That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker (Martini’s Virgin Q)

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PAX: Yosemite, Cricket, Norm, 16-Bit, Martini

FNGs:None

Warm Up:Lap around the parking lot, 15 SSH, 10 Cotten Pickers, 10 Windmills, 10 Good Mornings

The Workout:Each PAX was dealt 5 cards.  One at a time, a Pax would turn over a card.  The suite of the card would determine the exercise (hearts = cardio, spades = legs, club = abs, diamonds = upper body) and the face value of the card would determine the quantity of the exercise to be completed.  After all five cards were filled, the Pax with the best had would name an exercise.  Winning PAX would complete 5 of the exercise and the remainder of the PAX completed 10.  Yosemite won the first hand and chose Australian Mountain Climbers.  Norm won the second hand an chose Monkey Humpers.   To their credit, both winning PAX completed all the reps with the remainder of the PAX.  At Norm’s request, ee did a lap around the track between hands.
Mary: LBS, Reverse LBC, Homer to Marge, Have a Nice Day
Announcements: None
T-Claps (Recognition):None
Prayer: Circket’s Sister broke both of her arms, Norm’s buddy in the hospital with blood clots . . . it seems like there were one or two more that I cannot remember.

Butt holes and shoe holes but no squat holds

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FNGs: Cobbler

EC: 187, Axe, Chips, Dawgpound, Dumbo, Emeril, Lipsync, Liquid Force, Pablo. 3 other PAX did some form of EC – Sidmark was out when YHC arrived at 5:05. M4L and Pikachu both ran from home to Ting.

Warm Up: 10 x Good Mornings, 30 x SSH, 10 x IW/Hillbillies, Bat Wings (10 arm circles forwards and 10 reverse, 10 seal claps, 10 overhead claps, 10 seal claps).

The Workout: Scout run to the green way across the street (1 mile there). The PAX were unfamiliar with a Scout Run and apparently YHC isn’t good at explaining thing because this was a ball of nonsense running through the neighborhood. The idea is that we form a LINE and the person at the front sprints as far as they like and then returns to the back of the LINE. We will try this again!

Launching from the top of the cul de sac we did Triple Nickle. PAX perform 5 big boy sit ups at the top of the hill and then run to the bottom and do 5 burpees. Rinse and repeat 5 times. A small group of PAX finished early so in lieu of a squat hold they did a 6th round. (1.2ish miles on the hill).

Mosey back to the parking lot to see if the hot chick Mary was going to be there today. It wasn’t in the cards again but my suspicion is that the high humidity had her hair all frizzy and she didn’t want to come out. Perhaps something else came up. Either way, we have a few minutes to kill before we name the FNG.

Mary: 20 x merkins, 30 x homer to marge, 30 x American hammer, 10 x boat canoes, 20 x merkins

Announcements: Take it to the interwebs!

Prayer: Chips has a co-worker that recently had a heart attack. He was sort of in decent shape but not too good. The comparison to Emeril was made.

As we are closing out a couple of PAX revisited elementary health class to remind us that we all have a hole in our butts. #OnlyInTheGloom! The FNG had a rather used pair of shoes on today resulting in the name Cobbler and thereby saving Schnuckles for the next unsuspecting FNG.

It’s always an honor to lead you men. I’ll try to do better next time!

Timing Is Everything..

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This morning’s edition of Any Given Sunday was a bit different. YHC sent a pre-blast the night before indicating a Ruck was in play as well as running for those wanting to get some miles in. Have you ever had one of those mornings where things just fall into place even though you weren’t expecting them to go 100% right?

It was definitely one of those mornings. Started out with a 5am alarm. Gear at the side of the bed was picked up and carried to the bathroom.  Headed downstairs, but upon arrival to the kitchen, noticed that I was missing socks. Not to worry, there was a pile of clean whites in a laundry basket right at my feet. Problem solved. Exited the garage 20min until go time and got halfway out of Wescott past 187 and Dumbo’s house before realizing I forgot my shovel flag.. Turn around, grab flag and head to Womble.

8 PAX waiting on the curb, 6 with ruck sacks-2 without. Five minutes til 6am. Just enough time to plant the flag and exchange pleasantries before the warm up. With one minute to spare, our 9 count, including YHC, turned into a 10 count with Redenbacher rolling up on the scene for some running miles. Six o’clock hit and inquired with the PAX on who would be running and who would be rucking. Three for running and 7 for the ruck.

Advised PAX to drop their gear for the warm up that went a little like this.

Warm Up: Light mosey to the far end of the lot, lunge walks and Frankensteins back. Circled up for Imperial Walkers X10, Hillbillies X10, Fazio Arm Circles X10F\10B, Good Mornings X10, Mountain Climbers X20, Toe and Heel walks to the middle of the lot with a Squat hold as I explained this morning’s routes.

For The DawgPound, Cowboy, and Redenbacher, they would be running the standard Bass Lake route with a counterclockwise path around the lake and back. For those rucking, YHC would lead PAX up to Sugg with mixed exercises along the way before heading back for COT. The finish time was set for 7am, figuring with the 5mi and change run and 2.5 mi ruck\exercises, we should hit it just right and all regroup at the same time.

The Workout: 3 PAX went on their way to the Bass Lake running route, while remaining 7 grabbed their gear and made their way out of Womble. Along the baseball fields YHC called for PAX to stop at the railings on the running path and get an overhand grab of the bar from underneath to perform upright rows. Dauber, who’s pack was a bit full squeezed himself under the bar and gave me a look as if to say, “You d*@k”.  Upright rows X15 were performed in cadence and PAX continued to mosey onto Grigsby. Great mumble chatter along the way, particularly the topics of bacon, how ‘responsible’ Dauber was as a lad, prank phone calls, and how grain alcohol and gatorade is not such a good idea.

Arrived at the Sugg Farm gates and eventually into the event field at the far end. YHC noticed some picnic tables to the left of the field and called for some step ups X20 and Erkins X30. As the sun was just peeking through the tree line, YHC wanted a better view and ironically saw some more picnic tables perfectly placed in the middle of the field. Called for another set of Step Ups X20 and Diamond Erkins… “Are those really a thing?” To which I replied, “If they aren’t, they are now.” Diamond Erkins X30 with conviction were performed. PAX then circled up around the flag pole for a set of Prison Squats X20 and a set of Merkins X20. Rucked back to the first set of picnic tables for one more exercise…. Derkins X 30 on YHC’s down. The count dropped after 26, but I’m sure the remaining 4 were executed by all PAX physically or in spirit.

Mosey’d back to the road on our way back to Womble. As we passed the first set of porta potty’s, PAX witnessed irony at its best as a trotting Lipstick came toward us. This kid does not stop. On a bike yesterday for 30 miles, and now on his way fresh off a porta potty 100 yards in front of us. On his way by, he gave PAX the heads up that they may want to use these facilities next to us and not the one in front of us. Thanks, Lipstick..Way to be!

As we reached the baseball fields, YHC looked down at the Garmin and noticed 9min til 7 and 2.25 mi. Timing was perfect as we arrived to the parking lot right at 7am and 2.5 mi on the nose. Splits on Strava even later revealed an even 18:00 for miles 1 and 2. Turned around and found The DawgPound, Cowboy, and Redenbacher back from their run at the exact same time.

Timing is everything..

Mary: Stretches OYO

Prayer: Moment of silence for War Child. Prayers for those struggling with addiction. Additional prayers for marriages and those facing marital challenges. Prayers for healing those who are impacted by health issues. YHC took us out.

Double Digits at GP

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11 HIMs (several GP virgins) showed up to for the beat down this morning 

WarmUp:

20 Fozie Arm Circles, 10 Good Mornings, 25 SSH, 15 Daisy Pickers, 10 Windmills, 10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies

The Workout

Mosey to the wall:

2 sets of at least a 55 ct Wall sits and BTW (can’t say what the could was for sure since there were some PAX who decided to mumble chatter instead of counting – typical)

Mosey to the Rock Pile – rotate around rocks between sets.

  • 4 sets of 20’s – Curls for the girls
  • 4 sets of 20’s  – Overhead Overhead Tri-press
  • 4 sets of 10’s – Ground Pounders

Special thanks to Pikachu for the herculean rock

Mosey to the Playground with rocks for Aik’n Station Time:

  • Aik’n Arms: 15’s  Merkins, Derkins, Shoulder Tap Planks & Dips
  • Aik’n Abs: 20 LBCs, 20 Pickles, 10 WWIIs, 15 H2M alternate legs
  • Aik’n Legs: 20 Squats, 20 Step ups, 10 Star Jumps, 15 Mnt Climbers
  • Aik’n Abs: 15 American Hammers, 20 ct 6 inches, 10 Rockies, 30 ct Chilcutt Planks
  • Aik’n Arms: 10 shoulder tap merkins, 20 Dips, 15 Plank Jacks, 15 Hand Release Merkins.
  • Aik’n Legs: 20 Step Ups. 15 Lunges, 15 High Knees, 15 Split Jack

Announcements:  July 4th 1776 Convergence,  Mookie is wearing Breath Taker for A Cure in Sight this week (3 mile AGS Ruck option tomorrow),  other important things I can’t remember.

Prayer Requests:  Dauber’s family for healing, Continued prayers for marriages and families. Brothers dealing with injuries. Praise Dauber’s interview with Amgen went very well.

YHC took us out.

T-Claps (Recognition): T- Claps for Warbucks putting some serious miles in downrange and Mookie for his generous donation to A Cure in Sight

Last Week Was Better

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Yoga EC: Skidmark, Dawgpound, Emeril, Bullseye, Aquaman, Lucky Charms

EC: Cowboy, Buford

FNGs: None
Warm Up:
Circled up in the parking lot so we can walk to the playground together.  Circled up at the playground for the following

Side Straddle Hop
Good Mornings
Daisy Pickers
Merkins
Revers Merkins

The Workout:

Split up into pairs for the following stations.  Each team went through once and then we had a little more time so you got to work on what you felt you needed most.

Station 1 Timer:
Box Jumps
Plank Jacks

Station 2:
TRX Atomic Push Ups
KB Swings

Station 3:
TRX Row
KB Pistol Row

Station 4:
TRX Y to I
KB Double Arm Press

Station 5:
Pull Ups
Gun Slingers

Station 6:
Battle Rope
Jump Rope

Station 7:
2 Arm Deadlift, Clean, Clean Squat

Station 8:
Row, Kneeling Clean press and Stand Flow

Mary:

Circled up for the following:
Around the world
Halos
Midget Love Handles

Announcements:

See Facebook/Slack

T-Claps (Recognition): None where recognized at the workout.
Prayer:

Safe travels for Emeril’s Family
Emeril’s bachelor weekend
Midget and his closing
All Pax coming back from injury

Milli Vanilli’s Greatest Hits

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Warm Up

Warm up consisted of good mornings, 36 SSH for 36 months of F3 for me, daisy pickers, imperial walkers, hill billy’s, merkins and Michael Phelps

 

The Workout – My Greatest (aka: favorite exercises)

  • John Cusack with rocks to the abyss
  • Circle up for curls for the girls than wheel barrel up the stairs, Spiderman down the ramp and run back to the abyss to repeat with other partner
  • Back to rock circle for ruh rohs than sprint up grass hill for type writers followed by returning to the abyss
  • Triceps extensions with the rocks and John Cusack back to parking lot for some barely curling
  • Circle up for some Jack Webs with rocks
  • Return the rocks and run to the tennis courts for Mary

Mary

Freddy Murcury’s

Low, slow flutter

WWII

Homer to Marg

Have a nice day

 

Announcements

Refer to Slack and July 4th convergence at 6:30 am at Womble

 

Prayer Request

Warchild and his family, Gilligan from F3 Carterico who is having complications from heart valve replacement and continued prayers for Crab Legs

Diamond, Rocks, and Hills

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FNGs:  Welcome Yosemite (Ethan Powell)

Warm Up:  Jog passed the snack shack (keeping PAX of 11 on their toes) all the way down to the end of the road.  Circled up and executed SSH, HB, IW, CP.  Static stretches included R over L, L over R, behind back.

The Workout:  Q saw the baseball diamond and wanted to call an early audible.  Found an entrance and began at home plate rounding the bases with the following exercises:

Home to 1B:  gate openings, knees to chest.  Arrive at 1B, 5 Merkins OYO

1B to 2B:  butt kickers, franksteins.  Arrive at 2B, 5 Merkins OYO

2B to 3B:  lunges.  Arrive to 3B, 5 Merkins OYO

3B to Home:  prisoner get ups; 5 Merkins OYO

people’s Chair on the chain linked fence.  Mosey to snack shack area for irkins,  dirkins and dips on the short wall.  Mosey to snack shack for Australian MC, PC, BTTW. Rinse and repeat for 10 cadence count.  q sweating in this 100% humidity.  Mosey to road, karaokes L & R up the hill.  Lined up in parking lot, butt toward hill.  Q demonstrated a defensive basketball posture (Bobby Hurley esqu).  Q called L, Pax moved L at a 45 deg angle staying low.  Q called R.  Q called Low – PAX slapped the ground (some did Merkins).  Kept moving L to R with some merkins added until we reached the hill.  Line up at the bottom of the hill.  Bear crawl up to the guardrail.  Execute irkins, dips and dirkins.   Hop over guardrail, jog back to the starting point at the bottom of the hill.  Rinse and repeat.  Once exercises were completed on the guardrail, PAX bear crawled backwards to the bottom of the hill.  Mosey to rock pile for a medium rock trying to avoid the yellow jackets.   Numerous rock exercises were executed in 10 cadence counts.  Exercises included curls for the girls, triceps extensions, rut-rows, soccer toe taps, jump over side to side, front to back.  PAX on their six for chest presses, skull crushers, H2M, with rock at arm’s length above head and above chest, PAX held 6 inches off ground with legs extended straight (FUN).  Return rocks to rock pile.  Mosey to tennis courts.

Mary:  Yoga stretches

Announcements:  See Slack & Facebook; ultimate at Tiger Blood; Modify stepped up to Q KG so Cupid could play frisbee.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Recognize H1N1 and Cupid for new AO at Falcon Park – “the Nest”

Prayer:  Fonzie let us out. (thank you brother) Dauber discussed the power of small group.  Find one.  Be vulnerable.  Discussed the power of letting things go with water bottle analogy.  Lots of PAX injured, accidents, parents burying their kid(s),  marriages, unspoken, Warchild.

You’re late, burpees it is, even when it’s the Q

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No excuses for being late, even for the Q.  Sorry fellas, hope I made it up to ya.

FNGs: N/A
Warm Up: Lap around the track, 10 burpees for being late, 25 SSH, Good mornings, Stretches
The Workout:

Count off 1-7, Then some combination of this: #1 took a lap around the parking lot, rest Balls to the Wall & Captains Chair. #2 took a lap, rest SSH & squats. #3 took a lap, LBCs. #4 took a lap, Merkins & Shoulder taps. #5 took a lap, Star jumps and Squats.  #6 took a lap, Homer to Marge. #7 took a lap,  WW2.

Moseyed over to the hill for 7s. Burpees at the top, squats at the bottom.

Rinse and Repeat.  Called an audible to Merkins for second round of 7s.

1 final group lap for fun.

Mary: Heal Taps, Reverse LBC, H2M, Good Morning
Announcements: FB/Slack
T-Claps (Recognition): N/A
Prayer: Sugar’s friends niece had cancer around her heart, Norm’s friend with blood clot, Martini’s friend who lost her spouse.

10 Stations in the Heat

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Pax of eight battling a hot June evening.  Temperature was in the 80’s, but it felt like 100 degrees out there tonight.

EC:  Some running a few miles before workout.

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  SSH, Daisy pickers, Good Morning, L+R overhead stretch

The Workout:  15 reps at 10 stations with a different exercise, using a 25 pound weight or rock to make it harder.  Stations were separated by 10-20 yards to give time to recover between sets.

1.  Merkins, 2. Diamond Merkins, 3. Up-right Rows, 4. Squats, 5. Lunges, 6. Triceps Press, 7. Curls, 8. LBC’s,  9. Ab Roller and 10. Shoulder Press.

Recovered on a lap around soccer fields, then repeated the 10 station circuit again.

Mosey to amphitheater for to sets of:  1.  Dips, 2.  balls to the wall 3.  one leg get-ups 4. LBC’s

Mary:  Merkins, WWII, Diamond Merkins, Box Cutters, Wide Merkins, Protractors

Prayer:  Kabota’s upcoming drug trial, Peace and Gratitude

Better late than never

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FNGs: Rousey
Warm Up: Jog to large parking lot for SSH x 15, Goodmorn x 10, Cott Pic x 10, Sumo Sq x 10, Merk x 10, Mt Climb x 10.  Mosey to outdoor stage
The Workout: Against Lucky Charms directive, we did Jump Squats x 10 and Balls 10 count in cadence.  This was done 3 times.  We then did an Indiana Run around the soccer field with last guy doing 3 Merkins and then running to the front.  Stopped at the picnic pavilion for 3 sets of Urkins x 10, Durkins x 10, Dips x 10 and one leg lifts x 10 each leg.  Mosey to big parking lot and gather a rock for a favorite of mine called 4 corners.  1st corner, 20 x gound pounders, Lunge walk to next corner.  20 x curls, Bear crawl to next corner.  20 x triceps, lunge walk to next.  20 x straight leg dead lift, crawl bear to next while pushing rock.  20 x shoulder press, lunge walk to next.  20 x squats and bear crawl back to start while pushing rock.
Mary:  10 x LBC, 10 x Freddy Mer, 10 x Pickle Pound, 10 x Wide Merkin, 10 x Bulldogs (Da Business specialty)
Announcements:  None because Slide Rule did Crazy Ivan(HaHa)
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:All unspoken.

Great to lead this group and my apologies for taking so long to get this BB posted.