Nutcracker 10/23
11 at Disney this morning. YHC was back in action after a long 2 week absence for family vacation. Not many chances to workout on the road so was a great morning to start knocking off some rust. Crab Legs also returned from a long family vacation to Greece so it was like having 2 FNGs out there. Solo EC for Nemo. Great work by 2.0 8-Bit. The Dawg Pound dropped The HC but was a no show.
Warm Up: Jog around field, circled up in lot for Good Mornings, Windmills and arm/chest stretch. Indian Run to baseball lot for crazy feet, SSH ICx40 and Fazio Arms.
The Workout: Jog to The Abyss, partner up. Each pair completed 100 merkins, 200 squats and 300 LBCs. One partner doing the exercise while the other runs the stairs. Focus on form and not a race.
Mary: Circled up in tight, shoulder to shoulder plank hold. One man backs out, calls a hold or exercise to be done from plank, and bear crawls around and back. Next man repeats and we went around the circle.
Announcements: Upcoming events follow on facebook, Crab Legs birthday the 14th – RESPECT
Prayer: Crab Legs friend Corey who is fighting ALS, for a strong start for resurrected AO Kenny’s Grave. YHC took us out in prayer including all those unspoken.
Picture compliments of Crab Legs from his recent trip to Greece
Pax of 20
Warm Up: Jog around the parking lot and circle up for 22 counts of merkins, imperial walkers, windmills and LBC’s
The Workout: Pax to get bricks and cinderblocks. Station to Station: Cones marked by exercises, 50 mountain climbers, 40 squats, 30 LBC’s, 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Curls,
2nd station in front of school 9, 8 Homer to Marge, 7 Burpees, 6. 2 laps and finish as a pax.
Mary: 22 counts exercise called out by pax, big boy sit-ups, Freddie mercuries, merkins, low slow flutter
Announcements: 4th of July convergence
Prayer: Ended in circle of trust
21 pax gathered to help YHC celebrate his 28th birthday – a good handful ran a funky EC route that Slide Rule came up with. 5:30 arrived and we were off with no FNG’s.
Group mosey to the basketball goal/playground circle, with kareokee and backwards runs along the way.
Warmup:
SSH x28 IC
Fazio arm circles x14 IC forward and backward
Standard Merkin x28
The first thing:
Pax got with an accountability partner for laps around the track, being told to push it all out there as there would be breaks between. Lap 1 was 7 burpees at each corner (total of 28) with LBCs x30 (YHC lost count) followed by pickle pounders x28 IC. Lap 2 was 7 turkish getups at each corner followed by Freddy Mercury’s x28 IC.
The second thing:
The pax then got to learn about Pikachu’s birthday surprise – another Q! 187 took over and moseyed us over to the bricks. All pax got two bricks – exercise 1 was a brutal wheelbarrel with brick in each hand march (hands coming out straight every “step”) with squats when breaks were needed. Pax went the length of the parking lot and then swapped. Exercise 2 was a reverse crab walk with bricks in hand the length of the parking lot. Bricks were returned and then it was time for….
The third thing:
The third Q was Skidmark. We went over to the playground for some 7s – pull ups and jump squats, alternating and adding up to 7. Skidmark then broke out his math skills and informed us that that was 21 of each, so we did 7 more of each to hit lucky number 28. We moseyed to the front of the school for a merkin clock where Skidmark impressed all by a)not stopping and b) calling for recovery on the one armed plank.
YHC lead some mary and took us out.
Words can’t express how much each of you and F3 mean to me – I’m a better man because of all of this and I’m grateful to have all of these HIMs in my life.
~ Pikachu
PS – Only two more years of hate 😉