Date:  Monday, September 6, 2021

AO:  Latham Grinder (Labor Day Convergence)

QiC:  City Slicker, Boy Wonder

PAX (44):  Humphrey Bogart, Amphibious, Norwood, Snakes On A Plane, Hazmat, Saban, Golden Corral, Crawlspace, Sacked, Bobby Knight, Akron, TJ Hooker, Awkward, Big Worm, Foot Fairy, Goku, DQ, Scratch, Cheddar, Hoosier, Stickshift, Weed, Bones, Flo Jo, Square, Stretch, Socrates, Radiator, Tesla, Snookie, TPS, Major Payne, Houlihan, 50CC, Earhart, Jitterbug, Phoenix, Xerox, Ricola, Patch, City Slicker, Boy Wonder

FNG:  Build-A-Bear

Warm-A-Rama:

City Slicker shared the origin of the Labor Day holiday. Urges all to honor the unsung heroes. Tenzing Norgay, the sherpa who was first to summit Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary is a ideal example of the unsung hero.

Motivator, Sun Gods, Copperhead Squats, String Rippers, Imperial Walkers, Hula Hoops, Mosey to Everest

 

The Thang:

Base Camp (bottom of hill):

Teams of 4; PAX 1 does Murder Bunnies with Cinder Block uphill until failure, other 3 PAX bear crawl uphill (or modify to Lunges), rotate and relieve PAX 1

Khumbu Camp (Briarcliff Rd):

All PAX on team do 17 (SC) Cindy Crawfords- each side, 7 (SC) Crab Cakes, 4 Turkish Get Ups

Repeat uphill sequence, carry Cinder Block overhead

Lhotse Camp (Hill St):

All PAX on team do 39 (SC) Mountain Climbers, 7 (SC) Crab Cakes, 4 Turkish Get Ups

Repeat uphill sequence, carry Cinder Block overhead

Summit (Grayland St):

All PAX on team do 29 (SC) Freddy Mercuries, 7 (SC) Crab Cakes

Carry Cinder Block downhill, circle back to pick up the 6

Significance of repetitions:

39– Tenzing Norgay’s age when he and Sir Edmund Hillary were first to summit Everest

29– The height of Mount Everest (29,029 ft above sea level)

17-Age Tenzing Norgay began to serve as a sherpa

7– The number of Everest expeditions that he served

4– The number of times that he saved Sir Edmund Hillary’s life on Everest

 

6MOM:

Body Destroyers, Alt. V-Ups, Freddy Mercuries, American Hammers (or back-friendly exercise)

COT:

For the next 7 days, honor the unsung heroes. The people who show up and put in the work (the Labor, in Labor Day). They may be men and women at your church, job, gas station, grocery store…  We challenge all PAX to: (1) seek out the unsung heroes, (2) acknowledge them and show them that you “see” them and (3) engage them, learn something about them and let them learn something about you.