It was another fine morning at the Pantheon. 70F and 90% humidity. Just the kind of morning that makes the fart sack look even better than normal. But 12 HIM valiantly defeated the FS this morning in order to gather in the gloom. 2 of them launched a ruck about 5 minutes before the official start time, and YHC will dedicate very little more time to their cause. They can write up their own backblast if they want to advertise just how awesome their morning was.
WARM UP
We started with a brief disclaimer. Then ran clockwise around the school to the south lot for 20 SSH, 10 windmills, and 20 Moroccan Night Club.
That dora
Another mosey to the BB court for a quick bit of Dora. The PAX paired up and shared. 100 pushups, 200 squats, and 300 LBC. The runner would trot on down to the other side of the court, perform 2 burpees, then run back to tag their partner.
t stance walking
When that was done YHC showed the T Stance Walk to the PAX, which was to be performed the 25′ or so from the end line to the end of that free throw circle thingy. I will describe below. However, during my extremely eloquent demo and explanation, a TWSS was released in response to “It should feel weird, but won’t be too hard”. As we all know, the only prescription for a TWSS is 5 burpees… I thought it was Tardy who was responsible for our added betterment, but we found out that Lutefisk was the sponsor of our delight.
Open T Stance Walk:
- Start with R Foot at a 45º angle to the right
- Step L foot so that it is in line with the R toes, L foot is at a 90º angle to the left
- Dip down until knee is on the ground, 90% weight on L foot
- At this point your R knee should brush your left ankle, and your R ankle off the ground
- Stand up and repeat, zig zagging just a bit as you follow a straight path
On the way back, Closed T stance walk. This time instead of pointing the feet 45º out/away, point them 45º in/across the body
This was done twice. There was some mumblecomplainchatter.
When finished we moseyed over to the amphitheater for the main event.
THE CLAW
The map produced of this particular exercise:
PAX started from the bottom (the thumb) and ran along each of the concrete paths. Stopping at the end of each to perform a quick set before going to the next finger. When returning to the thumb, they did LBCs.
Round 1
5 merkins
5 squats
5 monkey humpers
bear crawl there and back for the final finger
40 LBCs at the thumb
Round 2
10 merkins
10 squats
10 monkey humpers
bear crawl there and back for the final finger
60 LBCs at the thumb
There was JUST enough time to do one more round!
Round 3
15 merkins
15 squats
15 monkey humpers
bear crawl there and back for the final finger
And immediately mosey back to COT!
COT
Back at COT YHC stopped to get his phone for name-o-rama. And to take a breath… There were some announcements, praises and prayers. A few minutes after disbanding, the ruckers showed up and more fist bumps were administered.