What’s in the box?

What’s in the box?

13 men came to the Thrive gloom for YHC’s VQ. It was a last chance to get a workout in before heading up to the BRR for some. For others it was a welcome back from a holiday weekend. Others were a no show.

The Thang:

We started with a short mosey around the parking lot and then circled up. Disclaimer was given and since it was a VQ, YHC had to include the line “I am not a professional. In fact, I have never done this at all. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing”

COP:

SSH x 20

IW x 20

Abe Vigoda style windmills x 15

Mosey over to the well lit part of the parking lot. In the center island was a box with different exercises in it. The PAX was broken into 2 teams. One person from each team would run to the box, grab an exercise, bring it back for the team to complete. After completing the exercise another team member would run back to the center to grab another exercise. Repeato until time was called.

The exercises that were in the box were:

• 20 merkins
• 20 Diamond merkins
• 40 Carolina dry docks
• 25 burpees
• 20 wide arm merkins
• 20R/20L plank shoulder taps
• 40 side straddle hops
• Run to curb / back x5
• 50 plank jacks
• 30R/30L mountain climbers
• 20R/20L lunges
• 60 monkey humpers

After time was called, the teams counted the number of exercises completed. The team with the least amount had to bear crawl to the center island and back. The winning team could choose what they wanted to do. Some moseyed and squatted at the island, one did back scratchers, one (YHC) was cleaning up the parking lot.

Team 1 was Playoffs, Arsenal, Nomad, Gypsy, Shake-n-Bake, Thurston, Espresso (24 exercises completed) and Team 2 was Glass Joe, Shepard, Hoffa, Hair Band, Bonhoffer, eHarmony (26 exercises completed)

Circle up for Mary:

LBC IC x 50

Dolly IC x 35

That’s a wrap!

Announcements:

• Bonhoffer is scheduled to Q Outland this Saturday (9/9/17), but he informed the PAX that he will be going to prison this weekend and will be unable to make it. Need a substi-Q for Outland this weekend.
• Good luck to the guys running the BRR this weekend. This was likely their last work out before heading up there. Stay safe, kick ass, and have fun

Moleskin:

YHC definitely murdered the wording/flow during the COP. It is helpful if you tell the PAX “exercise” so they know you are starting. Rookie mistake. I can’t say it won’t happen again. Strong performance by everybody. The fact that it was a little competition stepped up the intensity/speed of the exercises and decreased (at least on our team) the mumble chatter. Later on in the game, the “shopping” strategy started to be used to get exercises that the team preferred instead of randomly picking one. To quote a certain PAX in the respect club “Work harder not smarter”. Somebody on our team noticed Arsenal running to the box and wondered how many winter coats he may need once the weather gets cooler because he is ALWAYS in pants, even when it is 80° out. It was my privilege to lead the men of Union County in my VQ. Hair Band took us out like a champ.