Olympus - Preguntas y Respuestas

In the spirit of our lovely autumn morning, let's keep this backblast CRISP. Seven pax gathered this morning in the dark and chose to battle adversity and get better. Week 8 was a good one. Although the weinke called for lighter numbers of sets, each pax was gifted a special bonus, "de-load" set to help maximize hypertrophy (and fill 60 mins of a beatdown :wink:). The morning chill must have taken the breath away from the collective pax as mumblechatter was nil through the warm-up, but oddly enough, once the Dragon Ball Z (!?) discourse got drummed up, the pax couldn't help themselves. A few notes before the recap...Flipper is a man of many talents and obscure knowledge, but rolling through the names of copious Dragon Ball Z characters was not on YHC's bingo card...Toto came in hot (on the heels of a Murder Mystery date night last night) and continued to push the pax (in conjunction with Flipper) to rep higher and higher weights - appreciate the continued encouragement...pumped to see The Worm post as he works through recovery - thinkin of you brother and oddly jealous of your upcoming Monty Python hyperbaric chamber watch-a-thon...Benny got in early and came correct today - great to see your continued progression in this odd hobby of ours...Blanks and Beaker showed up large today. Still not sure I've heard Beaker unleash a "Wooo", but I heard Blanks did the less heard of vicarious "Wooo" on behalf of another pax which was a delightful as it sounds. Appreciate the enthusiasm you both bring each week! Ok, let's get into the recap... WARMUP: Swings (10x), prying squats, hi-pulls (5x), synovial circles, one-handed swings (10x), slingshots (7x e/w) THE THANG: 1) EZ Complex (3 sets) - Swings (3x) - Hi-pulls (2x) - Clean/squat/press (1x) - Repeato other side 2) Double Cleans (3 sets) - Double cleans (5x) 3) Double Front Squats (3 sets) - Shockingly, we did double front squats (5x) 4) Double Floor Press (3 sets) - Double floor press (6x) 5) Gorilla Rows (3 sets) - Gorilla rows (8x e/s) 6) Heavy Bell Work (3 sets) - Heavy swings (10x) - Lawnmower rows (5x e/s) - Merkins (10x) 7) Carries! (4 sets) - Single-bell OH carries for 2 sets (down to the second tree); then we racked it up and back MARY: ...squeezed in a 10 sec. plank before the bell ANNOUNCEMENTS: - :calendar: F3 Events: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bSr64ar_zIEsBfyjBoZFynLx663Zr9h0ODqs1mbuKyw/edit?usp=drivesdk - :pray: Prayers for Flipper's M and the Worm as they both work through recovery. Also, prayers for those on the Waxhaw brew ruck event - stay steady, friends :beers: - :scroll: "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him." – Viktor Frankl COT: O' Tannenbaum took out the joint pax in the COT