Preblast: The results are in …

Preblast: The results are in …

… and Wednesday is almost here.

Imagine a world where concepts like logic and reason hold sway.  Then remember that it’s 2020 and this week has a forecasted hurricane, ends with Halloween, a blue moon (not the beer), and a time change.  And next week election day is on a Tuesday, and the results will be broadcast all over God’s green Earth on a, yep you guessed it … Wednesday.

Then imagine that no matter what happened on any given Monday or Wednesday you find your body driven by muscle memory alone, posting and repeating the same workout again, and again, and again.  250 swings minimum, over and over again.  Surely, there must be moments of joy, you say.  Of course.  It’s not all bad.

Sometimes you get called Shirley.

Nobody likes Wednesday.  Sure we all claim Monday is the worst, but really it’s Wednesday.  The halfway point of the week.  Day three of the hostage situation called “work”.  In the folk rhyme Solomon Grundy, he got married on a “a grey and grisly Wednesday”.  Take Wednesday Addams, bet you never saw her smile and why should she?  “Wednesday’s child is full of woe”.  Even Winnie the Pooh went so far as to characterize terrible weather as “Winds-Day”.

Again you say, “But Shirley, there must be moments of joy.”  Of course, there is.  It’s called Meathead, and if the Q is worth their weight in Jello chocolate pudding they bring a kick-ass playlist.  And a good Q, takes requests or at least knows his audience.

YHC will have the keys for a Wacky Wednesday Meathead workout.  Expect the unexpected, this thing will go off the rails, like Men’s Warehouse and their recent bankruptcy.  I guarantee it.

Here’s a run-down of what’s in the plan:

5 cleans per side
Two-handed swing x 15, 2 handed OH Press x 5
Two-handed swing x 20, renegade row x 5 per side
Two-handed swing x 15, two-handed clean to squat x 5
5 snatches per side

Expect to run through this at least 5 times, maybe 6 if we have time (spoiler alert: we will).

Carries and core work to follow.  Who knows how this will get done.  But it will be a smoker, don’t expect much rest.  We’ll wait for the 6 to finish, but like a GoRuck challenge it pays to be a winner.

Speaking of smoking, let’s talk playlists.  Through the miracles of the interwebs YHC has accumulated a playlist of songs off of smoking debut albums.  Including Boston, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, The Who, Ramones, Clash, Black Crowes, U2, The Doors and a few others.  Come for the workout stay for the music.  Pretty sure Ickey Shuffle would love the opener, “Ice Cream Man”.

YHC will plan for 13, always a lucky number.  And on this week, in 2020, on a Wednesday, we need all the luck we can get.  The alternative here is just to go run at 0530 with those “other guys”.  and no one expects a Meathead to run.  That would be like expecting YHC to write a Horsehead-level backblast or something.  Can you imagine that?

Just to be safe, YHC will pre-tag all the pax that we can assume will show.

#SYITG