Location: Bomber
Conditions: A crisp 28 degrees
QIC: Pumpkin Spice
PAX: Bicentennial Man, Crablegs, Crawlspace, Dewey, Ebola, En Fuego, Hi-Viz, Lunchlady, Porcelain, Pop-a-Lock, Princess Aurora, Pumpkin Spice (QIC), T-cell, Tiny Dancer, TK, Vector
THE THANG
After a brief disclaimer, the PAX moseyed around for a few minutes before they made their way to the top parking lot for some Warmorama.
Warmorama :
- SSH x 15
- High Knees x 15
- LBAC
- Moroccan Night Clubs x 15
- rLBAC
In the spirit of Friendly Friday, the PAX paired up with a partner with whom they felt they knew the least — not knowing a PAX’s full hospital name served as a good surrogate here. Once partners were established, we moseyed to the top of the hill by the main entrance and YHC provided instructions for the impending pain.
Today’s life lesson centered around bearing one another’s burdens. We aren’t meant to bear burdens alone (life struggles, anxieties, fears, sins, pain, etc.). Neither are we meant to bear the burden of bear crawls or continuous man makers alone — man makers are a group effort, after all. There have been few greater literary examples of brothers bearing one another’s burdens than Frodo and Sam in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Thus, today’s workout was entitled FRODO and SAM (a modified Dora of sorts). One parter was at the top of the hill (Mount Doom, of course) doing SAM exercises (outlined below), waiting for FRODO to perform a traveling exercise (outlined below) by running down the hill (towards the Shire), around the circle (Bag End), and then doing the FRODO exercise up the hill to meet his parter back on the top of Mount Doom. Once FRODO finished his first traveling exercise, the PAX traded off. The traveling partner picked up with the SAM exercises where their partner left off, and the exercising partner then did the same first FRODO traveling exercise. The cycle continued until each partner had done all 5 FRODO traveling exercises and the sum total of SAM exercises were completed. For those who finished the SAM exercises early, the PAX started to spell out WISE, first with 100 Walkers (Imperial Style) and next with Incline Merkins.
FRODO
- Lieutenant Freds (In honor of Right Said AKA Fred Pickney; Lunge-Lunge-Broad Jump)
- Run
- Obamas (In honor of the 44th president — Bearcrawl, and after every 4 hand moves do 4 merkins)
- Dutch Skate (Jump out with right foot 45 degrees, pull left foot behind right foot, jump out with left foot at 45 degrees, pull right foot behind left foot — should look like speed skating on land)
- Obamas
SAM (WIse)
- Squats — 300
- American Hammers — 200 (left + right = 1)
- Man Makers — 100
- Walkers (Imperial) — 100
- Incline Merkins — 100
Once thirty seconds were left on the shot clock, we moseyed back to the parking lot for COR, NOR, and COT.
MOLESKIN
- There was much mumblechatter at the beginning of this workout due to the lengthy instructions and necessary demonstration of new exercises.
- We all learned that Pop-a-Lock had been doing Alligator Merkins wrong his whole life when he thought that the newly-coined Obama exercise was the same as an Alligator Merkin. I presume it’s the same amount of Merkins in the end, so we’ll give him partial credit.
- At coffeteria, we learned that Hi-Viz won an Emmy for his media coverage of the massive flooding back in 2010 that devastated Nashville. How did this not somehow make it into his F3 name??
BULLHORN
- Hi-Viz is crushing the Fuel challenge he started at the beginning of the year, having lost 19 pounds in just 5 weeks. What a boss. If you want to support him and others, head on over to the #Fuel channel on Slack to help hold one another accountable.
- Vector is facing some big decisions at work for which he could use your prayer and support.
- YHC is taking a two-day medical licensing exam on Monday and Tuesday, and I would love your prayers surrounding this undertaking.
– Pumpkin Spice