18 men came out to Kevlar this brisk Friday morning to get their day off to a strong start. Hopefully everyone felt rewarded for escaping the fartsack. Since we’re nearly a week away from Christmas, I decided to use the trusty “12 days of Christmas” theme for a workout that would keep everyone moving. Here’s what it looked like…
After a brief disclaimer at 5:30 sharp, we started a mosey to the lacrosse field. In the parking lot we stopped at each island to do 10 merkins on the way. Then we circled up on the field for COP.
OK… we’re warm enough now. Let’s get to the main event.
12 Days of Christmas – we progressed through the days, with each set including the exercises from the previous days.
- One sprint across the field
- Two Turkish getups
- Three jump squats
- Four LBCs
- Five diamond merkins
- Six plank jacks
- Seven Rosalitas
- Eight low slow flutters
- Nine low slow squats
- Ten wide arm merkins
- Eleven Louganis
- Twelve burpees
We ended on the lacross field with a little Plank-o-rama…then ran back through the lower parking lot, again stopping at each island to do 5 burpees.
Next we picked a partner and line up at the bottom of the hill. Partner 1 does exercise while partner 2 scales the hill and returns. Repeat until target number of exercises achieved.
- 100 merkins
- 150 squats
- 50 WWII situps
- 50 burpees
Time to head back to the launch point. Had a little time for some Mary…
Finished.
Moleskin:
Good to see the men (and kids?) of Kevlar this morning. Some very young whipper-snappers out there this morning, often leading the way I might add!
The twelve days ended up being almost as much mental gymnastics as it was a physical workout. By the time we got to the high numbers, Horsehead was doing whatever the hell he wanted. Maybe I should have brought the giant Weinke back that I used at Skunk last week?
Sound off in the comments with any other colorful stories heard this morning!
Thanks for the opportunity to lead, and thanks Horse for taking us out in COT.
Few reminders:
- Pray for Bout Time’s 2 YO son Jennings as he goes through treatment for the leukemia discovered last week.
- Let’s reach out to some of the guys you haven’t seen for a while and try to pull them back into the gloom!
- Reach out to Faultline and Orange Whip to get on the Q list.
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