Spartan Prepping
All East Charlotte BackblastsJuly 16th, 2018
Arriving a few minutes early and parking down by the play ground question arose, what was HighChair up to?? Well with the Asheville Spartan Super only a few weeks away YHC thought I would give everyone a taste of one of the obstacles I will face so off we went.
Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot and end up at the lower parking lot for some of the following;
20 SSH, 15 Imeperial Walkers, 10 WindMills, couple rounds of Clock Merkins and some Mountain Climbers. Eager to get to the main event, warm up over.
The Thang:
Over to my truck we went and from the back of my truck we pulled out 40lb ruck sack, 65lb dumbbell, and 2 45lb dumbbells. PAX then broke up into 2 teams of 4 and 1 team of 3 for the following fun.
Team 1 would grab the 4 weights, carry them in front of their bodies and do 1 lap around the large play ground. The team carrying the weight was the timer. The rest of the PAX would do a called exercise until the lap was completed. This was repeated till each team went 3 times. Some of the called exercises were, box jumps, merkins, step ups, incline merkins, flutter kicks, squats, WW2’s, pull ups or a modified version of them, etc…
After all teams went 3 times we still had time for more fun so over to Pork Chop Hill we went. Starting with 10 Merkins at the bottom you then ran to the top of PCH, touched the fence and ran back down. We did the same thing with 9 Merkins and 8 Merkins. At 7 we did squats and reversed gear to top and did the same for 6. At 5 changed it up again and did Burpees. 4 I can’t remember but 3 I do. I don’t know the official name but I heard somebody call it the Flying Squirrel. Its a Merkin where you push up and hands and feet come off the ground, did the same for 2 and 1.
Few minutes left for Mary so we did some Flutters and Back Scratchers. Amen!!
Everyone gave top effort even though It was a warm one this morning.. As always The Body was making some demonic noises from his body. Barbosa and Hightower I invited you to Slack. Healthy Eating Challenge started today.
HighChair