A crazy eight of NW Charlotte Proper’s finest came out on a damp morning to make absolutely certain that it was The Same As It Ever Was. What follows is the lowdown on the throwdown.
Warm-o-Rama
Come grab yo bricks/pavers, they come two to a set. With brick/pavers in hand, we did SSH, TS, Windmill, and cotton freakin’ cherry pickers.
The Thang
With bricks still in hand, mosey to back parking lot. Do a mess of exercises with bricks in a set then run around track with bricks in hand.
1st set – Chest and Shoulders
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10 part Meet Your Maker Mercans – squat (i.e., part 1 of 10), plank (2), mercan down (3), mercan up (4), row with arm holding brick (5), row with other arm (6), legs split (7), legs back together (8), back to squat position (9) and stand with OH press (10)
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Decline brick mercans on curb
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Incline brick mercans on curb
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Squats with overhead press
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Front raises, over to sides, and then down, repeato
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Upright row (Trapezoids)
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New exercise called “reverse woodchooper”. Take bricks in hand, start with arms low and to the side and then swing up and across body to other side. Kinda like a golf or baseball swing, which is the reverse of chopping wood.Try not to drop/launch bricks while in mid swing.Repeato on other side
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Rapid fire overhead press and then shadow box with bricks, repeato
Skip around track with bricks in tow
2nd set – Back, biceps, tris and legs
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Bent over row
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Gun show curls
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Skull crushers
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Tri extensions
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Diamond brick mercans
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Dips on curb
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Squats with flair
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Apollo Anton Ono (aka, the Gaye Blayde)
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Around the world lunges with curls
Backwards Run halfway around track then head over to covered area for Mary
Mary
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Mason brick twist (i.e., Brason twist)
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High plank with one arm raised, boxing motions, one leg ups, slow mercans and regular plank
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Dying cockroach with bricks in hand
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Leg lifts with bricks with each Pax counting down from 10 at their preferred pace
Moleskine
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Same As It Ever Was is an homage to not doing anything differently for the near future. Pax not wanting to discuss the TagTeam workout from last week in any detail is the first step to recovery. Some are clearly showing the classic signs of PTSD.
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Summer F3 project will be an American history music series that will include 1) information on historical musical acts and 2) random linkages of these acts/songs to the workouts. You just might learn something and have some fun at the same time
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"Once in a Lifetime" is a song by new wave band Talking Heads, released in 1981 as the first single from their fourth studio album, 1980's Remain in Light. One of the main themes of the lyrics is the drudgery of living life according to social expectations, and pursuing commonly accepted trophies (a large automobile, beautiful house, beautiful wife). Although the singer has these trophies, he begins to question whether they are real and how he got them. This leads him to question further the reality of his very life, providing the existential element.
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The brick accompaniment during the warm-up portion of the workout was a nice touch
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Placement of the 10 part meet your maker mercans was appropriate since pretty sure we could not have completed this at the end
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Positive Q feedback received when asked if there were any problems at home that made him want to work the shoulders so hard
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You may be a white collar office worker if you have to put gloves back on before bringing the bricks all the way back to the car. Q has delicate Finance hands
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Welcome West Point for his first post at the Quarry. He went to school at The Citadel and apparently is used to workouts at high altitudes since the wheezing demonstrated by the other Pax during the workout was not as evident in this one. While youthful, the Pax may have the upper hand in the area of maturity (debatable).
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West Point can sure count. The Mountain Island militia can learn a little something from him
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Q admittedly may have some issues.I used the word “may” just to be polite. But that was a whole heckuva lotta fun
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It’s an honor and a pleasure to have the opportunity to lead this fine group of men