BAM brings his friends to TRQ

BAM brings his friends to TRQ

QIC: BAM

Date: 04/13/23

PAX: Green Acres (WD), Doublewide (WB), Argyle, Ziggy Stardust, Starfish, D-Day, Wobegon, The Pony Express, BAM

Always a good time at TRQ, so YHC tried to add a little spice to the fun by bringing some friends!  As we all know, YHC doesn’t have any real friends, so have been reduced to calling my kettlebells my friends.  Although, as Pony pointed out, since I hadn’t named them, I’m not even a good friend to them.  But at least I’m consistent!

About 25 years ago, YHC led TRQ with the infamous 300 workout – 300 each of merkins, squats, and WWII sit ups.  Total Recall might have continued to give me grief for said workout for the past 24 years.  We ran him off, probably something I said, but still wanted to learn from previous Q’s by changing things up.

Warmorama

• The usual, except added a couple requests at the end
• We often do Mary “by committee” but don’t remember us doing the warm up by committee

Kettlebell bonus rules

• pax count off and remember their number for the entire workout
• Whenever it was their turn, they would stop doing the group activity and do to the bonus kbell fun
• there were 2 kbell options 40 and 50 lb
• 1st round – carry bells 20 yards out and back
• 2nd round – 30 kbell swings
• 3rd round – 15 Greg Louganis sit/press ups

The Thang

100!!

• 100 each of merkins, squats, WWII’s  (see, totally different than 300)

Mosey/walk to rock pile (farther than YHC remembered)

• pax took turns sharing the load of the bells
• he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

Tabata at the rock pile (8 rounds of :20 sec on and :10 sec “rest”)

• Set 1 – Skull Crushers
• Set 2 – Goblet Squats
• Set 3 – Heels to Heaven

Mosey/walk back to start

TIME

NMM

• Widespread Panic playlist from Amazon was the musical enjoyment
• Nantan felt like it was a little too low key even during the warmorama
• Pony is getting close to coming out of hibernation and posting more regularly
• Ziggy’s workout pants are fancier than YHC’s work pants
• Several pax learned the exercise is called Goblet squats, not Goblin
• Whirly is a seasonal biker
• YHC stumped Starfish and the other pax with one of the songs!  It was a tune by the Atlanta Rhythm Section.  #proudmoment
• Evidently once Argyle does an exercise or activity at work, he does not want or need it repeated
• Doublewide wondered where he had gone wrong with his life choices to be working out at a ridiculously early hour surrounded by really old people
• D-Day said some things in Canadian that YHC couldn’t understand

Prayers

• Dixon fam, service for Will is Sunday
• Aging mothers
• Ongoing treatments for pax