Meatheads in Motion

Meatheads in Motion

To be honest YHC was a bit troubled by the foreboding forecast of precipitation as I lay my head down last night.  Having recently committed a decent amount of funds to the Muscle Driver USA selloff extravaganza I was looking forward to flexing the new toys and rain would make what YHC had planned a little more complicated.  Needless to say the beautiful morning was an amazing surprise, as was the activities which 13 pax would be subjected to as the sun began to peak over the horizon.

The Thang:

Gathered at the new launch point we headed off at a brinks pace down and around the front of the church in indian style via the road and shoulder (cause who doesn’t love playing car-chicken at 7am???)  Pax were just starting to grumble about distance when we arrived at the courtyard for a disclaimer and COP.

All in cadence:

SSH X20

IW X10 (too fast was the mumblechatter here… odd)

Merkins X10

Mountain Climber X10

Peter Parker X10

Parker Peter X10 (These last 4 done without recovery between)

6 inches for an icky-shuffle 10 count

At this point the Pax encountered our first party favors (two 20 lbs. slam balls and a 16 lbs. wall ball.) Again in indian run style we struck out passing the party favors back and sprinting forward when they reached the back of the line.  We struck out towards the fields then up the road until we reached the parking lot across from the cemetary where it was time for….

Devil’s Starfish

6 stations in starfish set up with a middle cone.  The stations were as follows:

Plate Burpees with 20kg plate (chest to plate on top of a small dumbell) X5

Rope Slam X10

Sandbag Clean&Press (56 lbs. sandbag) X5

Over-ball push ups then slam 3 sets of 4 (20 lbs. slamball)

Plate skull crush then press (10 kg plates) X10

Slamball updowns (40 lbs. slamball) X5

In between each station run to the center and do either 1,2,3,4,5,6 of weighted burpees (56 lbs sandbags) or unweighted for 2,4,6,8,10 with the reps escalating after each station.

Repeato of the above except cut reps in half (10 to 5 and 5 to 3) with the center exercise being jump squats (Weighted 6 down to 1 or unweighted 10-2)

After above a mosey around the front of the church, this time on the grass lawn carrying all of the party favors and switching prodigiously.  Drop the heavy plates, sandbags and heavy slamballs before repeating the weight-passing indian run with the remaining party favors (thanks Hoover for YHC transport the remaining plates… passing those didn’t seem a great idea at the time.)

Once arriving at the shelter assume peoples chair.  Pass the 20 lbs. slamballs, the wall ball and 10 kg plates down the line without touching the ground, then back.

20 Merkins oyo

Resume the peoples chair and pass the party favors again, this time with overhead presses every time you received an object.  Return the party favors to the start of the line.

A quick mosey returned us to the cars where YHC angry Q’d Jack Webb to 8 to finish out the morning.

Moleskin:  Admittedly this workout was very #highintensity and featured weighted objects which was out of character for The Rock.  Unsurprisingly the Pax gamely rose to the occasion with nary a grumble among them.  Thankfully YHC recalled Gummy’s objection to lilly white thighs last week and wore appropriate length shorts so that kept things a bit quieter for sure.

Additionally it was great to have a couple of our “meatier” brethren come and enjoy the regions best AO when they heard rumor of the gear-centric playlist for the day.  Welcome back any time guys.

Finally it was bittersweet to have Fragile present for what is his last day in Charlotte before journeying south to join the PAX in Charleston.  God’s speed brother, we’ll see you soon (he promised beers at his place if we field trip down… I’m tempted.)

Announcements:

-BRR in 6 months… still too soon

-Spartan Sprint on 4/9 and 4/10 – Team name is F3 Nation