BOMBS and Burpee Roulette

Skipper asked me to cover him since he was heading up to Williamsport to cheer on our Greenville LL All Stars……how could I refuse that?  Plus it gave me some accountability to get up and make a Monday morning prayer group before the #Breakdown (Tremendous job Charlie Brown). I got busy with back to school supplies and cleaning the house, and before I knew it, I was in bed with pen and paper figuring out what YHC could do for my Q.

Warm Up

In honor of the 15 wins that the GLL team had during their All Star run we did:

Good Mornings  x15

SSH   x15

Don Qixotes   x15

And in honor of Floyd Mayweather’s win Saturday night, which I watched at Tater’s house (Thanks for the hospitality Tater! )

Floyd Mayweathers  x10  each arm

“Follow me” as we ran to the softball field and lined up along the left field foul line

The Thang

What does everyone enjoy doing in baseball?  Hitting BOMBS!  The most memorable to me was Ashton Byars’ HR vs Mexico because his Dad got to see it. His Dad, Jeff, had delayed open heart surgery because he did not want to miss seeing his son play in the LLWS……so how cool that must have been for him for Ashton to GO YARD !

Everyone partnered up, and did the following exercises with partner running to centerfield fence and back. Alternating.

• B      Balls to the Wall      No count. Just hold BTW until your partner returns and then alternate. Rinse and repeat.
• O      X’s and O’s       100
• M      Merkins             150
• B       Box Cutters       200           I would say this is where it really started to suck; YHC was told this must have sounded great on the couch…..I admitted I was in bed at the time!
• S       Squats              250

PAX did Wall Sits and Plank O Rama for the six.  Then ran back to the shovel flag.

YHC then pulled out a cornhole board and set it up in the middle of the circle. Received feedback from Pied Piper on distance from shovel flags to cornhole boards to be close to regulation distance to throw bags!  Rules were explained:

Each man would get 1 toss to the board.

• If the bag missed the board…….3 Burpees for the group.
• If the bag landed on the board…………only 2 Burpees for the group.
• If the bag went in the hole……..only 1 Burpee for the group!

YHC demonstrated for the PAX and believe it or not, managed to miss the board…….land on the board……..and throw one in the hole…….to everyone’s amazement !  Mayhem is everywhere !

As the Burpee Roulette began, so did the mumblechatter !  We went all the way around until all 25 PAX members had thrown. I estimate that 75% missed the board completely.  Not sure how many burpees we did, but Grammar suggested we call this exercise “Burpees ’til 6:15”.  He was close!

We finished up and had 2 minutes to burn!  We did a few Mary exercises, although I forget what they were. San Fran took the last one with SSH in a really slow cadence that rung in 6:15.

Count O Rama and Name O Rama

Prayer Request

Baseball team safe travels back home

First day of school

Announcements

Washington Expansion went well. 32 PAX total……….12 of which were FNG’s !  Pied Piper, Duff, and Jock Itch rucked beforehand.  Skipper has the Q this Saturday at Washington Waterfront from 7-8am. Be there if you can to support this expansion effort. Give it away!

Moleskin

I really enjoyed this beatdown. It was put together at the last minute, and I had wanted to do BOMBS for a while……but wanted to have some core emphasis, hence the Balls to the Wall,  X’s and O’s, and Box Cutters. I really thought Shrimp would attend……he had promised to do a Burpee for every run allowed by our All Stars and that got me thinking about the Burpees (which I hate).  When I think of Shrimp, I think of cornhole…….hence the Cornhole Roulette!  Maybe we should enter this on the F3 app as an official exercise?  We will definitely see it again, so practice your cornhole this football season! Grammar shared with me that quite often he came into the gloom and knew the layout well enough he would just fly by the seat of his pants!  Professional right there!  Until we meet again.

Mayhem