A typical disclaimer at F3 will advise PAX to modify as necessary. This morning, it was more like modify as suggested. What the PAX didn’t realize was that I had an elaborate plan to invigorate leadership by creating the perception of ineptitude. Boy did my plan work!
Warmarama
Michael Phelps, Hillbilly Squats, Windmill, Imperial Squat Walkers, Shoulder Touch Merkins, SSH
The Thang
Mosey’d back to the greenway and split into 2 groups.
Bataan Death Crawl- This is generally a Bear Crawl, but the PAX pointed out that most bikes at that hour would approach from behind. Out of an unbundance of caution, we modified to crawl bear in a line while the man in the rea did 5 burpees than ran to the front.
Flutters and Homer to Marge
Bataan Death Lunge- I conveniently neglect to specify the 5 count exercise for the man in the rear. You know, to invigorate their leadership. I attempted mental telepathy to see if we were all gelin, but we were just a bot off. One pax said Merkins. I had in mind more burpees, so we compromised to double pump burpees. lunge walk’d while man in the rear did 5 double pump burpees than ran to the front.
LBCs w/twist and single leg Homer to Marge
Circled up for Rings of Fire
- Low squat hold – 5 Squats each 2x
- Low plank hold – 5 Merkins
Bataan Death March- Bear Crawl and 5 Merkins
Pyramid of Pain – pax took turn counting
- 10 burpees
- 20 dry docks
- 30 LBC w/twist IC
- 40 squats
- 30 LBC w/twist IC
- 20 dry docks
- 10 burpees
At some point in the pyramid, Funyon decide to grace us with his presence. Seemed like a good reason for 10 Control Freak Burpos.
Back to the start and head faked the PAX into think I thought the time was up. Boy did I fool them! One pax called Mermaids, then we continued on our odyssey of leadership development.
Sprint, Merkins 2x. At this point the pax point put we were in a residential area and would need to count quietly. We modified to use a parking lot; that was ill advised for numerous reasons, so pax suggested heading back to the garage. See how I created space for their leadership yet again?
10 more Control Freak Burpos called by Funyon. You really should call Control Freak exercises. It’s like Simon Says. The pax will often get angry when they move when Simon didn’t say. The best part is when you call others to lead. They will certainly trip pax up. It seems that given half the chance, we all can be Control Freaks!
Sprint up the garage; first PAX in called/count some core.
Mosey’d back down with an increasing count of LL Cool Js (that’s a ling lung burpee tuck jump) at each turn.
I’m sure you’ll agree that feigning errors and mimicking incompetence is an effective leadership technic, but let’s just keep this to ourselves. I didn’t let the pax posting know it was all part of the plan.