Now that summer vacation is here for those among our Hulkies who are students, we're getting a lot of Hulkies coming in from the summer sun super dehydrated, hungry and exhausted from doing whatever -- playing?! We've got a good healthy population of Hulkies who are students, our "mini Hulkies" as I often refer them to as, so consequently this means many of our Hulkies crash upon arriving at the club. Some sleep on the ground sandbags while others sleep on the tires. Some lounge around the pool table while others sit at the juice bar, all hoping they'll get a second wind that will at least get them through their training.
I've started to randomly feed some of them, either via bribing them or rewarding them with protein bars and protein freezes if they do a particular workout or have trained hard that day. The best snackie they like so far are these little all natural snack bars -- "Raw Rev 100" by Raw Revolution. They're a mix of nuts, fruit and a bit of chocolate. We usually have one or two different flavors on hand of them but we bought them not to really sell but for my own personal snack. They've been a huge hit though among our mini Hulkies and so we've started to sell them. Actually, I've been giving away more of them for free than selling (but don't tell Snickers that).
We don't get many fruit or veggie trucks that pass by the club because of it's narrow streets that are usually bombarded with either Pesky Parkers or parkers that simply can't understand the concept of parking correctly. But today a truck selling corn came by, blarring it's prices and announcing it loud for all to hear. Next thing I knew it, Snickers was running out the door, chasing the truck.
We now have corn -- about 30 ears of corn.
Snickers seemed way too excited to then have to peel all the corn and cook it. I watched in amusement as he did so and he really seemed quite content doing it by himself. I'm always getting on his case about eating healthier and recently I've been a bit more pushy with it because I know our Hulkies watch what I eat and what he eats too. I practice what I preach when it comes to eating clean and I'm always trying to encourage our members to follow in my footsteps, to think about what and why they eat before they eat it, but Snickers is all about encouraging members to eat what they like. I'm really trying to change this.
In the past we've thrown random chicken parties and have even taken numerous Hulkies out to eat with us after weekend Free Train, but one chicken costs about $15 (we usually buy 3-5 chickens) and we can't exactly take large numbers of members out to dinner -- it gets expensive fast. We've been trying to host more random parties that larger amounts of Hulkies can enjoy in, like last month's spontaneous watermelon party, our winter sweet potato parties and today's corn party.
Finally after Snickers was done peeling all the corn and cooking it, he then placed many of them on two large platters on the juice bar for all members to enjoy after their training. After a big group of them were done training, we all then lounged around the juice bar, nibbling on corn and chatting. It was really nice.
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