Mayhem comes to #Mayhem

Mayhem comes to #Mayhem

QIC: Beverly

Date: 3/7/18

PAX: Drama Queen (WD), Zima (WB), Splash, Offsides, Spamalot, Balco, Red Eye

Q: Beverly

Pax: Drama Queen (WD), Zima (WB), Splash, Offsides, Spamalot, Balco, Red Eye

Date: 3/7/18

When YHC thinks of Mayhem, the long-running Allstate ads featuring Dean Winters as “Mayhem” comes to top of mind. Thus, YHC thought it would be appropriate to bring Mayhem to Mayhem by reliving a the Top 3 Best Mayhem ads (according to Beverly). Plus, YHC knew Zima would be overwhelmingly supportive of the idea (which he was, even commenting about how great the theme of my last workout was).

Warmorama

• SSH
• Whirlys
• Copperhead squats
• Mountain climbers
• Plank Jacks

The Thang

#3 – The Toddler

“Mommy! Mommy! Mommy, mommy, mommy! Mommy!” We’ve all been there, and Dean does a great impersonation of every one of our kids. To relive this, we moseyed to the rock pile to do some baby-related exercises.

• Rock-a-bye-baby x 10 IC
• Blocks and crawls – bear crawl while moving rock under and ahead of body. Bear crawled approximately 20 yards.
• Rock-a-by-baby x 10 IC
• Blocks and crawls back to rock pile
• Rock-a-bye-baby x 10 IC

#2 – The GPS

“I’m your GPS. You never update me, so I just have to wing it.” That pretty much sums up this Q, as well, but to relive this one, we did the following:

• Al Gore in Circle of Pain
• Q calls out “right” or “left” and pax shuffle in Al Gore accordingly
• Q calls out exercise and pax stop, perform exercise, then continue shuffling
  • Running with scissors
  • Lunges
  • Drop lunges (aka skaters)
  • Others I can’t remember

• Plank Compass
  • Feet remain in same spot, shift hands based on direction called by Q
  • 10 alternating shoulder touches at each stop

#1 – The Satellite Dish

“I’m a satellite dish. The only reason you got me was for football. But today, I’m a little fuzzy. And you just tried to fix me. You just made me loose.” The guy climbing the ladder to fix the dish should have known better! Just like YHC should have known the pax wouldn’t like any ladder exercises.

Jacob’s Ladder

• Run up hill – 10 burpees
• Run down hill
• Repeat 5 times, adding one burped to each trip – 60 burpees total

Merkin Ladder

• Run from traffic circle to first speed bump – 21 merkins
• Run back
• Repeat 7 times, decreasing by 3 merkins each time – 84 merkins total

Mary

• Windshield wipers
• American hammers
• Dying cockroaches (or at least most of us did this)
• Low flutter
• Low dolly

COT

• Saturday, May 12 – Sufferfest in the morning, followed by a Doce de Mayo celebration – all to raise money for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). Splash has the details.
• Spamalot has Lunch Bunch on Friday – Join him at Finnegan’s Wake. Take the afternoon off and have a pint or two for YHC.

YHC took us out thankful for the morning and for healing for our country.

NMM

• Ever have one of those epiphanies where you casually look around and suddenly realize you’re different from everyone else? So, YHC learned that he does not know what a Dying Cockroach is. The other pax kindly, without any ridicule, pointed this out in order to help YHC better himself. Nice guys!
• Allstate and Dean Winters have been doing Mayhem commercials for 8 years!
• Splash was big on counterfactual thinking this morning, as he offered friendly feedback on how I could improve my Qing. Such feedback as, “You could have done the burpees on the flat ground and the merkins on the hill.” and “You know there’s a merkin in a burp, right?”
• Offsides is a strong dude. I don’t think he even worked up a sweat.
• Balco was able to start a fire boy scout style as he drug his rock during Bears and Blocks, creating more Mayhem.
• Red Eye was the lone passenger on the Brookberry Express this morning. Mongoose had a sufficient excuse, Prospector did not.

Zima, thanks for the opportunity, I hope I didn’t disappoint!