Friendly Competition

Friendly Competition

10 PAX posted for Outland on a beautiful 69 degree morning for some competitive team events at Sun Valley Middle School.  YHC loves this AO as there is so much ground and an unlimited number of things to do to cause some pain.  My plan was to inject some team competition with a series of work stations.  The losing team at each station would pay a penalty of 10 burpees.  As usual, this sounded good in my head, but didn’t play out as well in reality…

The warm-up:

• Quick lap around the parking lot
• 20 SSH IC
• 10 Merkins IC
• 20 Mountain Climbers IC
• Calf Stretching
• Jimmy Dugans (Potato pickers that avoid the clap – thank you @Moneyball)

The Thang:

• Pick Teams
  • 2 laps around the parking lot w/ exercises at each end
    • 10 merkins at far end
    • 10 squats at near end
  • Teams determined by order of completion
• Station 1
  • Mosey to benches
  • 30 bench hops burpees
  • Fastest team wins (early finishers can pick up burpees from the 6)
  • Finish was too close to call a winner
  • Quick 10 count
• Station 2
  • Mosey to bus line
  • 13 buses – 5 merkins + 5 squats at each
  • Fastest team wins (early finishers can pick up burpees from the 6)
  • Team 1 wins
  • Team 2 = 10 burpee penalty
• Station 3
  • Mosey to swing set
  • 5 stations / 20 reps each  (pull ups / incline swing merkins / American Hammers / Squats / Merkins)
  • All team members must rotate to complete all 5 stations
  • Fastest team wins (early finishers can pick up burpees from the 6)
  • Team 2 wins
  • Team 1 = 10 burpee penalty
• Station 4
  • Mosey to road behind school
  • Run distance of 6 lights / 10 jump squats at each light
  • Fastest team wins (early finishers can pick up burpees from the 6)
  • This is where the competition went off the rails as some members were crossing teams making it impossible to pick a winning team – thus negating the burpee penalty.  I’m not sure if this was coincidence or clever strategy by the PAX to end the burpee train…
  • Quick 10 count
• Station 4
  • Mosey to dirt path leading to football field
  • Partner with someone of similar size
  • Partner carry to football field (alternate as needed)
• Station 5
  • Team 1 = Mary
  • Team 2 = push the blocking sled across the football field
  • This was Q fail 2 as the sled deemed to be much more of a challenge than anticipated (up hill) – Audible called to mid-way across
  • Switch
• Station 6
  • Mosey back to parking lot
  • Parking lot suicides
• Finish with 2 min of Mary

The PAX did a great job today.  I had my doubts when I saw Stacks (almost 12) and Shoeless Joe Jackson (14) pull up with Double E, but they proved me wrong and crushed the entire workout – Respect!!

Thank you for the opportunity to lead a great group of men this morning.