Definition of Irony

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Definition of Irony

QIC: Zima

Date: 11/13/20

PAX: Cheesesteak (birthday), Root Canal (WD), The Singing Cowboy, BAM, Toe Tag, Tigger, Van Gogh, Red Baron, Lamb Chop (WB), Mutton, Zima (Q)

One of the reasons that I enjoy working out with Cheesesteak is because of his creativity.  While the rest of the PAX (myself included) are good little lemmings and generally follow the Q’s directions, Cheesesteak does whatever the hell he wants, whenever the hell he wants.  I can maybe count on one hand the number of times that I’ve seen him do the actual called exercise.  Although some of his modifications are due to injury, most of them are just to make the workout harder.  Sheesh.

 

So a few weeks ago as I was struggling through whatever the Q had assigned, I looked over and saw Cheesesteak effortlessly doing something not even remotely resembling what the rest of us were, but would have been monumentally harder for normal human beings.  I announced that I had an idea for a Cheesesteak-themed beatdown and jokingly asked when his birthday was.  He responded by telling me that it was November 13 and he had the Q at Urban Assault, which he all too gladly allowed me to hijack.

 

Now I had to follow through.  I had a theme, but I needed to build a workout.  The theme would be modification.  Since the guest of honor always modifies, then we would all modify … to whatever he was doing.  Therefore, knowing full well of his current limitations due to injury (which by the way, does not stop him from posting), the jerkoff Q (read: me) filled a workout with exercises Cheesesteak couldn’t do.

 

Here’s where it gets fun.  Karma took a big old frying pan and smacked me right in the face.  Then, just to prove it’s point, it dropped an anvil on my head and stuck some TNT down my throat.  You know what they say, “karma is a b—-”.  So why is this so ironic?  Well, it just so happens that I have recently suffered what I term as a minor boo boo on my knee and have had to heavily modify many exercises for the past few weeks.  Oh, that karma!  I spend all of this time poking good-natured fun at Cheesesteak and on the day I am going to Q a workout all about HIS modifications, I am forced to modify most of the exercises.  I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

 

So again, the rule of the beatdown was to modify each exercise however Cheesesteak is modifying it.  Good luck!

 

Happy Birthday to the young man who completed his 42 year today.

 

Warmarama.

 

SSH (while everyone laughed at the Q trying to do them)

Whirly with the Clap (until Cheesesteak just stopped moving so we all stopped moving)

 

Warmup is boring.  Let’s go.

 

Beatdown.

 

Cheesesteak likes CYCLING, so most of the PAX Reverse Pelotoned to train tracks.  Once there, do 42 Pullups.  For those that needed to take a break, do 42 Cheesesteak Penguin Crunches and then return to the pullups.  This was modified to Hanging with One Arm and then quickly Omaha’ed when it was realized that Cheesesteak was the only one who could do a one arm hang.

 

Given it was his day, we brought Cheesesteak down into the Coal Pit for an early morning celebration, perhaps a precursor to the festivities that would take place 12 hours later.  There, we presented him with a stack of thoughtful gift cards.  Each card had two exercises and a mode of transportation on it relating to an aspect of the fine young gentleman’s life.  The idea was for the birthday boy to pick a card, then the PAX would travel from around Incendiary the entire length of the pit to the wall, do the first exercise, travel back to the Incendiary area, and complete the second exercise.  I believe we made it to Card #6, but remember we had to modify in whatever way Cheesesteak did, so in no way shape or form did we do anything that resembled the carefully thought out cards with facts relating to this special guy.

 

Gift Cards

  1. COLORADO: Buffalo Crawl | 42 Ski Abs | 42 Mountain Climbers
  2. NURSEMURSE: Sprint | 42 Hand Release Merkins | 42 Mary Katherines
  3. BEARD: Long Leaps | 42 Monkey Humpers | 42 Box Cutters
  4. OUTDOORSY: Del Brown (10 Merkins/25 yard Crab Walk) | Wall Sit with 42 Jack Reachers | 42 Elbow Spider Planks
  5. YOGA: Lunge Walk | 42 Dive Bomber Merkins | 42 One Legged Pickle Pointers
  6. WSSU: Band March | 42 Ram Kicks | 42 Star Jump Squats
  7. NEW JERSEY: Apollo Creed | 42 Mike Tysons | 42 Iron Mikes
  8. FLORIDA: Frog Jump | 42 Superman Sun Gods | 42 Alligator Merkins
  9. TOBACCO ROAD: Skip | 42 CDDs | 42 Bobby Hurleys
  10. WEIRD FOOD: Backpedal | 42 Crab Cakes | 42 Dips
  11. PEACE/WAR: Mosey | 14 WMDs | 42 WWIIs
  12. BEER: Hops | 42 Burpees | 42 Sobriety Squats
  13. ECU: Carioca | 42 Plank Jacks | 42 Second Boat Hold

 

FINISHED.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Celebration of Cheesesteak’s life tonight at Incendiary at 5:30 pm.
  • Today is Splash’s birthday.  He was too cool to show up.
  • The Outhouse and The Estate are merging in the new year.  Tigger will be the new Site Q.  The AO will be Sherwood Forest Elementary.
  • 3rd F channel on Slack.

 

NAKED MAN MOLESKIN:

  • Favorite quote of the day … As YHC was reading off one of Cheesesteak’s thoroughly researched gift cards with a fun fact and exercise instructions, the birthday boy just walked away, dismissed everything the Q was saying, and notified the PAX, “We’re not doing any of that.”

 

PRAYERS.

  • $5 Footlong
  • Step in someone else’s shoes

 

Zima Out.