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Last week at the Rock Gym, someone was talking about circus abs and a friend of mine said they were good to do. So I've been making them part of my morning routine. Basically it's sets of ten to fifteen crunches and leg raises but in a certain way. I'm just doing sets of ten at this point and my form isn't really that great, but it's getting better.

I searched on Google to find out how to do them and didn't find much except for a Youtube video (below). Maybe it's just something rock climbers do and isn't well documented. It goes something like this though..

• Ten crunches with your arms straight.
• Ten leg raises.
• Ten crunches while holding your legs raised a few inches off the ground.
• Ten leg raises while holding your arms up (I try to get my shoulder blades off the ground).
• Crunches and leg raises at the same time (my friend said to do these until your abs just give out).

So yea, that's it. I've also been working in a set of push-ups as well. I really need these exercises to be part of my morning or evening routine in order to stick to it. Below is a Youtube video of a girl demonstrating circus abs. Since the RSS feed thing to Facebook and Planet Linode don't include the embedded videos, I'm adding a link too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij2dVBOd8Wk

So a few weeks ago an old friend sent a message out to a few people about going camping and doing some rock climbing.  I've always enjoyed camping, so I decided to go along.  We went to French Creek State Park in PA over Labor Day weekend.  During the day we went to Birdsboro, PA to go climbing.  I have climbed once when I was little in an indoor gym.  It was a lot of fun and a great workout.

Since then, I've been going climbing any chance I can get.  During this past year, I've fallen out of shape.  This has really motivated me and I hope to keep it up.  There are a couple places in Delaware.  There is the Delaware Rock Gym and University of Delaware has built a small rock gym in an old racketball court.  As far as outdoor stuff, Delaware isn't exactly known for it's elevation changes.  There are a couple places in Alapocus Woods Park.  I've probably only gone climbing a half dozen times, but I think I definitely prefer to climb outdoors.  As far as the indoor places go, the DRG (Delaware Rock Gym) is really nice.  I think this will be a good activity to do over the winter as well.