Honoring African American Inventors at Thunder
After a fantastic TED talk on Tuesday YHC felt inspired to lead a workout honoring some African American inventors in honor of African American History Month.
After some good Googling I decided we would honor the following greats:
- Garret Morgan – 3-way stoplight
- Lewis Latimer – carbon filament
- Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Jr. – math models for gamma radiation
- Frederick McKinley Jones – refrigerated trucks
The weather was nearly perfect for 5 pax to gather for a fun time and a great history lesson.
FNGs:
None today sadly.
Warm Up:
Mosey to the shelter since the ground is still super saturated by the tennis courts.
SSH until Rams made it over to us from the facilities.
Daisy Pickers x10 IC
Arms up into Sir Fazio – they stayed up until after good mornings
Sir Fazio x10 forwards/backwards IC
Seal claps x10 IC
Squatted overhead clap x10 IC
Windmill x10 IC
Good evening x10 on my down/up
The Workout:
Mosey to the central parking lot. In honor of Garret Morgan we did green/yellow/red lights:
- Green – bear crawl
- Yellow – duck walk
- Red – chill cut plank hold
We went all the way down and back
We then moseyed towards the alleyway between the baseball fields. We stopped at the entrance and pax were introduced to the next workout honoring Lewis Latimer – we stopped at each light for 3x SSH IC, Merkins, and Squats, building (so 3x, 6x, 9x, etc) until the 6th light where we did 18x.
Some walkers encouraged burpees while we were stopped at the main Womble Park sign so we added in 5x burpees!
After making to the end of our line of lights we ran it back, but this time changing the exercises to honor some other inventors:
- 3x Homer to Marge (Exicon version – leg raises, not South Wake style) – for Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Jr.
- 3x Chill cut plank jacks – for Frederick McKinley Jones
- 3x Star Jumps – just cause I like these
We repeated these the entire line back building from 3x each to 18x each. Rams especially liked all those star jumps – looked like those Peloton muscles translate well to that movement!
After finishing up we took a nice mosey back to the tennis courts where YHC grabbed a speaker for some Mary.
Mary:
Roxanne – seemed like a fitting combination of some of the things we had been doing. Plank hold the entire song, merkin on Roxanne, Plank Jack on red light.
Yoga – childs pose, puppy dog pose, puppy dog shoulder stretch
Announcements:
Q School Sunday the 21st at 3PM. 2nd F to follow at Bass Lake Ale House patio.
A great TED talk was given by F3 Greensboro pax on Tuesday. Link is online to watch for those that couldn’t make it.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Rams for killing those star jumps and getting the pax hype about them.
Foul Ball for getting after it the entire workout.
Prayer:
Continuation of good COVID numbers in our country and local community.
As always – an honor and privilege to lead. This workout was especially fun to plan as I learned a lot along the way. It’s too tempting and easy to boil African American History down to slavery and a few well known inventors – we can, should, and must be better. Aye!
