The Brave: Trick-or-Treat Edition

The Brave: Trick-or-Treat Edition

4 HIM emerged from the gloom for a Trick-or-Treat edition of The Brave. Spooky Friday edition with an emphasis on the # 13. Because you have to be afraid before you have the courage to be brave.

Warm Up: 13 SSH, 13 imperial walkers, 13 windmills (criticized heavily by Wild Turkey), 13 merkins (approved cautiously by Wild Turkey), 13 peter parkers, 13 LBCs

• Level 2: Calf Raises (13 x 2), Jump Squats (13 x 2)
• Level 3: Lunges (13 per leg), Monkey Humpers (13 x 2)
• Level 4: Low slow squats (13), Side squats (13)
• Mosey to Parking Deck #2

• Level 2: Burpees (13), Carolina dry docks (13)
• Level 3: Plankjacks (13 x 2), Shoulder Taps (13)
• Level 4: Diamond Merkins (13), Merkins (13)
• Mosey to putting green circle by Tuck’s office

Select four tricks/treats, 1 PAX runs the circle while remaining 3 complete the called exercise. Healthy dose of pushups, plankjacks, monkey humpers and dry docks.

Mosey to fountain by SPX building. 13 tricep dips, 13 derkins. 13 x 2 air presses while sitting on the wall. First visit to this building since getting chased away by building security, per Wingman. Mosey to Parking Deck #3

• Level 2: Imperial Walkers (13 x 2), Big boy situps (13)
• Level 3: Mountain Climbers (13), Heels to heaven (13)
• Level 4: Freddy Mercuries (13), Dying Cockroaches (13)
• Mosey back to launch

Log 4.96 miles by the end of the workout, who knew you could cover this much distance in a parking deck?

Moleskine

• Gotta say I was intimidated to Q this workout, struggling to incorporate a 4-mile run into a full body beatdown. My prior iterations would either be too run-heavy with little body work, or too bootcamp heavy with not enough of a run. I had to rely on a well-defined weinke (healthy dose of parking deck running) and the GPS watches present (everyone but me) to get the full 4 miles and more in.
• The Brave has become one of my favorite AOs. Because I know it will kick my ass. I’m not enough of a runner to breeze through the 4 miles. I’m not fit enough to breeze through the bootcamp. This workout continually pushes me towards my NMDE (Near-Maximum Daily Effort). But more than the fitness is the fellowship. Smaller groups means deeper conversation and opportunities to get to know other men in a deeper way. I want to help other PAX not be as intimidated to attend and experience similar joys.
• Thanks Wingman for the encouragement and wisdom this morning
• Shoutout to Tuck for keeping this site going, and identifying new men to step up to Q and Site Q

Announcements

• Tuck still needs volunteers and plastic tables for the #Makeshift Marathon
• Pray for peace, grace and justice during this election season. There will be a lot of chaos in the next week, but we have the opportunity to be ambassadors of peace in these moments.

SYITG,

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