A beautiful morning served as a backdrop for the first annual Callahanniversary. 11 PAX showed up for a beatdown 1 year in the making, and YHC was giddy to show off what was learned in the past 12 months. Speaking of that, the motivation for the plan cooked up using YHC’s limited mental bandwidth was derived from the number of months in the year. YHC decided to keep the plan to himself so the PAX would be surprised throughout the workout. Nothing says anniversary like a good surprise. Or better yet, a painful one.
Warm Up:
- SSH x 20
- Good Morning x 10
- Imperial Walker x 15
- Windmill x 10
The Thang:
Jog over to the basketball courts and get comfy. We’re not going to be seeing much of the rest of the park. YHC explained the premise:
Double beast, broken up by a brand new exercise (details to come). The beasts would involve 12 reps of each exercise at 6 stations. Between each station was some sort of painful movement method (i.e. bear crawl, crab walk, lunge walk, etc.). Went a little something like this:
Beast #1
1. Bear crawl to each stop, 12 squats at each of 6 stops. That equals 72 reps. You get it?
2. Lunge Walk, MerkinFest (split this into Standard Merks at 2 stops, Wide Grip at 2 stops, and Dry Docks at 2 stops)
3. Crabwalk, Low Slow Flutter
4. Gorilla Hop, Freddy Mercury
5. Karaoke, Russian Hammer
6. Bear Crawl, Star Jumps
Intermission
The PAX felt too good after the first half of the mega Beast, so YHC felt it was the perfect time to whip out a new exercise for everyone to try. This one is called the Boilermaker Special. (Quick history lesson: The “Boilermaker Special” is the official mascot of the Purdue University Boilermakers. The “Boilermaker” nickname came about during the early years of Purdue football. There had been rumors the university enrolled burly boilermakers from the Monon Railroad shops in Lafayette, Indiana as students/football players to help beef up the scrawny football team. When a railroad operated an extra train independent of the scheduled timetable, it was known as a “special”. Thus, the trains which carried Purdue’s sporting teams and their fans to other cities for athletic contests were known as “Boilermaker Specials”. It was a perfect match (Wikipedia, 2015). Yep, I straight up stole that from Wikipedia. UNC academics ain’t got NOTHIN’ on that scandal!)
Anyway, it’s a derivative of the Carolina Choo-Choo where each PAX does an 8-point Man Maker (see what I did there?) after each hop over the other planked PAX. Carry on till YHC gets tired. In this case, we each did 2 rounds.
Beast #2
7. Bear crawl, Imperial Squat Walkers
8. Crab Walk, MerkinFest (again)
9. Backward Run, Plank Jacks
10. Forward Run, Mountain Climbers
11. Running short on time = 12 burpees OYO
12. Running even shorter on time = another 12 burpees OYO
After we wrapped up the second half of the mega beast, YHC remembered something he heard from a little birdy about keeping our parks clean. So each guy was instructed to find and throw away a piece of trash before circling up for…
90 seconds of Mary
6″ leg hold, 12-count around the circle
COT
Name-o-rama followed by announcements: Come out Saturday to the real Callahanniversary at the scene of the original crime (Pullen Park). Next week is #RespectWeek – Ma Bell is doing a Q 5-pack to celebrate his age, I guess. He’ll do a 6-pack when he turns 60. No prayer requests offered up, but we know they’re out their.
YHC took us out.
Thanks for giving me the honor to lead you fine gentlemen. Until next time.
HATE!!
