Another impromptu Tuesday morning at The Stage meant getting some quality time with Enron and Yankee Joe, and YHC was very much looking forward to that. Though, after crafting the beatdown last night, YHC was not looking forward to the down painment that it would require.
After a few weeks of coming up with creative ways to get 100 burpees done in every beatdown, YHC still felt like he had some steam for putting together something new. This time, it would be “Burplevensies”.
After a warmup of the usual (with some verbal wondering if we need to shake things up a bit, then really appreciating the fruits of the exercises we keep doing) including the now-typical mountain climbers and a bumper mosey, we lined up at the grass.
Thang 1: Burplevensies
Elevens with burpees on both sides. That’s right, both sides. The total would be 110, but to space things out a bit and add some variety, the transportation (25-ish yards) would change with every round. So, it would go like this:
-10 burpees, bear crawl, 1 burpee, bear crawl back
-9, carioca, 2, carioca
– crab walk
– nur
– duck walk
– side shuffle
– bunny hop
– mosey
– frog hop
– high-knee skip
The pre-warmup mumblechatter included conversation about the men who haven’t posted in a while, and it was said about one guy, “I don’t think he ever really got over the hump.” Well, as we were reminded this morning, if we’re doing F3 right, we never really “get over the hump”. We’re always bumping up against our limitations. Pride at our “arrival” or some sort of measure of progress isn’t really doable when it’s always something different and we’re always humbled by having to dig deeper than we pictured. This is why I’m so grateful for F3–because this experience pulls us out of ourselves in a way that makes us strong, united, and joyfully self-deprecating as opposed to proud, isolated, and afraid of failure. Humple pie tastes so good! (Well, maybe not right away.)
This was followed by a nice, long recovery mosey around Rich Man’s loop (the mumblechatter was minimal due to the need to conserve oxygen) and back to The Stage for about seven minutes of Mary: Wife Pleasers, LBC’s, Leg Raises, Hello Dollys, Nolan Ryans, and Penguins.
Solid COT and YHC prayed us out. Super grateful for this morning, despite having to take a break on my way up one flight of stairs at the office!
SYITG,
Goose
