Great morning at The Colosseum and probably my last Q of the year before we get into high gear for the Holiday Season, for most is too early to think about Christmas but for us is GO TIME!!

9 brave gladiators decided to accelerate their Tuesday morning so we started with a quick mosey around the drop off line with toy soldiers and high knees followed by the warm up by the basketball courts: windmills, Moroccan night clubs and low slow squats.

We split up into 3 groups for the 3 stations that had been set up, preferred transportation mode was bear crawls:

STATION 1

-> 20 overhead press

-> 20 biceps curls

-> 20 merkin

-> 30 triceps dips

-> 30 Carolina dry docks

STATION 2

-> 20 slam ball to ground

-> 30 Freddy Mercury

-> 30 Rosalitas

-> 30 Sledgehammer swings  (15 each side)

-> 40 Dying Roach SC

STATION 3

-> 5 burpees

-> 10 Tire flips

-> 20  Monkey Humpers

-> 20 lunges SC

-> 30 low squat (touch the ground with hand)

Everyone finished one full circuit and we met up in the middle for some web work, we had a brief talk about the theme going on at the weekly snippet on one of the Slack channels about sportsmanship and how sometimes we put too much pressure in our kids during sports.

Back to the beatdown, first up was the famous Captain Thor:

1 Big Boy Sit Up and 4 American Hammers, progressive to 10 BBSU and 40 AH, lots of chatting and the fear of getting tramp stamps but everyone did a great job here but the best was still to come.

Next up was a new combo creation, there’s no name for it in the Exicon so I’ll just name it the Illegal merkin (hence the definition of shoulder tap:  Shoulder tapping refers to the illegal process where a person who is not of age asks someone who is of age to buy them cigarettes or, more commonly, Alcohol.:

1 merkin and 4 shoulder taps, you guessed it, progressive to 10 merkins and 40 shoulder taps; that equals to 55 merkins and 220 shoulder taps, a real burner!! We had to take a few brakes on this one since I didn’t want anyone to face plant during one of my Q’s. More whining here but you don’t get up at 4:30 am to do the easy thing right?

We finished with just 2 minutes to spare and load the truck with the props then headed to COT in the parking lot.

Announcements: Ragnar race was brought up but I was the only one running this weekend so I invited all PAX to sign up for next year; I also mentioned the Lake Wylie official launch as the newest region with their CSAUP “The Nessie” on 10/26 and encouraged everyone to sign up for it, I know it will be NO-DERATE!!

Prayers and praises for all families and kids and to keep all competitors safe this weekend.

Thank you Hardwood for the invite!!

Tinsel Out…