Your song needs more kettlebell…

Your song needs more kettlebell…

Holy smokes what a good group of dudes. 27 men of all shapes and sizes posted to Skunkworks this morning. One thing I love about this site is that you’ve got big strong dudes who like to get stronger and lean guys who like to run, but we don’t let our differences in mass or workout style get in the way – so we mix it all together and you get: Skunkworks.

What we did: 

Run a quick loop to get the blood flowing.

Warmup: 

SSH, 10 burpees, Kettlebell swings, 9 burpees, Imperial walker, 8 burpees,  20 merkins in cadence…to predictable to keep counting down burpees so we partnered up and headed to the school entrance.

Catch me if you can to the front of the church – P1 – runs with both bells, P2 – 5 merkins

At the front of the church –

P1 – run to 2nd median – P2 – curls – flapjack

P1 – run to 3rd median – P2 – chest press – flapjack

P1  run to top of the hill  P2 – goblet squat – flapjack

Keep moving, over to the new oval fish bowl, half wall entrance to the new building – perfect spot to keep tabs on the PAX because there’s no hiding.

Grab a spot on the wall – big group today so things got tight – just the way I like it

People’s chair on the wall –  10 shoulder presses in cadence and hoooold it

P1 – runs up the stairs   P2 – snatches – Flapjack until you get to 100 total

People’s chair 10 shoulder presses in cadence and hooold it (getting shaky at this point)

P1 – runs the stairs   P2 – suitcase squat with both bells (something like that) flapjack until you get to 100 total

People’s chair with the bell in your lap – 5 shoulder presses in cadence, then 4, 3, 2, 1 and stop. (I almost didn’t finish this one – great push by all)

Run over to large parking lot by new building…

80% run as a group from one end to the next

P1 – Cleans – P2 – runs across lot – flapjack

90% run as a group from one end to the next

Catch me if you can back to the main lot with chaser doing 5 merkins…

Moleskin: 

Chatter was very light and kind today – keeping everyone moving usually does the trick. We did a nice tour of CDS which has added many more features in the past year…

Lex continues to carry around a 30lb backpack every morning he posts. When the end times come and there is a 2 year old toddler that needs saving Lex is going to be your man.

Bulldog has very limited flexibility in his shoulders or picked the worst spot on the wall to try to do presses…allegedly. Actually it was much harder than I thought to get that bell over your head in the people’s chair – we just need more practice. I failed several times.

Fletch and Baracus did a pre-run of 3+ miles – pretty bold to get there at 5am before a KB workout. I saw them coming back to the lot at a pretty swift pace so they didn’t waste their morning. Not to mention they were at the head of the PAX the entire workout…so was Swiss Miss

Ninja Turtle came back after completing the Appalachian Trail (North to South – nice job!) and his dad (Run Stopper) proposed a name change, his trail name: Eskimo. Ninja…err Eskimo promptly said “I hate that name” so we all agreed to the name change…although now it seems a little too planned out. If you say you hate your name you immediately then you typically get that name…very wise young Eskimo.

FNG this morning – McFly, taken from his previous nickname of “Doc”. Brought by Sanka. Just moved here from Wilmington in January. He showed up a few minutes late but caught up with the PAX and did some good work today. Brown came in and suggested to make his name “Butthead” – that would have been awesome if we agreed to change Brown’s name to “Biff” at the same moment.

Lots of fast guys this morning but Tulip smoked the last sprint, there and back. He also took us out in prayer – thank you.

Thanks to Fletch and Harley for asking me to lead – had a great time this morning

Announcements:

Please keep McGee (Bobby Samuelson) and his family in your prayers. His mom passed away yesterday morning and she was an amazing servant to our city and state and put Christ first while fighting for the unborn: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article128167464.html

Alf to run a CSAUP on Saturday starting at McAlpine Elemenatary at 7am and running in a 4 team group carrying heavy things to Charlotte Catholic and back (1.5m each way) – should be about 60 minutes of hell. Come on, would you rather be doing that or eating cinnamon buns with the family during Saturday morning cartoons…I’ve uh, got something going on…

Good work men, until next time…