AO: The Colosseum
When: 12/08/2022
Number of Pax: 15
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names:
QIC: Den Mother
Introduction
I arrived to the AO around 5:05 and there were several PAX getting after it already with EC runs. I love to see all the extra work the PAX are putting in and hope it continues after the Games.
Warm-O-Rama
- Warm-up Lap
- Motivators from 7
- Good Mornings IC x 10
- Imperial Walkers IC x 10
- Abe Vigodas IC x 10
- Arm Circles IC x 10 (forward and reverse)
The Thang
Billy Madison! After finishing the movement for each grade (below, run to across the lot and back, except…after grades 5, 8, and 12 take a graduation lap around the entire lot.
At 15 minute increments, I called “Fire Drill!” The first drill took us to the field, where we circled up and did high knees. When the Q called “Fire!” the PAX dropped to ground, rolled to the right, did a Merkin, rolled to the left, did a Merkin, then got up and continued high knees. For the second Fire Drill we sprinted a lap around the lot, stopping in the SW corner for 5 Burpees OYO.
I had two formats: one that included coupon-based movements, and one that didn’t (to accommodate any MASHers)
Coupon Format:
- 20 SSH
- 20 Chest Press
- 20 Curls
- 20 Coupon Swings
- 10 Blockees
- 20 Big Boys
- 20 Plank Jacks
- 20 Thrusters
- 20 Coupon Rows
- 20 Shoulder Taps (1 each)
- 20 Overhead Press
- 20 Coupon Squats
No Coupon Format:
- 20 SSH
- 10 Merkins
- 20 Lunges (1 each)
- 20 Overhead Claps
- 20 Air Squats
- 20 Big Boys
- 20 Plank Jacks
- 20 LBCs
- 10 Burpees
- 20 Shoulder Taps (1 each)
- 20 Grady Corns
- 15 Burpees
Mary involved Morties all the way down to 1, and we had extra time to perform additional Big Boys until 0600.
Circle of Trust
I found this thought-provoking article on putting your loves in order and shared it with the PAX.
Saint Augustine defined sin as disordered love: giving one’s heart too much to things which are not worthy of it, and too little to that which is.
Virtue, conversely, he defined as rightly ordered love.
It’s easy to pay lip service to having our loves prioritized in the right order. But it isn’t our words which reveal where our hearts lie, but our actions.
If you say you love your child more than your phone, but look at your screen instead of her face when she talks to you, you really love your phone more than your child.
If you say you love your family more than your job, but keep putting in unnecessary overtime hours at the office, you really love work more than your family.
If you say you’ll text someone, pray for someone, follow-up with someone, and then neglect to do so, you really love the appearance of concern/compassion/interest, more than their realities.
What you truly love is revealed in how you spend your time, allocate your attention, and make decisions.
How we act in specific situations, springs from the degree to which we love certain virtues in general. When you love courage, integrity, and loyalty more than ease, popularity, and outward success, you act in ways that are brave, honest, and true.
Augustine believed that human misery was a function of loving lesser goods more than greater goods, giving our hearts to the finite over the infinite. But the importance of how we order our loves extends beyond our temporal happiness, to who we ultimately become. For, as James K.A. Smith has said, “You are what you love.”
Source: https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/sunday-firesides-put-your-loves-in-order/
Naked Man Moleskin
I have Q’d a Billy Madison-style beatdown several times, and each time I learn how to improve it or make it more difficult. This time, I made sure to include more difficult movements in the early grades to ensure the group got to them, and that they needed to be executed often.
I also tried to factor in feedback from my last Q’s AAR, which was to be aware of the speed of my cadence on Big Boys. We performed Morties during Mary and I was cognizant of this, and asked the group for feedback during the movement.