Daily Dose of Merkins

14 Men showed up to Day Zero this morning to become stronger and work some beach muscles. They all won. With the Shovel Flag firmly planted and the tunes on the mini pipe bomb boom box pumpin’, it went something like this:

Prohibition Q

Merkins x 25 in cadence

Run around the back of school, past the dumpsters, and to the front of the school and circle up for a Circle of Pain;

Side Straddle Hops x 30 in cadence
Imperial Walkers x25 in cadence
Merkins x 25 in cadence
Low Slow Squat x 25

Very short mosey to the sidewalk closest to the school and line up.

16’s with Merkins & Squat Jumps (Totaled to 120 of each)
Plank when finished

Very short mosey to the curb on side of parking lot for the BEAST:

Merkins
LBC’s
Wide Arm Merkins
~~Heels to Heaven~~ (out of time)
~~Diamond Merkins~~ (out of time)
~~Burpees~~ (out of time)

Runstopper Q

Mosey to back of school and grab a ~~rock~~ stone of medium size and carry it up the wall on the back side of the school for some people’s chair:

Hold stone straight out x 20 seconds
Hold stone straight up x 20 seconds (drop stone…not on your head)
Balls to the wall + 10 merkins (recover)
Balls to the wall + 15 merkins (recover)
People’s Chair + 150 air presses in cadence (approximately 5 minutes of hell)

Grab stone and head over to playground and partner up:

Partners do a combined total of 100 merkins
Partners do a combined total of 100 pull ups

Grab stone and head out to the shady part of the field:

Jack Webb from 1-5, break, 5-1 all with using the stone for overhead presses

Return stones and head up to main parking lot:

Lunge Walk approximately 25 yards next to school wall
BTW Walk back
Rinse & Repeat

Doneski

Moleskin:

Lots of mummble chatter from the get go this morning, as per usual, due to a tweet last night stating YHC’s lead on the #10kmerkins challenge. Of course when you want to press on with the merkins and force the pax to join in when they don’t really want to, they will let you know how they feel and will taunt you with comments about Chuck Norris. YHC ignored and pressed on until he cried in his car on the way to coffeeteria, as per usual.

Great having 2 FNG’s this morning! Welcome Boy Band and Pita! Looking forward to having you guys back. Glad Boy Band made it and that we didn’t run off campus early on as he came in on two wheels a little bit into the COP. Both of you did great this morning. That was a tough one for a first time, especially on the first week of the merkin challenge. Also, shout out to Ike for coming back out. Great work out there! I’ll be sure to put some Tina Turner and some Aaron Carter on the playlist next time….not really.

We discovered that when doing 16’s (as opposed to 11’s or 7’s) that what you might think is going to be the tough part (the merkins after just doing 100) would turn out to be the opposite with the horribleness of 120 Squat Jumps. Sorry not sorry for having to cut short The Beast. Next time we’ll squeeze in the others exercises.

We also were reminded that calm Runstopper is a crazy Runstopper. When we switched to him, he immediately called for a 20 count rest and spoke to us in a soft voice. That quickly changed when he started barking at us with upside down merkins and doing 150 airpresses in cadence with no break. Holy Shoulder Smokers, Batman! I think we need to find a way to separate Runstopper and Mr. Jack Webb. Their love affair has gone on for way too long now. Runstopper gets angry when Radar speaks during Jack Webb.

Lots of merkins today. For those of you counting at home, we did a total of 392 if you did them all. Encouraged by our much older, retired site Q’s YHC & Hairball pushed out another 8 to make it an even 400 on the morning. Not bad.

Thanks everyone for a great morning and Thank You to Runstopper for the Q. Come on out more often!

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