13 (or so) PAX showed up for the kick-off of YHC’s brainchild, a PAX-2.0 co-workout to occur periodically on Saturday mornings in the idyllic setting of Briar Chapel’s Great Lawn, or for today’s purposes, the Crypt. Several intrepid PAX helped Rambler inaugurate Base Camp, the new Rucking AO now occurring every Saturday morning from 6:00-8:00. The weather was cool initially, but the sun warmed us up quickly. YHC noted some trepidatious 2.0’s rubbing their eyes and shivering in anticipation of their first beatdown. The dads came for fitness and 2.0 fellowship; the kids wanted fun and if YHC didn’t bring it, this would be a short-lived experiment.
Let’s get to it.
Warm Up
SSH (“evil Jack-in-the-Box’s) IC x 15
Smurf jacks (“evil smurf Jack-in-the-Box’s) IC x 15
Forward arm circles IC x 10, followed by reverse arm circles IC x 10
Merkin IC x 5 (“inverted tomb escapers”)
WW II IC x 10 (“zombie risings”)
Air Squats IC x 15 (“zombie stretches”)
The Thang
#1 Dora 1-2-3:
Dad and 2.0’s partner up. Alternate running to distant cone while partner(s) do 50 Merkins/100 WW II’s/150 air squats. 2.0’s work as a unit.
#2 Relay race, PAX vs 2.0’s
Crab (“Spider”) walk to cone #1, Bear (“Werewolf”) Crawl to cone #2, walking (“Zombie”) lunge to cone #3, then Crazy Zombie Run back. PAX travel farther distances between cones, and like good dads, lost to the 2.0’s in subtle fashion.
#3 Werewolf chase
Single “Werewolf” (YHC) Bear Crawls within a large area trying to tag the PAX and 2.0’s who are Crab (“Spider”) walking. All tagged “Spiders” become “Werewolves”. Game over when everyone is tagged – last Spider is winner. Repeated this game x 1 since fun for everyone.
Mary
Funny face “Ring of Fire”
Are you kidding, with all the names we had to give today?!
COT
Announcements:
Congrats to “Base Camp” Rucking AO getting off the ground, THIS MORNING!
Name-o-rama
2.0’s barely survived this part, but good names were given and this part will be fun in the future
BOM
Never got this far, predictably. Would have said something along the lines of…
Welcome 2.0’s. Your fathers have been enjoying this F3 fellowship and find the 3F’s invigorating and uplifting, and wanted to share this part of their lives with you. The ideals of keeping one’s body strong, reaffirming one’s commitment to a common goal, and to the community at large, are ones your father wants to instill in all of you. As men who value these goals, we leave each workout with a commitment to carry forth the physical and emotional strength we gain from F3 to become better fathers, sons, husbands, colleagues, citizens, etc. I challenge all of the newly-christened 2.0’s to become better children, siblings, students, and citizens as well.
Until we next meet in the gloom, Aye, and Happy Halloween!