THE SCENE: 47* – in that window where you don’t know what to wear. But no rain so good to go
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Windmills x10 IC
Tempo lunge x10 IC
4 count merkins x10 IC
Tempo merkins x10 IC
SSH x20 IC
THA-THANG:
Pretty simple routine today, I know it’s probably done at every AO including Big Ball, but I hadn’t seen it come up in a bit so I decided it was time for the Marine Corps Short Card. We moseyed out of the fountain area and over to the Big Ball. Perform an exercise for the indicated number of reps, then sprint the stairs at BB to the top and back down before moving on to the next exercise. I did not deviate from the prescribed exercises:
- 30 merkins
- 30 squats
- 30 crunches (4 count)
- 10 burpees
- 10 windmills
- 30 merkins
- 30 mountain climbers (4 count)
- 30 flutter kicks (4 count)
- 10 burpees
- 10 cherry pickers
- 30 merkins
- 30 star jumps
- 30 supermans
- 10 burpees
- 10 chain breakers
- 30 merkins
- 30 lunges
- 30 hello Dolly’s (4 count)
- 10 burpees
- 10 trunk twists
- 3 sets of max dead hang pull ups, 10 second break in between each set
About halfway through the list, I called an audible and eliminated the stair runs in between exercises to allow everyone the chance to complete. Those that finished earlier moved to the side and knocked out ab exercises, people joined in as they completed the short card:
Oblique crunches led by Butterfly
Flutter kicks
V Ups led by Ariel
American hammers
Heels to heaven
Boat/canoe
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Nine strong including one FNG: Half Caff, Orkin, Ariel, Huffy (FNG), Driftwood, G6, Butterfly, Swanson, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust on the blade. It is not movement that destroys machinery, but friction.” –
Like usual, what I share is something that I need to hear and listen to more than I’m providing for anyone else. I just hope that I can listen and that it can help anyone else needing to hear it. I make things worse nearly always by worrying, worrying before I can even do anything about it. Worry does nothing to improve a situation. The best thing I can do is turn worry into action, find something to work on. If I can actually work on the problem at hand, it rarely is as bad as I worried about it being. If I can’t yet work towards that, I need to find something else to occupy and improve until the time comes.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Lady Junk, Magic Mic’s grandfather Ed, Passport and his M, Ariel’s grandmother, and Orkin as he travels oversees