A test, a saylark, kotters and B-side soundtracks

Big Pappy hollered at me a few months ago to Q, I said make it a surprise Q.  Well, it fell on the same day as the PT test, but that kind of works well, as every one knows I love running about as much as a root canal.  They’re equally painful.  Speaking of pain, let’s do a couponless Pain Lab!  Parking lot had a lot of guys, kotters and an FNG.  This is great!

Review what is F3, what it is we’re going to do today, and the disclaimer.

Warm-Up:  SSH, Squats, MNC, IW, Merkins, LBC.  Now up to the tennis courts.

Theme of the day is movie soundtracks, in honor of Big Pappy who is always very awesome with thematic soundtracks.  So let’s get to the 80’s movies, with a few exceptions.  So much whining about the deep cuts 🙂

50 squats OYO, plank for 6.  Rudolph leads exercises for 30 seconds.  We repeated this x 3

Max out merkins OYO, hold 6″ for 6.  Rudolph leads exercises for 30+ seconds.  We repeated this x 3

50 lunges OYO, plank for 6.  Rudolph leads exercises for 30 seconds.  We repeated this x 3

Diamond Merkins Max out OYO, hold 6″ for 6.  Rudolph leads exercises for 30+ seconds.  We repeated this x 3

I’ll try to list below the winners of the soundtrack contest.  Again, whining.  If I remember correctly, we landed right at, or close to 7:05, which meant it was time for the test:

3 groups, I think 2 groups of 6, 1 group of 5.  Unfortunately, my group was facing the sun, whereas one was in the shade and another facing away from the sun.  Brutal.  I put on the soundtrack from “Hoosiers”  and let it roll for 15 minutes.  In 15 minutes we got in 84 Burpees each.  That was great, and I saw a lot of leadership in each group to push their crew, count out, and pickup the 6.  That’s what I love about Hoosiers, TEAM!

*It should be pointed out that Kingpin was eager to get to 100.  The test is the test, but after the workout was done he told me in the parking lot he’d get those 16 so he could hold the belt.  LOVE IT.

I called body destroyers for a bit, then went to stretch, then 5 minutes of yoga to cool down.  Time for the important stuff:

Announcements: uuuhhh….PT test today.  Not much else!

Prayers:  Huck, T square, Allen Tate’s shoulder, Sister Act, Medicine Woman.  Prayers for our friends!

Moleskin:  I left the guys with about 2 minutes of a good reality check.  You are the tip of the spear.  You are the leaders.  We will not give into division, taking sides, politics, hate, accusation or the like.  We will rise above it, and exhibit the true male leadership that is needed: compassion, understanding, help, faithfulness and guiding the world to a positive place.  You must never give into negativity.  Check yourself.  We have it better than all of recorded human history.  Act the part, lead, and if ever in doubt, well, ask what Jesus would do.  After that, compassion and positivity will fill your head and your heart.  That’s the stuff of leaders.

Name-O-Rama extra juice:  FNG is Greg Taylor, great new guy that Oompa brought.  Could not be more polite and busted his tail.  We discovered he’s a bookworm and he likes Star Wars.  HIPAA said “that worm thing from Star Wars!”.  I confused that with the pit monster from Return of the Jedi, which is known as the Sarlaac pit.  During Name-O-Rama he said his name was Saylark.  The legend is born 🙂

Soundtrack trivia!  Mixed bag here 🙂  Forgive me if I get one wrong:

Lunatic Fringe – Vision Quest – Roundup won (wrestling movie!  Linda Fiorentino……hot hot hot hot hot hot hot)

War – Rocky IV – Tater Hole if I remember correctly.

The heat is on – Beverly Hills Cop – Montross got this for sure.  And was a great Burpee partner in the heat!

Mighty Wings – Top Gun – NO ONE.  LOSERS.

Princes of the Universe – Highlander – Stogie got it.  And we agree, movie sucks, TV show good

Star Trek – Pearl Jam….I think.  It’s the new one, so it was close

Theme from Predator – Predator – Kingpin got it after the first bar.  Excellent

Theme from Total Recall – Total Recall – NO ONE.  This one is forgiven, deep cut

Great work men, what a blessing Folsom is.

Rudolph