ROD

Wednesday, 29Feb12

 

Leap Of Faith….

Trust us, if the following movements are performed with power and quickness you will need your Central Nervous Sytem (CNS) rebooted.

8 rounds of 20 seconds work /10 seconds rest at each couplet

One minute rest between rounds.

 

Couplet #1

• Kettlebell high pulls
• Ropes Gone Wild

Couplet #2

• Box jumps
• Dumbbell Push Press

Couplet#3

• Shuttle run (“I said run not walk”)
• KB Rows (alt l/r at each round)

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A leap year consists of 366 days, as opposed to a common year, which has 365 days.

Why do we need Leap Years?

Leap Years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the sun.

It takes the Earth approximately 365.242199 days – or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds (a tropical year)– to circle once around the Sun.

How do we calculate Leap Years?

In the Gregorian calendar 3 criteria must be met to be a leap year:

?The year is evenly divisible by 4;

?If the year can be evenly divided by 100, it is NOT a leap year, unless;

?The year is also evenly divisible by 400. Then it is a leap year.

This means that 2000 and 2400 are leap years, while 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300 and 2500 are NOT leap years.

The year 2000 was somewhat special as it was the first instance when the third criterion was used in most parts of the world since the transition from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar

Who invented Leap Years?

Julius Caesar introduced Leap Years in the Roman empire over 2000 years ago, but the Julian calendar had only one rule: any year evenly divisible by 4 would be a leap year. This lead to way too many leap years, but didn’t get corrected until the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar more than 1500 years later.