Take Your Medicine

Take Your Medicine

Good number of men already on site upon YHC’s arrival.  Several more pulled in subsequently.  With one minute, a quick survey shows a large group.  Then Radar walks majestically out of the gloom.  Or was it a hallucination.  A shake of the hand assured YHC of his physical presence.  Wait a minute.  Is that Purple Haze behind him?  Negative. 0530 hit and a quick, thorough, disclaimer was given through the thick mumblechatter of 25 PAX.  Let’s go.

Thang

Mosey through SCMS parking lot to Strawberry up to the daycare lot.  Missed the 1st entrance so we ran around the bushes and into the lot.  Q fail.  Thought there was an entrance and exit onto Strawberry.

COP

SSH x 10 IC

IW x 10 IC

MC x 10 IC–no PAX counting at this point

Merkin x 20 IC–alas, mumblechatter extinguished.  For the moment.

Low Slow Squat x 10 IC

Mosey back to entrance to bus lot of SCMS.  Start point.

Run down Strawberry to Fairway Downs Ct (0.2 miles).  10 H-R Burpees

Run back to Start Point.  15 Jump Squat.  Plank series to regroup.

Run down Strawberry to Rosecliff (0.33 mile) 25 Merkin.

Run back to Start Point.  30 LBC.  Plank series to regroup.

Run down to Fairway Downs.  10 H-R Burpees.

Run back to Start Point.  15 Jump Squat.  Plank series to regroup.

Mosey into bus lot.

Short-rest parking lot sprints from Plank start x 8

5 MOM

Flutter x IC/Heels to Heaven x 10 IC/Dolly x 10 IC/High Flutter x 10 IC.  Feet up for all.

Short break for the bus to roll through.

LBC x 15 IC

Merkin x 10 IC

1:45 of Burpees to close it out.

COT

3.10 miles, as advertised.  Burpees, as advertised.  Pretty simple plan this morning.  Running was short-burst with exercise breaks throughout.

Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, of McMaster University in Ontario, is a genetic metabolic neurologist who is a firm believer that exercise can be used as medicine.  Exercise has long been thought to be essential for good health.  In 400 B.C., Hippocrates famously wrote: “Eating alone will not keep a man well.  He must also take exercise.”  Next year, the US NIH will launch a big study with the aim of documenting what happens in the body in motion with the goal of proving that exercise is medicine.  Both preventative and restorative.

Facts: Only 20% of Americans get the recommended 150 minutes of recommended cardio/strength work per week.  More than half of baby boomers report no real physical activity and 80.2 million Americans over 6 years are entirely inactive.

This above 2 paragraphs taken, in part,  from a Time article that can be found HERE

So we know that people need exercise.  The benefits are tremendous and increase longevity, as well as, prevent disease.  Soon we will likely know much more, in significantly greater detail.  Couple this with the 2F benefits we receive as adult males.  Next add in the 3F.  Who needs F3?  The real question is, who doesn’t?  EH those around you.  Give them the gift of F3.  You could lead with, “Hey, you want to live longer, be less prone to disease, feel better, do more?  That should get their attention.

Thank you to Dollywood for the opportunity to lead at Death Valley.  Great job running this site.

Observations:

Frasier was taking it easy on some stuff today.  He was the fastest out there when he chose to be.

Orange Whip, Dollywood, Joker, Swiper, Witch Doctor were fast and worked hard throughout.  Well done. If I left any front-runners out, my bad, 25 dudes and I was a bit smoked.  First F3 post since 12/23.

Heavy breathing and sweat prevalent today.  Strong work by this group of 25.

Spackler is sans Tito’s, for how long, no idea.  Said he felt a little different without his special sauce.  Probably better, if YHC had to guess.  He was pushing hard, though was not observing performance on Burpees.

Mumblechatter was almost overwhelming from the QIC perspective at times.  Great to see guys crushing it and still having a good time.  Adult recess.

Awesome to see many YHC doesn’t post often with.  Skywalker took the day off Cross Fit to join us. Always great to have his positive attitude.

Did Flutie Flakes move back, or just a visit?

T-claps to Swiper for the takeout.

Lastly, Radar posted.  Is Haze next?

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