C H R I S T M A S, the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2020-12-17
Weather: It was cold. Not Rocky going to Russia and training in Siberia cold, but cold.

Q: Muck
PAX: 8 – Raquel, Sous Vide, Boo Boo, Santa’s Little Helper, Oshag, Zebra, Axeman, Muck

Warm-O-Rama
– Runners Stretch (switch)
– Cross feet, bend and hang (switch)
– Quad pulls (switch)
– Michael Phelps
– Tricep pulls (switch)
– Grass grabbers, in cadence

Tha Thang
Nine stations. Each station had two rounds of exercises and the exercises at each station spelled out CHRISTMAS. Each exercise was done for 1:30, rest for :15, then rotate to the next letter.

Between each round we did a mosey around the inner loop of the parking lot.

C-
Round 1: Cross crunches (Big Boy Sit-ups, elbows to opposite knees)
Round 2: Copperhead Squats

H-
Round 1: Hillbillies
Round 2: (American) Hammers

R-
Round 1: Run In Place (high knees)
Round 2: Raggedy Anns (one hand behind head, bend sideways to opposite side, do 25 reps, switch sides)

I-
Round 1: Inch worms (bend at waist, hand walk out to plank, hand walk back to standing, repeat)
Round 2: Ice skaters

S-
Round 1: Side to side jump squats
Round 2: Side Straddle Hops

T-
Round 1: Forward Lunge w/ Twist
Round 2: Reverse Lunge w/ Twist

M-
Round 1: Mountain climbers
Round 2: Monkey humpers

A-
Round 1: Alphabets (like box cutters, except go through the alphabet)
Round 2: Big Arm Circles (25 forward >>> 25 backwards >>> Repeat)

S-
Round 1: Squats
Round 2: Skip in place

Got in a couple of extra stations before wrapping up.

Mix of Christmas, Christian, and 80’s rock jams. Great soundtrack for the season.

End in COT