DATE: 2024-07-06

AO: rumble

Q: Web

PAX: Bionic, Wee Man, Boucher

FNGs: None

COUNT: 4

Conditions: Humid and hot

Warm-Up:

Independence was declared in 1776 on July 2nd with it being announced on the 4th.

– 17x SSH IC

– 7x Squats IC

– 6x Merkins IC

– 7x Imperial Walkers IC

– 2x Spider Merkins IC

– 7x Hill Billy Walkers IC

– 4x Through the Tunnel IC

The Thang:

Early on, part of the festivities for Independence Day included mock funerals for King George III.

1 to 4 reps (you do each exercise as a sort of ladder: do the first exercise 1 time, the first exercise 1 time and the second 2 times, etc.)

– Burpee, Merkin, Carolina Dry Docks, Hand Release Merkin

– Lunge (2 ct.), Squat Jump, Squat, Bonny Blair (2 ct.)

– Big Boy, Box Cutter, Merkin Hammer (2 ct.), Flutter Kick (4 ct.)

– Plank Jack, Incline Merkin, Burpee Broad Jump, Spider Merkin (2 ct.)

Americans typically eat 150 million hot dogs on the 4th of July.

Partner Hot Dogs (1 partner does the exercise and the other does something to other side of the parking lot and mosey’s back):

– Bear Crawl, 150x Squats

– Reverse Mosey (Yosem), 150x Bonny Blairs (2 ct.)

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe have all died on July 4th.

Mosey to side parking lot

Jailbreak to the end of that parking lot

The Macy’s fireworks show typically has about 75k fireworks which cost around 6 million.

– 7x Step Ups (2 ct.)

– 7x Decline Merkins

– 7x Squats

– 7x Shoulder Taps (2 ct.)

– 7x Hip Taps (2 ct.)

– 7x LBCs

Mosey to hill

6x Jump Squats

Mosey to bottom of hill

6x Jump Squats

Bernie (Reverse Mosey up hill)

Mosey to stop sign

Reverse Mosey backwards

In 1870 July 4th became a federal holiday.

Gravity Stretch

Announcements:

– Heavy mile right after this Q

Count-o-Rama

Name-o-Rama

Prayer

Moleskin:

The day before the Q there is no plan. So may as well take a shot at it. The 4th of July just passed so that is a great option. Just like the announcement about the declaration of independence this Q about it is 2 days after the fact. So I looked up some facts and found https://parade.com/1047578/lindsaylowe/4th-of-july-facts-history/. Thus the game was a foot.

So we started out with some exercises to warm up. The reps were based on 1776, 7/2, and 7/4. I thought about us doing 76 SSHs, but that sounded a little extreme so things were toned down. The spider merkins were a bit tricky and I forgot to do the inflection on that one, so we had a weird end to that. After the warm up came the pallbearers. Normally there are 4 to 6 of them, so we had 4 exercises. This exercise setup and format was a bit confusing and took a couple of tries to get right. But soon we were on a roll. The partner exercises came next and man did they burn. They burned like the heat of fireworks in my legs. So I am sure everyone was having a bit of a rough time. Bionic was feeling things after the partner exercises. He said he was not feeling too well and I said he would feel things even more once we got to the other parking lot. Then we got there and I called a jailbreak. He made it through just fine. We soon were onto the next exercises and audibled to the hill. There we did a Bernie since Boucher was doing a pre-ruck and explained it to me then. And that was pretty much everything.

Boucher did a pre-ruck, I prewalked and Bionic, myself, and Wee Man did a mile weighted ruck. Bionic and I felt it was a mistake by the end, but he had it worse since he had 100 lbs. I only had 60.

All in all, I thought it was pretty good. We got to go over some 4th of July facts and also have a workout. I hope everyone enjoyed the workout and Bionic has a great beach day!