For those that are unaware, there’s a thing called the Iron Pax Challenge. It’s a 4 week long challenge that our brothers from Greenwood SC (shoutout to some dudes I met down there while running a route they call The Dong. Or is it the Wang? – Baby Blue and Judge Judy) put together that’s meant to challenge all pax into pushing themselves to complete some God awful exercises that they have come up with.
It’s a great idea and I appreciate their efforts, but clearly no one in Greenwood has heard of Blue Ridge Relay or Table Rock Ultras because both of those runs just also happen to be right in the middle of this crazy IPC. Thanks guys. You know, there’s nothing wrong with doing this thing next month.
Point is it was in my best interest to do this week’s challenge as early in the week as possible to avoid being sore for this Saturday’s TRU. Yesterday was the chosen day to complete it. Flamer and I agreed to meet up and knock this thing out….in theory. Even though I technically did the challenge, I completely gave it the Whiskey Dick. F3 Nation’s Lexicon defines Whiskey Dicking as “tentative execution of a task”. More PC term might be “I mailed it in” “I didn’t give it my all” “I laid an egg” “I caught a case of vaginosis”. You get the point, I completely disrespected my brothers from Greenwood as well as Flamer, who was busting his tail while I hardly broke a sweat. That’s not what F3 is about. We are supposed to push each other. I didn’t push squat. Iron sharpens iron. Not yesterday. Iron got sharpened by a marshmallow. For that I owe anyone reading this an apology.
Luckily, I had the Q at OG this am for an Iron Pax inspired workout. Time to totally redeem myself (still wanna go to Aspen?).
Warmups:
SSH
ATT, plus some Beaker double ATT
Jane Fondas
lap around parking lot…pass by the creeper car #freecandy
Grab a kettlebell for Iron Pax inspired workouts. Work for 2 minutes of called exercise, rest for 30 seconds. GO!
- Burpee Jump Overs (IPC week 3)
- Curls (IPC week 3)
- Squat Thrusters (IPC week 3)
- Gas Pumps (week 3)
- Burpees w/ Kettle Bell (week 2)
- Overhead Press (week 2)
- Kettle bell swings (week 2)
- Squats (Wk2)
- One Leg Dead Lifts (Flex Seal inspired, sorry IPC)
- Broad Jumps (week 1)
- Big Boys (week 1)
- Crawl Bears up big hill (twist on Week 1)
- Partner Derkins
- Skull Crushers
- Hand Release Merkins
About one minute left for Publix to call Pretzels.
Circle up, WOD/COT
So glad to have the Car Guys/Mystery Machine Gang with us again: Daphne and Velma
And the man that I owe bringing me to F3: Beaker
And the man that I owe bringing life back to OG: Flex Seal
And the man that’s always out there pushing me AND talking some good sh_t: Publix
The IPC has been coined the Iron Pixie Challenge by some pax that have been watching from the sidelines. No surprise there. On both parts.
IPC is pretty funny to follow on the twitters. There are always folk tweeting back at them showing a full range of emotions that vary from Complete Butthurt to Extreme Peacocking.
Butthurt goes something like this: “There’s literally no way that anyone could finish this exercise quicker than I”. Which in reality is Passive Aggressive Peacocking now that I think about it.
Peacocking goes a bit like this: “I have the largest member and do the quickest reps in F3 Nation. Can’t you tell from the looks of my profile picture how Kick Ass I am? See, it’s a pic of some old wrestler. Bow at the feet of my badassery”.
Kudos to IPC guys for mostly staying on moral high ground. I would told a lot of folk to F Off a long time ago.
Despite my Whiskey Dick’n, I’m still sore and probably made the right choice due to impending 50K.
Still sore from Week 2, that is. And Week 3. Damn, these guys are killing me.
Or maybe I should have made the right choice and not signed up to run 32 miles in the woods?? Hmm.
Either way still #notarunner
Always a pleasure.
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