Yuletide Workout
AO: The Norseman
When: 12/10/2019
QIC: Ha-ha
PAX (6): Miller Time, Groupie, Nacho Libre, Crikey, Callahan, Ha-ha
Preamble:
It’s Yuletide! What is Yuletide? What is a Yule log?
The Yule log is a specially selected log burnt on a hearth as a Christmas tradition in a number of countries in Europe. The Yule log was a whole tree meant to be burned for 12 days in the hearth. Everyone would take turns feeding the length of timber into the fire as it burned. Letting it burn out would bring bad luck. The custom may ultimately derive from Germanic paganism. After the Christianization of Scandinavia, it may have been incorporated into the Christian celebration of Christmas there, with the pagan significance no longer remaining. Regardless of its origin, for the Christian feast of Christmas, the yule log symbolizes the battle between good and evil: “as the fire grew brighter and burned hotter, and as the log turned into ashes, it symbolized Christ’s final and ultimate triumph over sin.” Wikipedia of course.
Warm-O-Rama:
A light misty drizzle was falling with unseasonably warm temperature of 60 degrees as we mosied off to find our Yule log. We would not look long.
We stopped for:
- SSH
- Log pickers (Weed Pickers)
- Imperial Walkers
Sufficiently limber we headed over to Truck Norris where 5 stations were set up, 4 stations with fat chucks of a birch tree and one station with two 5 foot long pine trunks.
The Thang:
The drill for this morning was that there were 4 exercises on the five cones at the stations. We would perform the first exercise on the list at our station for 1 minute and then rotate clockwise to the next station where we would do the first exercise at that cone for 1 minute and on around the stations. We we completed one circuit we would move on to exercise #2 on the lists and rotate around again.
Playlist for this morning was “Alt Rock Christmas”:
The stations where:
Station 1
With 40 lb log:
| Log overhead Press |
| Log curls |
| Log squats |
| Log squat press |
Station 2
With 40 lb log:
| Log overhead squat |
| Log ground to shoulder |
| Log over shoulder |
| Log toss |
Station 3
With 40 lb log:
| Log lunge |
| Log shoulder to shoulder |
| Log lunge |
| Log up downs (hold log and go down to one knee, then two knees then stand back up) |
Station 4
With 40 lb log:
| Log derkins |
| Log irkins |
| Log pass (two PAX back to back pass log around cw and ccw) |
| Log row |
Station 5
With 5 foot long log:
| Long log side to side one hand (one end on ground) |
| Long log side to side two hands (one end on ground) |
| Long log press |
| Long log row |
We took an intermission about half way through to carry our logs to the other side of the parking lot and back. And before you know it it was 0615.
COT:
Lots of traveling for the PAX coming up. T&P for safe travels.