Date: 2024-10-05
AO: ao-eagles-nest
Q: Wax On
PAX: Wreck-it Ralph, Squash (Donn Hines), Howie, Watermelon Wings, Wheelie, Slice, Strat, Broccoli, Budget, Audit, Corn Stock (Garth), Copper Top, Water Boy, Power Bait, Buckshot, Dolittle, Common Core FNGs: 1 Common Core
COUNT: 18
WARMUP:
Let the pax take turns leading about half a dozen stretchy things.
THE THANG:
In honor of the 100th year of Toastmasters, today we flexed our brains a little. Pax was tasked with answering a question with a 45 second answer. This requires the ability to think and speak at the same time. One of the things Toastmasters teaches is how to not use filler words. Today we worked on that lesson by doing one penalty burpee for every “Uh” uttered by the speaker. Once they finished their speech, and the penalty burpees were compete, the speaker selected a workout card from the HIIT workout deck and we completed that move as many times as possible for 45 seconds.
Total penalty burpees, 33. Not to shabby gentlemen. I honestly expected that to be way higher.
Questions included things like; “What have you accomplished that you’re proud of in the last year?”, “How do you deal with depression and isolation?”, “If I gave you $1000 to spend today, what would you do with it?”, “What are the primary components of a happy life?”, and “If you could live forever, would you and why?”
Most people did very well with this mental exercise. Copper Top woke up and chose violence and intentionally ummed his way to 7 bonus burpees.
The workout moves drawn from the deck were; Sliding Planks, Squat Jumps, Twisting Squat Jumps, Circle Kicks, Burpees!, Alternating Runner’s Lunges, Leg Scissors with a Twist, Sliding Planks (the deck has duplicates), Leg Raises, Scorpions, Power Jacks, Clapping Merkins, Frog Planks, Bridge Kicks, and a few more that didn’t get sorted into the done pile. I wasn’t super organized this morning, and the wind was unhelpful.
MARY: Included in workout.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Wreck-it Ralph’s M is looking to start FIA (Females in Action) which is the girly version of F3, so shoot him a message if the ladies in your life could use a little fitness, though I would suggest better phrasing when you ask them if they are interested. :slightly_smiling_face:
COT: Prayed to the good Lord Almighty for the air in our lungs, people hunting for jobs, and Watermelon Wings’s new mute Schnauzer dog which he named after the mute transformer BumbleBee, confirming that he is in fact a giant nerd, and for the PAX always being willing to get out of bed early on a Saturday to the betterment of us all.
Tags: ao-eagles-nest, Wreck-it Ralph, Squash (Donn Hines), Howie, Watermelon Wings, Wheelie, Slice, Strat, Broccoli, Budget, Audit, Corn Stock (Garth), Copper Top, Water Boy, Power Bait, Buckshot, Dolittle, Common Core
