{"id":14036,"date":"2020-12-09T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=14036"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:48:09","slug":"carol-of-the-bells-n-whistles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2020\/12\/carol-of-the-bells-n-whistles\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol of the Bells n Whistles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tapped by the one and only The Singing Cowboy, esq. to lead the fine men of the Dashpax in the gloom, YHC went to work.\u00a0 Combining YHC&#8217;s keen musical tastes, love of word play, ability to use the google, and search through previous Q&#8217;s, a plan was hatched.<\/p>\n<p>It is Christmas season at our house, (notice the lack of assumption of what season it is at other pax houses, a byproduct of The Work convo&#8217;s and recognizing while Xmas might be the majority culture, it&#8217;s not everybody&#8217;s.\u00a0 If you want to be as enlightened as YHC, then you should join us Monday nights!)\u00a0 So, combining Carol of the Bells with Kettlebells seemed like a match made in heaven!\u00a0 And who doesn&#8217;t love both well known and not so well known Christmas tunes!<\/p>\n<p>Forecast called for a chilly morning, and YHC did not follow the #protip of keep your bells inside and not in your car.\u00a0 #intstantnumbness<\/p>\n<p>Searching through my Q archives, found a BnW Q from 2 years ago that seemed just about right.\u00a0 Except that version was pre-Covid and had an exercise that would violate CDC and Nantan guidelines.\u00a0 So, a quick search of the mothership website and presto, evidently Dora likes to dance!<\/p>\n<p>Pax began rolling in, eschewing the #fartsack, even heard Manscape shout &#8220;We own the gloom!!&#8221; in a deeply disturbing guttural voice as he got out of his car.<\/p>\n<p>With tunes rolling, because pax deserve some walk up music, 0530 struck so we got started!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm-o-rama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did a mosey with stops for the usual exercises about every 10 yards or so.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this normally would be an uneventful part of the beatdown and not need full mention, but as the pax were doing #merkins near the entrance to the parking lot, Winklevoss was running on Spicoli\/Zuckerberg time and came flying in the lot nearly taking out everybody.\u00a0 Never mind that he lives about 100 yards from the AO, assuming traffic was bad.<\/li>\n<li>So, once heartrates dropped to normal after the near death experience and Total Recall changed into fresh under-britches, we got officially started!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Thang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musical Dora! (because counting is stupid)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>P1 does called exercise while P2 runs lap, then flapjack<\/li>\n<li>Keep doing same exercise until song changes<\/li>\n<li>Curls &#8211; Father Christmas by the Kinks<\/li>\n<li>Squat to Overhead Press &#8211; Christmas All Over Again by Tom Petty<\/li>\n<li>Pullover &#8211; All I want for Christmas is You by Mariah<\/li>\n<li>Bent over row &#8211; Santa Claus goes straight to the ghetto by Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg<\/li>\n<li>Skull crusher &#8211; Christmas in Hollis by Run DMC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then pax transitioned to a personal fave because it lacks creativity, takes up time, and is fairly effective!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50 kbell swings, 50 WWII &#8211; run a lap<\/li>\n<li>40 swings and sit ups&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>30<\/li>\n<li>20<\/li>\n<li>10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>YHC then called for planking for last :45 seconds, although Lace had been done with previous exercises for about 5 minutes.\u00a0 Thankfully he&#8217;s nice and find ways to stay active. (although personally I don&#8217;t think kicking over Toe Tag&#8217;s kettlebell like that was very nice.\u00a0 figured it was some kind of medical professional rivalry thing)<\/p>\n<p>FIN<\/p>\n<p>Playlist &#8211; https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/user-playlists\/f5445de35ab345a3ad5cd9034746e808sune?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;musicTerritory=US<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run, Run Rudolph &#8211; Chuck Berry<\/li>\n<li>Carol of the Bells &#8211; Pentatonix<\/li>\n<li>Rockin&#8217; around the Xmas Tree &#8211; Brenda Lee<\/li>\n<li>Merry Christmas (I don&#8217;t want to fight tonight) &#8211; The Ramones<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t shoot me Santa<\/li>\n<li>Father Xmas<\/li>\n<li>Xmas all over again<\/li>\n<li>All I want for Xmas is you<\/li>\n<li>Santa Claus goes straight to the ghetto<\/li>\n<li>Xmas in Hollis<\/li>\n<li>Mistress for Christmas &#8211; The Rock Heroes<\/li>\n<li>Merry Christmas from the Family &#8211; Robert Earl Keen<\/li>\n<li>The Night Santa Went Crazy &#8211; Weird Al<\/li>\n<li>Santa Clause is Comin&#8217; to Town &#8211; The Boss<\/li>\n<li>Silent Night (Rocks) &#8211; Lea Hart<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NMM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evidently TR and Organ Grinder&#8217;s knees don&#8217;t get cold.<\/li>\n<li>Winklevoss noticed there was no MC during the Mariah Carey classic, probably because everybody was too busy singing along, #youknowyoulikeit<\/li>\n<li>Sounded like the playlist introduced quite a few pax to songs they had never heard before.\u00a0 That&#8217;s typically Starfish territory, so considered a high honor.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of stupid counting in the middle of the beatdown did seem to generate quality conversation<\/li>\n<li>Pax still covered about 1.5 miles with the shorter lap, because running is stupid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Prayer requests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>COVID: Tigger&#8217;s sister and her fam, Starfish&#8217;s parents, Spam&#8217;s dad are all positive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GreeNest &#8211; donate furniture and\/or buy twin XL bedding for their &#8220;Get up off the floor&#8221; drive.&#8221;\u00a0 Many in our community may have a home, but sleep on the floor.<\/li>\n<li>Miserable workouts coming to an AO near you<\/li>\n<li>And other stuff YHC forgot to record<\/li>\n<li>YHC can feel his fingers again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tapped by the one and only The Singing Cowboy, esq. to lead the fine men of the Dashpax in the gloom, YHC went to work.\u00a0 Combining YHC&#8217;s keen musical tastes, love of word play, ability to use the google, and search through previous Q&#8217;s, a plan was hatched. It is Christmas season at our house, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bells-whistles"],"acf":{"q":"BAM","date":"12\/09\/2020","pax":"Manscape (WD), Starfish, Organ Grinder, Total Recall, Balco, Lace, Interference, The Singing Cowboy, Atrophy, Closer, Air Bag, Bluto, Toe Tag, Tigger (WB), Winklevoss, BAM (QIC)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14041,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036\/revisions\/14041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}