Marketing LINTON - Idea #3

Via Crucis

There is a town nearby where I have noticed a wooden exercise device on one of the streets. I’m not sure if this is a one-off affair or part of a circuit set up by Pyrenees Council. The seed has been planted.

I also took delight in seeing an older gentleman, I think he was in his 40’s, running along Happy Valley Road away from his car which was parked at the intersection with the Linton-Naringhal Rd. Two things may have been happening, his car was about to go up with a mighty big bang or he was jogging a few kilometers for exercise. Both events being rather dangerous considering the horrific traffic jams that can occur around Happy Valley when Mum's are out to pick up their kids from school.

And that’s really where the idea came from. Many local councils, even the more parsimonious ones like Golden Pains, have established these circuits for the more energetic citizens to huff and puff there way around with safety.

Not that I’m one of those anyway. You could say that marketing people exercise their mouth more than their brain. Looking at the sky constitutes a chin-up and raising my arms is absolutely exhausting.

There are at least twelve jumps, jerks or back-injury exercises which can be identified for such a course. It could start and end at the Recreation Reserve for clothes and other extraneous gear like brains to be left, wend its way around the rail trail and then around the streets of the town.

Maybe some of these twelve ‘actual’ exercises I have found could be part of the course.

Butt-ups

Preacher Curls

Clean and Press

Stomach Vacuum

Flatbench Leg Pull

Gorilla Chin Crunch

Donkey Calf Raises

Standing Head Harness

Stiff Legged Dumbell Deadlift

Weighted Ball Hyperextension

Iron Cross and Iron Cross with Bar

and the ever popular

Decline Close Grip Bench to Skull Crusher

Maybe calling it ‘Stations of the Cross’ (because there are twelve stops) might not be that attractive to some devotees of the art of exercise, or religiously inclined, but I’m sure someone around town will have a gem of an idea about what to call it.

Il mese più prossimo, Butch