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The Abyss is DARK (Abe Q 6 of 7)

FNGs: none
Warm Up: Jog around the soccer field. Circled up for SSH, Good Mornings,
The Workout: Mosied over to the Abyss. YHC has been following a similar routine of four exercises, run, repeat. Simple but effective.

Round 1 (repeat 3 times)
Merkins x10
Squats x10
Lunges x10
WWIIs x10
down the Abyss and back up

Round 2 (repeat 3 times)
Shoulder Taps x10
High Knees x10
Side Lunges x10
LBCs x10
down the Abyss and back up

Round 1 (repeat 2 times)
Wide Grip Merkins x10
Tempo Squat x10
Jumping Lunges x10
American Hammers x10
down the Abyss and back up

Mosied back to start for Mary.
Mary: LBCs x30, Homer-to-Marge with single leg variation, Pickle Pounders, wrapped up with some quick yoga.
Announcements: Jan 17th day of service, sign up to Q!
T-Claps (Recognition): Full House and Miget for getting back out after recovering.
Prayer: PAX recovering from sickness and injury, Sprinkler’s family, mental health this time of year

Abyss needs step lights

FNGs: None

PAX:  U.T.I, M4Life, Fanny Pack, Sprinkler, MadDog 2020, Money Pit, Dahmer, Breach, Florence/FloJoe, Poopeater
Warm Up:  Lap around the outside of the turf field, then Good Morning, Frankenstein, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps
The Workout:  So many of our workouts are total body, head-to-toe, as they should be.  But sometimes I miss the specific body part burnout beat downs.  Last week’s Downtown Train was a good fix for me, with an 80/20 upper body/legs ratio, with some cardio sprinkled in between, the chest and arms were feeling it.  I almost went that route again today but decided to revisit the ass-kicking I experienced with LED’s IronPax Week 1 challenge, specifically the murder bunnies that had me walking funny for a couple days afterward.  I didn’t need to bring the whole routine, just wanted to have another taste.

To soften the blow we started with 11’s at the Abyss.  I need to work on my lighting technique because, as an afterthought, put my headlamp on the steps to light the way but it seemed to mostly just blind us on the way up.  Perhaps a more indirect lighting approach would be better – direct the beam into the bushes and run by ambient light.  Anyway, merkins up top, squats at the bottom.  Vanilla, I know.  Whatever.  But I once again mismanaged time, realized we were going over and called an audible after round 7 or 8.  Headed to the bush to hand out coupons, then over to the turf with them.

PAX lined up on one sideline, I paced off about 25 yards and we murder-bunnied that distance, then 25 merkins.  Reverse MB back to the start, then 10 blockee thrusters.  I planned on doing two rounds of this but with time running short, we did a quick recover mosey to the opposite sideline and back, then returned our coupons.
Mary: The usual, unimaginative, but effective with short time – LBC 20 count IC, Low Slow Flutters, then to get my upper body fix in, 10 slow-mo merkins (4 count down, 4 count up =1).
Announcements:  Holly Fest F3 booth/tent sign up site is live.
T-Claps (Recognition):  Breach for his insane 30K mountain run
Prayer:  Trickle, death of mother in law; Sprinkler, dealing with aging mother and the complications with that; Midget, loss of a neighbor.