Intro: YHC got the call to Q yesterday so had little time to plan something truly awesome, so being retired, YHC settled for something closer to awe heck, this is all you get from an old guy. After checking out the surroundings ahead of time, YHC figured the St. Gabe's parking lot aka home of Bastion would be all to ourselves. Who knew that there were others, namely Hardcore (or is it Shorecard) pax, came over to share a little of the best concrete in Charlotte. We kept our distance even though with combined numbers we were The Thang:
SSH x20
IW x20
Squats x20
Mosey over to St. Gabe's lot for Toy Soldiers across the lot, mosey back to start Butt Kickers across the lot, mosey back to start High Knees across the lot, mosey back to start Karaoke across the lot, karaoke back to start Backward Run across the lot, backward run back to start Sprint across the lot, sprint back to start
The last 3 of these will be referred to the "run part".
Mosey up to the steps to the rails for the "rail part" Bulgarian Split Squats (certainly everyone has heard of these) 10 left/10 right Dips x10 Incline Merkins x10 Decline Merkins x10
Do the "run part".
Mosey to the wall near the parking lot Donkey Kicks x15 Mike Tysons 10 OYO Lalannes x10 Hip Slappers 5 left/5 right OYO Milkers x10 Toe Tappers x10 Air Presses x10
Do the "run part"
Mosey to center of parking lot for Lunge forward 5 left leg/5 right leg; do 10 180' squats Lunge right 5 steps; do 10 180' squats Lunge backwards 5 left leg/5 right leg; do 10 180' squats Lunge left 5 steps; do 10 180' squats (Thanks Full House for reminding me of the squats)
Mosey back to start for Merkins x10 Stagger Right x10 Stagger Left x10 Arms over head x10 Wide Arms x10 Diamonds x10 Arms over head x10 Plank x10 Hip Slappers x10 Shoulder Taps x10 6 inches x10 (full disclosure - YHC originally planned to do 5 scorpions merkins each leg and 5 Spiderman merkins each leg)
Mary LBC x20 Rosalita x20 Heels to Heaven x20 Dolly x20
Naked Man Moleskin:
Without anything open such as Flywheel, we had run of all the parking lots. YHC is not a fan of the HotBox except in extreme weather, which today's weather did not call for a visit there, although I told FullHouse when exiting that I had thought about a "pull up part", but decided to stay outside in the 100% humidity to get the full effect of Charlotte summer.
Mostly the pax were quiet this morning which makes it tricky to know how they are all doing. It could be exhaustion, or it could be boredom - someone should come up with an overall measure of how much pax are impacted by any particular workout. You techies out there should figure out how to combine Strava Relative Effort readings from all pax that record their workouts. That would give Q's an idea of the effectiveness of their workouts.
If you read this backblast, write something in the comments. I'm not looking for praise or anything like that, I'm really just curious who reads backblasts anymore since your Metro Shared Leader Team is trying to bring back the backblast, which I totally support. Just say "read" or "hey" or something about why you read backblasts. It can have nothing to do with this particular backblast.