I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

I pulled into the Schiele Museum parking lot just in time to see the end of the combined Painlab/Gashouse warmup! The morning wasn’t starting off the way I like it between spending some time pondering life on the throne and running a few minutes late! However, I was now at F3 with a truck full of cinder blocks so things were looking up. Well, so I thought!

Warmup: Not sure, I missed it. It was quick though…maybe 2 minutes tops? insert joke here

Thang:

We’ll start out by leaving the blocks in the truck and doing Route 66 Mike Tysons, lunge walking in between and doing Mike Tyson push-ups at every other line. Feel the burn in those quads! This is always a mumble chatter stopper and one of my ‘go-to’ exercises!

Next, Route 66 Squats, bear crawling between exercises and doing squats at every other line. It’s interesting when you do these exercises in a curved parking lot. The lines don’t exactly “line up” so we had to talk about. Some may have accused others of cheating but we all get along. Personally, I think it was the UNC fans who were cheating. It’s what they do!

Everyone on your six for some abs. After all the bear crawling and MTs, I figured it’s a good time to give the body a quick break
– LBCs 15 IC
– Rosalitas 15 IC
– Flutter Kicks 15 IC
– Big Boys – 10 OYO
– American Hammers 15 IC

Everyone grabs a block for curls – Carry your block and do 10 curls at every other line. Most hit 11 lines, some did 12.

Rinse and repeat with ‘Cinder Block Swings”, much like Kettlebell Swings – walk between every other line and do 10 swings. Rinse and repeat. We just went across the parking lot for around 6 or 7 lines.

Rinse and repeat, but this time with did 10 Squat Thrusters with the blocks at every other line. We also went across the parking lot once for about 6 or 7 lines.

We give the arms a quick break with some more ab work.
– LBCs 15 IC
– Rosalitas 15 IC
– Flutter Kicks 15 IC
– Big Boys – 15 OYO (by request from Rudolph, who was scorned afterward)
– American Hammers 15 IC

At this point, I had a round of Mary exercises with the blocks in mind, but I had blown through my weinke a bit faster than I had planned. On top of that, I haven’t done block work in a while and I was feeling pretty smoked on the block swings. Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, I believe it was Tube who mentioned how awful Yoga was in a recent workout. So, I asked him to take the lead and let’s do some Yoga. Rudolph stepped in and led us through about 5-10 minutes of Yoga poses. Frankly, I love doing Yoga, I’m just not comfortable enough with it to call it. IF you can’t tell it, this part is the reason I titled this backblast “Get By With a Little Help From My Friends”.

So we moved back to the blocks for some Mary. I was originally going to go through 20 to 1 but as we talked, I shifted directions a bit. I let every guy call his own exercises. We started with 20, then went to 15, then as the Go Ruck Training Team came through, I let them also jump in on calling exercises. We worked until the bells rang. Tricep extensions, upright rows, chest presses, and “pull overs”…I think that was the name…you lay on your back with the block over your head and pull it over your head to your chest, and we slid the block from the plank position. Crunch Frogs, Dying Cock Roaches also made an appearance. I know I missed an exercise in this list, but the guys were just taking turns coming up with the hardest stuff they had. It was great.

…and the bell tolls, it’s 8:00. We nameorama with the bootcampers and we’re out!

I was getting pretty smoked after the Squat Thrusters but the Yoga made a great opportunity to stretch out and catch my breath while continuing to work. I appreciate the warm welcome to Painlab once again and look forward to coming back out soon enough.