Weather: Glorious – Hot but who cares when you get to spend time with your 2.0s?

As the Pax rolled it, and Bolt set out his pain stations (for the young 2.0s), everyone was wondering if the little ones were going to be hauling sand bags across WEP.  Thankfully he had age appropriate tasks in mind….We split up and went off to start the fun.

For the little ones (10ish and younger):

Zima kicked off the fun with a short mosey followed by COP, led by Hotwheels:

• Windmills x10 IC
• SSH x10 IC
• Low Slow Squat x10 IC
• Mountain Climbers x10 IC
• Merkins x5 IC

Then a game of Side Straddle Tag was played in which you have to do SSHs once tagged, eagerly awaiting the whistle to be blown.

Next was a quick round of Sharks and Minnows, always a crowd favorite.

After a refreshing water break, Bolt took over with a great lesson of teamwork, and helping one another as a team. An obstacle course was created and 4-5 teams of 2.0s were created, with each team assigned a Dad. Work together as a team and no one gets left behind.

Each team was given a soccer ball and 2 bocce balls to carry on the course which were not to be dropped, and alternated between team members.

Each team encountered an F3 Dad who led them on an exercise of choice. We did our best to have the teams work together.

The end obstacles were a cornhole toss for each teammate, a sand bag roll, a balancing walk around the entire playground wall, and finishing with a team jenga large block build where the teams worked together in trying to build the tallest structure.

A lot of encouragement and assistance was given by all the Dads and all the kids finished the course with a little competitiveness at the jenga build.

Nearly all the 20 minutes were used followed by a much needed water break.

YHC took the kids up to the soccer field for COP, called out by many of the kids in the circle.

• Windmills x20 IC
• SSH x20 IC
• Merkins x10 IC
• LBCs x10 IC
• Squats x10 IC

Starting at the first corner of the soccer field, we created a figure 8 by running the side lines and bear crawl midfield and the baselines. Next set included 10 squats at each turn while running the sidelines and endlines.

All throughout we talked about looking at things from a different perspective.  Maybe a coach trying to teach you how to do something a bit differently, a friend wanting to do something you don’t want to do, or just trying to understand someone else’s point of view.  In an effort of doing things from a completely different perspective, we played 15 minutes of Bear vs. Crab soccer, a completely different (and fun) way to play.  Goalies must remain in the plank position and change out each time a goal is scored.  One team is in the bear crawl position while the other is in the Crab walk position.  Once a goal is scored, the teams flip flop crab and bear. Talk about burning up your arms, but the 2.0’s ALL had a great time.  As a reward, we played on our feet for the last 3-5 minutes.

We ended with a mosey back down to the rest of the 2.0s for announcements and prayers.

Thank you for allowing Zima, Bolt and YHC to lead your amazing children in this workout.  While it was hot and humid out, there were very few complaints and lots of fun was had!