February 10th, 2020 By Poutine

When YHC arrived at the Sportsclub a few minutes after 5:00 to set up his pain stations, he noticed a truck in the parking lot and thoughts that some teenagers were getting an early start.  Come to find out it was our vagabond @gulfstream who decided to join the Mettle fun this morning and started with 2 mile warmup.  After YCH finished setting up the 8 stations of pain, 6 others showed up beasty for a dose of Mettle in cold Monday morning.  A disclosure was given last night that the Trailer of Pain would not make an appearance but Pain would be nevertheless plentiful!  The PAX in shorts thoughts it was colder than expected and those of us who were bundled up thought it was warmer than expected.  Oh well, YHC promised the PAX would remain warm during the beatdown.  Full disclosure was given and we then moseyed to round about circled up for warmarama.

WARMARAMA
1. Mummy x19
2. Skiers x15
3. Prisoner Squats x15
4. Weed Picker x15
5. Plank-A-Rena x5

THE THANG

8 stations were marked from 1-8 using,. The PAX perform exercise at their station until the PAX carrying the Bucket travels to the handicap parking space and back.  When Bucker carrier is back we rotate to the next station.  We performed 2 rounds of the 8 exercises below.
1. Bucket carry (Counter)
2. Tricep Kickback
3. Upright Rows
4. MedBall Jacks
5. KB curls 21
6. Merkins Ball Roll
7. Sandbag Tarantulas
8. Med Ball Sit ups

THE SECOND THANG

Same as the above 8 exercises with this time the Sandbag carrier is the counter. The PAX were running with the SAndbag which made each station go by quickly so YHC called an audible to extend the distance of the run  from 1st handicap spot to the isle of roundabout.
1. Sandbag Carry (Counter)
2. Man Maker
3. Skull crushers
4. MedBall Squat & toss
5. KB swings
6. Medball sit-ups
7. Bucket squats
8. Bus Driver
MARRY
1. Alt. toe touches X15
2. Dragonflies X15
3. Poutine Low Flutters X15
4. Stretches – IT Band, shoulders

COT/BOM

• Prayers and shout out for @hugo who will be traveling to Nicaragua today to help those who are not as fortunate as we are.
• Prayers for those affected by coronavirus and that it will get under control sooner than later.
• Don’t forget to sign up for the 2020 Passport challenge which starts March 1st.  PAX will get a total of 60 workout days (excluding Sundays) to attend beatdown at all 14 AOs.  Cost of the challenge is $10.00 which PAX will receive a nice patch designed by YHC’s daughter Chloe.  The link to the sign up sheet is attache. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jF2QCLJU3SKfzxHBXmMrh6ljtxu-vewMyJCM8iiE_bE/edit?ts=5bb2185e&pli=1#gid=0
• Although the full Trailer of Pain was not there, the modified beatdown of just Pain was sufficient.  As promised by YHC, the PAX remained warm. Some layers were coming off during the beatdown, starting during Warmarama and throughout (tuque/hat/beanie), depending on where you are from.
• Timelapse reminder – May 15-16
• Please take a moment to reach out to some of the PAX we have not seen a while. They might just need the extra motivation to get out there.  There are numerous excuses to stay in bed these cold mornings, but sometime a quick touch base by another PAX goes a long way.
• YHC will ensure of better music selection next time.  Too many “pole dancing” tunes this am.  YHC selected Journey’s channel by mistake instead of 80’s classic rock.  It is now time to accept he fact that YHC needs the whole man reading glasses.
• Again, great to see @gulfstream join us.  Don’t wait to long to come back!
• Have a great week!  It was a pleasure leading this group today.

Poutine

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