June 11th, 2021 By Poutine

During last MECA AO Leads meeting, @yellowcake and YHC discussed ways to bring different faces and beatdowns to AOs.  We discussed the idea of have “Guest Qs” at each others AO.  YHC shared the idea of bringing the Trailer Of Pain (TOP) to the Dawghouse so the the Dawgs could get a taste and give it thumbs up for do-over in the future or thumbs down.  From that discussion, we set up a date for the TOP and @yellowcake advertise at the AO.  He might have over sold the hype by using the term “A very special guest”.  Needless to say, YHC felt the pressure since even our Nantan @dutch boy blessed us with his presence.  It had been a while since Dutch Boy had been to a TOP beatdown. A total of 10 PAX attended the sweat fest, which quite a few wet spots on the sidewalk and parking lot.  At 5:30 sharp, YHC gave full disclaimer and we moseyed toward the front of the school while doing butt kickers and carioca while passing in front of the TOP pain stations.  YHC wanted to PAX to get an idea what was coming and time to think about it during warmarama.

WARMARAMA

1. Mummy IC x19
2. Skier IC x15
3. Slow Prisoner Squats IC x10
4. Penny Picker IC x10
5. Plank-A-Rena IC x5

THE THANG

Today’s beatdown consisted of 8 different pain stations.  The PAX split up across the 8 pain stations, so at some station we had 2 PAX.  PAX performed the exercise listed for that station until the PAX carrying bucket of brinks to the second trash can on the parking lot and back.  For those wondering, this trek to trash can and back was about 1 minute.  After bucket carrier is back, he calls “rotate” and PAX then move on to next station.

1. Bucket Carry – Counter goes to 2nd trash can and back
2. Battle Rope
3. Man Maker
4. Tire Deadlift
5. MedBall Sit Ups
6. Tire Flip
7. Sandbag Tarantulas
8. Sled Push – Pull

Since the PAX pushed themselves hard, we were able to complete 3 rounds of the above pain stations.  We moseyed around to the second island following the first round, but due to time constraint, we didn’t mosey again so we could get right into 3rd round.

MARRY

• Stretching by going from plank position to right hand on the ground next to right foot while left hand reaches to the sky. We stayed in that position for 10 seconds then left hand goes where right hand was and right hand reaches to the sky. We then got back to plank position and flap jack for other side.

COT/ BOM

MOLESKIN

• Prayers for @torch son who had scary incident of the croup.  During the night.  We pray that he gets better and overcome it.  For those with kids who have experience the croup, it is very scary.
• We pray for those battling mental illness and other illnesses.
• Prayers for our first responders and our military
• Prayers for our country to focus on re-uniting, loving, forgiving, etc.  Love over hate!
• @tugboat is still looking for a few more pax to join the BRR.
• @yellowcake and YHC will looking into a volunteer and a date to be the Guest Q at Highland in near future.  The folks from Highlands look forward to it.
• It was an honor leading this great group of men in the gloom.  I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.
• Thanks for all of you for helping with the pick up and loading of the SUV and trailer.  Let me know what you are all doing this weekend!  I’ve got some mulch to spread around the house 🙂
• Have a fantastic weekend!

Poutine

 

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