Don’t Stop on 6

Don’t Stop on 6

The Intro

Cold morning at OPES as the Pax gathered for #F3Hydra after having last Thursday off for Thanksgiving. It was one of those mornings where guys sit in the cars until right up to kickoff. Yet still we waited on Gloss. After the disclaimer, off we went.

The Thang

Mosey around the back of the school to the opposite side parking lot for COP.

• IWs x 10IC
• Merkins x 10IC
• LSS x 10IC
• MCs x 10IC

Mosey across Rea to the church rock pile. Grab a rock you can handle for 25 reps. The routine was 25 reps of the called exercise with the rock, drop the rock, run around the church but stop at the corner of Edenbridge Lane and Rea for 25 merkins, keep running around the church back to where the rocks were and do called core exercise until the six arrived, then complete called core exercise x 10IC

• Round 1 – 25 curls, run, 25 merkins, run, LBCs x 10IC
• Round 2 – 25 squats, run, 25 merkins, run, Flutters x 10IC
• Round 3 – 25 presses, run, 25 merkins, run, Dollies x 10IC
• Round 4 – 25 lunges, run, 25 merkins, run, Freddie Mercuries x 10IC
• Round 5 – 25 tricep presses, run, 25 merkins, run, Toe Tap Crunches x 10IC
• Round 6 – 25 shoulder raises, run, 25 merkins, run, Backscratchers x 10IC
• Round 7 – 10 reps of each exercise above, run, 25 merkins, run, Burpees x 10OYO

After round 7, we returned the rocks and moseyed back to our COP parking lot for grinders. After a few minutes of grinders, we moseyed back to launch for quick finale.

• Merkins x 10IC
• LBCs x 10IC

Done. COT.

The Moleskine

Joshua 6:1-4;15-16 – Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed to go out or in. But the Lord said to Joshua, “I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors. You and your fighting men should march around the town once a day for six days. Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram’s horn. On the seventh day you are to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns. On the seventh day the Israelites got up at dawn and marched around the town as they had done before. But this time they went around the town seven times. The seventh time around, as the priests sounded the long blast on their horns, Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the town!

With the cold weather this morning, the goal was keep us working and moving as much as possible. Also wanted to get some lifting in. Seems we accomplished both, with minimal complaining and refuseniking, save the usual, of both,  from Gloss and Spack. Since we were in the church parking lot, after round 6 we had a little Bible story time about Joshua and Battle of Jericho. All the pax seemed to have paid attention as kids in Sunday School, as they all knew they marched around for a seventh time before the walls came down. Don’t stop on 6.

Great group of men at Hydra, as usual. Good to be back out there. After a Puddin/Gloss exchange (which is #NSFW), Sleepy noted he’d missed that kind of humor since he hadn’t posted in a couple of weeks. Hopper, Sprockets, Ironsides and One Eye went about this workout very business-like and with great integrity on the reps #MenOfHonor. Mailman did solid work and didn’t appear to be holding back for his VQ at #F3Centurion tomorrow. While some guys grabbed rocks they could handle for 250 reps, Queen grabbed one most could handle for 2.5 reps #LunkAlarm. Pretty sure Jet Fuel had his half-zip tech pullover tucked in. Marge was basking in the glow of 12-0 and 5 in a row…he just kept repeating that for 45 minutes. BOG doesn’t do push-ups, he does earth-downs…was maxing out on the merkins. Spack did curls for every round. Iron Horse failed to post after a late night HC on Twitter.

Thanks to Marge and Queen for the opportunity to Q, in spite of my hiatus due to running.

The Announcements

Christmas party this Saturday.