Making Cadence Great Again – A HawksNest Story

Making Cadence Great Again – A HawksNest Story

YHC has been watching the numbers at H&H (Hawksnest & Hydra) all year with a certain degree of incredulity if I am being honest.  Sustaining 20+ PAX on a week in, week out basis is quite the feet, and after making comment regarding the same to the Deepest of Dishes, YHC was invited to Q a workout and experience the revolution first hand.  I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but more on that after…

THE THANG:

• Thorough disclaimer including YHC’s lack of knowledge of the AO as an excuse for what could be an uninspired weinke.
• Mosey over past the fountain to the small lot for COP
  • SSH, IW, LSS, Moroccan Nightclubs, Merkins all IC w/ burpee ladder in between
• Split PAX into 3rds and line up by the benches and across on the lot on the curb for:
  • 1s do dips, 2s run, 3s do air chair to start, rotate through up to 100 dips each PAX.  Plank it up for the 6
  • 1s do Step ups, 2s run, 3s do 6-inch plank, rotate through up to 50 step ups.  Forearm Plank for the 6
  • Mak Tar Jai (or however the hell you spell that nonsense) IC X20
• Mosey to the parking lot of the medical building where YHC had pre-set cones four parking spaces apart, line up abreast for…
  • Inverted suicides (run far, hit cones on the way back).  First was exploding merkins X5, Hand jump merkins X10, Hand Release Merkins X15, Low-Slow Merkins X20 w/ run out, lunge walk back #hunkahunkaburninshoulders.  Plank for the 6
  • Repeato w/ Jump Squats X10, Sister Mary-Katherines X20, Low-Slow Squat X15, Turkish Get-ups X5 per side.  Run out and run back this time.
• Mosey back to the original lot for elevator merkins
• Mosey to launch and circle up for Mary (H2H, Protractor, Freddy, Dolly)

Ye Olde Moleskinny:

It’s par for the course to get a little bit of mumblechatter at a workout, especially for YHC who is oft derided for high complexity weinkes.  That said, I’ve never encountered mumblechatter to the level of the HN PAX.  True, the trifusenik effect is present, but there seems to be a bit of a talk-then-work subculture which has taken root.  Clearly the chatter brings all the PAX to the yard, so not gonna knock a working formula either.  YHC pulled every dirty trick in the book to bring the gift of quiet through pain and succeeded only in moderation… I’ll take a small win.  It was no small victory, however, to have more than 2 or 3 PAX count cadence out loud, which happened a solid one or two times during the 45 minutes.

All joking aside, this a tight knit crew and everyone got after what was designed to be a smokefest for the arms, chest, and shoulders #nosoccerarmshere.  Impressively, the refuseniking which did occur was often during the planking portions #inactiverecovery.  Solid work up and down the ranks.  Grateful as always to Hopper and Deep Dish for the opportunity to lead, once Marathon training is done, I’ll have to make a point to get out to the H&H neck of the woods more frequently.  Maybe next time I can be part of the chatter instead of swimming upstream.

Announcements:

• Turkey Ruck launching 0700 from Dunkin on Thursday
• Centurion convergence on Friday with a delayed 0700 start time and running a full hour
• RockZero brings back by popular demand the “ultimate football” game… not sure what that is but could guess based on the name, gotta show to know.

Final thought for the day, as you gather to celebrate the season, be safe and take care of each other.  The world is a challenging place for so many right now and it can be hard to be thankful.  Find space where you can to help those who are struggling this week, the world will be a brighter place because of your generosity.

-SYITG

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