- When:06/14/2017
- QIC: McGee
- The PAX: Tri-Delta, Haze, Icky Shuffle, The Wall, Brillo, Grits, Baracus, Mermaid, Thunder Road, Wolfman, Raquel, Lorax
Failure
AYE. 13 gathered in the Gloom for the weekly Anvil beatdown. This one was a bit different than normal. We were successful in our failure. Or, at least, we did not fail to fail. We certainly failed to succeed in not failing. Here’s more or less what transpired.
THE THANG – Failure
The rules – We do one exercise one time and we do it until we fail.
SSH x 100 in cadence (ok, it’s kind of hard to actually fail with SSH)
Diamonds x 25 in cadence + 25 OYO
Low Slow Squat x 50 in cadence
Merkin superset – 40 OYO x 4, run the parking lot between sets and while waiting for 6
Sprint to light post
Heels to Heaven x 25 in cadence + 75 OYO
Partner throws to failure
Sprint to other light post
Mighty Merkin Superset – to failure (at least 25) for each parter at each light post
Mosey to benches
Jump Squat – 25 in cadence + 75 OYO
Dips – 25 in cadence + 25 OYO
Mosey back to parking lot
Sprints to light post and back
Final 4 minutes of Mary – feet elevated the entire time
Fin.
YE OLDE MOLESKINE
1. YHC has been scheming on a failure-style workout for a while. There’s some method to the madness. It’s well known that the benefits of exercise are non-linear. Walking 1 step is not 1/10000th as good as walking 10,000 steps in a day. This should come as no surprise since virtually nothing in nature is linear – the world is full of curves and calculus, not lines and addition. So my theory for this exercise is that going all the way to failure will deliver some dose of non-linear benefits. The final 10 Merkins to failure might be way, way better for you than 10 Merkins in isolation. I don’t know. It’s just a theory I wanted to test and I much appreciated the PAX coming along for the ride, (mostly) without complaining too much!
2. Hard to call out standout performances today because, you know, the point was failure, but Merman clearly can knock out some Merkins. Lorax destroyed the sprints. Raquel must not have been working too hard because he was preparing to go for a run as YHC was leaving.
3. Mermaid reminded everyone to bring food to a workout to donate. Dry beans, tomato paste and rice are fair game.
#horseneck OUT
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I think it was at around SSH number 84 that I began to think this failure idea may not be much fun today. Then we moved on to something else and my mindset changed. I had 1.0 miles on my watch. That was a lot of exercise reps. The merkin power set was tough. 160 merkin with 100-yard(ish) run breaks between sets of 40 is really no joke. Feeling that one already and certainly will continue to throughout the day.
Bring food donations to Friday and Saturday workouts for Calvary Pantry Food Drive. Thanks
If you remember to get one thing, PEANUT BUTTER
OTHERS: Soup (not cream of kind), dry beans (1-2 pound bags), white or brown rice (1-2 pound bags or unflavored box), Tomato sauce/paste
As McGee was explaining this workout, I was remembering an Anvil workout a few weeks ago where he was contemplating a full workout of Mary. I distinctly remember saying remind me not to come to McGee’s next Q. No one reminded me so here I came. Luckily it was not that, but just as bad if not worse. Those sets of diamonds and merkins were terrible. Arms will not be worth much tomorrow. But was a great workout, and I would hate to see inside McGee’s brain of mad workouts he is considering.
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