The “backblast”s backblast

The “backblast”s backblast

In a cool 20-something degree morning, the kettlebells came out to play at Ascent/Olympus/Soon-to-be-renamed AO… While the urge to get back in the cars and grab coffee was strong, the 3 last-second PAX rolling in encouraged us to put that warm, delicious coffee off for an hour and work hard.

The warmup to the thang…
2 warm-up laps around the short-track
SSH
IW
Short-track lap
Push ups
Mountain climbers

The real thang.
Pair up with a pair of light bells (~25’s seemed to be the norm) and a 3rd bell about 10-15 lbs heavier. Doubles or heavy-bell work strongly encouraged
3 sets of 10, 2 exercises, then a lap.

Round 1
Cleans and Overhead press

Round 2
Rows and Squats

Round 3
High Pulls
Figure 8s

Round 4
Double Swings
Curls

YHC wasn’t feeling like the last few exercises on the Wienke, when he looked at his bells, looked at Turkish Getups, and audibled out of it. Or maybe the fancy GPS watch was just going to be a bunch of circles around the same track and he wanted to draw a prettier shape on the post-workout chart. Either way, a mosey over to the concessions stand for a dips/incline merkins/step ups circuit, then a mosey back to the wall…

People’s chair, then move down the line with each pax providing the count for the exercise
Goon – Arm extension
Moon River – Air press… and the workout came totally unraveled.
For the first time in YHC’s memory, a workout was derailed by a premature “backblast”… The PAX scattered, running for cover, trying to identify the wind direction and stay upwind. No names will be called out here, they’re on twitter for the curious…

So we evacuated to a wall on the other side of the building to restart the people’s chair exercises.

Time remained for one last Mary exercise, which Sensei called for some LBCs, and the workout wrapped up.

NMS
Great to see Heisenberg and Sensei out again. The clown car is running strong with Goon, Moon River and Heisenberg, usually at the very last second right before YHC gives in to a coffee run.. 7 PAX and 4 cars, might be a carpool record…

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