Easter Vern

04/16/2019 Midoriyama
When working on a Weinke, one has to consider several things. How difficult should the workout be? Will the “front of the Pax guys” be challenged? Will the “Back of the Pax guys” be able to keep up? In a recent podcast I heard Dredd say someone called him out about cheating in a workout. Now I follow Dredd on Strava and this guy is about the same age as I am and he is an absolute beast as far as running and workouts so I was interested to hear why someone thought he was cheating during workouts. The guy told him, we all cheat a little in our workouts. What he was saying is that no one does full perfect form on every rep on every exercise. So with that in mind I wanted a Weinke that would allow everyone to push themselves as far as they chose to.

Warm Up
Goofballs x 10 IC, Abe Vigodas x 10 IC (the old guy jokes started here), Moroccan Night Clubs x 10 (waiting on our bearded, truck driving, Folsom T Shirt wearing, brother Montross to roll in hot) and then 5 burpees OYO (Pizza Man heard 10 and was wondering how we all were done so quickly).

VERN (borrowed from Slaw who borrowed from Dolph)
10 pullups (at the playground)
Lap around the horseshoe pit
20 Dips (single count on the horseshoe pit bleachers)
Lap around the horseshoe pit
25 Merkins (single count)
Lap around the horseshoe pit
30 LBC’s (single count)
Lap around the horseshoe pit
Repeat starting with the pullups until I say stop.
We did this for 25 minutes. Pizza Man and Sister Act completed 4 sets and started 5. Several others were close to completing 4 and most everyone completed 3.

Walk over to the Turd Shack for what I call 7’s. 7 exercises x 7 IC repeating each one and adding a new one each set.
Hipslappers x 7 IC called by Pizza
Hipslappers x 7 IC, LBC’s x 7 IC.
Hipslappers x 7 IC, LBC’s x 7 IC, Low Slow Squats x 7 IC called by Sister.
Hipslappers x 7 IC, LBC’s x 7 IC, Low Slow Squats x 7 IC, Merkins x 7 IC called by Tyson (his cadence was wildly erratic)
Hipslappers x 7 IC, LBC’s x 7 IC, Low Slow Squats x 7 IC, Merkins x 7 IC, LBFC’s x 7 IC called by Freight of course and Sister Act questioned the validity of this exercise.
Hipslappers x 7 IC, LBC’s x 7 IC, Low Slow Squats x 7 IC, Merkins x 7 IC, LBFC’s x 7 IC, Donkey Kicks x 7 IC called by Broke.
Hipslappers x 7 IC, LBC’s x 7 IC, Low Slow Squats x 7 IC, Merkins x 7 IC, LBFC’s x 7 IC, Donkey Kicks x 7 IC, Monkey Humpers x 7 IC called by Stroganoff.

After each set I had what I thought were some “interesting” facts about Easter. Some were better than others but I left the guys with this one. “Maundy” Thursday is this week and means “commandment” and that refers to Jesus at the Last Supper commanded us “to love one another as I have loved you”. His love really is the story of Easter. We should all think about that “commandment” to love and try to live it.

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Broke took us out.

*NMM Great to see all of the guys out today. I just completed my 3rd year of F3 and I have to say, it has really improved my life. I posted at the Gashouse my first time in late March of 2016. I had recently ran a half marathon and felt I was in pretty good shape but I was in for a shock at how out of shape I really was. I knew I needed to post but my schedule made it tough to post early so I saw Midoriyama on the afternoon schedule at Poston park. I actually drove by and saw Freight, Floppy Disk and Pizza Man doing pushups. I thought about not posting since those guys were so much younger than me but I took a chance. I will always be grateful to those guys and Tooltime for taking this old guy in at Midoriyama and making me feel welcome and connecting me to the long list of F3 friends that I have now. Looking back on it I now see how much I needed F3 as I was going through a tough stretch. It was one of those stretches where it is easy for men to get disconnected and I was headed that way, so thanks F3 Gastonia!