February is the official start to Mardigras and I thought we would have some fun with this theme.
Led by Newt- Warmaram- SSH, Arm Circles, WMH, Michael Phelps, We all know that New Orleans and Mardigras can put a hurting on you so we decided to do some twerkin. The twerkins are a downward dog pose with two humpers and roll through to a cobra pose. We did 10 of those.
The thang- We moseyed over to the corner of the field where blocks were gathered.
In New Orleans style- we had some Professor Longhair playing and we did tabata style exercises through the following spelling.
N.- Nemo with the block- don’t let your hands off the block and flip-flop between, chest press, urkin and blockee. It’s a new favorite and once you get through the awkwardness, it gets the heart rate going,
O- Overhead press
L- Lunge out front and out to the side with the block
O- Butt offs- this is something I made up and while in theory it should be easy but the triceps start to burn after about 15 seconds
V- V-ups with the block
E- Elevated Homers- both legs, one leg up and one leg down
Rinse and repeat
Newt guided us for the New Orleans parade. This was an H- shape float with Newt in the middle. He claimed to be the King and proceeded to tell us what to do. Mostly high knees around the field until we we found out who was in band and knows how to turn a float and rotate slowly while maintaining form. Once the parade ended we circled up for some Newt merkin medley or jambalaya if you will. It was a medley of different types of merkins including the world famous Fig Newtons which Newt invented.
I wanted to give the superbowl some love as well as the favorite NFL QBs the Manning brothers as New Orleans sons. We did some block hikes in sequence and then block hikes quick back to start. Tough to show in a backblast but those that were there would say these are worse than the monkey humpers and like a backwards murder-bunny.
The idea was simple, we played some football with offense and defense and ran some sprints. It was easy enough to get the heart rate up with some burpees and a flashing light-up football.
Time for circle-ups and making King Cakes. For those of you who don’t know, the King Cake is one of the staples of Mardi-gras. King cake is a ring of sweet pastry that’s covered in lots of icing and purple, yellow, and green sprinkles or luster dust. Some folks make their king cake more like a bread and others prefer a more cake-y version—there’s no right or wrong way. Most are usually flavored vanilla, cinnamon, or some cream cheesy combo. But they’re always round with a hollowed out center—think of it like a crown that you could put on your head if you were feeling particularly festive. For us, we did a ring of squats and side lunges followed by 10- IC crab cakes..
Time for an extended Mary- we got back in our circle and with J-Los movie coming out and the rediculous idea that a movie star would marry a Joe Schmoe- we did some A-rods. Though we discussed they probably should be called Ben Afflecks part twos- the pax did 2 pickle pounders combined with the J-Lo wobbles. And Mardi-gras is all about the forgiveness of sins so we did some absolutions to beg for our forgiveness of the upcoming final exercise. Finally, in Mardi-gras style we had a ring of fire and some shirtless merkins to earn our beads. One for the books and lots of laughs and work was done. Until I see you all next time, thanks for coming out.
COT- There are several events in the near future, the wolf on 2-19 in Hillsboro which is a 2 hour CSAUP event and Milawi run for children on 4-23. Please sign-up. Also this week is a particular vulnerable time for many dudes or even couples that might be feeling lonely during the superbowl festivities or Mardi-gras or Valentine’s. Reach out to someone and let them know you care. It is important and thanks for all the laughs today and may the Big Q up in the sky forgive us all for all of our trespasses.