Thirteen of Rock Hill’s finest and fastest gathered at PHOP for an old school Padre-like gear beat down. Nine joined us for the gear/boot camp, 4 took off running to train for the Palmetto 200. I remember being told the story of PHOP starting–and from the start, there was a gear part to the workouts. Since Padre moved, we’ve missed out on some of that, so I attempted to bring it back with a few purchases from the Blue and Orange Hardware stores…in honor of the man who gave the world Farmland Fitness, of course.

Warmup:

Mosey to other side of church.

SSH x 20

Windmill x 20

Merkins x 10

Right Arm High, Left Arm High, 6 inches. Apache count to 10 (more like 100–I instantly regretted asking Apache to call the 10 count)

Mountain Climber x 20

High Knees Up Hill, jog back down

Butt Kickers Up hill, jog back down

Karaoke up hill, jog back down

Karaoke opposite direction, jog back down

After the warmup-we went over the gear stations: (each was approximately 2-2.5 minutes, as many reps as possible)

Station 1: 50 lb sandbag lunges up hill and down

Station 2: Cinder block curls

Station 3: Cinder block Power Clean

Station 4: Cinder block Squats

Station 5: Tire Flip

Station 6: Cinder block overhead press

Rinse and Repeat (2x)

As we were finishing our 5th rotation of the last set of exercises, the P200 group came in flying! (and I do mean flying!)

Nice work by all the men, Creed and Boots were doing extra credit on many of the exercises. Mayhem looked like he hadn’t skipped a beat even though he’s been on the shelf a bit. Apache was his usual strong self. Italian Job and Riddler were flipping tires like they were nothing. Bill Nye and River Rat threw around Sand Bags like they were paper.

Announcements:

Krispy Kreme Run 4 Reading is on Feb 27th. Would love to see a good F3 turnout for this crazy event. More details coming soon.

Yeti is on Feb 20th. Keep training for all the options there.

Nun Run and Come See Me races are coming up soon too.

Prayer Requests:

Local School districts and those with Cancer

We also talked a lot about accountability–and finding someone to be transparent with. Used the example of the guy who #fartsacks a workout–that it is very easy to be transparent with missing a workout. But its much harder to be transparent about other parts of our lives, we’d rather hide them in a closet and forget about them.

Always a pleasure to lead these men that I am honored to call my friends!

Schrute out!