Monday Madness

Welcome to Monday at Life Line.  There were no pleasantries or BS today.  Cherie Berry conveniently slipped away to “make the coffee” as the clock struck 0530.  Warm-up consisted of SSH, Imperial walkers, Mountain climbers, Nolan Ryans, Superman pull-ups (10xIC).  I gave a brief disclaimer somewhere in the middle of those, then went straight to Thang 1:  Hot Corner helpfully reminded me that it’s called a Ring of Fire after I described that we would do merkins like a count-off, one at a time while all pax hold plank.  10 pax = 10 merkins each.  Next we moseyed the long way around the building to get blocks.

Thang 2 was EMOM Blockies, but not as cruel as Hei Hei’s routine last week.  We started with 5 and got up to 8 after 4 minutes.

Thang 3 was a classic Lifeline routine. Pax do block work while one “timer” pax carries a sandbag up the hill and back.
Thrusters
“Lawn mower” (bent over) Rows
Dead lifts
Curls
Reverse lunges (with block)
World War 3 sit-ups
Uneven merkins

After 3 full rounds of exercises (and having to rein in Hei Hei who just about had the sandbag on his back already), we paused for another Ring of Fire, this time with leg-lifts while pax hold six inches.  Cherie Berry had returned by this point, so it was initially confusing that there were 11 pax instead of 10…

Then it was back to Thang 3 for another round or two before we started the “cool down” routine, reversing the EMOM blockies starting at 8 and ending at 5.  Many of the pax took exception to the term “cool down,” but it was 38 degrees and the number of blockies was going down every minute, so I rest my case.  We then returned blocks and moseyed back to the flag.  There was enough time for one more Ring of Fire, with jump-squats while pax hold Al Gore.  We finished out the last 90 seconds Mary-style with American Hammers and LBC’s, then pledge and COT.

Announcements 
VQ’s coming up:  Cheese Steak 3/27 at The Ricky Bobby, Montana 3/30 at The Yank
Convergence 4/13 at CaroMont Park downtown, followed by Community Foundation Run with Speed for Need, all other AO’s closed
Extinction run to be rescheduled. 
FCA Golf tournament on April 15th – see Hot Corner to participate or help sponsor

Prayers
Kool Aid, Blueprint, Huckleberry, Anchorman, Turtleman.  Other pax on IR.  Marriages.

Afterwards, Cherie Berry explained the last 7 things Jesus said before He died.  I won’t try to paraphrase or condense the meaning of these, but I encourage everyone to look further into these on your own – whether you were there or not.  We all benefit from a few minutes of extra prayer and reflection during this Holy Week. 

Always an honor to lead – thanks to the 9 HIM’s who participated in the entire beatdown and to the 1 HIM who joined after making the coffee (it was good coffee, I’ll admit).