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Today at Sparta: Failure is the only option!

AO: #sparta

QIC: @Nano

The PAX: @El Niño, @Maj. Pain, @Gadget, @Zeus, @Infinity, @Monk

WarmUp: Side Straddle Hop, Windmills, Willy Mayes Haze, Michael Phelps, Cherry Pickers, Mountain Climbers

The Thang: The PAX got lined up on the goal line for a socially distanced set of exercises including:

  • Coupon Lung
  • Coupon Bench Press
  • Bonnie Blairs
  • Coupon Goblet Squats
  • Bent-over rows
  • Dumbbell Curls
  • Tricep Extension

All the PAX would start at the same time and go until someone hit their limit. At that point, the PAX together lined up along the sideline for a lap around the field. The lap included:

  • 50 yd shuffle left
  • 50 yd shuffle right
  • 50 yd backwards run
  • 50 yard shuffle left
  • and 50 yard shuffle right
  • All of this done Ricky-Bobby Style (forward sprints)

We then switch exercises and pressed on for one full round by everyone.

Mary: Dirty Dogs, Flutter Kicks, In Outs, Ring of fire, Big Boi Sit-ups, Superman’s

COT: Exercising to failure showed us that no one is always the strongest or always the weakest. The team worked together and pushed each other to keep going on.

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The Bricks of Sparta

AO: #sparta

QIC: @Obadiah

The PAX: @Hightower @Ashe @Derecho @El Nino @Zeus @PopFly

WarmUp: SSH, Don Quixote, Up/Down Dog, Rockets.

The Thang:
This exercise tracked with Nov 13 #monthlychallenge of 4 x 100 (4 exercises 100 times). 4 stops every 100 meters or so with the stop 4 two exercises (A & B). All but 4B included Nantucket paving stones.

Stop 1: 25 Arm raises with a paver in a squat
Stop 2: 12 or 13 single arm raise with a block, switch (24, 26, 26, 24)
Stop 3: 25 Highly contested murder bunny or forward gorilla walk. Brick in front of you and move it forward, scoot up, remain in squat. Not bear crawl position. Stop 4: A). 25 Chest flys with two blocks
B). Dying cockroach, glees, Bonnie Blair’s, merkin leg lift – until flys called time.

Mary: she didn’t make the trip.

Announcements: Shirts, turkey trot, beer ruck.

COT: Resiliency. Lots of talk on the value of building up a reserve. The Pilgrims planned for about a month on the Mayflower – it took 66 days and they showed up exhausted and starving and only about half made it through the first winter. Critical to fill the tank so you you can go the extra mile for you or someone else.