Our Gang

Event Date

Feb 27, 2018


Two and a half men came out on a return to cold morning in order to pay homage to the Little Rascals. Some of the story that follows had to be redacted prior to publication based on the advice of outside legal counsel.

Warm-o-Rama

Dynamic stretching platter

The Thang

Part I – Four Corners. Do one exercise in each corner for 30 seconds then run to next corner

1st set

  • Typewriter Mercans

  • Frog jumps with 1/4 turn

  • LBC

  • Burpees

1 min rest

2nd set

  • Carolina Dry Dock

  • Jump lunges

  • Mason twist

  • Diamonds

1 min rest

3rd set – repeato of the 1st set

4th set – repeato of the 2nd set

Part II

Follow Q to the back of the suburban. Come get yo bricks! We did the following exercises accompanied with bricks:

  • Squats with over head shoulder press

  • Shoulder extensions out to side and out to don’t

  • Reverse shoulder flies

  • Upright row (trapezius)

  • Skull crushers

  • Tri extensions

  • Gun show (curls)

  • Mason brick twist

  • Dying cockroach

  • V or w ups

  • 6 inch leg raise with bricks with each pax counting down from 10

Moleskine

  • Our Gang (also known as The Little Rascals) are a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series was produced from 1922 to 1944 and is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way, as Roach worked to film the unaffected, raw nuances apparent in regular children rather than have them imitate adult acting styles.

  • Our Gang characters included Farina, Wheezer, Pete the Pup, Jackie Cooper, Stymie, Spanky, Butch, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla Hood, Chubsey Ubsey, Uh-huh and Froggy

  • Oktoberfest learned Filipino Christmas songs as a youth in Chicago. If you can get past that hard exterior, chipping ways at these layers is striking in what it can reveal

  • Miss Crabtree asks her students “Can you use the word dictate in a sentence?” Buckwheat’s answer was redacted

  • While putting bricks in the car the night before makes the morning logistics easier, it also makes the bricks damn cold to handle

  • Pax question asked about halfway thru – remind us again what all this has to do with the Little Rascals?

  • Fingertip Mercans is a type of exercise that can help one work other bodily areas. Heavily redacted

  • Oktoberfest brought a tapped keg in his backseat to this morning’s workout. Seemed like a cry for help

  • As far catholic girl song-along songs, Billy Joel’s version is way better than the Frank Zappa version

  • Save the date – Saturday March 10 is Chuck Norris’ birthday. There may be a belt up for grabs

  • Great work men!