)

Have a Great Day!!