The document discusses creating partner workout experiences that promote comradery, collaboration, and competition while ensuring safety. It provides examples of partner exercises that engage two people, such as partner back-to-back squats and overhead squats, as well as competitive games like knee tag and cone toss shuttles. Safety considerations are highlighted, such as avoiding exercises that involve suspending a partner's full body weight or relying on weak muscle areas. The goal is to design workouts that are engaging and fun for partners through social interaction and challenge.

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Don’t Create Workout, Create an Experience
Comradery
Collaboration
Competition

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Safety!
How I have injured people:
• Partner suspending full body weight
 Partner drags, piggy backs, partner lifts
• Ball chase games
 No spatial awareness, body control
• Bodyweight supported on weak area
 Lower back, shoulders, inversion

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Comradery
1. Jump-in, jump out
2. Zombie tag
3. Veggie groups
4. 1-2-3
5. Wall sit scar story
6. Hog calls

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Collaboration
Both partner working
1. Partner back to back squat
2. Partner row squat
3. Partner resisted rotation squat
4. Bulgarian and squat
5. Partner pommel horse
6. Over/unders
7. Wheel barrow push-ups/deadlift
8. Partner biceps/triceps
9. Push up agilities
1 partner coach
1. Blind lunges
2. Partner leg press
3. Crack the egg
4. Partner lat pulldowns
5. Partner leg throwdowns

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Competition
1. Knee tag
2. Partner tag
3. Add-ups
4. Quick draw get-up
5. Paper/rock/scissors
6. Space counting (head to toe)
7. Partner cone toss and
shuffle
8. Standing plank hand tag
9. Partner standing core
10. Cone shuttle race

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Brett Klika
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