10 Wilderness explorers came out in the gloom to find out what madness YHC had in store for them. Here's what happened:
Disclaimer
Warm Up
17 plank jacks IC
10 IST IC
10 Windmill IC
10 Squat IC
The Thang
Mosey to Tennis Ct
YHC gathered the PAX and started to explain the workout. The mumble chatter was strong with several PAX advising YHC they couldn’t remember the sequence and would figure it out as we went. Off we went
Bear Crawl across tennis courts to fence for 10 Durkins OYO
Lunge walk back for 10 Fence climbers (YHC's go to body smoker)
Crab walk across for 8 Durkins
Lunge walk back for 8 FC
Carioca Left for 6 Durkins
Lunge walk back for 6 FC
Carioca Right for 4 Durkins
Lunge Walk back for 4 FC
Bunny hop for 2 Durkins
Lunge Walk back for 2 FC
Plank at the end of each exercise until the group finished before beginning the next exercise
Plank at end for 30 seconds
Mosey to Cul-de-sac
Merkin time bomb – count of 10 (always a PAX favorite, and a great way to suffer with friends).
Mosey to Queens corner
15 Freddie Mercury IC
Mosey to rock pile at top of Hugh Torrence
Select a travelling rock. The PAX were instructed once they selected their rock they wouldn't put it back down until they returned from the rock pile. What better way to get started with the legendary Zamperini counter clockwise around the pain clock and circle up for rock fun done IC
10 Curls
10 Squats (Toxic predicted High Curl, so YHC had to mix it up)
10 Overhead Press
20 Rock twists
10 High Curls
10 Burners
Zamperini back clockwise to rock pile and wait for all PAX to throw rocks back together
Mosey to Queens Corner and grab some curb for 25 Rocky Balboa's IC
Mosey the long way back to AO for Mary
Mary
Box Cutter
Banana
Homer to Marge
Low flutter
Hand release shoulder touch Merkins (Goat immediately thought about adding jug-a-lugs to make it more fun)
Moleskine
The mumble chatter started strong and grew when YHC messed up cadence at the start (thanks Toxic for the reminder)
It quickly died when the real work began
Toxic is not a fan of the lunge walk
Durkins on a fence bring added fun or pain depending on your perspective
Had to make sure we used our inside voices during the pain clock – that was difficult for Megaphone
Strong work today men and happy to get the chance to inflict another punishing, non-running workout on you guys. Thanks The Force for the opportunity.
Thanks to Die Hard and Toxic for the EH 1 year ago. I was happy getting my weekly mileage in and going to the gym for my workouts. Toxic let me know Die Hard was Q’ing for his anniversary and I had to come support him. I agreed and was surprised to see a large group of men getting together at the ungodly hour of 5:10, at an even more ungodly temperature of 3 degrees outside. These guys were crazy – I knew I would fit in. The workout was hard, but I was used to hard workouts. The difference maker was the mumble chatter, friendship, and the fun everyone was having despite the elements. I was sold. The next week I left the gym, and never looked back. I moved all my workouts outside in the gloom with this great group of men. I have met some great people and seen even greater feats of leadership and support for each other, our communities, and even communities hours away; all demonstrating Iron Sharpens Iron. Aye!