{"id":23527,"date":"2024-05-08T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=23527"},"modified":"2024-05-08T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:29:41","slug":"sweatfest-at-the-high-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2024\/05\/sweatfest-at-the-high-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweatfest at the High Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early May evening that was moderately warm and full of humidity will prove to be a harbinger of the sweatfests to come this summer, especially at the High Life.\u00a0 We had one FNG who EHed himself after being in the park last week and seeing the workout.\u00a0 Not sure if anyone gave him the exact time, but he showed up right on time.\u00a0 YHC meet a couple of pax for the first time and saw a few others in the light of day for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<p>YHC gave full mission statement, five core principles, and disclaimer &#8212; a rarity for me.\u00a0 Then it went like this:<\/p>\n<p>Warm-up in parking lot<\/p>\n<p>SSH<\/p>\n<p>IST<\/p>\n<p>Mtn Climbers<\/p>\n<p>Windmills<\/p>\n<p>Running with Scissors<\/p>\n<p>Peter Parker; hold it, Parker Peter<\/p>\n<p>To ampitheater and On stage, line edge inside and spread out. Apollo creed right until Q says \u201chalt\u201d.\u00a0 Apollo creed left back to original spot.<\/p>\n<p>Line up left side of benches.\u00a0 Lunge walk across stopping to do 10 merkins at break.\u00a0\u00a0 Reverse lunge back with same break.<\/p>\n<p>Down to shelter 3.\u00a0 Teddy Bear Picnic:\u00a0 Take turns until each pax has bear crawled length of table top. With 6 pax doing alternating step ups (three each side) and the other pax doing people chairs on pillars and rotating.<\/p>\n<p>Uphill and left to shelter 1 for howling monkey and planking Merkin circle.<\/p>\n<p>Up to field. Partner up.\u00a0\u00a0 A starts at one end and B the other.\u00a0\u00a0 At one end do 25 plankjacks at other end do 20 squats.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Run to each other.\u00a0 When meet, do 10 partner alternating handslap merkins.\u00a0 And go to other end for exercises. Repeat to until have done at least two at each end and 40 merkins.<\/p>\n<p>Over to bleachers at backstop. \u00a0Partner up.\u00a0 A does 10 derkins B does SSHs and flapjack; then 9 then 8 down to 1.<\/p>\n<p>Back for Mary.<\/p>\n<p>low flutters<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Mercs<\/p>\n<p>Low Dolleys<\/p>\n<p>Mutton Crunch<\/p>\n<p>H2Heaven<\/p>\n<p>Big O<\/p>\n<p>FIN<\/p>\n<p><strong>COT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mutton has Q for High Life next week<\/li>\n<li>Lunch bunch on Friday at noon at Bailey Park<\/li>\n<li>Prayers for Flipper&#8217;s wife with upcoming cardiac surgery, Cheerio&#8217;s father, Glazer&#8217;s mother, and Ziggy as he grieves his mother&#8217;s passing.<\/li>\n<li>YHC took us out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NMM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When YHC scouted the AO Sunday at the same time, there was no one using the shelters.\u00a0 Tuesday night, three of the five shelters that I had planned for had occupants.\u00a0 We worked around OK.<\/li>\n<li>I am sure that future users of Shelter 3 appreciate our bearcrawls across the tables.<\/li>\n<li>Rudolph was trying to guess the theme to my music selection and called it &#8220;random&#8221;.\u00a0 He was right, as my playlist is labeled &#8220;Random for Workout&#8221;.\u00a0 He couldn&#8217;t find the tie between Al Green and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.<\/li>\n<li>Mutton was kind enough to patronize my Q, but I figured out that he was probably scouting for his Q next week, so I don&#8217;t allot him any friendship points for showing up!<\/li>\n<li>Flipper was precise and showed good form on both the forward and backward lunges on the benches in the amphitheater.\u00a0 That was tougher than it looked &#8212; a balance and core exercise.<\/li>\n<li>Blue Steel was an excellet hand-slap merkin partner.<\/li>\n<li>Heisenberg breezed through the workout; I am not sure if he sweated or drew a deep breath.<\/li>\n<li>It was good to see Tarzan back out after I was a part of his fun and warped naming at Purgatory, and he worked hard throughout.<\/li>\n<li>Influencer was another that seemed to sail through the workout, but he didn&#8217;t make or post any videos of the proceedings (to my knowledge).<\/li>\n<li>I had worked out with BrownBag once or twice before but barely recognized him because, you know, it&#8217;s usually dark at 5:30.\u00a0 He is doing a rotation in the ED.\u00a0 Thankful that we didn&#8217;t need him.<\/li>\n<li>Former FNG Kevin is now Shasta.\u00a0 Shasta is originally from northern Michigan, was a Marine, a welder, and most recently had his camper stolen in the night in the St. Louis area.\u00a0 He did not have nice things to say about the Show Me state, consequently.\u00a0 He is in town staying with his girlfriend.\u00a0 Shasta is apparently a reference to the camper.\u00a0 For old people, I tried a Rockford Files refenece, but no one but Mutton had seen it.\u00a0 Anyway, Shasta did great and got his money&#8217;s worth on form and speed.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, I would be remiss in not reporting that Rudolph became too friendly and excited during Mary when Al Green&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Stay Together&#8221; came on, and he started talking about his wedding.\u00a0 We hope he didn&#8217;t get to worked up before he arrived home to see his poor wife&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for the keys, Frostbite.\u00a0 I am now FedExing them to Mutton.<\/p>\n<p>An honor to lead and be with you gentlemen.<\/p>\n<p>Burlap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early May evening that was moderately warm and full of humidity will prove to be a harbinger of the sweatfests to come this summer, especially at the High Life.\u00a0 We had one FNG who EHed himself after being in the park last week and seeing the workout.\u00a0 Not sure if anyone gave him the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootcamp","category-highlife"],"acf":{"q":"Burlap","date":"07 May 2024","pax":"Mutton, Flipper, Blue Steel, Heisenberg, Rudolph, Tarzan, Influencer, BrownBag (WB?), FNG Shasta, and Burlap (QIC and WD)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527","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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23528,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions\/23528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}