It was a humid, muggy morning, the remnants of a quick storm that came through a couple hours early. The storm, which DeWater described as "frog strangling weather" was not done, as we soon found out.

YHC took a poll of the PAX to gauge interest in doing a traditional murph, or something with a little Pumpkin spice instead. We opted for the Pumpkin Spice version, and worked through the following, 1/2 dry, 1/2 in the thunderstorm (under cover of the school awning, thankfully).
Warmarama:
Side Shuffle Hop (20 IC), Imperial Walker (10 IC), Hillbillies (10 IC), LBACs (10 IC), Phelps (10 IC), Jack Taps – shoulder taps with a plank jack on a 4 count (10 IC)

We moseyed back to the playground to use the bars for a few pull up based exercises.

The Coach – Partner up into groups of 3. Partner 1 performs a pull up and holds in the up position while partner 2 takes on the role of the Coach. It's the Coach's responsibility to encourage P1 to give his best effort, to push through the pain, to do whatever it takes to stay in the up position while P3 sprints around the pickle (parking lot) one time. Upon P3's arrival P1 comes down from the pull up and gives P2 a high five for being a great coach. P1 will now sprint the pickle while P2, goes up on the bar. P3 is now the coach. This cycle continues until everyone has had a turn at all three positions.

We went through 2 full cycles before moseying over to the basketball courts for…
Colonel Trautman – Pair up and one partner runs 20 yards to the pull up bar and do 3 pull ups while the other partner does either 5 fingertip Merkins or 10 regular Merkins then hold Chillcutt for their partner to tell them to go and do their pull ups.

We went through 3 rounds of Colonel Trautman before taking a break from the bars for a round of Bolt 45s (The Colt 45s of legs. Begin with 15 squats full standing position down to halfway position and return. Then go from halfway down position to full squat position and return up to halfway position 15x. Finish off with 15 full squats or jump squats).

Then we went back to the bars for….
Jumping Jack Burpee Flash Pull Ups – Start with 20 Side Straddle Hops, quickly follow with 10 burps, quickly follow with 10 pull-ups. Rinse and Repeat. We broke off into pairs, so 2 PAX did SSH, 2 PAX did Burpees, 2 PAX did pull ups, and rotated until everyone did each exercise.

At this point it started thundering so we took operations over near the front entrance. After a quick set of dips on the benches, the rain really started coming down so we stayed in the comfy confines of the awning.

From here we did a humper circuit:
Hydraulic Humper – Added to a monkey humper or gorilla humper to increase the intensity of the burn in the legs. While at the nadir of the humper go down to the right knee, then the left knee, then back up in reverse, then complete the bumper.
Crab Humper – Like air humpers but in the crab walk position (hands and feet on ground, keeping 6 off ground, thrust hips up and down).
Monkey Humper – A half-squat performed while grabbing the inside of one's ankles. This restricts movement to a half-squat type exercise but increasing the burn.
Gorilla Humper – Like Monkey Humpers, only bigger! Stand with feet much wider than shoulder width, half-squat performed while grabbing the inside of your ankles. Still gets all of the burn, but it's significantly different than your normal monkey hump.
Speed Humper – 60 seconds straight of Monkey Humpers, as fast as possible. Preferably done in an area with multiple Speed Humps and with signs pointing out said Speed Humps as this is the perfect place to do them.

This was followed by a round of Merkin Mania – Do all exercises without rest: 5 Diamond Merkins, 5 Merkins, 5 Wide Arm Merkins, 5 Crucible Merkins, 5 Staggered Merkins 1 way, 5 Staggered Merkins the other way, 5 Tempo Merkins, 5 Hand Release Merkins.

Then I remembered the Humper exercise I forgot, which was:
Howling Monkey – In a circle, everyone grabs their ankles in Monkey Humper fashion (or Gorilla Humper, for the fearless) . The first person does ten monkey humpers followed by the next person and so on as in other "ring of fire" exercises. Don't let go of the ankles!
From here it was time for Mary:
Dying Cockroach/Dead Bug/Bed Bug – 4-count ab exercise done lying down that involves touching hand to opposite leg, back down, then other hand to opposite leg. (10 reps)
Cockroach Resurrected – 4-count ab exercise done lying down on your six and pulling your knees and arms to your chest, then rapidly extending arms and legs back out, then back in. Preferably done directly after the Dying Cockroach and with at least one extra rep. (10 reps).

COT – we took a moment to remember the people in our lives that lost theirs while in military service. PaperJam mentioned a High School friend, Nick Deiref, who passed away during their college years while serving, leaving behind a wife and young family.
Prayers for Zooks mom and her battle with cancer, Bright Idea's wife as she recovers from surgery, Crispr's wife as she recovers from surgery, and Yo-yo as he goes through a medical issue.