16 PAX posted this morning at #WIB to work out our bodies and pay respects to members of the Greatest Generation who sacrificed and achieved so much 75 years ago on June 6, 1944.<\/p>\n
This is the second consecutive year that YHC has Q’d on June 6.\u00a0 \u00a0I have always been passionate about World War II and the American heroes who served and sacrificed so much in that cataclysmic war.\u00a0 My grandfather and both his older and younger brothers all served in World War II (with all three serving in the Pacific Theatre).\u00a0 \u00a0Tragically, the eldest brother, Brady M. Wood, was killed by a Kamikaze on April 6, 1945, a loss and pain that lingered in our family for a long time, as I personally experienced as a child through my great-grandparents (who lived to be 98 & 100) and my grandfather and his surviving brothers and sister, who all became very emotional whenever Brady came up in discussion.\u00a0 With D-Day being one of the most important events of that war, I always want to do it justice and recognize and remember the sacrifices that so many young people, many right out of high school, made that day.<\/p>\n
WARMARAMA:\u00a0<\/strong> A typical medley of SSHs, ISTs, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Whirlies with a Clap, Abe Vigodas, Peter Parkers and standing hamstring stretches.<\/p>\n THE THANG:<\/strong>\u00a0 To commemorate D-Day, my WIB beatdown consisted of a 0.6 mile loop which wound around the buildings encompassing Starbucks\/PNC Bank, CVS, Whole Foods, and Five Guys restaurant along Robinhood Road near the intersection with Peacehaven.\u00a0 \u00a0Breaking up this loop were six pain stations.\u00a0 Each pain station was marked by a Weinke upon which was emblazoned the patches\/symbols of major U.S. military units involved in the initial invasion on June 6, 1944, along with their major objective (or in the case of the two Airborne Divisions, one of their notable objectives).\u00a0 At each pain station was one or more exercises.\u00a0 These pain stations were assaulted in the following order as listed below:<\/p>\n During our initial lap, we performed 10 repetitions of each exercise at each pain station.\u00a0 \u00a0During each successive lap, 1 additional rep was added, so that 10 reps progressed to 11, etc.\u00a0 \u00a0The sole exception to this scheme was at the 101st Airborne Burpee pain station, where the PAX were free to do 10+ reps or alternatively roll dice (however many you chose) and perform that number of Burpees.<\/p>\n We continued this process until 0610 rolled around.<\/p>\n MARY:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Mary was performed democratically, with several PAX calling out assorted abdominal exercises.\u00a0 YHC was busy grabbing my phone & speaker and setting up the GEN Eisenhower speech and only joined in at the end to call out American Hammers.<\/p>\n NMM:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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