2 arrived early for EC Murph training.
13 PAX assembled for the main event.
Warm up:
- SSH
- WMH
- Arm Circles
- Slow Merkins
- Hillbillies
- Good Mornings
- Free Stretch (with review of the 5 principles of an F3 workout)
Main Event:
Mosey down to the field to start our game.
Today’s Q was inspired by Laurel and Hardy’s “The Music Box”. Watching Laurel and Hardy is a tradition in the Malware house. In this one, which won an Academy Award in the 1930s, Stan and Ollie work together to move a piano to the top of the stairs but encounter a few obstacles along the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s4nVg_W_6Y
Two teams, two bases, two goals, 8 tokens (Red and Blue)
Team bases are about 20 yards apart, at the base of a flight of stairs.
Team goals are at the top of the opposing team’s flight of stairs.
Each team starts with 4 tokens ranging from 3 – 10 pounds in their base.
Winner is the first team to get 3 of these tokens into their team’s goal.
Red Goal Blue Goal
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Blue Base————Red Base
One runner from each team on the course at any given time. That runner can either move one of his team’s tokens forward or move one of the opposing team’s tokens backwards. Tokens can only be moved one segment per turn. So you can move them either up/down the stairs or across the baseline, not both in the same turn. After making his single move, each player tags out with a teammate and the next team member’s turn starts.
PAX not on the course would cycle through exercises changing every time a turn was complete.
In theory, that is what happened. The game has potential, but would probably benefit from a couple tweaks to the rules and equipment. Hit me up with any suggestions.
I think we ended up with a tie. 1 game blue, 1 game red, and 1 game tied.
Exercises:
Game 1
Squats
WW2s
Drydocks
Game 2
Jump Lunges
Wide Merkins
LBCs
Game 3
All Burpees
Mary:
50 Flutters
Announcements:
THE PIRANHA IS HERE!! Tomorrow morning 05:30 at Parkwood Elementary.
COT:
F3’s mission is to invigorate male community leadership, but that is not always obvious. Our workouts are, perhaps, our primary tool. But someone walking by a group of guys doing push-ups in a parking lot would probably not see ours as a leadership development organization. Yet our shared experience tells us that it really is. This thought, along with some wise words from Nightshift, has caused YHC to think a lot about leadership for the past week. Knowing that leadership can take on many forms, I have made it my goal to witness the leadership of those around me. If you look for leadership in a situation, you will always find it in one form or another. Some leadership is good; some is bad; some lead from the shadows; some follow from the front. YHC ended our workout with a recommendation that we all witness the leadership around us to encourage it where possible and guide it where needed.