14 Hard chargers (including an FNG) met at Rockwood Park to test their limits and do the Merkin wave.
Mosey to the Basketball court. The Warm-Up:
Side Straddle-Hops, Ukrainian Soldiers, Don Quixotes, Imperial Soldiers, Cherry Pickers, Super Mario Jumps, Karaoke.
THE MERKIN WAVE!
What is a Merkin wave? Good question; here goes my best: It starts with the group getting into a circle and setting up in a good Merkin position.
Starting from the down position of the Merkin, with your chest 1 to 2 inches off the ground, the First Hard Charger pushes up, and holds the position, and the person to the immediate left does a Merkin and holds, and it continues in a circl…… Have you either seen the wave done while watching a sporting event, and/or performed the wave while you were at a live sporting event? Well, that’s what we did. Imagine instead of people doing the wave around the stadium, we were doing Merkins in lieu of the wave. I don’t have a number of Merkins we did, but it was an amount that is making it difficult to type right now.
Next up, Mosey to the baseball fields. Partner up in twos. Everyone does the wall sit, while the first two run down steps, complete 10 Bo-Ya (spelling) Merkins, run back up the steps, and begin doing tri-cep dips. While first two are doing tri-cep dips, next two come off the wall, go down the steps and complete 10 high-five Merkins, run back up the steps, and begin doing dips. The two that were doing dips return to wall sit. Rinse and repeat until everyone had a chance to gets some more Merkins in.
Next up, indigenous line, everyone in the line doing American Hammers. Hard Charger in the back runs down and around the steps, comes back up, sets up in the front of the indigenous line, begins doing American Hammers, and person in back runs. Rinse and repeat until the everyone had the opportunity to run two laps. An Audible was called halfway through to transition from American Hammers to Word War 2s.
Last, and certainly not least, Blackjack. Two workouts with a run in the middle, both workouts equaling 21. The first exercise, 1 hand release Merkin, run 40 yards, 20 jump squats, run 40 yards back, 2 hand release Merkins, run 40 yards, 19 jump squats, etc. etc. in total, 210 hand release Merkins and 210 jump squats.
Mosey back to the parking lot.
COT: There were no announcements or prayer requests. We welcomed the Friendly New Guy, and he received the name of Gaston.
Note: This was my first time being the Q for a big group/an area that wasn’t Bermuda Triangle, and I have to say it is a blast. I came in confident that I had everything I needed to get the job done. I found out, like many sound plans, that a few audibles needed to be called, and some prior plans sound much better in your head/on paper than they do in action. I look forward to being the Q again someday in the future and encourage anyone that has never been a Q before to sign up!
