[stairmaster] Is it Stairmaster or Thighmaster?

AO: stairmaster
Q: Fuse Box
PAX: Fuse Box, Transporter, Gasparilla, U-Haul, Hot Yoga, Dunkin, Damascus, Deep Dish, Kermit
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
How can a site be gruelingly long in the moment yet unbelievably short. Every time I attend stairmaster and the Q calls time or to meet at COT I look at my watch in disbelief. Has it really already been 45 minutes? Yet when I’m taking my 16th stairclimb of the day I can’t help but think the repetitiveness is killing me.

9 Pax for stairs with a ruck, exercises with kettle (happy zin?) bells, and track laps. I thought I had time for 3 rounds but turns out I only had time for 2.1 rounds (where did the time go?).

MOLESKINE:

Kermit – was out front all day….but that may have been because all the kettle bells were heavy. Either way he made sure I knew it with phrases like “Is that all you’ve got for us Fuzy?” “My Dad’s lifting twice what you are” and my personal favorite “Hey fatty, get out of my way, let the gazelles through”. Ok, if you know Kermit you know he’s too nice to have said any of those things. I just wanted to give Dunkin a slight heart attack.

Quickly behind the acorn was the tree – Dunkin. He helped the Q out by leading Mary after each round.

Transporter did his best to sweat out the remaining flu he had and did a damn fine job too. When I called our what was supposed to be our third round which included incline Makhtar N’Daiye’s, I got an audible “Really?!” from him which made me quite proud. If you can call something out that even Transporter is stupid, you’ve really done something. He did later confess that they were not as hard as he was expecting.

Damascus nursing a lower ab muscle (unfortunately I know that struggle all to well from 2023) yet somehow modified way less than I did during my ab issue. And he got the instructions correctly on the first try!!!

Gasparilla was tight on Dunkin’s heels all morning and decided to go for the 6 circle back instead of mary each round. Good work today.

U-Haul continuing to claim stairmaster is good for his knee and just as good as PT. He also proves that old guys can learn tech as he seems to be the Slack emoji maker king.

Somehow Deep Dish thought climbing stairs with a ruck on would be good for his vertigo issues. I told him if he felt himself going, just yell out trust fall and maybe one of the pax would come catch him – maybe.

Hot Yoga getting out and doing more and more after the hernia surgery. Good work today.

All in all a quiet group which I think translates to a fairly tough workout. I know I was breathing hard all morning and questioning my wienke decisions. Enjoy the day boys.