Tis’ the season for giving!
We decided to be like old ladies who work out in their houses, or moms who read Good Housekeeping and use canned goods as weights for this morning’s workout. Our tribe members came laden with Campbell’s soup cans, Green Giant vegetables, Bush’s baked beans… (we’re giving these brands some serious PR!) We told them it was for a donation drive, and then told them we were using them to work out first. And really, we delivered a can of Whoop Ass! (well, lots of cans!)
We visited our favorite spot and home of PR Day, Old Fourth Ward Historic Park for a circuit. Tribe members took two cans (or some like Stein were lifting heavy with four cans) and held them high above their heads for most of the workout until our delts and our traps were burning. 20 squats, 10 X sit ups, 20 kettlebell (can) swings, run up the stairs (cans above your head), about 40 walking lunges, back down the stairs and then a glorious lap around the park’s pond with, yep, you guessed it, CANS ABOVE YOUR HEAD. Those that did keep holding the cans up will definitely feel it later today when they try to raise their hand or lift their arm more than shoulder height.
It’s amazing how little 2-4 pound canned foods feel after 30 minutes of this circuit. We ended with a little competitive team relay, Russian twist style, moving all the cans from one end of the team to the other. Consider it our morning Abvember…
The 100 or so cans will all get donated to Atlanta Community Food Bank, a local non-profit that distributes more than 60 million pounds of food and groceries a year to 600 nonprofit agencies in 29 counties over metro Atlanta & north Georgia.
We were excited to have some guest from the Austin and San Francisco Tribe this morning! Shout out to Edwin Pacheco and Patrick Canfield for their #travelverbal and for kicking ass at the workout, you represented your tribes well! We love hosting members from other tribes and grabbing coffee with them after the workout. It’s great to share stories, ideas, and getting advice being the new kid on the block. Sometimes we get too caught up trying to come up with new locations and creative workouts. Talking to other tribe leaders helps us realize that we just got our “learners permit” and we should keep things simple and not complicated. After all NP in the early days was all about serving people just a simple can of whoop ass.
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Hi I’m Izzy, i was a newbie to the workout today and was told about some other pup named Peach would be there. I guess it was too cold for her and was more hype than badass! I missed you this morning and look forward to you sniffing my butt as I dust you at PR day 😜
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