Political correctness is a plague on our society. You can’t even title a back blast “Indian Run & Black Ice” anymore without people shaming you for being an old, white man with privilege. But I digress…
YHC was the first to arrive at 0520 and had roughly 30 seconds to gleefully consider a solo post (which would mean a return to the fartsack). But then Cousin Eddie rolled in beside me and hopped out of his car, guilting me into turning off the heated seats and leaving the cozy confines of mine. Before I had time to lament the low temperature, Dingo pulled up and Mopar was right behind him. Red Cedar rolled in right on the dot as we moseyed by him to start our workout.
WARM-UP OR DEEP FREEZE?
We moseyed to the corner of the lot by the school entrance to begin CoP:
- SSH x25 IC (mosey to next corner)
- Slow Squat x15 IC (mosey to next corner)
- Slow Merkin x15 IC (mosey to next corner)
- IST x15 IC (mosey to next corner)
- Mountain Climbers x15 IC
Moving on to the planters and brick walls, we did the following:
- Squats (butt to the low wall) x25
- Praying Mantis x15 IC
- Box Jumps x20 (or Step Ups x10 each leg)
- Incline Merkin x15 IC
- People’s Chair w/ Wonderbra x25 IC
Next on the menu was an Indian Run on the sidewalk all the way to the roundabout.
- Kack-a-lack-a-burpee (THE burpee between each planking pax) x3 rounds
- LBC x15 IC
We returned to the crosswalk at the bus entrance via another Indian Run
- Walk the Plank (plank walk at crosswalk with a merkin at each stripe)
Mosey on to the picnic tables behind school.
- Dips x15 IC
Grab a block.
- Shoulder Press x10 IC
- Skull Crusher x10 IC
- Curls x10 IC
- Lawn Mowers x10 IC (each side)
Return blocks, mosey back to cars and recover-recover.
LAYERED MOLESKINS
- Roadie arrived during SSH. Knowing his disdain for running, YHC patiently waited for him to commit to the corner we were in before moseying on to the next corner
- We started with a pentagon of pain which became a hexagram when Roadie showed. YHC could not recall the 6-sided shape’s name and later called for the pax to go to the “corner of the circle” causing the pax to question my grade in geometry
- It’s a good thing we did LBCs at roundabout since it’s all the time we had for Mary this morning
- I bet the real Blackbeard never had to deal with ice on his plank. He probably never made the captives do merkins on them either
- Red Cedar tried to insert a Mobility Minute into the workout
- Roadie risked frostbitten fingers to avoid grabbing gloves from bedroom closet and waking the M
- I fully endorse the balaclava for cold weather workouts. Couple them with some grippy winter gloves and you’ll have no problem heaving frozen cinder blocks in the gloom!
Many thanks to the 5 men who chose to join me this morning. There is no way I’m willingly choosing to workout in 24-degree weather unless I have friends to keep me honest. Be sure to support Red Cedar in his quest to honor his late father with raising money for cancer research as well as dropping weight. The sooner he accomplishes his goals, the sooner he can get rid of his porn ‘stache (although it’s starting to grow on me). Until we meet in the gloom again…