Leading 20+ men on Saturday beat-down is a tall order, so Your Humble Correspondent (YHC) needed to prepare. On the afternoon before the workout, my 9-year-old son and I took I bike ride to City Park to survey any hidden corners typically overlooked during Mothership workouts. Whenever the Pax moseys from the flag to the museum of art, the little hill of a bridge just after Morning Call is a nice little challenge, especially because we don’t have hills in New Orleans. But there’s too much traffic along that road to do a workout on. On my bike, YHC spied those foot bridges over the lagoon behind Morning Call and thought it might be a good spot to try something new. (At least, YHC hasn’t worked out there before.)
YHC showed up a few minutes before the workout was to begin, and there was already a healthy crowd there. A few stragglers joined in as the PAX moseyed to the Great Lawn. Let’s get started:
- Arm circles – 10 forward, 10 back
- Cross-legged windmills – 10
- Then some stretching – Runners stretch, crouching and holding it for 10, knee circles, legs open with stretch forward, soles touching and stretch forward
Warm ups
- Hillbillies x20
- Merkins x20 (maybe too fast a cadence)
- Jump squats x20
- Floyd Mayweather x20
- Peter Parkers x20
- SSH x20
- 10 burpees on your own
To the bridges
We did a Dora 123 where one partner runs over one bridge and returns over the second with some nice steps to climb up. Taps out and the other partner does the circuit. A combined exercise of:
- 100 plank jacks
- 200 toe-touches (from crab-walk position)
- 300 mountain climbers
To NOMA
After a moment of hydration at the museum, we partnered up again at the main fountain.
One partner bunny-hopped up the stairs, while the other partner did:
- derkins
- irkins
- dips
…partners switching each time between bunny-hops and the exercises at the fountain. When we were done, rinse and repeat.
At the trees
Short mosey to the field with the line of trees in front of NOMA.
- Lunge walk (length of two trees)
- 10 burpees on your own
- Duck walk (length of two trees)
- 10 burpees on your own
Mosey back to the Great Lawn
Time for some Mary
- Flutter kicks x20
- American hammer x20
- Hello Dolly x20
- Crunchy rolls and crunchy roll step-ups (something from my martial arts practice) – on your own
- Freddy Mercuries (I think) x 20
Times up! Back to the flag for name-a-rama where we named two FNGs: Calliope and Mary Lou. (Mary Lou’s leaving town anyway, so a silly name won’t haunt him for long.) Announcements, a prayer, and then some camaraderie at Morning Call.
