The Farm 5/6/2022 – Octagon of Pain                                                                                                                                                                    

Friday, May 6, 2022                                                                                                                                                                 

Sarpy County Fairgrounds, Springfield, NE                                                                                                                                        

51° cloudy                                                                                                                                                                  

PAX:                                                                                                                                                               

(23) – Echo, Bieber, Maaco, Low Flow, Icy Hot, Sweet Roll, Tony The Tiger, Hu Hot, Ferdinand, Levy, Sup, Speed Square, Black Tuesday, Flowers, Brando, Mortar, Fun Dip, Chernobyl, Swiper, Bayside, Schrute, Duracell, Convoy                                    

QIC: Convoy                                                                                                                                                               

Convoy gave the credo, mission statement, 5 core principles, and disclaimer.  No FNGs.                                                                  

The PAX remained in the street for Warm-a-Rama.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Warm-a-Rama:                                                                                                                                                          

Side Straddle Hops (x10 I/C)                                                                                                                                                                

Tappy Taps (x10 I/C)                                                                                                                                                                

Goofballs (x10 I/C)                                                                                                                                                                   

Big Ones (5 count each way)                                                                                                                                                                

Pre-Thang #1:                                                                                                                                                             

Mosey up street half block to public steps (approx 2 feet high).  Single file along bottom step.  As a group, do 20 jump ups, then 20 Derkins, then 20 step-ups (I/C 4 count per rep), then 20 dips.  Mosey to elementary school parking lot.  

Pre-Thang #2:                                                                                                                                                             

Partner up.  Stand next to school building.  One partner does Balls-to-Walls) while other partner runs to other end (cone/curb/marker), does 3 burpees, then runs back to wall and trade places.  Each partner does 3 sets of burpees, then wall sit until six is in.                                                                                                                                                               

The Thang:                                                                                                                                                                 

Octagon of  Pain.  8 cones/stations.  Divide up teams so evenly distributed at each station.  One exercise at each station.  Rotate clockwise.  First lap around, do 32 reps of each exercise.  Once complete 8th station, run to middle and each partner does 5 burpees, then proceed to Lap 2 and do 24 reps at each station.  Rinse and repeat until lap of 8 reps completed or Omaha called.                                                                                                                                                            

Lap 1     Diamond Merkins                                                                                                                                                      

Lap 2     Copperhead Squats (I/C)                                                                                                                                                        

Lap 3     Plank Jacks (I/C)                                                                                                                                           

Lap 4     Chuck Norris Merkins                                                                                                                                                

Lap 5     Bonnie Blairs                                                                                                                                                

Lap 6     Bobby Hurleys                                                                                                                                              

Lap 7     Alt. Shoulder Taps (I/C)                                                                                                                                             

Lap 8     Mountain Climbers (I/C)                                                                                                                                           

“Omaha” called at 5:50a.  Mosey to shovel flags.                                                                                                                             

6MOM:                                                                                                                                                         

None                                                                                                                                                             

Announcements/Prayers:                                                                                                                                                                   

First Friday lunch today.                                                                                                                                                         

Brick Builder 5/21 – sign up!                                                                                                                                                                 

Oscar Mike ruck at The Farm tomorrow (Saturday).                                                                                                                        

Prayers for Papio student who took own life.                                                                                                                                   

Prayers for Chernobyl’s M (Kelsey).                                                                                                                                                    

Prayers for Girl Dad’s daughter (Halle).                                                                                                                                              

COT:                                                                                                                                                              

Convoy talked about the Serenity Prayer and how it relates to his kids.  Have the patience to be calm, the courage to make change, and the wisdom to let go.  Can’t control everything in life and that’s ok!!