DATE: 2021-06-12
AO: Farm
Q: Infinity
PAX: Chile, Matthew – Running Man, Gekko (Keith Capp)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WarmUp: Air Squats, Don Quixote, Cherry Pickers, Rockettes, Michael Phelps, and Mosey.
The Thang: Cicada Workout
Line up on one end of the field. Two rounds of the following: Inch-Worm Crawls or Crab Can Walks 17 yds
17 Merkins
17 Reverse Merkins
Cicada Fact (see below)
Bear Crawl 17 yds
17 CDDs
17 Plank Skiers IC
Cicada Fact (see below)
Standing Long Jump 17 yds
17 Air Squats IC
17 Good Mornings IC
Cicada Fact (see below)
Crawl Bear 17 Yds
17 LBACs (FWD and REV) IC
17 Shoulder Raises IC
Cicada Fact (see below)
Sprint back to beginning
17 Shoulder Taps IC
17 Dolphin Crunches IC
Cicada Fact (see below)
Mary: 17 reps of the following, with a Cicada fact in between: Australian Snow Angels, Sweat Angels, Side Crunches, and Penguin Crunches.
CoT:
“Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.” – John Berger
You may not be a poet, but you may be holding back and not expressing your full potential. Dare to be bold and let your creativity come forward. A good way to practice this is to take the Q—lead F3 workouts—using your own creative ideas.
Cicada Facts:
Names: People call these cicadas “locusts” but they are not true locusts — real locusts look like grasshoppers. The phrase “17 year cicada” indicates that they arrive every 17 years. The name “periodical cicadas” indicates that they arrive periodically and not each and every year. The scientific name for the Genus of these cicadas is Magicicada. There are 13 year cicadas too! There are four species of 13-year cicadas.
Most 17 Year Cicadas have red eyes, but they can also have white, gray, blue, or multi-colored eyes.
The Massospora fungus infects Magicicadas, filling their abdomens and destroying their ability to reproduce. Often, their entire abdomen will fall off. The cicadas actually spread the fungus throughout their local colony via mating — the Massospora fungus is a cicada STD!
They’ll attack land on you if you’re using a power tool or lawn mower. Cicadas think the sounds made by power tools and lawn maintenance equipment are made by cicadas. They get confused and will land on the people using the equipment! Pro-tip: cut your lawn in the early morning or near dusk when the cicadas are less active.
Cicadas have five eyes: Cicadas have two, obvious, large, compound eyes, and three jewel-like eyes situated between the two main, compound eyes of a cicada. We believe the three middle eyes are used to detect light and darkness.
All wild animals and domestic pets will eat them. Dogs will gorge themselves until they choke. Squirrels will eat them like corn on the cob. Wild turkeys will grow fat and juicy on the cicada feast. Fish go crazy for them too — you can use them as bait, or use lures that mimic them.
People eat them. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There, uh, cicada kabobs, cicada creole, cicada gumbo, panfried, deep fried, stir fried. There’s pineapple cicada, lemon cicada, coconut cicada, pepper cicada, cicada soup, cicada stew, cicada salad, cicada and potatoes, cicada burger, cicada sandwich… that’s, that’s about it.
Cicadas “eat” tree fluids: Cicadas don’t eat solid foods — instead they use their slender, straw-like mouth parts to drink tree fluids.
Cicadas pee: Yes cicadas pee, so wear a hat when walking under trees if that sort of thing bothers you. Cicadas drink tree fluids and then expel the excess fluid they do now need. People call it “honeydew” or “cicada rain”.
That cicada sound: Only male cicadas make the sound they’re famous for. Males have organs on their abdomen called tymbals. Muscles pop the tymbals in and out, which creates the sound we hear. Males make different calls for different reasons, and each species has a unique sound. Females can make sound too — they flick their wings to respond to males.
There are billions of them: there are literally billions of 17 year cicadas. Why? One theory suggests that a large number of cicadas overwhelms predators, so predators are never able to eat them all and cicadas, and many always survive to mate. This is a survival strategy called “predator satiation”.
They damage wimpy trees: the biggest concern about 17-year cicadas is their potential to damage young trees. The truth is they will damage limbs on the wimpiest of trees, so if you have weak, pathetic, wimpy ornamental trees in your yard you should consider placing netting around the trees if the cicadas visit your yard. Also, you can try hosing them off with water, placing insect barrier tape around the trunk of the trees, or picking them off like grapes! Or, plant strong, beefy American trees — that’s what I would do. Cicadas actually benefit the health of trees by aerating the soil around the roots and trimming the weak or damaged limbs.
Stragglers: Periodical cicadas that emerge in years before they are supposed to emerge are called stragglers.
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