Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: December 1, 2021

Do you even Spatchcock bro?

There were 10 HIM who responded to YHC’s mysterious post on Slack earlier in the afternoon. Will there be running? Will there be music? Will there be Spatchcock? This is what happened.

Pledge of Allegiance

Warmup – Don Quixotes, R over L, something else

Mosey down the road until YHC calls an impromptu left to the bleachers for some Step Ups in cadence. Mosey on to the strobing street light. Stare at the light as long as possible just to see if anyone would fall out. No one did! Mosey around the back soccer field to the far side.

The Thang – 30 Days of November

In recognition of Pilgrim’s Progress’ misstatement of the number of days in the month, YHC devised a workout around the actual number of days in November, 30. In descending fashion, the PAX would do the number of reps to the corresponding day, starting with 30.

30 – Spatchcocks (as introduced by Whoopee at the recent Gashouse workout. The key is you have to say the word Spatchcock at each rep for it to count. As a result, YHC was the only one doing these correctly.)

29 – Squats

28 – V-Ups

27 – Goofballs

26 – Merkins

Nur to the other side of the field and plank for the 6.

25 – Spatchcocks (still calling the name)

24 – Squats

23 – V-Ups

22 – Goofballs

21 – Merkins

Nur back to the other side.

20 – Spatchcocks

19 – Squats

18 – V-Ups

17 – Goofballs

16 – Merkins

Skip to the other side.

15 – Spatchcocks

14 – Squats

13 – V-Ups

12 – Goofballs

11 – Merkins

Run a lap and a half.

10 – Spatchcocks

9 – Squats

8 – V-Ups

7 – Goofballs

6 – Merkins

Run a lap.

5 – Spatchcocks

4 – Squats

3 – V-Ups

2 – Goofballs

1 – Merkin

Bear crawl to the other side.

Mosey back to the start and do 5 minutes of Mary. Limit 10 reps for those who didn’t know. Times up!

Thanks for the opportunity to lead men. It was my pleasure!

Announcements – Christmas Party, Half Marathon last weekend of January

Prayers requests – Gumby’s mom, Broke’s mom is improving, remember those who’ve lost loved ones becusue this time of year can be hard, Wojo’s M expecting

Complete Respect



Arrive early to set up ….carefully open outdoor outlet protector on SnoBalls only to find power off due to off season. Thankfully I had no backup plan for the music, having to rely on obsolete CD technology! 

warmup consists of slow arm circles front and back, Imp Walkers IC, merkins IC, plank jacks IC and Mtn climbers IC all ( almost ) to the count of 12 ( messed up once on AC.

collect ice cubes ( aka coupons aka frozen chunks of cement !!)

curls, overhead press, squat and swing x 12

merkins, hand release merkins, flutters and lbcs x 12

lap building 

decrease by one until complete 

called in Dirt for and exercise ( was seeking it and one more from another pax to complete an 11 routine with a dirty burpee for 12 total ….. then this happened ….

Dirt called for 8 8 counts ( man makers) …. So let’s make it up as we go….

I delivered 4 blockees to complete the 12

EZ gave us flutters and Watts Up had us do ( on back ) OP with extension behind head!!!! Yikes!!

lap building round 3 was rifle carry, 12 x 3 for 36s instead of colt 45, lbcs and something else

why the number 12? Redoing the 12 days of Christmas in honor of a great personal family friend who right now is under hospice care rapidly approaching time. 
 His name is Robert ( Bob ) Propst …. He lost his wife Marilyn a few years back. …. He’s had quite a few change ups in his life . Early in life he had a great love of song many felt he was Kenny Rogers with his looks and singing style . Gospel music would become his calling for a time until MS stopped him. 
A chance encounter with someone would illuminate a

new ministry for him as he would transform and become Storeybook Santa! Or  ( others know as) the Dillards Gastonia Santa.

the cd i was to have played was his Christmas Cd … many years ago they gave me the collected works some 6 or 7 discs!

and in case any wondered , yes, this is the same person I organized for Christmas carols after a convergence : of those who attended I recall Oompa Loompa and M, Time Frame and Google, Stroganoff, Rudolph and Myself and M as well as Cap’n Crunch 

prayers for Santa, EZ Rider family, Tube and family , achey Braky son with rsv and those battling addiction, loss or holiday sadness

 

Bulldog – 11/2/21

Disclaimer

Pledge

Warm-up

Get out your kettlebells and let’s get to work!

Round 1 – 5 sets

  • Merkins x 20
  • KB Swings  x 25
  • KB Squats x 20

Round 2 – 3 sets

  • O/H Presses – x12  I/C
  • Curls – x12 I/C
  • Chest Presses – x12 I/C
  • Bent Over Rows – x10 I/C
  • Pull Throughs – x10

Round 3 – 3 sets

  • Butter Fly sit-ups – x20
  • Flutter Kicks – x20 I/C
  • American Hammers – x20 I/C

COT

  • Announcements
  • Prayer Request

YHC closed us out in prayer!

Thanks men for allowing me to lead! As always an honor!

 

Breaker Breaker

Run the last mile

Named this Q from events I witnessed from last week. Montross gutting out the last uphill mile of Christmastown 5K, and Hacksaw limping to the end of the Turkey Day Pub 5K.

It was clear and cold. Nice starry sky with a crescent moon. Some runners were already on the course. Disclaimer was “Don’t get hurt. Be back at 6:15”.

We ran. 10 runners with the guesstimate of the average distance covered was 5 miles, some ran 7, some ran 5, YHC ran a hair under 4, some ran 3. Sister Act couldn’t pass the old geezer on the last bit.

All returned safely to the flag. Traffic was bit scary this morning. Slaw & Broke jumped in the ditch avoiding vehicles on Bessemer City Hwy, and YHC busted his butt getting out of the crosswalk at the 321 Dallas ramp where some dude didn’t slow down and ran the stop sign.

Prayer requests: Toepick’s mom, Broke’s mom, Goudelock family, praise on girl from Purple Haze’s church waiting on heart transplant, Mayor’s M, Huck’s mom and others than weren’t spoken.

Upcoming attractions: Christmas party the 11th. Sign up. Biloxi half marathon end of January.

Thanks for allowing me to Q. Sorry I forgot the pledge.

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