Tom Short Loop

Tom Short Loop

Date: 2025-06-09 AO: blakovery Q: frasier PAX: wingman, Hippie, bunker, gumbo, Polly FNGs: None COUNT: 6 THE THANG: Frasier lead the group up to Tom Short where we crossed the boarder into Union County and returned on Rea back into Mecklenburg. PAX stuck together for the majority of the run and now circling back for the 6 required today. It was moist but a nice change of route. ANNOUNCEMENTS: None COT: Frasier took us out

The Technology did its job….

Date: 2025-06-09 AO: _sob Q: Point Break PAX: wildturkey, madison, SweetWater, kirby, Franky FNGs: None COUNT: 6 We live in an era of unparalleled access to information and technology. Many men, including some of our own SCLT PAX have spent countless hours making the technology smarter to make our lives easier. There’s only one thing they can’t reprogram, human error. If you don’t check the tech, it doesn’t matter how smart it is. Which led to this morning’s Firestarter beatdown that begin with YHC looking from PAX to PAX at 5:32 wondering which of them was going to do his thing. The fact that they were all staring back at me should have been my clue. So…impromptu disclaimer and we were off.
The Thang
Slow mosey up to 131 Main for CoP.
· SSHs x 15 · Imperial Walkers x 15 · Mountain Climbers x 10 · Merkins x 10 · Shoulder Taps x 10 · Low-Slow Squats x 15 · Runner’s Stretching
Picked up Franky, who’s technology also couldn’t account for human error (he turned his alarm clock off), and moseyed through the moisture up to the top of the Blakeney Heath hill.
WAVE 1: Triple Nickel · Run down the hill to the entrance of Blakeney Heath, Burpees x 5 · Run back up the hill, Heels-to-Heaven x 5 · Repeat 5 times
Mosey up to the rock pile.
WAVE 2: Rock Work · Curls, Chest Press, Triceps, Bent-Over-Row, and Man-Maker Merkins x 10 · Curls, Chest Press, Triceps, Bent-Over-Row, and Man-Maker Merkins x 15
Mosey back to the back of the shopping center.
WAVE 3: Back Alley Circuit · Starting w/ LBC’s x5 at the first light and adding 5 at each light. Got up to 30. · Shifted to Squats x5 at each light and adding 5 more each time. Got to 30.
Mosey back to launch for quick flutters to finish it off.
Time.

Summer Fun has just begun

Date: 2025-06-09 AO: swole Q: high_tide PAX: flipper, taggart, Uncle Leo FNGs: None COUNT: 4 June 9th marked the beginning of summer for the Area 51 KB pax. The beginning of the summer workout spreadsheet, anyways. Four pax assembled for the first day of two weeks of introduction to the workouts – testing out the movements, reps, rest, variations. Some of it went as expected; some of it is tbd…
WARMUP: – Original Strength 6 point rocks (save that one for later) – SSH – IW – LSS – Prying squat – Merkins (for Flippers chesticles)
THE THANG: – Half-snatches – 8 sets of 5 (E2MOM) – Armor Building Complex (ABC) – 5 rounds (EMOM) – Double Presses – 4 sets of 2-3-5 – Set 1 – double press – Set 2 – alternating press – Set 3 – touchdown press (crowdpleaser) – Set 4 – seesaw press – Finisher – long suitcase carry down and back
MARY: Pfft (though my ab wheel was handy, just in case)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Blood drive – Saturday??
COT: And we’re off – embarking on a hypertrophic and conditioning spreadsheet, swapping weight for reps. Today, lower reps – playing with the movement and testing out weights. Not too much with the volume of presses, maybe a touch more on the snatches? Learning to be had. Also, was the rest too much on the snatches? Seemed so at the beginning, though not so much by the end. Seeing that we’re building to 100, maybe about right? Again, we’ll see. Stick with it, gents! Aye.

Crossing the border

Date: 2025-06-09 AO: blakovery Q: frasier PAX: bunker, gumbo, Hippie, Polly, wingman FNGs: None COUNT: 6 WARMUP: THE THANG: had a great group out there this morning for some muggy conditions. Fun was had by all, and no one got left as promised. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:

Monday, Monday

Date: 2025-06-09 AO: base-camp Q: Mr. Magoo PAX: thunder_road, O’Tannenbaum, Limey FNGs: None COUNT: 4 WARMUP: On the track THE THANG: Around the track 4 corners of merkins, then Mary’s, then squats/legs, then repeated. Three sets of rocks with a short run after each. Some wall sitting with arm raises MARY: In the Thang and finished with a round at the end. ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: thunder_road closed us out with a prayer and a special mention of my Mother. Thanks!

3 for Phe

Date: 2025-06-08 AO: the-phoenix Q: SweetWater PAX: wildturkey, kirby FNGs: None COUNT: 3 I’m doing this for Sweetwater to get my paxstats.

Thank heavens for a clown car

Date: 2025-06-07 AO: _sob Q: Brisket PAX: Cheese Curd, Moth, shrinkwrap FNGs: None COUNT: 4 WARMUP: complain about the heat. Comment about the lack of pax…. Clock struck 6 and we moved
Head to the astroturf field and warm up.
THE THANG: run to the lake hill for partner work. 3 round with p1 taking a lap and P2 going to the top of the hill for 5 exercise and at the bottom for 5. Different exercise each round
Head to the corp park lake loop and do 2 exercises at each patio/ benches
Head back to the astroturf for for some bear crawl/ crawl bear
to rock pile for exercise at the entrance of the workout trail… 2 rounds
Rock work… one rock was clearly lighter than the other
MARY: we saw her, we took turns in the end!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: nothing
COT: Moth with the take out.
The clown car is strong with these guys. Glad Cheese Curd showed up and he was glad we showed up
Lots of mumble chatter, some in Spanish- moth
Shrimp wrap may have welcomed is new name.
Nobody pre ran except for cheese curd. Nobody stuck around doe bagels.

The Da Vinci Traveling Circus of Pain

Date: 2025-06-07 AO: davinci Q: midriff PAX: taggart, Franky, teddyf3, Roulette, Odd Job, F3 Elsa, kirby FNGs: None COUNT: 8 This morning, we transformed the Blakeney medical park into a carnival of chaos. YHC took a page out of the flipper playbook and SweetWater’s Thursday Q and brought out plenty of toys for a low-mileage, high-intensity and hilarious circus act workout. We lifted, we laughed, we sweat like it was our full-time job – and we did it all with questionable grace.
The Greatest Show on Earth (or at least South Charlotte) – Each pax grabs a toy and walk over to the medical park across the street. Toys included: 60# sandbag, 20# dumbbells, 40# concrete block, large white log (don’t ask), 10# plates, 25# medicine ball and pogo stick (all-time great garage sale find). – Act 1: 6/8 pax grab a toy while 1 pax planks and 1 pax walks/runs as the timer. Rotate between sandbag cleans, dumbbell curls, concrete block rows, goblet squats with log, hairburners/bearcrawls with weighted plates and BB situps with medicine ball. – Repeato, then carry our toys to Elevation Church for Act 2: where we slightly modified a few exercises and threw in some Spiderman merkins for Rousey. Wherever you are brother, come back soon. – Act 3: Carry back to launch, stopping for forward squats, shoulder press and bent over rows while waiting to cross the intersection. Local South Charlotte residents must have picked up on our stupidity, as we were circled by many clown cars to end the workout.
Highlights from the Circus – Pre-workout entertainment came courtesy of Odd Job who tried to tame a pogo stick before the workout even began. Circus vibes: nailed. – We renamed taggart to Bernie’s for his dark shades and slow-motion pace during Act 1. It was a scene straight out of Weekend at Bernie’s. Fetch this man a tropical drink!!! – Franky joining in the warmup count with German and Croatian really sent us into a tailspin quickly. – Sandbag of Doom: This monstrosity felt more like carrying a small bear. It was sweaty, it was painful, it was perfect. – ICP Banter: Somewhere between the merkins and medicine balls, we dove deep into the philosophical works of Insane Clown Posse. Next time I may even wear face paint to complete the costume, per Roulette’s suggestion. I learned about juggalos and horrorcore. I’m still deciding if I want to delve deeper into the genre of trailer park hiphop and rap rock. – kirby’s Weird Fixations: First, he rebranded medicine balls as “slam balls.” Then he fell in love with the big white log. Not judging, just… concerned. – teddyf3’s Tactical Fart Bomb: YHC got crop-dusted during LBC’s in a revenge move so legendary it will be whispered for generations. You may have won the battle but the war has only just begun – Roulette’s Tesla TED Talk: If you didn’t hear about his car, were you even at the workout? The rest of us peasants move about in our budget wagons, dreaming of a better life. – Dueling Family Photo: We pulled off maybe the first simultaneous family photo in SOB history, creating a new rift in the time/space continuum. I’m still trying to figure out how Odd Job managed to be facing both camera simultaneously.
The circus ended with a melting inferno of humidity, a sunrise straight out of a Bob Ross painting, and a reminder that we might be idiots, but at least we’re idiots together. As Roulette reminded us: it’s always a great day to make bad decisions with good friends. T-claps to everyone who joined the circus this morning — you made it one for the books.
:circus_tent: :muscle: :tada:

A Disgusting Abomination

Date: 2025-06-07 AO: chicken-run Q: tuck PAX: soft_pretzel, Polly, rock_thrill FNGs: None COUNT: 4 The weather this morning can best be described as a disgusting abomination. By the end of the run there was no moisture or electrolytes left in our bodies. soft_pretzel looked like Norman Bates’ mummified mother in Psycho. rock_thrill looked like present day Keith Richards. YHC looked like Estelle from The Golden Girls circa 1992. I did not see Polly at the end because he finished about 2 hours before the rest of us but I assume he looked pretty good. Maybe like Blanche from The Golden Girls in the Spring of ‘86. I should mention that midriff joined us for a few miles before he Q’d da Vinci. Since he left before the heat really took its toll he was looking REALLY good. Think Pulp Fiction Ving Rhames meets 2033 Timothee Chalemet where he stars in an all white remake of Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail.
This morning’s course was aptly titled “Funky Cold Medinah” due to the fact that we ran on… wait for it… Medinah Court. When the unsuspecting residents of this quiet cul de sac in Firethorne built their estates years ago, little did they know that years later, I would use their street in a lightly attended running workout strictly for the purpose of mediocre word play. Well, they still don’t know. But can you imagine if they did?
Of course one only recognizes the word play if one is familiar with Tone Loc’s 1989 hit “Funky Cold Medina”, which itself is a play on words referencing cold medicine, referring to a fictional drink with love potion-like qualities. So basically, date rape. I would like to mention that we here at Chicken Run Industries are thoroughly anti-rape in all its forms. If you were going to listen to a song about date rape I would point you to “Date Rape” off of Sublime’s 1992 album “40oz To Freedom” which tells the tale of a would-be rapist that gets caught and later gets raped himself in jail. Which leads me to the question, how many times is too many times to say the word rape in a Slackblast? :thinking_face: Anyway, our sweet boy midriff had never heard of Tone Loc OR Funky Cold Medina so I played him all of Tone Loc’s hits at coffeeteria, a list that includes 2 songs: Funky Cold Medina and Wild Thing, both co-written by Young MC incidentally. soft_pretzel and I agreed that these 2 songs are basically the same song, except that it one he says “Wild Thaang”.
In conclusion, it was hot, rape is bad, and midriff now knows slightly more about late 80’s hip-hop.

Dos Hombres Ganando

Date: 2025-06-07 AO: olympus Q: Krzyzewski PAX: Toto FNGs: None COUNT: 2 YHC imagines somewhere in some sort of leadership training class, they teach you to expect the unexpected and be ready to adapt. This morning was one of those mornings. If the early bird gets the worm, then Calvary parking attendants must enjoy a whole lot of worms. With the annual car show set to take place later today, MARTA and YHC were iced out from our usual stomping grounds by these early risers and pushed a few aisles over…until we were told to move again. Accordingly, The Rock and Olympus setup at satellite locations for beatdowns set upon the backdrop of one of those humid summer mornings where you wake up and step outside into an armpit. Muggy. While the vast majority of Olympus regulars were DR, Toto somehow found YHC in the melee and we posted up for a delightful morning of punishment. Toto graciously humored YHC’s nonsense in this off-the-menu week of freestyling. But as Toto quipped, KB workouts are a lot like eating Mexican food…it’s the same couple of ingredients just packaged slightly differently. Are nachos so different from tostadas? YHC submits they are not. Nevertheless, we hit the major food groups on this one for a balanced pump. Let’s get into the recap… WARMUP: Swings (10x), prying squats, hi-pulls (5x e/s), synovial circles, one-handed swings (5x e/s), slingshots (7x e/w) THE THANG: 1) Pyramid of Snatches and Such – A: Snatches (2x e/s); heavy swings (15x); lawnmower rows (6 e/s) – B: Same as above, but add 2x snatches e/s – C: Same as above, but add 2x more snatches e/s – D: Repeato B – E: Repeato A 2) Palate Cleanser – Alternating 1-handed swings (20x) 3) Clean & Press & Park Complex (EMO2M; 8 mins) – Clean – L; clean – R; press – R; park bell; swing squats (5x); merkins (5x) – Clean – R; clean – L; press – L; park bell; swing squats (5x); merkins (5x) 4) Random Set (Modified Due to Time) – Reverse lunges (5x e/s) – Halos (5x e/w) 5) Squats-o-Rama (2 sets) – Curb-to-curb suitcase…goblet squats (10x) – Curb-to-curb suitcase…front squats (4x e/s) – Curb-to-curb suitcase…transformer squats (3x e/s) – Curb-to-curb suitcase…OH squats (2x e/s) MARY: Enough time for static holds one time through each arm ANNOUNCEMENTS: – :tada: Happy Birthday, MARTA! – :drop_of_blood:Blood drive on 6/20 (see Slack) – :camping: F3 Dad Camp @ Lake Wylie from 8/15-8/17 (see Mountain Momma’s post on Slack) – Obscure German philosophy quote of the day…”We are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again. We look upon the present as something to be put up with while it lasts, and serving only as the way towards our goal. Hence most people, if they glance back when they come to the end life, will find that all along they have been living ad interim: they will be surprised to find the very thing they disregarded and let slip by unenjoyed was just their life – that is to say, it was the very thing in the expectation of which they lived. Of how many a man may it not be said that hope made a fool of him until he danced into the arms of death!” – Schopenhauer
COT: Joined the pax of The Rock and MARTA took out the joint groups

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