Another beautiful morning in the gloom at the Covington Trailhead. The PAX gathered and got to work straight away with a dynamic warmup using the train platform: heal to toe walks, lunges, shuffles, skips, freestyle shoulder swing toe walks, backstroke shoulder swing toe walks, carioca and a few other exercises down the platform with a short mosey back to the starting point after each trip.
Mosey to the Taj Mahal where the PAX formed up in a large COP around the flagpole. SSH, IW, Merkins, mountain climbers, dynamic back planks, twisting SSHs, squats, all IC 20x collapsing the circle to the flagpole and back to the starting point between each exercise with sprint/backpedal, forward and backwards frog jumps, forward and backwards bear crawls, forward and backward knuckedraggers, forward and backwards crab walks, and an ostrich walk. This last “walk” was a new one for the PAX and if the neighbors didn’t think we were weird before they definitely do now.
Switch gears but remain around the flagpole for a quick battery of shuffles around the circle, sprint/backpedal to the pole, and take a lap up and over the Taj Mahal front steps. After about 5 minutes of this nonsense and a 10 count, the PAX moved on to the main event at City Hall.
So YHC promised the PAX cinderblocks this morning and he delivered, sort of. Paving stones served as the weapon of choice for a set of 11s. Bench presses on the grass using the paving stones on one end and Tonya Harding ice skater hops hugging the paving stones on the other. The tough part was the in between…walking tall back and forth holding the paving stones overhead with elbows locked out. YHC’s thought process went something like this: this paving stone is too light; this paving stone is getting heavy, $%#^%%*!! this paving stone! At any rate, the PAX did themselves proud, kept their weapons high and completed the mission.
Quick Mary on the spot using the paving stones for some weighted torso twists then mosey back to the Gipper for the count-o-rama, name-o-rama and prayer of gratitude.
