It was another cool morning at the stage with 6 of the PAX showing up this early Monday morning. YHC tried to throw the bait out there with a Forrest Gump reference. Who doesn’t love a good Forrest Gump theme? But alas, they are all privy to my ways now… Bait them in and come out with a workout that doesn’t even involve anything in the hype. Hate to see it.
Warmaramma
SSH
Mountain climbers
Toy soldiers
Imperial walkers
Willy mays hays
Wind mills
Arm circles forward and backward
Self love
The thang
It’s simple. Run three miles, do 60 burpees, 80 merkins and 100 squats.
Burpee mile – run a mile along rich man’s loop, stop at the previously determined stops (4 total) and do 15 burpees
Merkin mile – do it again but add 5 to the rep count to make it 20 merkins at each stop
Squat mile – plan was to make this 25 squats at each stop, but time was going to run short, so an Indian run mile took its place.
Bonus: Every member of the PAX has his own mile pace. Goose for example, is like Forrest Gump, he just keeps going and never slows. Others, including myself, likes a more leisurely pace. To keep the PAX together, YHC devised a social experiment. At each stop along the mile, whoever made it to the exercise stops and completed the exercise had to hold 6 inches until everyone caught up and finished the exercise. Would Goose slow down to prevent himself from having to do more work? Would the slower members of the PAX speed up to help a Goose in need? I really thought that goose would be holding 6 inches for 3 minutes at each stop, but something miraculous occurred. We kept together where the 6 inch hold rarely happened. YHC thinks most of us would agree we ran faster than we would have if goose wasn’t there. A humble goose would never admit he ran slower than he wanted so the PAX would stay together. It was a beautiful thing.
Finished with 1 minute of holding six inches while goose told a miraculous story that involved a man that was well endowed with more than 6 inches.
COT, announcements, prayers lifted up, goose prayed us out.
Always a pleasure to lead. Thanks for waking up, showing up, and pushing for a better version of yourself
