May 18th, 2020 By Snowsuit

How can you do Mettle without any mettle? Ask Duffle Bag… he modified not having weights with deep squats, more merkins  and CDDs than you can count, and lots and lots of deep lunges. The weather was perfect and the workout was painful, and it went something like this:

Warmarama
Mosey around the parking lot, SSH x 19, Squats x 17, IST x 15, Hillbillies x 13, Merkins x 10, Mountain climbers x 10

The Thang
PAX paired up:
1. Partner 1 does KB Squats while Partner 2 runs to marked parking space and does (3) 4x4s – A burpee + 4 merkins + 4 mountain climbers. Repeato 3x.
2. Partner 1 does KB swings while Partner 2 sprints to marked parking space, then bear crawls back. Repeato 3x.

Then…
All about the Benjamins; start together then OYO.
25 KB curls
25 walking lunges, passing KB under legs
25 KB squats
25 walking lunges, passing KB under legs
25 KB overhead press
25 walking lunges, passing KB under legs
25 KB tricep extensions
25 walking lunges, passing KB under legs
That is 100 exercises + 100 lunges, thus the name.

Then if time permits…
The 90s
90 seconds of exercise AMRAP followed by 30 seconds of rest for each of the following exercises
KB Squat Thrusters – KB Chest Press

Then…
ATMs, stay in plank position, OYO
15 alternating shoulder taps (4 count)
10 tempo merkins (down 1-2-3, explode up on 4)
10 fast merkins

Mary
LBCs with KB held high
Pretzel Crunch x15 each side
Slow Sprinkler x12 each side

COT
– prayed for Duffle Bag’s neighbor’s Father who had a heart attack, for full recovery and strength
– prayed for Poutine’s Father for healing and strength and for the family encouragement
– thankful for good recovery for Murdock’s 2.1 and Dutch Boy.

Moleskin
– at first I thought it was just going to be YHC and Snape today, but along came Duffle Bag… without gear. We didn’t have any extras, so he decided to modify. He went extreme today, let me tell you.
– YHC had to call an audible after the 1st round of parking lot bear crawls… instead of going the long way, we switched and went to the short side… the shoulders were toast!
– I think all the mumblechatter today was from YHC (surprise surprise)
– You men did exceptional today. Good work!

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