Shut Up Schlitz
TIME WASTERS. Nobody cares. BEATDOWN. Start with 15 reps and decrease by 1 rep each round. Pick up the six at the end of each round and start the new round all together. Station 1 – Water Feature: Diamond Spider Merkins...
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TIME WASTERS. Q fail for allowing these. They should be completed prior to launch, rather than wasting everyone else’s time. I’ll do better next time. BEATDOWN. Run a Figure 8 loop at the top part of the parking lot by the back...
Read moreAnother Day, Another Mayhem
TIME WASTERS. Don’t remember. BEATDOWN. Start at the bottom of The Hill to Nowhere and do the exercises. Run up the hill. At each curve, perform 5 Burpees. Do the exercises again. Run down the hill. At each curve, perform 5 Burpees...
Read moreA Completely Reasonable Beatdown
TIME WASTERS. The PAX whined so we wasted a few minutes doing SSHs, Whirlies, Michael Phelps, and Abe Vigodas. What a freaking waste. We probably could have finished another entire round of real exercises if we hadn’t spent time on these...
Read moreToday IS That Day
There will come a day when you will conquer that inner demon that tells you to modify an exercise because it’s too hard. There will come a day when you realize that pain is just weakness leaving the body. There will come a day when you crush the...
Read moreSpicoli’s Discounted Lamb Chop
TIME WASTERS. It’s a waste of time to even include this in a backblast. BEATDOWN. Add a round each time through the circuit. At the end of each circuit, run to the end of the coal pit and do 25 Mountain Climbers. 7 360° BURPEES 14...
Read moreOpen Source Birthday Q
TIME WASTERS. Some BS that nobody actually cares about when reading a backblast. BEATDOWN. Spot #1: Mary Katherines x 12 Spot #2: Spider Burpees x 27 Spot #3: Dying Cockroaches x 49 Spot #4: Perfect Merkins x 74 DONE. NAKED...
Read moreThe 12 Pains of Christmas, Presented by The Grinch (2023)
The temperature at last year’s reindeer training for the 12 Pains was quite chilly. This year (364 days later) was roughly the same with the wind providing the unpublished pain of 21 degrees. BEATDOWN. The Grinch doesn’t do things...
Read moreThe Swing Set
“I may be slow, but at least I didn’t leave in the middle of the workout.” – an unnamed PAX (to protect his identity) comparing himself to the recent string of trendy PAX who have been leaving YHC’s workouts halfway through, especially one...
Read moreYou Can’t Spell Abs Without a W
WARMARAMA. Some time-wasting bullshit with at least a few burpees sprinkled in to get the heart rate moving. BEATDOWN. 1 – CIRQUE DU SOLEIL ABS (10 reps/10s hold) Crunch (hold) LBCs (hold) Legs Straight Up Crunch (hold)...
Read moreI Don’t Really Know What Tabata Is
“I don’t really know what Tabata is.” – Thistle, AFTER leading a 45-minute so-called tabata workout “No shit.” – every single PAX in attendance at said workout BEATDOWN. Run: https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/5832225430...
Read moreVerbal HCs Don’t Mean Sh*t
The workout was described like this … Station 0 is near the playground by the pullup bars. Each corner of the track is a numbered station. At each station, complete the exercise reps 5 times the station number. Start at Station 0, then...
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