12 Pax posted to The Yard on a sticky Sat to exercise their vocal chords as much as their bodies.  Following a half-baked disclaimer and a brief preview by YHC of the Fatherhood Part II theme for the morning, the festivities began.

The Thang

Short mosey to parking lot behind school

COP — Mtn climbers, IWs, plank jacks, SSHs, Seal jacks, Moroccan night clubs

Run to patch of grass behind fenced in utility depot at bottom of gravel trail behind school

COP — Peter parker, Parker peter, Monkey humpers, Slow sumo squat, Mahktar N’Dyae, Knee Tar N’Dyae

Run halfway back up trail, then bear crawl AYG, backward run AYG, lunge walk to finish

Plank series

Mosey to playground and split into two groups of 6, with each group stationed at swings on opposite ends of playground

Swing crunches x20 run to other side, Swing crunches x20 (rinse & repeat)

More planks

Shift to picnic tables

11s — Derkins x10 + Dips x1 (ladder down and ladder up)

Shift back to playground

11s — Forward jump over playground edging x10 + 1 monkey humper (ladder down and ladder up)

6MoM — Rosalita, Dollies, Freddies, Flutters, Superman

Run home for final plank series

COT

Naked man moleskin

My first time to Q at The Yard — thanks to Old Bay for the invite!

One thing the pax at The Yard pride themselves on is the mumble chatter.  Covered a wide range of topics on this outing, starting with colonoscopies and declining in terms of anatomical/biological topics from that point forward.  Cranking the Slow sumo squats to 25+ reps in cadence knocked some of the wind out of the most chatty pax.  Then the back-to-back 11s killed the mumble chatter entirely.  Nice work persevering through the pain, men!

A “moderate” workout seemed to be an appropriate setting to reign in the running and dial up the core moves; also good timing for ab work with beach season coming soon.

The theme of “Part II” on Fatherhood surfaced as a follow up to the prior day’s 3rd F convergence on Fatherhood, where good intentions, best practices and other wisdom was shared with 50 pax.  One of my takeaways from that session was that fatherhood for me is more often than not “messy”…the pointers in the Friday talk were summaries of lessons learned through lots of painful mistakes on my part.  And in virtually all cases, the failures have been the result of one sin — PRIDE.  Too often I get in my own way of successful parenting.  I imagine the same is true for all the pax.  Take some time to review where you are putting yourself in the middle of the path to an effective fatherhood experience for you and your 2.0.

We prefaced Ball of Man with each pax remembering their father by name.