Around 40 degrees to commence this morning, in what I would call the first “cool” morning.
I heard a term a few days ago: “X-llenial”, someone born in the late 70s or early 80s, who had an “analog childhood and a digital adulthood” and I thought that fit YHC perfectly. To wit:
– I didn’t have a true email until I was a freshman in college.
– I remember needing a CD to run AOL and access the internet. We also thought “50 free hours” was a deal.
– Required reading between 4th and 7th grade was either (a) baseball trading card magazines (How much was the ‘87 Donruss Mark McGuire worth?) b) Nintendo power (the secret to beating level 7 of Castlevania inside!), (c) Professional wrestling illustrated (with foldout Jake the Snake Roberts poster), or (d) comics (Madballs or Spider man), unless you were a Mad magazine type, or you were in the doctor’s office, and then it was Highlights all day every day.
– You remember stand up arcade games besides golden tee, pac-man / gallega, or donkey kong.
– You at least had some knowledge of Atari games, and one of my favorites (which also came in the arcade stand-up version) was Centipede, where the whole goal was to blast the multiple parts of the centipede back to whatever planet they came from. Destroy all of the segmented thoraxes of the centipede, and you’re rewarded with an even longer one to vanquish. Too easy you say? Maybe, until the critter moved progressively faster and around set up markers in a zig zag or random pattern. Think PacMan but with insects.
So as YHC was planning, the thought of us looking like that centipede was in the forefront of my noggin as we traversed S, then, E, then S, then W, then S, continuing until we reached the lake in one piece.
Warmup (all IC, 10x)
– Seal jacks
– Toe touches
– Self love
– Grass grabbers
– Hillbillies
– Arm circles
Thang
Centipede
Simple ladder as we moseyed block to block, with reps at 10, adding an exercise at each block:
Merkins
SMCs
plank jacks
crunches
Peter Parker’s
Jump squats
Monkey Humpers
Donkey kicks
Crunchy frogs
Imperial squat walkers
COT (Count, Name-o-Rama, Announcements, Prayer, in that order).
A thanks to Steve for layering up and braving the colder temps to join, and you for reading.
As a hidden bonus to anyone who has read to this point, as I searched the internet using my AOL CD (“You’ve got mail!”), one of the first things that pops up when you search “Centipede Atari” is a website where you can play that, and a few other classic Atari games like Asteroids or Pong or Breakout. SCORE! right?
That Website? AARP.org. YHC kids you not. I will now go die an embarrassing death, but not before sharing my sorrows with pitfallsnake1 and digdug79 on AOL messenger.
SYITG
