Ain’t No Laws when ur Sawin Logs

Ain’t No Laws when ur Sawin Logs

QIC: Tonka

Date: 5.17.2022

PAX: Starfish, Subfloor, Sea Man, Ziggy Stardust, Adobe, Abe Froman, Cruiser, Tarzan, Tonka

YHC wanted to showcase a couple new exercise the PAX would “enjoy”. Descriptions of these new toys are below. Credit: Tim Anderson with Original Strength

– Single Leg Elevator Squat – bear crawl position. Elevate one leg off the ground behind you. Perform a squat with leg still in contact with the ground. Repeat for called reps each leg.

– Sawing Logs – bear crawl position. One hand on your block, other hand on the ground. Push your block forward to full extension, then pull block back towards your body until beneath your shoulder. Repeat for called reps each arm.

WRM

SSH
Arm Swirlies
Dive bombers slow
Spine twist
Copperhead squats
Whirlies

THANG

Each PAX grabbed a block from the pile. YHC and Adobe were graciously allowing the other Pax to choose their blocks first when it simultaneously dawned on each of us that the only block remaining was the BEAST block. *shudder* Adobe fell on the sword and YHC lived to see another day.

PARTNER DORA @ BENCHES
Pax partnered up and performed a static Dora. Partner 1 would begin exercise A while partner 2 performed exercise B. Once partner 2 was finished, switch and continue until the combined total number of called reps for exercise A were complete – then on to the next round.

ROUND 1.

A. ELEVATOR SQUATS X50 DC

B. SAW THE LOG DC X5

ROUND 2.

A. GOBLET SQUATS X100

B. WWII X25

ROUND 3.

A. STEP UPS SC X200

B. DYING COCHROACHES X25 DC

Time was flying, so once complete with 3 rounds, the Q called for x50 monkey humpers OYO and then mosey to the parking lot.

Beginning around the center of the parking lot, the Pax were instructed to lunge walk to the wall w/ blocks as follows:
– 5 Lunges DC
– 5 Merkins (PAX Choice of style)
– Repeato until arrival at the wall

Return to previous partner formation. Partner 1 performed a wall sit while partner 2 did the called exercise AMRAP for 1 minute, then switch places. Continue in like fashion until all exercises are performed. AMRAP exercises:
1. SKULL CRUSHERS
2. CURLS
3. BENCH PRESS
4. BENT OVER ROWS

Time was really short at this point, so PAX returned the blocks Cusak style and moseyed back to start for Mary.

MARY
2 slow 5-count down, 5-count up merkins
1 standard merkin

TIME

COT

PRAYER REQUESTS
Ziggy Stardust and his mother, Sylvia. She is having health struggles and Ziggy and the family are struggling to know what to do. Keep him in your prayers as he travels down to MS this week.

Abe Froman’s M gave birth to their son this past week. Prayers for rest for the parents and praise for healthy mother and baby.

NMM
Cruiser had nightmarish flashbacks to elementary school gym class while on the wall sits. He mentioned the presidential fitness test but not his performance. I know that you’d kill it today, man.

Ziggy groaned with dismay when the Q recited his Dora plan. I guess every mentee is bound to disappoint their teacher at some point.

Starfish has never met a wall sit that scared him. He could have sat in his stoic meditation for hours without wincing had the Q not interrupted with his pesky minute timer.

Abe Froman is maybe crazy. The man is a week into fatherhood and operating on <2 hours of sleep and smiling his face off throughout the beatdown. Bless him.

Tarzan has switched over to metric measurements – which is more different than you think. Apparently, your metric age is 20 when you’re 34 years old in US Standard years. I’ll figure out the conversion formula and post it on slack for those of you interested.

Adobe got the beast block and no one could tell the difference by his speed or stamina. He is far and beyond out of YHC’s weight class.

Subfloor and I weren’t around each other much during the workout, but I remember a couple instances of the man asking for the next exercise well ahead of the rest of the group. He could have done this workout twice in 45 minutes.

Sea Man didn’t think anything was hard. I don’t think he’s broken a sweat since I met him. He, Cruiser and Froman got to chatting about fatherhood at one point and some sweet moments were had.

Enjoyed it gentlemen,

Tonka