June 22nd, 2020 By Blake Crenshaw

5 Dawgs made the right choice and ventured into the Gloom on a muggy Monday morning to start the week right.  YHC had made it known on Slack the day before that Macho Manly Lifts and Super Awesome Jams would be on tap…

Here’s how it went down:

5:30am Disclaimer Given…very important to note that YHC is by no means a professional.

WARM UP

Short mosey around the parking Lot

Circle Up

• SSH x 15 (IC)
• Hillbilly x 10 (IC)
• Cherry Pickers x 10 (IC)
• Arm Circles FWD & REV
• Michael Phelps (gotta get those pythons good and limber)

THE THANG

A very short mosey over to our Metal Implements of Destruction.

The concept was to yoked, do some sprints in between and, of course, sample some of the sweet jams of yesteryear.

This being YHC’s first Q in a LOONNNGGG time and never Qing Kettle Bells before, the onus of getting Yoked fell to a very user friendly Kettle Bell app (highly recommended).  The jams were YHC’s personal picks made into the ULTIMATE playlist for lifting heavy things.  The PAX were super into it and wanted more…more…MORE!  Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch were there, as were many others of the same ilk.

So with the Ultimate Playlist in the background, we began…

5 minute rounds of Kettle Bell bliss awaited us.

Each round consisted of 10 different Most Awesome lifts for 35 seconds, HIIT style.  Rounds were concentrated and worked their way from upper body to lower to core to total body.

At the end of each round, a quick sprint to the far side of the parking lot and back.

YHC may have lost count…but legend has it, the Dawghouse PAX completed 100 rounds…or perhaps it was 6…ONLY those that showed will ever know for certain!

By the end, the kettle bells had all been turned to dust…too much power coursing through the veins of the PAX for the kettle bells to survive…

No time for MARY

COT – Prayers for our Country.  Prayers for Rerun’s 2.0’s away on a mission trip.  Prayers for YHC, who is about to trek across this Awesome Country to the Grand Tetons and Grand Canyon (a lot of Grand things on the West side…) with family in tow…the things you do for family…

Moleskin

The PAX were killing it this morning!

Pharaoh and Rerun decided to get Extra Credit on the Sprints…taking the long way back from the far side.  Sure, “The Long Way” was only about 30 extra yards…but it was more than YHC could muster…

Honey Do was back from a hiatus and was throwing the kettle bells around like tennis balls

Grassy Knoll, who chose the 25 lb. plate that YHC brought as an option, is now the most Yoked of the Yoked…seriously, dude is getting ripped coming out to play as often as he does.

It was a pleasure, and an honor, to get back out and lead again…it has been too long!

I will leave you with the words of the Macho-est of the Macho Men…

“The Cream of The Crop Rises to the Top!”

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