Paradise and AMRAP have been having some great convergences for the past few months. The numbers have been great, the energy has been awesome, and it has been an all around good time. YHCs hope was today would be no different, and it turned out that the only way to put a minor hiccup in that would be an unreasonable amount of SSH (see warmup).
Being that Thanksgiving has two guarantees, football and turkey, and YHC couldn’t figure out how to work a turkey into the Q (without being wasteful) football was the plan. Plus some merkins and burpees, just because.
The Warmup
SSH x 101 IC (this seemed to get everyone a little sour as the mumble chatter was decidedly salty for several minutes after)
2 Minute Merkin Test – Max Merkins in 2 min. (Full disclosure YHC did not start the timer on time, the 2 minutes was an estimate, sorry boys.)
The Thang
All the PAX lined up at one end of the parking lot and had to do some math. Using the number each of us had for the Merkin test, we took a % of that number and did merkins, lunge walked to the third arrows, did that same amount of merkins and lunge walked back. This was done as a pyramid. It may have been a small pyramid, but it was a pyramid. Here is the full rundown:
25% of your max
Lunge walk to arrows
25% of your max
Lunge walk back
50% of your max
Lunge walk to arrows
50% of your max
Lunge walk back
25% of your max
Lunge walk to arrows
25% of your max
Lunge Walk back
Mosey to the field for some AMRAP football. What is AMRAP football you ask? Well, it is football played with a 9.25# football full of sand.
Rules were: Once a PAX has the ball they can move 2 steps, then have to pass. Every drop or change of possession meant 5 burpees for everyone. A score meant 5 burpees for the offense and 10 for the defense.
-Team 2 scored an early touchdown for a 7-0 lead. A huge amount of turnovers and drops lead to a lot of burpees.
-Team 1 flipped field position by picking up Germ when he had the ball and carrying him a good distance. After review this was upheld as GERM only took two steps, he was in the air the rest of the time.
-Eventually Rebar pulled a 2.5 step to even the game at 7. Shortly after that Green Acres was able to punch in a late touchdown to ice the game.
-The burpee total was high. Possessions were an average of about 30-45 seconds and there were 3 scores.
Mary
LBC – IC x 25
Flutter Kicks IC x 30 – The Rambler special
CoT:
Announcements:
-Belts and Backpacks. This is a great cause, gentleman. Donating belts and backpacks to allow those without to have gifts this Christmas. You can buy new and drop off, donate what you have around, or check out the Amazon shopping list and buy form there. Soybean has all the details should you need to coordinate a drop-off or have questions.
-First week of December is form week. The focus is on form, doing it right, not getting hurt, getting the most out of the movement. If you have the Q lets remember to take it slow, demonstrate proper form, correct with kindness if necessary.
-Zika has a phenomenal charity and they are working on doing a whole lot of good in a part of the world that needs it. Please look into this and if you are in a position to help and moved to do so, let Zika know.
-Harbaugh is still having the fundraiser to send WWII vets to Normandy for D-Day. Please keep in mind that those men are, in fact and without question, the greatest generation.
BoM:
As I was getting up around 0415 this morning and walking out of the house tired and sore I had a moment to think about what this same time of day on Thanksgiving looked like in my younger years. Thanksgiving Eve is, by far, the biggest party night of the year, and I made the most of it for a while. Not that long ago 0400 on Thanksgiving was stumbling into the house after a night of questionable decisions, now 0400 is stumbling out of the house for a morning of questionable decisions. How far I have come! And I wouldn’t trade it for a thing. I could not be happier to have gotten to a place where this is my 0400 on Thanksgiving.
That being said, lets take the time to think about where we are and where we were today. It is easy to pay lip service to the things we are thankful for on Thanksgiving. Maybe we jot a few things down quickly, or go around the table and name something. Today I ask all of you to spend some time reflecting on what you are thankful for. Take a few minutes out to identify that person and think specifically about how they have gotten you to where you are today and how that makes you a better man. If we spend time reflecting we can have a true appreciation and be truly thankful. We will be more likely to show this appreciation in a meaningful way.
As always I am grateful, and thankful to have the opportunity to lead you men. Iron sharpens iron.