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Some shouted Stab, Stab, Stab while others Why?, Why? Why? this Halloween day

All Highlands Backblasts

October 31st, 2020 By Poutine

YHC thought long and hard last night what to do for the Halloween them beatdown that would different, but also fun and challenging.  Since several of the exercises were new, thanks to the F3 website exercise section, some new exercises were added.  Some promotional messages were sent on Slack and therefore 17 PAX showed up in this dark on this spooky Halloween morning to find YHC, aka Poutine-San in full Ninja gear.  It was a cool and crisp 42F which several of the PAX couldn’t figure out what that would be in metric system. The answer to that is COLD!  But that didn’t spot @sugar, @sparky, @dutch boy, @gordo and a few other crazies to still wear shorts.  But we all knew that @conchito would come with several layers since he starts wearing long sleeve with hoody plus long pants at about 70F.   When the grandfather clock struck 7:00 am, YHC gave a full disclaimer warning the PAX about some paranormal activities that might possibly occur in this dark morning. Luckily, this will be the last Saturday to workout in the dark at 7:00 since we are falling back 1 hour tonight.  Got to love those long weekend!  We moseyed to the top of the parking lot while a few other late comers were arriving.  YHC had his hands full with a phone, a JBL speaker, and huge Weinke.  Circle up for warmarama.

WARMARAMA

  1. Mummy  IC x19
  2. Frankenstein IC x15
  3. Spider climbers IC x13
  4. Gremlin IC x10
  5. Bat Wings IC x 20 + 20 sec. hold

THE THANG

Gut Buster station:

This almost turn into a disaster but generated some good mumblechatter and borderline heckling.  While YHC was trying to play Ghostbuster, Pandora was being very spooky and kept switching to You know I am a dreamer.  YHC didn’t want any of that but warned the PAX to save their energy for was was coming. YHC was finally able to beat the Russian hackers and play Ghostbusters.  The PAX were informed to get in plank position and perform 1 burpee every time they heard Ghostbuster.   When the PAX heard “I ain’t afraid of no ghost”, PAX do plank jacks until they hear Ghostbusters again. The song Ghostbusters is over 4 min. so needless to say the PAX got really quiet after a minute or so and then YHC called an audible to recover at about 2 min. 30 sec.

We then moseyed to the soccer field, also known this morning as the Zombie Station.

Zombie Station

  1. Zombie Walk – 20 Zombie Crunch – Zombie Crawl – 20 Zombie Crunch
  2. Killer Bees – Bear Crawl, 5 burpees, broad jumps, 5 burpees
  3. Zombie Plank Walk left, 10 squats,  – Killer Bunny Hops, 10 squats
  4. Zombie Plank Walk right 10 squats, – Killer Bunny Hops, 10 squats

The Zombie Crawl might have become the new least favorite exercise at Highland.  @dutch boy carved 2 deep lines into the turf from the feet drag, while @murdock claimed his pecker carved a very thin line and provide turf aeration.

The PAX then moseyed to the Haunted Hill where some famous Halloween celebrities were in attendance.

Haunted Hill Station 

PAX run up the hill and perform one exercise at the top of the hill and perform the second exercise at the bottom of the hill. On second round, PAX run backward up the hill. Third round, Zombie Crawl up the hill for those who want to give it a shot or simply forward run.

  1. 180 degree Jump Squats x10                  – Jason Twist x10 – 3 rounds
  2. Stabbers x 10                                           – Frankenstein Low flutters x 10 – 3 rounds
  3. Tonya Harding x 10                                  – Freddy Kruger x 10 – 3 rounds

This station provided the most entertaining Mumblechatter in a long time.  When it came time for the Stabber, @powerball inspired the PAX to yell “Stab, Stab, Stab” for every rep they were doing.  The poor dude that was walking solo in the parking lot must have been scared to death.  But things got even funnier as we performed the Tonya Harding.  PAX were swinging that steel bar while we could hear Nancy Kerringan scream “Why?, Why?, Why?.   By that time, @barrister made his appearance and ran up the hill once and had enough.  He said he could hear the Stab, Stab, Stab from the entrance of the park a solid quarter of a mile away.

The PAX were then instructed to Wosey over to the road for the Bataan Death March so @ONJ and @Sandman got a head start and headed straight for the Pumpkin patch.

Bataan Death March

In memory of WWII prisoners from Bataan in Philippine who were war prisoners to the Japanese. After their release, they walked 60-70 miles and therefore the name Bataan Death March.  The Bataan Death March resembles the Indian Run except that the last PAX does 1 burpee, then run to tap the next PAX while on his way to front of the Bataan Death March.  We kept going until the entrance of the school and moseyed for the rest of the way to the Pumpkin Patch.  Each PAX were instructed to pick up a Pumpkin (aka rock) and carry to the parking lot.  Everyone picked a decent size rock except for @murdock who picked up what was close to a boulder.

Pumpkin Patch:

  1. Curls                   IC x15
  2. Skull Crushers    IC x15
  3. Bent over row      IC x15
  4. Squat Thrusters   IC x10
  5. Chest Press        IC x13
  6. Shoulder Press   IC x13

PAX were instructed to circle up for a little Thunderstruck.  After all AC/DC type power is what fuels Frankenstein.

Thunderstruck:

PAX do squat pulse and perform Jump Squat every time they hear Thunderstruck.  After a minute or so, an audible was call where PAX switched from Squat Pulse to Boxer Stance and Squat Jump.  After another minute, a second audible was called for Boxer Stances and Burpee.

MARRY – We were out of time

COT/BOM

A humble and sincere apology from @murdock who believes some might have been offended by some of the posts on Slack.  Those posts have been taken down and he promises to scale back.  Let’s see what is the Over-Under in Vegas for that.

MOLESKIN

Poutine-San