A warm up of five or six exercises performed at a quick cadence began our work together…

Set one – 10 x :30 of bear crawls with a 'recovery' of 8 to 12 merkins performed in the next :30. Ten minutes in full.

Set two- A brief position paper on how it can sometimes be difficult to acknowledge publicly that you're good at something was introduced by YHC – leaning towards humility is in fact a good practice. That said, we challenged ourselves not to be humble and instead get uncomfortable, as 16 PAX were asked to rank themselves as 'best here at doing burpees' to 'worst here at doing burpees'. Equal credit to the men who put themselves at either end of the line. Pairs were quickly formed – our two top-ranked burpee artists forming the first pair and so on down the line. Our three or four strongest burpee pairs each split 120 reps as quickly as they could, our pairs in the middle 100 reps, and our pairs less skilled in the way of the burpee 80 reps. Credit to all and every pair finished at nearly the same time, which was cool. And guys were rolling.

Set three – 10 x :30 of crabwalk with a 'recovery' of 8 jump squats performed in the next :30. Kinda meh, wouldn't use the particular combination again. Ten minutes in full.

Brief Mary – a single round of flutter kicks.

COT: Job changes are sometimes related to circumstances outside of our control – credit to the PAX that stepped forward to share that he'd recently been laid off and we were all glad he was there contributing within the group this morning!