12 Days of Painmas / Krampus’s List

12 Days of Painmas / Krampus’s List

Christmas season is here and what better way to celebrate than with holiday-themed workouts and a rockin’ soundtrack!?!?!?!  (And excessive punctuation!?!?)  18 men of Waxhaw were in need of a little Christmas cheer from Europe’s devilish anti-Santa, the Krampus, and his &@#*&@$!% attitude!

WARM-UP

Mosey the Golden Brick Road

Moroccan Night Club x 12 IC (poorly called on the final cadence)

Mosey some more

Sumo Squats x 12 IC (better)

Mosey to the HS parking lot

THE THANG

When we arrived at the high school parking, what did we find but the 12 Days of Krampus List!  Grab a rock and prepare for the fun.  Just the like “12 Days of Christmas” song, the work was to build on each round, doing 1 run, then coming back for 2 star jack + another run, then 3 Kraken Burpees + 2 star jacks + 1 run, and so forth.

• 1 – run 3/4 of the parking lot to the light pole and back [pear trees can be tall]
• 2x Star Jacks [like a turtle dove being shot with a shotgun too powerful]
• 3x Kraken Burpees [French hens like Kraken references?]
• 4x Superman [Calling birds… flying]
• 5x Golden Rings with the rock (big, two-handed circles) [no explanation needed]
• 6x Sumo Squats w/ rock [geese a’ laying]
• 7x LBCs w/ rock in chest press position [arms extended and legs curled resemble a swan a’ swimmin’]
• 8x Curls (with the rock, of course) [maids a’ milking]
• 9x Bonnie Blairs (2:1) [Ladies dancing]
• 10x Jumping squats w/ rock [Lords a’ leaping]
• 11x Moroccan Night Club (2:1) [Arms out like… Pipers piping]
• 12x Forward rock raises [Drummers drumming]

On the return mosey, group stopped to enjoy the holiday classic “Dominick the Donkey”

• Plank position
• For each “Chingedy-ching, hee haw hee haw” PAX did 2 merkins
• For each “donkey” PAX did 3 donkey kicks

MOLESKINE

YHC has been attending F3 workouts at Cuthbertson since May or June of 2016 and this was his first Q.  He asked to be on the schedule once, but it didn’t happen, and he should’ve asked more but took the blue pill too often.  With that, YHC wanted to make the Cuthbertson VQ a fun one and what better way to do than with Christmas fun, an oversized weinke and sweet tunes?

YHC had no idea how long the weinke would last because of the building rounds, but it was impressive how the PAX dug in and powered through increasing numbers of reps with lots of up-and-down.  A good number finished and, selfishly, YHC let it go a few minutes longer than planned just to finish the list himself.  There was plenty of grumbling over some of the exercises, but Krampus doesn’t give %@&$%, does he?  The highlight of the list was easily the Kraken Burpees, the only exercise YHC dug from the depths of the Exicon this time.  The Donkey finish was also a crowd pleaser from the moment the song was announced to (When the pastor vaguely sounds like he takes the Lord’s name in vain, you know it’s a winner.) all the way through the final donkey kicks and multiple reminders that it was past 6:15 and we wouldn’t get back to COT on time.  Again, Krampus don’t care.

What does Krampus care about?  According to Wikipedia, it’s rockin’ tunes!  That’s why YHC put together some winners courtesy of a free trial of Spotify:

• “12 Days of Christmas” – Relient K
• “Little Drum Machine Boy” – Beck
• “Candy Cane Lane” – Sia
• “Oh Come All Ye Faithful” – Twisted Sister
• “Angels We Have Heard on High”  -Relient K
• “Cascabel” – Generic Spanish artist
• “I Wanna Hippopotamus for Christmas” – Dis, Dat, n D’Udda
• “Campana Sobre Campana” – Yuri (also Spanish)
• “Christmas Wrapping” – The Waitresses
• “Dominick the Donkey” – Lou Monte
• “Christmas in Hollis” – Run DMC

*In the style of The Body Shop (Rea View Elementary, Thursdays 0530) and YHC fashion, this job finished a little later than expected, but was delivered with a smile and a money-back guarantee.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Multiple announcements about 2nd F and 3rd F opportunities this weekend, but YHC is a slow on the BB and they should have all finished by now.