Medicine Egg

AO: mistymountain
Q: McAfee
PAX: Sanders, Flash, Linus, Laces Out, Mountain Men x3
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Balmy mid 50s

WARMUP: Broga poses OYO

THE THANG: Modified Route 66:
PAX took turns throwing a medicine ball and then lunging / broad jumping to where it landed as a group. Merkin, repeat, Merkin +1 all the way up to 11, then turn around and back.

Interspersed with a classic Route 66:
Pull Ups x Toe Taps (4 count)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: some fun F3 activities planned for March

12 Days of Charlie Daniels Christmas

AO: mistymountain
Q: Flash
PAX: Transporter, McAfee, Skeet, Sanders, Chewy, 3X Mountain Men
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Cold, but not for very long.

WARMUP: Reindeer Crawl (aka Bear Crawl) 50M

THE THANG: 12 Days of Christmas, Misty Mountain style. Just like the song, work your way up to the 12th day doing movements for each day. Plank until all in.

1 – Spiderman Pushup
2 – Reverse Lunges
3 – Plank Ups
4 – Bird Dogs
5 – Buuuuurrrrpeeeeeees
6 – Squats a Jumping
7 – Mountain Climbers
8 – Dips a Dipping
9 – Jacks a Squatting
10 – Bikes a Peddlin’
11 – Narrow Pushups
12 – Burpees Burping

Every third day, complete a 50M reindeer crawl.

Once we got to 12, we reversed it & went from Day 1 to 12 a single time.

.25 mile mosey & 25M reindeer crawl

2 minutes of flutters, leg raises, plank to close it out.

Ho ho ho!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Shouldering the Burden

AO: mistymountain
Q: McAfee
PAX: Skeet, Flash, Transporter, Sanders, Mt. Men x3 + Fly Guy returning from the depths of basketball practice!
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: cold but not horrid

WARMUP: Willy Mays Hays + Deep Squat holds followed by a quick 1/2 mile mosey.

THE THANG: Started off with phase 2 of the Warm-Up, “10” Ultra-Merkins, but each rep consisted of 5 Merkins interspersed with toe taps, spidermans, and hop to standing.

Next we got into the good stuff; PAX took turns helping each other to shoulder the burden (literally) as 2 spotters helped a PAX to set up the appropriate weight for squats, deadlifts, and finally curls, each for reps of 15 (or to failure).

PAX circled through this rotation and performed flutters, American Hammers, J-Los, WW1s, and tons of merkin variations.

Finished off with a quick sprint.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Half Marathon coming up next Thursday 12/14!!

COT: Praying for Rockies’ little daughter who is undergoing surgery today.

Prayed out with an old germanic/norse inspired incantation:

My name is not my own; it is borrowed from my ancestors. I will return it unstained.

My honor is not my own; it is on loan from my descendants. I will give it to them unbroken.

Our blood is not our own; it is a gift to generations yet unborn. We shall carry it with responsibility.