8 HIM came out to a chilly start of a beautiful Saturday morning.
PAX: FoxTrotTalksALot, BlueMule, BigStick, Edible Arrangements, Life Champ, Boy Band, Deep Dish, & yours truly TheJeweler
Conditions: A pleasant 34 degrees and partly cloudy
Warm Up: To kick things off we moseyed from the parking for a 3/4 mile trot down Lealand, rt. on Battlefield , rt on Granny White & left onto Gale to the grassy knoll just up from the dog park. Along the way, we did high knees, butt kicks, karaoke, and ballerina skips.
#Disclaimer followed by 15 x SSH, 10 x Good Mornings, 10 x WMHs, 15 x Air Presses, 10 x BACs, 10 x Reverse BACs.
The in an effort to kill 3 Fs with one stone, the PAX was instructed to pick a member of the group and learn one interesting fact and one ideal or principle that the other lives by throughout the workout. PAX will be quizzed after the circle of trust and any forgotten details will result in a 50 merkin penalty for the group.
Begin!
We started with a 400m sprint from the knoll down Gale Ln to the stop sign at Belmont Blvd. PAX waited in push-up position until all in. 5 x Merkins in cadence. Big Stick didn’t recovery correctly so PAX did an additional 5 Merkins – lesson learned!
Hop over to Christ The King field.
6 x Roll Back Burpees (From standing position you roll on your back, then in one motion you roll forwards thrusting your feet behind you ending in a push-up, then jump back up to the sky as you would to finish a regular burpee) 6 x Burpee Jacks (A burpee ending in a jumping jack) 6 x Burpee Rolls (Drop to a pushup roll to one side & then jump up to finish the burpee… that’s one). 6 x Half Burpees (Requested by BigStick… basically don’t jump at the end)
PAX was then instructed to grab some fence for 25 leg raises.
After demonstrating the Merkin, LBC, Burpee, & Scissor Kicks we kicked off: 2 x 400m Circuits (no breaks): Sprint ~100m across the field 10 Merkins, 100m back 10 LBCs, 100m Sprint 10 Burpees, 100m Sprint 10 Scissor Kicks & 10 Cross Overs.
After Deep Dish proved that the white man still can’t jump in his glorious attempt to dunk a soccer ball, we moseyed indian run style back to the Stonewall playground. For some partner work: 1 does Pull-ups while the partner does lunges. Pull-ups 10 x 8 x 6 x 4 x 2 cut down (switch out each set).
At this point the Q had other plans but Deep Dish really wanted to introduce the boys to Tabatta Jeweler style, so Q called an audible. We moseyed over to the parking lot entrance on Clayton street with enough time for 2 songs Rocky & Uptown Funk.
1 Round = One 4 min song like so: Sprint 20 sec – 10 sec rest, 20 sec SSH, 10 sec rest, Sprint 20 sec, 10 sec rest, 20 sec Merkins, 10 sec rest, 20 sec sprint, 10 sec rest, 20 sec LBCs, 10 sec rest, 20 sec sprint, 10 sec rest, 20 sec lunges.
FYI: 10 songs are on the playlist… Soon! 
Not much time left so we moseyed over to the tennis court. Line up on one side in high plank. 5 merkins, side crawl (in high plank position) to the centerline 4 merkins, side crawl to center of courts 3 merkins, rotate 180 degrees, side crawl to the centerline 2 merkins, & finish on the other side with 1 merkin. Mosey back to the parking lot.
MARY: 25 Flutter kicks in cadence… TIME!
COT:
- Forgive me if I get this wrong… but Boy Band mentioned that a family member was recently diagnosed with cancer. Prayers for the entire family and medical staff.
POST COT QUIZ: The PAX was asked to learn something interesting about another HIM & something that person lives by or ascribes to. I’ll just highlight a few: Edible Arrangements has 3 kids – who knew?! Deep Dish lives by the principle of “Always be the first to apologize”. My favorite of the day came from FoxTrot, “The Optimist Creed”. Here’s the link to read it: https://www.optimist.org/creed
All 8 PAX attended coffee and mumble chatter with a brief appearance from Baggervance post 14 mile run with a cowboy.
Was an honor to lead you men this morning. SYITG,
TheJeweler