21 pax, with 6 ruckers and a strong showing from 2.0s. As a fill-in last minute Q, I had to come up with something quick – f3nation.com has a great list of exercises. Global Warming and Burp Back Mountain jumped out at me.

Cobra Kai started us out with 22 push-ups; a reminder of the price paid by so many of the men and women fighting for our freedom. We are grateful.  

The Thang: 

We started out with a mosey, karaokes, and shuffles.

Indian run to Target with bear crawls and lunge walking for variety. Circled up for MNC, Windmills and IWs x 20. There was some creative counting by YHC and a new exercise is born – The Imperial Tater Walker.

Mosey to Buffalo Wild Wing for Global Warming – Circle up and assume the Al Gore position and shuffle left and right merkins, werkins, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters, Mtn Climbers and Carolina Dry Docks x 15. The circle got tighter the more we shuffled.

On to the hills of Suntrust for Burp Back Mtn. Paired up – size does not matter. 100 burpees was the target for each pair.

Back to Target – grab a car stop – hops, toe taps, step ups and calf raise (toes straight, in and out). Mosey to the fountain for Step ups and derkins x 20.

Mosey to Office Max and circled for ab lab – Hello Dollys, flutter kicks, LBCs, Freddie Mercurys, Rosalitas and Never Cross Dollys x20

We are done, mosey back to the COT. 

BOM 

A plug for Hog and Coyote on June 18 

NMM 

I introduced the Pax to Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men by Stephen Mansfield. There is a chapter on Humility – the June theme. The chapter revolves around the life of Booker T Washington. From the book “He (Booker T Washington) agreed with William Mountford, who wrote, ‘It is from out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest.’ Washington was no coward and did not think humility the best posture of his people because he feared another course. Instead, he believed humility won the favor of God, caused a man to live simply and genuinely rather than merely to impress and freed him from vanity so he could know himself and know the world as it was, rather than as he wished it to be. “ 

Pride and Humility cannot coexist.

It is always a privilege – Tater