Author: Jason Shaw

Race Day was rife with PRs!! As the unseasonably high temps fall, so do our race day times!!

(Hamilton already crushed his sit-ups, but is waiting for Mike to finish. What a great friend!!)

Lots of Announcements and coming ups, so let’s just get in to it!!

Friday – Workout will be on the North Meridian St. spoke of Monument Circle.  The theme will be “Let’s Hear it For the Boys” as we will be sweating with our lululemon friends as they roll out their campaign to showcase the dudes.  (Editors Note: Finally we are getting a little love here, amiright guys?!?!). That was a joke, but if you wish to complain please forward all complaints to Casey Seaton.  Seriously though, there should be some good lulu swag as well as just a general great way to earn the weekend!!  There is even an event page – #signup: not required #justshowup: mos def required. read more

Every several months we like to break out the “Call Me Maybe” workout…not only for the fact it is a fun way to mix it up and one of the tougher workouts we do.  But, mainly because those who haven’t done it always give me the same “concerned/not really sure if they should” look when I tell them to write their number down and drop it in the bucket.  That whole “what exactly is my personal contact information going to get used for” mentality really kicks in….and I love it.  What I also love is forcing friendships upon people, which accomplishes as well.  If you were there today, you have a new friend’s number…use it wisely.  Send them dozens of text messages without their reply asking how they are doing, where they are, and why they aren’t texting you back.  Or – just send the selfie with a movie quote and call it a day.  Your choice. read more

Announcements:

Friday’s workout will be on the NORTH end of the Canal Walk in front of Bugg’s Temple/IU Health.

As we continue to make our city our gym and explore every/learn every bit we can, every 3^rd Friday of the month, we will be working out at different Indy park.  We hope to keep these within running/biking distance of The Circle as to incorporate that in to your workout and make them accessible. read more

An unseasonably cool morning in July was more than welcome for this morning’s #raceday.  It was end of the month shenanigans as normal as people cursed their way through the grueling race day workout many of us know all too well.

Since race day is nothing new, and these blogs can get repetitive, I will focus on the other big news of the morning as we said goodbye to Tory and Patrick.  Who, individually are two of the most energetic, smiley, loving and all around positive people that I have ever met.  And, as a couple, they are a FORCE!!  They also each received the Positivity Award, but since we were pressed for time, we had to award the PA twice in one day.  Much deserved for both of them. read more

Editors note: The working title for this blog was “Crossterfuck” but I assumed it might get flagged by wordpress so I figured I would just make it the 10^th word in the blog to be safe.

After Casey regaled us with his “Inception” style bounce, it was off we went as we Kris Krossed (sic) all over the War Memorial and surrounding sidewalks.  Too long to try to explain on the blog, but basic gist:  Two lines going up and over in opposite directions, lunge across the south end of the war memorial while high-fiving those going the opposite direction, then back to the north side where runners would take the sidewalks to the east or west doors.  Then switch sides.  Exercises were push-ups and crunches with a burpee to start and finish each one.  If this doesn’t make sense to you, good…you should have been there. read more

With the saddest of hearts, the tribe said “Bye, Bye, Bye” to Howard as an NP Indy mainstay as we wish him well on his move to Charlotte and sent him off with a Boy/Girl Band workout.

The Workout:  The Anatomy of a Boy Band

Everybody knows there is a formula for making up a perfect boy or girl band.  You need to right mix to get hits.  So we took the boy band formula, found the corresponding muscle group, and now we’re at the top of the charts. read more

IMPORTANT BLOG NOTE:  Be sure to drop this beat BEFORE reading:

Regulators

We’re up before the sun in any weather, all year ‘round

and we damn good too

And you can be any geek off the street.

But you gotta be hungry for some stairs if you know what I mean, move ya feet!

RACE DAY!!! MOUNT UP! read more

Hot hand in a dice game, baby girl!!!

NP Indy played a little high-stakes back alley dice on the War Memorial this morning.

The Game:

Teams of five roll two dice – the number on the dice corresponded to an exercise.  Then one die was rolled again, and that number was multiplied by 5 to determine how many reps.  Easy, peasey, Bolognesey. read more