Lucky Sevens

Lucky Sevens

Title:  Lucky Sevens

Date:  January 24, 2019

Pax:  Root Canal, Zima, Honey Badger, Little Piggy, Dr. Seuss, Snooki, Greenspan (QIC)

YHC had been looking at the weather forecast since Monday, unbelieving that another monsoon would coincide with Q honors at WIB (again).  YHC began making contingency plans to reinvade the Piedmont Plaza parking deck should the forecast hold.  The forecast did not deviate.  The forecast was accurate.  It was very wet and windy.

YHC talked with Peace Maker (PM) at FlyWheel yesterday.  PM encouraged YHC that shared experiences in adverse conditions, e.g. workouts in terrible weather, can have tremendously positive effects on group dynamics.  YHC trusts that PM knows what he is talking about since it is his profession and decided that, rain or not, the original plan of migrating this week’s installment of WIB to Moore Elementary would hold.  YHC posted the plan to the Twitter late Wednesday evening.  Seven ironmen showed up, got stronger together, and, just maybe, grew in other ways as well

Warmarama (IC):

• SSHs x ‘a lot’ while YHC told the story of why we were still meeting at Moore despite the weather
• Forward ASTs x 10
• Backward ASTs x 10
• Whirly’s clap x 10
• Mountain Climbers x 10

The Thang:

A lap around the sidewalks bordering Moore, down the hill to the bus parking lot, around the building to the covered awning where the pax found the box with instructions laying at a pillar.

Round 1:  All 7 Reps

• Hand-release burpees
• Wojo jump shots
• Pull ups
• Dan Taylor Squats (Deep squat + R&L leg lunges)
• Imperial Walkers
• Prisoner squats + merkin
• WWIIs
• Repeat lap around the borders of school.  ~.4 mile

Round 2:  Repeat first round of exercises, adding one rep (total of eight) to each exercise and add overhead claps

Round 3:  Repeat second round of exercises, adding one rep (total of nine) to each exercise and add unassisted stand ups (or pull a Snooki and do something completely amazing)

Round 4:  Repeat third round of exercises, adding one rep (total of ten) to each exercise and add arm swirlies, forwards and backwards

Round 5:  Repeat fourth round of exercises, adding one rep (total of eleven) to each exercise and add hand-clap burpees

Round 6:  Repeat fifth round of exercises, adding one rep (total of twelve) to each exercise and add hillbillies

Round 7:  Repeat sixth round of exercises, adding one rep (total of twelve) to each exercise and add American Hammers

The End.

Total Mileage:  2 <= x <= 2.75 miles, although a couple got EC for RIROs.

COT:

Announcements:

• No announcements.

Prayer Requests:

• Thistle:  Recovering from a cold
• Burlap’s family mourning the loss of his mother
• Palin after testing of his plumbing this week
• Keith Vest, BooBoo’s brother in law, undergoing chemo;
• YHC’s father, who begins radiation and chemo on 12/26;

YHC took us out with prayers to Jesus to lead us to deeper fellowship with Him and one another.

NMM:

All seven pax completed four rounds, a few completed five.  All are #Respects, regardless of age.  The weather was honestly worse than YHC anticipated, but it did not hinder the group from getting after it. 

Dr. Seuss and Snooki had to bolt before CoT due to work commitments, but both left an imprint of their fitness upon YHC.

For the unassisted stand ups, Snooki lay on his back and essentially did a spring from his back to his feet and stood up.  a ninja warrior.  YHC is glad that the proximity to his house was enough to get Snooki back out to WIB.  He’s becoming a regular and hasn’t gone to the prior week’s AO yet!

Little Piggy got some EC by doing a RIRO.  He also pounded out the reps with apparent ease.  Strong is getting stronger.

Honey Badger, as well, put the reps to bed.  His form on the Dan Taylor squats was notably precise.  Good to see him at WIB again after VG’s bear crawl burpees in December [shudders].

Root Canal kept YHC company throughout with his usual encouragement.  He left his alter-ego, Dr. Toot, at home this morning, but the burners were still on as he motored around the AO.  He is a Respect’s Respect.

Zima crushed, as usual.  He was unusually quiet, although it could be that he was so far ahead that YHC couldn’t hear him.  Or, it could be that he missed Cherry Pie.  Zima did pay YHC a flattering compliment that “You [YHC] are a terrible person.”  YHC’s aspires to Zima’s fitness and appreciates his ‘take that hill’ demeanor, regardless of conditions. 

There had been discussion (mostly Snooki questions) at WIB the prior week of what the ‘B’ in WIB stood for, whether ‘bag’ or ‘box’.  To avoid any additional confusion, YHC brought the box with exercises in a garbage bag to the itinerant AO.

YHC is thankful to Thistle for the opportunity to lead again and for the men who came out.  The virtual keys are in a puddle on the playground.