A Birthday Party to Remember… or Forget

“I’m not in competition with anybody but myself.  My goal is to beat my last performance.” – Celine Dion

After reading SFX’s backblast, “Your First Daily Test”, YHC was moved to start the day with a win by not hitting the snooze button this gloom. http://f3nation.com/2016/03/08/your-first-daily-test/

Don’t get me wrong, I did have a little motivation waking up since I was excited for my Birthday Party Q…. but still, I wanted to pass the test.

Anyway, just like any birthday party, you have to have games for your guest… and 17 men of NOLA made up the Pax guest list (the other 123 didn’t RSVP no… Not cool!).  0530hrs rolled around, and the party started, but first,

DISCLAIMER… now:

The Thang:

Club house mosey and circle up in a grassy area by the bandstand.

COP#1 (Warmup)

28IC x Plank Jacks

15IC x Squat Jacks… sighs of relief by the Pax.  YHC is not that cruel to go to 28.

28IC x SSH

Short mosey around the bandstand and down to the lower area by the pond.  YHC explained the ground rules for the party.  7 games (3 individual & 4 team based games).  Losing teams/players perform 4 burpees.  Winners rest up.  7 games x 4 burpees = 28 total.  Simple.

Game #1 (Dora 300 – SSHs / Storm the Beach)

Pax partner up and works together to reach 300 reps of SSHs.  Pax 1 executes AMRAP while Pax 2 Storms the Beach (Jump ups to the Bandstand, Up and Over the Bandstand, run around back to start).  First Team to finish wins.  Tclaps to Rudy & OSHA for Winning!  4 Burpees for the rest.  Side note: Rudy was checking form for all Pax on Burpees… he said we got an A for effort.

Mosey up the bandstand and circle up.

Game #2 (Jack Webbs – to 10 reps)

A Merkin, then an air press combination; initiated on the Q’s command, with an ascending rep count of each up to 10. If you fall out of the competition, perform LBCs OYO.  If you start crying, LBC’s.   We had a few guys make it to 10… it’s funny how the air density rises around #7 to #8  (a.k.a. it gets heavier).  The last few air presses felt like this:

4 Burpees for guys doing LBCs.

Another quick mosey to the lamppost.  Pax divides up into 2 teams.

Game #3 (Animal Parade Drag Race)

Four lamppost, four animals: Frog Hops, Duck Walk, Crab Walk (a.k.a. Jameis Winstons), Bear Crawl.  A team cannot transform animals and progress until the whole team reaches said lamppost.  Early finishers on each team perform Seal Jacks until the Team’s six gets there.  First team to finish Bear Crawls win.  #Tclap to Team B.  Burpees for Team A.

Mosey over the water fountain on bike path, and over to the 2-flags.  Roots was praising YHC for a great 28 minute workout…. Comeon, Man! (shoutout to Ditka.. he’s gone from ESPN).

Game #4 (Low Plank – for 2 minutes)

Individual contest to see who could plank for 2 minutes… if you fall out, Imp. Walkers til times up.  A lot of finishers for this one… 6MOM has helped the Pax!  4 Burpees for the Imp. Walker crew.

Mosey out a few yards to an open field where YHC made up start and end lines… start here, and end line is… umm.. err… that small tree thing looks good.  Sorry for the confusion.  My mental state can be summed up here:

Game #5 (Team BLIMPS)

Pax divides up into 3 teams, and performs a letter in BLIMPS at the opposite ends:

5x “B”limps, 10x “L”unges, 15x “I”mperial Walkers, 20x “M”erkins, 25x “P”lank Jacks, 30x “S”quats

Last place team does 4 burpees.

Game #6 (Al Gores – for 2 minutes)

Last Individual contest… not for the weak hearted.. Legs were burning.. An Al Gore is a low squat hold, while simulating hugging of a tree.  If you abort the Al Gore hold, its Flutter Kicks til time expires.  #Tclaps to the guys with the legs of steel.  4 burpees to the guys who fluttered (pun intended).

Game #7 (Bear Crawl Indian Run)

Two teams, plank in straight line. Last Pax on each team Bear Crawls to front of line, and planks. Repeato until the first bear crawler is at the end. So close!!  It was a tie!  4 Burpees for all.  The competitive Pax didnt like the tie.. here was the emotion:

Last short mosey of the day… directed at the 2-flag, where we had the Name-o-Rama, Shout-outs for health, and Prayer (about strength for fighting through adversity).

Thanks for coming to my 28th birthday party!  Hope to see y’all next year!  Oh yeah, btw… 2 more years of hate!!