This Day in History_at Distillery
QIC: Adobe
Date: 8-21-25
PAX: Sea-Man, Tonka, Drip, Blind Date, Nelly, Cruiser, Adobe
Alright #WeFoCo….it’s that time again. Time to work off the doughnuts. Let’s get after it!
This morning, I wanted to channel two LEGEND—-wait for it—-DARY HIM’s, Pony Express and Drama Queen. Always ready to mash up a cool themed workout with a history lesson.
I gave it my best attempt. Here we go.
Soooo, after punching the snooze button a few too many times, I finally DASHed out the door. Much to my surprise, I wasn’t the only one out there at 5:15am. And no, it wasn’t Nelly and Cruiser. A friendly skunk was either looking to hitch a ride this morning or was looking for some grub. Freaked me out…I ran, ran so far away… I started hitting the panic button on my truck hoping the horn would scare it off.
Cruiser walks up and was like, “wheres the truck? “ I explained the situation. “Ohhhhhhhh.” I had looked over to Nelly’s house and as he was coming out the front door, I saw another skunk running by. I think this was my new friend and he had darted across the street, away from my truck and towards the woods.
Okay. Great. Now we can all hop in the truck and head to Distillery, which would now be starting in about 12 minutes.
Made it across town only hitting one read light, pulled into the parking lot on 2 wheels, jumped out of the truck and grabbed my stuff. Had to do the Intro \ Mission Statement \ 5 CP’s all while moseying over to meet the other PAX who were not impressed by the Q’s tardiness.
The THANG:
Did our usual warmups; enough time wasters. Instructed the PAX to go grab some blocks, and it was time to get down to business.
So again, sticking with the “This Day In History” theme ( and I was really surprised how much cool stuff did happen on 8-21 ) we had a 10 part plan for today.
- The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre.
Exercise: Like an art thief, Run to the other end of the parking lot. Once there, spider crawl across. Then run back across the other end of the parking lot. Finally, spider crawl across back to the start.
- American swimmer Michael Phelps won his 6th Gold Medal at the Athens Olympics. ( He went on to win 8 total. 6-Gold, 2-Bronze. )
Exercise: Crab Walk across the parking lot ( long way ). Every 4 parking spaces, do 8x Swimming Supermans. ( These are basically Freestyle swimming motion, in a Superman pose on the ground. ) Continue Crab Walking. – We did this down and back…OUCH. Modify with Bear Crawl or Lunges, as needed.
- Wilt Chamberlains Birthday !
Exercise: Complete the Wilt Chamberlain, slightly modified from the Exicon.
Do 100 LBC’s – Run to the end of the parking lot and back.
Do 100 Squats – Run to the end of the parking lot and back.
Do 100 Flutter Kicks – Run to the end of the parking lot and back.
Do 100 Lunges ( 50 each leg ) – Run to the end of the parking lot and back.
- Usain Bolt’s Birthday !
Exercise: Complete the Bolt 45, as listed in the Exicon.
Do 15 squats, but only go halfway down.
Do 15 more squats, but start at the halfway down position and then all the way down to the ground.
Do 15 more full squats.
This was so much fun, and believe me the PAX were begging for it, that we went ahead and did this twice. I’m a giver.
- The animated film Bambi was released in theaters by Disney.
Exercise: Rifle carry across the parking lot and back.
- Dirty Dancing was released in theaters.
Exercise: Do 44x OH Press and then do 43x Skull Crushers.
- Hawaii became the 50th US State.
Exercise: Do 50x Rock-Ups. ( Basically an Alabama Prom Date, with block overhead. )
- Ransom Eli Olds founded Olds Motor Company. This would later become Oldsmobile.
Exercise: Do 79x Pickle Pounders.
- PETA, ( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ) was founded.
Exercise: Do 80x Monkey Humpers.
- Latvia declared its Independence from the Soviet Union.
Exercise: JAILBREAK run across the parking lot and back.
Just enough time left to carry the blocks back. TIME !
COT:
No time for Mary.
Announcements:
Happy Hour and a half tonight.
Cruiser has BBBC tomorrow. VG has the Q at Alcatraz.
Prayers:
Prayers for Cruisers father in law ( Phil )..Hip surgery.
YHC took us out.
NMM:
As stated many times before, 1. I need to get these backblasts up MUCH sooner so as to be able to recall all the awesomeness 2. It was an honor to lead this morning. Thank you guys for showing up and for the push.
I feel everyone got in a good amount of history. The legs may be feeling this one for the rest of the week.
Until next time… Adobe – OUT.
