Vegas Sidewalk Stroll

YHC noticed that few, in any, workouts made much use of the Mount’s extensive sidewalk system, typically opting for the various roads, parking lots, and lawns strewn about the AO like Legos after a sibling scuffle (talking about FLOTUS, not my 2.0’s). With sidewalks as the focus, YHC printed out a few exercises and threw in a slew of poker chips to bring a bit of Vegas to the Mount.

Warm-up

16 PAX show up. It’s 5:15, so YHC welcomes everyone to the Mount. In honor of Flex Seal, the original Q for this morning, I started with Good Mornings in cadence…

1. 7 Good Mornings
2. 20 Side-straddle Hops
3. 10 LACs
4. 10 RACs
5. 20 High Knees

And then we mosey… …about 20 feet to the sidewalk.

Vegas Sidewalk

YHC set up 10 stations along the entry road sidewalk loop:

1. Lunges
2. Merkins
3. Squats
4. Big Boy Sit-ups
5. Plank Jack’s
6. Diamond Merkins
7. No Surrenders
8. Leg Lifts
9. Wide-arm Merkins
10. Mountain Climbers

YHC led the first cycle around the loop: each station sported a single poker chip, which represented 5 reps. After completing the 10th and final station, the PAX were introduced to a box full of more poker chips. Each one takes one for their next lap, and as they make their way through the stations they must choose one to add their chip to, bumping its rep count up by 5 for everyone. Next lap, take another, and so on.

With 16 PAX making the loop, reps increased quickly. About 15 minutes until 6am, YHC changed up the rules to clean things up for workout completion: instead of dropping one poker chip at one station, PAX now pulled up two chips from any station and returned them to the box.

With 2 or 3 minutes to spare, everyone finishes up the final lap and mosey back to the flag.

COT

After the count-o-rama / name-o-rama, one announcement: Hildebran AO starting up October 7th, 5:30am, be there!

YHC shared an excerpt from The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had to leave home and work to follow him, or it may be a death like Luther’s, who had to leave the monastery and go out into the world. But it is the same death every time-death in Jesus Christ, the death of the old man at his call. Jesus’ summons to the rich young man was calling him to die, because only the man who is dead to his own will can follow Christ. In fact every command of Jesus is a call to die, with all our affections and lusts. But we do not want to die, and therefore Jesus Christ and his call are necessarily our death as well as our life. The call to discipleship, the baptism in the name of Jesus Christ means both death and life. The call of Christ, his baptism, sets the Christian in the middle of the daily arena against sin and the devil. Every day he encounters new temptations, and every day he must suffer anew for Jesus Christ’s sake.