Ultimate Workout
QIC
DeliveranceAO
The DenPAX
- Bergundy
- Bronco
- Cutter
- Debs
- Deliverance
- Eliot Ness
- Harry T. Stone
- Nelly
- Padawan
- Rossy
- Shiplap
- Time Machine
- Truckin
- Smokey
- Wonder Boy
Workout
Warm-o-rama
Side Straddle Hops
Abe Vigodas
Seal claps
Overheads
Moroccan Nightclubs
ROSSY
Calf stretch
World’s Greatest Stretch
Run a lap around the school
Thang
Killer Bees
Broad jump 10 yards
10 Burpees
10 Bonnie Blairs, one is one
10 Big Boy Sit-ups
Three rounds moving across the field, followed by a 30-yard bear crawl back to the starting line.
Playground AMRAP
30 Bench dips
Run one lap
30 Bulgarian split squats, 15 each leg
Run one lap
15 Incline Merkins
15 Decline Merkins
Run one lap
30 Step-ups, 15 each leg
Run one lap
60 seconds Balls to the Wall
Run one lap
We finished with shirts versus skins Ultimate Frisbee. 5 merkins for the whole team for every dropped disk. Skins won with a highlight catch by Smokey
Mary
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COT
A couple of weeks ago, I took my 14-year-old daughter to Lollapalooza for her birthday. Standing in Grant Park, I remembered going to Lollapalooza at Pine Knob outside Detroit when I was 15, without my parents. I saw the Flaming Lips, Green Day, L7, Parliament-Funkadelic, the Smashing Pumpkins, and the Beastie Boys.
Licensed to Ill was the first cassette I ever received. I got it at my second-grade birthday party and probably listened to “Paul Revere” and “Fight for Your Right” a million times.
Decades later, I was standing in a field full of young people, the guy with gray hair, while my daughter was near the front with her friends listening to a DJ I had never heard of. I started crying because I realized that many of the core memories she makes from this point forward will not include me.
For 14 years, I have been a solo parent with 80 percent of the parenting time. For most of their childhood, the four of us did nearly everything together. Now my daughter will increasingly make memories with her friends, her boyfriends, and eventually a family and life of her own.
This morning, Smokey is working out beside me. I know I may only have a few more years when he wants to get up early and do something like this with me.
That transition is hard to accept, but it means our job is changing, not ending. Our job was never to make sure we appeared in every one of their memories. It was to give them the strength, love, and confidence to build lives beyond us.
We spend these mornings trying to make ourselves better so we can help make them better. We prepare them for the day when they no longer need our permission, when they seek our advice instead of simply receiving it, and when they begin building lives of their own.
That is the work.