Monthly Archive May 2019

The remix edition, hot and fresh out the kitchen

So, a couple of weeks ago, YHC turned 40. For reasons surpassing understanding, YHC Q’d Skunk Works that morning and ran a workout that was terrible. You can read about it if you want.

Fast forward to today, YHC was tasked with leading the fine men of Peak 51, and for reasons also surpassing understanding, decided to run a similar workout.

But Lois, you might ask, Skunk is a kettlebell workout. Peak is a regular boot camp, how are you going to change a KB workout to a non-KB workout and keep the same oeuvre? Also, did you just use “ouvere” in a backblast? Did you use it correctly, Mr. “I got an A in French at South Carolina”?

Answers in reverse order:

• Maybe?
• Sure did
• Let’s find out

It’s 5:30, let’s mosey to the FBC Matthews parking lot. Run a figure-8 around the islands. Lumberjack already entering refusenik mode, reminding YHC that Sparta launches at 5:15.

It’s going to be a day, y’all.

COP

• Side-straddle hops x20 IC
• Imperial Walker x20 IC
• Mountain Climbers x20 IC
• Hillbilly x15 IC
• Windmill x15 IC

THANG

First-up, two round of suicides, using the middle lamp posts as the light unto our path. First one, back, second one back, back of the parking lot and back.

Okay, time for the first remix of the birthday Q. I’m now terming this routine “existential dread.”

Partner up.

Partner 1 stays at the bottom and does 40 reps of a called exercise. Partner 2 does something awful. Partner 1 runs and gets partner 2, they both run back to the bottom and flapjack.

Round 1 —

• Partner 1: 40 Carolina Dry Docks
• Partner 2: Lunge Walk

Round 2 —

• P1: Squats
• P2: Inchworm (plank, walk feet up to hands, then walk hands back out to plank, etc. etc.)

Round 3 —

• P1: Mountain Climbers
• P2: Bear crawl

Enough of that, let’s mosey to the next parking lot over.

Second phase of the workout, 40-second AMRAPs.

Start at the corner right by the entrance to the FBC Matthews Family Life Center.

40 seconds, AMRAP of merkins.

Mosey over to the supine bars for, you guessed it, 40 seconds AMRAP of supine pull-ups.

Mosey to the next corner next to the church office door. 40 seconds AMRAP of jump squats.

Mosey to the last corner, 40 seconds AMRAP of LBCs.

That was fun, so, let’s do all of that again. This time, instead of LBCs on the last one, 40 seconds AMRAP of burps.

Yikes. Okay, mosey back to launch, stopping at the wall.

2 rounds of people’s chair with 50 arm presses (civilian count).

2 rounds of balls to the wall.

MARY

• Rosalita x20 IC
• Freddie Mercury x15 IC
• Heels to heaven AMRAP in the closing 40 seconds of the workout.

Time.

COT

• Count-off
• Name-off
• Announce-off
• Takeout-off

Peau de Môle

Yes, I got an A in French at South Carolina. I got a B in Italian as well. What of it?

Anyway.

The PAX were in rare form with mumblechatter this morning, starting with Lumberjack’s accusation that I was going to turn this into a running workout. Man, no, I have to have some sort of gas left in the tank for Mountain Goat tomorrow morning.

I can’t tell if Slim Fast was confused by the first part of “existential dread” or if he wanted to try and confuse everyone else. He started trying to explain how teams advance in that Champions League Communist Kickball nonsense they play over in Europe. Like how when the teams go 0-0 during several games, it goes into how the aggregate kicks per game are taken into consideration.

I have no idea.

During the inchworm-ing in round 2, Snoopy said, quite clearly, “Man, I’d rather Bear Crawl.” Now, that was the plan all along to do that in round 3, but, even if it wasn’t, that would have been the easiest audible in the world to call.

Cocktail also accused me of telling an untruth. He said of the first round of CDDs and lunge walking that those were two of his least favorite exercises, and only burpees would have made it worse. I said to this, “well, I think we might stay relatively burpee free.”

I tell no lies here. I learned this from Smokey, who wasn’t in attendance today because he’s on the west coast, gorging on In-and-Out Burger and surfing in Malibu. No, really, he is.

Also, there was a lot of chatter during the two rounds of BTTW worthy of the @HeardAtF3 account on Twitter dot com.

In all seriousness, a great group putting in the work this morning. It’s an honor to lead, both in terms of this morning and leading this group as a Site Q. It’s true what they say, it’s the camaraderie that makes getting up at 0-dark-30 and getting after it easy(-ish).