Author: Snuff

4 film buffs gathered around the sounds of cinema for an action-packed workout. Siskel and Ebert: two thumbs up.

The opening track to Terminator 2: Mosey into the nuclear sunset for an OYO warmarama.

Last of the Mohicans on the wall for the patented Pigskin special.

A quattro checko with timer on tooth fairies, dips, squats and Freddie Mercuries to the sounds of the Hans Zimmer, the real Dark Knight.

Chased by Orcs up Mt Chaplain with 100% effort to the Two Towers theme. It was epic.

100 mirkins Mad Max-style.

Finished with 3 minutes of breath work to Revenge of the Sith.

And the Oscar goes to… any man who kindles a fire in the gloom.

9 conquistadors and one Tree of Life.

Steeled themselves, warmarama to the concrete sounds of the jungle.

Onward to the moist Goldilocks hillock, triple bear check.

Onward to the Crossing, 3 ways to live and one way to die.

As we lay on the tracks, watching the slow clouds, necks on the rail, one certainty.

The train comes, one day or another. Not today.

Hacking deeper into the woods on the trail of tents, we didn’t find The Fountain.

Only the inevitability of acceptance, open to all men, rain or shine.

10 men in the rain and the gloom with the tunes. Flagpole warmarama with the usual SSHs, DQs, Imperial Squat Walkers, etc.

Mosey to the wall for the Pigskin special: wall sits (Muhammad Alis, milkers, Hoedowns), balls to the wall (hip slaps, Australian mtn climbers, toe taps) and donkey kicks, repeato x3 and finish with a dirty hookup.

Down the stairs for a triple check: jump squats, dips and run the loop. Some minor grumbling about the rain so we moseyed to the club: Snuff Underground.

Triple check in the dry: WW2s, plank jacks with the timer on the small loop. Then 11s across the short space: ball dipper and hand-release mirkins. The music was pumping.

Mosey back to the flag to finish on time.

COT: Prayers for Scram’s mom as she enters hospice. She does so in high spirits with characteristic personality. She takes those last few steps down her path and we are the ones who are left behind. Take today to honor the mothers in your life: they brought us in to this world, and our children into this world, they are truly blessed.

Details are lost in the holiday haze but last week 7 revelers braved the darkest day of the year for a solstice beatdown.

Warmarama in the cold cold air – SSHs followed by a loop, Don Quixotes then another loop, plankjacks then another loop, and so on and so forth with 8ish loops around.

Mosey to the road where we did a curb crawl with the last man hitting 5 hand release mirkins then going to the front. Lunge walk all way back. Run it back with a curb crawl on the opposite side.

Mosey to the dark wall for a Pigskin special – wall sits, balls to the wall, 15 donkey kicks. 3 times through.

Long mosey all the way down to the cul de sac, then back to the base of the hill. Bernie all the way up.

Mary with mirkins and an ab exercise of choice.

There may have been more action but we kept it moving with almost no breaks in between.

COT – every day after the solstice brings more light.

Last week at The Forge 7 men gathered to do all their favorite workouts, ad nauseam, until they were no long a favorite workout. And to discuss Japanese animation.

Mosey to the front, warmarama with 44 SSHs. Lots of other warmups to end on 44 LBCs. What could possibly be the significance? No idea.

Mosey to the amphitheater where YHC queued up a killer playlist featuring all the greatest hits from the Studio Ghibli movies. To his surprise and complete dismay, not a single person present had ever even heard of these movies. So the playlist was canceled and a new workout began.

Too much of a good thing: PAX does a continuous exercise while one at a time, the timer box jumps the big stairs then comes back down. Flutterkicks, arm circles, monkey humpers, APD, arm raises, all the easiest movements that become crushingly hard after doing them nonstop.

After a while it was too much of too much of a good thing, so we switched to:

Super tooth fairies: 5 incline burpees on the steps all the way up, then dip + 5 plank jacks on the way down. 3x Incline Lieutenant Dans on the way up, scrunchy frogs on the way down. Beautiful sunrise.

Mosey back to the flag where gratitude was given.

Here are some Studio Ghibli movies for homework:

Spirited Away. Howl’s Moving Castle (YHC’s personal favorite). My Neighbor Totoro. Princess Monoke. Ponyo. It would be amazing to be able to watch any of these movies again for the very first time – count yourself lucky.

9 Beastie Boys gathered in the gloom to kick it Root Down. Meanwhile, YHCs hounds were out on the town having escaped earlier that morning by digging a giant hole under the fence. Sabotage.

Warmarama with SSHs, DQs, helicopters, arm circles and more arm circles, shoulder taps, Alabama Prom dates, LBCs, etc etc.

Mosey to the middle school for a stair climb triple check: Hoedowns squats, timer runs up and around.

Mosey around the front for another stair climb triple check: Dips, WW2s, timer runs up around around.

Mt Chaplin climb triple check: Flutter kicks and one other thing while timer ran up the hill and back down.

Back to the flag for an ascending squat parking space lunges, ran it back with bear crawl ascending leg lifts.

Gratitude for the morning and yes, the hounds were found.