Conditions: A cool 50 degrees and clear. Dark.
For our last 2019 Rock City we looked back on the year that was.
Warm-up
We hit the most popular RC warm-up exercises of 2019 according to those that write backblasts:
- SSH x 19 – Still the popular starter. We did 19 for the year 2019.
- Hillbillies x 20 – A surprising replacement of the customary IWs. Hillbillies seem wildly popular at RC. We did 20 because I forgot to stop at 19
- Grass Grabbers x 19 – I’m sure the popularity is based on the name. The clap at the end feels silly, but it doesn’t keep us from doing them.
- Windmills (aka Abe Vigodas) x 10 – Lots of Qs find these to be a warm-up staple, but you will have to do them prior to 5:30 anytime Spartacus is on the schedule.
A Sea of Crimson
Our first Rock City Workout of 2019 happened on July 7th. That just happened to be the day of the College Football National Championship. War Eagle must have been feeling good that morning as he delivered a brutal beatdown, on par with the beating his Crimson Tide took later that night.
We paired up for a quasi-dora with the following exercises:
- 250 curls
- 200 squats
- 150 rows
- 100 shoulder presses
- 50 burpees
While pax #1 did the exercise, pax #2 ran 40 yards and back.
Iron Pax
This morning we paid tribute to the Iron Pax workouts of 2019 by reenacting Week Zero. This time we did one round instead of six and we did the reps together.
- 24 squats
- 24 merkins
- 24 Lunges in cadence
- 400 meter run
Sgt. Bovia Tribute
We saved my favorite Rock City Workout of the year for last. It was the tribute Boo-Boo Qd for Marine Sgt. Joey Bovia. Sgt. Bovia was killed in Afghanistan on August 31, 2010. The Tribute consisted of 31 reps of 8 different exercises. This morning, we did as many as we could in the allotted time.
- 31 merkins
- 31 Big Boy Sit-ups
- 31 Squats
- 31 Push Presses
Time ran out before the 31 burpees. We brought our rocks back to the pile and moseyed to the flag for the COT.
NMM
- Smallest numbers at Rock City all year.
- The 5 guys that posted were there to work though. We made it through a lot more than I thought we would. I honestly expected that I would have to cut the Iron Pax or Bovia workout, but that was not the case.
- Looking back on the National Championship themed workout that started the year, who would have thought that LSU would be playing those same Clemson Tigers for the Natty after the 2019 season. And who could have forecast the Alabama program falling off the face of the earth like they did. I don’t even think they made a bowl game this year. Seems like the end of an era.
