New stuff at the Old School

It was rather foggy at the AO today but that didn’t stop plenty of HIM from posting and many of them getting some EC in too. We gathered in a circle as time approached. This is what happened…

Disclaimer of sorts. The first exercise was the Pledge of Allegiance, which exercises our freedom! Warmup that included Merkins and other stuff. Count off.

Mosey about 75 feet to the end of the parking lot for the first Thang.

Triple Nickel – 5 Merkins at the start, do 5 Goofballs in the middle going and coming and do 5 Squats at the other end. Good start to get the blood pumping.

From there we headed toward the courthouse, stopping at a couple corners for more Goofballs (why wouldn’t we?). When we arrived at the corner of the courthouse square, the second Thang was explained.

4 Corner Escalator –

1st Corner – 10 Shoulder Taps count 1 side

2nd Corner – 10 Shoulder Taps and 20 Hillbillies count 1 side

3rd Corner – 10 Shoulder Taps, 20 Hillibillies and 30 Peter Parkers

4th Corner that ended up being at the steps of the courthouse itself, 10 Shoulder Taps, 20 Hillbillies, 30 Peter Parkers and 40 Steps Ups (those of us over 6′ tall had to step up 2 steps for increased effort). We gathered at the top of the steps for a count off to make sure everyone was there.

Mosey around the building to the gazebo for the third Thang

Lazy Dora was first explained but then revised when YHC realized that was in anticipation of rain. There was not moisture coming from the sky so we switched to regular Dora 123. Partner up with #1 running around the building while the other does the exercises.

100 Lunges each side that we changed to counting both

150 Chancellors (NEW EXERCISE alert!) – in a standing position with hands in air guitar position, you throw your upper body and head as far back as possible like a reverse headbang. This is what the bassist from TOOL did a lot of at the concert Sunday. It really works you lower abs and thighs too. Give it a try.

200 Maynards (another NEW EXERCISE alert again from the TOOL concert) – feet more than shoulder width apart, crouch by bending at knees and put forearms on inside of thighs. Move your body weight from one side to the other and back, that’s one rep. Obviously this works the thighs and glutes a lot.

Once we got our fill of this, we went back to where we ended the 4 Corners to do the fourth Thang

4 Corner De-Escalator – we did all the exercises and reps in reverse order.

Mosey back to the start for some Mary with direction for the PAX to call 10 reps of an ab exercise. Of course, a couple of the wiseguys insisted on calling various forms of burpee that were semi completed by some. TIME!

Thanks for coming out today men. I believe we all got better for having been there!

Announcements – Pushing rocks starts Thursday 2/1, Winter Nationals at Folsom 2/10 – bring food donations to Anchorman that day, Devotion after LifeLine starting Monday

Prayer requests – Montross’ mom, Wirenut’s mom & M, Medicine Woman’s sister in law, Gumby unspoken, Broke’s coworker’s 16 year old son with lots of broken bones after car accident

Broke took us out