Going back through the backblasts while looking for ideas – YHC ended up in the way back machine, re-reading several of the ideas from good ol’ Side Effects. So that, coupled with one surprise YHC saw while doing a slow mosey through City Park looking for something different, would inspire the Saturday workout. YHC pulled in to the parking lot, happy to see lots of our recent new faces. Always refreshing to see new gentleman returning, bringing new ideas, new members, new enthusiasm. Thank you Pai Gow, Dry Rub, Mambi! Keep it coming!
5:30 – start with the disclaimer, and welcome to our FNG. Challenge issued to the PAX to try to learn about our cohort during the workout so we can start the naming with some ideas! Then mosey off towards MOMA to get started.
Warm Up:
Counts (and exercises?) are approximates. But I think this is mostly right.
- SSH x25
- Windmills x12
- Smurf Jacks x25
- IW x25
- Peter Parker x25
- Floyd Mayweather x25
- Parker Peter x25
Bear Crawl over to the lightpole.
Route 66
Side Effects was always a fan of the Route 66. One whole Sat AM workout was JUST Route 66. 6 of them, as I recall. Just kept going down Esplanade Street. Felt like it would NEVER END.
Outbound – Squat Jumps. 1x at first light pole, 2X at the next, 3x, 4x, …. up to 11x at the end. Al Gore on the netural ground for the 6.
Inbound – Merkins. 1x, 2x, …. up to 11x back at the water fountain. Plank and wait for the 6.
Heat is here. Humidity is out in force. Everyone Hydrate, por favor…
Tooth Fairy
Another Side Effects special. Irkins on the side MOMA stairs. 1x on the first stair, 2x on the second, 3x, 4x, … stopping at 10x. The stairs go up to 14 (which is the expected measurement), but YHC audibled for the sake of time.
4 groups (causing mass confusion, which YHC incorrectly blamed on bumbling PAX when it was, in fact, YHC who created this chaos through poor instructions). Whatever. Each PAX ended up cycling through the 4 stations. Tooth Fairy was the timer.
- Tooth Fairy
- Continous Lunges
- Continuous Dying Cockroach
- Wall Sit
Mosey back to the Fountain
Fountain Times
(or “Get in the way of the other morning group”)
- Right Leg Step-up x20
- Box Jump x10
- Left Leg Step-up x20
- Derkins x10
- Dips x20
- Irkins x10
Mosey off to the Refinery.
Refinery
Side Effects always pushed us to get stronger, especially with Pull Ups. 7 stations. Everyone partner up (PAX managed to get this right)
- Burpees x12 (timer)
- Jumpin’ the Shark
- Pull Ups
- Box Jumps
- Dips
- Knee-Ups
- Merkins
Everyone made it through one station. (Thanks, Gabrielle, for the extra help to get YHC up to the pull up bar those last reps)
The Surprise
YHC had been cutting time short on some exercises to reserve time for one surprise, which he’d noticed on a drive through the park the night before. More Bricks. YHC has decided that adding bricks to the workout is a Good Thang, and plans to do it more. And it so happens there was an unguarded pile o’ bricks right inside Tools Wall. So everyone grab a pair. (Much mumble chatter about who’s bricks were bigger. CHILDREN. PAY ATTENTION).
- Newton’s Cradle x20
- Jack Webbs: 1 Merkin: 2 Brick Presses. OYO. Go as far as you can. YHC called time after 8:16
- Shoulder Tabs x20
Return the bricks just ahead of the park ranger arriving in his golf cart…
Quick stop on the Tool Wall for Calf Raises x25 and Monkey Humpers x31.
Mosey back to the Main Lawn, and one final sprint back to the flag.
Lots of announcements to get through: Bible Study, Babycakes Game, Bar-a-thon, Summer Series, Summer cookout. No shortage of F2 events coming up – hope to see everyone out!
Count-off and Name-o-rama. Then naming of the FNG. Hoochey was a close 2nd, but the winner was Thigh Master, quickly shortened to just “Thighs”, coming from Suzanne Sommers, via Three’s Company. And I don’t recall how we ended up on Three’s Company for him – but the name stuck. Welcome aboard Thighs!
Thanks for the opportunity to lead!
