Bringing in 2021 at #BuildUp Copy

5 pax met up for some EC (a great way to warm up on cold days, makes rolling into beatdown a little easier). Yhc was trying to think of a beatdown that’ll kick off #BuildUp for the year, and yhc wanted to incorporate 20-21 reps for each exercise.  Khakis offered the opportunity to q, and the answer should always be yes when given the opportunity to lead. Disclaimer given, Pledge of Allegiance, and off we go.

During disclaimer, yhc told the pax that we would be focusing on 20 & 21 reps, so we started of our warm-ups with:

• SSH – 50 IC (the moaning and whining started when yhc went past 20,21, & 42, but ended up at 50. It’s always great to switch things up, variety is a good thing.)
• Arm Circles – Fwd/Bck 10 IC/each

Thang

• Mosey to the roundabout at entrance for a Merkin Circle – Hands on curb, shift one position to the right, merkin.  Did 21-IC to the right, and 21-IC to the left. (this was quite a burner for yhc)
• Mosey to volleyball court intersection – here we did 21 reps of each exercise, from squats, jump squats, variety of core and merkins! We took turns going around the pax stating our mission statement, and core principles. It pays to know the mission & principles, 5 burpee award for wrong answers. Made it through most of the pax as Tonka started singing the mission statement, yet pax not paying attention. 5 burpee award! Great mumblechatter here, as it was fun watching pax whisper to one another trying to avoid burpees.
• Mosey to next intersection – here yhc went through 21 reps each of squats, core and merkins, EMPHASIZING the cadence commands. Then we took turns with pax leading out in different exercise, you call out the commands wrong, 5 burpee award! We went through several pax to make sure we get the commands correct.
• Mosey to next intersection where pax led out in different leg, core and merkin exercises.  Then we lined up at the tree line shoulder to shoulder facing the flag. Bear crawl to first tree, 5 merkins, next, 10…. all the way upt to 25 merkins! Again, Tonka does not like bearcrawls, says it’s “unrevoluntionary!”
• At the flag – yhc led out in Never Cross Dolly – pax ended up calling it the Samoan Sandwich!

COT – Prayer Requests

• Mayhem & Trohpy Wife dealing w/ COVID, so is his mother.
• Soft Shell’s friend out of ICU – dealing w/ COVID
• Footloose’s aunt has aggressive form of breast cancer
• Khaki’s friend’s mom had double vasectomy & COVID- pray for healing.
• Out nation!

Announcements

• You are missing out on Q Source if you haven’t joined! 4th St Parking Deck – 645 Sundays

Moleskin – 2021 has already hit like a ton of bricks for a lot of people! The beatdown today was challenging for yhc and hope it was too for the pax.  BLP is such a great site, if you haven’t had a chance to Q, please get up with our Site Q’s! So many options to get creative!