The Colosseum opened up  and 14 weekday warriors got down to business on a cool and foggy morning.  Here is what they did:

The Thang:

Dynamic warmup:  knee pulls, ankle pulls, lunge stretches, back stretches, toy soldiers, arm rotations back and forth.  Start the mosey down the covered path to opposite lot for COP.

COP (all in cadence)

SSH x 40, windmill x 10, merkin x 10, IW x 20, squat x 20, widearm merkin x 15, LBC x 20, mountain climber x 40

Mosey around the building and line up about 10 yards from the Colosseum wall.

Run to wall, up and over, run to the school building, 7 donkey kicks on the building, run back, over the wall, run back to the start and do 3 burpees.  Repeat cycle with 6 donkey kicks, 4 burpees; 5 donkey kicks, 5 burpees, etc. ….to 3 donkey kicks and 7 burpees.  5 cycles total (crowd pleaser)

Mosey back to the front of the school, stop at the school flag for the pledge of allegiance, and continue to the back of the school near the playing field.

At the top of the hill, line up and face the school wall.   Bear crawl backwards down the hill, then bear crawl up the hill and take a seat for people’s chair:   arms out, arms up, and 20 overhead claps. Repeat the cycle up/down the hill with people’s chair three more times.

Mosey down the hill to the big field and circle up for 10 minutes of Mary:

Freddie Merc x 20, LBC x 20, flutter x 20, flip over for Superman x 2, flip back over, Pretzel crunch x 10L/10R, V-up x 10, Rosalita x 10.  Mosey back for COT

Naked Man Moleskin

This was my VQ at the Colosseum and it was awesome to have a group of 14 join me today. There were a lot new faces in attendance today,  as well as one or two Kotters.  Welcome back, gentlemen!  Not sure how many Clemson grads we had this morning, but the buzz from last week’s championship game and the post game celebrations was still very much alive this morning.

Not many AO’s have a wall you can climb over like this, and I couldn’t  resist using it, even though Lil’E had done the same thing a few weeks back (imitation is the sincerest form of flattery).  T-claps to Tesh for showing some nifty agility getting up and over the wall (and a fine Taylor Swift shout out during Superman’s).  Well done, young man!

Everyone worked hard today and it was a pleasure as always to lead such a fine group of men.

Announcements/Prayers/Praises

Revamped Children’s Attention Hope F3 Outreach project starting Jan 28.  Meet the kids and get involved.  You will be glad you did.

Yeti (18 miles of running plug pain stations) in February for those who crave a 3 1/2 hour challenge.

Empathy/race relation discussion this Saturday, Jan 21 at 6am. Eternal Church office.

FNG challenge month.  Go out and get ’em!

Prayers for marriages and families.  Prayer for a brother-in-law with intestinal cancer.