Back in college, a fellow student approached me after class and asked, “Would you like to have more money?” I mean, who would say “no” to that? Turns out that was a very clever way to snare someone into learning more about Amway. When YHC learned last minute that the scheduled Q had a conflict, the MQ decided on a similar pyramid scheme for the morning workout.
EVERYONE GETS A SAY
At 0700 we moseyed to the first lane of the parking lot near the bell tower where I had the men count off. Then I gave the instructions: 1st guy chooses an exercise and a rep count and calls the cadence. We then proceed to far end of lot where 2nd man does the same followed by the 1st doing his set again. Continue to snake through the lot (roughly 50 yards) stopping at each end for the next gentleman to call an exercise with each preceding exercise added on, #BrickmasTree style (sans the bricks). YHC doesn’t think the men understood initially, but when I asked Twister to repeat his exercise after Panzer’s choice at stop #2, the light bulbs started going off. Oddly, the exercises never got easier and the counts never got lower. I suppose that’s the power of F3 peer pressure accountability.
- Twister: Air Squats x13 IC
- Panzer: SSH x20 IC
- Tony Stark: Toy Soldiers x12 IC
- Rodeo: Burpees x4
- Crimson: Merkins x10 IC
- Camelback: Cherry Pickers x15 IC
- Omaha: Mountain Climbers x10 IC
- Crocs: Plank 1 minute
- Pitstop: BTTW 30 seconds (or Arm Circles or CDD)
- Carpetbagger: Side Crunches x10 IC (each side)
- Blackbeard: Suzanne Sommers x25 IC (each side)
- Troll: Al Gore (hold until last bell)
EVERYONE GETS PICKED ON
- #cobains to Twister for pulling out in front of him on the way to workout. My douchey move forced him to slow down and only exceed the speed limit by 10 mph.
- Omaha arrives 10 minutes early to a workout. The rest of the pax (YHC included) come in as bells are tolling. Did I mention St Mark must have re-synced the bells?
- Panzer’s SSH cadence is impressive. He even kept up with his count for the first several stations
- Tony Stark (Rodeo’s 2.0, FNG-1) made us realize that Toy Soldiers halfway into a workout suck almost as much as burpees
- Rodeo had the nerve to choose burpees, but chooses 4 claiming “it’s not even 5 burpees!”
- Crimson talks about the aches and pains of growing old prior to 0700 and then proceeds to crush the workout
- Camelback (FNG-2) seems to think cherries grow on the ground. We’ll straighten him out as soon as he registers on the website
- Carpetbagger must think I am a tech genius. He shared several excellent ideas for mobile apps after the workout, all of which I am not intelligent enough to create
- Troll gets props for posting 20 minutes into the workout. Some will say he missed 1/3 of the work, but YHC says he made the smart choice rather than rolling over in the FS like many of us would have done
- Apparently millennials can do their own thing as Pitstop proved when he lead a different exercise at each station. His response when I called him out: #okboomer
- I just realized that Crocs probably chose to plank to get out of having to call cadence
EVERYONE PAY ATTENTION
- Upcoming #CSAUP opportunities
- Feb 29: Polar Bear (Q: Freedom. 9-Lives)
- Mar 29: Operation Sweet Tooth 8k (Q: Olive)
- Apr 18: Jungle Bear (Q: Rocket)
- We voted at Waterbean to move #coffeeteria to NY Bagel in 2020
- does not appear #QSource is repeating in 2020
- coffee still in short supply at Waterbean
- assuming the Estate crew will allow us to mingle with them
- Looking for Qs to fill in March at Mighty Jungle. Several VQs today proved they are ready!