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Coupons at Cletus

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: Frankensteins X10, Hillbillies X10, Imperial Walkers X10……mosey to the east side parking lot to finish the warm up with SFAC X10, Good Mornings X10

The Workout: Mosey to the amphitheater for an upper body warm up. Split into 2 groups and one group does an exercise while the other group does Balls to the Wall.

Merkins X20

Dips X20

Wide-grip Merkins X20

Dips X20

Mosey to the pavilion for stations.

Station 1: Block Walk….with hands lowered to each side and a cinder block in each hand, walk up the sidewalk and back (~30 yards) in a static shoulder shrug position (this station dictates when the stations rotate)

Station 2: Curls for the girlz (your choice between 20 and 25lb dumb bells) AMRAP until Station 1 returns

Station 3: Tricep extensions with a cinder block AMRAP until Station 1 returns

Station 4:  Lay back on balance ball and perform dumb bell flies AMRAP (15lb dumb bell provided)

Station 5: Curls for the girlz using a cinder block

Once everyone cycled through the stations, indian run around the soccer fields and rinse/repeat

After 2 rounds, it was time to go find Mary.

Mary: Plank position while all PAX gave a 10 count, box cutters X15, LBC’s X 30, Homer to Marge X 20

Announcements: April 24th Sleep in Heavenly Peace….building beds for children  coming out of homelessness

Prayer: Florence/FloJoe and his M with their career paths as his M is potentially moving into a full time role

The Quiet Man

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! YHC made it a point to take the Q today at my site to deliver the celebratory beatdown and celebrate our Irish pride. Honestly not a lot of hooliganry, shenanigans, or mumblechatter during the workout today. Some workouts have a lot of chatter and a lot of laughs…others not so much. I know that YHC’s method of leading often leads to a quieter workout…but that’s my working style…get things done…I’ll get my talking in at 2nd F! Seven Hearty Hooligans posted at Womble for a 4 leaf clover of fitness…so we went to 4 different spots on the grounds. Each spot, had a relatively narrow focus on the muscle group under attack.

FNG’s: No sir!
Warm Up: SSH x 30 IC, Daisy Pickers, Annie’s, Chinooks, Seal Claps, Frankensteins all x12 IC, Good Morning x6 IC.
The Workout: We moseyed over to the baseball parking lot where PAX were instructed to bear crawl the length of the parking lot and choose a challenging large rock. We did 2 rounds, with a bear crawl/lunge walk break in between. Curls for the Girls x25, Wonderbras x15 IC, and Rut-Rows x25.

Stop 2 had us moseying to the bandstand…now to work on some upper body/chest area. Balls to the Wall x 10 IC, Irkins x25, BTTW x12IC, Dips x25, BTTW x15 IC, Derkins x20, BTTW x20 IC, Hand Release Merkins x20. People’s Chair to recover…because we would be hitting legs next. Moseyed over to the large parking lot.

YHC previously set up 4 cones for a suicide series. Run to 1st cone, 5 burpees. 2nd Cone = 10 Alternate Lunges IC, 3rd Cone = 15 Squat Jumps, 4th Cone = 20 Monkey Humpers IC. A few PAX got to start climbing down the ladder, but otherwise, we picked up the 6 and proceeded. We finished up this 3rd “leaf” with 20 Prisoner Squats, 20 Zebra Kicks x20 IC, and 20 more Prisoner Squats.

We moseyed over to the tennis courts for Mary and stretching.
Mary: WW1’s x20, Dying Cockroach x 20 IC, LSF x 20 IC, and Pickle Pounders x 20 IC. Pigeon Pose both sides, high plank, side plank both side, high plank, Good mornings x6 IC. Slainte!!!
Announcements: Great TEDTalk last night about ShieldLocks. Check out the archive if you weren’t able to be there. Long Ass Run, Saturday March 27th.
T-Claps (Recognition): Cancun for getting out here and posting quite often since starting 4 weeks ago. Way to get it!
Prayer: Cancun and his wife’s book deal/process, FloJoe and his M…she’s got a good job possiblity, hope it goes well. YHC took us out. Grateful to be here this morning with these HIM!

Kenny’s Grave…why does it still feel like 2020?

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Warm Up: Quick mosey around the parking lot.  Came back and did Sir Fazio arm circles for/backward, good mornings, various leg stretches, followed by SSH
The Workout:

We took about a 1 mile to 1.5 mile run to get moving and at two stops we did a round of lbc’s and then a round of hill billies.

Next event we did some rock work to get some upper body in this morning.  After our brave PAX picked out their fine specimen we did a round of 20 skull crushers, a set of 15 colt 45s, rock merkins 20 each arm, bus drivers set of 20, and ended with 20 rut rows.  We did repeat but dropped down to doing sets of 15 to stay sane.

Last we came back to circle up and do a quick set of 20 squats and 20 Bonnie Blairs to lead us into Mary.
Mary: We completed a circuit of ab exercises going round the circle and each Pax chose their favorite.
Announcements: Q sheet signups, goal tracking sheets for 2021, and Q Source beginning Jan. 30th
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Florence/Flojoe’s injury and prep for family heading out of town for work, our country, leaders, and for those in leadership to govern with truth and justice.

Ultimate Bloodbath

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Your YHC led this bloodbath 232-4 (OK,  it was all fantasy in my head as we did not keep score). 23 PAX joined in some Ultimate fun. It was good to have several PAX that had never played with us out there. Thanks for letting me “lead” (and I use that term lightly)

 

Finish 2020 Strong

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PAX: @Norm, @Florence/FloJoe, @Sprinkler, @Gamecock, @16-Bit, @Finkle
Warm Up: Took a mosey around the parking lot and at each stop sign we did warm-up exercises.  Good mornings, daisy pickers, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles
The Workout:

Since we had nice Scottish weather we did most of our workout under the pavillion.

Event 1: Goals

Gas Pumps 10 count in cadence, Outlaws 10 left 10 right, Ascending Testicles w/o derkins for a round robin 5 count at 15 degrees, 45 degrees, and full BTTW, Lounge Act in cadence 10 count, and Seal Jacks in cadence 10 count.  R/R 3 times.

Event 2: Leg Work with deck of cards. 

Hearts were squats, clubs were lunges, spades were right leg step ups, diamonds were left leg step ups.  Jokers all exercises with 10 each.

Mary: E2Ks, LBCs, reverse LBCs, American Hammers
Announcements: We each shared a personal goal for the 2021 year.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: @Scrapple and family dealing with Covid and an injury, @Sprinkler and family, our country and those dealing with sickness.

A KG Christmas with the Griswold’s

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Pax: Finkle, Norm, Hardy, 16bit, Florence/FloJo
Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot.  In cadence Good mornings -10x, Daisy Pickers -10x, SSH – 20 count, Imperial walkers – 10x
The Workout:

Station 1:  ‘Clark Pluggins’ with bricks while saying hallelujah each time just like when Clark plugged in his lights.  Mosey over to pile of bricks everyone got 2.   Version of bat wings: overhead, sides, front, and then overhead press in cadence.  20 of each

Station 2: Christmas shopping with Russ.  Each Pax picked out a present and we did American Hammers with the present.  20 count in cadence.

Station 3: Aunt Bethany’s -“Clark are your legs on fire?”  Holding our presents we did Dan Taylors 1-4 ratio of squats/lunges all the way up to 9 squats and 36 lunges.  Followed by a round of Clark Shock Jumps – star jumps with your present.  20 count

Station 4: Saucer sled land speed record – snow disc on the hill with merkins.  We attempted to slide down the hill with our presents on snow discs while the other pax at the top of the hill had to do 40 merkins, 40 LBC’s.

Station 5: Had to pull an audible and we did plank holds with a bear crawl Indian line up from our snow discs to the shovel flag and back.  This was followed by prisoner squats, prisoner getups, and box jumps all sets of 20 while holding our presents.
Mary: While holding our presents we did reverse LBC’s, Homer to Marge, Low slow flutter, and Freddie Mercuries in cadence 15 count.
Announcements: Christmas is tomorrow.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:  Praise, 16bits mom is recovering from Covid, Finkle’s family friends Steve and Joyce struggling with Covid.  Those hurting during the holidays from sickness, death, and monetary.  Finkle led the prayer.

Typewriters are stupid

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Amazon.com : Classic manual typewriter black : Office Products

Remember typewriters?  They sucked.  So did the exercises YHC decided to do that were typewriter themed.  About half way through I realized it was a bad idea but at some point you’re pot committed so you just have to go with it.

FNGs: Nope

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Penalty burpees (Norm was late) x5 OYO

Windmills x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

Ever since The Nest was opened YHC wanted to try something with the curved wall that is right below the pavilion.  I wanted to do some kind of exercise that traversed the wall, hit the end, and then went back.  Hence the typewriter reference.  Thought it occurs to me that one PAX was probably young enough to have no idea what a typewriter actually is. Anyway, we moseyed to the wall and lined up.

The first set was irkins.  We all lined up on the wall in irkin position and were given the instructions that we would do 5 irkins and then hand shuffle once to the right, do 4 irkins, move again, 3 irkins, etc., down to 1 and then back up to 5.  Once we hit the wall the PAX at the end let out an audible “DING” and we moved our way the other direction up the wall back to the start.

The second set was supposed to be dirkins but the Q called an audible and instead we all held the dirkin position while the PAX at the beginning of the line bear crawled to the end and resumed the position.  Again, continued to the end of the wall, dinged, and then worked our way back up.

Not being a fan of this idea but being committed we had to round it out with dips.  We did these similar to how we did the irkins where we did 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 while hand shuffling up and down the wall.   Everyone was glad when these were done.

We headed up to the pavilion and secured spots at picnic tables for some leg 11s consisting of step ups and lunges.  Two legs counted as 1 so the 10 step ups we started with was a 20 count and we did 1 lunge in cadence so we could get each leg.  YHC was glad for the PAX during this because evidently I suck at counting.

Once those were finished we did two sets of roman situps off the end of the table.  If you aren’t familiar with one of YHC’s favorite exercises, you hang off the end of the table, face first, from the waist and essentially do a reverse sit up.  We had to partner up so that one partner could hold the feet of the PAX doing the exercise.  We didn’t need any emergency dentist visits.

Once we were through with these we did half a lap around the block and then circled up for…

Mary:

American Hammers x15 IC

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC each side

LSF x10 IC

Freddie Mercury x10 IC

Announcements:

Kung POW is open on Christmas morning.  Double D and Deadbolt have your Q.  If you hate your family and want to workout instead on Christmas morning those guys will be there to make you regret your decision.

Prayer:

YHC’s mom has COVID.  So far just feels like a cold but help me pray it stays that way.

FloJo’s family departs on the 17th for his new traveling nurse gig.  They bought a new truck and a 5th wheel and will be packing up the three kids and three dogs as they head off on their adventure.  The first stop is Johns Hopkins in Maryland.  If you see him make sure you wish him well.

Finkle is having to shop for a new car for his daughter and car shopping is terrible.  Pray for his blood pressure.

 

Thank you men for allowing me to explore my curiosity this morning.  I got to try a couple things I had been wanting to do and it was fun.  Well, “fun”.  Can’t say I liked it but also can’t say I won’t do it again.  Appreciate each and every one of you.

 

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Damn it feels good to be back at Cletus!

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16 long months have went by since YHC last led the PAX at Cletus. 5 HIM posted on this brisk morning for a tour of the grounds. YHC got in a two mile solo EC while seeing a few PAX out getting their run on. 0530 came and we got down to business.

Warm up down to lower lot (agility otw)
Red Bull smurf jacks x10 IC
Squatted Morracan night club x10 IC
Up/downs x10
Diamond merkins (on my down and up) 10
Frankenstein’s x10 IC

General Dan’s increasing merkins 1 to 10 in parking lot

Mosey to amp for box jumps, one leg dips, BTTW shoulder taps – 3 rds x15 each

Indian run to lat pull bars
Lat pulls and Bobby Hurley’s 3 rds x10 each

Indian run to walkway btwn fields
Broadjump burpees down
Hallelujah wall sits at booth x50IC

Scout run long way back with 2 Turkish get ups after 5 sec run out, then to tennis court

Chilly plank railroad along the fence
Bear crawl-a-cides 5 lines
Reg suicides

Mary
LBC’s x20
Pretzels x20 each side

Prayers for Florence job, those fighting cancer, COVID victims

It was a pleasure men.

BS Out!

Too Foggy… I Need Some Light Up in Here!

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Post-Thanksgiving workout brought to you by YHC. Pre-Blast offered almost no miles during the workout. During EC, YHC toured downtown with a few PAX sightings near the Underworld and had a good idea of where we would go during the workout today. However, as YHC was in a hurry back to Womble cutting my planned route short to take care of serious emergency business in the restroom, the fog started thickening. A change of plans was pending…

FNG’s: not today
Warm Up: SSH x 50, Good Mornings x12, Moroccan Night Clubs x13, Frankenstein’s x14,  Daisy Pickers x 15. We also included 5 burpees for late Pax.
The Workout: Moseyed to the tennis courts for what would become some Jack Webb 11’s. Pax completed ascending ladder of 1:3 ratio Jack Webb’s and ran to other end of the court for ascending ladder of squat jumps. With 11 completed at both ends, Pax were instructed to grab some fence for some fence squats.  We did 50. The original plan changed here as we opted not to mosey into the darkness but rather spend some time under the light of the picnic shelter.  All Pax assumed People’s Chair on the Wall while each took a turn doing a picnic table typewriter crawl to the end to start doing AMRAP LSF’s. Then the next Pax would go. Once all Pax were done, we brought it back to the wall in the same fashion one by one. The next series of this was similar except that all Pax would leave and return to the wall after doing an ascending ladder of merkins up to 5 and back down again on each table. All other Pax held People’s Chair. Next, we did a 15 ct. each pax BTTW.

Moving over to the tables again we did 3 rounds of 10 Bulgarian single leg squats each leg and 30 dips. For our final move we held high plank while doing 20 IC Mule Kicks to get the glutes firing some more. We took a recovery. We then repeated but brought our count down to 10 IC.
Mary: To the tennis court for 30 IC LBC, 15 Box Cutters, 30 Homer2Marge, and 15 Pickle Pounders.
Announcements: CSAUPS coming up. Check Slack. Christmas gathering 2ndF on Dec. 17th.
T-Claps (Recognition): Abe has been stepping up to Q various sites frequently. Good work brother!
Prayer: FloJoe and family hitting the road in the 5Th Wheel in January to do contract work/travel. Those hurting during COVID and quarantining etc. My M having surgery Dec. 21st.

Thankful for Burpees?

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Warm Up: Jog around the soccer field. Getting back to start, 1 PAX was late parking his brand new shiny pickup, so 5 burpees OYO were called. Then we got to SSH x20, Wind Mill x10, Bat Wings (Fozio arm circles forwards and backwards, seal claps and overhead claps all x20)
The Workout: Thing 1: 7 of diamonds (an exercise at each of the four corners of the baseball field, each round increasing by 7). The gates between the fields were locked, so we ended up running a bit further than planned. Ended up getting a little over 2 miles total. Rounds went like this:
Round 1: 7 burpees (total of 28 burpees all around)
Round 2: 14 WWIIs (56 total)
Round 3: 21 squats IC (84 total, half were standard and half were narrow)
PAX did a good job picking up the six along the way. Time was running out, so it was back to the parking lot for a bit of Thing 2.
Thing 2: Ascending Curb Crawls: PAX started on one side and bear crawled to the other, where they performed 1 derkin. Bear crawl back, 2 derkins. Repeat two more times with 3 derkins and 4 derkins respectively. Mosey the short distance back to start.
Mary: Not necessarily a Mary exercise, but we did 20 more Fozio arm circles (forward and backward), which felt great after bear crawls. 20 American Hammers finished things up.
Announcements: Frosty CSAUP 12/5, Beer Ruck 12/12, F3 Christmas Party 12/17
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone for picking up the six.
Prayer: Quiver and his family, Quiver’s friend and his wife, 187 and fanny pack and their families, Flo Joe and his family traveling.
Moleskin: PAX were asked to think of something that they are thankful for on this day of Thanks. Family, faith and the brotherhood of F3 were all mentioned. This year has been a particularly difficult year, one that has probably affected everyone in one way or another. Even in the gloomiest of times, it’s important to take time and reflect on the things that we can still be thankful for. Keep your head up.