CELEBRATING THE 99TH DAY OF THE YEAR
21 men showed up this morning between Impromptu and Swarm to celebrate the 99th day of the year. The weather was fantastic and the overall mood of everyone seemed light. The reason I chose to celebrate the 99th day of the year is that I had no idea what other theme to use or what other significance April 9th had in history. (other than Robert Jenkins ear being cut off by the Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean , later being the catalyst for the war between Brittain and Spain) – but how do you build a workout around that? So 99th day of the year was the theme and I set out to do 99 reps of each exercise but upon thinking about that for half a second, 99 reps seemed rather aggressive, so I just picked 4 areas to workout with a total 99 reps at each area.
The Warmup
Moseyed from the COT to the front of the High School
–33 side straddle hops
-Calf Stretch
-Runners stretch
-33 Merkins
-33 LBC’s
THE THANG
Moseyed over to the wooden benches
-33 dips then took a lap around the Geeb Jungle (look on google maps, that’s what it’s called)
-33 step-ups then took a lap around the Geeb Jungle
-33 Incline Merkins then took a lap around the Geeb Jungle
We then Moseyed over to the overhang area with the steps by the high school
we did 3 sets of
-11-donkey kicks
-11 big boys
-11 drydocks
Each set followed with a lap around the path and up the steps with a burpee counter at the end of each
-Calf raises on the steps while waiting for the six
We then Moseyed over to the front of the middle school.
-33 heels to heaven then ran to overhang by the bus lot and bear crawled under the over hang and back to front of the middle school
-33 LBC’s then ran to overhang by the bus lot and bear crawled under the over hang and back to front of the middle school
-33 American Hammers then ran to overhang by the bus lot and bear crawled under the over hang and back to front of the middle school
Moseyed back to COT, did 30 seconds of flutters and called time.
Announcements:
Keep Rubbermaid and Hollywood in our prayers as the do their ridiculous run up Crowders Mountain
Next Saturday downtown cleanup in Waxhaw
Memorial day some guys are doing the Murph. Kid Rock is trying to organize training for it. Look to Playhouse or News channel for info.
THE Moleskin
This was only my second time leading a workout at this site. I really do like this site, there are a lot of options and areas to get a good workout in. Thank you to Chatterbox for asking me to Q this site and thank you to all the Pax who came out to support me on this wonderful morning.
Completing the Square with that guy from the Gazebo
On a beautiful morning in Downtown Matthews, nine Pax gathered to begin their journey. They would soon be joined by one……
Here’s what we did:
- Mosey to the Mobility & More Parking lot and circle up
- Side Stradle Hope
- Imperial Walkers
- Mountain Climbers
- Mosey toward the Pizza Peel benches- however there was someone already sitting there so didn’t want to scare her with this motley crew
- Audible towards the stone circle near the Library- while ignoring the ominous snoring coming from the Gazebo
- At the stone circle:
- 10 Decline Merkins
- 10 stepups (each leg)
- 10 dips
- Repeato, except incline Merkins
- Mosey towards the corner of the Library- and we turn around to find that Safelite has joined us to bring us up to 10! Apparently he had been sleeping in the gazebo last night to ensure that he made it to Peak on time, and just missed his alarm. Much rejoicing was had, and we began the main Thang:
- Begin a Four Corners ladder
- Begin with Corner 1, with 10 merkins.
- Run to Corner 2, and do 10 Carolina Dry Docks
- Back to Corner 1 for merkins, then 2 for CDD, then add Corner 3 for 10 Burpees (ugh)
- All the way back to corner one doing every exercise, then to corner 4 for LBCs (yes doing the exercises at every corner)
- All the way back to the starting corner, hitting every station, and then to complete the square by running every corner, including corner 1 on the back end (exercise was 10 squats).
- Run all the way back around the building, making sure to stop at every station.
- Split up and run around the building to find Hot Corner, who went back for some more pain
- Begin a Four Corners ladder
- Woof. From there, mosey back to Pizza Peel, and grab some wall
- People’s Chair
- People’s Chair with arm raises
- People’s Chair holding arms straight out the entire duration
- Back to Launch and finish up with some Mary
FIN
Moleskine
A good crowd out today for a good beatdown. The burpees on Corner #3 really helped to bring the pain for everyone.
Hot Corner joined us for his first site visit- Apparently F3 Mint Hill was trying to get in touch with their feelings or stretch or something and he wasn’t having any of it. He was out front steadily pacing us- and also loved the four corners so much, he went back for more. Glad to have you out, hope this is not your last visit to Peak.
Spammer also showed up for the first time! He’s become a consistent presence at Mountain Goat on Fridays (5:15 at South Charlotte Middle) and he decided to stretch his wings and fly onto bootcamp workouts. A lot less running today, with a lot more burpees.
Smokey and South Paw were out front leading the pack as usual. South Paw’s got the stride of an antelope- which helps trying to keep up with the force of nature that is Smokey.
Gullah and Beaver were looking strong the whole way. I hope to one day grow up to be as cool as Beaver- I would say the same about Gullah, but he roots for GA Southern, and that’s just gross.
I also have a confession- Safelite didn’t sleep in the gazebo. But upon arriving fashionably late, he proceeded to run around downtown Matthews until he found us (dedication!). Next time we’ll hide for the first 20 minutes so he ends up running around for 3-4 miles, and eventually has to link up with the Sparta guys.
Slim Fast and Sensei were there as well, talking through how to fix America’s broken political system, or determining the theological implications of different kinds of BBQ- or something.
Prayer Requests
Continue to pray for Slim’s buddy Chris who is continuing to recover from a stroke. He has made good progress but still has a long way to go.
Thanks Sensei and DAS BOOT (Lois) for letting me lead- always a pleasure to be in the Gloom!
New Phone, Who Dis
Got a text on Monday from a strange number that said I had SACS this week…then the texter announced himself as Cheese Curd on a new personal cell. I’m glad he clarified otherwise my reply could have been quite embarrassing.Nonetheless…Three weirdos still got together in the dark and headed to the SCMS track for some SACS fun. Here’s how it went…The Work1/2 Mile Ruck2 Rounds
- 15 x Deep Goblet (Ruck) Squats
- 15 x Ruck Overhead Lunges
- 15 x Ruck Swings
1/2 Mile Ruck2 Rounds
- 25 x 4 ct. Ruck Mountain Climbers
- 15 x Ruck Push-ups
- 15 x Ruck Upright Rows
1/2 Mile Ruck2 Rounds
- 15 x Single-Arm Lawnmower Ruck Rows (left)
- 25 x 4 ct. Flutter Kicks
- 15 x Single-Arm Lawnmower Ruck Rows (right)
1/2 Mile Ruck2 min. AMRAP Ruck Press Sit-upsENDEXThis workout is a PATHFINDER Ruck Training “Ruck+” workout and are my favorite go-to’s for the SACS crew. Although it was only an intrepid trio this morning we still put in the miles and the reps and the sweat and the work.The ruck overhead lunges were pretty much awful…so awful that I told the guys to get their minds right because they might show up again later in the workout if we had time to start the sequence over from the top. Fortunately we smoked ourselves with those awful lunges and slowed ourselves down and didn’t have to repeat.I know Curd’s ruck is pretty damn heavy — I heard that ominous iron thick *clunk* every time he set the bag on the deck — respect be on him for gutting those lunges out with that weight.Geraldo Larry-Birded every single set we did…even when he got a little light-headed on the last lawnmower ruck sets and lost count — he still finished up first with a few extra reps in there. Strong work, brother.SACS is my fave AO now. It’s the perfect place for any pax to try out some rucking and ruck PT. You don’t even need your own ruck or weight. We have plenty to share. Come join us sometime. We’re good company.Dora out.
A Tradition Like No Other
I was told that there is pressure “from above” to write a backblast, and honestly I took that to mean Jesus, so here goes.
Inspired by The Masters, 4 threesomes (+ 1 single) of pros took an early tee time and played 18 holes.
Each hole = a called exercise. The threesome is to do 72 reps at each hole (par for Augusta) among all three (=24 each). Mosey to the next set of holes.
Here goes:
Hole 1: Tea Olive = SSH
Hole 2: Pink Dogwood = Merkins
Hole 3: Flowering Peach = Lunge Walk
Hole 4: Flowering Crab Apple = Step-Ups
Hole 5: Magnolia = Incline Merkins
Hole 6: Juniper = Scorpions
Hole 7: Pampas = Squat Jumps
Hole 8: Yellow Jasmine = Plank
Hole 9: Carolina Cherry = American Hammer
Make the turn!
Hole 10: Camelia = Freddy Mercury’s
(Our version of Amen Corner, in front of Wesley Church)
Hole 11: White Dogwood = Flutter Press (with fore-caddy duties to run the dogleg right to end of parking lot and back here and after Holes 12 and 13))
Hole 12: Golden Bell = Bicep Curls
Hole 13: Azalea = Romanian Deadlifts (aka Bird Pickers) (practice that one legged pick-your-ball-up-from-the-hole!) (greatest hole in golf gets the lamest exercise)
Hole 14: CDDs (with fore-caddy duties to run the dogleg right to end of parking lot and back here and after Holes 15, 16 and 17)
Hole 15: Firethorn = Curtsy Lunges
Hole 16: Redbud = Squat Pulses
Hole 17: Nandina = Plank Jack Shoulder Taps
Hole 18: Holly = Wall Sit + Arm Raises
Take a victory lap back to the Clubhouse, and that’s a wrap.
3.0 miles covered (roughly 1.24 miles short of walking Augusta); 480 reps total for each golfer. Not the same as being there, but with vaccine passports in 2022 we’ll be back. And I don’t care what anyone says, the BBQ sandwiches are the *best* thing on the menu at Augusta and I will fight anyone that disagrees.
I wish I could report more on the scuttlebutt amongst the gallery today. Sling Shot and I had a nice lap around the baseball field lamenting how being creative these days usually involves too much complexity. One day the two of us might team-up for a Q and really take it to an 11. Most refuseniks were on Hole 13, though they started in earnest on Hole 1 (I would expect nothing less). DEFCON 1 for Puddin’ and Limey got to hear all about the history of bowel movements and F3. Motor Boat continues to exult the transformative services of Stretch Lab.
Oh, and something about Phoebe Cates (ask Geraldo).
One More Again
7 PAX joined YHC for a birthday Q this morning. Becky, Funny Farm, and myself began The Valley EC loop for the 1 mile pre-run promptly at 0515. McStuffins enters the parking lot as we’re leaving campus, so we hold up for him to join. Returning to launch, we’re joined by Cold Cuts, Huddle House, and GOP. Cold Cuts and Huddle House have the exact same vehicle and GOP is on a bike.
The Thang
No disclaimer given, these guys know the drill.
Head towards the intersection of Huntingtowne Farms Ln and Goneaway. Stop for COP – 20 SSH, 20 mountain climbers, hold runners stretch, 10 merkins OYO.
Continue on Huntingtowne Farms Ln towards the greenway. Stop at the parking lot to South Park Swim Club and line up on barrier to keep people from driving on the greenway. 1 burpee on each side of the barrier until 10 total.
Get on greenway and mosey towards bridge to bear crawl across. Continue on greenway towards South Park Station hill AKS piss your pants. At the base of hill partner up, partner 1 grabs a rock and does curls, triceps extensions, and overhead presses (sets of 10) until partner 2 returns from running up hill and performing 34 squats. Partner 1 and 2 switch, then as my JV high school football coach would say “one more again” – this time 34 calf raises instead of squats
Continue on greenway towards next bridge and lunge walk across. Head towards trail in the woods and connects back to Birmingham Dr and Charlotte Tennis Academy. Before leaving Charlotte Tennis Academy parking lot, stop for Mary.
Recover and move towards Burnt Mill. At the intersection of Burnt Mill and Tall Oaks, backwards run up Tall Oaks to the first stop light then back down. Next backwards run up Burnt Mill towards the first stop light and back down. Mosey back up Tall Oaks towards Huntingtowne Farms Ln. Stop at intersection for more Mary.
Mosey back to launch to continue Mary, each Pax calling out an exercise. Recover and move towards end of the parking lot. Flat on bellies and count of 3 AYG back to the other end of the parking lot.
615 workout ends.
Moleskin
I was able to get Huddle House out by telling him I would boycott his Q tomorrow at Centurion – it worked and he showed up.
GOP stayed on that bike the whole time and joined us for exercise along the way – knee has him on IR from running.
Thanks to Becky for taking us out in prayer.
Elevator up and Elevator Down
Floater offers an unlimited canvas for constructing a Q – lots of ground to cover, various hills, schools… but that wouldn’t be necessary today. The spirits of the long forgotten AMRAP began calling out to me yesterday, a whisper here and a whisper there. So I decided to pull together a routine that would please the AMRAP Gods and keep the PAX from realizing it was an AMRAP.
DICSS – wouldn’t need much light or reflective gear…not many street crossings. cell phone/cpr/distance/safety/modify.
Warm Orama – Mosey to the Lutheran Church Parking lot. SSH/Plank Jacks/T merkins and a few knee slaps.
Mosey back towards launch – single burpee at a few streets to get the blood flowing.
The Thang – Elevator Up and Elevator Down.
The track would be the block around the Waxhaw Methodist Church (our launch point for floater)
Simple math says the block has 4 corner aka 4 floors and the church corner would be the lobby. Go to the first floor and perform 1st exercise – return to lobby. Go to second floor perform 1st exercise +2nd Exercise>>> return to lobby. Go to third floor perform 1st+2nd+3rd>>>return to lobby. Go to 4th floor perform 1st+2nd+3rd+4th…
Exercises:
1st floor – 10 Burpees
2nd Floor – 20 T Merkins
3rd Floor – 30 Knee Slaps
4th Floor – 40 Big Boi
So on the way up a total of 40 Burpees/60 T Merkins/30 Knee Slaps and 40 Big Bois
Time to take the elevator down.
So on the way down 160 Big Bois/90 Knee Slaps/40 T Merkins and 10 Burpees
We ran out of time and most made it back down 3 floors – some on their way down to the lobby.
Mission accomplished on floor 4 as Ice9 put on the heave show for us—-
Those taking the express elevator included Ice9/BlueScreen and Carbload(although he may have missed a floor if it involved counting by 1).Dasher was able to somehow find floor “R” for (Rudy’s Shed) and still knock out the plan.
Mission accomplished on floor 4 as Ice9 put on the heave show for us—-
Hats off to Elmers – 2 months in and been doing great attending every-other-day. I put the pressure on him yesterday to hit Floater and he showed up and put in an incredible effort.
Chatterbox back at it after time off for some recovery; he was back to keeping the pace moving. Little reminder that the T Merkin is with a BIG T and not the lower case—
Smithers – what can I say – he has the stride of a professional race walker but the time of a miler. Apparently he’s not that much into the lifting weights game – which he shared with us.
We spotted O-69 doing some sprint work – you keep lifting us up brother – amazing.
My company in the solid middle of the pack included Sugar Daddy – sporting the knee brace and +1 on the chronometer- 57 years young and killing it. Schnieder the trusty diesel – just keeps going same pace up hills or down hills, straight or curves -doesn’t stop. And Zin pulling emergency site-q duties, because what could be better than 2 site Q’s at floater – not. Q’s were a no show so Zin decided to stepped up to circle back for the 6 which may have been a lonely conversation or not?
2.7 miles covered all in basically one block.
Welcome Back MY Friend AMRAP – WE MISSED YOU!
Announcements:
Waxhaw Clean up – next Saturday 8AM- bring equipment(rakes, blowers, gloves..)
WTF – Shirt order by the 16th?
Prayers – and wrong way Name-Orama
Give me liberty, or give me lunges!
Pre-Blast
Das Boot invited YHC to Q out at Body Shop this Thursday, 4/8. IR has limited running and created
somewhat of a strength focus for YHC for the last year, so… as the site name implies, this will be a strength focused endeavor on Thursday. Heart rates will be elevated, some mileage will occur, but likely a little below the typical ~5km required of a boot camp. Expect some coupons, rocks, and other (un)pleasantries.Bring a friend.
Back Blast
11 of the finest Wax Pax and/or SOBs, a 60 degree Spring morning, a car full of gear, some cones, a reasonably well-planned weinke… what a great way to start a random April Thursday. The 80lb KB made an appearance this morning (aka Liberty Bell, aka Fat Boy). Gave the initial disclaimer, and handed it off the Site Q for some of the Waxhaw specific kumbaya that YHC is not familiar with.
Warm-Up (5:30 – 5:35)
- Circle Up:
- Side Straddle Hop X 15 IC
- Merkins X 15 IC
- Thoracic Openers X 10 each side, CC
- Pigeon Stretch, 30 seconds each side.
- Arm Circles X 10 each side, OYO
- Low slow squat X 5 CC
- 5 static lunges each side, X 5 CC
- Low slow squat X 10 CC
- 5 static lunges each side, X 5 CC
Work Capacity (5:35 – 6:05)
- Jog over to the parking lot next to the hill. Gadzooks, Batman, look at this set-up… cones, dumbells, kettlebells, labels, football pylons.
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Divide dudes into 4 groups, each starting at a lane below.
- Line up behind the coupons in each lane.
- First guy does 7 of the exercise (7 each side) for that lane, then 7 merkins, then lunge walks to the end of the lot (approx. 20 walking lunge steps), then runs up the hill around the cone and back and line up to start the next lane: 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1… etc.
- Next guy starts when the first guy finishes his merkins.
- PAX are allowed to pass other PAX in the run.
Lane 1 Lane 2 Lane 3 Lane 4 35 lb KB (7 each side) 20 lb dumb bells (14 total) 40 or 50 lb KB (7 each side) 55 / 80 lb KB (7 total) Single Straight-Leg Deadlift Thruster (Squat to Press) Single Arm Deadlift High Pull Goblet Squat 7 Merkins 7 Merkins 7 Merkins 7 Merkins 20 walking lunges 20 walking lunges 20 walking lunges 20 walking lunges 100 meter run 75 meter run 50 meter run 25 meter run -
Got everyone through about 3-4 times (which was hell-a-lot of lunges), perfect number of PAX for this, and there was minimal waiting.
Form Focus (6:05 – 6:09)
Worked on a build-up burpee, something popularized in SOB land some years ago.
- 5 X slow bottom of the burpee.
- 1st position is 6-inches.
- 2nd position is low squat.
- 5 X slow top of the burpee.
- 1st position is bottom of a squat.
- 2nd position is bottom of a squat. (jump, with hands overhead, in between)
- 5 X slow full burpees, pausing at the uncomfortable positions:
- 1st position is 6 inches
- 2nd position is bottom of a squat.
- 3rd position is bottom of a squat. (jump, with hands overhead, in between)
Now are bodies have some important positions to anchor too whilst we burpee the next time. (i.e none of this failing about, Flurpee, nonsense)
Core Strength (6:09 – 6:15)
Off we trotted towards the main entrance. Everyone was instructed to get on their sixes with their head near an aluminum post. And we worked on some Simplified Dragon Flag Negatives, Plank Jacks (regular and at six inches). Something like this:
- 10 flag negatives up the middle.
- 5 to the right, 5 to the left.
- 5 flag negatives up the middle.
- 10 plankjacks IC
- 8 flag negatives up the middle.
- 4 to the right, 5 to the left.
- 10 6-inch plankjacks IC
- 3 10-count flag negatives up the middle.
- 2 to the right, 2 to the left.
Ole Mole
Sorry, not sorry, for a bit of a change up at the Body Shop today. Less running around, more grunting and lifting. The general feedback seemed to be positive, and everyone did excellent work in the main event. Das Boot was seen hoisting the Liberty Bell (ye ole 80lb KB) at least one of the trips through. A few others went with the heavy choices as well. Lot’s of good pain-oriented noises throughout, YHC included, which is a marker of some kind of success. Well done all.
Penalty Box (R, R, R) and Centerfold (R) were working some strong brick game in the 0.0 traveling AO, MASH, and stayed at the start area. Good work guys.
Thanks for the invite, Das Boot. Hope to work the Body Shop into the fitness rotation again sometime.
- WTF (Waxhaw Trail Fest) – Ragnar-esque trail run event, See Champlain for details.
- Sardine on Q next week (if the calendar is up to date)
Mountain Biking – Round 2
“Off the Chain” was launched last week on April Fool’s Day. But it’s no joke! My hope is to offer something new and different for the PAX. A 45-minute mountain bike ride on the Carolina Thread Trail followed by some Fellowship.
4 of us were ready to roll at 6:00 pm but our 5th rider (Wolverine) gave us a heads up he may be a minute or 2 late. He pulled into the parking lot just in time and already had his helmet on! Ever seen someone driving a car while wearing a bike helmet??
We were off! The charted path was approx. 1 ½ miles to the suspension bridge and then back track all the way to the soccer fields. It was like Wolverine was shot out of a cannon! He left us all in his dust. We regrouped around the suspension bridge area and he commented that he needed to blow off some steam after his day at work. If you’ve worked out with Wolverine you know he’s a beast. He’s no different on a bike!
Halfway into the ride I saw something I’ve never seen happen before. I was riding behind Banjo and he hit a squirrel! Squirrels are extremely fast creatures but apparently, they aren’t as fast as Banjo is on a bike! We were both shocked. Fortunately, after a couple tumbles, the little guy was able to regroup and scurry back to his nest of nuts for a full recovery. So, I don’t want any emails about animal cruelty or anything.
A big shout out to Sugar Daddy for his first ride! He was working hard as he always does. Also, thank you Bratwurst for pushing me to my limits on my bike. I was exhausted after trying to keep up with you!
We covered around 7 miles in 45 minutes and then relaxed with a cold beer.
We’ll do it again next week. Hope to see you there!
Mayan Pyramids
10 men wearing 19 athletic shoes (read on for the explanation) circled up for another edition of Meathead. Reasonably disclaimed, which seemed important today given the recent history of the pax, we moved forward while standing in the same place #0.0.
The Thang:
COP:
Around the worlds, 5x2HS
Halos, 10x2HS
Windmills, 15x2HS
Prying Squat, 20x2HS
Part 1 from the spreadsheet: 10×2 DCL+DMP @ 1:00
They musical selections today were courtesy of free Spotify – 80s Gym Rock. The pax could still breathe and there were questions afoot regarding the categorization of some of the tunes. Turns out that with paid Spotify you get free commercials and more accurately categorized songs. Voodoo expressed some interest in snatches
Part 2 a kind of complex: X snatches every :30 for 5 minutes
This was a choose your own adventure complex and accomplished a few things. First, YHC didn’t hear any more comments about music after we started this. Second it gave Voodoo just the fix of snatches he needed. Third it served as some good Functional Strength CSAUP prep. High Tide would have liked it if he didn’t fartsack.
Part 3 another complex: 2HS, 1HS (L/R), Thruster (R/L) for 1, 2, 4, 8, 8, 4, 2, 1 reps
If you’ve been to one of Unlugged recent Q’s, you’ve probably come to learn of his love of the Fibonacci sequence – something about his Italian heritage, love of math, nature and building things. YHC realized that tomorrow is April 8, 2021, which when written in European format is 8/4/21. This sounded like a fine rep pattern for this complex when re-arragned in the shape of a pyramid. There were questions about doing 8 reps twice since pyramids have points. Luckily the Mayans provided us with flat top pyramids to provide the basis for our flat topped pyramid. Again the low rest and high effort here took the focus off the music. Unplugged also failed to join us today despite his slack comments last night.
Part 4 EZ strength: 2 rounds each of
5x Low Windmill (L/R)
10x Explosive Merkin
8x Lawnmower
5x 1HS
Introducing a new exercise, like the Low Windmill is always a treat. Kind of like the time that Ickey Shuffle brought out the Sots Press. Always amazing how many muscles there are that we don’t work or how hard a movement we are familiar with can be when done at a different angle.
Moleskin:
- Why were 10 men only where 19 shoes? Lois provided the answer today by posting in a boot after having broken his foot. Strong work and a great example that there is always a way forward
- Lois brought out Tweetsie who is starting to become a regular and working hard
- Erlacher joined us for the first time based on a referral from Beetlejuice who can collect his referral bonus from site Q Voodoo after he posts for 90 more days
- The Worm was out as usual working hard and inspiring everyone as our war daddy.
- Mighty Mite is getting closer to the circle as more people get vaccinated. Still not close enough to always be in the conversation – he was about a full minute behind the discussion about whether Spotify had 90s songs on the 80s playlist. Given the size bells this man pushes around no one is really going to give him that hard a time though
- Sounds like Hoover just missed out on a bigger bell this weekend. Will he be able to pay as much attention to the music when he gets one? We can only hope for a brief reprieve while he adjusts.
- Soul Glo still hasn’t come over to the dark side for doubles. There is so much more rest when you don’t have to do both sides in sequence…
- Cottonmouth is also becoming a regular and help keep the #respect number high at the KB workouts
You Got It
Who Dat:
TR, EE, HH, Beetlejuice
Knowing the tradition of being assigned the Q upon inquiry via the WAMRAP Slack channel, I attempted a foolish end-around via iMessage. Deep down in my little heart I knew what was going to happen, but I’ve been slacking myself a bit lately and needed a good Wednesday workout. So, I texted Alfalfa and “you got it” came back at me pretty quickly.
I got it.
THANG:
Medium-Large Quatrofish at Traffic Circle #1. Pax choose 20 reps of a Chest, Leg, Ab, and Wildcard exercise at each leg. 5 burpee center. Bonus bear crawl the circle after every cycle. No repeat exercises allowed, so spend those imperial walkers and calf raises wisely.
SKIN:
Slackless EE just shows up and deals with whatever is being dealt. He puts his head down and just pulls the cart. What a man. He has the inlaws staying with him all week, so I think he slept in the parking lot. His phone kept ringing and he looked as nervous as a one-eyed man surrounded by seagulls.
Beetlejuice (Betelgeuse) kept in good spirits, doing a pro-level mod on a few of the legs. The best part was watching his headlamp bounce up and down behind the hedges on Leg #4 like an avant-garde prairie dog of the future with all the right gear but a mild case of speluncaphobia.
TR was a nice surprise, like the McRib he is. What wasn’t a surprise was him skipping pert near all of the exercises. Never even phased me. He was nice and spry on the runs though. Word has it that he’s Boston Ready. Or maybe Boston Market ready? Something like that.
Speaking of TR, apparently he threw down the cake for a new washing machine but wouldn’t pony up the extra $25 for delivery and haul-off so now he’s trying to unload (pun intended) a defunct giant front-loader from his upstairs to anyone gullible enough to haul it away. I think that $25 is going to look pretty good once the wife gets tired of the giant cube in the hallway, but what do I know?
I think we talked about P90X at some point, namely the plyo video where I puked in my bonus room many years ago. That was awesome.
I was thinking about some things. We call the workout leaders Qs, also the name of the head of Q Branch with the British Secret Service (the guy who makes the James Bond gadgets). It also seems to be the name of the mysterious leader of the possum-pelted ruffians who stormed the Capitol and hawked Beech Nut lougies in Nancy Peloci’s secret diary. Qincidence? Hmmmm . . . Strange things are afoot.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
There is a 5k to benefit something somewhere.
Also please sign up for the cross-regional-national ironman workout marathon challenge, sponsored by the Calvary Food Pantry. Workout in all of the US time zones in the same day and get a custom shirt designed by some guy from F3 Cleveland, complete with moisture wicking Drew Carey workout glasses.