Good weather, maybe a little “brisk” at upper 30s, since YHC will never call it cold. Pax of 11 for some outstanding fellowship and putting in work (or paying the rent as I believe the Millenials like JV call it).
Warmup (10x – 20x IC)
– SSHs
– Self love
– Imperial walkers
– Arm circles
– Toe touches
– High knees
– Hillbillies
Thang
A replay of Granny’s 12 days of Christmas – themed beatdown. We moseyed down to the lake and back, stopping each block to honor one of the days of Christmas, starting at 12, stopping at the trailhead for Dirty Santa, and making it back down to 1.
As for the days (it helps if you sing it):
On the twefth day of Christmas, F3 gave to me:
– 12 knuckle merkins
– 11 Peter Parker’s
– 10 Legs a lunging
– 9 Americans hammering
– 8 count body builders (8)
– 7 jumpers squatting
– 6 monkeys jumping
– 5 Don-key kiiiiiiiiicccks
– 4 frogs a crunching
– 3 T merkins
– 2 stars a jumping
– And a burpee for both you and for meeeeeee
Dirty Santa – relatively simple
(1) Each HIM picks a number.
(2) Number 1 picks a random gift/exercise from the bag and performs said exercise while the other HIM perform the standard (e.g. 10 merkins)
(3) Number 2 has a choice: Number 1’s chosen exercise, the standard, or a new “gift”. If he chooses either of the first two options, the one who had their “gift” stolen can steal or select another mystery “gift”.
(4) Around and around we go, until all HIM have a chance to select.
The “gifts” included one cherry picker, slaloming the columns, trip up and down the pilot house, 20 monkey humpers, donkey kicks, arm circles, etc. Two separate rounds that had Bird intensifying, SOGO hating me, JV doing too many freak nastys, YHC taking notes to never include absolution again, and Jose being the beneficiary of limited cherry pickers this year, a complete 180 from when he got stuck with multiple last year or the year before.
Back at the lake, we did a quick 12 days, with freak nastys, box jumps, BSSs, step ups, urkins, durkins, wife pleasers, penguins, big boys, Freddie Mercury’s, hello Dollie’s, and one cherry picker.
COT
Count, NOR, announcements, and prayer closed us out, where we continued to lift up Freon and his family, as well as the Brady family.
Wrapping up the year, getting started with a new year on Monday with either an Akbar Marsh beatdown and Waffle House trip, the Franco’s Dip and Dash, or maybe both!
I look forward to more beatdowns in 2024 and a continuation of the fellowship that makes getting up before 6AM on a cold Saturday morning worth it.
SYITG
