I love to Q. I get excited the night before and usually spend way too much time trying to get creative and/or make the theme something timely and relevant….then I’m looking forward to the workout all day and I feel a buzz afterwords if I see HIMs smiling.
If my workout fire is dieing down, leading seems to be the gasoline that reignites. (For some of our not so new Friendly New Guys – time to lead. I hope you find it makes you better too.)
Today’s workout was the first time I wrote down the “message” first, then the workout 2nd.
I asked the pax Who, What, and How but more on that…
Warm-Up:
SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies
Pledge
The THANG:
Mosey to the soccer fields.
CORE TIME, round 1: (50 reps of each)
- LBCs
- WWI Situps
- 60-sec plank
- 25 Merkins
- Flutter Kicks
- Freddy Mercurys
- Penguin slaps
- American Hammers
- 60-sec plank
Deck of Death/4 corners combo: (around 2 soccer fields)
Split into 6 teams…
- Deck of cards were separated by suit and placed in all 4 corners of the field.
- AS A TEAM, sprint around the field to see who can create the best 5 card poker hand. The faster you go the more cards you can get.
- When you draw your card do the # of reps on that card… Jacks=11, Queens = 12, Kings = 13 before running to the next corner.
- Hearts = Merkins, Diamonds = Diamond Merkins, Spades = Flutter kicks, Clubs = Situps
- Jokers = WILD CARD and you can assign 5 Burpees to another team of your choosing.
The winning team got to sit in my truck that was conveniently waiting down there while the rest of us losers had to take turns pushing the truck back to the flag and alternating turns after 5 burpees were completed.
(Lost count of # of burpees, couldn’t hear the count over Freight’s maniacal laughter from the backseat! Swimmer for some reason felt obligated to keep checking my brakes and Slaw was blasting country music from my speakers!) Note to future self: find new friends to road trip with…
Back at the flag:
CORE TIME, round 2: (50 reps of each)
- LBCs
- WWI Situps
- 60-sec plank
- 25 Merkins
- Flutter Kicks
- Freddy Mercurys
- Penguin slaps
- American Hammers
- 60-sec plank
3 minutes of Marythen 22 Merkins for the Vets to end the workout.
Moleskin:
Shared a word that had been on my heart with the pax…
WHO is looking up to you, and at the example you set? Madoff brought 2 of his sons to today’s workout and I’m very proud to bring my son to learn “how to be a man” from this group of men. We support each other. We work hard to get better. We pray for each other, and yes we even make the occasional raunchy joke and belch and fart but in the end, he sees men who love God and love eachother (2 greatest commandments) and are a part of something bigger than themselves.
WHAT example are you setting? Are you known for sitting on the couch with a beer and a clicker in each hand? Are you known for being gone at work all the time? Or are you working hard to be a better father, husband, community leader?
HOW are you going to handle difficulties? It’s not a matter of “if” but “when” life throws a difficult situation at you, how will you handle it? Who are you surrounded by that will help you and that you can lean on and ultimately where do you put your faith?
Thanks for the push today and always. Proud to call you all friends.
Name-aroma, announcements, prayer requests and COT to close.
Aye!
