Snow Angels or Sweat Angels

Snow Angels or Sweat Angels

It was a pretty warm morning today at around 59 degrees, so it was a perfect day for making Sweat Angels all over the pavement at Marvin Ridge.  So that’s what we did.

Warm up:

Short mosey to circle up and do SSH, hillbilly walkers, plank jacks, and a few stretches.

Then we split into two groups by partnering up with someone of equal speed and then rock paper scissors, winners on one team, losers on the other.  But I assured everyone not to worry because we are all winners.

I had two lines of cones set up with exercises and reps on each, one line for each team.  We did a suicide race as teams.  The cones had merkins, heels to heaven, speed skaters and smurph jacks, 20 of each.  Each time you ran back to the base line you did one burpee, and you had to bear crawl to the first cone.  After each round the winning and losing team had different exercises to do as a reward, the crowd favorite was the snow angels or sweat angels, whichever name you like better.  3 rounds of this routine was enough, smurph jacks really suck!

Then we mosied around the school stopping half way to do a set of Aiken Legs while the 6 caught up:  20 reps each of squats, bobby hurleys, speed skaters and lunges.  Then we mosied over to the middle school entrance where we did a round of the Motivator, in honor of Posse who introduced us to this a few weeks ago.

Motivator is great:  you start at whatever number you want, we started at 8, so we did 8 SSH, 8 Seal jacks, 8 no arm jacks, 8 skier jacks, then go to 7 of each, all the way down to 1 or each.  It takes some special coordination to keep up with this one as we all count together and it moves pretty fast.  Shop Dog showed off his dancing skills with some fancy footwork while Ice 9 harkened back to his childhood days of jump rope for hours and hours.  It was fun, just not for the calves.

Then we mosied around to the back of the middle school where I had some more surprises waiting.  We did a routing of 5 burpees, 10 merkins, 20 step ups, 20 dips, 20 bonnie blairs, then we mosied back to the front of the school for 3 rounds of Mary:  Snow Angels, Austrailian Snow Angels, and Heels to Heaven.  Everyone took a moment to admire their snow/sweat angel, then we were off.

Mosey to back of middle school and repeat the routine:  legs were definitely feeling it.

Mosey towards the finish line stopping half way for more Mary called out by various pax.  Shake-n-bake called out flutter kicks and cadence counted them up to 40, it was brutal as we thought he’d go on forever.  He even came early for a pre-run, that guy’s a beast!

Final mosey and then jail break to COT.  It was good to be done!