February 26th, 2021 By HoneyDo_MECA

12 of the Dawghouse finest (including some Harrisburg and Afton representation) showed for a Friday spectacular. After swapping with Kojak on the Friday beatdown last week, there was concern there may be another bait and switch this week. That made me question, are my beatdowns less intense than Kojak’s? Do I need to step up my game a bit? Preblast promised running, merkins, squats and going easy on the legs(keeping it simple) with some intrigue of more to come.

After some thought, and a bit of exicon diving, the 7 of Diamonds routine stood out as something fun, modified for my liking, of course. Disclaimer was stumbled through, as words eluded me today, and off we went.

Mosey to the football field entrance.
SSH X10
Windmill x10
Arm Circles and Phelps

The main event:
1 lap around the parking lot, stopping at each corner for an exercise (see diamond), and pick up the six to finish together.
1st round: 7 Burpees
2nd round: 14 Air Squats
3rd round: 21 Merkins
4th round: 28 Mountain Climbers
Intermission: Mosey to the back of the concession stands for Balls to the Wall to failure, followed by People’s Chair with Air Presses x15 IC

Hokie realized what counts up, must count down, because I love pyramid workouts.

5th round: 28 LBCs
6th round: 21 Carolina Dry Docks

Out of time, so 2-3 minutes of mary.

Pretzel Crunch x 15 each side IC
Homer to Marge

As always, it’s a pleasure to lead this group. F3 means a lot to me, and giving back in this form is one of the easiest ways to do that. If you haven’t led, sign up today! You don’t even have to be original and can stumble over your words all morning and still get a good workout in!

– Minnow proved how much of a beast he is with the BTTW as Loveboat couldn’t hang with him any longer.
– I broke my no burpee rule, and threw some in there to keep everyone guessing. Might ditch that rule after today, I hate them, because they suck and they suck because they make you work hard, therfore, I need them more often.
– Shoutout to Turbine and Timeout for gutting out the running, yes Talladega, I like running, who knew?

Announcements:
– Extinction Race in Harrisburg March 20th. Sign up if you haven’t. Especially if you’ve been thinking about it (Hokie I’m looking at you)
– Afton Creek clean up after Grassy’s Beatdown Tomorrow.

Prayers:
– Turbine’s grandbaby due Monday
– Loveboats travels
– Local churches dealing with Covid in their staff
– Porto’s friend with Covid

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