A Spoonful of Sugar

A Spoonful of Sugar

QIC: Starfish

Date: 8/17/2022

PAX: Woodpecker, Closer, Bluto, BALCO, Lace, Velour, Zuckerberg, BAM, Frostbite (WB), Lemming, Manscape (WD), Starfish (QIC)

12 pax showed up at the Greenbriar Farm clubhouse at the last minute to binge on SUGAR and try to ward off the crash for as long as possible at Bells and Whistles, the premier kettlebell workout in all of F3 Winston-Salem if not the entire Nation.  The pax were rudimentarily disclaimed and then got to work.

Warm-O-Rama

• SSH x18 IC
• IW x15 IC
• Abe Vigoda x10 IC
• Whirly’s Got The Clap x10 IC
• Copperhead Squats x15 IC
• Copperhead Merkins x10 IC

The Thang:  SUGAR

At the Kettlebell station, pax perform the following exercises in order:

Swings

Upright Rows

Goblet Squats

American Hammers

Renegade Rows (both sides)

First round 5 reps of each; second round 10 reps of each; third round 15 reps of each (escalating by five each round, not doubling (#Tclaps @Zuckerberg); so forth and so on.  Between each round, head to the tennis courts to do suicides, touching each line (starting at the sideline of the nearest court, so there were only 9 lines @BALCO, #Cobains for the confusion).

But wait…there’s more.  Pax take turns, stopping whatever they are doing at the time, carrying the 65 pound sugarbag around all three medians of the parking lot.  They resume wherever they left off in the SUGAR/suicides and pass the bag to the next pax.

At the thirty or so minute mark, the SUGAR crash set in and we started to de-escalate the ladder back down by 5 reps each round.

Plank-O-Rama at the end while we waited for @Manscape to finish up with his second sugarbag loop.

COT/BOM:  YHC took us out.

FIN.

NMM

Last week, YHC’s 2.1 sent over a newish song by the band Surf Curse called “Sugar”.  YHC liked the song and then thought about all of the different genres of music that have utilized sugar in either song titles, lyrics, or band names.  And YHC then also realized that there were 5 KB exercises that started with the same letters as SUGAR.  And that’s all it took for a new workout theme to be born.  Proving again that it is hard to come up with much variety or anything that innovative when we’ve been doing this for almost 9 years together.

@BALCO decided to stay this week, although it looked like a very close call.  @Atrophy decided not to even show up.

@BAM got his request for the best one armed drummer in all of rock and roll.

@Closer and @BAM hugged it out before we even started over something that must’ve happened last week.

@Manscape would not shut up with the #mumblechatter.

@Lemming thought the bag was way too light.

@Lace got all the way to 50 reps on the way up the SUGAR ladder.

@Woodpecker apologized profusely for skipping one of the medians in his first sugarbag loop.  #NoWorries

@Frostbite kept the 5th commandment today.

@Zuckerberg requested Sugar Ray which you will see if you follow the link made the bonus tracks in the Special Edition playlist.  #TooManySongsAboutSugar

@Velour is far fancier than any of the other fabric brothers YHC has met and YHC was honored that he chose #BnW over #Mayhem where one of his less fancy, far cheaper brothers was Qing.

For @PonyExpress, #BOOMERSOONER!  (Don’t understand why “I’ve Been Working On The Railroad” is your school song, but whatever….)

Here’s the playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5U7H5uEMayHqt0eQD16fmw?si=9e3de2f890144135):

• Sugar, Sugar (The Archies)
• Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down (Fall Out Boy)
• Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones)
• Sugar (Surf Curse)
• Pour Some Sugar On Me (Def Leppard)
• Rapper’s Delight (The Sugarhill Gang)
• Lips Like Sugar (Echo & The Bunnymen)
• Sugar (Stevie Wonder)
• Sugar Magnolia (Grateful Dead)
• No Sugar Tonight (The Guess Who)
• Sugarhigh (Coyote Shivers)  (#Tclaps @SourMash)
• I Can’t Help Myself (Sugarpie, Honeybunch) (The Four Tops)
• If I Can’t Change Your Mind (Sugar)

Announcements

We need a Q and crew for greeNest this week (8/20) as well as for the third Saturdays in September and October.  See YHC for how you can experience all three Fs in a short morning of invigorating our community.

Shmedfest 5K on August 27

Labor Day options being kicked around.

It was an honor and privilege to lead this fine group this morning.

Your friend,

Starfish