Warm-a-rama:
• 20 Side Shuffle Hops
• 10 Willie Mayes Hayes, IC
• 10 arm circles, IC – forward
• 10 arm circles, IC – backward
• 10 slow squats, IC
• 10 Michael Phelps, IC

The Thang:
America’s most important holiday, Arbor Day, is this Friday, and how better to celebrate it than by climbing some trees? And what’s the best way to climb a tree? On a ladder.
Six Arbor Day exercises in an ascending/descending ladder format, starting with one rep of each exercise and increasing by one rep each round until you reach 7 reps of each exercise. Repeat as you descend the ladder.
1. Tree Trunk Chops – Coupon in both hands over one shoulder. Chop it down diagonally across your body to your opposite hip. Repeat over other shoulder. Both sides = one rep.
2. Leaf Rakers – Coupon in both hands in front of your chest, bend at the waist, feet shoulder-width apart. Pull the block towards your chest, squeeze your shoulder blades together.
3. Lumberjacks – Plank jacks, IC
4. Branch Climber – Pull ups
5. Mushroom Hunters – Coupon in both hands, feet hip-width apart. Reach down, pick the ‘shroom, bring it up and taste it. AKA, do a deadlift into curl.
6. Stump Jumps – Stand in front of coupon, then jump up onto it with both feet. Jump back down and repeat.

Start with one rep of each exercise, then move immediately to two reps of each exercise, then three, and so on, until you reach 7 reps of each exercise. Following that, descend the ladder back down to one rep.

Mary:
“Line of Fire” plank hold. PAX hold a plank, shoulder-to-shoulder, while taking turns reciting transcendentalist quotes:
1. "I am the autumnal sun, / With autumn gales my race is run; / When will the hazel put forth its flowers, / Or the grape ripen under my bowers?" – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. "Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." – Henry David Thoreau
3. "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity…and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." – William Blake
6. "I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do." – John Muir
7. "Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. "The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. "It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. "I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines." – Henry David Thoreau
11. "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." – Henry David Thoreau
12. "He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair." – Henry David Thoreau
13. "I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence." – Henry David Thoreau
14. "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth." – Henry David Thoreau
15. "It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" – Henry David Thoreau
16. "The bluebird carries the sky on his back." – Henry David Thoreau
17. "The world is but a canvas to the imagination." – Henry David Thoreau
18. "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. "The earth laughs in flowers." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. "In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, no disgrace, no calamity, leaving me my eyes, which nature cannot take away from me, but with the same cheerfulness and wholeness I find in all creation." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. "To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. "Nature is a language, can't you read?" – Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…” ― Henry David Thoreau