June 6th, 2016 By Swiss Miss

6 brave men joined YHC in steamy gloom that is the southeast during the summer to start the work week off right with a little physical conditioning we affectionately refer to as a beatdown. Sounds simple, right?
Not so much. Here’s why:

Mosey to get blood pumping. Then COP
• 20 SSH
• 15 IW
• 15 4-count chest to ground Merkins
• 15 LowSlowSquat

Mosey to playground, pull out deck of playing cards (carefully shuffled and “randomized” by YHC last night).

Suit is exercise, number = #reps. Faces=10. Aces=1 or 11
• Heart= Burpie
• Diamond = Knees to elbows (hanging crunch)
• Club = Pullups
• Spade = Side lunges (R+L = “1”)

Recovery mosey to rock pile, get rock you can press, and go to top where flat.
• Heart = Rock Burpies (audible to ½ count RBs)
• Diamond = Front Raise with rock
• Club = Tricep Extension with rock
• Spade = Overhead press with rock

Return rock and mosey to lower lot for 6MoM

Mary
• 20 Flutter
• 20 Freddie Mercury
• 20 Dolly
• 20 LBC
• 15 Russian Twist w/rock

COT

Announcements:
Clean-eating week (plug for Chum)
DT moving to Fort Mill later this summer, so we need MH pax to step up and Q. Here’s the link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0549AEA92AA64-f3minthill Guest Qs from MECA, Union Co and Area51 are also encouraged to Q and EH some Mint Hill buddies when they do.

Moleskin:

Great to have BLC back in the mix. Forgot he’s a Respect until COT. Guy is a machine.

Q-fail (did I mention: I’m not a professional) on the take-out, which would probably have gone without mention, but for DT, who won’t let anything go without mentioning it. I meant to give thanks for the sunrise, and that’s what I said in my head, but apparently what came out of my pie hole was “sunset.”
Also failed to explain or demonstrate what I meant for “side lunge.” Fortunately BLC knew what to do, so after a few fails, YHC just said, “do what he’s doing.”

Cards suck. High humidity (90%RH) and no breeze sucks more. Only way to deal with it? Full embrace, which is what we did this morning. T-claps to the men who posted this morning and embraced the suck. We pushed hard and got almost all the way through a full deck. Twice. If you weren’t modifying, you were doing something wrong.

Thank you for the privilege of leading.

Piledriver

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