Fire by Friction

Fire by Friction

7 Pax were teased by a truck bed of firewood in the coldest week of the year. They thought YHC might make a fire; and we sing songs and tell spooky stories about nightmarish places like “The MurderHorn” or “The North Face” or “Ben Nevis” or “Black Diamond”. Unfortunately for them, YHC didn’t bring a lighter so we had to try it the Boy Scout way with Fire by Friction. We all got warm; but the wood didn’t. Same results so there’s more than one way to skin a cat. …Or stay warm while working out in the cold gloom.

Here’s what we did…

Warm Up:
– Hillbillies x 10 (This exercise is just too funny not to do ever so often)
– Mtn Climber x 15
Run out of shopping center at Chick-Fil-A and @ outside sidewalk of S/C and back to cars (~ 1 Mile). Stop a few times and plank with called exercises to wait for the 6.

Plank and take turns overhead press my new toy x 10 while wait for 6.

Watch Loogie put us all in our place by showing his man strength and pressing the 8 foot 4×6 one handed. ONE HANDED MEN!

Stacks: Get in teams of “X”. …OK, weinke change because we cannot have teams with only 7. This is where the workout turned a tad clunky (sorry fellas; sometimes it looks so good on paper but that’s why our beloved Panthers aren’t Super Bowl Champs).
– Grab 15 pieces of firewood. Mosey to front of Theatre. While one Pax runs the length of the lot and drops off one piece of wood into a pyramid stack; remaining Pax do called exercises: Merkins, Carolina Dry Docks, LBC, Heels to Heaven; etc. etc.
– After half way YHC felt this was a boring exercise and a failure with no teams for competition so we started grabbing multiple pieces of wood to complete the exercise much quicker.
– Grab stacked wood and back to cars.

Al Gore’s grip strength: Al Gore position. Hold 2 pieces of firewood at very end.
– Straighten left arm in front and slowly raise up halfway and hold for X sec. Then right arm.
– Straighten both arms on side and slowly raise up halfway and then hold for X sec.
– YHC’s back was giving out so let’s continue grip strength work while Peoples Chair.
– Exercises while Ppl Chair: Arm raises in front and side x 20

Lunge Walk length of Theatre and back while passing wood between legs (That doesn’t read well)

Firewood Mary:
– Pax single file facing same way and Russian Twist while passing firewood to the end and then back.
– Pax line up single file facing the side and on your 6. Hold feet 6-inches while you pass a coupon down the line to the end and back and end and back…etc. until ab failure:
o Round 1: One piece of firewood
o Round 2: 2 pieces
o Round 3: One brick and 2 pieces

Regular Mary: Flutter and Dolly

Moleskin:
– See above for a sprinkling of commentary
– I enjoy bringing coupons so we are not always running and merkins; running and burpees; running and more merkins. I hope the Pax that post appreciate a little originality. Originality sometimes gets the best of me though, and my workouts can sometimes not work out (see what I did there). This was one where I didn’t anticipate a smaller crowd and had a proper backup plan. Sorry guys. Loogie can attest as he’s been to most of my workouts both good and bad #greatsupporter
– Speaking of Loogie – Him only having one good arm didn’t stop him from showing us all up. My new coupon contraption (see Twitter for pic) isn’t too heavy, but it’s defintely not easy to press one handed. Loogie did it multiple times with ease. I warn any Pax that might feel man enough to challenge him to a lifting competition. Just don’t do it. #youwillbeembarrassed
– One winner exercise that will show up again was the Firewood Mary. Expect that in the near future. Yes that does mean I will continue to bring coupons. If that’s not your bag; fortunately you have many other AO options.