Pain Lab VQ 2020

This was my first time Qing Pain Lab… the second best AO in the nation, next to Folsom.  😀

Tha Thang:

We started out with a lunge walk that followed the dinosaur foot prints painted on the parking lot.
– Our first stop we warmed up with 40 shoulder taps (20 each arm)
– We bear crawled to the second stop where we did 5 burpees (or flying squirrels (Pax choice))
– More lunge walking to the third stop where we did 20 mountain climbers
– More bear crawling to where we circled up for the real workout

20 – Carolina Dry Docks (CDDs)
20 – Flutters
20 – Plank Jacks
40 – Fast High Knees with arms

20 – LBCs
20 – Werkins
20 – American Hammers
40 – Fast High Knees with arms

20 – Mountain Climbers
20 – Freddy Mercurys
20 – Bobby Hurleys
40 – Fast High Knees with arms

20 – Windshield Wipers
20 – Merkins
20 – Mountain Climbers
40 – Fast High Knees with arms

20 – Lazy Mike Tysons (Stogie-fied) plank to horizontal squat – no push-up)
20 – Gas Pumps (stogie-fied) in-out-together)
10 – Peter Parkers
10 – Parker Pers
40 – Fast High Knees with arms

We went around the circle with 10 Pax doing Iron Hulks (1 merkin to 4 air presses)

We then did Lt. Dans (4 lunge walks to 2 squats (I said one squat, but Rudolph got folks confused so we two)) following the dino tracks to the lower part of the parking lot and back.

Rinse and Repeat of the grouped workouts above, but in reverse order.

We then did hillbilly lunge squats (2 lunge walks to 1 hillbilly squat) following the dino tracks to the lower part of the parking lot and back.

We circled up in time to do 20 mountain man pooperz and for half the Pax to call out an exercise to finish up (I said no burpees, but two of the Pax called 10 burpees anyways… whatever, with my bad back and feelings of being spent YHC did more squats #YouVersusYou).

We met back up with the group from the bootcamp and finished with the COT.

While I don’t think this was a slopper-knocker, ball-bust’n beat down… I think the fact the temp changed to 5-10 degrees hotter within the first 30 minutes workout and the good company, and decent tunes (thanks Bed Pan for letting me barrow your speaker) I delivered what I set out to… a no coupon VQ that was lite on running, but not lite on effort.

The Iron Hulks and the second set of  “Randorama” got harder as we went (at least I didn’t think it got any easier). I was gassed out and seeing the FNG (who appeared more fit than YHC) having to modify was a good sign as well. I have done a similar workout at Folsom, but this time it had new meaning and intentionality. There was a theme of 20. We didn’t de-escalate with the number, but stayed consistent. 2020, from most accounts, has been a horrible year. People are getting sick (some dying), people are losing jobs, some taking 20% pay cuts until only God knows when, etc… The thing is, we need to stay the course… be consistent…  and do what is expected of us (by our Lord and Savior, but also those who depend on us… our families and friends).

Thanks for allowing me to lead this morning. See you guys around and thanks for the support.

~Stogie