Merkin mile reboot? And the Burpee and the Hammer! – from Smooth Operator
Merkin mile reboot? And the Burpee and the Hammer! – from Smooth Operator

Merkin mile reboot? And the Burpee and the Hammer! – from Smooth Operator

Date:2024-10-22
QIC:Smooth Operator
PAX:America’s Best, Enron, Goose, Honeysuckle, Safety Valve, Wet Tap, Wilford Montana

YHC pulled up at 5:12 due to forgetting to put the two tires and maul in the truck the night before. YHC didn’t see any movement from the Doxs household this morning so i figured I’d park in the coveted Doxs parking spot. Little did I know I would be stealing his Thang from the beatdown before.

Warmarama started immediately
SSH
Windmills
Arm circles
Cherry pickers
Imperial walkers
And a bumper mosey to get the juices flowing.

And Yes Tana there is now a road where the bumper used to be.

Thang 1

Thang 1 merkin mile
When YHC started, Tuesday Tuff was fairly new but it seemed to always start with a merkin mile around rich man’s loop.So that’s what I proposed to do this morning even with Gooses look of displeasure. Apparently a merkin mile was completed on Monday, and to be fair YHC had ever my intention of showing up said Monday but a call out fart sack was in my forecast for the day. Therefore YHC had a decision to make, do we deviate from the plan or do we get tuff on this Tuesday. Which is exactly what we did. YHC has a strange liking for the merkin mile even though it always ends with the entire PAX picking up the six (me). It reminds me that no matter how out of shape YHC gets, the PAX is there to welcome me back into the fold. The merkin mile consist of running a mile around rich man’s loop stopping every quarter mile to do 25 merkins ending back at the stage. Somehow this was AB’s first merkin mile and sounded like it wouldn’t be the last.

After YHC recovered enough to make words we jumped right into Thang 2

Thang 2 The burpee and the hammer

When YHC started coming to beatdowns there seemed to be a big deal about burpees. The pax loved to give them out but hated to do them. Also YHC loves to hit thing with a hammer the bigger the hammer the better. Therefor we will be pounding a pair of tires with a 10 lb maul and we will work on all things burpee. The tire pounding timer will be ten swings at one tire, Bearcrawl with hammer to next tire and 10 more swings at that tire. Then bear crawl back. While this is taking place. The other pax’s will be at other stations

Station 1 standard perfect burpee to work on form
Station 2 manmakers or blockees for AB
Station 3 goblet squats
Station 4 4 thrusters
Station 5 groiners shout out to YJ
Station 6 hand release merkins
Station 7 jump squats
(This is not the actual order of stations, but YHC winged the order for no particular reason other than to make it more confusing on myself.)
After one round of this with not much communication from the PAX and YHC checking the time on his phone way more than necessary we did a Lightning round of 3 swings Kareoke 3 swings kareoke back.
After this we moved into 4 minutes of Mary.

4 minutes of Mary
WW1 sit-ups with terrible cadence presented by yours truly
Dr. W’s by goose
Freddy Merkins by AB
V ups by Tana finishing perfectly on 0600.

After this we had COT and talked about the upcoming convergence in NOLA and Safety Valve prayed us out. Thanks for embracing the suck with me.
SYIYG
Smooth Operator