16 strong men showed for some Christmas Eve work at the Gashouse. YHC had grand plans for a creative Christmas themed workout inspired by some of Short Sale’s and Feelgood’s creativity. Life happens so nothing creative really happened. I sent a last ditch tweet yesterday making some claim that we might see some type of Christmas Carol theme with some exercises from Past, Present and Future workouts…..didn’t really happen either.
Regardless, we had a great turnout for a holiday workout. Some mubblechatter ensued but not really worth noting other than Monk introducing his Father-in-Law. Today’s disclaimer did include some special remarks for Monk’s In-Law concerning if his family had not already questioned his judgment since he allowed Monk to marry his daughter, he would surely remove any doubt that he was running around with us this morning. You’re on your own.
Warm-Up (In Cadence)
SSH X 20
LBC’s X20
Imperial Walkers X 20
Freddy Mercury’s X 20
Mosey to the Flag for the Pledge
The Thang
Mosey up to the track at W.P. Grier Middle School
Few extra flutter kicks as we waited on the six
For the first main work, we did go back to one of the first workouts here at the Gashouse in May 2015. Not sure what it’s called. Line up on the edge of track for some partner work. Partner 1 bear crawls halfway across the field, runs the remainder of the distance across, performs 5 merkins and runs back to the start. While this is happening, Partner 2 is performing 20 Plank Jacks + as many LBC’s as possible. Rinse and repeat so each person has done 2 of each.
Mosey to the courtyard for the Rally to 1000. Same partners.
Partner 1 does exercises while Partner 2 runs the steps for cumulative reps as follows:
Flutter Kicks X 200
Plank Jacks X 200
Freddy Mercury’s x 200
Mountain Climbers X 200
LBC’s X 200
Great work here as the legs were burning for YHC by the finish. As a group, we completed 8000 reps during this work.
Mosey back to the track for the Wolfpack Grinder – No Stroganoff Q would be complete without it. Always no burpees and always a Wolfpack Grinder.
Squats X 12 (IC) – Run 1/2 lap – 25 Merkins (OYO) – Plank for the six
Squats X 10 (IC) – Run 1/2 lap – 25 Mountain Climbers (OYO) – Plank for the six
Squats X 12 (IC) – Run 1/2 lap – 25 Merkins (OYO) – Plank for the six
Squats X 10 (IC) – Run 1/2 lap – 25 Mountain Climbers (OYO) – Plank for the six
YHC must point out that his personal space was invaded (actually it was violated) during almost every set of squats and unfortunately there is some photographic proof.
Still had time to do something completely new for this Q.
Line up again on the sideline for some lunge work:
Lunge to mid-field – 20 Merkins – Lunge back to start – 20 LBC’s
Rinse – Repeat
Mosey back to the Schiele and cram in some Flutter Kicks X 40 and some crazy amount of reps of Roscoe Merkins.
Anouncements; Prayer Requests – many families this time of year; T-Square and family; Feelgood and family; Top Hat and his father; others in the PAX that I am forgetting;
Name-O-Rama and small gift giving.
Welcome FNG/Respect Gordie (Monk’s Father-in-Law)
As always, I was honored to lead the group this morning. Great to get out there on Christmas Eve and share the time.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Until the next one. Aye!
Stroganoff