THE SCENE: Perfect. Low 60s and plenty o’ sun!
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WARM-O-RAMA:
– 20 SSH (4ct, IC)
– 20 Moroccan Nightclubs (4 ct, IC)
– 10 Windmills (4 ct, IC)
– 10 Tempo squats
– 10 Grady Corns (4 ct, IC)
-Leg Stretches
THA-THANG:
We repeated some of the exercise stations from CSAUP so that the guys who missed could experience it a bit, and to recreate the nightmare for those that did attend. 🙂
MOSEY to Area 51
PRISON YARD (AREA 51)
OBJECTIVE: Your adventures have gotten off to an inauspicious beginning. You have been charged with a crime! You must serve your punishment by doing hard labor.
- Do 10 PRISONER GET UPS in the parking lot
- BEAR CRAWL to Wall of building, do 10 PRISONER CELL MERKIN BURPEES (PCMBs).
- EL CAPITAN back to parking lot. RINSE AND REPEAT.
MOSEY to Gravel Parking Lot
ENDURANCE TRAINING
OBJECTIVE: After that short little mosey, I can hear you panting like a She-Dragon in Labor! You are already out of breath, and you call yourself a HIM?? To achieve ultimate HIM-dom, you must train to IMPROVE YOUR ENDURANCE!
Do a SEABISCUIT! Run one lap around the parking lot (staying outside of the cones) and then do:
- 10 Merkins
- 20 Big Boy Situps
- 30 Squats
Run TWO laps, Repeat the exercises
Run THREE laps, Repeat the exercises
Mosey to AO, stopping twice to do some American Hammers and LBCs.
PRINCESS’S TOWER (SPACE NEEDLE)
OBJECTIVE: You must rescue the princess trapped in the Tower, but first you must slay the dragon that guards her!
EXERCISES:
- Do a WELSH DRAGON*
SAVE the Princess! RUN to top of tower (Space Needle), do 20 SQUATS at each turn of the stairs. Touch the picture of the princess and return to bottom.
MARY:
No time for good ol’ Mary.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 plus two dogs plus one 2.0, plus one ex Nan’taan
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be lived!
- John Eldredge, Wild at Heart.
When I was young I read every Choose Your Own Adventure book I could get my hands on. For a kid who had a very active imagination, but was also constrained by little things like school, chores, going to Grandma’s house every Sunday, “rules”, avoiding getting beat up by a big brother, and on and on…. I usually didn’t get to live out those wild dreams that were always in my head. And being a scrawny little runt who was always the smallest kid in class and in our neighborhood gang, I was far from looking the part of the noble hero or the brave adventurer. The books were a wonderful diversion. You could pretend you were a swashbuckling pirate on the high seas, an astronaut on a far-away planet, a wizard infiltrating the castle of frost giants, or a treasure hunter looking for a lost artifact in a distant land. And the books made you feel like you had a little bit of control, but in the end, you usually died anyway. Kind of like what happened in CSAUP. 😉 But then as you grow up, you gradually start to lose a bit of that magic. Life gets in the way. Bills, jobs, responsibilities. Like little Jackie Paper, painted wings and giants rings make way for other toys. And one day it happens… and you stop frolicking with a magic dragon in a land called Honnalee.
But every once in awhile, it’s great to revisit those places of imagination and dreams. And that’s why I loved helping to create the CSAUP story line. Yeah, I got to torture all of you guys who participated… but it was fun to bring just a little bit of magic and adventure to a morning that was completely stupid and utterly pointless. I hope you all enjoyed it too. And if you missed it… Take a visit back to Honnalee. pick up one of your old Choose Your Own Adventure books and go through it again. But every time you slay the dragon of save the princess, or find the treasure… you owe me 20 burpees!
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Ukraine, CRISPR’s work environment, Pusher’s daughter’s band trip to Florida
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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