Seriously?!? Dumpster diving for a workout??



Seriously?!? Dumpster diving for a workout??

Back story:
Tuesday I woke up to post at Thrive in Union County and realized I was out of coffee. Not Good!!  Everyone knows that gypsies must have coffee to get the caravans moving and my trusty neighbor Christmas is traveling this week so I cannot steal any from him either.  So…… after a solid beatdown;  during the COT, there was a request for fill in Q at Overdrive…  and still suffering from lack of caffeine… yup.. tag.. I’m it..  (#FriendsDontLetFriendMakeCaffeineFreeDecisions)

Now that I grabbed the tiger by the tail… what to plan for a Gear workout??

It is my VQ at a Gear site (officially if you don’t count an impromptu Q fartsack).. how hard can it be?? Qed Bootcamps, Running, Events.. Gear should not be too bad. Except YHC needs to now find enough “Gear” to accommodate the fluctuating UC PAX numbers that could be anywhere from 2 to 20 on any given day.

Fast forward to today (May the 4th be with you!!)

Arrive at AO 5AM to start looking for some quality Gear to lead the PAX this morning…
Lo and behold, 3 industrial sized Dumpsters sit right on the edge of the AO parking lot and I think that would be a perfect place to look.  Let’s see what’s been thrown out that we can reclaim.

  1. 25 ft of 5in fire hose weighing 55 lbs… NICE start!!
  2. Look at that … I think those are Glass Joe’s 17lb kettlebells (#SoccerArms)
  3. 4 left over solid 20lb Concrete Bricks
  4. OK… that’s not the basketball from Madison’s Q.. 20lb Slam ball but it will work
  5. WOW: not one, but 2 Canvas bags filled with sand… SCORE!!! (#TY_Transporter)
  6. A seriously scratched up on just one side 45lb plate… What in the world would have caused all that damage to just one side of a plate??

That should be plenty. (I hope) Now what to do with it all when not knowing how many will escape the fartsack to join me in reclaiming all these wonderful new toys. I’m sure we can figure something out.

  • 5:30AM: eHarmony and I standing there alone in the dark… OK.. do we make the workout putting everything back and F2 over to McDonalds.. It’s an option.
  • 5:31AM Bernanke messes up that plan… (but I honestly appreciate him showing up to hold eHarmony and YHC accountable) quick mossy around the front of the school parking lot… Look!! there is another set of lights pulling in. PERFECT!!! Edison now as well. I needed a minimum of 4 BEASTS (ok 3 BEASTs and me: but figured VQ-drenalin would get me through)

Give disclaimer

Warmup:

  • Low Very Slow Squats: 10
  • SSH: 20
  • 10 seconds of little arm circles forward
  • 10 seconds of little arm circles backward
  • 10 seconds of big arm circles forward
  • 10 seconds of big arm circles backward

 

The THANG:

Grab your bells and mossy over to the dumpsters to discovery all the new Gypsy toys to play with. 🙂

2 stacks of index cards.

One has the timer exercise and the other has 3 listed exercises with the piece of gear to use getting in AMRAP while timer is putting in some work.

1 pax randomly selects the timer exercise and a 2nd pax selects the AMRAP exercise

Timer Cards: Starting from dumpsters to edge of parking lot and back

  • 45lb plate Hair Burners
  • Fire hose drag
  • 17lb KB Farm carry style deep lunges

AMRAP Cards: (each pax performs 1 of the listed 3 until timer pax returns then rotate exercises until all have had turn at timer)

  • Kettle Bell upright row/20 lb Slamball WW2 sit-ups/ 20 lb Brick curls
  • Kettle Bell Squats/ 20 lb Slamball WW2 sit-ups/ Sandbag over head press
  • Kettle Bell Curl/ 20 lb Brick curls/ Sandbag fireman carry squats
  • Kettle Bell Swings/ Flutter kicks with 20 lb brick chest press/ Slamball
  • Kettle Bell Good Mornings/ 20 lb brick overhead press/ Sandbag Squats
  • Kettle Bell Lawn Mower/Dead lift Sandbag/ Slam ball

Moleskin:

  • Mubblechatter was limited today.. although there was much laughter watching Bernanke royally get his #&$ handed to him by a 45lb plate during Hair Burners. (BTW… what the heck is a Bernanke anyway???)
  • eHarmoney killed it as lead timer on each round… proving to the rest of us that each exercise could be done (regardless of what my #Respect pax were arguing about the plate not “sliding” right.)
  • Edison is a BEAST….. Seriously!!! you don’t hear much out of him.. but man.. that pax puts in some work at these beatdowns.
  • Bernanke needs some assistance on the physics of how to do Hair Burners. That much is true.. but he more than made up for it when YHC looked over and he was using 2 bricks vs the one for all the AMRAP exercise. T-Claps for taking us out in prayer this morning.

Announcements:

  1. UC will be hosting/posting every other Wednesday F2 lunches at various locations over the coming months.
  2. Site location moves for Sparta on Thursdays to Matthews Elem and Conviction from Stallings Elem to (TBD)
  3. SpeedForNeed looking for UC involvement. We have how many runners in our Region that are posting 1000 miles a year?? (HINT HINT) Get your miles in and come out to support a great cause while doing it.
  4. THRIVE needs Qs.. Sign up or you are stuck with Nomad and Bernanke over and over again… so no complaining allowed when they beat you down. Step up guys!!

As always: It was an honor to lead this morning. STAY STRONG!!!

Respectfully,

YHC (Gypsy)

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eHarmony
5 years ago

Awesome job on the Q and the backblast

Hair Band
5 years ago

FYI, Bernanke used to work in some type of treasury area at the bank, Ben Bernanke used to be the US Treasury Secretary

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