05/29/2019 - the asylum - Four-Alarm Beatdown

The Thang

YHC is on a peg leg and doesn’t move well, and honestly, still has PTSD around One Tree Hill, so this beatdown is staying in the parking lot!

During this six-plus weeks of recovery, let’s just say YHC’s alarm hasn’t been utilized much. So, with a 430 wake-up call, felt fitting to bring the ALARM to the PAX. ALARM is Arms, Legs, Abs, Cardio, Cardio (because ALACC makes NO SENSE). Knowing my PAX use the snooze button often, each ALARM is going to get a little tougher. YHC put his own HIIT spin on the ALARM, so each exercise is 40 sec on/20 sec off.

ALARM 1 – Laughs are plentiful and conversation is flowing as we welcome three FNGs to the asylum. We start with shoulder presses, followed by squats (a nice reminder of The Murph from Monday), BBSUs, and high knees. Final cardio is an Indian Run around the parking lot. YHC and the PAX are very impressed with our 2.0s, who absolutely crushed the run.

All seems great, but we hit that snooze button. So the next alarm is a little tougher.

ALARM 2 – Merkins followed by Lunges, American Hammers, Burpees, and then finally a Bear Crawl/Bernie Sanders/Bear Crawl/Sprint combo. Shout out to 2.0 Ronin, whose Bear Crawl was so fast, it inspired his nickname (more on that later)! PAX are a little less chatty and breathing a little harder, but still looking great. DON’T DO IT! Oh no, someone hit snooze again. Well, ALARM 3 is going to up the pain a notch.

ALARM 3 – Shoulder Taps, Squat Jumps, Superman Situps, Mountain Climbers, and a mosey around the parking lot. At this point, YHC is so incredibly impressed with the PAX and can tell everyone is focused and giving it everything they have, so for the fourth alarm, I have a surprise for them.

ALARM 4 – PAX Choice! From the previous three ALARMs, pick the arm, leg, ab, and cardio exercise you want to do. YHC usually picks the easiest when he’s healthy, but not this group of PAX. To see these men choose more Burpees, more Merkins, and more American Hammers has encouraged YHC to make better choices when he’s back to 100. One final lap around the parking to bring it home and this beatdown is done.

Or is it?

YHC was ready to call it, but the PAX said, “Cheer Dad, we still have seven minutes left, let’s do some Marys!” So YHC turned over the beatdown to the PAX and they led the Marys. YHC was so inspired by the hard work from the crew this morning, he took off his peg leg and joined the PAX for some (probably ill-advised) ab work. We ended with a two-plus minute plank and called it at 6:15.