PAXsutawney Phil pays a visit to the Peak!

PAXsutawney Phil pays a visit to the Peak!

Groundhogs are not usually indigenous at such high altitudes… but given the festivities of a day such as Groundhog’s Day… the excitement couldn’t be contained!!  27 bleary-eyed PAX shunned the comforts of their beds to join in the festivities… and after a sincere disclaimer, here is how it went down:

The Thang

Mosey to bus parking lot for COP:

SSH x20
Merkins x10
Low Slow Squat x20
Imperial Walker x20
Mountain Climbers x15
Miscellaneous Planking

Mosey to playground, and line up in two STRAIGHT lines behind Beaver and Sensei…. the Principal of Matthews Elementary would have suspended everyone of you… but I digress.

Partner with the hog across from you.  With your partner, do:

1.  P1 Planks, P2 crawls under P1, does a jump squat, then crawls back under, and does a jump squat on the other side… etc… for 10 jump squats… then flapjack.  And since it is Groundhog’s Day… rinse and repeat!
2. P1 Planks, P2 does 10 decline merkins on P1’s back… flapjack… rinse and repeat!

Mosey to the bus parking lot for some grinders… not the sandwiches… the exercises!  Split up into teams/groups of 5 x 5… again some were math-challenged by the advanced calculations… but I don’t think we lost anyone!  Next time we will allow calculators!
P1 – LBC’s
P2 – Step-ups
P3 – Incline Merkins
P4 – Dips
P5 – Runner from P1 to P2… then P2 runs and P5 does step-ups…
Everyone did every exercise 2 times… because it’s Groundhog’s Day 2/2!!! Get it??

Mosey back to parking lot… are we done?  Are we circling up??
No… YHC disclaimed again, and we mosey’d back to the bus parking lot for a COP replay (only we ran out of time… )
SSH x20
Merkins x10
Low Slow Squats x20

Out of time!!  Back to parking lot for COT.

Moleskine
Ok… parts were lame… I wanted to have a little fun with Groundhog’s Day… which is one of my all-time favorite movies.  Hopefully everyone got a good full-body workout, and as I always like to demonstrate… it doesn’t take a gym membership to get a good workout.  Just some good exercises and all of sudden you’ve worked out for 45-minutes!

I also really like the partner exercises like the over/under stuff… that was highlighted by the Sonny and Cher rendition of “I Got You Babe”, played twice for total annoyance maximization!

Great to have Elrod back out with us from his premier last week!  Great stuff out there!!  Keep coming back!

Also great to have Sheldon join us on loan from Columbia, and One Man Band, who was christened in Greenville.  OMB also gets t-claps for running in/out from down the street near the baseball fields.  Very strong!  Come join us for the pre-run!!

Great to have a few other new faces… Bonhoffer and Beaver… you guys aren’t regulars, but AWESOME to have you join us!

Kotters to Lamont!

Geraldo gets props for bringing the ruck, then expertly transferring it to Smokey midway through the workout!

Announcements
1.  Sign-up to Q… see Sensei or Booyah
2.  Sign-up for BRR in September… see Slim Fast
3.  Ronald McDonald House volunteer activity over President’s Day weekend
4.  Richard Shelter run April 29.

Pele let us know that his wife is 2 years cancer-free today!  Amen!  Thanks for the take out prayer from Little Mike!