“I love a good teabag”, said Backdoor Santa, while Smokin’ In the Boys Room

“I love a good teabag”, said Backdoor Santa, while Smokin’ In the Boys Room

5  pax earned the right to over-indulge on the fruits of the season after counting down the 12 Days of Meathead and burning a Santa’s bag full of calories (~900 for 45 minutes, according to my handy dandy app, therefore, it must be so; and that doesn’t include our overtime work…).

The Thang:

COP:  just a mini-warmup of Bulldog Twists (British version of IW’s?) followed by a few Prying Squats.

12 Days of Meathead – A Christmas Countdown:

• Beginning with Day 12, run down the complete list, followed by another rundown of the list beginning with Day 11, then again with Day 10, … through Day 1.  Reps are low to allow use of heavier weights, if desired.
• Day 12 – TGU’s – 3/side – audible to 1-handed Swings – 10/side
• Day 11 – Deck Squats – 5 – audible to Squats – 7
• Day 10 – Snatches – 5/side
• Days 8 & 9 – Waiter Carry & Pullup (10) superset – waiter carry (overhead rack) to playground, 10 pullups, waiter carry back
• Day 7 – Side Lunges – 5/side
• Day 6 – Squats – 7
• Day 5 – Farmer Carry – down parking lot to 3rd tree & back
• Day 4 – Press – 5/side
• Day 3 – Clean – 5/side
• Day 2 – HR Merkins – audibled to KB Merkins to keep us off the ground – 10 w/ good form
• Day 1 – 1-handed Swings – 10/side

Time.  Overtime.

Done.

COT

Announcements:

1. Joe Davis Run – Jan 9th, still time to sign up.  Just do it.  (Please note: this is coming from a non-runner.)
2. Meathead is on for next week, New Year’s Eve.  Be there/here.

Naked Moleskine:

After a lively Twitter conversation earlier in the week about the superiority of KB Swings to Monkey Humpers, a different, more informative backblast was planned to enlighten the unenlightened, but that’ll have to wait for another day (and they, poor runners, will have to remain in the darkness with their monkey humpers, while tomatoes look on aghast).

But, this backblast practically wrote itself, what with dodgy alternative rock Christmas tunes such as “Backdoor Santa” (whatever that is), then a quick station change which brought us to “Smokin’ In the Boys Room”, all followed by a Bulldog declaration of his love for a good teabag.

The workout was based on YHC’s reflection that it’s challenging to get through the 12 Days of Christmas, as typically done, in a 45 minute workout, leaving out a lot of “good stuff” in the Days 10-12.  So, with ingenuity that would rival history’s greatest creative geniuses, or at least a mediocre engineer (or banker), YHC flipped the script to begin with Day 12 and countdown from there.  The sharp pax of Meathead quickly caught on, and we were on our way…not without a couple of audibles to start us off right.

There was some pre-game discussion of moving to the covered sidewalk for shelter, but that was quickly dismissed because we’re Meatheads!  (and, it didn’t look like the hard stuff would be coming down for some time…)  However, TGU’s were first on the playlist, and YHC (nor anyone else) wasn’t feeling like lying on wet, rough pavement nor wet, muddy ground so those were audibled to 1-hand swings, which were gleefully embraced by the pax with nary a grumble or derogatory term.  Next up were deck squats, again on the wet ground/pavement, so those were likewise audibled to squats.  All the rest were performed as written, with the exception of skipping one set of waiter carries & pullups and later audibling teabag squats for regular squats and shortening the farmer carry distance, all for time.  Speaking of time, upon pax request, 10-15 minutes of overtime was recorded to fully complete the list. #extracredit

Thanks for coming out on this Christmas Eve.  The workout was exceeded only by the fellowship of the pax, and that’s what gets me up and out there in the early morning gloom.

Aye.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”  Matthew 1:23 NASB