The PAX showed up for some good old fashioned exercise this Saturday morning. Oflex was celebrating yet another decade of life and had the privilege of being the Q for the first half of the workout. Some of the PAX were not even born when I was rocking out in the 70s.
Warmups
Jumping Jacks x30 (accompanied by Jimi Hendrix and Lynrd Skynrd)
Toe Touches x15
Pushups x20
Arm Circles 10 each way
Hillbillies x15 (accompanied by Deliverance music)
Windmills x15
Imperial Walkers x20
Indian run over to a large parking lot.
A 1970s timeline was set up so each station had instructions for exercise. Each exercise was tied to a certain event from that year.
1970 – Dragnet Jack Webbs with merkins x20
1971 – Archie Bunker – burpees x15
1972 – Mark Spitz medals -LBCs x35
1973 – Secretariat- merkins x31
1974 – Watergate -carolina dry docks x20
1975 – Bill Gates- flutter kicks x25
1976 – Bicentennial -Rocky Balboas x15
1977 – Elvis is dead -dying cockroaches x15
1978 – Animal House air squats x20
1979 – Steelers Super Bowl- plank jacks x13, merkins x13
Fellow Q (with respect), Watson took over for the second half of the workout. The old men of The Crick not to be outdone!
Run back to school:
Bear crawl up sidewalk
6s up and down stairs with air squats and star jumps
Spider Man up handrails, bear crawl down with partner x3
Other partner does balls to the wall while waiting
Clock merkins – rotate to each number of a clock and do corresponding number of merkins. LBCs mixed in at 6 and 9. Total Approx 51 merkins.
Mary:
Freddie Mercurys x15
Homer to Marge x15
Boxcutters x 15
Hammers x60 (done 20 at a time) Celebratory number for Oflex’s advanced age.
Announcements:
None
Prayer Requests:
Pothole’s father dealing with cancer and undergoing chemo
Watson’s brother fighting cancer of the liver, spleen and colon
Birkenstock led the closing prayer.
