I tend to sometimes feel like Paul Simon and hear the trumpet blast for You can call me Al …. all too often ( Watts Up always catches it and we have a great laugh) as pax will use whatever secretary their system uses whether Google, Alexa, Siri, Dummy, Fool, Goober or Gomer … it always will auto correct your words especially for Clavin ,,,, it becomes Calvin! Voodoo sent out a pre announcement for my Q today inevitably getting the above said.
Arrive a few minutes early to set up finding all huddled in vehicles ?!?? It’s only 65 degrees outside? I did however find us a new mascot of a frog and contemplated renaming to Bull Frog, but I tend to catch Hell on moments like that … so…
Set up my stations, set up music and await time to start…
Begin by welcoming all to the new south where the weather is what ever you want!! Only last week we were bundled in 3 layers and heavy gloves and toboggans … now?!?? Shorts ?!? Ok
Pledge
Let’s begin like Voodoo last week with stretches …
downward facing dog into cobra and stand up
next
Don Q IC x 11
IW IC x 11
merkins IC x 11
significance of 11 …. none lost track on first exercise count where I thought to end on 10 and stopped at 11 … oh well
stations … did not matter how many showed whether 1, 3, 5 , 10 or 30
timer would be the bucket brigade ( kitty litter tubs filled 1/3 full of ( yes … clean ) sand take down to end of drop off area nearest flag pole and bag ( some would shrug whilst moving, others tried holding tubs high …. hell I even forgot once to pick up when it was my turn …. oops q fail!
jump rope
band ( use around pole, back, under leg (s) and pull upright)
2 dumbbells (10 lbs)
kettlebells or block
slam ball / light exercise ball with handles and single
weight to use as steering wheel (Hipaa fav)
finally we had an interesting station that was left for interpretation …. 2 blocks and a piece of 4×4 wood about 5 feet long …. I laid the wood thru uppermost holes in blocks to make an impromptu barbell ( heavier than we all expected) but you can attempt to lift or balance on this or change to whatever you envision …. indeed today’s exercises we’re told to all to be you against you only … either you can challenge self to whatever exercises you wish to either vary it up or work only one muscle group …. all your choice !!!!
this last station was most fun to watch as the group each pax in turn challenged selves to either lay beneath and chest press , Oscar showed us to bend over and lift one side and drop over and over (nice), Dry Rub was the one to begin us all pressing and he also tried to balance as did I and squatted on top but the award goes to Spider-Man who lifted this and with one hand balanced on 1 finger and twirled this all while doing jumping jacks … I wish I videoed… it was like Harlem Globetrotters were present!!! Amazing stuff to say the least!
we ended with Thunderstruck … I ambitiously chose flutters and for every Thunder …. heels to Heaven ….. nope! After 1 minute changed to American Hammers , then called on each pax for an ab exercise… obliques and 2 others I can’t remember
And the music today was CLUTCH …. if you’ve never heard them ….do …. they are not in any radio rotation not because of language or other … but they are awesome …. Spider-Man checked them out in 92 ( I think he said?) in Ohio at a small venue … lucky!
announcements for March 21 all day F3 events 5 year anniversary and later shoot a thon at Tates
prayers for cashier at QT (Saturday night bunch of thugs left bar and trashed store and beat someone up at gas pump and threw bottle at the cashier)
shooting victims on Greyhound bus and at Texas A&M
read prayer from Prverbs30:5 Every word of God proves true, He is a shield for those who take refuge in him.