Birthday Shoes

11 strong men circled up for an afternoon Midoriyama workout with perfect weather! I was wearing my birthday shoes which are some sweet Optical White Avia Velcro Mall Walkers which I was recently gifted after the Tuna 200. My guys are so thoughtful! I just turned 55 on the 28th so let’s get started before I get any older!

Warmup: SSH x 10, Cotton Pickers x 10, Hillbillies x 10, Moroccan Night Clubs x 20.

Pledge to the American flag in Broke’s truck.

Mosey to the small soccer field
I borrowed this from F3 Pittsburgh called Sharknado.
20 Burpees, Lap around the soccer field
20 Diamond Merkins IC (yes, in cadence), Lap
20 WWII Sit Up (single count), Lap
20 Merkins IC (yes, In cadence), Lap
20 Scorpion Dry Docks IC, Lap
Rinse and Repeat (Yes I said Repeat)
Most were through with their second set when I called time on that. Dr. Seuss and Sister Act were leading the way on that one.

Slow mosey to the blocks in the woods. Some got half-blocks. Some got paver blocks. Some got 2 bricks. Slaw got a 45 lb. iron bar!
Curls x 55 with Sister Act calling. He had on his muscle shirt for all to see the pythons! It looked like he may have also been a bit cold! I suggest band aids for protection and I believe Freight will agree with me on this!
On your six for Chest Presses x 55 called by Slaw. I’m sure he wanted to take off his shirt but we were on the itchy grass!
Triceps Extensions x 55 called by Tater Hole who is sneaky strong and very young!
Another round of Curls x 55 and that’s about all the block work I can do!
I talked about the 55 reps we did as representing a year of my life and how the years go by so quickly so make each one count. Even if you feel like you don’t have a big area of influence, influence the ones you are around in a positive way!

Mosey to the playground.
3 pull-ups, 10 LBC’s, 15 CDD’s for 3 sets!
Time was running short so I changed to pullups to 3 instead of the usual 5. You’re welcome! (It may have been because I could only do 3).

Mosey back to the start.

Announcements: Rotary Pavilion Chili Cook-off Fundraiser, Sargento has tickets and several of our guys are entered.
F3 Impact Challenge is still going on. Check out the Pre-blast I sent out before last week and record activities on the f3savannah web site for our region.

Preblast for F3 Impact Challenge

F3 Impact Challenge

COT
Prayer requests, Broke’s Sister-in-law and my friend Jimmy. Prayer by Stroganoff. Thank you sir!

*NMM Strong group today as usual. There was some discussion about me going to Q school as I did favor the shoulder work today more than usual. It can be tricky coming up with a Weinke that works for all of the manly men of Midoriyama but this one seemed to give everyone enough. Great to see Sargento and Stroganoff out in the afternoon gloom! The new shoes seemed to work ok but were much too clean for Midoriyama. I’ll be saving those for special trips to Jackson’s cafeteria around 4:00 p.m. with Oompa and Seuss!