April 9th, 2023 By Spud

When: 4.6.23

QIC: Checkmate

The Pax: Marlboro, Homeland, Ace, Gooney, Neverland, Total Package, Catfish, Tombstone, Psycho T, Indie, Spud, Mountie, Luthor, Private Ryan, and Professor

The 16 of us left ASEC with very comfortable t-shirt weather and headed towards the mall.  Around the halfway point we circled up to do a warm up of 25 side straddle hops, 5-8 (who knows?) loose change, 12 (very slow) merkins, and 25 mtn climbers mosey to Belk parking lot.

The Thang
I tried to follow the advice of Mayweather and others of keeping my first Q simple, so that’s what I did.  The workout was 4 different exercises at 4 different light posts (12 merkins, 25 mtn climbers, 20 scissor kicks, and 25 lunges) respectively where right and left leg make 1 rep and we ran back to the low wall in front of Belk to finish it off with 6 Bulgarian split squats/ leg.  Then repeat, repeat, repeat… no rinsing necessary.  With the sounds of “That’s a lot of lunges Checkmate…” and “That’s 50 lunges!” wafting through the air.

Mary
We all found a spot against a wall or a pole at ASEC for a nice hamstring/calf stretch (walking up the wall with our hands and bringing pecs towards the wall with one foot on the wall and the other about 18″ away from the wall.) then we did 25 tibialis raises and some light stretching on the ground.

Moleskin
We had quite a few people at Groundwork Common so there were lots of convos happening at once.  A lot of Masters week and golf talk, prime rib techniques, organ/ body donations (I learned that half a liver can regrow), and many other topics.  A great start to a Thursday.

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