The Big House – Today’s Episode: Teaching Ourselves to Step Up and Lead…or…Costanza is 90% close to being renamed

The Big House – Today’s Episode: Teaching Ourselves to Step Up and Lead…or…Costanza is 90% close to being renamed

18 PAX who stayed in town for the Labor Day holiday got an extended Special Edition of The Big House, with 60 minutes of solid effort and anywhere from 3.3 – 3.5 miles for a Tour of Pineville.

Many PAX were unfamiliar with The Big House as an AO, so YHC and Private Benjamin, the outstanding Site-Qs that we are, decided to give them a proper welcome with a tour of Jack Hughes Park as well as Pineville Lake Park. A very special welcome to all the men of Basecamp for joining us, and posting their shovel flag alongside ours.

PB gave a thorough and proper disclaimer before we did a quick loop around the rear baseball field for

COP:
SSHx15
Tempo Merks x10
Abe Vigodas x10 (slow windmills)
Cotton Pickers x10

CDDs x15

Then off we went for
THE THANG

First up? Circut Work. Check out the signage conspicuously placed in all sections, including the one in big bold letters saying “ASCENDING TESTICLES”…the kids will love that one when they show up for practice.

1. First Parking lot entrance – 20 Burpees oyo
2. First baseball dugout walls – Ascending testes for 7 derkins at 15 degrees, 7 derkins at 45 degrees, and then 7 derkins with BTTW
3. Pseudo Park Entrance – 40 Merkins
4. Park Walkway Intersection nr apartments – 25 lunges each leg
5. Bridge – 40 Plank Jacks
6. Jump ups & dips near the back concession stand

We were about 20 mins in at that point.

Okay, time for shovel flags to be picked up, hoisted, and get the PAX mobilized for a run back to Pineville Lake Park. Standing Rule: Everyone must carry one of the shovel flags, but you cannot pass it on to someone…they need to step up and take it. #LeadershipTraining #Initiative #Hashtag

Run ~1.0 miles back to Lake Park, everyone grab a curling rock.
10 bicep curls OYO, hold a squat for 30 seconds w/rock in hand
Drop the rock, hold 6 inches for 30 seconds
15 bicep curls OYO, hold a squat for 30 seconds w/rock in hand
Drop the rock, run up to top of Dumpster Hill (sort of like Bunker Hill, but no one dies)
Back down for 20 bicep curls OYO, do 15 squats w/rock in hand

Next up? Get on your six.
All 18 PAX call 10 reps of your favorite ab exercise. Learned what a sandy V is. Thanks, Kid Rock.

Return your rock to the EXACT place you found it, grab a shovel flag if you see it, and let’s mosey back to the launch point.

With 60 seconds to spare, McGee insisted on burpees until you finish it out.

FIN

COT / Moleskin

GREAT WORK, men. To so many of you…welcome to the Big House. We hope you enjoyed your stay this Labor Day weekend.
Great to see so many faces from other AOs.

Costanza – good sport, sir. I never put it together, but thanks to McGee for the suggested plotline for “The Parent Trap, Pt 3”.

It was an honor to lead. PB and DF out.

Announcements
F3 Golf, 10/27.  Check for updates but plan on being there.
Speed for Need races coming up:
– Isabella Santos 5k in Ballantyne, September 30th.
– Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k in Uptown CLT, October 7th.