Second Chances …

Second Chances …

This was a week of second chances for YHC:

• It was YHC’s second (last-minute) kettlebell Q in a week
• a makeup Q for YHC’s miss on Tuesday of Skunkworks  (For all you loyal Skunkworks fans, don’t worry I’ll be back, date TBD.)
• YHC’s second FNG naming of the week
• and a chance for YHC to perfect an already tough non-running weinke that premiered on Monday

Second chances are a valuable thing.  Not having one is a limiting factor in life.  Not giving a second chance to someone is effectively closing a door to a future that person may never experience.  And I would wager most of us in F3 are only where we are today because of at least one second chance in life.  There is a saying, “Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder”.  So I took the second chance with a last minute Q request and worked harder.

But you’re here to read a backblast about a sweet Meathead Q so here we go…

7 pax plus one FNG showed up for this week’s episode of Meathead.  YHC pulled out some old favorites from the days of High-T and added a few new tricks to keep the pax on their toes.

The Thang:

Warm-up:
Two-handed swing x 20, Merkins – x10
Two-handed swing x 20, Mt climbers x 20
Two-handed swing x 20, Clean and press with bell x10
Two-handed swing x 20

Supersets and High Intensity Sets:

12 reps or AMRAP up to 12: Goblet Squat, Good Morning
Snatch with an Overhead Press (x5 each side) & Clean and press with bell x5 – (repeat the whole routine 3 times)
12 reps or AMRAP up to 12: Chest press, Lawnmower (12 each side or double it up for more fun!)
Snatch, Overhead Press (x5 each side) & Clean and press with bell x5 – (repeat the whole routine 3 times)

Overhead Farmers Carry across the parking lot (right hand, return with left hand)

Mary:
Flutter kick w/bell press x20
Leuganis (bell behind head starting position) x10
Freddie Mercury (no bell) slow x20
American Hammer x15

Burnout Sets:
20 & 5
15 & 10
10 & 15
5 & 20

Exercises included: chest press & lawnmower, squat & good morning

The second moleskine:

Great showing by the pax today.  Monday’s DH crew set the bar pretty high and today’s crew stepped it up to their level.  Blazing Saddles quietly crushed the routine and was one of the early finishers on our supersets.  Purell and Bulldog decided to partner up at one point and pulled doubles on the chest press keeping the pax encouragement train running.  Between Voodoo and High Tide we had enough bells that a security guard from Carolina Fitness slowly crept around the parking lot to see if any of those bells still had the security tags on them.  Wild Turkey impressed YHC by picking up on a somewhat obscure punk band (Refused) that was on the playlist which led to some name dropping of punk bands and record labels from the 90’s and 00’s.  YHC brought the ruck because the ruck gets lonely at home.

Voodoo also EH’d a FNG from Connecticut (F3CT coming soon?) who actually Ubered it in.  That must have been a hell of a fare coming from Connecticut.  A big welcome to Uber (seriously that’s his name), enjoy the pain and welcome to the fold.

Announcements:

05/15 – 6 year anniversary of Skunkworks.  Get there and celebrate with a kettlebell cake.

Memorial Day:  Patriot 5K.  Speed for Need will be in attendance.

Gear Orders:  get ’em in.  All the fun colors are back.  Black and neon green/yellow.

05/11 – FNG/Kotters day at Cerberus.  Bring an FNG or just come out and support your fellow pax.

YHC had the take-out.

For your obscure listening pleasure, here’s the playlist:

Tool – Forty Six and Two
Alice in Chains – Them Bones
Sick of it All – Disco Sucks, F*** Everything
Bigwig – A War Inside
Clutch – Unto the Breach
Paint it Black – The Beekeeper
Deftones – Swerve City
Filter – Welcome to the Fold
Monster Magnet – Powertrip
Bad Religion – 21st Century Digital Boy
Paint it Black – Atheists in Foxholes
Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come