09/04/2021 - Iron Lion - Early Iron Lion – Too Many Thangs
AO: Iron Lion
When: 09/04/2021
PAX:
Number of Pax: 9
Pax Names: Cable Guy, Cage Free, Cousin Eddie, Face Plant, Nacho Libre, Overthrow, Sam Walton, Stuffed Crust,
DR Names: N/A
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names: Laimbeer (needs to be added)
QIC: Sputnik
Introduction
PRE-BLAST – EARLY IRON LION
Saturday, September 4, 2021
5:15 AM
I know what you’re thinking…it’s Saturday, it’s early, it’s a holiday weekend…
So what! We don’t get up for easy!!
Bring your and gloves. Time will be split between pavement and grass.
Drop your HC .
Arrived at 4:55 to setup cones and rewrote the exercises in chalk for Thang 1 because the rain had washed it away overnight. Drove to the flags and continued setup.
PAX began arriving at 5:05.
5:15 – a few PAX still rolling in, but we started anyway. Disclaimer stated.
Warm-O-Rama
Motivators from 7 – IC
Tappy Taps – 10 – IC
Good Mornings – 10 – IC
Put your coupons to the side and mosey to base of hill
The Thang
Thang 1
This is a race!
Count off by 2’s and divide into 2 teams.
A loop is set up around the hill with 5 cones, including 1 cone at the top of the hill. Each cone has an exercise taped to it or written on the ground. First team to complete three loops wins. Each team will start in the opposite direction. Losing team performs 10 Burpees. Winning team planks while losing team does Burpees.
Station 1 (base of hill) – Merkins; Station 2 – Monkey humpers, Station 3 (the stage) – Plank jacks, Station 4 – Squats, Station 5 (top of hill) – Burpees
1st loop – reps = 10; 2nd loop – reps = 15, 3rd loop – reps = 20
Mosey to football field. Line up single file on the closest goal line.
Thang 2 – All About the Benjamins
Perform 25 reps of each of the following exercises
Skaters, walking lunges, squats, walking lunges, mountain climbers, walking lungs
Mosey to the flags & do LBC’s until 6.
Recover, Recover
Circle of Trust
I was driving my 2.0 to his first fall baseball practice this past Tuesday. It was with a new coach and he didn’t know anyone on his team so I stressed on the drive to the practice that he needed to bring his “A” game because first impressions are really important. He’s also running cross country and had finished up that practice only about 2 hours earlier. He gave me all the excuses about being tired and why the best he could do was a “C” effort. I kept trying to pump him up, but felt like he wasn’t listening. I stayed to watch the practice and it was one of the best practices of his that I’ve watched! When we got back to the car I told him that he did a really good job. His response…”You told me I had to make a good first impression.” The takeaway from this story is that you always need to set a good example and push when necessary, whether it’s with your 2.0’s or co-workers because you never know when someone is actually listening and watching the example you’re setting.
Naked Man Moleskin
Thanks to Cousin Eddie for having my 6. Thanks to the PAX for coming out this morning. It was early and we’re back in the gloom as fall is just around the corner. Thanks to Nacho Libre for bringing the mumblechatter, for those of you that weren’t on Team 2, he had his “A” game on today.
And thanks to my M and 2.0’s for helping me with the setup last night.
A couple takeaways for myself…I still have too many Thangs planned. We never got to Thang 3 today. I need to do a better job on that part of my Q’s. Also, I need to get a good playlist set up for when we do stationary coupon work. I didn’t need it today because we didn’t get to Thang 3 and Nacho had me covered anyway, but still I can be better prepared.