Wobegone put out the call for a Q needed for 6\/7\/18 and with my crazy travel schedule I jumped at the chance to Q on a day when I knew I would be in town. Besides I hadn’t been to TRQ since Short Sale was the site Q and it was high time I showed up. I reached back for inspiration to the only other time I Qed TRQ and decided I would revisit the 12 Merkins of Christmas but with a fresh new theme. The 12 Merkins of Christmas the sequel; June edition, this time it’s personal! With a plan firmly in hand and 6 suckers, I mean Pax ready to be beatdown it went something like this:<\/p>\n
I started with a brief mention of the lizard brain. This is a concept put forth by evolutionary biologists that we have layered higher brain functions one on top of the other as we have evolved. The lizard brain refers to that very early evolutionary conserved part of us that served us well 50,000 years ago when life was a little harder but is seriously maladaptive to our current environment. It is that part of you that tells you to rest instead of workout because you might need your energy later when you are being chased by a sabre tooth tiger. Or that you should eat everything in front of you because you don’t know when you’ll see food again. This was helpful when sabre tooth tigers and starvation were a major cause of death as opposed to todays champions of death, heart disease and cancer. I urged the pax to ignore their lizard brain and push through the pain that was to come. Ink Spot got a bit choked up and asked if I could continue to lecture for another 45 minutes on the topic. I was sorry to disappoint him but those merkins weren’t going to just do themselves.<\/p>\n
Warm O Rama
\nSshx20
\nIW x15
\nAbe Vagoda x10
\nWhirlly x15<\/p>\n
Hill Billy x15<\/p>\n
The thang:<\/p>\n
Mosey to other end of the parking lot by the wall<\/p>\n
Partner up size did not matter, all merkins will be 20 reps, pax were asked to go slow and with good form. Reference was made to an article Drano sent out that stated if you could do 20 merkins easily then you are doing them wrong.<\/p>\n
Partner 1 Merkin x20
\nPartner 2 LBC till partner 1 is done then flapjack<\/p>\n
SSH until the 6 is up<\/p>\n
Repeato but Repeato but<\/span> Wall interlude:<\/p>\n Peoples chair with 50 Jack Reachers<\/p>\n BTTW while each pax counts to 10<\/p>\n Back to Merkins<\/p>\n Partner 1 <\/span>Archer merkins left hand out (one hand in close the other pushed out) Repeato but Repeato but<\/span> Wall interlude:<\/p>\n Peoples chair with 15 head\/shoulders\/knees\/toes<\/p>\n BTTW while each pax counts to 5 (because I’m not a monster)<\/p>\n Back to Merkins<\/span><\/p>\n Partner 1 Ranger merkin Repeato but Repeato but<\/span> More Wall stuff but to be honest by this time I pretty freakin delirious so there was peoples chair and some other badness<\/p>\n Final 3 merkins<\/p>\n Irkins on the curb High right low left merkins High left low right merkins Final wall stuff, just as bad as before<\/p>\n Mosey back to cars for Mary<\/p>\n Planks of various types were called<\/p>\n X\/Os<\/p>\n Mountain climbers<\/p>\n and Ink Spot called for the low flutter<\/p>\n Fin<\/p>\n We listened to the Hair band playlist from Spotify throughout as I thought it would be a fitting goodbye to the ability to comb one’s hair (although admittedly this has not been a concern for YHC in sometime).<\/p>\n COT<\/p>\n YHC took us out asking for help to remember our health is a gift and needs to be maintained, to help those struggling with addiction, patience for parents with school almost out, safe travels for al those traveling and finally for those effected by the volcano in Guatemala.<\/p>\n Announcements:<\/p>\n I am on the last day of my LLS fund raising campaign<\/p>\n IS on Saturday will have some kettlebell action, I believe Van Gough has the Q<\/p>\n Closer brought an FNG who was a former professional dancer, and Palin shouted out Tiny Dancer and that was pretty much it. Welcome Tiny Dancer! Look forward to SYITG!<\/p>\n Thanks to Wobegone for the keys, it is always an honor to lead.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wobegone put out the call for a Q needed for 6\/7\/18 and with my crazy travel schedule I jumped at the chance to Q on a day when I knew I would be in town. Besides I hadn’t been to TRQ since Short Sale was the site Q and it was high time I showed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rock-quarry"],"acf":{"q":"Splash","date":"6\/7\/18","pax":"Splash, Palin, Ink Spot, Wobegone, Closer, GPS, Tiny Dancer (Former FNG)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPartner 1<\/span> Diamond merkin
\nPartner 2 <\/span>Low flutter<\/p>\n
\nPartner 1 Wide merkins
\nPartner 2 Box cutter<\/p>\n
\nPartner 2 <\/span>Freddy Mercury<\/p>\n
\nPartner 1 Archer merkins right out
\nPartner 2 American hammers<\/p>\n
\nPartner 1<\/span> Hand release
\nPartner 2 <\/span>Rosalita<\/p>\n
\nPartner 2 Juanita<\/p>\n
\nPartner 1 Derkin on the curb
\nPartner 2 <\/span>Low Dolly<\/p>\n
\nPartner 1 <\/span>Crucible merkins
\nPartner 2 Crunchy frog<\/p>\n
\nPenguin crunch<\/p>\n
\nMutton on the right<\/p>\n
\nMutton crunch on the left<\/p>\n