YHC, once again, had the honor of Q’ing the faithful PAX at PHOP.  It’s always a pleasure to lead and I have a special place in my heart for this AO.  To get the call to lead on April Fool’s day seemed appropriate.  On this day, the goal was to keep the heart rate up and keep moving until the bitter end.

Warm-up

• 25 SSH
• 20 IW
• 15 Windmills
• 20 low-slow fingers to the floor squats
• 15 Moroccan Nightclubs
• Mosey around the AO

The Thang

Again, the goal was to keep the heart rate up so the main workout was this:

Sprint the length of the building, exercise on the shorter sides, sprint the length and exercise on the short end.  When done, plank it up and perform mountain climbers until the 6 is in (apologies to Burgundy and Tinker Toy as they were trading 1st and 2nd back & forth and got a healthy dose of extra credit mountain climbers!).  A reminder was given not to be “foolish” and cheat yourself on the sprinting – there’s nothing worse than getting up early to work-out only to go home and think “I could have done more or run faster.”  Here were the rounds of exercises:

1. Bear crawl
2. Crab walk
3. Duck walk
4. Gator merkins
5. Burpee broad jumps
6. 3 hours of Clockwork Orange (merkin at 12 o’clock, keep your feet in the middle of the dial and hand walk to a 3 o’clock merkin, and repeat for 6 o’clock, 9 o’clock and back to 12)
7. Lunge walk with a twist
8. Hot hand merkin inch worm (down, up and touch right shoulder with left and, down and right to left shoulder)
9. Reverse lunge walk with a twist

Mosey around the building.  At this point, I informed the Pax that we would have to cut it a few minutes short because my M was at home waiting to run….April Fools!

• 20 Burpees OYO
• 25 LBCs
• Quickly get up do 20 fast SSH
• Quickly back on your 6 for 20 Freddie Mercury
• Quickly get back up for 20 final fast SSH

Great work by all the Pax throughout and mumble chatter commented on the “quality” of the “cool down.”  Ended with the usual count off, name-a-rama and a solid round with a healthy dose of wonderful praises and a few prayer requests.  Padre took us out with a focus on working towards this very special weekend and the sacrifices made for us and our sins.