Hey Joker, Huggie Doesn’t Lie!

Hey Joker, Huggie Doesn’t Lie!

SUMMARY

12 young men in their 40s or 50s, got suckered into following a MUCH younger and better looking 39yr old Q for an hour of Obstacle Course Training at Area51. ~2.5 miles were covered, old-man strength was unleashed, no trees were damaged any more than they already were, and noone was arrested or injured (to my knowledge)… it was a good morning. Here is what we did:

THE THANG

7:00am and it’s GO time! Take three laps around the parking lot alternating side shuffle, butt kickers, high knees, karaoke to get the legs limbered up.  Circle-up for some pineapple pickers and 25 merkins (regular, wide, diamond, offset hands). YHC gave PAX quick tour of the 10 stations, which PAX would cycle through once (not twice this time), in a clockwise direction.

Partner up, and each pair start at any one of 10 different stations.  For 4 straight minutes, work at that station, then for the 1 minute “recovery” run the parking lot loop in front of the school before heading to the next station.  Idea was to concentrate on the modality at that station to really work on muscular endurance. 50 minutes total. The Finito!

Stations:

1. Tyrolean Traverse
2. Rope “tug-o-war” partners resistance
3. Spear throw (3 burpees per miss)
4. Pullup Bar Exercises (freeplay: pullup, dead hang, knee ups, toes-2-bar)
5. Supine rope climbs w/ thick and thicker ropes
6. 20lb Sandbag toss over bar
7. Partner resistance bands (backwards run, modify to forwards if needed)
8. Firemans carry (freeplay: w/ 45lb plate, 45ln kb, or 35lb fingertip plates)
9. Rogue Dogsled (freeplay: low bar push, high bar push, grip drag, standing rows)
10. 80-90lb Home Depot Bucket Carry

NEKKID MOLEY

Well, that was fun. The beauty about writing a backblast a day or two late, is you always know how you feel from the workout. YHC’s chesticles and shoulders are sore from playing hot-potato with two sandbags for 4 minutes.  Solid work by everyone today, and as promised there was something for everyone to love or hate. Hopefully both at the same time. It was a long overdue trip to the closest AO to YHC home in Providence Plantation, but hey, at least the seal was broken.  It won’t be the last time now that kids soccer is done and YHC is no longer site-Q at Stonehenge.

The early crew of Abacus, Beaver, and OT took off for a prerun before the main event.  The limbering up allowed Abacus to scale the Tyrolean Traverse like a polar bear squirrel running upside down on a telephone wire. Impressive for a big man.  Joker had a hallucination thinking Stallone was scaling the Tyrolean Traverse like in the movie ‘Cliffhanger’… it was Squid.  Escobar supposedly missed the 0630 DaVinci launch, sped on over to Area51, nearly ran over all the workout gear in the parking lot with his SUV, and smiled like a kid in the candy store the entire workout. A pretty irritating sight to see when you’re struggling and arms are on fire. OT had deadeye aim on the spear throw from what I could see, maybe because he didn’t want to do burpees. Has anyone seen that man sweat? He rivals Mr. Brady.  Lobstah Roll on the other hand, almost went home because burpees weren’t on menu, so he intentionally missed all his spear throws just to do some #penaltyburpees. Retread found a way to make spears rotate like a helicopter blade when they are thrown without breaking his wrist. Floor Slapper does not like buckets, or he’s just smarter than the rest of us who are trying to break our backs lifting them #talktoSquid . Great to see ColdCuts somewhere other than the Siskey Y when injured … over a year ago! Joker and Witch Doctor must like this workout since they’ve both been to three of these OCR sessions… now if we could only get them to sign up for an actual race to test their skillz.  When Joker wasn’t crushing the stations, Joker was berading poor Huggie Bear about lying that the British lady’s voice did not call for the next interval, since YHC, Escobar, and Joker apparently worked right through the the 1minute run, having too much fun on the partner resistance band station.  Thanks to everyone for letting us know to rotate #NOT.  Beaver put in strong work, and when he wanted the rest, he simply threw the sandbag on top of the jungle gym bar so it got stuck… well played.  YHC enjoyed working out with you fellas, and promise to make sure the next visit isn’t as delayed as the first one.

Thanks to the preacher Squid with the takeout. Joker, Huggie, and Abacus for the invite to Q, and all the fellas for a great 1st and 2nd F during the workout and coffeeteeria!  See you guys next time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• SPEEDFORNEED chairs are in and we are looking for heavy participation in our inaugural race, The American 4miler Race in Dilworth on Independence Day 7/4. Check out movie trailer video and PreBlast for American 4Miler SFN Race You have until 6/21 to guarantee a race shirt for your entry, so sign up TODAY!
• Death Valley & Anvil converging Wednesday at Calvary… workout led by my main man Thin Mint, then listen to F3 Nation’s Nantan Dredd stimulate yo mind right after.
• Skunkworks moved to Covenant day this Tuesday or next? Sorry… ask Witch Doctor or Stone Cold who look to be on the schedule next two weeks.

SYITG – JRR Tolkien