Week 3 of the 5/3/1 program…This week, still using 90% of your 1RM , complete the following.

Warm-up

It was “fun” at the cert so let’s give it a try…

2 person teams
Med Ball Cleans/Burpees

Workout
BSquat

5 reps of 75% (of 90% of your 1RM)
3 reps of 85%
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85% x3
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After
“Mini” MetCom

Trial to determine if cheerleading is a sport

by PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A federal judge is being asked to decide whether cheerleading can be counted as a sport by schools looking for ways to meet gender-equity requirements.

The issue is part of a lawsuit filed by five members of the volleyball team at Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University and coach Robin Sparks last year after the school decided in a budgetary move to eliminate women’s volleyball in favor of a competitive cheer squad.

Judge Stefan Underhill also will be asked to decide whether Quinnipiac improperly manipulates the size of the rosters of its other teams to get around complying with Title IX, the 1972 federal law that mandates equal opportunities for men and women in athletics.

Underhill recently agreed to make the lawsuit a class action for all current and future female athletes at Quinnipiac.

The case goes to trial in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, beginning Monday.

Linda Carpenter, a professor emerita at Brooklyn College and co-author of the book “Title IX,” said the women’s sports community is watching the case closely.

“These are significant issues and a significant case,” Carpenter said. “It provides a case, whichever way it goes, that can work its way up the judicial food chain, and ultimately provide a precedent.”

Underhill issued a temporary injunction last year that prevented the school from disbanding the volleyball team after finding the school was over-reporting the participation opportunities for its female athletes and under-reporting the opportunities for men.

Evidence showed the men’s baseball and lacrosse teams, for example, would drop players before reporting data to the Department of Education and reinstate them after the reports were submitted. Conversely, the women’s softball team would add players before the reporting date, knowing the additional players would not be on the team in the spring.

Quinnipiac officials and their lawyers declined to comment on the lawsuit, but said in a short statement that the school “believes that it has complied with all aspects of Title IX legislation and will continue to do so.”

Members of both the cheer squad and the volleyball team either would not comment or did not return calls seeking comment. Erin Trotman, a junior on the cheer squad, said they have been told they are not allowed to discuss the case while it is pending.

A lawyer for the plaintiffs said the lawsuit is apparently a first.

“What makes this case significant is that, as far as I know, this will be the first time any court has been asked to rule whether competitive cheer is a sport for Title IX purposes,” said attorney Jon Orleans, who represents the volleyball players.

An activity can be considered a sport under Title IX if it meets specific criteria. It must have coaches, practices, competitions during a defined season, and a governing organization. The activity also must have competition as its primary goal — not merely the support of other athletic teams.

During last year’s hearing, school cheer coach Mary Ann Powers defended competitive cheer as a legitimate sport, saying her team is made of athletes, most of them elite gymnasts.

School officials testified that the benefit of a competitive cheer team is more athletic opportunities for women at lower cost. Quinnipiac’s cheer team cost the school about $1,250 per roster spot, the school testified last year. The team currently has 30 members. The volleyball team cost more than $6,300 per team member with 11 players in 2008-09 and a budget of more than $70,000, according to the testimony.

Even the judge recognized the competitive attributes of the cheer squad.

In issuing his injunction, Underhill said competitive cheer “although not presently an NCAA recognized sport or emerging sport, has all the necessary characteristics of a potentially valid competitive sport.”

Quinnipiac and seven other schools recently formed a governing body, the National Competitive Stunts and Tumbling Association, to govern and develop competitive cheer as a sport. Previously, competitive cheerleading championships were decided by two organizations — the National Cheerleaders Association and the Universal Cheerleading Association. Both are tied to Varsity Brands Inc., which makes cheerleading apparel and runs camps.

School officials have said any improper manipulation of the rosters has stopped. They will argue at trial that Quinnipiac’s percentage of men and women athletes is now in line with the overall population at the school, one of three ways a school can show it is in compliance with Title IX. The other two are showing history of increasing sports opportunities for women or proving it has met the interest and ability of the underrepresented group.

But lawyers for the volleyball team plan to ask the judge to clarify how rosters can be counted. Women who run track at Quinnipiac, for example, are counted three times, as members of the indoor, outdoor and cross-country teams.

Quinnipiac eliminated men’s indoor and outdoor track to help meet numbers for Title IX. But the plaintiffs argue all track athletes should be counted just once.

Carpenter believes a lot of schools pad their rosters to make it look like they are in compliance with Title IX.

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Week 2 of the 5/3/1 program…This week, still using 90% of your 1RM , complete the following.

Workout
BSquat

3 reps of 80% (of 90% of your 1RM)
” ” ” ” ” ” ” 85%
AMRAP 90%

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“Cindy”

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Push-ups
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Complete as many rounds as possible in twenty minutes of:
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10 – Body weight back squat

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Froma Harrop / Syndicated columnist
American fitness: forgoing apps for abs

This is a nation of goose-necked children hunched over their electronics in front of a TV. They will turn into goose-necked adults with vitamin D deficiencies, the result of spending their sunny hours downloading songs in darkened rooms. Obesity will plague many of them.

Clearly, America would do better health-wise (and health-care-spending-wise) if people went outdoors once in a while and moved themselves. But how does one do so in a society that has engineered exercise out of even opening a garage door?

Some grown-ups do have the gumption to maintain formal exercise programs, but not many. The health-club business assumes that a third or more of those who join in a burst of enthusiasm will be gone in a year.

Home fitness equipment gets converted into racks for extra shirts or folded towels. Shiny machines rapidly become drab. The owner thinks, “I really should jump on the treadmill, but oooh, my apps need updating.”

When exercise becomes a byproduct of doing something else — getting to work, mowing a lawn or picking up a quart of milk — that’s when it becomes a reliable fitness tool. Those who commute by bus know that whatever little else they do that day, they will get in that walk to the stop.

Play is supposed to be the daily work of children. That used to mean getting thrown out of the house and being told to be back by dinner. But parents don’t push their kids into the neighborhood as they once did. One reason is fear, much exaggerated, of strangers harming their little ones.

A more serious problem is the utterly car-oriented design of many, especially newer, neighborhoods. Children would have to cross wide streets and often in front of harassed drivers who regard pedestrians as a wrench in their busy schedule.

But real or imagined, these concerns are not all that’s keeping children indoors and glued to video. After all, a drive through most suburban neighborhoods will reveal fenced backyards with swing sets and no children on them. A sports reporter friend notes the many empty baseball fields he passes on perfect afternoons. If adults don’t organize the sports, the kids don’t play them.

The plain truth is that free-form play out in nature is no longer part of many children’s lives — or their parents’. And children do love their electronics, in part, because they want to be like Mom and Dad. That’s why laptops, cellphones and digital cameras are among the top-selling toys, even for preschoolers.

Walking or biking to school used to be part of an American childhood. But parents now drive their kids to even close-by schools. Forty years ago, 90 percent of children living within a mile of school biked or walked there. Now less than half do.

Many communities ruined the prospect of students’ getting to school on their own power by building mega-schools far from the more densely settled areas. Six-lane roads often cut the schools off from all but vehicle traffic.

What to do? There’s a TV ad for an indoor bike attached to a video game. By pedaling, the child activates the game. The faster he or she goes, the more exciting the game gets. The appeal to parents is obvious. Here’s a way for kids to get exercise and play a video game.

This is healthier, one supposes, than lying in front of a bowl of Doritos and playing “Assassin’s Creed II.” But one imagines that bicycle-powered video game going the way of Mom’s Thigh Master as the kids realize that they, like their parents, can amuse themselves while curled up on a couch. Perhaps someone will invent an exercise pill.Similar Posts:

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Workout

Complete as many rounds as possible in twenty minutes of:
20 – Burpees
10 – Body weight back squat

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