40 Burpees at Asylum



40 Burpees at Asylum

Two weeks ago, I let the Asylum pax know during announcements that I was Q’ing (in two weeks) and I was going to give them the ability to change the wienkie.  There were going to be 100 burpees on that Wienkie.  If we had at least 1 FNG – 30 burpees gone.  1 Kotters – 30 burpees gone.  1 – Site FNG – 30 burpees gone.  And if Posse showed up on time – 10 burpees gone.  As you see from the title, we did 40 burpees.

 

I arrive about 4 minutes ahead of launch and to my gleeful shock, I see a lot more bodies than normal.  I get out of the car and Mayhem makes a v line towards me….except its not Mayhem.  The guy has on a bandana (do rag?), and eye patch, and a fake mustache and proceeds to introduce himself as Panama Jack – an FNG.   Sorry Mayhem, doesn’t count.  But good, no, great try.

Brutus introduces me to My Space.  His second workout.  Not an FNG but will count towards the site fng so 30 burpees gone.

I see Honeycomb.  He says he has been to Asylum before but not in a long time.  Some pax try to get him to count towards a kotters but I just saw him in pictures last week so nope!

I’m about to start DiCCS when we see Ditka rolling up on two wheels.  “Hey Ditka, when was the last time you posted”.   Ditka: “October?”.   There’s our kotters.  30 more burpees down.  (Scuba was also a site FNG).

I start DiCCS and still no Posse.  Chastain asks for clarification if it was that he had to be here at launch, pre DiCCS, what?   Technically I told him before I started DiCCS, but at this point I’d take launch.

Burpee Recap

30 for no FNGS

30 for no Kotters

30 for no Site FNG’s

10 for no Posse on time.

So we have 40 burpees to do.

5:15.  Lets go.

 

WARM UP

10 burpees a minute for 3 minutes.  This shut everyone up pretty quick – me included.

Mosey to Target Parking Lot.

 

THE THANG

Teams of 3.   P1 splitting 100 Turkish get ups.  Partner 2 at the other end of Target parking lot splitting 300 crab dips.  P3 runner.

Team up (2).  P1 does supines.  P2 runs to retaining wall, climb up it, mosey around and down and back to the shopping cart corral.  We did this twice.  Some chose taller portions of the wall than others, but most everyone was eye level or higher.

Mosey to the corner of the lot for some square sprints.  Go 50% down one stretch, make a turn for 70% run, make a turn for all you got, then walk or slow mosey back to start to complete the square.  We did this 4 times.  Flanders attempted to fool me after our third time running saying we had already one four.  Chastain and I wondering where Posse might be.  Chastain said he bet Posse went to another workout location 30 minutes away just to spite us.  Posse must have heard us talking about him because he came wallowing up in despair running up using the ole AM/PM excuse.

Mosey to another corner of Target and grab teams of 3 again.  P1: Merkins.  P2 Squats.  P3: inch worms towards squats and bear crawl towards Merkins.  We did three rounds.

Short mosey to the gate near pet smart (the gate is still on the old day light savings time).  Jail break to COT.

About a minute and a half left.  Time to knock out Posse’s 10 burpees.  For those who finished early, squats until time was called.

 

MOLESKIN

  • Chatter Box dropped a joke on Sugar Daddy that had me rolling.  It wasn’t that great of a joke, but more about Chatter coming out of the box to drop it.  As we chop it down from the last jail break, Chatter Box comes over to sugar daddy and says “Hey Sugar, your loosing your sugar.  You left some Gummy Bears back there”.  Apparently there was a pack of Gummy Bears that we ran by.
  • Still laughing about Mayhem coming dressed up trying to pass himself off as an FNG.  Panama Jack at that.  Great job.
    • The Original Panama Jack, Redwood City, CA logo
  • Brutus pulling a site FNG out on only his second post.  Nice work.
  • None of my guys I was EH’ing showed.  I was trying to pull in two Kotters and a site FNG.
  • I didn’t think of this but should have added a Site Kotters.  Some new faces back out to Asylum that had been before.  Welcome back Honeycomb, Sugar Daddy, Chatter Box, Schnitzel, Chastain, and Radar.
  • The mileage was higher than I expected considering we didn’t really leave Target (we got 2.7 miles).  Several guys were overheard stating they were at their upper level of exertion measurements according to their watch – those four square sprints were the culprit.
  • Thanks to everyone that supported this Q.  My goal was do something a little different to help drive the winter regulars to get the winter fartsacker’s out of the bed.  In addition, I wanted to drive more people towards Asylum since the Cuthbertson workouts tend to attract 90% of the pax – to the point that we are going to soon launch a 4th site now on Mondays in yet another attempt to break up the numbers there.
    • While there were no FNG’s today, there were plenty of guys that were reached out to.  I also appreciate the effort and EH’ing that went into trying to get these guys out.  They likely need this more than they realize and its often a month or so in before they realize what they were missing.  The weather is getting warmer.  Lets all make it a point to EH some kotters and FNG’s.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • March 29th CPR Class.  Five Stones.  6:00 – 8:00.  Get with Surge to sign up.  Cost is $15.
  • Christ Closet furniture give away this Saturday.  Spread the word.

 

Q SOURCE EXTREME OWNERSHIP

  • Mayhem led 6 other guys (Posse, Honeycomb, SCUBA, Sledge, Sugar Daddy, and myself) through the 9th chapter – Leading up and Down the chain of command.
  • Mayhem brought SCUBA out specifically to assist with this chapter.  SCUBA a formal Seal (though I’ve been told once a seal, always a seal), sprinkled in some additional stories from his time with the Seals.  A 26 year veteran, there were a lot of stories and I feel we only scratched the surface.  I appreciate SCUBA’s willingness to come out and share with us some lessons learned and how they applied to this weeks chapter on leading up and down.  I’m hoping we can talk him into coming back out.  SCUBA did some training with Jocko but did not personally know Lief – the second author of Extreme Ownership.
  • Next week Shop leads Chapter 10 – Decisiveness and Uncertainty.

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