{"id":13278,"date":"2020-09-27T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=13278"},"modified":"2020-09-27T15:04:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:04:34","slug":"purgatory-by-green-acres-as-told-by-spamalot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2020\/09\/purgatory-by-green-acres-as-told-by-spamalot\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgatory by Green Acres (as told by Spamalot)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning Pax.\u00a0 And welcome to the next installment of &#8220;Spamalot as Ghost Writer for Green Acres.&#8221;\u00a0 Why, may you ask?\u00a0 Because Green Acres asked.\u00a0 And who am I to say no to him.\u00a0 Please note, the actual back blast provided by Green Acres will appear in quotation marks.\u00a0 All other comments belong to YHC.\u00a0 Fortunately, we had a film crew present, who were able to capture actual footage.\u00a0 #provemewrong<\/p>\n<p>As Green Acres does not have a watch, he mandated that the Pax tell him when it was time to start.\u00a0 At that time, it began as Green Acres appeared out of the mist:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Metallica performed Enter Sandman at Yankee Stadium   Mariano Riveras Day\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g6j795ZiCd4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ok &#8211; so Green Acres is allegedly 65&#8230;.let that sink in.\u00a0 65, with about 5 percent body fat.\u00a0 Of course he only wears tank tops and shorts.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 65!<\/p>\n<p>A little research found some archival footage of Green Acres from 1989:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hans and Franz Open the 1989 Arnold Classic\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VhOrmr4qaqw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ok, ok, back to the Back Blast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mission and CP, then Warmarama all IC: SSH, AVigoda, Vigoda (slow) Whirly, Imp W, squats, arm swirls, merkins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the Pax knows, the acceptable number of reps for a warm up is somewhere between 10 and 15.\u00a0 Naturally, Green Acres made us do 20 reps\u00a0 \u00a0But the Merkins were double count.\u00a0 As Pony Express noted&#8230;this is likely a foreshadowing.\u00a0 (Spoiler alert&#8230;it was&#8230;and it was terrible).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toy soldier walk to corner, mosey to Lido&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bam, D-Day, and YHC headed to the Pit &#8211; as there were no more chairs available overlooking the pool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;20 ea L step ups OYO, dips IC x20, copperhead sq ICx 20, wide merkins IC x15, howling monkey, 15 derkins OYO then repeato all that&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the above is just darn difficult to do.\u00a0 I think this is the 4th Green Acres Q I have suffered through.\u00a0 And all of them have had this portion.\u00a0 Too many reps and the howling monkeys are awful&#8230;especially with 20 guys.\u00a0 And to top it off&#8230;repeato!!\u00a0 Why?!!?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On to rocks, all IC x15: curls, overhead press, slightly bo rows, skull crushers, then same but 10 ea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Q directed the pax to pick a rock that they might regret.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll tell you what I regret&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the way to playground near tennis courts, 25 jump squats at 3 corners of track&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was perhaps the &#8220;easiest&#8221; part of the workout.\u00a0 Yes, 75 jump squats were the easiest part!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Divide Pax into 2 grps, 10 pull-ups and 25 merkins for all after flip flop, then 30 WW2 sit-ups, then to tennis courts for Wall Ball Crawl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Accept - Balls to the Wall\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B_3TlrZLpQ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pax on hands vertically on fence, hand walk sideways x 2 fence posts and back to start if possible . &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was not possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back to parking lot for Mary: IC low flutter x 25, LBC x 25, Mutton crunch 15 ea side, Fred Merc x20, plank for almost 2 minutes with a few Merkins, DONE&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NMM<\/p>\n<p>See above.\u00a0 There was plenty of MC.\u00a0 The Q did not care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Announcements\/Prayer Requests<\/p>\n<p>10\/3 Convergence &#8211; 7am at CCM.\u00a0 Tour first and then workout (w\/FiA) at 8am.<\/p>\n<p>YHC has the Q at the Estate on Monday<\/p>\n<p>Continued Prayers for Goofy&#8217;s family<\/p>\n<p>Prayers for Undertow&#8217;s Father as he starts hospice<\/p>\n<p>(not mentioned) &#8211; Prayers for Plunger&#8217;s MIL<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until next time!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning Pax.\u00a0 And welcome to the next installment of &#8220;Spamalot as Ghost Writer for Green Acres.&#8221;\u00a0 Why, may you ask?\u00a0 Because Green Acres asked.\u00a0 And who am I to say no to him.\u00a0 Please note, the actual back blast provided by Green Acres will appear in quotation marks.\u00a0 All other comments belong to YHC.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purgatory"],"acf":{"q":"Green Acres","date":"09\/26\/20","pax":"Undertow, Pony Express, Ripple, Bam, High Cotton, Burlap, Parkay (WB), D-Day, Boomerang, Splash, Offsides, Spamalot, Bulldog, Balco, Interference, Sgt. 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