YHC saw a note from Has Been on WhatsApp Monday night: “Calling all men of the Mount (Yeah you tower guys too). Come on out in the am to see what Biscuits has in store for us.” YHC had nothing in store, whoops, but had a giant wooden die from his last Q at the Tower that hadn’t gotten to visit the Mount yet. YHC threw the die and 10 logs in the back of his pickup, some printouts and poker chips in the front, and went to bed.
Tuesday morning went something like this: YHC prepared the workout in an adjacent parking before moseying to the flag. Probably should have arrived a little earlier, because it was 5:16am and 8 PAX were waiting on him. That makes 9 total; perfect…
Warm-up
- 35 Side-straddle Hops in cadence
- 10 Humpies in cadence
- 10 Little Arm Circles in cadence
- 10 Reverse Arm Circles in cadence
- 35 Butt Kickers in cadence
Dice and Chips
YHC explained the workout. Each PAX gets a log from the back of the truck. PAX divide into groups of 3. Each group starts at the dice station; each member rolls the die, adds up their total, and that number corresponds to the exercise station (a numbered parking space) they’ll drag their log to. Once they arrive at that station, they must perform the exercise. Each station has an exercise and a number of poker chips: every chip counts as five reps, so if there are 4 chips, each member performs 20 reps. Once the exercise is complete, the group removes one of the chips and takes it with them. The group finishes the round by completing a loop around the parking lot with log in tow until they reach the dice station and drops off the poker chip they acquired. Rinse and repeat!
The exercise stations:
- (nothing)
- (nothing)
- Burpees (starts with 4 poker chips, =20 reps, 1/216 probability)
- Peter Parkers (5 poker chips, 25 reps, 1/72 probability)
- Big Boy Sit-ups (6, 1/36 probability)
- Wide Arm Merkins (7, 5/108)
- American Hammers (8, 5/72)
- Mountain Climbers (9, 7/72)
- RBC’s (10, 25/216)
- LBC’s (11, 27/216)
- Lunges (11, 27/216)
- Squats (10, 25/216)
- Nolan Ryans (9, 7/72)
- Plank Jacks (8, 5/72)
- Star Jumps (7, 5/108)
- Hand Release Merkins (6, 1/36)
- Diamond Merkins (5, 1/72)
- No Surrenders (4, 1/216)
Against the odds, both Burpees and No Surrenders lost at least one poker chip during the workout.
With about 5 minutes to spare until 6am, PAX helped YHC return logs, die, remaining poker chips, and exercise printouts to his truck, and everyone moseyed back to the flag. Arriving there at 5:58am, YHC called Hollow Body Hold until just short of 6am.
WOD/COT
YHC shared a quote lifted from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship regarding the simplicity of the carefree life:
Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or Where-withal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first his king-dom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matt. 6.31-34)
Be not anxious! Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of all anxiety. If our hearts are set on them, our reward is an anxiety whose burden is intolerable. Anxiety creates its own treasures and they in turn beget further care. When we seek for security in possessions we are trying to drive out care with care, and the net result is the precise opposite of our anticipations. The fetters which bind us to our possessions prove to be cares themselves.
YHC prayed us out. SYITG!