Ad Lib at the Bobby!

YHC wasn’t sure if he ad the Q at The Ricky Bobby but figured out pretty quickly he did once at the AO about 3 minutes prior to go time. So YHC ran back to his car and grabbed his phone with the attitude that my lack of preparation was not excusable for not having a quality workout delivered to pax who had obviously shown up expecting to be well led and having an expereince owrth getting out of bed to get to on a voluntary basis. So , YHC dug into his bag of tricks to deliver as necessary with no complaints. Went like this:

COP:

SSH X 20

IW X 20

Grass Pickers X 20

Grapevines

Peter Parker X 20

Mosey to the back lot for BLIMPS

You know the drill by now but just to repeat it’s Burpees, Lunges, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Plank Jacks, Squats.

P1- Run the length of the lot (@ 150 yards) and back.

P2 – Do the work as prescribed.

Rinse and repeat through the BLIMP.

Over to the playground for a little nonrunning work as we count off by 3s.

1s- Pullups X 10

2s- Merkins X 10

3s- Big boys X 10

Cycle through 3 times.

Some burpee suicides: Broad jump two parking spaces, nut back one, drop and do 3 burpees. 5X total

Time for light pole suicides, where we run to each light pole (3 total), drop, do an excercise and run back, then go to the next one.

1st set – Hand release merkins X 10

2nd set – big boys X 10

A little taste of the APFT as follows

HR Merkins X 2 minutes (passing: 40)

Butterfly situps X 2minutes (passing: 50)

Mosey up to the field and bleachers:

10 dips OYO

10 stepups each leg

10 inclined big boys

Run across the field and 5 burpees

Jog back to COT.

Hold 3 minute plank.

Pledge and done.

NMM:

For something made up on the fly this worked out pretty good. Expereince helps a lot here and at almost 8 years in and averaging close to six workouts a week every week you eventually pick up on that so you can do things without a script. Which YHC has found in life in general real leadership emerges when the chaos erupts and you don’t have a script, what do you do then? How do you lead. Well, it’s my own experience is you just start moving and getting it done! Don’t wait for a script. Will there be failure? Of course! But like Churchill said the best way to get through hell is to keep moving! Paralysis kills. All the time. Not that you don’t need to get ahold of the situation before you determine where to move but you have to take the first step. Then one after that and then one after that. Leaders initiate and sustain such movement so as to move the organ they are charged with moving to advantage. This can be true when a threat arrives we need to either liquidate or escape from or an opportunity we need to take advantage of that we never saw coming. You may not be scripted and prepared for either given a situation. However, you need to BE prepared to handle it when it does happen. We did that today and had a pretty solid beatdown in the post Fred humidity.

Happy to serve this morning. Great group to serve with. Look forward to next time. Great to have Plan B in from New Bern, NC.

Tesla