Thrive Challenge 2.0… Well, maybe 1.1

Thrive Challenge 2.0… Well, maybe 1.1

Thrive means to grow, develop, flourish.
Well how do we know if we are thriving? We need to have a baseline to measure from and since I am a flawed human being at times I lost the original baseline #Cobains. So what to do… Do it again and this time put the results in the backblast!

This was a different F3 workout, no cadence, no COP, no Mary. This is you vs you to set a (new) baseline to compare back to at a future challenge.

It went something like this…
Perform exercise 1 using whatever time you need to still have the best form you can muster. Once complete you will run, walk or crawl a predefined lap around the perimeter of the parking lot which is about 1/3 of a mile.
Get back and complete exercise 2, do lap, etc.

Get through as much as you can until time is called. If you cheat or cut corners you are only hurting yourself and your baseline. I don’t care if it takes the whole time to get through one or two things, that will be the baseline you will work towards crushing the next time. For example, bend those elbows on a merkin, at the same time do the full rep, don’t race and “bounce” the merkins, etc.

Here was the list:
Mountain Climbers – 100 (count each leg as one)
Lap
Calf Raises – 150 (50 regular, 50 toes pointed in, 50 toes pointed out)
Lap
Merkins – 100 (25 wide, 25 regular, 25 narrow (elbows close also called “perfect”), 25 diamond)
Lap
Burpees – 50
Lap
Carolina Dry Docks – 100
Lap
LBCs – 100
Lap
Jump Squats – 100
Lap
Dollies – 200
Lap
Squats – 100
Lap
Rock Hoppers – 100
Lap
Russian Twists (American Hammer) – 100
Lap
Burpees – 100
Lap
Burpees – 200

This was tough, as a challenge should be, and this group of PAX did an awesome job! Seriously proud of this group of guys.

Here are the results for each guy:

Nomad- 150 dollys
Houdini- 50 jump squats
Hoffa-  100 dollys
Shake n Bake- finished jump squats
Bonhoeffer- 42 jump squats
Arsenal- finished jump squats
Christmas- 150 dollys
Gypsy- about to start dollys
Glass Joe- finished dollys
Winger- finished dollys
Shepherd- 2/3 lap after dolly
Orbit- 3/4 lap after dolly
Bullwinkle- 1/2 lap after dry docks
Killowatt- 70 dry docks
Hair Band- finished jump squats.

Awesome work guys!

Announcements:
Gypsy has his VQ tomorrow at Conviction

New running AO testing interest meeting at Socrates Academy on Weddington Rd at 0515 Thursday.
Which, I looked and is not in Union County, I submit for consideration Antioch Elementary Or Austin Village(Harris Teeter) if you want to keep the general area but be in UC. Even Sun Valley 14 shopping center could be good for a running AO, big empty parking lot at that time of the morning.

An honor to lead as always!

Aye!

Hair Band