80?! You’re Crazy Ivan!

FNG: 8-Mike

W-UP: disclaimer, mission, statement, squat, hold, Core principles, plank hold

The main event:

Five exercises:> Kettlebell swings, upright rows, Side swings, Dead lift And thrusters

Round 1: 10 reps each Exercise.

Now that everybody was warm, and familiar with the exercises, we kicked it up a notch!
The Q said “All right 80 reps each exercise will stay together break them up as you need to “. Lots of mumble chatter to follow statements like “that escalated quickly”, “how many did you say?”, There were some other Words said that the queue could not understand due to mumbling.

Round 2: 80 Reps same exercises

Round three: 40 reps same exercises

Mary: The PAX from Cletus joined. Homer to Marge slow count I/C to 10. Single leg alternate 10. Plank with Star Gazer.

 

Almost 46

What a beautiful morning it was today.  Maybe a bit damp but no water falling from the sky and temps were just right.  It’s the day before my birthday so I took the Q and promised to make the numbers 16 and 46 prominent and I think that was accomplished.

FNGs: None

Warm up:

SSH x 46 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Trunk rotations x10 IC

Frankenstein x10 IC

Burpee x 8 OYO

The Workout:

We built a pyramid of exercises today.  The format was simple, we’d start at 10 and work to 1 and then back down.  The first set would be just the 10, then the 10 and 8, then 10,8, and 7. So on and so forth.  And yes, I left 9 out on purpose because 10+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 46.  The exercises were as follows:

10 – Swings

8 – Figure 8 (duh)

7 – Goblet Squats

6 – Curls for the girls

5 – Tris for the guys

4 – Lawn mowers

3 – Midget love handles

2 – Turkish Getup

1 – One minute of plank switches or holding plank when you needed a rest

Once we got through that we did another 8 burpees to bring the total to 16.  We then worked our way backwards down the pyramid, removing exercises as we went.  So the first round we eliminated the plank, second round we eliminated the Turkish getup, etc.  This took us all the way to the end.

Mary:

There really wasn’t time for it.  We spent a minute doing a bit of light stretches.

Announcements:

Fram’s mattress move

Prayer Requests:

Tragic deaths in Fuquay.  One was a classmate of my middle daughter. Hold your kids tight.

 

Until next time.

010000

Getting Crazy With Ivan

FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH IC, Sir Fasio Arm Circles IC, Daisy Pickers IC, and some stretching.

The Workout:

  • Entry fee of 100 consecutive kettle bell swings
  • Main Set #1
    • Bent Rows IC, Curls Fu Du Gurls IC, Overhead Press IC, and Tris For Da Guys IC.
    • Recovery Mosey
    • Rinse and repeat
  • Main Set #2
    • Little Tea Cups IC on each side, Dead Lifts OMU, and WW1s OMU
    • Recovery Mosey
    • Rinse and repeat

Mary: Tridents IC, Homer-to-Marge (weighted) IC, Low Slow Flutter IC, 60sec Chill Cut Plank Hold, Plank Jacks IC, Mountain Climbers IC, and some stretching.

Announcements: Q-em All Challenge, Post Tracker Challenge, and Site Qs adding attendance to new column on AO specific tab on the Q-sheet.

T-Claps (Recognition): None

Prayer: General

Into the Dungeon

FNGs: Not today

Warm up: Mosey around the parking lot and then circle up for SSH, Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, and Overhead Claps

The Workout:

YHC promised a Dungeons and Dragons themed workout this morning.  I brought 4 dice with me as well as 8 numbered cards., each with four exercises on them.  The format was fairly simple, we’d roll the dice and they would determine what we did and how much.

The dice were:

D8 – Chose which card we would work off of

D6 – Determined the number of sets we’d do

D20 – Number of reps per exercise

D100 – Number of swings we’d do in between choosing cards.

I have to admit, this whole thing came out of the gate hot.  I was hoping we’d ease in to it but, alas, it was not to be.  As Pikachu said in Slack, the dice may not lie but they are not kind.

The first rolls were

D8 – 3 – This card consisted of Snatch on the left, Snatch on the right, Clean on the left, Clean on the right

D6 – 3 sets

D20 – 15 reps

As was exclaimed many times during this part of our quest, that’s way too many Snatches (not something I ever thought I’d say).  If you’re playing along at home that’s a total of 90 snatch and clean.  That was a lot.  But the D100 would be kind to us, right?

Prophetically, Pikachu called this one before we got to it.

D100 – 90

90 swings.  Nothing fancy about it, just a lot.

The second roll was:

D8 – 4 – This card was Chest Press, Skull Crushers, Overhead Reach, and Turkish Getups

D6 – 6 sets

D20 – 15 (!)

YHC immediately called an audible and said we weren’t going to do 6 sets of 15 Turkish Getups and that we’d save them for the end.  4 sets in and I called another audible because I hoped to get through another card or two.  We did four sets of 15 of the first three excercises.  We began our 15 Turkish Getups but a few minutes in to it I called an end to it because, again, I wanted to get more in.  The D100 couldn’t be cruel again, right?  Right?

D100 – 100

F.  Another audible was called.  We started the set of 100 with just 25 with the promise of sprinking the rest in later.

The third roll:

D8 – 5 – This was single arm lat raise on the left, single arm lat raise on the right, bus drivers, and ground pounders

D6 – 3

D20 – 8

Ok, this was a little more reasonable.  However, after struggling to do the single arm raises with the amount of weight we all had we changed it to double handed straight lat raises for the rest of our sets.  Also, instead of waiting until the end after each set we did another 25 swings.  By the end of this card we had finished our 100 from the previous roll.  Unfortunately we were out of time at this point.  The good news is that there are still 5 unused and unseen cards to be used again.

Mary:

Low Slow Flutter x10 IC

LBC x10 IC

Box cutters x10 IC

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

JLo x10 IC

I might be forgetting something here.

Announcements:

Fire Marshal Gavin – Seriously, congrats!

Prayer Requests:

Injured PAX.

 

As always, its an honor to get a chance to lead you all.

010000

Do you want to build a snowman

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Parking lot mosey, SSH, prisoner squats, imperial walkers, hill billies, merkins, willy mays hays, sir fazio arm circles and seal claps

The Workout:

You need a good base to build a snowman so the plan of 30/20/10 reps established our base. 

Round 1: kb swings, goblet squats, snatch and figure 8. After each set of reps a weighted lunge or farmer carry was called.

Round 2: curls for the girls, overhead tricep, halos and thrusters. After each set a weighted lunge or farmer carry was called.

Mary: Quick round of WWI and WWII along with some light stretching

Announcements: BestinShow starting a new business Honeydew Heroes to help those with small tasks.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Check on your neighbors during the recent and upcoming storms. 

Pumps and Grunts

FNGs: none

Warm Up:

  1. Bodyweight Good Mornings
  2. KB Halo 
  3. Hip Openers (World’s Greatest Stretch) 
  4. Uppercut Left-to-Right
  5. Bodyweight squats

The Workout:

Format: 4 rounds — work 50 sec, rest 10 sec, move to next exercise. Rest 30 sec between rounds.

  • KB Clean to Press (Right) 
  • KB Clean to Press (Left)
  • KB Front Rack Reverse Lunge (Alternating Legs) 
  • KB Deadlift to High Pull
  • KB Goblet Squat to Thruster
  • KB Swing

Mary:

KB American Hammer

KB Deadbug (Right) – Hold KB over chest, alternate lowering opposite arm/leg.

KB Deadbug (Left)

KB Plank Pull-Through

Pickle Pounders

Mountain climbers

LBCs

WW3s

Announcements: none

T-Claps (Recognition): none

Prayer: M4Life’s neighbor has a collapsed lung. @Choppa’s daughter has kidney issues

A late Backblast Is Still A Backblast

FNGs: none

Warm Up: Sir Fozio Arm Circles, Popeye Punches, WMH, Kettlebell Halo

The Workout:

Part 1 (10 minutes): 

One arm with no breaks between sets

  • 5x One-arm swing snatches
  • 5x Rows
  • 5x Hang cleans
  • 5x One-hand overhead squats

SWITCH Sides and repeat

Continue alternating sides for 10 min. (~4 total rounds)

Part 2 (15 minutes):

Tabata style (45 sec on 15 sec off) x 3

  • Left leg Romanian deadlift (RDL) x5 then knee raise
  • Right leg Romanian deadlift (RDL) x5 then knee raise
  • Thrusters
  • Lumberjacks (Right)
  • Lumberjacks (Left)

Part 3 (10 min):

LINE UP

  • American Hammers
  • Lateral Swings
  • Hip-Hip-Shoulder-Shoulder

Farmer carry 

  • 10x side bends

Switch sides and repeat 

Mary: 5 min various core exercises

Announcements: none

T-Claps (Recognition): none

Prayer: I don’t remember, sorry for the late backblast. 

Experiencing ombrophobia with my bros

FNGs: none

Warm Up: Arm Circles, Popeye Punches, WMH, Kettlebell Halo, Kettlebell lunge and twist

The Workout:

Part 1 (10 minutes): 

One arm 

  • 5x Snatches
  • 4x Rows
  • 4x Hang cleans
  • 4x squats

SWITCH Sides and repeat. Continue alternating sides for 10 min. 

Part 2 (10 minutes):

  • 2 minutes Around the World reverse lunge

MOVE TO KNEELING POSITION

  • 45 seconds Uppercut bottoms up press 
  • 45 second Twist upper cuts
  • 45 sec high pulls

SWITCH Sides and repeat

Part 3 (10 min): 

LINE UP

  • 15x Kettlebell Swings
  • 10 Kettlebell Plank Drag
  • 10 Breakdancers

Farmer carry right arm

  • 10x Side lean

SWITCH sides and repeat

Mary: Joined up with The Cletus boys for a Mary. Pickle Pounders, Hello Dolly, LBC, H-T-M

Announcements: Apex hosting charity walk for Men’s Mental Health. @Yogurt is Q-ing next week for his 60th! Details on Slack.

T-Claps (Recognition): none

Prayer: none

Popeye’s Amateur Hour at Crazy Ivan

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

  1. Side Straddle Hop
  2. Squats
  3. Good Morning
  4. Sir Fozio Arm Circles.
  5. Lunges with Torso Twist

The Workout:

Perform the circuit below for 3 rounds, with 45 seconds of work per exercise, 15 seconds of rest, and 1 minute of rest between rounds. Alternate arms or sides as needed. Adjust weight for proper form and intensity.

Lower Body Focus

  1. Kettlebell Goblet Squat
    • Hold the kettlebell at chest height, squat low, and engage quads and glutes.
  2. Kettlebell Deadlift
    • Focus on hamstrings and glutes with a flat back.
  3. Kettlebell Reverse Lunge
    • Place one foot on a low surface behind you, holding the kettlebell at your chest or in one hand.

Upper Body Focus

  1. Kettlebell Clean and Press (Alternating)
    • Clean the kettlebell to your shoulder, then press overhead.
  2. Kettlebell Bent-Over Rows (Alternating)
    • Hinge at the hips and row the kettlebell to your torso, alternating sides.
  3. Kettlebell Halo
    • Circle the kettlebell around your head, keeping your core tight.

Full-Body/Cardio Focus

  1. Kettlebell Swings
    • Use explosive hip movement to swing the kettlebell to shoulder height.
  2. Kettlebell Lateral Lunge with Pass-Through
    • Step out to the side and pass the kettlebell under your leg. Alternate sides.
  3. Kettlebell Ground Pounder
    • Combine a squat with an overhead press for a powerful full-body movement.

Core Focus

  1. Kettlebell American Hammers
    • Sit and twist side to side with the kettlebell. Lift feet for an extra challenge.
  2. Kettlebell Plank Drag
    • In a plank position, drag the kettlebell from side to side under your torso.

Announcements: Vote for Best In Show’s dog – Link in SLACK

Prayer: Continued healing for Best In Show

Best Crazy Ivan of 2025 so far

FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH, GM, Arm Circles, Take a lap. 

The Workout: Tabata 25 seconds on; 10 sec rest; 3 rounds with a lap in between: KB Swings, Deadlift, Squat w curl, Cleans (R, then L), Snatch (R, then L), Alternating Merkin on the Bell, Renegade Row with pass thru.

Mary: One round 25 sec; 10 sec rest KB Figure 8s, Around the World, Midget Love Handles & Halos. 

T-Claps (Recognition): @sardine using 2 bells for the majority of the workout. 

Prayer: My M & 2 daughters’ travel to Thailand, Cancun’s M starting new job, for PAX recovering from illness, injury and surgeries.Â