Single PAX at Red October for Kettlebells

FNGs: none
Warm Up:  Fonzie led Mutiny PAX around the gym stopping to do SSH, Good AM, Daisy Pickers, HB, IW….
The Workout:  Turned on Pandora, rolled out the yoga mat and grabbed my kettlebell.  Conducted three rotations and the rinsed and repeated.  Exercises included 25 swings, 20 nipplers, 10 halos (L/R), midget love handles, upright rows, step ups, lawn mowers, straight arm curls, box cutters/6 inches with bell above chest, bus drivers…  Cooled down with yoga stretches including DD, Cobra, Chair, Pigeon
Mary:  Joined Mutiny PAX for H2M. PP, LBC
Announcements:  Mutiny next week;
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:  Gump, UNSPOKEN, neighbor killed in motorcycle accident.  Fonzie took us out.  Honored to lead.

TRX at Red October (4/19/21)

FNGs: None
Warm Up:  Warmed up with Mutiny PAX
The Workout:  Gump and Dauber hung the TRX straps at the shelter and went to work on triceps, biceps, shoulders, legs, hips, etc.  Multiple exercises in 10 reps repeated 4X.  Exercises included single leg squats, tricep extensions, side extensions, curls….
Mary:  Joined Mutiny for some core.
Announcements:  Vicious Cycle on Wednesday.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:  For our country, first responders, students  Honored to do-lead.  Dauber

Funny – day after both of us felt wicked sore working different parts/muscles with the bands.

Jockeying for Position

There are certain AO’s where you just know there’s a better than fair chance there will be Indian Runs. Paradise City is one of them. All of us have been doing Indian Runs long enough to know what it’s like when you are unequally matched for speed in your line. Speaking as one no longer in the Clydesdale weight class, but still in the speed class…I know. During the Gloom circle this morning, several PAX asked lots of questions and tried to choose sides to show who they’d rather be with if we did this….In the end, I’d say we were all out of luck. You get what you get and you don’t pitch a fit…though Emeril tried to and got caught.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey around the upper loop soccer fields stopping at various points. At the bottom of the ramp it was SSH x 30, Good Mornings x10, Sir Fazios x 6. Then…to many groans of disapproval…a bear crawl up the full length of the ramp as a tribute to Pikachu  and his affinity for bear crawls. We moved together on the mosey down to tennis court corner where we did Imperial Walkers x 10, and Hillbillies x10. PAX were instructed to grab some rocks from the drainage pit and leave them there for later work. Some comments of surprise from the PAX as Paradise City is not known for it’s use of rocks. Many rocks were noted to be small…not the greatest rock pit, but every Q should try something new. Finished our mosey down to the guardrail for some Windmills x 10 IC.
The Workout: PAX counted off by two’s and formed two Indian Run lines going in opposite directions of the same soccer field loop. We would perform 11 reps of 4 exercises at 4 stopping points along the way and decrease by 1 rep with each lap. Bottom of ramp – merkins, top of ramp – step ups/each leg, tennis court corner – Ground Pounders, guardrail – dips. Each worked their way down to at least 7 reps, wrapping up the customary 3 miles almost on the nose.
Mary: LBC’s x20 IC, WW1 x20, LSF’s x20 IC, H2M x 20 IC, Pickle Pounders x20 IC.
Announcements: May Main Event – sign up, all info on Slack. JOCOGA CSAUP – The Iliad…coming up in a few weeks in May, a few of us will head down to support our neighbor region.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Fumunga and family with the new 2.0. Wallaby’s M. YHC took us out. Great to lead today!

The Train was Rockin’

8 PAX took a ride on the Downtown Train to rock pile. Lots of hard work put and good mumblechatter out this morning.

FNGs: nope

Warm Up:
Mosey to rock pile. YHC told PAX to grab a medium size rock. This is obviously up to interpretation after seeing Cancun’s choice.

Cusack to behind library

Warmup exercise of: SSH, windmill, imperial walkers, hillbillies, moroccan night club, seal claps, overhead claps

The Workout:
Tabata time: 3 rounds of 1 minutes exercise with 10 seconds rest
Upper body: curls, rut rows, overhead press

To break up the tabata, PAX slid their rock and bear crawl to rock across parking lot. Cusack back.

Lower body: squats, ground pounder, lunges

Mary:
Tabata continues: 1 minutes exercise with rocks with 10 seconds rest of:
-ww2, boat canoes, American hammers – bad choices, so we modified
-ww2, dying cockroach, homer to marge (rock humpers?)
-ww2 – Q called it at this point due to time and we returned our rocks and back to the flag for COT.

Announcements:
Respect month in May at DTT
JOCOGA CSAUP – sign up

T-Claps (Recognition):
Hasselhoff for making his F3 comeback
Cancun for showing off his huge rock.

Prayer:
Brexit surgery tomorrow
Praise for Crimson cancer test results

MMA skills on display (April 20,2021)

FNGs: None Warm Up: Onnit-esk warmup exercises The Workout: TIMER: 2x 20 PUNCHES AND 1- KNEES to the Punching Bag. PAX’s rotated Ballistic Curl Overhead Swing (alternate direction) Overhead w […]

The tale of 2 AOs

FNGs: None 

4 HIMs posted to GP on a dry cool morning.  YHC brought the music box and joined Shredder at the entrance to Jones to cheer on the Classic runners assuming anyone posting would see us (not the case).  16-bit and Tetanus snuck past us and started the workout led by 16-bit.   Luckily I decided to get some rock work in anyway and ran into these two mid-workout.   

Warm Up: Who needs a warm up? (well turns out I did – hamstrings burning)

The Workout

16-bit and Tetanus started without us and sounded like a good bit of rock work and crabwalks.

All together Circle of Rock: Mosey to the Rock Pile pick a rock.

3 sets of 15x3ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Rut Rows and Wonder Bras,

2 sets of 15X3  Rock Spanks (with and without consent), Mountain Climbers,  Rock Press, LBCs, American Hammers

1 set of 10x3ct Rockies, Box Cutters, Freddie Mercuries

COT

Announcements:  Sleep in Heavenly Peace postponed to June 12th,  New F3 Challenge starting up soon $10 entry fee.

Prayer Requests: For our country and our leadership, Bernie’s family with mother in-law passing recently. Forceps job situation to improve or change.

BB Continued

Wall of Pain: Shredder and Forceps cont.

3 sets of 10x3ct BTW with a failed attempt at Australian Ass Smackers.

My apologies for failing to realize the race was going to complicate the parking situation this morning.

T-Claps for all those who ran in the Classic – solid F3 showing: John Deer, Dusty, Norm, Abe, Dauber, Breach, Aquaman,

Make Cletus Great Again

FNGs:Not today

Warm Up:
Nice mosey over to far parking lot. On the way, Lipstick was spotted coming down Stinson so PAX waited patiently in the parking lot for him. While we waited we did 10 SSH followed by an increasing burpee. Lipstick arrived and hid in the bushes just before 5 burpees, so we welcomed him to the party with 5 burpees. Good mornings, windmills, Sir Fazio arm circles, and squats were done.

The Workout:
Mosey to the amphitheater for 1st stop on our tour:
3 sets of 10: box jumps, erkins, dips, derkins,

Indian run to hill behind baseball fields.
Stop #2 was a repeat of a DoubleD beatdown at Possum Trot.
11’s: bear crawl uphill, star jumps at top, crawl bear down, squats at bottom

Indian run around the track to the next parking lot.

PAX lined up for a Guantanamo line across the parking lot.
-Lipstick tried to break Pikachu’s hip. Brexit questioned his return to F3.

Indian run back to tennis courts.

Still a little early for Mary, so PAX circled up for some Howling Monkeys, 2 rounds of 10 counts. Lots of grumbling when YHC called for round 2.

Mary:
PAX lay flat on their backs for a little music time. YHC turned on Flower by Moby. Sally up/Legs up straight at 60 degree, Sally down/Legs down to 6 inches. Keep heels off the floor the entire song. That was a long 3 mins 28 secs.

A little time left, so we did: homer to marge, single leg home to marge, american hammers, and have a nice day.

Announcements:
Wild Turkey birthday
SHP build delayed to 6/12 – https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d49aba823a3f4c61-shpncfuquay14
Spring Classic support on Sat ~8am at Bass Lake Hill
JOCOGA CSAUP sign-up – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NDNwxH89e7fCSJpJAH67Vwx-sZQb_qFTOL7a0WfjZjw/edit?fbclid=IwAR0k64t97c67KOXBZNcJfXZ1tmaSPR_byxGzTkVVDNImg-QZMJvHjL27omI#gid=0

T-Claps (Recognition):
All the PAX for making Cletus great again.
Brexit and Wild Turkey for making it back out in the gloom.

Prayer:
Brexit’s upcoming surgery

YHC took us out.

Sheepdog-All Valley Tournament

3 Pax showed up to compete in the All Valley Tournament. The competition was fierce as HIM went head to head with themselves to see if they could overcome their doubts and fatigue and win the championship.

Warm ups started with a light jog around the school. Then SSH, SFAC (f&b), Moroccan Night Clubs, neck stretches, hip rotations, knee rotation, Frankensteins, Good Mornings, & Willie Mays Hayes.

In preparation for the tournament we went into training which included staggered squats x10, dips x10, staggered squats x10, erkins x10, and squats x10. After that we moved to focusing on technique and balance as we found a curb and got into a squat hold position with only the balls of our feet on the curb forcing us to route and then ran wax on, wax off drills in cadence. The burn in both shoulders and legs were starting to sit in after several rounds. Once our training was complete we were ready to head to the tournament.

The tournament was slightly postponed as we contemplated he’s shiny object rocketing across the sky, later to find out that it was the SpaceX rocket. It was a pretty incredible site.


The Tournament:

match 1: pax each lined up on a parking space line and traveled from line to line throwing three kicks in between and then three Merkens at each line. On the way back we substituted merkins for three strike combos. Rinse and repeat two more times.

match 2: packs were feeling pretty good going into the second match which is where the montage kicked in. To the karate kid theme song we did squatted wax on wax off until the chorus shouted “your the best around…” each time this happened we executed a star jump Burpee. Farva, wanting to make sure he got on the cover of the brochure, made sure he had photo worthy star jumps. This continued for the remainder of the song.

match 3: YHC thought it was a good idea to stretch a little before going into the final match so we did some arm stretches and cotton pickers. The final match was against some chick named Sally from the valley. It did not take long to realize that this competitor was no joke. Pax did a Merkin challenge to “Bring Sally Up”. Every time Sally went up we pushed up, every time the song said bring Sally down we drop down into a merkin and hold 3 inches off the ground. This continued throughout the song for as long as we could push it. Once we hit our max we altered into chill cut plank hold to regular plank hold. This was no joke and as the song came to a close, pax were laid out on the ground.

Mary:
we finally rolled over and knocked out some LBCs and Homer to Marg. Then finished with Have a Nice Day.

Announcements: HS Classic runners and volunteers. Bed build postponed. Food delivery and other options
Prayer: upcoming travel.

Disney: The View From The Train

FNGs: nada

Warm Up:

– Good Mornings

Bobby Boucher pulled in late.  He pre-blasted that he would be bringing his wife to the airport.  YHC elected to ignore his burpees.

– SSH

Began a run of a non-conventional loop.  Wanted to nod at the traditional Disney workout but give it a little twist.  Quick Stop by Laetner’s car as he pulled in late for 10 burpees.  He will not be ignored.  Continued on the jog and stopped at the greenway entrance.

– Squats

Return to the main lot

– Goofballs
– Frankensteins

The Workout:

Recover on the jog running towards the opposite entrance.  On the main stretch carioca both sides, quick feet on the curb.  Continued mozy until we got to the small curved lot on the opposite side of the baseball diamonds.

Main Attraction – Bearcrawl Burpee Train – Line up and bear crawl from bottom of the curved parking lot towards the top.  This is completed in an indian run fashion.  When the guy in the back reached the front a burpee was compelted.  This continued until the end of the lot.  END OF THE LOT – Run to the start and RESET!

Replace bearcrawls with lunge walks.  Backwards running got you to the front of the line.  PAX were voluntold to call the workout when they reached the front of the line.  Many of the standards were brought out.  DawgPound flexed his Exicon muscle and broke out absolustions (brutal).

Back to the main lot.  We swapped out 1 group hit the wall for Balls 2 the Wall / group 2 did a workout on the short wall.  Short wall workouts included – Box Jumps, Dips, Step Ups

Mary: Has a back muscle fetish…

  • Superman
  • Flying W
  • Flying T
  • T Merkins

Announcements:  Bed building postponed, race weekend

Reserve your spot on the Disney Q-Sheet today before its too late!!!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_pUOHvqkzXJLl3PEuq-IW-R1coWr0HZsAG5tvFMq3qg/edit#gid=1502788962

T-Claps (Recognition):  Thanks to Shammy for passing the torch, looking forward to my time ahead at Disney!  Thanks to the PAX that showed for the first day.

Prayer:  YHC took us out

66% Shirted at the mini Murph

FNGs:  Welcome Strat-eee-gery

Warm Up: Good Mornings, Windmills, SSH, Goofballs, Frankensteins, Squats

The Workout:  Murph.  Well… whatever we can squeeze into a 45 min workout.

Started with the traditional 1 mile run by completing the figure 8 around Womble.

Paired off into accountability partners.  YHC cut the normal count of 100 pull-ups, 200 merkins, and 300 squats in half.  Each PAX aimed to complete half of the normal Murph.  The count was done OYO with YHC supplying headlocks and mumblechatter throughout.

I regailed the PAX with a memory of one of my first Cletus workouts where a Murph was declared as the workout.  It was intimidating and so hard back then.  This wasnt easy today but it was certainly easier than it was on one of my first workouts.  Keep coming back, get stronger, beat yesterday, <enter your cliche inspirational message here>

Did you know that YHC is now the site Q at Disney?  Do you have a birthday, anniversary, or other memorable event to celebrate?  Celebrate it at Disney!

Reserve your spot on the Disney Q-Sheet today before its too late!!!

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Once PAX completed their reps – we mozy’d around the soccer field and back around to the playground.  The TBD tribe then mozy’d back to the main lot for Mary.

Mary:  Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, (these brought cheers from the non-F3 onlookers in the lot), Good Mornings

Announcements:  Welcome Plunger (PAX relocating from Charlotte) – dropped some intel about an F3 campout coming this summer.  I cant find the link on Slack but keep an eye out for this HIM.  Good dude moving into town very soon.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:  Prayers for the country, Stra-tee-gery sought prayers for his 2.0s looking for college placement