Block party out at Granny’s today, with Hammer standing in for Chewy this morning. As usual, these guys come out the gate swinging; if you were a fly on the wall (or, er, column?), you’d think my wife had some kind of Hunting Wives’ lifestyle (sorry, requisite plug – you’ll have to endure this for the next few months). Despite the detours, though – and there were many (another notable one involved Russo lighting candles for his wife), we did eventually make it through the warmorama.
Over to the stage for the main event, Coupon Tabata (45 sec on, 15 sec rest). In between rounds, everyone had a turn doing their best Schwarzenegger as we lunge walked half the corridor, slalomed the rest, and hit the pilot house steps for 3x calf raises.
Rounds were:
– Squat Thrusters x5
– Curls x5
– Goblet Squats x5
– Chest Presses x5
Similar to Zoolander’s “Birthday Problem,” probability theory has also proven that 15 seconds of rest during a tabata workout actually feels like 4 seconds. (Formula for the proven “Tabata Problem” theorem: cos2 (x) + sin2 (x) = (eix + e-ix )2 /4 + sin2 (x) = (e2ix + e-2ix )/4 + e2ln(sin(x)) + 1/2).
Also, I fear I’ve forever altered my YouTube algorithm by looking up this Indian version of MJ’s “Thriller.” It is of course a masterpiece, just as Hammer promised, but now YouTube wants to feed me Peter Gabriel’s “Steam” and Steve Miller Band’s “Abracadabra,” and I’m not sure I’m ready to go down that rabbit hole.
COT came a minute early, with nameorama, announcements, and Russo prayed us out with intentions for Sogo and all unspoken intentions. Thank you men for the laughs and the camaraderie.
