Eleven forewarned pax posted for a bucket of pain at Slow Burn.  The last time the deceptively comforting, Easter-themed-bucket-with-bunnies-and-flowers-and-eggs made an appearance was also at Slow Burn a few months ago…back when Slow Burn attendance was averaging 30+.  And as memory serves, we only made it 1/2 of the way through the 30 or so exercise cards.  With only 11 pax this time, we made it further, and possibly could have made it all the way through if we had stepped up the pace a bit.  However, there was a bit of #mumblechatter about how this was supposed to be moderate intensity (especially after several consecutive Bear Crawls cards were drawn. #BlameTheDrawerNotTheGame).

The Thang:

Mosey to the back of Lowe’s for a little warm up.

• SSH x20 IC
• Windmills x15 IC
• Dips on the guard rail x20 OYO
• Inclined on the guard rail x20 OYO

Bucket-o-pain (a name given by one of the pax after the first work-out) is a bucket containing 30 or so cards with 50 various exercises specifically selected from the Exercise List.  Each card listed an exercise for the group to do in cadence, along with the number of reps, and a type of moving exercise.  The moving exercises was done outwards from the circle for about 15 yards (to next row of parking spaces.  Another 15 yards beyond that were the second row of parking spaces that pax were simply to run to after reaching the row.  Here is an example of one of the cards in the bucket:

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|  15 Hello Dolly (IC)             |
|       => High Knee                |
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Pax took turns randomly selecting a folded card from the bucket and announcing the exercises to be done.  We got through the following cards before having to head back to COT.  This isn’t the exact order they were drawn.

• 15 Parker Peters (IC) => Toy Soldier
• 10 Monkey Humpers (IC) => High Knee
• 15 Plank Punches (IC) => Karaoke (YHC demonstrated and had the pax do merkin punches instead)
• 10 Russian Twists (IC) => Butt Kickers
• 10 Mountain Climbers (IC) => Shuffle
• 10 Windmills (IC) => Karaoke
• 15 Dry Docks (IC) => Toy Soldiers
• 15 LBCs (IC) => Toy Soldiers
• 15 Hello Dolly (IC) => High Knee
• 10 Dying Cockroach (IC) => Bear Crawl
• 15 Pogo (on each leg) (IC) => Lunge Walk
• 10 Weezy Jefferson (IC) => Bear Crawl
• 10 Bomb Jacks OYO (IC) => Bear Crawls
• 10 Wide Arm Merkins (IC) => Lunge Walk
• 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)  => Backward Lunges
• 15 Calf Raises (IC) => Lunge Walk
• 10 Flying Squirrels OYO => Jog
• 15 Merkins (IC) => Bunny Hops
• 10 Alt. Shoulder Taps (IC) => Sprint
• 15 Moroccan Nightclubs (IC) => Broad Jump Burpees

The pax did a great job hitting a variety of exercises and tolerating a Q that made a few audibles.  It was an honor leading such a fine group of men.

AYE!