#151 – Frozen Balls & Coaching Trees 🌳❄️🏀

Date: January 15, 2026
AO: Arrowhead – The Portico Icebox Edition 🧊🏛️
Weather: Cloudy, dry, and bone-chilling – 21°F real feel 9°F. We basically worked out inside a walk-in freezer with better lighting 🥶🌬️
PAX Count: 6 brave (or crazy) HIMs who showed up anyway 💪
QIC: Jake – 151st time leading the Q (yes, we’re counting… and yes, I was late again ⏰😅)

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Warm-O-Rama (Portico Special – Because Frostbite Isn’t Funny) 🔥

Bobber stepped up, gave the disclaimer, and started us off while your QIC was still thawing out in the car. Respect, brother! 🙌

• Side Straddle Hops (SSH) 🦘
• Imperial Walkers 👑🚶‍♂️
• Little Baby Arm Circles (LBAC) forward & reverse 🔄
• Sticky Icky Butt Kickers 🍑💨
• Willie Mays Hayes (WMH) ⚾
• Mountain Man Poopers (MMP) 🏔️💩 (perfect for warming up the core… and the soul)

The Thang: Basketball Tabata – Gloves On, Dignity Off 🏀🥶

We grabbed basketballs, headed to the covered portico (because frost-covered concrete is no joke), and turned Tabata into a frozen circus. Gloves made everything 47% harder and 100% more hilarious. Here’s the lineup:

• Round 1: Squat → Jump → Slam ball high on wall (soccer throw style) + Freddy Mercury 🏀🪑
• Round 2: Merkin position, hands on ball next to curb → Push up & land hands on curb (clap Merkin vibes but with basketball betrayal) + American Hammers with ball 🔄💥
• Round 3: Defensive slides + LBC 🛡️🪑
• Round 4: Squat Thrusts with block + Ankle Taps (crunch side-to-side, touch heels like you’re mad at your feet) 🏋️‍♂️👟
• Round 5: Reverse-direction curb jumps (left becomes right, chaos ensues) + Legs-up ball hold between feet (straight-leg raises – abs were crying) 🔄🦵
• Round 6: Jump → Rebound catch → Slam ball before landing + Scissor Kicks 🏀✂️

Gloves + basketball + freezing temps = comedy gold. Balls were slipping, fingers were numb, abs were on fire. Solid work, gents! 🔥😭

Moleskin: Coaching Trees – Saban’s Forest vs. Tomlin’s Bonsai 🌳 vs. 🌱

Nick Saban retired and still owns college football. As of January 2026, every single CFP semifinal head coach was once on his staff. That’s not a coaching tree – that’s a whole Crimson Sequoia forest! 🌲🌲🌲 Meanwhile, Mike Tomlin steps down after 19 seasons of excellence… and his tree? Basically a sad little potted plant. Zero current NFL head coaches from his assistants. Bruce Arians is the lone tall branch, but even he was already seasoned before Pittsburgh.

Saban built an empire by developing guys into head coaches. Tomlin kept veterans around and won like crazy, but didn’t send many disciples out to conquer. Lesson? Great individual success is awesome, but true legacy is measured in how many others you raise up. Whether it’s Q’ing your 151st workout or building a program, pour into the men around you. Iron sharpens iron – and sometimes that means letting them go lead their own gloom. 🤝💪

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Closed it out thankful for numb fingers, strong brothers, and the reminder that legacy > personal stats. 🙏❄️

#SYITG – See You In The (Hopefully Warmer) Gloom! 🌙🏀🥶