Plyomania
QIC: Rudolph
Date: 5.23.2023
PAX: Adobe, Dr. Toot, Cruiser, Madoff, Animal, Recess, Schneider, Drama Queen, Subfloor, Ziggy Stardust
Adobe was kind enough to challenge me to Q, so let’s get to it. Pulled an old workout that I hadn’t done in years. People start rolling in, and before you know it we had eleven (11!!!!! All you, Dr. Toot) leaders ready to sharpen iron. I didn’t recite the customary Dash-Strong preamble, because, well, everyone here knows why they are here. We’re going to pay the daily man-bill that comes with being a HIM, and not only that I think I said we would choke it the hell out. #2.0 friendly….I did say no running, no burpees, and this would be easy. Be careful what you wish for.
Warm-Up – full body stuff, in cadence: side-straddle hops, arm circles, chain breakers, swimmers, Whirly with a clap, quickmills, sprawls, lunge with a twist. A sprawl is not a burpee….I am a man of my word.
Let’s line up and head towards the hill. The pax had trouble with a single file line. #DashStrong/ProcessSlow. I was introduced to this magnificent landscape with an excellent Drama Queen Q, pushing the stone (rock) of Sisyphus. No rock today, but I like this hill. I said it would be an easy workout, and it was, that is to execute the pattern. Up to you to make it harder or easier.
The Thang: 1 minute of a plyometric exercise selected by me, then head down the hill, and then we all bear crawl back up it. Plyometric exercises are the opposite of low-zero impact, they are high-impact and baboon-heart-makers. Constant burn, only break was walking down the hill only to turn around and crawl. So, it was a simple set-up. The exercises were:
Squat Thrusters, Plyo Lateral Lunges, Lunge to Knee Up, Plyo Push Ups (clap), Box hop (bunny hop making a box pattern), Long Jump, Frog Jump (monkey humper to a jump), Sprawl to Tuck jump (awful), One legged L Hop, Russian Get-ups.
The first bear crawl up the hill saw a race being conducted that I fully enjoyed, but still lost to Animal and Madoff. I don’t think we ever really stopped racing, everyone moved really well each set. Only on 2 trips did we Omaha to Karoka (Recess called it). I think I enjoyed putting a bounty on Animal’s head the most, but none of us caught him. Cruiser and Madoff may be part bear, there was a little something going on there. I can’t fault anyone for their effort. At the start I said I really only have ever had one rule when I Q: you can slow-down, you can substitute, you can go faster and whip my ass, but you can never quit. Hats off, men.
We lined up and old-man-mall-walked back to start with 4 minutes to spare. Mary time, we got halfway through the circle until TIME! COT time, and I asked how they liked Plyometrics. Subfloor said something about “where’s the fire”, and he lost me….finally someone said PYRO, and I got it. I called him a peckerhead and we’re all the better for it. I like that shirt, btw Subfloor.
Announcement: Convergence Monday at Iron Throne, and a Murph at Alcatraz after (imagine that….). Toot as the Q at Mayhem tomorrow, I say he IS the mayhem. I persisted in holding the COT until Adobe had at least a pencil in on early Q’s in June, Madoff stepped up. I like the cut of your jib, sir.
Prayers: Zima, Palin & Greenspan, all for health. I didn’t say them at the time, like a dummy, but here’s more: Jodi, Wendy, Beth. Pray up men.
MOLESKIN: I heard someone (Adobe?) say that “those bear crawls started to add up”. Well, so does pushing the rock. I like this kind of workout because for that full minute it’s you vs. you. Then, we go down and back as a team, leaving no man behind. Great way to get after it. Plyo stuff is a good cardio-getter, and that hill is the stuff of dreams. I’ll be seeing that one soon, Q’ing at one of the finest AO’s around, the Parliament. A pleasure to serve.
PLAYLIST – by popular demand, and by popular I mean Site Q. Site Q rules. O’DOYLE RULEZ.
*part of my lifting playlist, highly recommend. If you have Amazon Music I can zap it over.
World Destruction – Time Zone
Ch-Check it Out – Beastie Boys
Orion – Metallica
John the Fisherman – Primus
Jump Around – House of Pain
Aces High – Iron Maiden
I Am the Law – Anthrax
Let There Be Rock – AC/DC
Motorhead – Hawkwind (didn’t get to this one, sadly….)
RUDOLPH
