12 gentlemen came to the Maul to help celebrate my 1 year anniversary. I decided to bring back some of my favorite exercises over the past year. Add in a weight plate and you have yourself one tough morning.
THE THANG
Mosey to Firebirds and circle up
– SSH
– 10 Burpees OYO
– IWS
– 10 Burpees OYO
– Reverse Lunge
– 9 Burpees OYO (since Philmont was being so positive)
Short mosey around the corner to The Pole of Pain. Pieces of paper tape to the light post with different exercises written on them. A 35 lb weight leaning up against the pole.
Pax circle up, person 1 selects a paper and reads out the exercise. Pax in the circle perform said exercise while person 1 burns hair down to the second island and back(uphill).
EXERCISES (as much as I can recall)
Burpees (crowd pleaser)
Turkish Get Ups
Jump Tucks
Merkin Jacks
Merkins
Shoulder Tap Merkins (Long Haul new Fav)
Man Maker Merkins (crowd pleaser)
Arm Circles, thought it would be a nice break but it burned the shoulders
CCD
High Knees
High Knees Arms raised
Squats
MTN Climbers
Peter Parker
A few other terrible things that I can’t recall
Chipotle and Haggis kept hoping for Mary exercises to be read off but there were none to be found.
Mosey back home for Mary
– Flutta
– Dolley
– LBCS
– Mason Twists
MOLESKIN
Oh what fun we had today. The Pax grumbling started during warm up when YHC called for Burpees. Haggis in particular seemed to not be a fan of Burpees as a warm up.
The first sight of the Pole of Pain was greeted with inquisitive looks and plenty of mumble chatter. Once the PAX learned hair burners were involved they knew it was going to suck. We basically stayed in a circle the whole time and tried to knock out as many of the said exercises while our brother was doing their best to push the weight plate down and up a hill. Strong work by everyone out there today. It was not easy.
As for my first year completed in F3, I want to say thanks to Hops for bringing me into this crazy group of guys. Thanks also to the first site Qs who encouraged me to become a leader,
Tiger Rag, Joker and Dora. To the SOBS, yes we are out every morning strengthening our bodies, but more importantly we are strengthening our souls through fellowship and encouragement of each other. When I started F3 I hoped I would get a good workout in every morning, and I definitely have gotten that. I had no idea I would receive a whole lot of more. I look forward to seeing familiar faces in the gloom, talking about their lives, families and what’s new in their life. Hearing about their struggles and their accomplishments.(award show music starts to play telling me to wrap this speech up) It’s a great feeling to have a group of brothers behind you in this walk we take.
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