Combine: Get Your Money’s Worth

The BackBlast:

Where were the old guys? Combine is a good place to find some grizzled F3 veterans (usually). Definitely some vets today  but light on the grizzle. No one over 49. That sounds old when I read over the sentence. We did get the new-ish to CLTMetro (Swingline – Raleigh vet) and a recent FNG (In Your Pants with his 4th post).

What we did (Reader’s Digest version):

Lots of lunges with KB – overhead, over shoulder, one hand carry

Sprints with hand release merkins before/after each rep

Long KB set – do not put down your kettlebell. Included 2h swings, 1h swings, snatches, clean/press, row, and a bunch of goblet squats

Sprints – plank/mtn climbers, peter parker in between

Back to KB set – KB squat/curl/press; Circle OH press / Figure 8s

5 rounds of 2 minute drill – 5 burpees/10 snatches (5R/5L)/15 mtn climbers (1-1)/20 2h swings

The last 10 minutes are a killer here.

In Your Pants is relatively new to F3 and does not yet have a KB. He did bring a dumbbell of some unknown weight that he borrowed from the YMCA (possibly?) when they closed down earlier this year. His attempts to score a real KB have met with the Covid-19 reality of toilet paper and workout gear hoarding. The KB secondary market is clearly in a bubble right now. Cheaper per pound to invest in a mine somewhere and forge your own. Anyway bring your extra KB (plus some sanitizer or other cleaning product) to share with In Your Pants next time. 

M-Shank took over the grinder at Latta on Friday AMs – leaving us to play in the street. Which seems about right. Worked out perfectly for what we needed to do. Good seeing Uncle – have not worked out with him in person in forever (he leads a good Zoom workout). 

I think Combine still needs Qs. Let’s do it again soon.

Nash