This IS Tar Heel Country

This IS Tar Heel Country

When fellow Tar Heel alum  Pop Tart reminded me yesterday afternoon that I was on Q this morning, what better sign than to honor our National Championship Men’s Basketball team. So 12 PAX ignored spring break and joined me in the celebration.

COP: SSH, IW, Merkins, Heels to Heaven, LSS all x 20 (the number 20 represents the amount of appearances for UNC in the Final Four)

The Thang:

At the main playground, partner up.  One PAX performs the called exercise, the other does a lap around the far traffic island. First Round: As a team, complete 41 pull-ups (in 1941 Carolina makes its first appearance in the NCAA tournament). Second Round:hand release wide arm merkins, each PAX does 46 (in 1946 UNC appears for the first time in the championship round),  Round 3: 48 floor slap squats for each PAX (Tar Heels have been to the NCAA tournament 48 times). Round 4: 57 dips each (In 1957, UNC defeated Wilt Chamberlain and the Kansas Jayhawks for their first national championship)

Mosey to a hill for a round of 6s (as 6 represents the number of national championships won by Carolina). Hand release burpees on top, diamond merkins on the bottom.

Mosey to the cinder block pile and partner up.  One partner does the called exercise the other runs to the first set of lights.  One round, should press 146 as a team. (146 is the combined score of last weeks 75-71 win over Gonzaga).

Mosey to the rock pile, pick up a lifting rock for 168 curls. (the total number of games UNC has played in the NCAA tournament-they have a record of 123-45.) Since we were running out of time and the PAX were about to stone Squid, I cut short the number of reps and we moved on to the sidewalk by the large field.

Partner up. One partner remains and performs the makhtar ndiaye as the other partner runs across the field to the parking lot to perform the same exercise. When one partner reaches the parking lot and begins makhtar ndiaye  the other partner runs to meet him and the round ends.

In the parking lot, 4 corners of ab escalators, 2 rounds 10-20-30-40x, LBCs and flutter.

Finish with plank-o-rama: regular plank, elbow plank, right are high, left arm high.

Announcements:

Something about a Savage race and a convergence at Anvil (Calvary church) on Wednesday led by McGee.

Moleskin:

It was great to see the joyous look on the faces of the PAX when I announced the theme of the workout at the COP. Prohibition was especially giddy about honoring the Tar Heels and Lobsta Roll, in spite of his yankee upbringing, quickly rattled off the names of the starting 5 UNC players from the 1957 Championship team.

Joker was babbling most of the work out, but it is my guess he was suffering from hypothermia as he showed up only in a long sleeve t-shirt and shorts. A number of the PAX went to their cars and pulled out toboggans, sweat pants and sweat shirts, but Joker refused the offer and wanted to tough it out. We were all proud of him.

Thank you Squid for the takeout and as always humbled and honored to lead the men of The Matrix.