ao-the-bullpen The Friday After

Date: 2024-12-27
AO: ao-the-bullpen
Q: Peloton
PAX: Peloton, Pullout (from Richmond)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP:
– SSH Hops
– Willie Mays Hayes
– Imperial Walkers
THE THANG:
Mosey to Field #4
– Lunge walk to foul pole – 5 burpees
– Mosey to other foul pole – 5 Burpees
– Lunge walk to home plate

Mosey to Field #6
– Bear crawl to first base
– Crab walk to second base – 5 burpees
– Crawl bear to third base
– Backward crab to home – 5 burpees

Mosey to Field #3
– Karaoke to foul pole – 5 burpees
– Mosey to other foul pole – 5 burpees
– Karaoke to home plate

Mosey to Field #5
– Bunny hop to first base
– Duck walk to second – 5 burpees
– Bunny hop to third base
– Duck walk to home plate – 5 burpees

Mosey to Field #2
– Penetration step to first base
– Reverse lunge to second base – 5 burpees
– Penetration step to third base
– Reverse lunge – 5 burpees

MARY:
Captain Thors – 5 count

COT:
Man in the Glass

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
and the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
and see what that man has to say

For it isn’t your father or mother or wife
whose judgment upon you must pass
The one whose verdict counts most in your life
is staring back from the glass

You may be like Jack Horner and chisel a plum
and think your a wonderful guy
But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum
if you can’t look him straight in the eye

He’s the fellow to please never mind all the rest
for he’s with you clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most dangerous difficult test
if the man in the glass is your friend

You may fool the whole world down the pathway years
and get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
if you’ve cheated the man in the glass.

Tags: ao-the-bullpen, Peloton, Pullout (from Richmond)

theaerie Let’s get moving and Grovin

Date: 2024-12-27
AO: theaerie
Q: Lonestar
PAX: Trifecta
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP:
Side straddle hops
Michael Phelps
Imperial walkers
Picking cherries
10 yd Frankenstein
10 yd high knees
THE THANG:
Set of 10 thrusters, 10 curls, 10 skull crushers moving down the field.

Mosey

3 Set of 10 merkins & 10 jump squats

Mosey

Murder bunnies stopping at every 5 yd line and doing plank jacks with yardage (5, 10, 15 etc). Down to 30 and back MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
I won’t be there New Year’s Day (Wednesday). Off unless someone wants to lead COT:
Our past failures don’t define us

Tags: theaerie, Trifecta

acropolis 12 days of merkin Christmas

Date: 2024-12-23
AO: acropolis
Q: Crop Duster
PAX: Peanuts, NOAA, Doodles, Sunny, Crop Duster
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: ssh, wgs, Michael Phelps
THE THANG: mosey around the campus , didn12 days of Merkin Christmas MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: wreath cleanup
COT: What brings you joy? – we all said what brought us joy yesterday

Tags: acropolis, Peanuts, NOAA, Doodles, Sunny, Crop Duster

oldmansoccer Futbol on ice

Date: 2024-12-24
AO: oldmansoccer
Q: citrus , Megatron, Breach
PAX: Disco, Defiance, Chris, 2.0 Vernon, 2.0 Sebastian
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Soccer in the freezing rain. Defiance called the challenge too early, then proceeded with Disco to lose two in a row to citrus Megatron and Breach. Winners get the Q. If I messed up the names, please modify backblast as necessary! Merry Christmas everyone and see you out there in the new year.

Tags: oldmansoccer, Disco, Defiance, Chris, 2.0 Vernon, 2.0 Sebastian

thefarm The 12 Days of Christmas

Date: 2024-12-24
AO: thefarm
Q: Infinity
PAX: F-No, Lumbergh
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WarmUp: SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Willy Mays Hayes, Beet Pickers, World’s Greatest Stretch, and mosey.

The Thang: Twelve Days Of Christmas!
Do the following exercises starting with just 1 for the first round, and then 2 and 1, then 3, 2, and1, etc for each following round until we get to 12. After each round, sprint 30m out and back. 1 Squat-Reverse Lunge each leg (A partridge in a pear tree) 2 Carolina Dry Docks (Two turtle doves)
3 Break Dancers (Three french hens)
4 Burpees (Four calling birds)
5 SSHs (Five gold rings)
6 Copperhead Squats (Six geese a-laying)
7 Supermans (Seven swans a-swimming)
8 Bonnie Blairs (Eight maids a-milking)
9 Rockettes (Nine ladies dancing) ghb.
10 Jump Squats (Ten lords a-leaping)
11 Typewriter Merkins (Eleven pipers piping)
12 Toy Soldiers (Twelve drummers drumming)

CoT:
The story of Job from the Old Testament in the Bible: At the beginning of the story, Job loses everything—his wealth, children, and health. Here is his response: “Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” (Job 1:20-21)

Job provides good perspective here: we all came into the world with nothing and we will all leave this world with nothing. Everything we enjoy in life is temporary—death is not an “if” but a “when” and we don’t take anything with us. Even before death, the present circumstances of our lives are temporary. The key is to be grateful for the jobs, health, and possessions we have while we have them. And being grateful fortifies us against the time when we will lose these things.

Tags: thefarm, F-No, Lumbergh