If you don’t stop and look around every once in awhile…

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  • QIC: Young Love
  • The PAX: Madison, Brown, Bulldog, Witch Doctor, High Tide, Young Love (QIC)


If you don’t stop and look around every once in awhile…

6 men made a small decision this morning to step out of bed instead of shutting off their alarm and rolling over. That decision was followed by another small decision, and another, and another, and by 0530 we found ourselves staring at each other in the early morning gloom. Nothing awkward about it all .

Here’s the WOD (not Lexicon approved):

  • Typical warmup to get the blood moving and fire up the nervous system: SSH, IW, Low, slow hold-em squats (patent pending), merkins, planks, mountain climbers
  • Swing Escalator
    • 10 2-handed swings, 1 2-hand press
    • 15 2-handed swings, 2 2-hand presses
    • 25 2-handed swings, 3 2-hand presses
    • 50 2-handed swings, 4 2-hand presses
  • Repeat Swing Escalator 2 more times
  • 100 yd Farmer’s Carry with the heaviest thing you could find
  • Flutter-press x20
  • Repeat Swing Escalator
  • KB Flow
    • Right side: 1-hand swing, high pull, clean, press, snatch, rack squat, single-leg deadlift; Repeat on left side
    • 2 reps each side, 4 reps each side, 6 reps each side, 1 rep each side

Moleskinny

  •  Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. (Thanks, Ferris, you’re pretty smart).
  • When is the last time you took a look around to enjoy what you got? As we picked up the bells this morning under the predawn glow of a late summer full moon, a doe and her bambi nibbled grass from the nearby field. A week ago, a baby fox frolicked with a butterfly in the same area. As always, the meathead workout was accompanied by the soundtrack of the day and the chatter of camaraderie. Pulling away, friends encouraged one another to stand strong for another day. There were only 6 of us today, but all of us came away full in some way. Enjoy life by living it.
  • Not sure where everyone else was, and frankly don’t really care about the excuse, but if you didn’t have a good excuse know that with your small decision to stay in bed you missed out on a lot. No, maybe it wasn’t a phenomenal, monumental, earth-shattering or groundbreaking workout, but it was the daily medicine we need to fight what ails us. Did you have fun today while you entered your numbers in the spreadsheet or listened to how your 2.0 still can’t get along with your 2.1? I’m guessing no. But, those of us at the workout this morning did have that momentary respite. We were encouraged to go produce at work and at home. Our day was not the drudgery of life beating us, because today we took a stand and fought back. As we’ve all said, the only workout we regretted is the one we didn’t hit. Little decisions…
  • Soundtrack of the day: best of 2000s rock. Remember the records your dad used to spin when you were a kid? Chances are he was in high school in the sixties and you were listening to the classic rock and roll of his early adulthood. Boom. That’s what we got today. This is the music our kids might someday think of as classic, just so long as we talk it up a bit and stand firm to the White Stripes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Linkin Park and Audioslave of our era.
  • Disclaimer pronounced and in full effect today and most utilized it at some point. Even me (I, the Q, cannot sue F3 because I think I’m tougher than I am). In case there is any question, the disclaimer follows the workout. So if you print this off the internet and try to complete it at home with your purple polka-dot bell (while watching late-night FoxNews or your favorite reality show aka the Olympics) know that you are assuming your own risk in all shapes and forms..
  • Related, FoxNews (and MSNBC and CNN and etc) should probably all have their own assumption of risk disclaimer as well. As HillaTrump has proven, politics are dangerous in the hands of the people and only the talking heads are profiting off our collective idiocy (#NeverTrump #NeverHillary #lesseroftwoevilsnomatterwhichwayyoulean).
  • And while we’re at it, someone needs to tell the folks at NBC that the Olympics are not supposed to be a reality show. We cheer the winners, admire those who persevere despite no chance of medal, and generally respect the sports and the athletes. I don’t need to know the backstory of the guy who’s going to lose the 110 hurdles, especially if it means I’m going to miss the bronze medal boxing round. And, no, our wives didn’t want to hear that stuff either. Don’t insult them by pretending they don’t like winners. They married us, after all.
  • I was pretty stoked (SoCal word, not lexicon approved either) to see everyone struggling with this workout as much as I was. Pretty much a meat and potatoes workout in which you just had to put in the work in order to make the gains. Nothing fancy, just hard work. Witch Doctor continues to swing that blue competition bell as if its growing lighter each day. Nice, friendly attempt at a q-jack (or was it a very vocal modification) by some of the pax. High Tide looked to be in excellent running lifting shape. Brown was, well, Brown. Madison puts his head down and plows. Bulldog lives up to his name, grabbing on to the workout and bending it to his will. I was trying to lead from the front, but it’s a good thing we were standing in a circle…
  • The Washington Post says that your grip strength sucks. Well, yeah, no kidding. You sit at a computer all day and then go home to #netflixandchill. You paid a dude a little bit of money to mow your lawn and fix your pipes and clean the house and probably even walk the dog. Tell you what — grab a bell and meet us back out here next Thursday. Heck, we have some extra bells if you need one #noexcuse. Get out here and reclaim your balls grip. Then go home and pull some weeds. You’re wife n’ kids will thank you later.
  • Bueller didn’t become famous because he sat behind the desk and played by the rules. No, he skipped class, caught the Cubs game, hung out with his girlfriend and his best friend, and drove a Ferrari (backwards) off a cliff. He enjoyed life, one little decision at a time.

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Brown
7 years ago

Mic. ‘Effin’. Drop.

High Tide
7 years ago

Well done, YL, on the last-minute Q, handling the near mutiny, and now the BB. T-claps, brother!

Voodoo
7 years ago

Aye, well said, brother. I’m looking forward to getting back to Meathead after all this running is over.

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