Good Grief - the Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift.

The central purpose behind our workouts is so that we could recover our ability to move around and do things.

Along those lines, this article from livestrong.com, Never Grow Old, encourages working out hard with weights as you age to maintain fitness - exactly what we've been doing. 

The article suggests a set of five movements: squat, push, hinge, pull, and lunge. We've been doing all of these in various ways, but not much in the way of hinge.

So I took the workout from the article, ramped it up a touch, and we did it Friday.
- If you don't know by now, Hand-Release Pushups are remarkably harder than regular pushups.
- The, literal, butt kicker was the new exercise - the Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift. Basically: stand on one leg, bend forward and touch a weight to the floor and stand back up. Oh my. My glutes and hamstring have been sore ever since. The reverse lunges didn't help matters.

Friday's Beatdown
Goblet Squat x 20 @ 25#
Hand-Release Pushups x 20
Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift x 10/10 @ 10#
Standing One-Arm Cable Row x 10/10 @ 50
Reverse Lunge x 10/10 @ 10/10#

Goblet Squat x 20 @ 25#
Hand-Release Pushups x 20
Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift x 10/10 @ 10#
Standing One-Arm Cable Row x 10/10 @ 50
Reverse Lunge x 10/10 @ 10/10#

Goblet Squat x 20 @ 25#
Hand-Release Pushups x 20
Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift x 10/10 @ 10#
Standing One-Arm Cable Row x 10/10 @ 50
Reverse Lunge x 10/10 @ 10/10#

We were definitely exhausted by the end.

I think the single-leg deadlift will do a lot for our balance and mobility, as well as our hams & glutes.