Tennis on the pitch

10 pax mustered for another Saturday assault at DayZero. No SF of course; does anyone plant those anymore? A veteran crew so the disclaimer was brief, and actually Swiper started his Q-jack tendencies even during the disclaimer. He’s very helpful. Semi-Gloss showed up after the warm-up lap, but he would make that up later.

The Thang:

Warm up lap around the pitch

COP

IW x 25 IC

Slow squat x 25 IC

6-count burpee x 15 IC

Flutter x 25 IC

On to the main event. Tennis anyone?

YHC has a bag of numbered tennis balls. Purple Haze gave me about 50 (only 21 remain) back when he used to play tennis. Each pax would take a ball out, hit it with an old beat-up tennis racket as far as he could. Then he would AYG run to get it while the pax planked, held squat, and various other forms of active recovery. Then the pax would call out an exercise of his choice with the count corresponding to the # on the ball.

So I have no idea the #’s nor the order in which we did the exercises, but it was something like this:

100 Calf raises, burpees, rock sets with squats (Ickey called two of these – 14 or 15 or something), heels to heaven, Rosalita (Pro called this and this cadence was very erratic, pretty sure I retore my labrum…WTH?!), Makthar N’Djiaye (YHC’s call of course), Merkins, Squats, LBCs, Jump Squats (SG didn’t jump), pull-ups (Swiper called for these all morning – I think we did 12 – mine were supine – #soccerarms), Side-crunches x 45, monkey humpers – 54 of them as YHC recalls (somebody said these are Stone Cold’s favorite exercise – WTH?!).

Final exercise, as “luck” would have it, was to 100 again. Last ball in the bag was a 100. So we did 50 H-R Merkins and 50 Overhead press, alternating 10 at a time of each.

Mosey to the basketball court for some more Mary – American Hammer and one other I can’t remember.

3 sets of gassers from end line to end line.

6-count burpee x 13 IC while Semi-Gloss made up his lap. He never did the burpees.

Plank rail walk up the ramp back to launch lot.

People’s chair for about 4 minutes.

One more Mary exercise – leg lifts x 25 IC.

Done.

COT

Ye Olde Moleskine

Semi-Gloss posted after YHC promised not much running, and he still came in late after the 1-lap we ran; but he did make it up. Prohibition said he’d rather do the lap and skip the burpees…don’t blame him. Speaking of Pro…he, Hairball, Strawberry and Swiper did a 3ish mile pre-run. T-claps.

Hadn’t seen Teddy and Swede in a long time – good to see you fellas. And a Kotters to Bugeater; the happy Nebraskan is making a comeback!

Also learned today that Ickey Shuffle has never seen the movie “The Sandlot”…that might help explain the horrific swing with the tennis racket. On the 2nd round, he whiffed, then fouled one off, and then hit a slow comebacker to the pitcher….yikes!

One Eye was out front on the gassers and the warm-up lap. That man can run, and he flat out makes the headband work.

Always a privilege and pleasure to Q. Thanks to Dear Abby & Buttermaker for tapping YHC to do so. Be sure you tell them I did an awesome job….maybe not…but it was something a bit different. Hairball told YHC we went exactly a mile…that’s a boot camp workout men.

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