Conditions: The elements sought to deter us. They failed. 33 degrees and getting colder, completely soaked and more wet stuff coming down all the time. Gloom showed up in full effect this fine morning.
9 PAX Embraced The Gloom including: Altidore, Stats, Pocahontas, Tebow, Numbtucks, Mursa, Mic Drop, Typo+, and Barney Fievel (QiC).
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Warm up:
After a quick warm-up lap around the track, the PAX circled up for the following exercises IC: 10 SSH and 10 Seal Straddle Hop, 10 Squats, 10 LBAC, 30 seconds of GM, Al Gore, and WMH OYO.
Have you seen Barney’s truck? Beautiful machine. Black as the night and twice as mean. Best feature? All that bed space for coupons!
Thang 1: Mini-Cooper (2 laps)
10 reps of each of the following exercises performed with coupons between laps. Meant to be a well-rounded routine with one exercise for the legs, one for the chest, one for the core, and one for the arms.
- Baryshnikov Squats: Legs rotated out to the sides, hips opened, heels raised, then squat.
- S2S Merkins: Place one hand on coupon and other hand on ground, perform one merkin, switch hands, repeat.
- Big Boy Sit-Ups into American Hammers.
- One Colt 15 between each lap. A Colt 15 requires the PAX to curl the coupon 5 reps low, 5 reps mid, and 5 reps high. A reduction of the Colt 45 (same, but 15 reps each).
Thang 2: Hair Burners
PAX begin bear crawling across the parking lot with their coupons. To progress, PAX crawl forward, reach between their legs, grip the coupon and drag it forward and slightly ahead of them. Bear crawl forward and repeat. Every 5 “pulls” is accompanied by 5 Iron Mikes.
Thang 3: Coupon Dodgeball
If you can dodge a coupon, you can dodge a ball! PAX count off into 1s and 2s and break up into two teams. More coupons than there are PAX are arranged in a line halfway between the two teams. PAX must crab walk to the line of coupons and carry one back to their team’s starting line on their midsection. Passing coupons off to other PAX is allowed. Repeat and start crab walking all the way to the other team’s side and taking one of their coupons once there are no more in the middle. When “time” is called, team with most coupons on their side wins. The PAX clearly illustrated why the crab is the apex predator of the seas.
Mary
Circled up for some GM and WMH OYO. Then some power leg stretches called out by the Q. Mary was completed with a brief meditation meant to bring us back to our center and heighten our awareness of our surroundings.
We prayed for Sprinkles. He tweaked his back working out in the gym. Once again, Sprinkles proves that the safest place to work out is outside, in the freezing rain, at 530am.
“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul.” Psalm 94:19
-BF Out-