So....I've been in the dog house with Mack (again) since last Thursday because I gained a pound. When you're in trouble, you go to the back room and do mountainclimbers. I call it the convict room. Mack weighed me about halfway through the class, discovered my grave infraction and gave me 3000 mountainclimbers. I did about 485 on Thursday and Monday did 2145 more so I had 370 left at the end of the day yesterday. By the way, the back room is hotter than the front room (which is about 108 degrees). I was definitely a disgusting mess. After the class was over, Mack invited us "inmates" into the front room to do another 50 mountainclimbers with the class (and they didn't count towards my overall total...I asked). So, during the stretch, Mack asked me if I want to flip for the mountainclimbers. I think "why not?" and say "yes." What he means is that he'll flip a coin and my mountainclimbers will either be wiped out or be doubled. 740 is not so bad.....I'll take that chance. Mack (who's now putting on a show) acts all astonished and says, "You're almost done ST, why would you take that chance?" Then, this knucklehead says, "Because she really wants you to give her more mountainclimbers and is afraid to ask for them." Now THAT IS NOT WITHIN THE SPIRIT OF OUR CLASS. Basically, it's an us against Mack spirit and everyone else in the class just looked at the knucklehead like he was an idiot. (He's relatively new.) I just shook my head....indicating that he was so far gone into Idiotville there was no redemption. So, keeping up the show, Mack asks every person in the class whether they'd flip for 370 mountainclimbers and all but 2 say yes. MY PEOPLE! (I'd like to just give a shout out to my faithful friend JV in this regard! Thanks sister! Some people even said "absolutely." Ahhhh.) Now, if I had 16,000 mountainclimbers or something like that, I'd never flip because the consequences of losing are way too great. Yes....there is a person in the back room right now that has 16,000 mountainclimbers to do. I've known others to have 23,000 and over 30,000. Mountainclimbers are hard too. So Mack tells me to get up and stand in front of the room. I walk over. Mistake. Mack says, you don't walk on "the floor" let's make it 400 mountainclimbers. Alright....he flips, I call "Tails" and it lands on Heads. Damn. 800 mountainclimbers. I walk back and...get another 100 mountainclimbers for walking again. Now I have 900 mountainclimbers to do today.
The back room isn't so bad though. Although Mack sits or stands in the doorway between the main floor and the convict room, he often has his back turned on us. You get a lot of talking done during that time and you get to watch everyone else running around and getting yelled at. It's a great study in human nature and character. Most of the time, whenever Mack gives instructions for a new exercise, we all mouth "yuck" because we hate that one. I've found that I hate almost all of the stuff he makes the class do. Of course, that's why you go to class because I'd never instruct myself to run suicides or do pushups.
In fact, the knucklehead who spoke up earlier was sent to the back room for a mere 300 mountainclimbers during yesterday's class. He was having a hard time and told Mack he couldn't do something. That's tantamount to cursing Mack out to his face and he don't put up with any of that "I can't" language in his class. Mack likes to tell people that he won't tell them to do anything that he doesn't already know they can do. Of course, I don't know who he's thinking about when he asks me to do 5 laps of frog leaps....because Tanja can't do that. You'd think that my floundering around and falling on my ass for 4 of the 5 laps would be a good indication that this is in the "can't" category but he doesn't appear to notice. It's pretty much the perfect position because any failure is solely on your own part...not his. But I digress. Knucklehead goes in the back and starts arguing with Mack and I just keep my head down and do mountainclimbers (Mack is not in a good mood). When Mack leaves the guy to his miniscule amount of mountainclimbers, the knucklehead starts doing something that may resemble (in some alternative universe) mountainclimbers but not on this planet. Basically, he has his hands on the floor but he brings one leg back at a time. You're supposed to have one leg bent forward and one leg back and you simultaneously switch them to constitute one mountainclimber. He was doing them 1/2 at a time. I've never seen that in Mack's class before. The inmates and I just looked at each other. Pretty unbelievable.
So, tonight I'll be out of the back room (unless I walk again or do something worse).
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