THE SCENE: Great weather if you’re a duck. A beasty duck: 46*F, negligible cloud-lightning, and puddly.
AO: The easternmost (Wednesday) AO – The Levee
QIC: Granola
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
ISW 20xIC
Frog walk
Duck walk
Bodybuilders 20xIC
SSH 105xIC (planned to only do 100, but there was too much excitement and hope welling up to stop there)
25 Burpees OYO to pair PAX up according to fitness level.
THA-THANG:
Partners raced each other to each lightpost and performed prescribed exercise: winner completed 10x, loser completed 20x. Loser counts off each race. Last group might have 3 PAX if odd number of PAX. Each lightpole roughly 100ft apart.
0. Partner up
Race: Bear Crawl
1. Bodybuilders (1=1)
Race: Run Backwards
2. Tuck Jumps (1=1)
Race: Broadjump Burpees
3. Lunges (2=1)
Race: Frog Walk
4. Mountain Climbers (2=1)
Race: Crab Walk
5. Imperial Squat Walkers (2=1)
Race: Lunges
6. Merkins (1=1)
Race: Duck Walk
7. Squats (1=1)
Race: Crawl Bear
8. Side Straddle Hop (2=1)
Race: Sprint
9. Picnic Table Box Jumps (1=1)
Go back and compete against the 6
Crossfit Open 18.2 – Ascending Picnic Table Squat & Burpee ladder to 10.
Race back through all of the waypoints. Once you get to the cones, sprint all the way back to the 6 and compete against the last group until we all complete together. 1 winner. Many losers.
MARY:
Bear crawl inchworm from 0 to STARTEX
Plank
Side Plank
High Plank
Mountain Climbers
Flutterkicks
Plank Toe Taps
Shoulder Taps
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
12 BEASTS: Halpert, Woody, Kudzu, Steinbrenner, Mr. Wonderful, Shichon, Raven, Black Diamond, Moneybags, Park Bench, Captain Obvious, Granola
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Though trendy to crap on new year’s goals and resolutions, anything worth doing or having will require deliberate effort.
DON’T share your goals with unbeastly, loserly, lazy sad clowns, because their worthless praise (i.e. WOW! You’re going to run a marathon? You’re going to work out in THAT kind of weather? I could never wake up at 5AM! You’re so tough, etc) will make you feel like you’ve already accomplished your goal and detract from your actual progress and motivation.
DO share your goals with people who already push themselves to be better–with those who won’t be impressed by your goals, but will actually hold you accountable.
MOLESKIN:
I was very honored to have been invited to Q during The Levee’s BEASTWEEK. I wasn’t quite sure how to Q a BEASTWEEK-worthy workout. The best (beast?) idea I could come up with was to have have PAX of similar fitness levels challenge each other in a series of races.
T-Claps to the men of AO Blue Collar for beta testing this Q.
Strong counting and enthusiasm throughout.
Halpert said he sweated.
Captain Obvious wanted a different partner.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BEASTWEEK continues Friday. Who’s on Q? Nobody knows. But it’s probably Slots.
