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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.

 

Partner DORA

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Michael Phelps, SSH IC, Good Mornings IC, Daisy Pickers IC, and Stretching

The Workout:

  • Standard partner DORA with Merkins x100, Squats x200, and LBCs x300.
  • Rock work of Curls Fu Du Gurls, Groundpounders, Chest Press, Skull Crushers, American Hammers, and Rutrows.

Mary: LSF IC, Hip Poppers IC, Stretching

Announcements: Breach’s 3-Ruck Challenge

T-Claps (Recognition): None

Prayer: Safe travels to DC for Best In Show’s and Clunkers kids. 

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

DORAAROD

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

  • SSH IC
  • Good Mornings
  • Stretching

The Workout:

A variant of a common DORA but instead of the team trying to hit a target number of reps, it was AMRAP style for 12 minutes per exercise. We had three PAX so two did the exercise while the third lapped the parking lot and then switched in for one who was working out and the rotation continued for 12 minutes x 3 sets. Total number combined reps were tallied.

  • Merkins = 355
  • Squats = 580
  • WW1s = 378

Mary: None

Announcements: Q’em All Challenge

T-Claps: Everyone who showed up in the rain and put in work.

Prayer: Various

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

Rope Work at Purple Cobra

FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH IC, Daisy Pickers IC, Willie Mayes Hayes IC, Stretching

The Workout: Bearcrawls with Ascending Merkins, Lung Walks with Ascending Squats, Battle Rope Slams, Speed Rope, WW1s, Offset Merkins, Heel Raises

Mary: LSF IC, Homer to Marge IC, LBCs IC

Announcements: Q’em All Challenge and Weekly Post Tracker

T-Claps (Recognition): None

Prayer: Military, First Responder, and general PAX

Six PAX Worked our LEGZ and Got Stronger Together

Better Late Than Never – Backblast Disney January 8, 2026

Warm Up: Step ups rotating with wall sits until it burned.

The Workout: Dora style goblet squats 50, reverse lunges 100, and mountain climbers 150 with bear crawls on the turf. Finally, John Cusack those blocks back to the cedar den and Mary.

Banana Seat got the shirt memo, Best in Show brought burpees and Spider Man, SoftServe brought 2.0 Chief and looks forward to trimming the cedar den, and F3 veteran @Blue Crush just moved in the neighborhood and can’t wait til the next Disney workout. 

Prayer: Gratitude and Trust

It’s Not Cold

Pledge of Allegiance

Warm Up: 50 side straddle hop by the flag; mosey to U.S. map for 25 mountain climbers (2x); dynamic leg warmup: 25 leg swings front-to-back, 25 leg swings left-to-right (2x)

The Workout: Balls to the wall for 10 count x 3 (3x); wall sits for 10 count x 3 (3x)

Track: high knees for 100 feet; walking lunges for 200 feet

Wheelbarrows: two wheelbarrow while the other broad jumps; rotate positions every 50 feet; standing squat for almost 2 minutes

Ledges: Step-ups (25); squats from heels (25); squats from heels (25); three sets each 

Mary: Homer to Marge with feet on ledge; popcorn Mary

Announcements: None

T-Claps (Recognition): Great job beating the fart sack on this “cold” morning LOL

Prayer: Friend’s father in hospital; Gratitude for every day and the many blessings we live. 

In the Army Now

Warm Up:  Side Straddle Hops, Frankensteins, and Willy Mays Hays

The Workout: 

Wheelbarrows, broken wheelbarrows, deconstructed Duck Duck Goose, the old Erkins Derkins Dips, and some Army Crawls.

They play duck duck goose in the army too – right?

Announcements: Check Slack

Prayer– General Prayers