YHC has always been fascinated by what the human body can do under extreme pressure. YHC recently listened to a podcast interview of Cole Hocker, and he described basically blacking out on the last leg of his crazy gold medal 1500m finish. WILD right? But it got me to thanking. What could our “slightly less than gold medal track athlete” pax perform when given the right pressure.
Early this year, AB introduced a paradigm shifting beatdown based on the fact that everyone knows an unhealthy amount of information about at least 1 or 2 topics. Sometimes, ashamedly so. It hooked several pax into the Learned Llama multiverse you see today plus introduced a new wrinkle to an already strong group of exercise/trivia pioneers. YHC has been tinkering with alternate versions of it since and below is the result.
So here’s how the game works.
YHC names an exercise for each round then Pax will Hold Al Gore around an ominous coupon pile.
YHC will then name a list of words one by one with a few seconds in between for thanking.
Your goal is to name the common factor of the list as fast as possible.
You will get one shot per pax , if you are incorrect you will start SSH (later ti be converted to burps) until the round is over.
If correct then we will stop on that round and do the corresponding reps (after 1 -10 reps , 2-20 etc)
Example
Brown (10) ….Black(20) …paddington (30) Polar (40) … Grizzly (50) … all bears and you have an increasing chance at getting the correct association but as options increase so do the reps.
Duke!
Glove up, summers over and we got some iron to sharpen!
Standard warmup with that big Pax energy when several cars roll up at once that makes YHC all warm and fuzzy inside.
We started where the Bible begins and most friendships end…with the members of Genesis.
1.) Tony Banks
2.) Mike Rutherford
3.) Phil Collins
4.) Peter Gabriel
Early guesses at drummers but we went 30 Reps and there were grumbles that sounded an a lot like Sussidio.
National Parks (Star Jumps)
1. Teddy Roosevelt
2. Glacier
3. Arches
4. Grand Canyon
5. Yosemite
AB flashing his generational trivia talent and we took 20 reps.
Army Bases w “Fort” at the beginning (HR Merkins)
1.) Campbell
2.) Carson
3.) Detrick
4.) Bragg
5.) Hood
Had this loaded for Pop and he didn’t dissapoint with the early answer for 20 reps.
Speed Skaters (Bonnie Blair’s )
1.) johan olav Koss
2.) Eric Heiden
3.) JR Celski
4.) Apollo Ohno
5.) Bonnie Blair
This one went deep for 40
Pokémon (Coupon Curls )
1.) Spearow
2.) Pidgey
3.) Weedle
4.) Charizard
5.) Pikachu
Lil Cuz with the performance of the day. He blamed his 2.0 toy pile but we all know he’s got dat Arcanine in him.
Satellites (Goblet Squats )
1.) Terra
2.) Aqua
3.) LandSat8
4.) Explorer 1
5.) Sputnik
40 Reps
Not a peep from our resident beekeeper.
The man just likes others to improve I guess.
GI Joe (Ranger Merkins)
1.) Roadblock
2.) Shipwreck
3.) Zartan
4.) Duke
5.) Snake Eyes
30 reps
Knowing is half the battle.
Ranger Merkins are the rest.
Members of *NSYNC (Apollo Ohnos)
1.) Chris
2.) Joey
3.) JC
4.) Lance
5.) Justin
TANA!!!!
From the rafters the Peoples Rep saved the pax from atleast 20 extra Ohnos until we got to JT.
Vice Presidents (box jumps)
1.) James S Sherman
2.) Levi P Morton
3.) elbridge Gerry
4.) John C Calhoun
5.) dick Cheney
40 box jumps were contended by pope who reported a whispered correct answer so we split the difference and did 25. Complex numbers are my thing.
Triple Crown Winners (Carolina Dry Dox)
1.) Omaha
2.) Gallant Fox
3.) Seattle Slew
4.) American Pharoah
5.) Secretariat
30 Reps as Maneater started to heat up.
CMM (Thrusters)
1.) Birdman
2.) Turk
3.) BG
4.) Manny Fresh
5.) Lil Wayne
Maneater again
He’s On Fire!
Heisman trophy winners ( Merkins )
1.) Jay Berwanger
2.) Billy Sims
3.) Steve Spurrier
4.) Desmond Howard
5.) Tim Tebow
A few chuckles at Wanger but then HS got down to business and ID’d spurrier as a champion.
30 reps.
Bankrupt Companies
(Decline Merkins)
1.) pacific gas and electric company
2.) Washington mutual
3.) Silicon Valley Bank
4.) Lehman brothers
5.) Enron
30 reps as mutiple pax supplied this one.
DDay Beaches – WW3 sit-ups
1.) Sword
2.) Gold
3.) Juno
4.) Utah
5.) Omaha
Pope/Pop are a force of military history to be reckoned with.
Van Gohg paintings (Thrusters)
1.) The potato eaters
2.) almond blossoms
3.) cafe terrace at night
4.) self portrait w bandaged ear
5.) starry night
40 Reps to finish us out but these larks were saved by the bell.
COT and Prayer intentions
HS prayed us out
Amazing seeing the collective pax mind under pressure. The hidden talents of this group never cease to amaze YHC.
Thanks for the privilege to lead.
-A Dox of Chocolates
Imagine you are one of 86 billion brain cells. All with important tasks for sending and receiving messages at 100 meters/second. The capability to solve complex formulas, write ballads , or serve your fellow man awaits at a moments notice. Butttt instead you only get one assignment. Just once in 40 years you will be asked to associate the memory of two random NSYNC band members and It will save many men from coupon thruster destruction.
“Bye, bye, bye” you whisper when the job is complete, then you return to brain cell retirement singing Kokomo at random intervals.
No Neuron left behind.
But leave no Neuron where you found him.
SYITG
Dox
