PAX: Saferide, Honey Stinger, Nodule, Samples, Cosmo, Black Lung, Smashmouth, Beaker, Hat-trick, FNG, Vanilla Ice, Goose, Flowers, Betamax, Spacebar, Trademark, Tugboat, Splinter, Bloodshot, Tin Cup, Edison, Folsom, and…
Q: Toadstool
Toadstool welcomed 23 PAX to the Colosseum, including 1 FNG. Gave the mission statement, disclaimer, and the Credo. Toadstool surveyed the terrain (newly dry after the rain), breathed deeply, and boldly led the PAX to the football field.
Warm-A-Rama:
Mosey around the track and to center of football field…
Side Straddle Hop – 20 IC
Tappy Taps – 15 IC
Imperial Walkers – 20 IC
Chinooks – 10 IC
Cherry Pickers – 10 IC
Sun Gods – 10 IC (forward and back)
Goofballs – 15 IC
ATMs (Alternating Shoulder Taps, Tempo Merkins, Merkins) – 10 each
Smurphjacks (redbull) – 15 IC
ABCs (Air Squats, Bonnie Blairs, Copperhead Squats) – 10 each
Pre-Thang: Pax then lined up on the baseline the football field…
-Burpees – 5
-Bear crawl to 20 yard line.
-Jump Squats – 10
-Mosey Back
-We did this a total of 3 times and HIMs were not pleased at the crawl bear madness.
Thang: The Flying V…
The PAX numbered off into groups of three or four and proceeded to one of three stations. At those stations (1 or 3), do one exercise and then run back to the middle of the field (2). The stations were shaped live a V and the PAX proceeded in V fashion:
Station 1 (all 25 reps): Merkins, Alternating Shoulder Taps (IC), Derkins, Dips
Station 2 (all 25 reps): Freddie Mercurys (IC), Flutter Kicks (IC), Big Boys, LBCs (IC)
Station 3: (all 25 reps): Air Squats, Bobby Hurleys, Bonnie Blairs (IC), Monkey Humpers (IC)
Mary:
-ABCs
–Captain Thor
Announcements/COT:
COT: After three years of participating and leading beatdowns it’s easy to slip into the same-old routines, same warm-a-ramas, pre-thangs, and thangs. This isn’t all bad. My institutional memory helps me become better at specific tasks, delivering a more efficient beatdown! That’s also why the older we get the better we get at our respective jobs. But with this institutional brain there can also be a danger of staleness and a lack of creative thinking. When we’re young we have an elastic brain, thinking creatively about a number of things – this is because everything we encounter is new, every situation and relationship a new puzzle to be solved. The closest we sometimes get to that as an older adult is when we travel to new location. But we can find other ways to make your brain more elastic. Seek out new experiences, read authors you disagree with or see the world in a completely different way, seek out relationships with people you ordinarily wouldn’t. By doing this you can grow and find the newness in life that keeps it fresh.
- Announcements/Prayers
- Brickbuilder event
- First-Friday lunch
- Prayers for Trademark’s family on what would be his parent’s 53rd wedding anniversary
- Toadstool closed out in prayer