A Day of Rest at UA

A Day of Rest at UA

QIC: Lamb Chop

Date: 8/14/2020

PAX: Truck Stop, Tonka (WB), Spicoli, Toot Canal (WD), Snake Eyes, Tigger, Drip, Ziggy, Data, Red Barron, Cheese Steak, Lamb Chop

After an absolutely brutal week kicked off by Tigger at Red Line then followed up by Greenspan at Conspiracy, I decided to take it easy on the PAX to let our muscles get back into tip top shape, well kind off.

Warm-o-Rama

15 SSH

10 Whirly

10 Arm Circle Forward and Back

10 Abe Vigoda

10 Mountain Climbers

The Thang

We mosied around Bailey Park to the entrance of the gravel pit at Incendiary. We started 10 columns back and proceeded with the following exercises.

5 burpees at the first column, bear crawl to the next, 20 merkins, bear crawl, 5 burpees, bear crawl, 20 squats, bear crawl, 5 burpees, bear crawl, 20 freddy penguins, bear crawl, 5 burpees, bear crawl, 20 jump squats, bear crawl, 5 burpees, bear crawl, 20 sumo squats.

Now the instructions were very straight forward, but half the PAX had no idea what was going on and per usual, Tigger and Spicoli were the two heading up the “What do we do next” brigade. Some way some how these two finished in half the time of the rest of the PAX and after being accused by the Q of doing 0 burpees and thus finishing ahead of everyone, Tigger adamantly defended his honor and claimed he did them all (likely story there guy…).

Next we mosied over to behind the med school. We lunge walked across the bridge and then I took us through 7 Layers of Dip.

7 dips, 10 derkins, 8 dips, 10 merkins, 9 dips, 10 urkins, 10 dips, 10 squats, 9 dips, 10 something else (I forget), 8 dips, 10 LL step ups, 7 dips, 10 RL step ups.

Then we mosied over to the train tracks. We partnered up. One partner did 10 pull ups while the other planked, then we flip flopped. Next set was 10 toe touches to bar while partner planked, then a 30 second hold at 90 degrees, then 5 jump up and slow release pull ups.

We mosied back to start for some Mary.

We kicked it off with the Mutton Crunch in honor of my uncle who I invited to come out but responded in text by saying, and I quote “Will see. dont like to get wet”. Fellas, if that is not the sorriest excuse for fart sacking, I don’t know what is. This is a man who, upon removing his shirt after a workout, can ring our 17 gallons worth of sweat from his shirt. This is a man who must drive home sitting in a plastic tray so that the sweat that is till pouring off of his body does not drench his seat. Not to mention that there was not even a spec of moisture to be found at UA (other than the smothering humidity). Anyway, I digress. We completed 10 of those on each side. Tigger took us through 15 heels to heaven, Snake Eyes led us through 10 American Hammers, and Spicoli took us out with 22 merkins in order to raise awareness for suicide prevention for military members.

Other Notes

Shmed Fest coming up fast and furious. If you are around, sign up!

Van Gogh and Red Barron are doing the 5,000 rep challenge. Now let’s ruminate on that for a second. Van Gogh is a sturdy fellow and although none of us believe he will actually achieve 5,000 reps, we know he is doing it for a good cause and will do significantly more than any of us could hope to achieve. But then, out of no where, this young buck Red Barron, a newer PAX in the last year, throws his hat into the ring. Now if any of you have ever worked out with RB, you know this cool cat is a different breed. I have yet to go to a workout where he has broken a sweat. He is always doing extra reps and still finishes ahead of everyone else. If you have ever been to a workout with VG, you know that this is a fellow with whom most of us aspire to achieve that level of physical fitness. When threatened, as in when someone else is doing more reps than him or doing them faster/better, he resorts to critiquing their form, telling them they are doing it wrong, and overall letting the PAX know not to take this guy seriously and to return their focus back to him because he is the aspiration. However, when RB and VG work out together, you start to see the real fear in VG’s eyes. RB simply smiles while he cranks out 100 pull ups, 100 burpees, and runs a half marathon, in perfect form might I add, and VG thinks to himself, uh oh, I have competition. There is nothing to critique or diminish about RB. It is like Batman vs Superman those two, or more like Superman vs Superman. So now, that 5,000 rep challenge seems a little more doable. We know RB will get to it, and we know VG is not going to stop until he has done one more rep of everything than RB. So the challenge is on! But I digress. If you are around, go out and support both. Place wagers on who can get finished with certain exercises first, then donated that money to Crisis Control.

That’s all for now folks!

Lamb Chop