All about those abs

All about those abs

This was the Q’s one year anniversary and I wanted to try something a little different and appreciated everyone sticking with me on the 45 mins of ab torture.

In most workouts our abs have rather an easy life and seldom get called upon except maybe in the closing ceremony or in the odd plank here or there.  Well today it was time to make up for the sins of the past and pay the piper. Today’s initial down payment included 560 ab reps over 10 ab exercise using a pyramid style workout that was all called out in cadence. Yes all exercises in cadence except one (Burpees), special thanks to Tiger Rag and MT pushing me on this one however; Q is now losing his voice and appreciated Crab Cake stepping in to lead the Side Straddle Hop at the end.

With the disclaimer given it all went down something like this:

Warm Up

• Emperial Walker x 20
• Mountain Climber x 15
• Spiderman x 10

Next the Ab pyramid, which consisted of 10 rounds and each new round started by completing the exercises in all previous rounds and adding one new exercise. The result of all this stupidity again was 560 reps over 10 distinct exercises that included:

1. Freddie Mercuries: 100
2. Crunch 90
3. LBC = 80
4. Toe Tap = 70
5. Side Crunches = 60
6. Jay Lo = 50
7. Russian Twist = 40
8. Heels to Heaven = 30
9. Suitcase Crunch = 20
10. Burpees = 20 this was suppose to be 10 but Freheley’s wanted 10 more

Warm down

• Merkins = 10
• Side Straddly Hop = 50
• Carolina Dry Docks = 5

Again this was not your typical workout (no significant running, merkins, squats etc) and I was weary of mutiny or a Q jack and appreciated the support in sticking with it and me. I did note some mumble chatter and perhaps some of that was due to translation of Kiwi into US – of note was when I called out 10 burpees and Freehleys translated it to 20.

Announcements

• Death March – do it!
• Big T on Q at Rebell Yell tomorrow (be there!)