The rain, thunder, and lightning throughout the night did not stop 9 brave men from posting.  It may have been that they thought they were signing up for coffee and ciabatta!?  After some early morning conversations, one of which is that Cake Boss may have an in with getting the lights turned on at 5:15, we headed off for a beat down in the Gloom.  Welcome FNG John Cookson (Crock-Pot).

The THANG:

Mosey to the ROTC parking lot.

• 30 Side Straddle Hops
• 20 Imperial Walkers
• 25 Windmills
• 25 Jumping Lunges

Mosey to the marching band parking lot via sidewalks, did not want to get PAX wet feet prior to Tabata.

• Planks (regular, 6 inches, left arm / right arm high)

8 Exercises, 8 Reps, 20s per rep, 10s break between reps.  Sounds easy right?

• X8 Merkins
• X8 Squat Jumps
• X8 Carolina Dry Docks
• X8 Calf Raises
• X8 Burpees
• X8 Side Tri Rise
• X8 Turkish Get-Ups
• X8 Abs (LBCs, Hello Dolly, Freddie Mercury, Russian Twist) – 50s on 10s break

A PAX called out for some Ultimate Burpees and did not want to disappoint.

• X5 – Jumping Knee-up -> Carolina Dry Dock -> Parker Peters (Right and Left Leg) -> Combined Broad Jump (Forward/Backward) -> Regular Burpee

COT

The snow held out for great work out in the blustery cold (by Charlotte standards).   Okay so I’ll admit that workouts always look easier and quicker on paper than they do in the Gloom.  Bear Crawl sprints on the basketball court seemed like a good change of pace but for those that attended Crabcakes beat down yesterday they may have been a little much.  Needless to say we didn’t have DNF in the group… Men I tell you MEN!

The THANG:

40 Side Strattle hops

30 Wind Mills

25 Monkey Humpers

Planks (regular, 6 inches, left arm / right arm high)

20 Imperial Walkers

20 Mountain Climbers

20 Peter Parkers

Warm up Part 2:  Quick mosey to the playground at Sugar Creek.  Let’s line them up on the base line and do some old school wind sprints

Running Sprint style + 5 burpees

Rinse and Repeat

Bear Crawl sprints (editorial note… you can’t imitate the speed of a bear when you only have two legs) + 5 burpees

Crab Crawl sprints (Wow, what a knot this one created in the triicepts) + 5 burpees

Backward running sprints + 5 burpees

Whoever said getting to heaven was easy!  The stairway to heaven routine is just a reminder that there are always bigger hurdles that follow the previous trials of life.  The road is narrow…. But the prize is eternal!

10 – Burpees

20 – Pull ups

30 – Mule Kicks

40 – Bomb Jacks

50 – Maq tar Jai (?)

60 – Dips

70 – Air Squats

80 – Merkins

90 – seconds of rest

100 – LBC

COT