- When:01/27/15
- QIC: Young Love
- The PAX: Spielberg, Stone Cold, Tackling Dummy, Les Mis, Harley, Tiger Rag, Zipadee, Arena, Horsehead, Drop Thrill, Freedom, Bulldog, Bananas, Busch, Donkey Kong, Yankee, Ex-lax, Brushback, Puddin' Pop, Header, Chum, GumNut, Night Court, Young Love.
When you wrestle a skunk, you might get stinky.
24 men ate their Wheaties, girded their loins and brought out their big boy bells to have a go at the roughest, toughest, nastiest workout in the AO. Standard to form, the more you fought this one, the worse it was.
The THANG:
- Warmup: Partner up and Catch-Me-If-You-Can from high school lot, around outer loop of church, to middle school lot (approx. .66 miles). Partner 1: Farmer Carry run; Partner 2: 10 merkins and chase partner 1. Flapjack as necessary.
- Plankorama, SSH and IWs for all to regroup.
- Instructions: Welcome to The Challenge
- Written in chalk on the pavement so you don’t forget: do these exercises in order, finishing each exercise before moving on to the next. Alternate R/L hand as needed. Move as quickly as you can to complete The Challenge in the allotted time.
- The Challenge:
- 50 KB Snatches
- 10 burpees
- AYG around parking lot (take shortest line possible — approx .25 miles)
- 50 Russian Twists (R/L = 1)
- 10 burpees
- AYG around lot
- 100 2-Hand KB Swings
- 10 burpees
- AYG around lot
- 50 KB Squats
- 10 burpees
- AYG around lot
- 100 high pulls
- 10 burpees
- AYG around lot
- 100 merkins
- 10 burpees
- AYG around lot
- Extra Credit (when finished with The Challenge, perform as follows until time is called): 20 Flutter w/KB press, 20 2-Hand KB Swing, 20 KB Push Press, 20 Good Mornings.COT
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Moleskine:
- Yes this was a repeat of a workout I Q’d back in August. It sucked then, it sucked this time. No break, keep going, beat the chalk. Lifting is hard, running is not a break and burpees are awful.
- Special allowance was made for about 1/3 of the PAX who wanted to bring a couple different bells to the party: partner with yourself and figure it out. Consensus was that this was a bad decision – CMIYC sucks when done solo.
- Props to the folks who brought out their big boy bells. A couple guys even decided to step it up a notch this week. Let me know how that feels in the morning…
- Props to Header and Freedom, arriving early to put in some miles.
- Nice to see Zip-a-dee aka. Zippidee back at Skunk, finally deciding to drive all the way in from the hinterlands to see us. It’s been too long, friend. Hope you come back soon.
- Not much chatter from what I could hear, but I never felt alone out there. A few encouraging words and helpful grunts kept the pax going after it.
- Thanks for the opportunity to lead, Harley. Always enjoy it.
Young Love author
Truly awful workout, and I had to drop the burpees after a round or two cause I was getting smoked way to soon.
I feel like I’ve gone into battle this week between Outland turning into Swampland Saturday and this workout.
When you smoke Bulldog you’ve accomplished something.
You BRR guys better watch out for Freedom, I think he’s gonna take you on.
Although Churchill the “Bulldog” was a great ally during WWII, our dimunitive replica provided no such assistance to me during the “drop me if you can” loop. After getting snookered into the two-bell thing, and experiencing severe failure before even beginning, I realized that I was dead before I started. I pleaded shamelessly for help and got the nod from Dawg that we could run a three-bell team since he only had one. While I’m not even sure how that would have even worked, it was different than what I had going and I figured it couldn’t be much worse. However, somehow he ends up magically finding a fourth bell that someone left on the street (who does that anyway) and brings it along – abandoning me in my failures and poor decisions and leaving me to follow a less righteous path to the base of the hill.
Miss being out in the gloom with you guys for Skunk but a shoulder issue that I’m having worked on is keeping me down and I was told no weight for a while.
While Fast Twitch would seem like a good alternative anyone that knows me knows that is not happening. #Clydesdale
A jog or ruck around the neighborhood will be my Tuesday for a little while but looking forward to getting the bells back out soon even if I need to start over with my 25 pounder.
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