Carpex Surprise!
FNGs: None
Announcements: Mulch at Bass Lake – limit it to 5 at a time.
T-Claps (Recognition): Juneteenth.
Prayer: Families in F3. BLM.
Wahoo took us out.
Have you lost your mind?
Today was my first Q as AO Site Lead for Disney. It’s an honor to take this location over. It’s got a long history of beat downs and just the space you have to work with is unmatched to any other AO in SW. Overhearing conversations last week, and picking up from my last Q here that was character themed, I listened to Dawg talking about the street artists at the Park… Let’s see what we can do with that…
FNGs: NADA
Warm Up: Quick Mosey, Good Morning, SSH, Frankenstein, Sir Fazio, Overhead Claps, Seal Claps. Let’s go.
The Workout:
1st Stop: The Bowl – Q split the PAX down the middle and groups were instructed to up one side 5 merkins, down and up the other 5 merkins – That’s 1. Continue to 5 for a total of 50 Merkins.
Regroup and form 1 line for Bataan Death March. (Those unfamiliar – Leader sprints out from line, runs to back, as he passes the line the next person up sprints out, and so on and so on..) Continued to the large lot at the School. As we made our way through the lot, Q called out corner locations as landmarks.
2nd Stop: Circle in front of the school. Count off by 2’s.
Group 1 – Plank walk around the circle curb; Group 2 – 3 corners as a group in the parking lot – Counterclockwise. Corner 1 10 Star Jumps, Corner 2 10 Squats, Corner 3 10 Plank Jacks IC.
Switch & Repeat following clockwise
Group Moved to adjacent circle’s curb – Crab walk around the circle – 3 moves, 3 baby-dips. Group 2 Back around the parking lot again for same exercises above. This is where shit hit the fan…. Everyone started complaining and I thought my plans would go off the rails… (Note to first-time Q’s. When people start bitching you usually have a stellar thang going…. Work through it… Press on…) Both groups did some level of modification and some picked up on my plans and supported with a mosey around the circle!
I tried, Hidden Mickey!
Enough of that. Mosey back to the flag
Mary: WWI x20, LBC x20 IC, 6 inch hold 10 counts (x3), LSF IC x20, HND.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition): Flo-Jo. Dude powered through the first traffic circle. I think he was the only one to make it all the way around with no break!
Prayer: YHC took us out
Easing Back Into Speed
FNGs: n/a
Warm Up: A Skips, B Skips, Karaokes, Side Jumps, Lunge jumps, alternating 10 merkins and 10 LBCs
The Workout: On the track – 2x Run 400m, 800m, 300m intervals with 200m jog as rest. First set at 24-25 sec per 100m, second set at 23 sec per 100m.
Tiger claws and Leg swings between and after each set.
Mary: 5 x Accelerators for 60m
Announcements: Mulching going on at bass lake
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Friends struggling with depression during the pandemic.
Disappearing T-Back at R4TJ
EC: Banana Seat, Cupid, Dawgpound, Emeril, McNugget, Pikachu, Redenbacher
Noticeable abscences: Dumbo and Mookie
FNGs: Not today
Warm Up: YHC felt like I cheated the PAX last week so we started off with 10 X SSH and 10 X Frankenstein IC
The Workout:
Mary: MIA
Announcements: Check Slack and FB
T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX for picking up the 6 today. Pikachu and Cupid for the push up the hills for YHC.
Prayer: Pablo, Particle Board, Rainmaker, Cupid, Martini. Coal Ash’s Grandma, Skidmark and his family with their new baby today, unspoken.
YHC took us out. Thank you for the opportunity to lead.
Silent But Deadly
Not a whole lot of mumble chatter today at TBD as we kept everyone moving and working hard on a drizzly Wednesday morning.
PAX: Snap, Oboe, Elton, Buford, Florence, and Hardy
FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey around the soccer field followed by karaoke, high knees, butt kickers, Good Mornings, Windmills, and Fazio arm circles.
The Workout:
Mosey over to the pavillion for a descending ladder:
4 exercises done 10 times, then 9 times… all the way to 1 – merkins, jump squats, dips, and WW2s
Indian Run to the shelter by the pone for a round of tabata
4 exercises done 30 seconds on, 10 seconds rest for 3 sets – Shoulder Taps, Forward/Backward Jump Lunges, Balls to the Wall, and Alternating Side Lunges
Mosey over to the rock pile:
One person called out an exercise with the rock and ran around the parking lot while the group performed the exercise. Made it around the circle twice.
Just to make sure nobody was going to walk away with an ounce of energy, we sprinted the long way around the soccer field from the rock pile to the tennis court for some Mary.
Mary: Low slow flutter, Freddy Mercury, Box Cutters, and LBCs
Announcements: Get signed up for mulching around Bass Lake
Prayer: Pablo’s family
Moist Bear Crawls
EC: Dumbo, Emeril, Dawgpound, Redenbacher
FNGs: none
Warm Up: Moseyed over to the Goodwill parking lot.
15 SSH
10 Imperial Walkers
10 Hillbillies
10 Windmills.
The Workout: Continued mosey over to the road to nowhere. It went like this:
Bear crawl from the bottom to the stop sign. 10 squat exercises. Lunge back to the bottom. 10 merkin exercises. Rinse and repeat. About half way through, some PAX decided that bear crawls might mess up their manicure, so they opted to run up to the stop light and back.
After a few rounds of this, it was time to head back. Moseyed to the Goodwill parking lot. YHC felt bad that the runners missed out on the bear crawls, so we did 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 Merkins, 10 Mountain Climbers and 10 Merkins before heading back for Mary.
Mary: Started with a little yoga and runner’s stretch. 15 WWIIs, 10 Box Cutters, 10 Homer to Marges, 10 Freddie Mercurys, 10 Pickle Pounders, 10 Mountain Climbers.
Announcements: Go check out the Schoolhouse AO at Garner Magnet HS on Wednesdays. Bass Lake mulch sign up is up. We use this trail, let’s give back!
T-Claps (Recognition): Tent City for coming out from Garner! Also, everyone that faced the rain and beat the fartsack this morning.
Prayer: Martini, Pablo and Oboe for loss in families. YHC took us out.
A Sisyphus inspired workout
11 PAX and 1 dog posted at Disney for a Sisyphus inspired Q.
FNGs: None
Warm Up: Lap around the soccer field. Circle up for the following exercises in cadence: SSH, Windmill, Good Morning, SirFazio Arm Circles
The Workout: Mosey to the bottom of the lot to select a rock for today’s workout. Start on walkway around the soccer field, stop at the first corner for RuttRows ICx10. Continue around soccer fields, john cusak the rocks, until we reached the split in the path with the hill. Partner up for a Dora 1-2-3 (shared exercises of 100 goblet squats, 200 overhead presses, 300 curls for the girls), partner 1 ran started the exercises while partner 2 ran down the hill to complete 5 merkins and run back up to switch. Once all groups were finished, continue to john cusak around the soccer fields stopping along the way to do: Merkins with 1 hand on the rock (10 each side), Midget cookie pouches, tricep extensions. Once we made it back to the bathroom building we regrouped with our partners to complete 2 rounds of each: partner 1 hold BTTW while partner 2 did LSF while holding the rock x10 in cadence, partner 1 hold peoples chair while partner 2 did Homer 2 Marge with the rock in their lap. Return the rocks and back to the flag for Mary
Mary: All exercises in cadence: LSF x 20, Box Cutter x20, pickle pounders x10
Announcements: check slack and FB
Prayer: Martini’s Family, Pablo’s Family, Cupid’s Family, First Responders
That’s a Big Weinke
FNGs: None
Warm Up: The rain held off. Red October PAX joined the PAX from Mutiny. Dauber led the warmup with good mornings, Daisy pickers, overhead claps, seal claps and sir Fazio arm circles (f/b), 25 SSH.
The Workout: I brought a poster listing a bunch of kettlebell exercises. After turning 50 I need reading glasses and opted for a huge weinke. See picture. After each 25 rep exercise, we caught our breath doing core exercises that included planks, LBCs, WW IIs, leg lifts, 6 inches, catalinas, erkins…At one point we moseyed to the wall for a 10c X 4 BTTW and people’s chair. R&R but doubled the time. Fun.
Mary: joined FedEx with some static stretches, pickle pounders, planks, merkins, hammers, H2M, etc.
Announcements: Bass Lake mulch sign up. See Slack. FV PAX check FB.
T-Claps (Recognition): welcome back kotter (Modify)!
Prayer: FedEx took us out. Lots of unspoken. Prayers for Noah’s Ark’s M, recent graduates, first responders, gov’t leaders; PAX who are grieving with loss of a family member; injured PAX; everyone trying to improve their relationships with others.
Bounds & Strides
FNGs:
Nope.
Warm Up:
Warm up lap with SSH x20 IC, 5x burpees, 10x Daisy Pickers IC, 10x Merkins, and 10x Frankensteins.
The Workout:
We moseyed over to the large parking lot where YHC lead the group through a lap with some cone markings. Pax did an exercise of their choosing x10 in the far corner from the cones – exercises repeated each lap.
After the first lap the next three laps had pax bounding through the first half of the cone runway. The following three laps were counterclockwise and had pax striding through the entire length of the cone runway.
Pax took a cooldown around the course and then met at the bottom of the road coming off the ramp. After a squat hold it was a jailbreak to the basketball court via the road.
Mary:
We circled up on the courts for a little yoga – runner’s pose and pidgeon pose.
Announcements:
RUNE
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Modify as Needed
YHC started the pre-blast talking up the route on Crossway but I had to modify my route and cut through the greenway. Cowboy decided to join me and it was great catching up with him along the way.
EC: Aquaman, Bernie, Boy George, Coal Ash, Cupid, Dawgpound, Emeril, Pablo, Redenbacher, Skidmark
FNGs: Not today
Warm Up: Say Whaa
The Workout: Reverse Turkey Leg was the route
Mary: MIA
Announcements: Rune, check Slack and Facebook
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Pablo, Particle Board, Rainmaker for the loss of their mother. Cupid for the recent loss of his Gran Dad. Unspoken.
YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead