Warm up:  25 x SSH (IC); 20 x imperial walkers, 30 x merkins; 10 x LBC (IC) apparently YHC was a little amped for his boot camp VQ so given the quality of counting the SSH and LBC were more ICish than actual IC

The Thang:  After scouting #thejag online YHC spotted a baseball diamond and lead to a baseball themed Q.  I wanted to challenge the PAX this morning and there is nothing more challenging in baseball than hitting for the cycle.  Since 1876 only 319 people have done it, an average of about 2 per season.

Bad news:  Unfortunately, the fog and gray skies made the ball diamond a little too gloomy so the workout had to be quickly modified for parking lot use.  

Good news:  Instead of a 60 foot baseline we’d be using 180 foot parking lot for the exercise.  Triple the fun!

Single: Traveling burpee’s to the other end of the parking lot

Double:  Lunge walk one length of the parking lot 20 WWIIs then lunge walk back

Triple:  Hardest part of the cycle to hit nothing fancy only way you’re going to get a triple is to leg it out.  AYG three lengths of the parking lot.

Homerun:  Backwards crab walk to first (half the parking lot) 10 x merkins; bear crawl to second (second half of the parking lot) 10 x typewriter merkins; forward crab walk to third (halfway back the parking lot) 10 x shoulder tap merkins; crawl bear home.

Mosey to the playground for two stations of AMRAP pull ups x 2 while the other PAX plank.

Mosey to the soccer field for some defensive drills.  Throw a tennis ball, first one to the tennis ball throws it and calls out the next method of travel:

Lunge walk, squat walk, karaoke, bear crawl and traveling burpees.

Mosey back to the parking lot to celebrate our accomplishments Wisconsin style (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_Around) alternating SSH and Jump Squats to House of Pain’s Jump Around.

Mary:  Flutter kick x 20 (IC), box cutters x 20 (IC),  Merkin wave: jump merkins x 2, fast merkin wave, slow merkin wave, the corpse pose

Announcements:  

RG3 has a 3rd F opp with CEF (Chatham Education Foundation). We need to move boxes from Briar Chapel to Horton Middle School.  The books will ultimately be distributed throughout the county for those in need.  Hit him up for details.

COT/BOM:  

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.  –Albert Einstein

We are fortunate individuals, being born middle class in America puts among the luckiest people on the Earth, easily in the top 1% worldwide.  To be men of value we have plenty of giving to do, so go out into the world and try to always be giving back to our families, our co-workers, our friends and our communities.  Aye!

Post ME announcement:  Inspired to give?  This was posted by @rambler including how to give to Jerome Gonzalez’s family.  https://www.tapinto.net/towns/somerville/articles/somerville-grieves-over-death-of-jerome-gonzalez