I guess I was so worried I would miss my first ever Q that I woke up that morning at 2:00 and 4:00 A.M. jolted awake by the fear that I had overslept. Not thinking rationally at all since if I had thought about it, I would have remembered that I had set two alarms on my phone just in case. If there ever wasn’t a definition for a balmy morning, it would have come into existence after one walked out the door that morning. 77 degrees at 5:30. But that didn’t keep 6 loyal PAX members (and one determined FNG) to brave the elements for a good old fashioned butt whipping. So once 6:00 hit, we went to work…
Warm up:
Side straddle hops (20 IC)
Imperial walkers (15 IC)
Windmill (15 IC)
Mummy (15 IC) (I wish tanked up could have been there)
10 Merkins
10 Copperhead Squats:
Regular squat but lowering body slowly on first 3 counts, then lifting up on 4 count for first rep.
Kept arms up for the entirety of the next three subsequent exercises:
Arm circles thumbs forward small circles (15 IC)
Hitchhikers (thumbs back small circles) (15 IC)
Pterodactyls big circles thumbs forward (15 IC)
Butt kicks (15 IC)
High knees (15 IC)
Workout (The Thang)
Moseyed to the back of the School to get our beat down going.
Started off by doing a Duck Walk:
The duck walk is an exercise done by squatting and walking slowly and staying down in the squat the entire time and walking as slow as you can take! Go 2 times to line (about 20 feet) and back never raising out of the squat position. Who would have thought that such an innocent name would have left the PAX groaning so much?
Next we did some elevator push-ups:
We started in a plank and on my Q we would go to the bottom floor (few inches off the ground), second floor (halfway up), and top floor (plank) for 1 1/2 minutes.
We walked to front of the school for some partnered wall squats:
We partnered up and had the other partner hold a wall squat while the other did 5 burpees and ran up and around the front stairway and back and then replaced you on the wall. 3 rounds total.
Next we moseyed to parking garage ramp where we did some Bay City Scissors (core workout) followed by a Bernie Sanders halfway up ramp and then sprinted the rest.
We went to the other side of garage and repeated that to the top level. Shooter looked like he was shot out of a cannon on this round! Once we were on the top we did a sprint to other side, did three Erkins, sprinted back and did three Derkins.
As the workout wound down, we also went down and moseyed to the courthouse benches for our final series. We did a move that I am not sure has a name that I’m calling… 4 count exploding Derkins: Do a Derkin with feet on the bench going slowly down using a four count and explode up on 4 for 1st rep. 10 reps.
We closed out our final sequence with Aiken Legs:
Done in succession with no rest — 20 Box Jumps, 20 Squats, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Seal Jacks. On account of all of the mumbling, I can guarantee that all of our legs were in fact aching.
We moseyed, gingerly I might add, back to the flag.
We circled up for a COT and did our counterama and Name-o-rama
In our closing we got to meet our brave FNG (I knew him quite well already actually). EiEi wasn’t there for his usual input, but I feel we landed on a great one for our FNG. Please welcome to our PAX Feedback!!!
I loved being able to grow with you guys in both strength and fellowship and look forward for that to get even stronger every morning I meet you guys in the gloom. Until next time, see you guys and thanks for letting me lead! (I apologize if I missed anyone who posted. I could have sworn we had 8 so if there was one more I missed I’m sorry about that)
