Block Party definitely feels like home to YHC. I don’t care what it smells like there sometimes, it’s a great AO with lots of options. On this Tuesday morning, 10 pax gathered to tease out some pain to break us down and make us stronger.

= Warm-up =
Mosey to the chained-off parking lot next to the Springs building for COP:

• SSH – x30
• Cherry Pickers – x10
• Imperial Walkers – x15
• Mountain Climbers – x20
• Plank Jacks – x20
• Squats – x15

Mosey to wooded courtyard area near other Springs building for some work with a knee-high wall.

• Box Jumps – x15
• Step-up // Knee-up – x15 each leg
• Dips – x15
• Derkins – x15

Repeato but only 5 reps for the second round.

Mosey to the steep hill on the west side of WEP. Before starting the next exercise, YHC talked about one aspect of the theme of the month: marriage. The “message” was a rerun from Alcatraz this past Saturday, and Jiffy was gracious to hear it again. Check out that backblast’s nake moleskin for the meat of it.

= Suicide Circuits =
Pax asked to partner up, size doesn’t matter.
The overall movements of this exercise is similar to a suicide where pax start at cone #1, go to cone #2, then back to #1, then to #3 and back to #1, etc. Total of 5 cones, but there are a few modifications to up the pain level.

• Each time the pax depart from cone #1, they must do 5 burpees
• Each time the pax reach (or pass) a cone as they travel away from cone #1, they must do the exercise on the cone. For example, if they are on their way to Cone 3, they must stop at Cone 2 and do that exercise (again).
• Traveling away from Cone 1, they pax should run. Traveling back toward Cone 1, pax must do the moving exercise written on the cone (like bear crawls) instead of running.
• Each team of pax must stay together. Some of the moving exercises involved partners.

For this exercise, there were 5 cones, where cone #1 was at the bottom of the steep hill. Remember, 5 burpees to start, and for each return back to Cone #1. The rest of the cones were labeled as follows:

Cone 2 – Mountain Climbers x20 w/ Crab Walks as return exercise
Cone 3 – Russian Twists x20 w/ Bear Crawls as return exercise
Cone 4 – Merkins x20 w/ Partner 1 Wheelbarrow as return exercise
Cone 5 – Plank Jacks x20 w/ Partner 2 Wheelbarrow as return exercise

For this workout, another set of cones were set up as follows, but we didn’t have time to do them in normal suicide fashion. So, we just hit them each once.

Cone 2 – Slow Sumo Squats x20 w/ Crab Walks as return exercise
Cone 3 – Plank Punches x20 w/ Bear Crawls as return exercise
Cone 4 – Hello Dollies x20 w/ Partner 2 Wheelbarrow as return exercise
Cone 5 – Dry Docks x20 w/ Partner 1 Wheelbarrow as return exercise

Times up! Back to COT

Thanks to Repeat for allowing me the opportunity to Q, and to the Pax for their hard work and encouragement. Special shout-out to Deadbolt from Raleigh for posting on the road.