transatlantic
QIC: crash
Date: 2025.08.16
PAX: zima, tweetybird, adobe, drip, ziggy stardust, tonka, cruiser, booboobustamove, nelly, subfloor, sparky, crash, the sheriff
YHC cooked up a workout to celebrate the day, the anniversary of the first transatlantic cable communication on August 16, 1858. The lincoln douglass debates were taking place that year but also queen victoria and president james buchanan found some time to exchange pleasantries.
we tuned in some thematic tunes, playlist to follow. workout was also thematic.
warmup
Morse code hops – side straddle hops
Cable coils- arm circles
fields marchers – toy soldiers
Victoria windmills – Abe vigodas
the thing
transatlantic cable extended 3 man grinder
cable layers (inchworm merkins) and heels to heaven
high voltage jumps (squat jumps) and nolan ryans
glory squats (air squats) and lbc’s
signal sprints (mountain climbers) and low flutters
2-3 rounds each in groups of 3. during this time was probably 30-40 min we grew from 10 to 12 – boo boo and sparky showed up. the running leg was performed as a bear crawl once by each pax. several pax mixed it up by running backwards. music on one end you could hear on both. lots of mumblechatter.
then to the blocks
Block signal station SOS’s… dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot
niagara block curls – 3 quick bent rows, 3 slow and controlled rows, 3 quick upright rows repeat 3-5x
signal presses – 3 quick overhead press, 3 slow skull crushers, 3 quick overhead press 3-5x
blocks away, relocate where there are some walls…
dot dash dips – in cadence by choice… 3 quick dips on ‘down’, 3 slow pulse dips (1,2,3 for down, up on 4), 3 fast dips on ‘down’, 3-5x
mary
my arms were smoked by here honestly.
a few things, some pulse merkins,
some penguin crunches
maybe some mountain climbers and of course the ring of fire starting with 3.
Finish
folks seemed to like the music. there was some mumblechatter in the circle discussion of the theme etc then
the sheriff rolled up “did someone call 911?”
we were thrilled that our SOS calls were answered, could not have asked for a better finale to a communication themed workout ending with SOS. Turns out one of our pax had a watch which measured a high heart rate and asked if they wished to call 911. Looks like attempts to decline that offer may not have succeeded and we were greeted by a kind keeper of the peace. Its nice to know the technology works better than it did back in 1858! The cable didn’t work long… failed pretty quickly.
announcements
intro to ipc took place last week, keep the ipc’ers in your thoughts and prayers and consider doing it yourself
van gogh is tomorrow 8/23! i’m sure wishes it was 22nd
shirt orders have gone out now hope you got one there was plenty of chatter so hopefully everyone got one
prayers
for sparky’s friend’s daughter cancer illness
subfloor mother in law arm to heal
prayers for friend whos niece, passed away after car crash last weekend
tarheels mother
code red to recover well
nmm
zima,
likes to pick on my form but didn’t today. did do just a bit of complaining but its all in good fun. did clap merkins with a hand release clap merkin for ring of fire
tweetybird,
great to see out, been more of a regular on weds and saturdays
adobe,
wonderful shirt designs and coordination of all of it, always great to see out
drip,
always smiling, encouraging and asking about inventions
ziggy stardust,
glad the heart rate got up though hope it didn’t get too high… heres to hoping we can recalibrate the settings on these technologies so they work better!
tonka,
seems to float when doing clap merkins, just makes it look easy
cruiser,
good to catch up and talk about what kids are up to next.
booboobustamove,
thanks for coming out even for :30-:40 min!
nelly,
a newer addition to f3 w-s with a recent first q, just getting stronger and stronger
subfloor,
i’m finally writing the backblast! thanks for the push and the advertisement doing a great job with the alcatraz ao
sparky,
a special shout out for coming out and joining, just need to make special observation that sparky did a clap merkin each time, no gloves, though most of our arms were smoked by that point, just really working hard out there
the sheriff,
we count you even if you show up during just before cot for serving the public good and looking in on our inadvertent emergency call. we forgot to EH you for it, but i think ziggy is going to work on it!
the playlist
which seemed to be enjoyed by all the pax.
