December 17th, 2021 By Bob Symanski

12 Pax in attendance:
Buck, Hokie Pokie, Honey Do, Kojak, Loveboat, SS Minnow, Shooter, Ticonderoga, Turbine, Uecker, Yellowcake, MASH

 

Warm-o-rama:

Mosey around parking lot;
12 ea. Side-straddle hops, penny pickers, hillbillies.

 

The Thang:

A 5-exercise set reflecting the Dawghouse’s weekly workout cycle:
3 upper body (MWF kettlebells & beatdowns) and 2 leg exercises (TTh cruises) –
Merkins, Squats, WWIIs, Lunges, and Flutters.

Each set performed in number of reps equal to number of MASH’s monthly posts since joining F3 one year ago:
Dec 18, 2020-Dec 17, 2021: 4, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 21, 13, 18, 21, 21, 20, 13;
celebrating a total of 210 posts in 1 year.

 

Moleskin:

Many thanks to yellowcake, whose Dec. 8, 2021 beatdown showed how it was possible to lead the Pax through as many as 240 killer reps while “hiding the medicine in the applesauce”.

Didn’t take too long for the Pax to figure out the method behind the count pattern. Served as an effective ramp up from low reps to higher, with a mid-year lull during vacation months. The irony is, if I’d only posted “once in a while” or “on Fridays” like I initially thought I could manage, we’d have had a far easier and shorter workout!

 

I am profoundly grateful for all the Pax present and absent who have been more inspiring, encouraging, supportive than they probably realize. Your iron has sharpened me; your medicine has been healing.

 

MASH out.

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