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Good Times at Johnsville

EC: UTI, Skidmark, YHC had an abbreviated EC that included the John
Warm Up: Jogging, Karaoke, Frankenstein, shuffles
The Workout: Reverse Indian Run down Paradise City EC route to the Bridgewater Pool. Pax paired up based on speed for partner loops. Partners went in opposite direction and met back at full loop (0.4 Miles) for Patty Cake Merkins x10 in Cadence. Repeated this 5 times with increasing intensity levels – 1K Pace 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%.  Pax headed back to Ting with cool down mile
Mary: Went through some stretching as we talked Announcements.

Quick Note from the Q: I often find I have pain during or after running that typically go away. A big part of this has to do with no warmup and cooldown. I purposely (and selfishly) tried to integrate more warmup and a cool down during our time.  I always tell myself I don’t have the time to spend on it and just need to get going for the miles.  I tried something different today by integrating the cool down into our announcement time. It was a great opportunity for Skid to share his thoughts/connection on the Run for Dedee 5K, while we all appropriately stretched our muscle groups.  All this to say, Find time for the pre/post run work. It will lead to better things, speed, injury prevention, etc…

Announcements: ATT Run 2/22; Standing 2F Thursday’s at Lowes Foods @ 530; Run for Dedee 5K begining of April at Sugg Farm See Skidmark for details
T-Claps (Recognition): All Pax for sticking with me this morning. I wasn’t sure how the turnout would be and I was excited to see 14 heads as I came back from the John!
Prayer: Sick Families (UTI’s), All those going through Addiction, Pikachu’s Wife who is dealing with Back Pain

Prison Yard Debut 2/13

Pax of 8 got stronger for the official debut of The Prison Yard

Dauber, Double D, Sprinkler, Ball Drop, Banana Seat, New Mexico, and FedEx with Breach on the Q

Warm Up: Jog around the parking lot then circle up for 22 rep count of SSH, Frakeinsteins, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies and Good Mornings.

The Workout:

6 Sets of 3 Exercises with 15 seconds of rest between each set

Set 1 ( 15 Squats, 15 Merkins, 15 Mountain Climbers )

Set 2 (12 Shoulder Taps, 12 Plank Jacks, 12 Up and overs)

Set3 (12 Thrusters, 12 Lunge jumps, 12 Biceps Curls with the pain sticks)

Set 4 (15 V-ins, 15 LBC’s, 15 WWII’s)

Set 5 (10 Irkins, 10 Dirkins, 10 Dips)

Set 6 (Start with 6 burpees and increase 1 burpee each set)

Announcements: Double D mentioned the Appellation trail opportunity Check slack for details)

Prayer: Go out and be kind to people, prayers for Fram as his wife as they get ready to welcome thier new daughter to the world.

1 lap

FNGs: nope

Warm Up: same as mutiny

The Workout:
Head to track after warmup
6 stops – same side lunges tapping bell on ground on first long stretch. Switch sides after middle stop. Bell drag bear crawls on short sides. Straight arm bell over head lunges on far side.
1- IC full into half swings squat on 3 x20
2- plank pass through x20
3- squat curl up press x20
4- floor to snatch twist opposite side x10 each side
5- lunge row squat side with bell opposite arm out straight x10 each side
6- push up rows chest touches bell x20 each side (40 merkins total)

Mary:
Planked knee taps to bell tight core x20 IC
Midget love handles x15 each side
Russian skip twists x20 IC
Bell burpees 1 min (jump press)

Announcements:
Appalachian trail hike in June, Prison Yard at Hilltop Needmore Park (new AO 0500 start)

Prayer:
Sick families, new babies, injured PAX, Noahs Ark wife new procedure, Sprinklers family

Thanks to the two HIM (Yosemite and Farva) that took the 1 lap with me. Strong work!

BS out

Something New

SW Leadership team is taking over U-turn for the next few weeks to try some new stuff out. Our objective is to bring everyone back close to the same time for COT. Today was the first test run to see how group releases would work. So here we go. Two minute warning given. Then final minute. 0600 let’s go.

FNGs: Nope but we did have 23 count at start and ended with 29. Birth on the run.

The Workout: Short mosey over to open area with some but kickers. Instructions on how today’s run would work.
Frankensteins x15 IC
5 Mile Group:
Group 1 release – 10:30 pace or greater
4 mins of warmups
Group 2 release – 9:30 pace
4 mins of Mary
Group 3 release
– Pick up the 6 in your group twice. Once at circle in 12 Oaks and again at Irving left turn
3 Mile Group:
Release with group 3. Run route reverse 1.5 then turn

Cool Down:
Circle up 0700 for stretches and yoga poses

Announcements:
Lowes Food 2nd F on Friday’s

T-Claps (Recognition):
Fanny Pack on the PR for milage. Shout out to Brexit on milage total (Strava don’t lie)
Shield lock challenge winners. Wrangler with the tight shield making skills.

Prayer: Farva’s neighbors house burn down need gift cards, Lipstick’s sister battling addiction, Frumonga’s request of little boy with cancer, Pikachu’s wife having back issues

Nice work out there in the cold gloom. Thanks for allowing me to lead and change things up a bit today. Strong 2nd F at Panera following the run as well. Race season is creeping in and beach season will be here soon. Stay Hard!

BS Out

Ivan gets competitive

YHC pre-blasted Crazy Ivan as being something different – a little bit of competition for the pax.

FNGs:

None today – a shame
Warm Up:

Warm up

Warm up lap around the interior of the parking deck – YHC set up some cones on the other end to mark the lap course for the remaining circuits.

SSH x20 IC

Daisy picker x10 IC

Fazio Arm Circles x10 forward/backward

5x burpees OYO for Lipstick being a bit late

 

The Workout:

Pax grab their kettle bell and circle up for circuit 1:

1x Burpee
6x Turkish Getups
10x Squat Thrusters
20x One arm kettlebell swings
Run a lap

After round 1 the pax partnered up based on the speed of which they completed the round. #1 with #2, 3 with 4, etc with one group of 3.

Repeat round 1 with the faster pax from each pair adding 2x burpees each round.

After two rounds of that circuit we circled up for a round with “big bertha” – YHC’s 60lb kettle bell that doesn’t get enough love. We passsed the bell clockwise between pax with each pax doing one overhead press each. Then we passed it back counterclockwise to keep ourselves balanced (with another press.

We then moved on to circuit 2:

1x Turkish Getup
6x Midget Getups
10x Merkin Kettlebell slides
20x Bell Slaps
Run a lap

After round 2 the pax partnered up based on the speed of which they completed the round. #1 with #2, 3 with 4, etc with one group of 3.

Repeat round 2 with the faster pax from each pair adding 2x turkish getups each round.

Mary:

Midget cookie pouch x10
Single leg deadlifts x5 each leg slooooooooow
Homer to marge SW style x10 + x5 each leg – all with kettlebell
Homer to marge exicon style until YHC was tired
Announcements:

2nd F/3rd F – Travis Manion Foundation fundraiser at Bombshell tonight. $5 per pax that show up.

Greenhouse build at Holly Springs food cubbard tomorrow

U-Turn will be different – read pre-blast and expect the differences to continue for the full month

ATT long ass run 22Feb20

New AO Prison Yard – Crooked Creek Park at 0500 on Tuesdays.

June 4th 100 mile backpacking trip – 4 days. See Double D for details.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Lucky Charms for kicking my rear
Prayer:

Wallaby and all pax whose families are dealing with addiction – both those battling and those supporting them. Midget’s friend going into detox.

Rash of cancer scares in local community.

Full House’s client’s wife with brain tumor – successful surgery for lemon sized tumor! Full recovery expected.

UTI’s co-worker Carolyn went from full cancer to remission!

YHC’s wife’s back issues have resurfaced – psychologically tough to have issues that were solved reappear for no good reason.

Better fix your watch…

EC: Skidmark

FNGs: Not today

YHC arrived with plenty of time to spare, planted the flag and gave out a few fist bumps. I noticed that my Garmin screen was frozen so went ahead and did a “soft” reset on it. After the watch rebooted and appeared to be good to go, I notice the group looking at me like it is time to go. Someone mentions that it is 5:31, check my watch again and I tell the group my watch says 5:26.  All I hear is “You better fix your watch”……circle up and start the with…

Warm Up:  10 x Frankensteins IC, 10 x SSH IC

The Workout:

Reverse Turkey Leg (5 Mile route)

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 Mile Route:

Rut did an out and back to downtown with Skid picking up the six along the way.

Mary: Almost got some yoga in….

Announcements: Check Slack and FB. A lot of 3rd F opportunities coming up in the next few weeks.

T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone for picking up the six (me) today. Much appreciated. Rut for getting a PR today, good work!!

Prayer: Wallaby and his family, injured PAX and PAX who have not been posting….we would love to see you back in the gloom!

YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.

Prison Yard Workout 2/4

8 men and one late comer got up early for a Prison Yard style workout at the Crooked Creek pool. The weather was outstanding and the tools of the trade were on display.

Fonzie, Sprinkler, Double D, Farva, FedEx, Fram, Banana Seat, and Oyster(he got lost)  with Breach on the Q.

Warm Up: Run around the parking lot and circle up for 22 counts of SSH, Frankensteins, Good Mornings and Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies.

The Workout:  Round robin of stations 2 rounds each set is 90 seconds followed by 25 seconds to change stations.

Stations are as follows.

Tires

Leg Press

Chest Press

Ropes

Squat double waves

Split Jack Waves

Plates

Russian Twist Press

Plate Figure 8’s

Jump Rope

Jog jumps

1 leg alternate jumps

Pain Sticks

Squat thrust with a merkin

Overhead press

Sandbag

Twist and Pull

Squat and clean

Barbell

Side to Side twists

Squat and push

Med Ball

Lunge and Twist

Up and Over Merkin

Announcements: Travis Manon Event on Friday at Bombshell Brewing from 6p-9p. For every pax member that shows up, Breach will donate $5 to the cause.

Prayer: Be respectful of those around you and remember that the person you encounter may be having the worst day of their life and are acting emotionally. If we slow down and take a second to understand we may be able to make a positive influence in their life.

Be with those that are sick and let them get better fast to get back out in the gloom.

Circle of Broken Cinder Blocks

EC: Norm, Yosemite, Finkle, Dovetail, Martini, Beater

FNGs: one, welcome Depends

Warm Up:  Quick lap with Butt Kickers, L/R skips, high knees, Arm Stretches (R over L, L over R, R elbow, L elbow), Good Morning, Daisy Pickers, SSH, 5 x Burpees

The Workout: YHC brought some broken cinder blocks and bricks from the torn down Gold Leaf building (new Aviator Brewery site) and placed them in a tight circle.  Had 11 Pax so spread them out so everyone had something to use for ascending Circle of Pain.  Each Pax chose a spot, began the 10 exercises starting at 1 working our way up to 11 each, after each round Pax moved to the left.  Count and order was a little off at times (sorry fellas) but we all killed it, great work gents!

Exercises:  Curls for Girls, Wonder Bra (said Jack Web’s but YHC doesn’t know proper exercises, will work on this), Bus Drivers, OH Press, Tri Extensions, Rut Ro’s, Squat, Ext. Squat, OH Squat.  Note: there was one cinder block was partially full of cement…T-Claps for FNG killing it on the last round, hope he comes back.

Bear crawl to Mary spot, roughly 50ft

Mary:  LBC’s, Mary Annette’s {WW1’s L/C/R = 1} (??), Box Cutters, Low Slow Flutter, Boat Canoes, American Hammers

Prayer:  Sprinkler’s family, Norm’s friends (one with miscarriage, another with baby in womb with under developed lungs), unspoken

Picking up the Six

EC: Shredder and Mr. Terrific

FNGs: Not today

Warm Up:   10 x SSH IC, 10 x Frankensteins IC, 10 x Daisy Pickers IC

The Workout:

3 Mile route: Out and back from Ting to Earp Street.

5 Mile route – The Scooter:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary: Ran out of time

Announcements: Check Slack and Facebook. There are a lot of great 3rd F opportunities this weekend and in the near future. Shredder will be rolling out a survey in the next week or so to determine area of needs for PAX (marriage health, financial, fitness, etc) and look to set up meeting times to work on these areas. F3 is more than a workout and we are all here for each other. The message today was to try to work on these areas before it is too late.

T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone for picking up the 6 the entire route. Good work men.

Prayer: Sprinkler and his family, unspoken, injured PAX.

YHC took us out. Thank you for the opportunity to lead.

Q school 2020 KickOff

Mutiny would be the Q school kick off for 2020. We want to try to offer Q school a lot this year and the best way to do that would be to do it during a workout. This was the first attempt to get all points across while still providing a valid workout. Overall it went pretty well for the first go at it. Here are some details to the action.

FNGs: Welcome Pumps!

Quick Overview:
Plant the flag. Site Q’s responsibility
Any FNG’s. 1-2 mins prior to start
Know your PAX. Who needs encouragement. Don’t leave anyone behind. Start on time 0530. End on time 45 mins end workout. Then COT. People can leave if needed at that time. During workouts, respect the Q. If Q needs correcting, do it after the workout. No questions asked today so I guess the PAX got it all. We can have high expectations moving forward with this group of HIM.

Warm Up:
Warm up exercises, try to mix it up. Static stretches should be avoided and Dynamic stretching is recommended.
Short mosey to circle
SSH – cadence count, how to call and how to end
Not too fast
Windmill (give instruction)
Merkins (teach good form)
Daisy Pickers (slow and what the exercise is for)

The Workout:
Choose a few main events and execute
Bearmuda Triangle
1- plank jacks x20IC
2- hand release merkins x20 OMD
3- prisoner squat x20 on my down

R&R
1- Mtn. Climbers x20IC
2- Diamond Merkins x15 on my down
3- Monkey Humpers x15IC

Tennis courts
11’s – common go to or a Dora can be used if more material is needed
Bobby Hurley’s and Burpees
Squat hold or plank hold for 6
5 Burpees OYO for good measure

Improv due to time.
Fence walk ups x10IC

Mary:
Mary – 6 mins is great for core workout. Stretching works as well.
End at 45 mins or sooner.
DO NOT GO OVER 45
WWI x20 OMU
WWII x10IC
– Know the difference between each
J-Lo 1 x10 each side (IC slow 4 count on all fours)
J-Lo 2 x15 IC (Hip touch’s)
LBC’s x10IC (ankles above knees)
Reverse LBCs x10IC
HAND

COT:
Name-a-Rama
Announcements
Prayers *Either ask PAX to volunteer or take us out in a word*

Try to meet and great anyone new or new to you. Get to know your PAX of brothers.

Announcements:
Travis Manion foundation event
Krispy Kreme race on Sat
Super Bowl squares (16-bit is in charge)

T-Claps (Recognition):
Puddles EH’ed FNG from before moving. His nephew, finally got him out.

Prayer:
Sprinkle lost dad
Breach grandmother passing
R22’s wife lost her cousin
PAX on IR
H1N1 having more tests on injury

Thanks to the PAX for allowing me to use this time to conduct Q school while working out. Any feedback is always appreciated. Holly Springs AO will be next on the schedule.

BS Out!