Tour of Italy

The Tour of Italy

Warm up

Began with some arm stretches and had to do a group burpee since Mr. Hyman was late. Moved on to a warm up exercise with 25 x Side straddle hops.

Partnered up and mosey’d to the first stop on our tour, Gate 9. Here we started with the partner assisted Wheelbarrow Merkin with partner Leg Squat. While one is in the starting position, their partner assists by elevating their feet to perform a Durkin. On the down command, they both lower themselves. One does a Durkin while their partner does a leg squat. We tried 25 of those just for fun.  Then switched to give the other HIM a try. The group recovered with 25 Side Straddle Hops.

Partnered again and mosey’d to the school playground. Here we did 2 sets of pull ups x 10 and American Hammers x 10 (four count = one)

Got back on our tour and mosey’d to the bus stop within the parking lot. The pax began to get grumpy so a set of 25 x partner assisted leg throws were in order, then switch. What really got the pax grumbling was the next event which was the partner assisted squats. You held unto your partner’s arms and lowered yourselves down at the same time. We did this while deeply gazing into each other’s eyes…It was beautiful.

The tour continued on to the stairs, were one partner did 20 Merkins, while the other ran up and down the stairs. We did 5 sets to ensure that we got our 100 Merkins for the day.

The bus left on a hurry over to the tennis court where we used the slight incline to perform partner assisted (Inclined) WWII’s. A set of 25 repetitions really got the Pax mumbling!

We mosey’d again, this time next to the ladies gym where no one could do a correct 10 count… So we did lunges until we reached the yield sign. This event was cut short so that we could mosey over to the wall!

The final stop on our little Tour of Italy ended with one set of Chicken Chasers (BTW with mountain climbers, followed by overhead arm claps, immediately followed by little circles.

We ended the thang with a quick lower body stretch session.

Intent:

My intent for the tour was to highlight to the PAX all of the great areas available to do our thang for the next HIM that will do their VQ at the site. Regardless of who steps up, they will have a wide option of opportunity to bring a beatdown on the pax’s!

Prayers:

The Hot Spot’s healing for his knee.

The healing of this community.

FNG: We were able to welcome Jordan Barnes AKA: Spam. He’s visiting family from Hawai’i where he is stationed with the Army. He’s Megaphone’s 2.0.

Announcements:

Today marks YHC’s first day as #FirstAid’s new AOQ! I want to thank Noonan for his support and for allowing me to follow in his footsteps. I appreciate all the encouragement and the emotional support that I have received from brothers like: Tonka, who headlocked me in. NoIDeer, who gave me the motivation to keep at it when I was just starting. Slim Jim, for demonstrating leadership. Cold cut, for pushing me further. Little Mermaid, for allowing me to grow at his site. and Fruity Pebbles, for being a great HIM. I apologize if I failed to mention others who have been a part of this journey, but I have been made better by all of those whom I’ve met in F3. I am truly thankful for the opportunity to be a part of this brotherhood and will do my best to not leave others where we find them.

-Italian Stallion