Don’t skip calf day



Don’t skip calf day

When it was announced months ago that a new Monday boot camp would be starting at Blakeney and it would be named “Firestarter,” YHC got excited remembering some of his favorite Stephen King books, movies and anecdotes and knew this would make for a great theme someday when Qing.  YHC Qed on Monday and began working on that theme in earnest Sunday night — the lack of theme preparation was apparent to the 12 PAX in attendance.

WARM-UP

Mosey towards Starbucks – has this ever been done before?  Firestarter always seems to head towards 131 Main to start.

Hillbillies x 19 IC

Plank Jacks x 19 IC

Freddie Mercury x 19 IC

Squat Twists x 19 IC

 

THE THANG

Run from the Victoria’s Secret Lululemon to the trampoline store, stopping at each crosswalk for 5x Alternating Shoulder Taps, but bear crawl across the two ornate concrete crossings (7 stops total)

Sets of Squats x 10 IC

  • Regular
  • Sumo
  • Bonnie Blairs

Return to the Victoria’s Secret Lululemon, repeating the shoulder taps and bear crawls

Run back to Banana Republic for Baryshnikov Squats x 19 IC

Run to the J. Jill short wall for…

  • Incline Merkins x 10 OYO
  • Dips x 10 OYO
  • 3 sets total

 

Head to the stairs

  • Head up the stairs with 5x calve raises on each step
  • 1 Kraken Burpee at the top
  • Run back down for 2 squats

Repeat for 3 Kraken Burpees and 4 squats, then for 5 Kraken and 6 squats, with calve raises on each ascent and varying the direction of the feet (regular, inward, outward)

Run to the back side of Target

  • Run along the back of Target stopping at each functioning light on the right for 10 Cujos (Pointer Dogs)

Plank

Jailbreak a la Shawshank Redemption to COT

Shawshank

 

MOLESKINE

YHC quickly realized that a Stephen King-themed workout is a challenge unless one wants to bludgeon another PAX at the ankles a la Misery — maybe that’s where the calves came in?  The number 19 is prevalent in some of his works and that sounded better than doing sets of 61 — the number of novels he has published — or 3000-4000 — the number of words he used to write daily before toning it down to just about 1000.

YHC likes to dig into the exicon for workouts and “Cujo” for the pointer dogs was the most natural, non-partner exercise.  But then things got complicated.  There was a mocking comment of, “Nice VQ so far” — if YHC drove a 1958 Plymouth Fury, it would have been tearing around the corner at that point looking for a victim.  Slack comments mentioned the “laundry list” of instructions to be given — better than the laundry service at the Overlook Hotel, though.  The unplannable final scene of the workout, however, was how the drizzle began and it mirrored Shawshank Redemption as the PAX looked up and enjoyed the freedom of being done with an overly complicated Q.  “Get busy livin’ or get busy dying.”

Approximately 400 calf raises — that’s a terrible idea.  Calf Day should not be a thing.

Stephen King’s least favorite film adaptation — Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining because of the way it treats Jack Nicholson’s character.

Firestarter? Drew Barrymore’s first dramatic lead and a horribly rated film on Rotten Tomatoes.

YHC’s favorite King novel?  Pet Semetary.

Stephen King holds the record for most movie adaptations of his works at 34.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Blood Drive — Friday, Feb 19th at the Brace YMCA.  Sign up, save some lives.

Check out The Appetizer on Tuesday evenings at Rea View Elementary at 530 PM — great for 2.0s also.

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