Senior defenseman and journalism major Jarod Hilderman will be blogging everything Bulldog hockey and more throughout the second half of the season and beyond. Literally and figuratively. We are cooking with gas. The wheels are turning.
Blah blah blah. Lets go! The warm weather has the naturally occurring dopamine being produced in my brain spiking like a spikeball at a mid-August cabin party. Things are looking up! First we got the news that golf would be opened back up on May 15th. Now while that is still kind of far away, there is optimism in the air.
Second, my friend and I spent a couple days of hard work in setting up our custom backyard gym. All it took was a couple ice house temporary floors, an old weight rack that was sitting in my basement, and some ingenuity in building a lifting platform.
The setup is pretty sweet but the best part of it all is the equipment safety measures we put in place. Not for our safety, but for the equipments safety. Since a Saskatchewan summer can be pretty harsh, we rigged up an intricate tarp system to cover all of the stuff when it rains and overnight.
After a windy night knocked our initial prototype down, we tinkered with a couple things and now that baby is locked in there. In the famous words of my father five minutes ago when he checked on the tarp, "It looks money, slash mint. Anyway, we are pretty proud of it. The night we put the gym together and created the cover for it. My friend, Logan, and I were eager to break in the new gym, and that we did. We absolutely got after it! Just kidding we did a couple sets and a little bit of cardio just to get back into the swing of things because we have both been off for a little bit and we know it is still April.
