What do these have in common? They’ll all be featured in a Russo-choreographed dance routine that his daughter will perform as her first “contemporary” solo with her dance company sometime in 2025. That’s right, few knew it before this moment, but Russo is a regular Bob Fosse (minus all the smoking, drinking, and infidelity, of course).
During the warmorama, we mulled over some of the moves that he had already scratched from his repertoire (Moonwalk, Walk Like and Egyptian – “overused,” “cliche” he says), some that he was on the fence about (Electric Slide, The Snake), and others (The Robot, The Chicken Wing) that he was confident would add texture, but was having trouble working into the routine without making it feel a bit too heavy-handed. Hey, it’s a delicate balance.
Hearing about all this dancing had me jazzed for our coupon beatdown, a retread of something YHC did solo last week:
100 Squat Thrusters (25 reps, x4)
200 Curls (40 reps, x5)
300 Chest Presses (50 reps, x6)
In between each set of reps we slalomed the columns (a Russo original, inspired by his love of ski ballet, apparently) over to the stairs for 10x calf raises.
Another talent you may not know about Russo: he can expound upon the technical brilliance of Mad Max Fury Road and also give me the cliff notes to an epic, 4-hour YouTube review of the Star Wars hotel, all the while keeping the rep count in his head. (This seems to be an F3-honed skill that happens once you hit the 7-8 year mark; though Russo, being mathematically minded as he is, was of course on the fast track.)
YHC envisions a day when we might combine the previously mentioned dance moves with our 25 lbs coupons. I mean, hell, I already felt like I was lifting up Jennifer Grey as I was doing the squat thrusters today. Could be a whole new era for F3. Or, at the very least, a new category in the lexicon: 80’s Power Pumps. I know I’d be down for the playlist alone.
COT, and the man himself, Russo, prayed us out. See you gents tomorrow for what we all know will be a punishing beatdown from the tyrants Pickaxe and Chainsaw!
