Sunday 09/26/21

Please continue to follow the Social Distancing guidelines during class at all times. Thank you!

Workout

Warm Up

AMRAP 6
10 lateral step ups
5 box jumps
5 empty bar high pulls 
5 empty bar hang power cleans
5 push jerks 
20 slow shoulder taps

WOD

“Orio Palmer”
7 RFT
3 clean and jerks (185/115)
6 handstand push ups
9 box jumps (24/20)

This Firefighter Hero WOD is dedicated to Orio Palmer, FDNY, Battalion 7, who was killed on September 11, 2001.

At breakfast time, Orio Palmer would pop in a Rascals CD and do goofy dances around his Valley Stream kitchen singing “It’s a Beautiful Morning.” The kids laughed, and called him the Music Man.

The New York City fire battalion chief, who’d had it tough growing up in the Bronx, would take the neighborhood kids out fishing on days off, just because he’d never gotten to do that himself as a boy. He was determined to teach all the kids stickball, too, an almost-lost art he mastered at their age.

And when he and his wife, Debbie, were invited to a Halloween toga party, a white sheet wasn’t enough for Palmer: He had to wear a pink one, put high heels onto his sandals and arrive as the “Boy Toy From Troy.”

On their refrigerator, Debbie Palmer still keeps the saying her husband taped there before he led the men of his Manhattan battalion to the World Trade Center Sept. 11: “Live while you’re alive.”

Sixteen members of Battalion 7 were lost along with Palmer, 45, whose remains have not yet been recovered from the trade center rubble. He was remembered Oct. 13 in a ceremony at Holy Name of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Valley Stream, the community where the couple have lived for 15 years and raised their three children, Dana, 14, Keith, 12, and Alyssa, 9.

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