“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” Since New Year’s is around the corner, I thought I’d start off with a quote from the estimable Robert Burns, author of Auld Lang Syne. Also befitting since YHC had planned a Q without looking at the weather, and then at 10 o’clock post meridiem, looked at the weather and saw it’d be 40 degrees with 100% chance of rain.
A mix of cardio exercises, some from the lexicon, most made up, was pulled together by 11. An in-depth analysis for an ad-free & open-source tabata timer was conducted around 5 ante meridiem. The 6 o’clock start was certainly appreciated.
Warmup
- SSH, IC x20
- Arm raise + high knee IC, x10
- Cassocks, IC x8
- Twist, IC x10 (shout optional)
- Runner’s stretch + arm reachbacks
Cardio Tabata
20 sec on, 10 sec rest. Repeato x4.
- Wide High Knees Hop
- Skydiver Pullbacks
- Lateral Lunge Hops
- Bear Plank Side Steps
- Wall Sit Leg Extensions
- Newly-dubbed “Wide Paneras” (Wide to Narrow Push Ups, “toasted” if with a rock)
- Hip Up + Sit Up
- Around the World
- Predator Jacks
- Bear Plank to Push Up
- Reverse Lunge + Kick and Twist
- Granny Jumps
- Lying Leg Twist
- Burpee + Hip Change
- Bench dips
Yoga cool down
“Octopus washes ashore, dangles helplessly on rock, folds back up when waves return.”
- Mountain pose
- Overhead arm reach
- Arms down into cactus to open chest
- Fold forwards
- Clockwork dangle (thus dubbed just last Saturday at Piranha Park)
- Down into flat back
- Arms behind back and interlace fingers into mudra
- Roll up back to mountain
- Repeato
“Man shovels spade into earth, lifts up dirt, ponders, and returns dirt to earth.”
- Forward lunge on right leg
- Arms up, then into side twist
- Left hand on right knee, then right arm reach over
- Down into runner’s pose, then arm up and reach back
- Hands and feet together into crouch
- Arms locked under right knee into one-legged stand
- Open the hip
- Down into right leg side lunge
- Arms up and bend towards left side into triangle pose
- Recover and repeat other side
Time for two more arm sweeps.
NMS
5 pax, 1 respect, 0 hates.
Announcements:
- 10k Wake Forest food ministry this Saturday
- Oakwood 24 this Saturday
- Cary Christmas parade this Saturday
- Carpex Christmas Party next Thursday
COT:
- Prayers for Doogie’s grandmother
- Praises for Jello’s 2.0 first acceptance letters to college
Topics of conversation included:
- Tclaps to Doogie for busting out the classic rock playlist & speaker
- First concerts
- People born in the 70s who don’t know Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man
- Dazed and Confused 90s classic about classic 70s, starring the debut efforts the future governor of Texas
- Qs that were enjoyed until burpees were called
This was the first tabata workout YHC has led, and I enjoyed the pacing of it, plus liked having some time for stretching afterwards. Also my first time posting at Full Throttle, and I appreciated the welcome, as well as the community feeling amongst the Pax there. A great site for a rainy morning, what with the later midweek start, coming-in-clutch pavilion, and mumblechatter!
Post-script: Initially, wasn’t planning on writing a backblast, but couldn’t let down my audience of 1. So Schroeder, this one’s for you even though you didn’t post, and also we still have to find a time to practice 🎼