Normally, I’ve been pretty good about putting Q’s on my calendar and setting up a reminder two days prior to make sure I can prepare. With all of the holiday festivities, this one got by me. Good thing Finkle was doing his job as a Site Q and sent me a message yesterday asking if I was good, if I needed anything from him and making sure I would get a preblast out. In the days of old, my palms would immediately get sweaty and the anxiety would go from a 1 to 11. But now, since your Bird is all grow’d up, I have a wealth of material to pull from and several playlists in the queue. The feelings of anxiousness are now replaced by the excitement. And…I get to lay one down just a second day into the New Year. LFG!!
It’s always a site to behold when you get to the AO 5 minutes prior with hardly anyone there and slowly (sometimes not so slowly), PAX roll in one by one. To my surprise, we would have 12 others join me in answering the call and denying the fartsack in an effort to set the tone for the day to come.
The PAX: Sump Pump (R), Duff, Russdiculous, Handbook, Dinghy, Nan Moore, Agent Utah, Section 8, Finkle, Masse’, Flo Jo, Brisket, BigBird (Q)
We only have a quick 45 minutes to use up and I wanted to make sure that each of them counted on this day. After all, the PAX showed up for a workout and I wanted to make sure that they didn’t get up for easy. After the disclaimer was given, we would do a quick mosey around and to the tennis courts. Once there, we would line up on the out of bounds line to shake the cold out and do some down and backs. Mosey to and fro, high knee out, butt kicker back, Karaoke out, mosey back, lunge walk out mosey back, “all you got” out and mosey back (r & r on the sprints). Recover and circle up for some COP. Did most of the usual with some 4 count merkins and Plank Jacks added in. Learned that Sump Pump doesn’t like to get too close to Finkle and would declare an excuse on this morning. Concluded our stretching and setup the Tailgator for…
Tabata: 20 seconds on and 10 seconds off for 8 rounds to the tune of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck. Traveling merkins and Mountain Climbers would be the work. Recover with a couple of 10 counts before getting into…
The Thang: Ladder work starting from the out of bounds line. 5 burpees, mosey down and back. 5 burpees, 10 jump squats, mosey down and back. 5 burpees, 10 jump squats, 15 merkins, mosey down and back. 5 burpees, 10 jump squats, 15 merkins, 20 jump lunges, mosey down and back. Once you did that, climb back down the ladder. Recover and head to the restrooms (notice I said to the restrooms and not into the restrooms. Not sure what workouts you O boys are usually “exposed” to) for…
The Final Thang: A Jack Webb of 1 box jump to 4 dips. We would get to 9 and 36 before 0615 was already upon us, triceps on fire.
Circled up around the flag for COR (count o rama), NOR (name o rama) & COT (circle of Trust). Sump Pump welcomed Nan Moore back out to the gloom and I got to put a face to Agent Utah’s name. We made some announcements and lifted up our intentions (notably for Dinghy’s grandmother and Finkle’s uncle).
As we closed out I felt inspired to get up on a soapbox. Leaders Lead and now more than ever, we need men to think about how they can share their gifts and be the next generation in our region to elevate us to that next level. It starts by showing up and showing out, motivating each other digging in deep when the work gets hard and pushing ourselves beyond what’s comfortable. It’s already a new year and no better time to set the tone for what you hope to achieve than now, day by day but one day at a time. If you haven’t already make goals for yourself. Put pen to paper and write them down. Look at them often and accept nothing less than execution.
Here’s to all of the possibilities this next year holds! Love you’s guys!
Until next time…
BigBird
F3 Louisville 