Date: 2025-08-26
AO: ao-the-union
Q: Wax On
PAX: Corn Stock (Garth), Audit, Capsized, Papa Jono, Wheelie, Flo FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: OYO Stretches
THE THANG:
The gloom blessed us today with a light rain, an awesome sunrise, and a fantastic rainbow to accompany the beatdown this morning. YHC chose the “Happy wakeup music” mix, but about 10 min in, a genre change was requested and we worked out to the “Angry wakeup music” mix for the remainder of the workout.
All three Deck of Death card stacks were available and each member of the Pax chose 6 cards from any combo of the three decks. They they completed the exercises on the cards the chose. Once those exercises were complete, they drew 6 more cards. Some chose to keep it balanced, working arms, legs and core evenly. Others chose to overload one aspect of their training. The upper body stack was the first one depleted, followed by lower body, with the core|cardio being the final deck to run out of cards.
This was the combined rep count for today’s workout:
Upper body
– 66 Regular Pushups
– 66 Staggered Pushups
– 66 Diamond Pushups
– 66 Wide Pushups
– 66 Dips
– 66 Decline Pushups
– 30 Clapping Pushups (wild card)
– 60 Burpees (wild card)
Lower Body
– 66 Squats
– 66 Glute Bridges
– 66 Step-Ups
– 66 Forward Lunges
– 66 Reverse Lunges
– 66 Side Lunges
– 45-second Wall Sit (wild card) x3
– 60 Burpees (wild card)
Core
– 100 Sit-Ups
– 100 Russian Twists
– 100 Bicycles
– 100 Leg Lifts
– 100 Spiderman Planks
– 100 Flutter Kicks
– Low Plank: 45 seconds Wild Card x3
Cardio
– 100 Burpees
– 100 Jumping Jacks
– 100 High Knees
– 100 Mountain Climbers
– 100 Side Jumps
Some interesting things from today:
Burpees are counted as arms, legs, and cardio, but not core. No more burpees during Mary.
Out of all of those burpee cards, neither YHC nor Wheelie drew a single one. Might be worth picking up a lottery ticket on the way home.
Low rep cards are actually annoying. Getting down to the asphalt to do two glute bridges or two pushups doesn’t seem worth it.
Strong people can do more than weak people, and are therefore more useful. They are also harder to kill or kidnap FYI.
MARY: included
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
September is full of goodness including Iron Pax challenge, 2nd F lunch, Hot Dogs at Little Red’s house, and a GoRuck Takeover hosted by ao-the-furnace.
COT: Prayers for Audit to make good life choices :slightly_smiling_face: and for all of us to have strength (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual) to do hard things when they are required of us
Tags: ao-the-union, Corn Stock (Garth), Audit, Capsized, Papa Jono, Wheelie, Flo