‘Twas nine nights before Christmas, and all around a flag, a nightmare was shared that involved weights in a bag. There was Shooter and Steve and Turbo and Grundy. Tanked Up and Suckles and briefly Burgundy. Barely Legal, Jose, and American Hammer. Bean Counter, Garfield, and of course Zoolander.
A collective experience of terror ensued that forced all the men in the PAX to conclude. That the “leader” was not their friend from before, but rather a tyrant they rather deplored. Jose had some hostile feelings today, but that’s what you get with 2 rounds of foreplay.
Sometimes we went slick and sometimes with a ruck, and in the times it got hard we embraced the suck. It went back and forth on what was hated more, but both burpees or manmakers sure made us all sore. For those not aware or not in the know, here is the list of the workout below.
| The Nightmare Before Christmas |
| Slick (no ruck): |
| 100 burpees |
| 1 mile run |
| 50 burpees |
| 1 mile run |
| With Ruck 30 or 20 lb |
| 100 manmakers |
| 1 mile ruck |
| 50 manmakers |
| 1 mile ruck |
| Slick (no ruck): |
| 100 pushups |
| 100 situps |
| 100 air squats |
| 100 4-ct mountain climbers |
| 100 4-ct jumping jacks |
| 100 4-ct flutter kicks |
| With Ruck 30 or 20 lb |
| 100 ruck press |
| 100 plank ruck pull through |
| 100 2-ct ruck twists |
One might ask why anyone would do this, and I’ll give you the reason that you cannot dismiss. It was 13 men committed to Fellowship, Faith, and Fitness, and thus was the workout “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.
