June 14th, 2016 By Buckwheat

13 men arose from the fartsack and descended upon the Tradition AO and played a game of blackjack sans cards. YHC was looking at the exercise lexicon last night and stumbled upon the word Blackjack. Looked good on paper, wasn’t so good without. Here’s how things went down:

Dynamic Warmup: Run length of two parking spaces, shuffle right two spaces, quadraphelia length of two parking spaces, repeato in order the distance of the main parking lot. Mosey to back lot for Warm-o-Rama:

SSH x15IC
IST x12IC
Windmill x12IC
Cotton Picker x12IC
Air Squats x15IC
Mericans X5IC (Jelly says here, “oh I like that”). My response, you won’t like what’s next….

Now it’s time for the main event. Lets play Blackjack. It’s simple. 1-20 merican ladder at one end of parking lot. Run to the far end of the lot and do a 20-1 LBC ladder. 21 reps total each full trip. 1.2 miles in between 210 mericans and 210 LBC’s is all. All I know is sets 15-20 on the mericans were absolutely horrible and this was the worst blackjack game I have ever played. While the Pax were surprisingly quiet today, I did get a few “I hate you’s” during our little game. Thanks, I’ll take that as a compliment.

If you finish before everyone else, do Pax led MARY exercises and then 20 partner throwdowns each until the six is done.

Grab some cinderblocks for a little strength building.

Shoulder press x10IC
High Pulls x15
REPEATO both
Chest Press x20IC (YHC did his best Blind Date impression here as my voice started cracking when calling out the exercise. Finally a little mumble chatter. Well deserved!)
Pullovers x15
Lawnmower Pulls x15 each arm
CB Goblet Squats x15
Curls x20IC
Quick walk to island and back. Tclaps to Major Pain who refused to set his cinderblock down during the above COP and walk. Nice work, brother!
5 CB Burpees – Guinness was attacked by his cinderblock here, so he decided to do his best Chuck Norris impression and shatter it. #RESPECT
Put the cinder blocks back.

Mosey to back of main lot. Parking lot zig zag thing again to front of lot: Run length of two parking spaces, shuffle left two spaces, quadraphelia length of two parking spaces, repeato in order the distance of the main parking lot.

No time for MARY.

BOM

Chesty Moleskin
1) Great job by all today. Everyone was straight puttin in work.
2) Durden & Jelly: Way to set the pace during our game of Blackjack. Durden, did Jelly mention you were jelly lubing at the beginning???
3) Oscar- Way to push yourself through those last several sets of mericans.
4) Nice to meet you, Rocker.
5) Mr. Belding- I’ve seen Rocker more than you in the last six months. Welcome back, Kotters ;-). Glad school is out for the summer!
6) Major Pain and Mutant- It was good to see you back in your homeland.
7) Prayers went out to our brother Rib Shack following the passing of his mother this past Saturday. We’ve missed you the past few weeks while you were out of town. Please keep Rib Shack in your thoughts and prayers.
8) Since there was almost no mumble chatter at the beatdown, feel free to sound off below…

Announcements: King Tiger 5K is this Saturday. Sign up and be there!
Tradition Pool Party/Cookout is this Saturday 11:00AM until…. Bring your own beverages and a side dish. Meat will be provided. Everyone is welcome to attend, even if you don’t do the King Tiger 5K ;-).

Tradition

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