11 braved the gloom and supported my VQ at the Tomahawk this morning.

Set up was in stations and with partners to facilitate the proper acceleration from each participant.  Songs set the beat and the timer with a periodic visit from our favorite Chainsaw wielding problem solver, Malcolm.

Playlist was as follows:

  • The Boys are Back in Town
  • Welcome to the Jungle
  • Wake Up Call
  • All Summer Long
  • Jump
  • Malcolm the Chainsaw Man
  • Golden Years
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  • You Shook Me All Night Long
  • Malcolm the Chainsaw Man
  • Fat Bottomed Girls
  • Down Under
  • I Want You to Want Me
  • Malcolm the Chainsaw Man
  • Everybody Hurts – for 5 minutes of Mary
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So…you want to do pyramids and running. We can do that

16 gathered for a quick disclaimer on the beautiful Friday morning, and even more beautiful new pavement.  We took off for a quick mosey and circled up for some warm-up which consisted of: SSH, slow windmill, superman Moroccan night clubs, imperial walkers, merkins and stretching.  Stretching with some downward dogs, honeymooners and then some laying on our backs with some pulling of the knees to chest, and knee over side to stretch our backs.

Once the crew was warmed up we made our way over to the pull up bars where the following unfolded…very quickly.

  • 10 chin ups
  • 20 diamonds
  • 30 1 legged squats (15/leg)
  • 40 carolina dry docks
  • 50 LBC
  • 40 CDD
  • 30 1 leggged
  • 20 diamonds
  • 10 chin ups

Sounds not so bad but we added running between each exercise from the pull up bars down to the cross walk by the football field entrance.

For a quick “10 count” of sorts, the team received the following message: what are you doing today that makes you better where you’re being intentional?  It doesn’t have to be something big, but it can be you physically, mentally, helping your 2.0 practice a sport, unload the dishwasher when you’re not asked to do it….

Off we went to the next area of fun what had been deemed for the run over, “the teacher’s smoking lounge / aka the outside eating area outside the cafeteria” where there are picnic tables to use!

  • 20 step ups, each leg
  • 20 derkins
  • 20 dips
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 bomb jacks
  • Repeat the 20s above (there was an extra set of bomb jacks in here too b/c someone had to say the un-sayable)
  • 5 burpees
  • 5 bomb jacks
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 bombjacks

90 seconds to spare and we headed back to COT for all COT things!  Appreciate the invite as always from Harry Caray and appreciated all the mumblechatter and push!

Shady

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Baby Shark do do do do do do…..

Today we had 13 show on a very hot Monday!

After a disclaimer and a short mozy all pax gathered for a short warmup which consisted of 10 merkins, side straddle hops, and imperial walkers. We then grabbed our bells and sort of slowzied to another part of the parking lot to begin our routine. I instructed the men to partner up and I then handed out prewritten sheets of paper with two kettle workouts and one regular exercise written on each. I felt like it was a good day for music so I added roughly 10 songs (Rock N Roll) and each set of partners did the workout from each page for the entirety of the song. I assigned how many of each workout to do and after you finished your assigned number you would switch the exercise. After the song finished the groups would rotate so that all men could complete every exercise. I also randomly added the instrumental version of baby shark onto my music playlist and when that would come on we would sprint the length of the parking lot and return just in time for the song to be over and would resume our regular routine with the next song. I felt like that was a good time to run since nobody wanted to hear that song! I added pistol squats to one sheet of paper and those are quite difficult (unless you’re Tesh) and I don’t think I want to do those again! We stopped about halfway through and I told the pax that I would like for them to take the time this week to compliment folks around them. When you compliment someone, it can really have a profound effect on their day and selfishly it makes you feel good as well so it’s a win win. At around 3 to 6 we took a mozy back to COT where we did a quick mary and then circled up to finish our workout. I did hear some complaining which is always good and it means that the pax is suffering a bit so I felt successful! Big thanks to J-WOW for the opportunity to serve and I look forward to doing it again!

~Slash

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