Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: January 6, 2017

…Take me out to the ballgame

I finished reading “Freedom from Fear” this week and one of the things that struck me was being intentional about making time for yourself to sit, reflect, or brainstorm.  “Be still, and know that I am GOD”.  Psalm 46:10.  Thanks for the book Stroganoff!

It could have been the quiet time that inspired me to come up with a baseball themed workout in January…I am not quite sure but I went with it.  I had the ball and bat but Short Sale came through late last night and delivered the bases to my car door.  I was loading up this morning and saw my FNG next door neighbor was already in his driveway waiting for another neighbor, Guts, to pick him up.  Little did I know my other neighbor Stone Cold would also be posting today.  That makes five PAX on my street within about ten houses with four posting today.  Keep the EH going!

EZ Rider was already at the AO when I arrived and stepped onto the baseball “field”.  I laid out the bases and hooked up a speaker for the stadium organ music and the PAX kept rolling in.  The cube I brought wasn’t quite loud enough but the PAX got the point.

After a brief disclaimer we started with the warm up of something like this:

SSH, Merkins, LBC’s and Imperial Walkers

To get to first base, you had to earn it.

5 Burp and Merk, 20 Bobby Hurleys, 30 Flutter Kicks, 25 squats

Run to first (500 feet), tag the bag and called “time” and returned to the plate (Pavilion)

Next we had to earn 2nd.  We repeated the exercises to earn first base and I forgot to make them earn second before we were running for a double.  (Q fail)  However, it took longer than I thought so it was just as well.  We then earned second and third together

2nd Base

5 8 Count body builders

25 Seal Jacks

15 American Hammer

3rd Base

15 shoulder taps (thanks for the clarification Stroganoff)

15 WW1 Situps

10 Carolina Dry Docks

Then run to 1st, 2nd, and third base, touch base, return to home plate.  About 2000 feet.

There were a few baseball quotes thrown in while the batters were adjusting their cups in the box.

The PAX had a single, double, and a triple and were hoping for a dinger to hit for the cycle.  YHC modified for the sake of time and we did something like this:

5 Burp and Merk, 5Bobby Hurleys, 15 Flutter Kicks, 10 squats, 5 8 Count Body Builders, 10 CDD’s, then to earn the homerun, we did three step Deep Sea Divers and then a Bearcrawl on the backside of the Pavilion followed by running the bases.  It was time so we assembled for the Pledge and then a quick Namorama and naming our FNG Mastodon (Respect).  Mastodon read Freed to Lead and has been in the throes of a consistent EH from Sargento, Guts, and YHC for at least five months.  It was great to see him come out to the Gloom to get better!

Every Strike brings me closer to the next home run:  Babe Ruth

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game:  Babe Ruth

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’ Ernie Harwell

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.
Satchel Paige

Announcements:   Palmetto 200 needs 4 PAX to make two teams.  (Gastone and Spiderman were voluntold so the number may now be 2).

After holiday party originally scheduled for tomorrow is now cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date

Prayer requests:  T-Squares M, Tube’s grandmother

Ghenchie’s Coffee and Ice Cream (right beside 2nd base) is now open at 0600 so we had an impromptu Coffeerama after the workout with GUTS buying a round. #HIM I told them they would have guaranteed business every Friday.

A pleasure to lead as always.  Roscoe

Touch the Line

13 PAX posted at Midoriyama and pushed hard on the rock.

Warmup:

Morrocan Nightclubs while we waited for a few PAX to get out of their cars and Billy Madison to get his mittens on.

SSH x 15ic

Hillbillies x 10ic

Dancing Chillcuts x 20ic

Mosey to the playground

The Thang:

Robbed from Brownstreak and Tooltime’s workout at the Yank the other Saturday we did a form of Cindy. I think it was her dirty sister Sarah. 5 pullups/ 10 Merkins/ 15 squats then run about 100 yds and back. We did 5 rounds and changed the style of pullups and merkins each round.

Mosey across to the parking lot and partner up for Doracides. Just like Dora but the running part is suicides. 3 cones setup. Run to cone 1 and back to partner then to cone 2 and back then to 3 and back. Someone noted Blart’s great form of touching the line during the suicides. YHC pointed out that during all suicides you should be touching the line and a 20 burpee penalty would be accessed to all that were not. Exercises were 100 merkins/200 Monkey crunches/300 plank jacks.

Mosey to the hill behind the playground

NUR (RUN backwards-for anyone from Muzera) up the hill 10 burpees- bearcrawl down the hill 10 burpees(crowd pleaser).

NUR up 10 WW1- Crabwalk down 10 WW1

Mosey back to the flag

Dancing Chillcuts x 15ic

Pointers x 15ic

22 for the Vets lead by Pizza Man

Pledge

COT:

Announcements- Due to pending weather the party at Whoppee’s has been postponed, Ultimate Challenge Mudrun coming up May 20th start forming your 4 man teams and let’s represent gashouse, P200 needs a few more good men for the 2nd team. Get in touch with Outhouse.

Prayer Request-Pizza Man’s Grandparents, those battling addiction, Billy Madison’s family and In-Laws

Praise Report-Chum feels God giving him the guidance he needs!

Moleskin:

Floppy Disk has challenged me to a race at the Warrior Dash this year. 2 years ago we ran it together and it was my first ever race of any kind and just after I had lost most of my weight and started exercising. We are both pretty competitive and he brought along a little #1 bag as our trophy. Well I still have it and I think it really bothers him. For daily motivation he has a picture of me in that victorious moment in his office. This may or may not have been a gift from me. Today would have been a great day for him to train but instead he went to the Apple store. I want some competition so Floppy I hope you can get back out to Midoriyama soon!

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