37 Degrees at North Hills Mall today…. No parking space cones up. Q arrived to find a Christmas Tree on his turf, I mean on the artificial turf. Perhaps I/m the only one who found it fitting that an artificial tree had sprung up in the middle of artificial grass….. next up artificial deer and artificial deer poop….
BTW, my streetlight, named “Desire” has still not been replaced…. it’s been 8 weeks now….sigh…I think it’s just a sign of the time of man.
Four Pax on hand at the start – including Vanilla Fudge…..named for a band (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Fudge) at the first concert he went to that also held “Cream” and a guy you might have heard of “Jimi Hendrix”. Our fifth wheel arrived right on time (for him) during the Good Morning Stretches.
The Q pulled a goof today – Dice hates being cold. Moved out of the frozen tundra (Of Chicago…which brings up the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field..and the Packers..and the unmerciful beat down my Bears received last night…42-0 at the half… seriously…Trestman…thats…thats….I have no words for that, Dude) to escape the bone chill inducing cold…so Dice put on his body core thermal base layer pants, a thin cotton long pants, cotton T-shirt, Cotton zip up sweat shirt, a runners skull cap..and gloves…and proceeded to sweat thru the hat in the first 5 minutes..stubborn mule didn’t take the sweatshirt off quick enough and almost vomited during the work-out…more later:
Warm Up: Turf
25x SSH< Slow Pace (2 rep per 4 count cycle, 50 reps)
20x Good Morning
20x Imperial Walker
10/10x Arm Circle
20x Prayer Squat
20x Windmill
20x Mountain Climber
10/10x Neck Rolls and Shoulder Shrugs
20x Prisoner Squat
Set 1: Turf
25x SSH, Fast Pace (2 rep per 4 count cycle, 50 reps)
20x LBC (2 reps per 4 cycle count, 40 reps)
20 Pax Count Plank
20x A. Hammer (2 rep per 4 cycle count, 40 reps)
20 Pax Count Plank
20x Freddie Mercury
20 Pax Count Plank
10x R. LBC (2 rep per 4 cycle count, 20 reps)
20 Pax Count Plank
30 Q Count 6 Inch Le Hold
20 Pax Count Plank
10x Burpee, OYO
Set 2: JCP Fountain
25x SSH, Fast Pace (2 rep per 4 count cycle, 50 reps)
10x High Irkins (2 per 4 count cycle, 20 reps)
10x Dips
10/10x Step ups (10 with one leg lead, switch legs)
10x Elevated Crunch
10x Derkins
20 Q Count Recovery
10x High Irkins (2 per 4 count cycle, 20 reps)
10x Dips
5/5x Step ups (10 with one leg lead, switch legs)
10x Elevated Crunch
10x Derkins
20 Q Count Recovery
10x High Irkins (2 per 4 count cycle, 20 reps)
10x Dips
5/5x Step ups (10 with one leg lead, switch legs)
10x Elevated Crunch
10x Derkins
Set 3: Turf
25x SSH, Fast Pace (2 rep per 4 count cycle, 50 reps)
10x Standard Merkins (2 per 4 count cycle, 20 reps)
10x LBC (2 per 4 count cycle, 20 reps)
10x Monkey Humpers (2 per 4 count cycle, 20 reps)
10x Wide Grip Merkins
10x A. Hammer (2 per 4 count cycle, 20 reps)
10x Prayer Squat
Uhmn…At this point Q has overheated (wore body core legging, thin layer sweat pants, with sweart shirt but now down to a T-shirt…. but with a runner’s cap on head, sweating and steaming profusely) and visibly nauseous as Cornholio jumped in with a “Do you need me to do the counts here?”…”Erp, uh, yeah, thanks”.
10x Diamond Merkins
10x R. LBC (2 per 4 count cycle, 20 reps)
10x Prisoner Squat
10x Derkins
10x Elevated Crunch
10x Sumo Squat
And now back on Q….
10x Carolina Dry Dock
10x Low Slow Flutter
10/10 x Standing Single Leg Twist N Crunch
Finale:
20 Pax Count: Plank-Sarkozy-Plank-Putin-Plank
20 Pax Count: Fist Plank – Chilcut
Name-o-rama
Announcements:
We need “Qs” for the 3 recovery road workouts: See the sign up sheets based off of the website (Click on the work-out and an excel spreadsheet should come up).
Mondays: Disabled List 5:45 NHills Mall Movie Theater Astroturf
Wednesdays: Injured Reserve 5:45 NHills Complex Midtown Amphitheater / Chuy’s Restaurant Grass
Fridays: Lame Duck 5:45 Root Elementary Lassiter Road Parking Lot
Thirsty Soul Thursday – Lunch Hour, Larry David’s Office off of Glenwood opposite from Crabtree Mall. Look elsewhere for exact location!
Friday Standing Happy Hour – Ridgewood Beer. 5:00-ish (give or take)
Prayer requests:
Cornholio asked for something (and Q admits he was still a bit out of touch with his thoughts at this point)…ah now I remember…he requested support to find an applicable Bible Verse to discuss at Thirsty Soul Thursday!
Q Thought for the day / BOM:
The Q is not much of an organized religious man..so my own “Religion of Man” leads me to see that there are a small silver of folks who are genuinely good people basically all the time, selfless, altruistic and go out of their way to always help others (first and foremost)… and then on the opposite end of the spectra are the more numerous Takers…who never go out of their way to help others, unless there is significant gain for themselves…the me firsters…me first and always…no matter who else gets harmed. The rest of us swarm in this big cluster between the two, sometimes doing good, sometimes not….and we get influenced by those we choose to have around us, by those we choose to listen to…. so I challenge you to try to identify who those truly “good” people are and spend more time trying to be around them, to help them and try to emulate them…. so that there are fewer days for you to look back and question decisions you made yesterday or feel guilt or shame on choices made after the fact.
