Super Bowl-Themed Purgatory

Super Bowl-Themed Purgatory

QIC: Burlap and Parkay

Date: 25 Jan 2020

PAX: Parkay (WB and co-QIC), Offsides, Spam, Pony Express, BAM, High Cotton, Boomerang, Undertow, Lysol, Lemming, Green Acres (WD), TPS, Burlap (co-QIC)

Coming off a soaking rain, several Pax were hoping that the workout leaders would be smart enough to keep us off the soggy field.  The chief Q was not.  The beatdown went something like this:

SSH IC
ISTs IC
Copperhead squats IC
Running with Scissors IC
Peter Parkers IC
Toy Soldiers IC
Hillbillies IC
Mountain Climbers IC

Mosey to field.

Partner up and size matters.
• Wheelbarrow
• Push
• Pull
• Carry

CHIEFS
• C – 5 Crabcakes each leg
• H – 10 Humpers of monkeys
• I – 15 ISTs each leg
• E – 20 Elves on a shelf each side
• F – 25 Flutters, low
• S – 30 Squats

The BOSA

• 49 Backward lunges (single count)
• 49 OH Claps
• 49 Side Squats
• 49 Arm circles each direction

Football toss – take turns throwing from edge of playground into octagon – if in, 15 SSHs; if miss, 15 pull ups; if in and bounce out, 15 burpees.

Parkay portion:

Partner combined WWII sit-ups to 224 while other partner ran about 50 yards and did 4 merkins — alternate.

Next, 6 SSHs and 2 Burpees (see NMM below).

Mosey to near rock pile; split between Chiefs and Niners.  Chiefs did KC or 54 Knerkins (merkins on knuckles) and 54 Copperhead Squats while Niners did SF or 54 SSHs and 54 Freddie Mercuries.

Move over to wall for 50 seconds of wall sits and then 50 rebound drills.

Mosey back to parking lot for Mary.

Freddie Mercury IC
Low Dolley IC
Rosalita IC
Low Flutter IC
Heels to Heaven IC
Plank with variations

FIN

COT:

• The Outhouse will continue but change up its format slightly.  Spam has the Q this Monday, Jan 27, for the last of the current version.
• Offsides kindly asks for Qs for February and March at #Purgatory.  Step up and lead.  Green Acres volunteered for two weeks from today.
• Offsides daughter has ankle surgery scheduled for Feb 18.
• Hoptoberfest is having (has had?) shoulder surgery.
• Blue Steel is back from South America trip and hoping for a prosthesis soon.
• Boomerang’s co-worker’s husband scheduled for back surgery.
• YHC took us out with Prayer, and
• Parkay gave this benediction (from Dick Halverson and Peter Barnes):
  • Wherever you go, God is sending you.  Wherever you are, God has put you there.  God has a purpose in being right where you are.  Christ, by the power of His Holy Spirit, wants to do something in and through you wherever you are and wherever you go.  Believe this and go in His grace and His love and His power.  In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

NMM:

• Happy Birthday to Starfish who was originally scheduled to Q today, but was out of town.
• The Q varied the count during warmorama using 18, 14, 16, 15, etc., generating some MC.  In actuality, there was no purpose nor plan nor theme.  I simply stopped when I was done with that exercise.  Spam and BAM were the chief Pax in trying to determine the pattern, I believe.
• At least one set of partners wisely modified the partner carry.
• During the CHIEFS (a take-off on BLIMPS), all of the Pax but Green Acres abandoned YHC in the field and went to the basketball courts a good 30-40 yards away to do the exercises.
• Green Acres had trouble spelling Chiefs, coming up with alternatives like CHEFS and then CHIES.
• The pax did not know it but the next set of exercises are what I call the BOSA, celebrating the 49ers rookie who will be named MVP of SB LIV.  The first letters spell his last name, see?
• During the football toss, we had some of each type of results.  YHC threw a nice tight spiral right into the center of the octagon, and the ball then promptly bounced out causing 15 burpees.  We had one other (Pony’s, I think) that did the same.  Others made it in, some missed it all.  There was debate about whether to use dominate arms, gloves, etc.
• Parkay had never Qed before, though he had called some Mary exercises.  He wanted to try this some time, and was generally successful in beating down the pax with WWII sit-ups.  The numbers were from Mostert’s 224 yards and 4 TDs in the NFC championship game.
• The 6 and 2 spelled Super Bowl (SB) and represented Jimmy Garrapolo’s 6 of 8 passing performance in that same game.  According to Pony, two is a reasonable number of burpees and allows the user to perform them with good form.
• The number of reps for the next exercise, 54, is of course the number of the Super Bowl .
• I believe the 50 seconds of wall sit and 50 rebound drills “honor” the number of years since KC was in a Super Bowl.
• YHC forewarned Parkay that the Pax would come at him with MC and abuse, and so it was.  He hesitated with his first instructions as he was waiting for one of the pax to collect the balls from the football toss.  When the pax complained, Parkay said, “I was waiting for the balls to come in,” and Offsides and others quickly hit that softball out of the park.
• According to one of the pax, he will be picking mulch out of his lower digestive system for while after the WWIIs in the playground.  Thanks for the image.
• There was a lot of other MC, snarkiness, and general fun had by all, but I can’t remember things as well as Zima.

Thanks to Offsides for the keys.

And in seriousness, I deeply appreciate the way that all the Pax welcome and encourage Parkay (and me).  You all are a part of someone’s development and growth each and every day.  I am confident enough to bring Parkay to you guys each week, and I thank you for that.

Burlap