Don’t they say “better late than never”? I hope so. Sorry so late!
Dangerfield got his feet with with a great VQ Warmup. I really think he’s ready to lead a full workout, now we just have to convince him of that. We started the morning off with 8 merkins to celebrate 8 PAX coming out for Dangerfield’s VQ. Gave the disclaimer and Dangerfield started running saying Follow Me!
We ran for what seemed like a mile one way, did 20 SSH’s , and then ran for what seemed like a mile back towards where we started from. There we did some Cherry Pickers and Merkins. Then Dangerfield took off again in true Gingerbread fashion saying Catch Me If You Can. We didn’t catch him but thankfully he stopped at a curb to get us to do 20 calf raises. He said we should be warmed up by now and we all called him some names and I gratefully took control of the workout. Great job Dangerfield! Anytime you can get the guys cussing at you, it means you’re doing something right!
After a walking 10 count, we moseyed to the back of the church, found a wall, did people’s chair, and passed a 30lb dumbbell down the line a couple times. The 3rd time around we curled it left and right before passing. Bear Crawl to the bottom of the hill for 20 SSH’s.
A short mosey down some stairs to the front of a different church. I told the guys we’d be running some stairs in honor of Smithers giving a HC and then fart sacking on us. @ his VQ, he had us running a whole bunch of those stairs. It wasn’t too bad this time around. We missed you Smithers!
Across the street I had some coupons waiting. Each card had an exercise listed on it and each PAX picked 3 cards. We found a parking space for each of us, laid the cards down, and got to work in cadence. Choose 1 of the cards, do 20 count IC. We were each doing a different exercise but it didn’t confuse anybody. Swap parking spots with somebody, choose a card, 20 count IC. We did this for a full 2 rounds. I tried to get us back to COT early but Uncle Sam insisted we had time for 1 more so we did 2 more. Cards pulled were:
Burpees, Gorilla Squats, Crab Humpers, Crab Jacks, Donkey Kicks, Flutters, SSH, Lap around the lot, Merkins, Werkins, Diamond Merkins, LBC’s, Double Arm Curls (20 lb bells), Plank Hold, Forearm Plank Hold, Big Boy Situps, Tree Hugger Hold, Makhtar N’Diayes, Carolina Dry Docks, Scorpian Dry Docks, and a few more crazy ones.
Finally headed back to COT for announcements, prayers, and praises. Dont’ forget to read your newsletter!
Shoutout to Beacon for allowing me to Q. It’s an honor I take way more seriously than writing backblasts. I promise!