While the Reynolds’ clan was away today and trending on Twitter with the end of their Holden Beach 2017 family vacation week, the Battle PAX served up another devious Dealer’s Choice full of the typical MAD one-upmanship that left us wondering what had just happened after a full hour of pain and breathlessness. Here’s what was trending at Battle…
Conditions – mid 70s, but not that bad with a little breeze and cloud cover at times
The Thang
F3 teaching point – don’t show up to a Dealer’s Choice workout where the AOQ is away on vacation and ask who is in charge…
Misfire
Grab the bricks for an opening COP
25 curls
25 presses
25 curl presses
25 thrusters
Sprint to the 1st speed bump on the road in between the school and the softball field and then back to the bricks (~100 yards total)
Collar
Mosey to brand new artificial turf football field to christen it for Battle
Indian Run – start at goal line at the near corner of the end zone, run down goal line, R turn, up sideline 5 yards, R turn, run down 5 yard line, L turn, run 5 yards, L turn, run down 10 yard line, etc, snaking all the way down every 5 yards, all the way across the 50 and to the other 25 yard line
Rosingbagger
150 4ct flutter kicks IC #definitecrowdpleaser #rosinbeast
10 burpees
Ronda
Mosey to back of far end zone
Bear crawl 60 yards to midfield
Sprint 60 yards to back of other end zone
Reverse bear crawl 60 yards to midfield #crowdpleaser
Sprint 60 yards to back of starting end zone
Hustler
25 5-yard gorilla slides (side to side with hands on the ground 5 yards, back and forth, 25 times)
25 alternating jump touches
20 frog burpees (end burpee in squat position without jumping up at the top)
At this point, the hip flexors and upper legs were on life support because of Collar, Ronda, and Hustler. Now its time to work the shoulders and triceps with Chop Shop and Billy Bob…
Chop Shop
15 Side straddle merkins (5 side straddle hops, 1 merkin, 5 SSHs, 2 merkins, 5 SSHs, 3 merkins, etc up to 15 merkins)
Billy Bob
Knuckle work planks (high plank on knuckles, low push up hold 15 secs, L arm up, starfish, R arm up, starfish)
5 good knuckle merkins
Sprint to bricks
No fingers brick work (curls, front arm raises, presses)
10 quality knuckle merkins
The rest of the arms and upper body needed work so Hawg obliged with…
Hawg
Sprint to Battle Loop
401 PAX pull-ups (looking at you Splinter)
Do heel tap crunches when not 1 of 3 people doing pull-ups
50 big boy sit-ups
Eldrick (limited time)
BLIMPS (5 burpees, 10 lunges each leg, 15 imperial walkers, 20 merkins, 25 plank jacks, 30 squats)
Misty (limited time, 1st Q of any sort at F3)
25 iron cross
We needed to kill 2 more mins so we left the Battle Loop, sprinted up Falcon Dr all the way to Forest (#nailinthecoffin), and then back down Falcon, to the bricks, put them up, and then to COT
Fringe benefit of leading this Dealer’s Choice was making sure we didn’t run around with bricks for 30 mins (looking at you Welcome Week) or do side straddle hops for 30 mins (looking at you Hustler). Mission accomplished!
Announcements/Prayers
Prayers to Rocky from F3 Greenwood and his wife Heather and son Trace. Rocky has been battling pancreatic cancer for several months and just had to move into hospice this week.
Battle/Mission double down Sat 7/29.
BOM – Billy Bob