The grass is always greener at Joust…

The grass is always greener at Joust…

When I used to be a coach at Providence Day School the kids would jokingly call Country Day School “old money”, Charlotte Latin “new money” and Providence Day “no money”.

That’s kind of how it feels going from Covenant Day over to Charlotte Christian. You guys have it sooo good. My kids are at Carmel and I’m pretty sure that’s the “No money” equivalent for Christian schools…regardless, I still have to drive an ’87 F-150 to pay for that “No money” school….good news for you guys, I use that truck to bring props for my workouts…

What had happened was…

Lots to get in…so we started a minute early by getting a quick loop around parking lot to let the late arrivals catch up with us….then….grab two brick pavers each out of my truck.

Run with pavers to the middle of the football field for warmups…

SSH (no pavers), LSS (with pavers), Merkins (with pavers)

Mosey to the wall and do Derkins in cadence

•  run 400m

People’s chair to 50 in cadence (100 total obvi)

• run 400m

Run up bleachers to the playground and partner up – 

(Paver size matters – thanks Header)

Round 1

P1 – Double paver curls on the wall (2 pavers each hand)

P2 – Run down the bleachers and around and back up

• Flap jack and do 10 handslap merkins between sets

Round 2

P1 – Paver shoulder presses (single or double)

P2 – Run, 10 handslaps, flapjack

Round 3

P1 – 20 thigh slappers on the wall

P2 – Run, 10 handslaps, flapjack

After a quick ISO squat with the pavers we went back down to the field…

Partners stacked their 4 pavers on the 10 yard line and ran to the opposite end zone

P1 – Sprint 90 yards to 10 yard line to grab 1 paver and sprint back

P2 – Squat jumps  – flapjack

Do this until all 4 bricks are collected (2 – 180 yard sprints each)

Over to the track..

With you paver AYG to the bottom of the hill (about 150m sprint)

Round 1 (at the hill)

P1 – Run hill with pavers

P2 – man-maker merkins – flapjack

Round 2

P1  – Run hill with pavers

P2 – Squats with pavers – flapjack

Round 3

P1 – Run hill as fast as you can with no paver

P2 – Shoulder presses with pavers – flapjack

Run back to middle of the field and circle up…

Started doing shoulder raises with the pavers but it felt a little too easy after 10 of them so we dropped them…

“Merry-Go-Round” as someone named it although I think we can do better….

In a circle, shuffle to right and on my count drop and get up (up downs), then shuffle to the left. Change directions each time we drop. We did at least 20 and then finished with 10 burpees OYO.

Run back to middle parking lot and plank – then AYG to the main lot with your pavers….

Last 2 minutes

• American hammer with pavers
• 10 final merkins to finish it all up

Moleskine 

I forgot there are ton of fast dudes that come out to Joust. Whenever you have soccer players (former or current) you know they are going to keep the pace up the whole workout. Header, Yeti, Dolly are the soccer guys – but Sweeney Todd, Baracus and Joker also were smoking the whole time. Stone Cold and Smokey continue to defy the natural aging process.

I don’t even acknowledge Rhapsody’s speed because he doesn’t even show us half of it (He was the top decathalete at AppState while we were there). The hurdles on the back of the track were calling his name, but not nearly as tempting for him as the pole vault pit. He was also the Quarterback at South Meck – when I found a football on the field today and threw it to him he didn’t catch it. QBs have to take care of their hands…

Freedom and Hoover are the manliest men of the group and could have used any of us as their pavers for the workout. I’m sure they forgot they were even carrying bricks….It’s the equivalent of us carrying around a quarter for 45 minutes…annoying, yes, but you mostly forget it’s there.

Joker and I have developed a bit of a running rivalry which I fully accept and look forward to whenever I see him. I think I’ve got a few years on him, youth wise, but he got me on the second 400m. Nice work bro – I’m glad Putin keeps sending you those Ivan Drago pills…I’m going to keep chasing chickens and hauling logs to beat you the old-fashioned way. See you next time…

I thought Sheldon was his first name and that we had an FNG…I wanted an explanation for the common F3 name but didn’t get a chance to ask.

Mad carried around a backpack the entire workout…not sure what was in there….maybe snacks? If you don’t have enough for everybody (or if they contain peanuts) then don’t bring anything at all.

No announcements…

I’ll be back to my home base of Kevar next week but it was a pleasure leading some good dudes this morning at Joust. Thanks to Yeti for letting me lead.

Thanks to Stone Cold for taking us out.

-Out