When Pusher and YHC realized we were co-q’ing Alcatraz, and the weather was predicted to be quite winter-like, we decided a Christmas theme was in order.  But we wanted something a little unique.  So, we landed on Christmas Movie Trivia.

The wintry weather showed up on cue, though more cold and wet than snowy and Christmas-like.  “No matter” said the 12 pax that posted ready for the physical and mental challenges.

Pusher started us off with a jog intentionally avoiding the path around the ball fields.  We moseyed to a few different intersections near the park for various warm-up exercises, including SSHs, merkins, peter parkers, and a few others, while playing a little frogger.

We then moseyed to the bottom of a steep hill and partnered up (size no matter).  Partner 1 took the hill, while partner 2 held a squat.  Flapjack.  Repeat 2 additional times.

We then moseyed up the hill half way, and lunged the rest of the way.  Pusher then took us back to the parking lot where we started and turned it over to YHC.

We moseyed around the parking lot, then to the path that circles the park, where the first of about 30 cones was sitting (each about 10-20 yards apart, all along the path).  And so began the Christmas Movie trivia challenge.  Here’s how it worked:

• On each cone was a trivia question.  Upon arrival to the cone, the question was read aloud.
• While pax pondered and discussed the question, an exercise was performed, which was dependent on the movie.  Here were the exercises (some of which we didn’t get to):
  • A Christmas Carol – 10 high jumps
  • A Christmas Story – 10 Plank Jacks
  • Christmas Vacation – 10 Mountain Climbers
  • Christmas With The Kranks – 10 Bombjacks
  • Deck The Halls – 10 Plank Punches
  • Four Christmases – 10 Sumo Squats
  • Elf (My Favorite!) – 10 Squat Jacks
  • Ernest Saves Christmas – 15 Hillbilly Walkers
  • Holiday Inn – 10 Morning Wood
  • How The Grinch Stole Christmas – 10 Russian Twists
  • It’s A Wonderful Life – 10 Dry Docks
  • Jingle All The Way – 10 Run Stance Switch
  • Nightmare Before Xmas – 10 Crab Cakes
  • Miracle On 34th Street – 10 Merkins
  • The Polar Express – Bearcrawl to next cone
  • Scrooged – 10 Monkey Humpers
  • The Santa Clause – 10 Chop Sticks
  • Santa Claus: The Movie – 10 Speed Skaters
  • White Christmas – 10 Donkey Kicks
• Once the exercise was done, pax had to agree on an answer.
  • If the answer was correct, pax moved on to the next cone
  • If the answer was not correct, pax had to do one or more penalty exercises.  Here’s how the penalties worked:
    • 1st incorrect answer – 10 burpees
    • 2nd consecutive incorrect answer (i.e. at next cone) – 10 burpees AND 100 yard run
    • 3rd (or more) consecutive incorrect answer (3 cones in a row)- 10 burpees AND 100 yard run AND 10 merkins
    • After the penalty was served, pax moved on to the next cone

We got through about 25 cones (with a score of about 50%) before running out of time.  The questions were tough, and thus we clocked in over 100 burpees.  I won’t post the questions/answers here in case any pax want to reuse this weinke, or a variant thereof (contact me on twitter if you’d like the questions and answers).

Moleskin

It was a privilege for Pusher and YHC to lead the workout at Alcatraz.  Pusher talked about how thankful we are for F3 and the amazing HIMs that make it so great, including and especially the pax posting to Alcatraz.  For me, what has made F3 so life changing isn’t the organization, or structure, or exercises or cool gear; it is the men of F3 that invested their time into “FNGs”, long after their first post.

If you are a man that a fellow F3 pax has invested time into, my encouragement to you (and to me) is to find a pax in F3 that could benefit from you pouring into them.