Choose Your Adventure

DATE: 2021-05-27
AO: Highlands
Q: Jenner
PAX: Jag, Trolley, Toolbox, Katniss
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, WMH, Imperial Walkers, High Knees, Downward Dog, Carolina Dry Docks, Merkins, Cobra Kai

THE THANG: Choose Your Adventure is comprised of 3 exercises where you do 5 sets total so that you don’t have to do an exercise that you dislike or are already strong in.

Preview the exercises with the PAX:
1. Run around the field (no cutting corners)
2. Lunge walk across the field
3. Burpees x 20

Once previewed, PAX performs 5 sets any order they want OYO. When done, pick up the 6.

Mosey over to the center highway concrete benches for the next adventure preview and 5 sets OYO comprised of:

1. Box jumps x 15
2. Toe Taps in cadence x 15
3. Derkins x 15

Next, mosey over to the playground for a mini murph style adventure. This time, no preview, just 5 sets OYO comprised of:

1. Pull-ups x 150% of max
2. Merkins x 50
3. Air Squats x 70

Then, mosey to mid field circle and a change over to Pick your Poison, where two exercises are offered and PAX chooses the one they think they can do the fastest. Options were:

1. Big Boy Sit Up Ups x 10
2. LBCs x 50

The only one who chose Big Boy Sit Up Ups was YHC and Toolbox managed to finish first, then YHC, then the rest. Does that mean these were pretty evenly matched exercises?

MARY: Since Toolbox won Pick you Poison, he got to choose the first Mary, which was the Black Widow. Jag had some choice comments that were funny, but better suited if was called Praying Mantis instead.

Then on to Jag’s Freddie Mercuries and Katniss’ Plank Ring of Fire.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots of Memorial Day Weekend activities, Annapolis 10K, Bonethon, Murph, and Lake Burke picnic.

COT: We sometimes choose the activities we want to do that we are good at or sometimes activities that we are weak so we can improve. That’s what we did out here this morning and what we do everyday.

A quote from Cory House an online educator:

“Upward spiral: Sleep well -> exercise -> eat well -> focus at work -> optimistic attitude. One positive habit increases the chance of building another positive habit.”

Toolbox also added, “Don’t think that you shouldn’t sleep in or shouldn’t drink, instead think *I don’t sleep in* and *I don’t drink*. It better frames the habit.