Starting Five

Starting Five

With the NBA All Star game in Charlotte there are a lot of world class athletes around but five guys rolled up at Davinci to make a starting five that would rival any in town (for F3 workouts anyway…not sure if they can play basketball at all). Rain? Pfffffftttt…what rain? 6:30 hit, disclaimer made and we were off to get better. Here’s what went down.With the NBA All Star game in Charlotte there are a lot of world class athletes around but five guys rolled up at Davinci to make a starting five that would rival any in town (for F3 workouts anyway…not sure if they can play basketball at all).  Rain?  Pfffffftttt…what rain?  6:30 hit, disclaimer made and we were off to get better.  Here’s what went down.

The Thing

Mosey over to Blakeney and find a good spot for warmup.

SSH x 15

Hillbillies x 15

Peter Parkers x 12

Mtn Climbers x 12

Morrocan Night Clubs x 15

Mosey to 131 Main for some 4 corners in honor of the all star game.  Partner up with P1 running one way and P2 the other way.  10 merkins at the first corners, 10 jump squats at the next corners with P1 doing 10 partner plank merkins when partners meet at the middle.  Then finish the 4 corners with the jump squat and merkin corners with P2 doing their partner plank merkins at the end.  Repeato with 15 reps then a 3rd round back down to 10 reps.

Next off to the Montessori School stopping halfway for Mary.  At the School grab a lifting rock.  Circle up for lifting consisting of curls, into overhead presses, into tricep lifts and then bent rows.  Started with 16 reps of each then 14 and reducing reps by 2 at each set.  After 2 sets put our rocks down and took a step to the right using that person’s rock.  YHC questioned this trading of rocks when he saw Mighty Might’s rock.  Holy cow it sucked doing the reps with that rock, especially since it was so slippery from all the rain.  Continued the sets until 0 reps left.  Leave your rock and lets mosey.

From here a jog to the playground further down Blakeney Heath.  Partner back up.  P1 does 10 derkins on the wall while P2 does 10 pull ups.  Flapjack then repeat for 3 rounds.  Next P1 does 10 step ups on wall while P2 does 10 pull ups.  Flapjack and repeat for 3 rounds.

Back to the Montessori School where our rocks awaited for a Double Triple Nickel.  10 reps of side to side plank jumps followed by 10 reps of jump shot squats with your rock for 5 rounds.  Lots of mumblechatter regarding this one.  Yes, I know the concept of a triple nickel calls for 5 reps but that is why it is a “double” triple nickel.  Jump with your rock and thank me in two days when it hurts to squat down.

Head back to Blakeney during which Chopper even stopped to pick up an unusually large bag of trash and throw it in the dumpster.  F3, continuing to give back in so many ways.  We continued until stopping at the stairs at the yoga studio.  P1 start at one side doing 10 supine pull ups with P2 at the other side doing the same.  Run up your stairs meeting in the middle for 10 hand slap merkins.  We got 3 rounds of this in and then time to head back to Launch.

Moleskin

I feel like a broken record because I feel like I type this with every one of my Backblasts but what looked to be a nasty, rainy post ended up rain free and comfortable.  I know that he has bigger things to deal with but it makes me smile thinking that just maybe the man upstairs is pleased with us waking up early to improve ourselves and says “Boom, here you go.  Here is 60 minutes of rain free weather”.  Nice work by the starting five out there.  One Star has come back from what sounded like an injury heavy January to regain his form and be at the front of the workouts.  Gilbert gets noticeably faster and stronger every time I see him at a post.  Looking forward to his VQ at Davinci March 2nd.  Chopper does impressive work for any age but at 59 it is incredible.  T claps my friend.  Mighty Mite continues to pick the biggest and heaviest rock for lifting.  MM had his own Swole challenge going with the boulder he chose this morning.  It almost bit the rest of us in the butts when we swapped rocks during the lifting portion of the workout.  We will feel that one.

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