In 1962, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed May 15 as National Peace Officers Memorial
Day and the week surrounding the day as National Police week. This year's memorial week is Sunday May 12 to Saturday May 18. The purpose of this week is to honor all of the officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. Here's a sobering stat: Every 56 hours a police officer dies in the line of duty. Check out this blog to see photos from this year's events.
One of the cool things about CrossFit is they name some of their toughest workouts after specific military, police and fire personnel whom we lost. CrossFit has some great concepts but some of the moves can be difficult for beginners and you need some special equipment (I don't have any gymnastics rings lying around). Building off that theme I suggest trying the following workout this week in honor of all our fallen brothers and sisters.
Warm up
No rest between exercises:
200m Sprint
10 Burpees
200m Sprint
20 Push-Ups
200m Sprint
30 Squats
200m Sprint
1 minute Plank
Repeat 3-5 times with 30 Sec in between sets.
Maybe we can name this one the 'Sotto' after this poor cop who got stuck in a tree rescuing a cat. (Yeah NYPD sent two cops to get a cat out of tree, kinda puts watering violations in perspective)
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