4 men showed up (in person) to SCMS at 0530 for our first (official) week of the Ironpax Challenge. Some pax joined via Zoom as well (thanks Wild Turkey).
This is the first official week of the Ironpax Challenge, last week was a warm-up. This week the scores, or times, REALLY count. Here’s how it went down.
Pax: Geraldo, Cheese Curd, Wild Turkey (plus some zoomers)
Tha Thang:
Set your timer for one minute and repeat. At the top of each minute do 3 burpees. If that isn’t motivation to finish fast, you must love burpees. After your three burpees begin the exercises. At each minute, stop what your doing, do your 3 burpees, then pick back up with wherever you left off. It’s harder than it sounds, especially in the gloom, when you’re trying to track more than 100 reps. Here’s the exercise breakdown, completed in the order below:
50 double hand release merkins
100 leg raises
150 jungle boy squats
200 big boi situps
250 forward lunges (1 = 1)
Humid Moleskinny:
The phone said it was 74, the car said it was 77, it felt like YHC was breathing split pea soup while nursing a bad case of emphysema. So yeah, it was humid. It had also rained the day before and the pax all agreed that a patch of grass was needed. So we were going to get wet and as OBT once said, “you only get wet once” #TWSS or #TWOBTS. At one point the air was visible under the lights in the parking lot.
But enough about the humid weather. This was a legit challenge to get through. The burpees were tough but the pax all agreed that 200 big boi situps were likely the worst. The trick for YHC was set a goal for each minute to complete a certain number of reps of said exercise (for example, 25 leg raises per minute with three burpees). That would make completing this manageable instead of one long slog. It also helped YHC to keep count between the burpees.
The RFYL crew was back out in force today. Hi-viz tanktops and all. YHC had developed a loud AC/DC only playlist for the workout and there were some (envious? nervous? curious?) glances our way between Wild Turkey chanting “Oi” to the opening of TNT or our regular chorus of “BURPEES!” at every minute. Rumor has it C-Span was on the Zoom, but I’ll let Wild Turkey sound off with the online pax.
Cheese Curd decided he wanted more after completing this week’s challenge, and ran a quick lap on the track.
Geraldo and Wild Turkey chose wisely, and accepted that this was a smoke session. No need to go running.
YHC’s time – 41:15 (that’s 123 burpees) and the last one in the gate.
Sound off in the comments below with anything YHC missed.
Thank you Wild Turkey for the take-out
Announcements:
Blood drive in SOB land 10/23 – Details on slack
Levi has the Q at Rock Zero on Saturday
YHC has the Q at Tweet and Meat on Wednesday
23 strong (including MASH) for Watchtower this morning! I pulled into the parking lot 10 minutes early and the MASHers were already all set up and ready to go! Kudos to them… maybe they should extend to an hour-long workout? Newtown Elementary is one of our smaller campuses but I wanted to try to keep everything on site today. Little did I know the track would be pitch black. Note to self – never say “no headlamp required”!
The disclaimer was given, and we were off…
Here’s what went down:
Warm up lap around school
Warm up exercises
Mosey to the front stretch
Mosey to basketball court for 7’s
Mosey to the Track
Mosey to the other basketball court
Mosey to the wall
Mosey back towards COT taking the long way around campus
Mary for 2 minutes
Done!
Some shout outs!
Welcome FNG – Lambeau! The poor guy never should have told us he hated the Packers. Welcome to the group! Great to have you!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
DiCCS given, staying on campus
Warm Up
Mosey towards Town Hall, U Turn and head West along sidewalk on Weddington Rd to CVS parking lot. Circle Up. SSH x 20. Jimmy Dugans, Calf Stretch, Runners Stretch, Upward Dog, Moroccan Nightclubs.
The Thing
Mosey to Far corner of Target Parking Lot. Today is all about 7’s. 7 reps of an exercise at all 4 corners of the Target parking lot, then change the exercise and increase reps by 7, up to 28, then bring back down to 7. No Mary on the 6, circle back. Here’s what we did:
7 Merkins, 14 Dry Docks, 21 Big Boys, 28 Speed Skatters
Mosey to Petsmart parking lot, grab some wall. same concept, but instead of running to 4 corners, run the length of the parking lot between each set of reps– back and forth 4 times for each exercise.
21 Donkey Kicks, 14 LBC’s, 7 Mike Tysons. Time, mosey to COT.
Moleskin
Man, I saw the humidity/fog coming through the parking lot lights like it was a rain shower. We all looked like we went through a shower after the workout. Everyone got at least 2.7 miles, some over 3 circling back.
Best part of the morning were several Pax sharing their challenges and the tools they are using to overcome them – mainly Therapy, but also Shield Locks, Study Groups – Q school and Bible to name a few. Great to be able to be in a group where one can be vulnerable and share this type of stuff in the chance it helps your brother standing next to you.
Prayers for Sugar Daddy’s father undergoing surgery today.
Labor Day Extravaganza – Cuthbertson Middle
October 17th – Sign Up to donate blood, ya fool! See Group Me and/or Turbuckle/Rudy for more info
YHC took us out.
YHC agreed to Q Bagpipe a few weeks ago but was still caught by surprise when Cooter2 made his Monday night marketing post. Thankfully I have plenty of old Qs to recycle so thats what we did.
It looked like a small group when I arrived but cars kept pulling into a foggy parking lot until 5:30. Veteran group so I didn’t think we needed until the pax asked for one. YHC backpedaled gave the disclaimer as the pax moseyed and almost injured myself. That would have been funny.
In the parking lot near the fountain we did a quick warm up.
10 IW
10 Windmills
10 Arm Circles Forward, 10 Arm Circles Back
Continue to mosey to the bull ring
The Main Event
Run around the bull ring, do 5 merkins at each entrance to the parking lot.
Repeato but trade the merkins for squats
Repeato Again but trade the squats for lbcs.
A this point is was 610 so time to mosey home.
The leaders of the group got back to launch a little early and did some mary but everyone else rolled in right at 615 so time for…
COT
Announcements
SOB/A51 Blood Drive at Brace YMCA on October 23.
It’s staying dark all morning. Wear bright colors, reflective bands, and blinkies.
If you haven’t Qed somewhere in a while, do it soon.
Moleskine:
I have Qed this same workout before at Stonehenge(yes, believe it or not, I used to Q Stonehenge). I even had an extra lap with burpees planned but ran out of time.
This is a good weinke because it is well rounded(just over 2 miles), hits all the muscle groups(arms, chest, abs, quads, and glutes), and doesn’t require a lot of instruction which allows pax to go at their own pace.
It was a sweaty morning. Stay hydrated.
As has become the norm for Hawks Nest, a problematic (not really) number of pax mustered for the Tuesday morning downpainment in the Area51 gloom. 28, to be exact including 2/3 of Trifusenik, 1/2 of the men in OP neighborhood, and the rest of us. Floorslapper was on time…if you’re superstitious, watch out for other strange occurrences today.
So after a very brief and weak disclaimer, the pax launched. The following will be mostly Moleskine with a sprinkling of Thang:
Run around outside of Colony Place and back into the lot behind the medical building. Circle up for COP, which stands for Circle of Pain. Did some hand-release merkins, plank shoulder taps, flutters, IW’s, slow squats. This was when Semi-gloss was lamenting all the Chinese he ate the night before. #peekaboo
We then ran into the adjacent neighborhood, but not before I heard Champagne voice his concern about going too far. We didn’t. I think we stayed under 2 miles for the whole deal this morning, but my Garmin and the ability to use it properly are suspect.
Did some exercises at various crossroads while looping through Stonecroft & a bit of OP. Only had to stop once for a blue-collar driver who gave the pax the peace sign…or flipped us off, not sure. We circled around back to Rea and back towards CP. Beetlejuice pointed out he doesn’t notice the upward trajectory when he drives that route…it is a bit of a sneaky climb. We then cut through the condo neighborhood where Gloss visited his office. Hopper wisely suggested we tip over the Port-a-Jon. Could have been an Area51 all-timer. We won’t neglect that next time, so beware as that is likely to happen. Take care of the paperwork at home, men. Think we did some Dolly’s in the cul-de-sac.
Back to the medical building parking lot for some burpee broad jumps, lunges – frontwards and backwards, bear crawls & karaoke. Moseyed over to the fountain for a bench set with some dancing Chilcutt’s and Makthar N’Djaiye’s in with the jump/step up’s & dips.
Jog back to launch lot for 6 Minutes of Mary including some Freddy Mecury’s, Boone crunches & finished with 13 burpees OYO (On Your Own). #crowdpleaser
COT (Circle of Trust) with Hopper taking the pax out in prayer
Sundry observations from this morning’s rendition of Hawks Nest:
Probably lots of other stuff to report, but it was all I could do to come up with the 27 other pax names who posted. No phone recording; remembering the pax names is my mental exercise for the morning. At 48, still have a little mental aptitude left.
As for Hawks Nest and passing the torch to Deep Dish — appreciate Hopper’s kind words during COT. Don’t say it (or type it), Gloss. We’re not getting a room. In all seriousness, Q’ing a workout or stepping up eventually to be a site Q is how you become a better leader. And for those that aren’t aware, the mission of F3 is:
Getting in better shape, sharpening others and being sharpened by others (Proverbs 27:17), and recognizing that you are not the primary reason you are on this ball of dirt –> that’s F3, at least in my simple, short way of summarizing. My biggest “aha moment” in my almost 9 years in F3 was when God made it clear to me that He wanted me to give away what I’ve found in Him. For those reading this, you may be familiar with something in the Christian faith called the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20). Two things on this: 1) it is not called the “Great Suggestion”, rather it is a Commission (an instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of people); and 2) it is focused on others, not yourself.
After all the workouts, 3 sites launched, coffeteria’s, happy hours, 3rd F groups, etc., etc. — my biggest encouragement to you men is to “give away what you’ve found in F3”. Not out of guilt, compulsion, or some over-inflated sense of F3 duty; rather, give it away to another man because you are grateful. Grateful that another man thought enough of you to invite you to a workout.
Grateful for you, men.
Last week is in the books and it whopped our North Carolina bumpkin back sides. Was it fun? Sure. Are we looking forward to this week? Not entirely but we have just enough stupid friends around to drag us back week to week. A portion of us took this thing on in the suburbs of Waxhaw last Wednesday and were humbled to get through it. One of our brethren completed that thing just short of 22mins and I came in just short of 30mins. It was tough and I’m not sure where I would had made up time other than putting down the occasional craft brews and maybe not finishing of my kids meals with the idea of becoming less large in size. I digress….
I start my workday and boom, texts start flowing in that someone else completed the workout in 18mins and I think by this point I was aware of someone completing in 16mins. Could this be true? Was a video being uploaded of this record setting time onto YouTube using dialup speeds and we will see it in the coming weeks? Well my jealousy bone and my spidey skepticism was tingling! How could we mimic the greatest team ever to see just what is possible? So I broke up the 24 exercises and tapped on the shoulders of some elite pax to join me in my journey. Luckily we have more than our fair share of stupidity and 16 guys showed up Friday morning to crush it. We ended up getting 50 seconds faster than the Week Zero winner which was laughable at best. But the 2nd F laughter and camaraderie meant we would be doing this on a weekly basis for sure!
THE THANG
This week is a little different due to the burpee EMOM aspect but we have come up with a way to mimic the tiredness level of a single pax completing it. So her is what we are doing, 1st we broke up the exercises in batches of 25 reps each and that creates the need for up to 30 pax to participate. You could do it with less but we will leave that up to you. Looking at the chart below will help make a little more sense of everything but our main rule is every person MUST do the 3 x burpee EMOM until they are completely done. “Done” meaning, no longer do any exercises.
As an example:
• If you have 30 guys, assign each guy a round. From the moment the timer starts everyone does the burpee EMOM. Person in Round 1 does his 25 x Hand Release Release Merkins until he’s completed and the person in Round 2 begins their 25 x Hand Release Release Merkins. Each person stops doing their exercises to complete the 3 x burpee EMOM every time. The person in Round 1 does not need to keep doing the EMOM if they are not doing any more exercise rounds.
• Same idea as before but lets assume you only have 17 guys. The guy from round 1, once he finished his 25 x HRRM would move down the line to Round 18 but would continue with the EMOM.
Confused yet? Hopefully the pic on our socials helps a bit to keep track of which pax is doing what and when. We plan to mark of 30 spaces using parking spots and chalk to keep it simple.
Nine souls joined YHC for a morning tour through Champion Forest. We hit all of the streets and made sure we covered every inch as we ran 4 of them twice just for good measure.
DiCCS Delivered and we were off…
Warmorama:
Mosey around front of MS/HS and out the HS entrance to cross Cuthbertson Rd. and into Champion Forest, stopping for the SIX so we could all cross together. Finished our warm-up mosey at the club house and circled up for: 15 X Imperial Walkers – IC, 9 X Merkins – IC, Downward Dog, Calfstretch L/R mixed with Runners Stretch L/R while reaching for the sky.
THANG:
Mosey down Dobson Rd. until we reach Chisholm Ct. – 20 X Merkins at start and run to cul-de-sac and do 20 Merkins, R/R and end with 20 Merkins for total of 100 X Merkins.
Mosey the rest of the way down Dobson and at dead end to Waynewood start 20 X Squats, run to cul-de-sac and do 20 Squats, R/R and end with 20 Squats for total of 100 X Squats.
Mosey to Whitaker Pl and do 20 X American Hammers (2=1) on each end, R/R and end with 20 X AH’s for total of 100 X AH’s.
Mosey to Bauer Pl and do 20 X Reverse Plank Knee-Ups (1=1) on each end, R/R and end with 20 X RPK’s for total of 100 X RPK’s.
Start mosey back to COT up Waynewood and do 10 X Speed Skaters at each street light until exit of Neighborhood at Cuthbertson Rd. I don’t recall how many there were but it seemed like a thousand…
Mosey back to COT and finish with AYG from MS Exit to light pole where the Shovel Flag would normally be and don’t quit until you pass the light. Done! Everyone clocked at least 5 miles and got some total body work in the process. Way to push gents!
Moleskin: I am always hesitant to lead these “extra” mileage workouts bc I don’t feel like I have the strength or endurance to finish them, let alone lead them. I have a difficult time keeping up with the Gazelles that normally post to these. In reality though, it isn’t about keeping up with them, it is about pushing myself to be better and work harder while encouraging others to do the same for themselves. My natural competitiveness and a little bit of my pride needs to take a back seat to my drive to make myself better than I was yesterday or last week or last month or last year. We don’t give out trophies to the winners in F3. The reward for your participation is just you, yourself getting better and stronger as you push forward. The other stuff, (winning or success in competition), will take care of itself when you focus on getting better each day/week/month/year. So if you ever ask yourself if you’re worthy then just remember that you absolutely are and the reward for you will come with putting in the work and pushing yourself to new limits.
To the PAX that joined me today, thank you for letting me lead and I hope you got out of it what YOU needed to make yourself better.
Announcement: See Flash BB
Easy Button took us out
The skies were ominous on Saturday morning as YHC meandered towards the large pink church known as Calvary for another edition of Rock Zero. Battling 3,000% humidity, 17 PAX gathered for what promised to be an epic pain disbursement by YHC, who typically dispenses feel good, jovial workouts when Q’ing. Today, not so much. After the proverbial shirt tuck and a curt disclaimer, time for business.
COP at the Astro Turf courtyard
Sprinklers, LSS, Shoulder Tap Merkins, Dolly, Plank Jacks
Mosey to 51. Right turn, Clyde. Mosey to Cary Ridge Dr and congregate in the pool parking lot. Grab a parking space.
5 Merkins on one side of the parking space, side plank walk to other side, 5 Merkins. Repeat until 20 Merkins total. Do it again, this time with 2 Burpees on each side of the line, 8 total reps.
Left turn on Cary Ridge. “There are bad hills that way, Jet Fuel.” Yessir, there are. Mosey to end. Mary.
Left turn on Coburn. Mosey to bottom.
Coburn Triple Nickel
Bottom: Heels to Heaven
Top: Plank Knee-ups
Mary when finished. The rain made an appearance during the Triple Nickel, but the PAX was already soaked, so who noticed? An interested black family stood on their front porch, drinking coffee, asking just what in the heck we were doing running in the rain. YHC was not privy to this conversation, so sound off in the comments with a recap.
Mosey to Bevington Place. Left turn. Mary at Glynmoor Lakes Dr. Continue mosey to Enclave Place. Right. Congregate at top of hill.
Partner Work
P1 runs Ballinard Lane circle (appx 1/4 mile)
P2 performs called exercise. Merkins, Squats, WW2 situps.
Rinse and Repeat 3x.
Right on Bevington. Right on Rea (this truly sucked). Left into church parking lot. 10 Jump Squats OYO. Mosey to Launch.
Mary, 10 Parker Peters IC, Done.
Moleskinny
“This will be easy.” “I probably won’t break a sweat.” Sample text messages received by YHC on Friday night from F3 brothers who know not what they do. As Wyatt Earp says in Tombstone, “You called down the thunder? Well now you got it!” YHC was not angry, perturbed, or agitated at the lack of respect; on the contrary, it was quite comical (as this particular text chain often is). But, a well of determination quickly built inside YHC that would test the collective PAX mettle Saturday morning. Quick review of previous YHC RZ Weinkes revealed many on campus Q forays dating back years, so it was time to venture off campus. Five Knolls briefly beckoned, but YHC resisted the siren call due to recent bad memories of a Spackler-lead Anvil beat down on the Knolls. No, YHC is not sadistic (although the last hill up Rea Rd possibly contradicts that statement). Nevertheless, following are assorted observations and ruminations from yesterday’s fun filled Piper Glen excursion:
Solid work by the entire PAX on a not-so-easy workout. YHC is honored to lead such a fine group of men as we all strive to get better in all areas of life. Kudos to Geraldo for continued Site Q leadership, and for his acknowledgement that Joe Namath is indeed the greatest Bama QB of all time.
Announcements: Iron PAX, Blood Drive. Check Twitter and Slack for details.
Takeout: YHC. Prayers for our divided nation.
JF
14 Pax showed up in the gloom to dance between slaps from Laura all wondering what this VQ was going to be. After consulting with assistant Q Gilbert into the late hours of the evening, the winkie was appropriately covered in packing tape then placed with spectacles, KEYS, wallet and watch. (were you expecting another W word?) Sleep was very restless and I should have never looked at the Exicon page for that long in Q prep! Some visuals you just cannot get out of the head before falling asleep. The final, conscious, thought before waking ahead of alarm was — “just lead them through the first exercise and the mosey to the second. Gilbert can drags you through it from there.”
Upon the 6:30 am chime from the clock tower a chatty, and overly detailed disclaimer was given while a late arriving Fiji secured his vehicle (something other than on top of the tire would be a better hiding spot for those keys!) Then off we went.
Circled up across from Best Buy to roll out an extended warm up that started with 20-count SSH and IW. Q quickly because self aware of voice cracks on the cadence and slight dizziness from an over-aggressive attempt to observe the PAX. Surely nobody noticed, right? 15-count Mountain Climbers, Peter Parkers and “Parky Peepers…err…Peaky Perkers…err…Party Peekers…NO…PARKER PETERS!!! concluded the active portion of the warm up. A 15 count “plank with knee in your ear hole stretch” on each side finished the warm up and started the Mumblechatter.
Big and small bidirectional arm circles, windmills and toy soldiers prepped the joints, and brief explanation of the exercise was given.
“Jog from here to there, then crab walk to first tree, bear crawl to the next, lung walk like a squatch to the next, repeat the pattern to end of parking lot, reverse direction but start with the bear crawl so you don’t repeat a section (confusion in PAX taking hold; but War Eagle understood and shared his knowledge of the order) then jog back to base when you get to end…Y’ALL JUST FOLLOW ME! PAX to call Mary while we waited on the six.
Debate on crab walk styles could be heard through the early mumblechatter but the preferred style is clearly forward. Q was pleased to hit first goal of maintaining lead but wasn’t sure if it was by using the ground as the great equalizer, or through mental confusion of the drill. Probably some of both but “sounds” of hard work in the breezy air led me to believe the winkie was holding.
Q Goal 2 achieved by leading PAX on the mosey but I quickly started looking for Gilbert for backup. PAX arrived a starting point and received much more concise directions – 1 Merkin/4 Plank Jacks then a lap up and over the stairs. Round 2, 2 Merkins/8 Plank Jacks then a lap up and over the stairs. Continue adding by 1 and 4 until 5 Merkins/20 Plank Jacks achieved. Top it off with a final lap up and over the stairs. Mary while we waiting on the six.
Note to self — remind PAX next time to travel in the same direction to avoid possible awkward COVID contact at top of stairs.
Round 1 completed and I was gassed, but reports of Olaf dry heaving at the bottom of the stairs gave me encouragement for some reason. Round 2 concluded with Mighty Might doubled over at the stairs then away from the stairs to modify. “It’s not the sight of vomit, but the smell that gets to me,” he said. Guess Olaf has a site of vomit issue! PAX calling Mary provided me and introduction to the J-Loe (thx Midriff). In my oxygen depleted state, I introduced to PAX to the “Suzanne Sommers” when I unknowingly modified a Hello Dolly and let my heels drop to my hamstrings (good luck getting that visual out of your head).
Time check revealed that I had blasted through the second of three big sections too quickly and sought out Gilbert to call an audible (drag a heavy chain, throw out a boat anchor before heading to the fountains. Tagged my partner in.
Gilbert stepped up to lead the PAX through an assortment of air squats, jump squats, 5-burpees then 7-burpees (Kirby didn’t like where that was headed). But his spirits were quickly lifted by encouraging words from Mighty Might – “I’m not afraid to say this but Kirby has a very flat butt.” Laughter and more mumblechatter ensued as we got back on schedule.
Somewhere along the way War Eagle divulged that he has family genetics of a pregnant worm! You can follow up with him individually for more details.
“Whoever’s vomit that was sure ate a lot, it’s even down here” – anonymous “Probably had too big of a breakfast burrito before hot yoga” – Trickle.
Grabbed a section of wall around the circle and did 15-count single leg calf stretches before a double-cafe stretch for 15 that allowed my blood to re-oxygenate (that was not on the winkie). PAX then did 5 Derkins/20 Dips for round one, counting down by 1 and 4 until last round of 1 Derkin/4 Dips — yes OneStar, opposite of what we did at the stairs. Fair question!!! More PAX called Mary for heading for home.
Intended to have PAX call Mary until the end of time but rain started to set in and Q got rattled. Raid (from Area51) was reminded that the top to his car was open so another audible was called to run around Best Buy and Petsmart while I figured out what to do next. Probably should have headed toward Raid’s car like a good friend would have, but I panicked and went to the Best Buy side first. Raid rolled with it was heard saying “I don’t think the heavy stuff is coming down yet, let’s keep going.” Suggestions of “He should park it under the bank awning to get out of the rain” followed by “watch security come swarming at the site of a getaway car parked in the drive through” continued through the PAX
Rain increased rounding the corner of Petsmart so we pulled a 3rd (maybe 4th or 5th) audible and did curb step ups, step downs and downward lunges while Raid moved the car under the bank awning. Calf raises were optional and footwork coordination was minimal. A good sign the effort was strenuous enough for the group. Raid’s car secured me got home and finished off with more PAX called Mary — including a formal round of Suzanne Sommers in cadence. VQ complete – raining heavily now and Chickenteria threatened (first time ever according to Soft Pretzel)
Raid shared that Area51 is hosting a competing Blood Drive (but details were drown out by roaring mumblechatter). Mighty Might reminded us of the SOB Blood Drive (details on Slack channel). Kirby shared F3 board insight about stressing that F3 is open to all men and ways to consciously reinforce that message. It’s on each of us act upon that goal individually and naturally.
Thank you to Raid for coming to support Q and for the takeout. Oddly enough the rain stopped during his takeout.
Great work this morning pushing at the IPC fellas. Each of you will need to input your time into the site by visiting: https://f3greenwood.com/ironpax-form/
Your name is grouped together by Region and Waxhaw is at the bottom of the “F3 Name 3000-3999” section. Times are as follows, only in the order I wrote them down:
• Rusty Trombone 69:69
• Turnbucke 52:26
• Mad Dog 29:41
• Shop Dawg 27:22
• Fusebox 28:56
• By Pass 39:36
• Premature 27:59
• Rudy 35:14
• Breadbowl 31:15
• Motorboat 28:43
• Native 29:08
• Dirty Sanchez 31:14
• Centerfold 35:50
• Speed Bump 25:13
• Gerber 26:44
• Chainsaw 33:52
• Deep Dish 32:43
• Doughboy 31:55
• JWow 22:47
• Popeye 33:44
• Drive By 32:55
• Blue Screen 22:31
• Recalc 28:56
• Your Mom 11:53
Congrats to Tool Time for the Week Zero champion of the IPC for F3 Waxhaw with a time of 21:32. I was there and dude is a legit beast.
———————-////Reminder\\\\\———————-
Modifying an exercise due to injury or ability is ALWAYS allowed. No one would argue that. If you are kind of doing the exercises but then modifying the count to be faster let’s look to finish it next week. Channel Glidah’s kind words about getting uncomfortable and pushing through our usual comfort zones. If you aren’t sore as hell you still had gas in the tank regardless of how hard you were breathing at the end.
This is You vs You challenge. You are either testing your continued progress or setting the bar for where you are in the start of your fitness journey. Keep going…
Overall everyone did great. I saw a lot of pain in those eyes this morning and I was right there on Wednesday completing that stupid thing. We got through it and we are, probably, better for it. Take a hot bath, roll those thighs and maybe take a short jog. Buckle up because day 2 is the worst and Monday morning will be hell.