03/29/2024 West End – Metaphoric Brunch

March 29, 2024

WHEN: 03/29/2024
QIC: Chum
PAX: Pumpkin, Spelunker
ME HEADCOUNT: 3

Good Friday plus a UNC loss evidently equates to lower than average turn out. Or it could be the Q. Regardless, YHC was honored to share The Gloom with HIMs Pumpkin and Spelunker and feast on a metaphoric brunch:

-Typical Warm-Up

-Elevenses. 10 of one exercise, then 1 of another. Next, 9 of one exercise and 2 of the other. Then 8 & 3, 7 & 4, so on and so forth to 1 and 10. The combined total reps always equals eleventeen.
Round 1: Derkins and Dips
Round 2: Step Ups and Squats
Round 3: Gas Pumps and Heels to Heaven (or, as Spelunker acutely noted, "Heels Not In Heaven")

-Spirit Bomb up and down the Parking Garage. It's a Burpee pyramid. Run up to first landing and do 1 Burpee. Run to next landing and do 2 Burpees. So on and so forth up to 10 Burpees. And then do the pyramid back down to 1.

-Mary
Dr. Ws courtesy of Pumpkin (Editor's Note: these sucked more than expected)
Superman courtesy of Spelunker (Editor's Note: total rep count was somewhere around 478)
Dancing Chilcutts courtesy of Chum

-Announcements
Quarterly Report next weekend
The Gambler IV CSAUP last Saturday of April (see #gambler_iv on Slack)

-COT
Elevenses was somewhat popularized by my like-statured Hobbits in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy ("What? No second breakfast?!"). But I guess a concept a little closer to reality is good ole Brunch. Allegedly, the concept of brunch was popularized or created or whatever in the early 1900s by a Briton named Guy Berringer. He wrote a column in the local tabloid titled "Brunch: A Plea". In his column, he basically pushed the benefits of brunch. As Mr. Berringer eloquently put it: "It puts you in a good temper, it makes you satisfied with yourself and your fellow beings, it sweeps away the worries and cobwebs of the week.” Thus, I hope you can consider today’s workout as brunch – I hope you’re now in a better mood, more satisfied with yourself and fellow men, and that your worries and distractions have been eased!