Monkey Humper

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FNGs: None

EC: Yoshi
Warm Up: Good Mornings, Weed Pickers ;), SSH
The Workout:  Mosey to the rocks and partner up.  Dora x2

First Dora – Partner 1 jogs around the fence while Partner 2 starts on 100 Ground Pounders, 150 Tricep Extensions and 200 Curls all done with the rocks.

Second Dora – Partner 1 does 1 Rock Squat and then John Cusack to the second post, 2 rock squats, then John Cusack to the third post, 3 rock squats, then John Cusack to the 4th post, 4 rock squats, John Cusack back to the start while Partner 2 starts on 100 Merkins, 200 Squats and 300 Monkey Humpers in cadence.

Mary: Some more stretching as we were all feeling some tighteness in our hammy’s
Announcements: I don’t remember
T-Claps (Recognition): N/A
Prayer: Midget took us out

The tale of 2 AOs

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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,

4.3.21 Ground Pounder – You should have been there

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FNGs: None 

5 HIMs posted to GP for some fun, games, and mumblechatter.  YHC brought the music box, discs and basketballs.  

Warm Up: 10x3cts of: Good Mornings, Willy Maze Hays, Windmills, Fazio Arm Circles (both directions), 20x3ct SSH.

The Workout

Circle of Rock: Mosey to the rock pile pick a MLarge rock.

3 sets of 10x3ct: Curls for the girls (or whatever your partner’s gender neutral pronoun might be), Overhead Tricep Press, Rut Rows, and Ground Pounders.

Mosey to the putting green

6 shots at the green, bear crawl to your disc and lunge walk back. (if you happen to make it,  no exercises are required crawls required).

6 shots to make it a dozen but add in exercises in-between throws (10×3 ct Squats, SSH, Emperial Walkers, LBCs, Freddie Mercuries, and Box Cutters)

Mosey to the B-ball court for 3 rounds of knock out

2 balls in play, line up and try to knock out the HIM shooting in front of you. Once you are knocked out, PAX exercise till last man is standing.  Moroccan Night Clubs, SSH, and Prisoner Squats

Mosey to half wall

3 sets of 10×3 ct Single Leg Step Ups, Dips and Derkins

5 minutes of Mary:

10x3ct LBCs, Rockies, Freddie Mercuries and American Hammers.

Announcements: 3rdF at Umbrella Thrift, Wilmington Marathon/Half April 16th, Ultimate at Mutiny on Monday.

T-Claps:  Bobby Boucher, Forceps and Dauber doubled down w/ posting U-Turn

Prayer Requests: For YHC’s friend Todd who is recovering from a heart attack and was on life support for a week (respirator removed on Friday).  For Fumunga’s M who is very close to delivering their first child. Praise for Gump’s new job. For the safety of all those traveling for Easter weekend.

 

Still trying to recover

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Pumpkin Spice's VQ at Ground Pounder

I think I got the cadence and count down for my VQ, but I forgot to “recover” after each exercise.
FNGs: None
Warm Up: Side straddle hop; imperial walkers; hillbillies; good mornings; abe vigados; sir fozio arm circles.
The Workout: Mosey to the rock pile. HEAVY ROCK 3 rounds 10 count: curls, triceps, rows, shoulders, squats, GPs; TWO SMALL ROCKS 2 rounds 10 (cadence): boxing, shoulders, L-raises, annies, T-pushup position rows, merkins. Mosey to basketball court; Two rounds of knockout. Overhead clap while waiting in line. When knocked out, while waiting for the end of the game, Bobby Hurleys round one & WW I round two. Wilt Chamberlain modified (100 LBCs; 100 Squats; 100 low slow flutter)
Mary: Good Morning
Announcements: See slack
T-Claps (Recognition): None
Prayer: Forcep’s work situation; Praise for Motor Boatin’s diagnosis.

Are you a Member of the Clergy?

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Sometimes when an FNG shows up, you gotta ask, “are you a priest or pastor, or member of the clergy?” Because we’re about to talk about rock spanks with consent and without consent and pickle pounders, etc. Today’s FNG Abacus, was not a member of the clergy so we had the “all clear” to commence with the best mumblechatter in Southwake. YHC sought to set the stage for ridiculousness by introducing the Bag of Wrenches (about a 30lb. bag of wrenches, literally) that would accompany us on our short journey today.

FNG’s: Welcome aboard Abacus!!!
Warm Up: Shredder got us started off with SSH x 15 IC as YHC got some extra gloves for our FNG. This was followed by Good Mornings x 20 IC, Imperial Walkers into Hillbillies x 15 IC, Hand Release Merkins x 20, Seal Claps x 10 IC, Overhead Claps x 10 IC, Donkey Kicks x 20 IC, Hand Release Merkins x 10, Good Mornings x 10 IC.
The Workout: Mosey over for some rock work as Shredder and Pumpkin Spice shared the load of Bag of Wrenches.

Circle of Rock

2 Rounds of each: Squats x15, Rut-Rows x15, Hand Release/Release Merkins x 10 IC, Curls for the Girls x15, Tricep Extension x15, Rock Spanks x15 IC, Chest Press x25, Shoulder Press x15.

The circle of rock continued except 4 PAX stepped up to do 25 Curls for the Girls with the Bag of Wrenches, while the rest of the circle did AMRAP Ground Pounders the entire time. PAX not Curling or Pounding were Planking.

Wall of Pain

Each PAX took a turn doing 25 Curls for the Girls with the Bag of Wrenches while the rest of the PAX alternated between BTTW and People’s Chair. With 13 fellas…this took awhile!

Mosey to the playground with Shredder and 3rd Cousin grabbing the bag to travel. When we got there, 4 different PAX stepped up to be our “wrench curlers” while all others did AMRAP step-ups. PAX not curling or stepping, were planking.

Mary: LBC’s x20 IC, Homer to Marge X 20 IC, WW1’s x 20, Pickle Pounders x20 IC, short mosey back to the flag for Donkey Kicks x 10 IC. I told these guys not to leave open spots on the Q Sheet!
Announcements: Long Ass Run, March 27th. Downtown Train has an April “Neighborhood Challenge” coming up.
T-Claps (Recognition): Pumpkin Spice and Forceps for the double down and Pumpkin Spice will be on the VQ at Ground Pounder next week. That dude is gonna uncork it on us! Welcome Abacus (works in finance…close to Bean Counter…but).
Prayer: Motor Boatin’ and his new job, Pumpkin Spice has a friend who has recovered from a possible brain tumor, fellow PAX in Carpex with various injuries, those struggling with addiction, depression, mental illness, and grief. When we pray…God moves! YHC took us out.

Ground Pounder – Disc Style

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FNGs: None 

11 HIMs posted to GP on a chilly but beautimous morning.  YHC brought the music box playing Depeche Mode & discs.  

Warm Up: 10x3cts of: Good Mornings, Windmills, Fazio Arm Circles (both directions), Arm stretches, 20x3ct SSH, Michael Phelps.

The Workout

Traveling Rock: Mosey to the Rock Pile pick a medium rock then mosey to the first disc golf station.

Hole 1: PAX selected their drivers and took turns launching their disc toward the basket while the others perform an exercise. PAX then Cousac their rock to their disc and continue exercises until it is their turn to toss again.  2+ sets of 10x3ct of each exercise:  Alternate between Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Bus Drivers, Overhead Press, and Ground Pounders.

Cousac to Hole 2

Hole 2: Finish last set of 10x3ct: Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Overhead Press, Bus Drivers and Ground Pounders. 20 Rock Squats,

Cousac to Hole 3

Hole 3: 2 set of 10x3ct: SSH, Lunges, Emperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Moraccan Night Clubs

Return the Rocks

Heavy Discs on Putting Green

Pax select 1 of 4 starting points. 1 set of 20 Merkins. Make it lunge walk to the next station, miss it and you must Bear Crawl to the next station until you are back at the original starting point. All discs in play at all times (surprisingly no one got hit). PAX exercise between throws and retrieval.

20 Merkins x2, 15 SSH, 30 ct Chilcutt Plank Hold, 20 Prisoner Squats, 10x3ct Pickle Pounders, 10×3 ct Homer to Marge

5 minutes of Mary:

10x3ct LBCs, Rockies, Freddie Mercuries and American Hammers.

Announcements: Bacon doing the Goggin’s Challenge to raise funds for HSPD Torch Run, Eat at Jersey Mike’s on March 31st – Proceeds go to MMIA,  Triangle Tri in June, Krispy Kreme has BOGO on dozen donuts today, Wilmington Marathon/Half still on for April 16th (March 7th is the last day to defer).

Prayer Requests: Doc’s high school aged daughter getting surgery due to Chrones, praise for YHC’s son getting an A on his PSY Final,

2nd F @ Panera

Jessie’s Girl and the After Song

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It was good to see several cars in the lot already as I pulled up early for GP. Tclaps to Shredder who hopped out of his car and went for an EC run with the promise of no burpees by the Q if he was late getting back. Forceps rolled up right on time bringing the music with him, because the pax at GP do get grumpy without their music. Little did he know how important it would be later to set the mood for my new Mary Circuit.

FNGs:N/a
Warm Up: side straddle hops(by most, Gump hops by 1, and attempted Gump hops by another), good mornings, fozzy arm circles forward and reverse, Michael Phelps, and daisy pickers.
The Workout: our normal rocks were halfway underwater so mosey to the new rock pile for a medium to large rock. I was very proud of everyone today as I didn’t see any one arm pebbles this week. John cusack, curls for the girls, and mumble chatter (something about morning enemas) as we mosey to the game board by the basketball courts.

Everyone lined up by the color wheel with rocks for the main event. Pax would spin the wheel, I would move on the board to that color, we would do a super ground pounder as the buy in for every turn there’d been (1,2, 3, etc.), the pax that spun would call a 10 count move, we would all execute that move, and then rotate down a rock. It took 15 turns to make it to the end and we ended with a 20 count move to finish.

Cusack, curls for the girls, and mumble chatter(something about a trip to Circle K, had to be there for this one!) as we returned the rocks to their exact location and mosey back to the start for Mary

Mary: Inspired by GP 2 weeks ago I promised to make a Jessie’s Girl Circuit based on some mumble chatter. Forceps had it on the playlist and got it started.
Jessie’s Girl: 10 count 3rd Nipplers(thanks Gump for the inspiration), 6 inches hold, pickle pounders, homer to marge right leg up, and homer to marge left leg up. Then rinse and repeat for Round 2. This circuit lasts much longer than the song and I think we hit a different playlist for the after song.
Finished things up with an embrace the suck plank hold.

Announcements: Mama’s Thrift moving tomorrow morning 7am
T-Claps (Recognition): All pax that made it out for some ridiculousness and a reasonable Q
Prayer: Fanny Pack traveling, covid relief, unspokens

No Lack of Mumble Chatter at GP

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FNGs: none BUT Welcome Back Kotter:  Motor Boatin’!!!

Warm Up: SSH, Good mornings, Daisy Picker, Imperial Walker, Hillbillies, Sir Fazios, Overhead claps, Seal Claps

The Workout:

10 PAX shared in the best mumble chatter in SW Wake; Great to see @Abe (HC) @Bobby Boucher and @M4LIFE join the GP regulars of @Shredder @Gump @Forceps @K I T T Y L I T T R @Farva Lots of rocks with moseying trying to find some shelter. Boom box provided some 80s Rock. Lots of hard work in 33 deg F, wet, moist conditions with a bunch of laughs. YHC got a mouthful for sure. You had to have been there.  John Cusack from rock pile to road; lunges, overhead press, curls for girls; found our way to a shelter on moist ground – more exercises but quickly moved to a basketball court.  Rotated through multiple exercises including slap rocks, GP, toe taps, squats, rut-rows, wonder bras.  Mosey behind the school to the front and camped out under the awning for lots of rock exercises on our six.  Nipplers, chest presses, 6 inches, American hammers to name a few.

Mary:  Mosey back to the flag.  Stretching, good mornings….

Announcements:  See slack and FB; Ted Talks; Q-School; First aid kits – need help calling on local HS businesses (see Dauber)

T-Claps (Recognition):  all the PAX who showed up in this wonderful weather

Prayer:  UNSPOKEN, Political leaders, Those impacted by Pandemic; Injured PAX.  YHC took us out.  Honored to lead. – Dauber

 

Now for Something Completely Different (well almost)

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FNGs: None 

7 HIMs posted to GP on a cold but dry morning.  YHC brought the music box & discs.  Sadly Gump wore his Tampa Bay jersey and beanie (that guy) to support “Tompa Bay.”

Warm Up: 10x3cts of: Good Mornings, Willie Maze Hays,  Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles (both directions), Arm stretches, 20x3ct SSH.

The Workout

Circle of Rock (of course): Mosey to the Rock Pile pick a LARGE rock (if it can be curled by anyone with one arm – it ain’t big enough). Alternate rocks between exercises.

3 sets of 10x3ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Rut Rows and Ground Pounders. 10x3ct:  Windshield Wipers, Rock Spanks, Single arm Merkins (both sides), Rock Press (3 sets), 10×3 ct Rockies, 10x3ct Box Cutters

Mosey to the disc golf putting green

Heavy Discs (Something different):

3 discs in play at all times. PAX take turns putting while rest exercise. Round 1: SSH – don’t stop till someone makes it (that took forever – THANK THE LORD FOR KITTI LITTR).  Round 2-38 were more of a free for all with PAX lining up on each side to keep the discs moving (minimum of 10x3ct of each exercise).

Merkins x2, SSH, Plank Hold, Squats, Chilcutt Planks, Lunges, Emperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Pickle Pounders, LBCs, Moroccan Night Clubs, Freddie Mercury, Monkey Humpers x2

4 minutes of Knee Wall of Pain:

20 Step Ups, 20 Dips, 10 Erkins, 10 Step Ups, 10 Dips, 5 Erkins

Announcements: Mama’s House moved (so much for the new driveway), HIMs running Uwharrie and some dozen donut race, Looking for businesses to support the HSPD fund raiser for 1st Aid Kits,  Wilmington Race moved to April.

Prayer Requests: For our country, injured PAX, Noah’s Arc & his M, YHC asked for prayer through the grief therapy process.

2nd F @ Panera

My Eyes are Closed…but I Can Still See It!

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Always a lot of great 1-liners at Ground Pounder! Today, did not disappoint to that end. It was a cold and bright sunny morning at Jones Park, but even the flaming ball that is in the sky could not compare to the brightness (or tightness) of Pikachu’s pants! At one point, Shredder mentioned he had to close his eyes whilst running behind Pikachu due to the brightness, but could somehow still see (hence…the title of this BB). Other great 1-liners of the day:

“I think I’m lactating” – Shredder. “We all need to sign up on that Q Sheet so this jackass can’t Q here anymore” – Pikachu. “All my rocks are frozen to the ground” – Frenchie. “I’m just gonna pick up that slab of concrete” – Farva. “Small, medium, large. You must’ve missed something that day in elementary school” – Shredder.

FNG’s: – nope

Warm Up: SSH x 25, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio’s F/R, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies all x 10, and Good Mornings x 21 (much to the agreement of Shredder and Pikachu).
The Workout: Now for the disagreement to begin. YHC decided to try something new to me today to ensure that all PAX chose appropriate sizes of rocks. You see…there’s been just a bit of mumblechatter recently that PAX aren’t choosing large enough rocks and that Farva could sit there and juggle with all other men’s version of “large” rocks. So each PAX were instructed to get a large rock from the familiar pile, a not as large but let’s say medium rock from the not so shiny but newer rocks down on the end of the trench, and finally, two small rocks that could be held and controlled in each hand. Each time PAX got a rock from the trench, they paid an entrance tax of 5 burpees. With rocks ready to go and circled up, we performed the following routine (rocks sizes denoted by L, M, S):

Shoulder Press, L x30, Wonderbras, M x25, 1-2’s, S x 20

Curls for the Girls, L x 30, Curls for the Girls, M x 25, 1-2’s, S x 20

Chest Press, L x 50, Alternating Merkins on Rock, M x 25, 1-2’s, S x 20

Rut Rows, L x 40, DeadLifts, M x 20, Bent over Flys, S x 20 (think it was somewhere in here where the agreement was made not to let YHC Q anymore)

Ground Pounders, L x 30, Ground Pounders, M x 25, Front Raises, S x 20

Rock Spanks w/o Consent, L x 20, Rock Spanks w/ consent, M x 20, Diamond Merkins, S x 15

PAX returned each set of rocks with a return penalty of 5, 10, and 15 merkins, respectively.

Wall of Pain time. We did a 15 count per PAX People’s Chair, followed by Prisoner squats x 50 (didn’t get to legs in rock circle). Finished up with a 10 count per PAX Ball to the Wall.

Mary: All in Cadence. LBC’s x30, Homer to Marge x25, WW1 x20, Good Mornings x 15
Announcements: New Monthly challenge coming, starting Monday. It will be 15 mins. of AMRAP KettleBell Snatches or Jump Squats, with a focus on form and explosive movement. 1st F planning on Monday night via Zoom, 8-9 PM.
T-Claps (Recognition): Pumpkin Spice for accountability and drive with YHC to complete last monthly challenge set as EC.
Prayer: Pumpkin Spice and Shredder have neighbors and friends struggling significantly with COVID. Lipstick and family for travels and peace in time of losing his aunt. My M for more restoration and healing. Saddiq and his grieving over loss of brother. YHC took us out…and I will be back to Q this great AO!