Gainz

Gainz

It was a pleasantly chilly morning as 6 gathered at Matthews Elementary for this week’s edition of Peak 51. Hey, it rained last night. Say, Lois, where is the shovel flag? Those two thoughts are, ahem, related.

Anyway, let’s go. Take the long way to the First Baptist rear parking lot.

COP

• Side-straddle Hops
• Imperial Walker
• Mountain Climber
• Hillbilly
• Low, slow squat
• Windmill
• Arm circle, front and back

All were done in cadence, but with varied counts, just to keep the PAX (mostly Slim Fast) on their collective toes. Speaking of, YHC ended Hillbillies at 20, since Slim was using his fingers and toes to count.

THANG

Mosey to the church office/back of bank parking lot. Partner up.

• Partner 1: Supine pull-ups on the bar. AMRAP
• Partner 2: Run to the other end, do exercise, run back, flapjack.

Two rounds of hand-release merkins. Two rounds of bomb jacks.

Mosey to the back bus lot for some Grinders … not Grindrs. That’s a whooooole other subject matter. NSFW, ya know?

So, Lumberjack and Poser did dips over on the wall. YHC and Cocktail hustled to the far corner for lunges. Slim Fast and Sensei started off as the runners. Runner run to the lunge corner, then lungers run to the wall, dippers run to the lunge corner, etc etc etc etc etc etc.

After a couple of rounds of that, let’s mosey to the wall, the big one over near launch.

People’s chair — arms out in a hold, then 50 air presses, then more holding, then, recover.

We make a thrilling discovery. Somehow, YHC’s kettlebell was sitting over by the wall. Weird!

Back in the people’s chair, pass the KB down the line and back. Recover.

Lumberjack and Cocktail both showed how swole they are by doing some KB exercises. Skunk Works is on Tuesday, guys. If Smokey is on Q there, avoid it. You might not make it. YHC speaks from experience.

Big League Chew is on Q this upcoming Tuesday. That’ll be a good time.

Where were we? Oh yes, well, since those guys were so excited about doing KB exercises, let’s pass the bell back down the line, but this time, do 5 curls before passing. Pass/curl back down the line. Recover.

Repeato one more time, this time with 5 overhead presses, and only one time down the line.

Recover, back to launch, here come Joker, Funky Cold and Red Card in from Sparta, and we move to …

COT

Counting. Naming. Funky Cold with a strong takeout.

-Finito-

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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SKIN

I mentioned Smokey nearly killing PAX on a Q at Skunk Works. We reminisced about the time Smokey was on Q at Peak and we did the supine pull-ups with our dear friend Sally. That was horrible. I mean, what we did today was no picnic, but, in a world of moral relativism, at least it wasn’t THAT bad.

Even though Tweetsie has gone Hollywood this weekend — no, really, he’s off again, this time to SoCal — I led us in the hillbilly in tribute. By the way, I’ve typed “hillybilly” several times in reference to that exercise.

He is betraying his Boone roots in a big way. Bet big on kale futures when he returns. Note, I’ve attended the Academy Awards, and I don’t have that problem. Mostly because attending that event reminded me in a big way that I am, in fact, from the upstate of South Carolina.

NCAA Tournament update: It’s halftime of Yale/LSU. Kenny Smith looks like he’s wearing a velvet suit jacket.

I should probably talk more about the people who were there today, as I’ve dedicated a lot of time to throwing Smokey and Tweetsie under the bus, and neither was there this morning.

NCAA Tournament update #2: Pizza Hut still sells P’Zones? According to this commercial, the answer is “yes.” Who knew?

It was a small, but solid group. We all lamented the AMRAP supines early in the workout because, well, we all got to a decent number. Ow.

Overall, I wanted to switch it up and do some stuff to help us with upper-body, but not neglect the rest either.

For anyone Qing Peak in the future, which, again, YOU SHOULD SIGN UP FOR A SLOT, feel free to shake it up and make it your own, whether it’s traveling to an underutilized spot in downtown Matthews, or bringing toys, or whatever. Remember: Moderate != Easy

Now I’m making SQL references. I think it’s time to get back to basketball.