Theater of War

Theater of War

At Rea’s Crest of Stone, 17 Wednesday warriors wandered weary-eyed to the long-handled “war hammer” area of operations, The Maul. Here’s what happened next in the theater of war:

Pre-KB

• a half dozen PAX engaged in some pre- main event kettle bell work and 2nd F.

WarmUp-orama

• STARTEX
• Mosey to the parking lot in front of the theater.
• 20 SSH IC
• 15 Merkin IC
• 15 Imperial Walker IC
• 10 Low Slow Squat IC

The Thang

Act I: “No Cowboys, Just Indians”

• Indian Run (Noah’s Ark style, two by two) around the parking lot, behind the theatre to Rea Rd, down Rea Rd to the other side of the theatre and back to the theatre entrance.
• Indian Run (Standard Issue) around again.

  NOTE: YHC thought the two line Indian Run would be good and could inspire some sprinting competition and esprit de corps, but then noticed that the line was mathematically half as long, so YHC called an audible and had PAX run forward, backward, forward. ProTip: stick with the regular Indian Run.

Act II: “Popcorn”

Count off PAX into 5 groups. Set up 5 stations that the PAX will rotate through. PAX at Stations 2 – 5 continue their exercises until the group at Station 1 is complete. Here are the stations:
– Station 1: Run a square (400m) karaoke right, sprint, karaoke left, sprint backward.
– Station 2: 10 Jump Lunge (each leg), 5 Carolina Dry Docks (repeat ↺)
– Station 3: 20 KB Swings, 5 KB Presses (each arm) (repeat ↺)
– Station 4: 10 Air Squats, 5 High Knee Jump Squats (repeat ↺)
– Station 5: 20 Mountain Climbers, Knee to opposite, 5 Hand Release Merkins (repeat ↺)

NOTE: In YHC’s rush to get this segment kicked off, the music selection was rushed for this segment. The PAX not only had to suffer through the exercises, but also through some B-track eclectic dance electronika music. **ProTip: blindly clicking a Spotify “workout” playlist while in the fog of Q my land you in a list called “ELECTROWorKOUT” (as YHC did). To be fair, it does have 872k followers and I did see some of the PAX heads bobbing. Philmont smelled popcorn.

Roughly 30 minutes of this; each group went through the all 5 stations 3-4 times.

Act III: “Something About Mary for 6 Minutes”

Tight circle, 3 minutes of Russian Twists, with 2 KBs being passed along the PAX.
Widen the circle, then:
– 25 Flutter IC
– 25 LBC IC
– 10 Heels-to-Heaven IC
– ENDEX

NOTE: YHC lost track of time on the Mary; hat-tip to the PAX for the heads up. ProTip: 2 bells is too few for a PAX circle of 17 Russian Twist, YHC should have brough the rest.

Moleskine

Good effort by all today. Mic Check’s karaokes are faster than an average man’s sprint; Loogie is clearly part kettlebell; he would say (in a Christopher Walken voice) “you know what this weinke needs? More Kettle Bell”; Outback’s “no man left behind” attitude on the square run for vocally acknowledged several times; MT was crushing the stations almost as much as he was leading the PAX in bashing the dance craze music; Philmont (who was abandoned by all other Group 4 cohorts save YHC) kept a solid effort throughout, and was heard begging for some theatre popcorn as the smell wafted through the parking lot several times; VanDamme responded well to the urging of the PAX and put together a great effort. Everyone pushed it hard, too many to name all. Thanks for putting up with YHC today, first Q at the Maul and first time attempting to engage in PAX crowd control; big numbers is a different ball game.

Announcements

• SOB and A51 converging at Providence Presbyterian Church on Saturday to work alongside Haggis on rebuilding an old dry stack stone church wall that has deteriorated over time. Preblast
• ToughMudder teams are forming for early November. See MT for details.
• Ragnar Trail Relay Race (Ann Springs Greenway). See JRR Tolkein for details.
• Cheddar joins Commish as co-siteQ for Maul. Way to step up Cheddar.

Thanks Squid for taking us out.

Argonaut Out.