03/01/2021 - Dark Tower - Daft Punk and some old Towels
AO: Dark Tower
When: 03/01/2021
PAX:
Number of Pax: 14
Pax Names: afib, Augustus Gloop, Backdraft, Buttermaker, Dingo, Dorn, Face Plant, Goldberg, Nacho Libre, Radio Flyer, Riunite, Townie, Twinning, Waterfall,
DR Names:
Number of FNGS:
FNG Names:
QIC: GOLDBERG
Introduction
A tribute to the music of Daft Punk.
We will be grip strength heavy. Bring a coupon and a towel (For real).Hypothetically, bring a beach towel that you could sling over a bridge beam and use your small little forearms to hang from.HC below. I’d recommend going to see @NoseJob @ IL, @MiaHamm at Complex or @Serenaat BD, they’re much better.
Warm-O-Rama
Runners lunges
Pigeons
motivators
The Thang
Focus today was on slow and controlled movements.
Merkins & Curls, on my down and hold, then my up. (10 of each)
Then we split in pairs, runners ran clockwise around the tower, farmers carries in other direction. when they met in the middle, changed jobs.
Grabbed our coupons and towels and mosey to the tower.
Dips, split squats, and towel curls (towel woven through the coupon web). Same cadence, my down, my up. (10ish)
Mosey over the first bridge. Squats with the towel over head.
Mosey to second bridge. Thread towel over the rafter and hold until failure. then put towel around beam and do rows.
Back to the flags for merkins.
Back to the tower for dips, split squats and curls (no towel). Then back to the bridge to hang (no towel).
Back to the tower for dips and squats. then back to the flags for mary (captain thors)
Circle of Trust
I told the story, of all the work that I’m currently doing in the house. and while working, i see my son on his bose bluetooth headphones on his tablet. and then my wife and daughter under a heated blanket watching a movie.
and i couldn’t help but think of the chris rock joke, “what does daddy get? the big piece of chicken”.
we as men, have an enormous amount of stress. maintaining our houses, paying the mortgage, being a present husband and father.
and i think it’s OK to admit and own the stress. pretending like we aren’t, only makes things worse. You’re grinding; we feel stressed. that’s ok. it won’t change. but know that you are allowed to be stressed and never feel bad about that.
Naked Man Moleskin
most of the towel stuff didn’t work. it wasn’t a disaster, but not really worth the extra effort. bridge hangs are good and we need to be better at those. nacho was good, buttermarker was good, and I think gloop was really good.
afib didn’t get to run enough. every time we started, he opened it up and i felt bad stopping him.
backdraft has a bananas diet. ask him about it. it’s working though. looking cut.
it was a really incredible group of guys. if you said, pick 13 guys to spend your morning with, you couldn’t make a better group. positive, loud, funny, hardworking.
i really enjoyed the playlist and can’t recommend Daft Punk Alive 2007 enough.
figured out how to count captain thors (mostly). still didn’t get all the way through them. someday.