You can Burn, but it must be Slowly...

I wanted to set a record for attendance and for FNGs at Slow Burn last Friday. We got neither one... What we did get were a few leadership lessons and a lot of mumblechatter...

The Thang:
Warm it up, Chris:
A typical set of warmy-uppy things... Windmills, Merkins, Side Straddle Hops, that sort of thing.

First, 10 burpee penalty for no FNGs. Then we split into four groups for a little Four Corners. After each round we planked for the six and for a little inspiration about being #ThatSomebody. We did 15 of each exercise – AMRAP until time is up.

- Round 1

- Merkins

- Squats

- LBCs

- CDDs

- Round 2

- Wide Arm Merkins

- Sumo Squats

- Rosalitas

- Moroccan Nightclubs

- Round 3

- Diamond Merkins

- Ballerina Squats

- Double leg lifts

- Overhead Claps

- Round 4

- Left hand forward Stagger Merkins

- Monkey Humpers

- Freddie Mercury

- Supine pull-ups

- Round 5

- Right hand forward Stagger Merkins

- Jump squats

- American Hammers

- Supine pull-ups

- REPEATO

Here are some of the thoughts shared between rounds:

- Horror vacui - Nature abhors a vacuum. - Aristotle / You don't have to fill it with noise - Dark Helmet

- In the absence of leadership, somebody will step up. Be that somebody. When I was younger, I thought you needed to talk a lot or be the loudest in order to be heard and to be a leader. Attention whores aren't leaders...

- A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t want to go, but where they ought to be.

- Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. - Jean-Paul Sartre

- No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie

- People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. - John C. Maxwell

- If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford

NMM:
Of all the things shared, or thoughts that discussed, the one that seemed to hit home the most was when I asked the group, "What was the name of the last guy you EHed?" Let that one sink in a little. Either you believe in why we are here or you don't. Either way, you are welcome here, but if you believe in the mission, then we all had best get to work...

Helmet, out.