What a week for being a baseball fan. One of the best 7 game series for a world series. It doesn’t matter if you are/aren’t a fan of the Cubs or Indians. But who isn’t a Harry Carry or Bill Murray or Eddie Vedder fan? It was an amazing ride for the Cubs to exorcises The Curse of the Billy Goat. More importantly, what a game of strategy by both coaches. As a coach to my sons coach pitch and mnior league teams, the Majors is a whole different ball game. But since the baseball season is over, there has to be a way to celebrate the Cubs win and the end of baseball till spring training. So what better way to incorprate baseball into the workout!

The Thang:
A little COP in front of Chick-Fil-A and then mossy to Empire Pizza parking lot. Circle up at the homeplate cone. Everyone performs the first inning excersise at home, then follows the direction on how to get to first base and compete the first inning excersis, then onto second base, then third, then back to home to begin the second inning, and so forth until we finish 5 innings of baseball. Each rep relates to a statistic from Game 7 (and as I didnt realize, should have found more statsistics since the game only took 15 minutes to play – and lots of Omaha’s had to occur aferwards).

Homeplate
1 inning = 7 monkey humpers for 7 Indian runs
2 inning = 2 burpees for 2 steals
3 inning = 13 left leg scorpion merkin for 13 RBIs
4 inning = 39 merkins for 39 total Cubs at-bats
5 inning = 108 LBC for 108 year drought – FINALLY OVER

Sprint to First Base
First Base
1 inning = 4 burpees for 4 errors
2 inning = 7 big boy sit ups for 7 walks
3 inning = 24 lunges for 24 total hits
4 inning = 26 flutters for 26 total OFF Players used
5 inning = 14 Carolina dry docks for 14 strikeouts

Side shuffle to Second Base
 
Second Base
1 inning = 8 Carolina dry docks for 8 Cub runs
2 inning = 10 squats for 10 innings
3 inning = 14 right leg scorpion merkin for 14 runners left on base
4 inning = 36 Russian twists for 36 total players played
5 inning = 40 hello dolly for 40 total Indian at-bats

Sprint to Third Base
 
Third Base
1 inning = 4 diamond merkins for 4 homeruns
2 inning = 10 Moroccan night clubs for 10 pitchers used
3 inning = 17 merkins for 17 players in scoring position
4 inning = 17 wide arm merkin for 17 minute delay
5 inning = 68 squats for 68 yr drought for Indians – STILL

Side shuffle to Home

So know for the second half of a no-weinke:
Circle up for 49 (3 exercises, 7 times each, 7 rounds) with no rest between:
– 7 burpees
– 7 merkins
– 7 LBCs
 
split into two teams for bases relay:
-Team 1 runs around the bases while Team 2 runs the opposite direction in a relay fashion (this is a fun skill we use for my coach pitch and minor league teams and is a fun competitive skill) – these PAX sure are competitive as well!

Line up along frontage road of Empire Pizza
Just as with playing defense and side shuffling to a ground ball and getting your glove down in between your legs, we ran side shuffles between cross walks, flapjacking direction, then sprinting to final crosswalk. Rinse and repeat.

20 count for wall sits

Repeat side shuffle run

Mossy to COT

As we circled up for COT, I read the statistics one last time. What a series, what a game 7. Even though I am not a huge Ohio/Cleveland fan, you had to feel that neither team should have lost. They both never gave up. That is a lesson that we PAX need to always instill in ourselves, as well as our 2.0’s, kids we coach, co-workers, marriage, faith, etc.. Giving up is not how the Sky Q intended us to live. In troubled times, and good times, prayers and accountability with our PAX and M is the only thing that will allow us to feel alive.

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Trucker