I like bourbon and other stuff too

There were an even dozen HIM who showed for a Folsom beatdown by YHC. It was a perfect morning for putting some work in. This is what happened…

14 of our region’s finest were in Kentucky having a good ole time chasing the bourbon, YHC decided a playlist in tribute to them was in order. The songs all had a theme of drinking and, believe it or not, turns out the vast majority of all drinking songs are country songs. It was quite fitting for this crowd. Message YHC at 704-460-4516 for the playlist.

The JBL got fired up so we could have tunes to sweat to during workout. To start off with, we did Bring Sally Up. Always a crowd pleaser.

The Thang

The What? This was a timed routine. For 10 minutes on the tennis courts, the PAX would line up on one end and do 10 Merkins, run up to the net, do 3 Burpees, get over the net however you can, do 3 more Burpees, run to the other end and do 10 WW1 situps.

After a round of this YHC lead the group out to the driveway for a round of Route 66 or so. Wichita said we should do CDDs so we did that at each light in the ascending pattern all the way to the Extension office and back. Think we got to a max of 14 reps.

Head back  to the tennis courts for another round of The What? This time we’d do 10 Lunges (each leg) at one end, go to the net, do 3 Burpees, jump the net, 3 more Burpees and 10 Dying Cockroaches at the other end. We did this for 10 minutes again.

Next, the BOURBON. We did exercises beginning with the letters of the word.

B – It was supposed to be burpees but we didn’t and I can’t recall what we did

O – 10 One arm pickle pounders (each arm)

U – Chop high knees and do an Up Down whenever YHC said so. 10 total

R – 25 Rosalitas

B – 10 Bobby Hurleys

O – 25 Overhead claps

N – 10 Newton’s Cradles (each arm)

There was a little time left by this time so we circled up for some Mary and it was good.

Moleskin – You may not know this but YHC isn’t a resident of Dallas, although I feel right at home with my boys here. It’s because I’ve spent many a gloom up here with the PAX and broken many a bread with them at their excellent coffeerama’s that I’ve gotten to know them pretty well. There were several PAX who made their way from the eastern side of the county to visit Folsom and I’m glad they did. I’ve always tried to be intentional about getting around to the different AO’s for several reasons.

1. There are different guys at other AO’s and you might make new friends
2. Different AO’s offer different stuff to do
3. It gets us out of our comfort zone and shakes up the routine, which can be good
4. You might just learn something new or grow because you’re out of your comfort zone
5. Seeing new guys or guys you don’t see too often might encourage them to venture out to your AO sometime
6. The other guys might need you to be there providentially and you don’t even know it

No matter why we go to other AO’s, it’s important for us to post and do it at different places, just for the sage of trying new things sometimes. Let’s get out of our comfort zones men! AYE!!!

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Thanks for the opportunity to lead men!