Charles Bronson and overachieving at UA
QIC: BAM
Date: 02/18/22
PAX: Root Canal (WD), Frostbite (WB), Post Hole, Lamb Chop, Crash, BAM
A balmy February morning greeted the pax in the glow of the security car’s flashers at Bailey Park, ready for some fun!
To quote Billy Joel, “the regular crowd shuffled in….” so we decided to get started! UA always has a great mix of pax, even Lamb Chop, of age, personality, and chattiness. All of these attributes would be on full display this morning.
Warmorama was dispensed of fairly easily to get to the thang.
The Thang
- Pax moseyed to the parking deck
- Charles Bronson (more pax than YHC was prepared for did NOT know who CB was, a tragedy)
- CB was an original tough guy in movies: WWII themed, western, and the classic Death Wish series, so this set of exercises wasn’t meant to be fun
- After each called exercise, run 60-ish yards, bear crawl 20-ish yards
- 50 SSH
- 50 Merkins
- 50 Burpees
- 50 LBC’s
- 50 Squat Jumps
- Chilly Broad Jumps
- Pax get in Chilcut formation (elbow plank)
- Pax at back then hop over pax in plank to the front
- each pax got to jump maybe 4 times (thanks to Lamb Chop)
- Bolt 45’s
- 15 halfway down squats (aka Root Canal squats)
- 15 halfway up squats
- 15 full squats
- ATM
- 15 Alternating shoulder taps
- 10 Tempo merkins
- 10 Merkins
Pax moseyed back to start for some Mary
NMM
- We launched at 0531 #cobains, because Post Hole asked about The Open Table, YHC’s job, and the volunteer needs at 0529
- YHC recommends The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen for your viewing pleasure to see Charles Bronson in action
- 50 Burpees was a real crowd pleaser, almost like the pax forgot beatdowns might be hard at times
- The lack of listening/chattiness was on full display this morning
- On the initial running for Charles Bronson, Root Canal decided to carve out his own path in the deck. Alleging the Q said we were going up.
- Frostbite tried to call the Q a liar when the 50 burpees were called. Saying he heard YHC say each exercise would last one minute, so focus on your form. Nope, YHC said the exercises were gonna “take a minute” so focus on your form. #soclose
- Even after the Charles Bronson set of exercises were over, pax kept wanting to run and bear crawl after future exercises. #overachievers
- Lamb Chop likes to make stuff up just to argue. Most of the time it’s a pleasant diversion as he tries to argue North is relative to whatever he wants it to be instead of a consistent direction. However during the Chilly Broad Jumps section, LC got chatty and complained about how many times he had jumps (even though he doesn’t actually jump), so the Q had to call an extra round of jumps for funsies.
- Crash is smooth and steady as always, putting up with our nonsense
- No fever dream type stories this morning, sorry Wobegon, but a fun time all around!
