I signed up to Q the Mothership workout today a few months ago as a celebration of my upcoming 50th birthday. Although I don’t turn 50 until tomorrow (December 24th), I was inspired to share the love with the PAX of New Orleans today. I had a coupon themed workout in store and major t-claps to Tool for his provision of cinder blocks (Full – 28 lbs and Half – 19 lbs) and gloves.
As the PAX started to show up for the start of the Mothership workout, the group of men swelled way beyond what I had expected. Did they all come out to celebrate with me or did they imbibe and consume too much during the Christmas season and felt the need for a beatdown? I’ll never know. It’s 5:30 am and I give my disclaimer and off we go.
WARMUP
We mosey toward the Great Lawn and go right past it toward Delgado. Ahhh…the mumble chatter starts to fly. As we head away from the Great Lawn, we take a right through a parking lot and proceed toward Story Land. More mumble chatter ensues. We take a right and then head toward the Great Lawn and circle up.
Side Straddle Hop x 50 IC
Imperial Squat Walkers x 25 IC
Mountain Climbers x 25 IC
THE THANG
Lieutenant Dan’s, Deadlifts, Side Lunges, Curls and Block Webbs with coupons…OH MY!
As we finish our warmup, we mosey down the road and pass Morning Call and go over to the field to the right of NOMA. Stopping at Tool’s sleigh loaded with concrete gifts, the PAX pick out their “present” and head out to the field. I instruct the PAX to line up on the first tree to do a modified Lt. Dan with our “presents”. At the first tree, we will perform one (1) burpee with an overhead press with our coupon. After we finish the first burpee, we will lunge walk with our coupon to the second tree and perform two (2) burpees overhead presses with our coupon. As we proceed to the third tree, we will bear crawl while dragging our coupon until we get to the third tree and then perform 3 burpee overhead presses with our coupon. We continue this alternating pattern until we reach 10 burpees. Not much mumble chatter on this one but I appreciate the Christmas carol serenade by Bogey. After the Lt. Dans, we headed back to the first tree and circled up and proceed to do the 20 IC x Straight Leg Deadlifts and 10 IC x Side Lunges with Curls. My hamstrings and glutes were cramping up on the side lunges with curls so I had to cut it short. Next up was the Block Webb all the way up to 10 Irkins and 20 overhead presses with our coupons.
After the THANG, we take a break and get some water and finish up our COP with 20 Supermans x IC (not a good idea of lying on our coupon), 25 LBC x IC while holding our coupons over our chests, 20 World War 2 Situps with Glute Bridge x IC and finally we finish it off with 50 Copperhead Squats x IC. Time is running short so we put out presents back in Tool’s sleigh and mosey back to the flag.
CIRCLE OF TRUST
Countoff, Namerama, Thoughts, and Prayers.
I can’t say enough how thankful I am for the true honor and privilege of being your Q today. In a world of cynicism, divisiveness, and disappointment, F3 has been a constant refuge of camaraderie, accountability, encouragement, inspiration and friendship. During this Christmas season, please set aside some time to reflect and ponder the purpose and identity of Christ (The Appointed One). May God Bless you and your family. Merry Christmas!
