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.
