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Miserable Mile

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9 HIM started and added 1 more shortly after for what looked good on paper but a bit too much in real life.

Warm up
GM
Red Bull Smurf jacks
Michael Phelps
Merkins

Miserable Mile
Lap 1 – wheelbarrow straights, frog hop turns
Lap 2 – partner carry switch when needed
Lap 3 – lunge walk straights, bear crawl turns (modified 2nd turn to skips due to time and energy levels)
Lap 4 – strong jog (not enough time for what Q had planned)

Mary didn’t show up. We did have a nice trunk coffee afterwards.

Thanks for coming out men and trying to push ourselves outside the comfort zone.

BS Out!

8 Dark Knights conquered the Dragon at the Nest

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PAX:  @Firstblood, @Haggis, @K I T T Y L I T T R, @Rico, @H1N1, @Griswold @Enough, @Finkle

Q Extraordinare: @Finkle

Event 1: Batman’s -> a fantastic way to kick off.  We did a short little mosey around the park and stopped at the brick wall behind the dugouts. Started with 50 bat wings, 10 sec hold x8 of balls to the wall, 50 overhead claps, 10 sec hold x8 of balls to the wall, 50 air presses, and 10 sec hold x8 of balls to the wall.  Since @Rico was still smiling I figured we would stay for a round of people’s chair.

Event 2: Welsh Dragons (modified) -> in the center field we did 10 sets of 10 bear crawls followed by 1 merkin & 1 plank jack with increasing in number of exercises.  Meaning ending with 10 merkins and 10 plank jacks (in cadence of course).

Event 3: We finished off the morning with 2 circuits of exercises using some of Finkle’s favorite toys.  Cindy and her big sister, a jump rope, exercise cube, exercise ladder, and 8lb weighted exercise ball.  This completed the trifecta.  Exercises for 1st circuits were timer ran around the parking lot, chest press with big sister, curls for the girls with Cindy, WW1’s with weighted ball, roll the dice for your exercise, jump rope, and squats.  2nd circuit exercises were rut rows with big sister, overhead press with Cindy, American hammers with weighted ball, roll dice for your exercise, jump rope, and lunges.  But alas we ran out of time to complete 2nd circuit.

Mary: none

COT: @FirstBlood and decisions about college to attend in fall, praise that @H1N1 didn’t get kidnapped while across the pond in England.

Q School: Session 3

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Why Q school? This is to help with F3 formality (uniform) across all regions so if you attend an AO in New York or Texas it’ll still be close to the same structure.

3 main topics to cover – How to Q? Why to Q? (new exciting things) Are you ready to Q?

Sample structure for warm up with some discussion:
Disclaimer, warmup, workout (the thang), Mary, CoT – 45 mins total time, get a watch. Assign a sweeper if you have a large group of FNG’s.
Bring a Flag if you plan to Q. If you don’t have one, ask site Q to bring one.

Conduct WU and have guys take turns with exercises. SSH, Good Mornings, etc.

Be ready for CoT with announcements and prayer requests/praises

Review during workout:
Cadence Count
Form and rep count
Know your PAX limitations if possible
Site Q duties
Q sheet, pre-blast, backblast
Exicon, backblast from other regions, winky, Co-Q

Thang 1:
Mosey down to concessions stand wall
Irkens, dips, dirkens, step ups 15,12,10

Thang 2:
Partner up on tennis court
P1 does BTTW on fence
P2 runs suicide (halfway then full)
Rinse and repeat

Thang 3:
P1 holds squat while P2 does 10 dirkens with feet on partners thighs
R&R

Mary
WWI’s
Out and UPS
LBC’s
American hammers

Ended with announcements and prayer by Rubiks. Nice work by all.

BS out!

UFO High Score Comeback

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22 PAX for some not too windy Ultimate! We had even teams and even score after a great comeback but the pinnies prevailed.

Wood Chuckin’

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: 25 SSH; Bat wings: 15 Sir Fozio forwards, 15 backwards, 15 seal claps, 15 overhead claps; Jack Webbs to 10. Arms and shoulders are awake now. 

Been eyeballing the handrails outside the gym entrance since the middle school was finished. We did a sideways bear crawl up and around three times. 

Found some curb and did about 50 yards of fancy feet 

Main event: Everyone selected a log from thestack. Lined up for John Cusack (overhead carry) Indian run the long way around the elementary school, arriving at the track. During the pain, we all got a chuckle out of several wood references along the way, including Morning Wood and Major Wood. Had to modify from the overhead carry. Shoulders were toast. 

Tossed log over the fence and hopped in. Lined up on soccer end line. H1N1 explained the soccer term, end line. 

First pass: Lunge walked with log. Really we were just scoping out the log toss. I wanted to make sure there were no sprinkler heads. Didn’t see any. Learned that Wide Right played high school football and played both offensive and defensive line. 

Second pass: Throw your log as far as you can, run up to it and do a burpee. Rinse and repeat until you reach the other end line. Fram led  the way. Saw a cigarette butt in the middle of the field. 

Third pass: Mosey with another overhead press? Followed by 15 bus drivers in cadence. Shoulders are feeling good now!

Looked down at my watch and it was 6:05 already. 

OK, time for some SPRINTS! Moseyed to start line. I marked several intervals along the way. We did four intervals. Not very clean starts, but solid effort by all. 

Mary: We had 1 minute for low slow flutter. Have a nice day. 

Announcements: Highway cleanup Saturday after GroundPounder. 

T-Claps (Recognition): This group worked hard today!

Prayer: Finkle’s brother (separation), Rico’s son (noggin), H2N1 family (lost grandmother recently)

Q School – Session 1 2024

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12 PAX for a mixer of Kenny’s Grave and Q school. Here’s a review.

Why Q school? This is to help with F3 formality (uniform) across all regions so if you attend an AO in New York or Texas it’ll still be close to the same structure.

3 main topics to cover – How to Q? Why to Q? (new exciting things) Are you ready to Q?

Sample structure for warm up with some discussion:
Disclaimer, warmup, workout (the thang), Mary, CoT – 45 mins total time, get a watch. Assign a sweeper if you have a large group of FNG’s.
Bring a Flag if you plan to Q. If you don’t have one, ask site Q to bring one.

Conduct WU and have guys take turns with exercises. SSH, Good Mornings, etc.

Be ready for CoT with announcements and prayer requests/praises

Review during workout:
Cadence Count
Form and rep count
Know your PAX limitations if possible
Site Q duties
Q sheet, pre-blast, backblast
Exicon, backblast from other regions, winky, Co-Q

Thang 1: Dora with bear crawl timer. 50 diamond merkins, 100 monkey humpers, 150 groiners,
Thang 2: Basketball court 7’s – burpees and absolutions

Thanks for attending men!

A mutiny happened at Mutiny and @Rico is not yet a grandpa!

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PAX: @Finkle, @Rico, @Rubiks, @FlipPhone, @Breach, @Fumunga, @Winnebago, @H1N1, @LED

FNG: @Buffalo aka @Don Ross

Warm-up: 

Good Mornings in cadence, downward dog, spitting cobra/up dog, merkins, SSH, and a mosey around track.

Main Event:

  1. 11’s on the hill next to soccer field.  Fence squats at the top and burpees at the bottom.  Modes of transportation were jog, reverse lunge walk down, and bear crawls.
  2. Catch me if you can.  We partnered up and ‘partner A’ jogged around the track while ‘partner B’ did a prescribed exercise and then had to sprint to catch their partner.  Then switched.  Did 4 rounds exercises were, 20 merkins, 20 low slow flutters, 20 lunges, 20 SSH.
  3. No free picnic.  We made our way over to the picnic tables and did 10 Irkins, 10 Merkins, 10 Derkins, 10 Dips, 20 Step-ups and repeated once same exercises.

Dad Joke (sponsored by @Rico):

What do you call a man with no shins?  Tony, get it Toe-knee

Something about Mary:

LBCs, WW2, Side crunches, Freddie Mercuries, J-Lo’s, Plank hold, and Pickle Pounders to appease the all the wild women watching us workout at 5:30 in the morning.

COT:

Safe travels for @Finkle ‘s M, @H1N1 for his family as they mourn the loss of his M’s grandmother, and @Rico’s daughter GG who apparently is not prego @Rubiks lol…  She will be having an ultrasound soon to check on a possible cyst on her ovary.

Sally start to finish

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8 PAX out for a moist 65 degree gloomy morning. Couple of missed HC’s but still a couple new faces. We started with a Sally song and ended with a Sally song.

Mosey down to circle for warm up while listening to Long Tall Sally
GM
Air squared
Imperial squat walkers
Mtn climbers
Merkins

Track – Indian run w/ exercises every 200M
1. Ranger Merkin toe tap – go down for a push up then come up and touch opposite foot x10 IC
2. Deep Squats x20
3. Merkin and up like a burpee but keep hands down and the back out x10 IC
4. Shoulder taps x20
2 laps

Ramp
Crawl bear up ramp
At top grab some short wall
Irkins, box jumps, dirkens x15 each
Mosey to stairs
Calf raises on each step x5 (16 sets)
Grab tall wall
Wall sits 10 count each PAX
BTTW 10 ct each

Mosey to bball court
Broad jump burpee across bball court
10x Turkish getups
Broad jump burpee back
Indian run back to flag

Mary
Sally (Moby)
Side dips
Stretching

HIIT circuit at Prison Yard

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7 PAX showed up to the Yard for a circuit beatdown.

Quick warm up
SSH
Arm circles
Imperial squat walkers

Groups of 2
3 stations – 2:15 on 0:45 off, 4 rds at each
Total time at each station then rotate is 12 mins

1. Ladder burpee increase – 1 burpee, ladder, 2 burpees, ladder, 3, L, 4, L, 5 (change ladder movement each rd)
2. 150 single under jump rope, 30 merkins
3. TRX bands and a kB – 4 exercises (curls, tris, deep squats, knee tucks)

No time for Mary

Pigskin Practice

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6 HIM showed up for some chilly football practice. 19 degrees but it’s a Monday so let’s get the week started.

Lap around clubworx gym
Warm up
GM
SSH
Windmills
Chilly jacks

Pass the peel – Indian run around track with football toss overhead. When it gets to the back, run to front and start over. If someone drops the ball, 1 Turkish getup. 2 laps total. Combine drops for burpees. We had 6 total.

Football drills in lower field
Left/right while chopping. Up/downs on hit.
Ladder shuffle drills 6 times through

Grab a rock
Partner up, similar speed
Devin Hesters – one person takes off sprinting with the rock, P2 does 1 burpee then try’s to catch them. Switch, R&R twice

Tables – dips, irkins, box jumps
reps of 15, 12, 10

Mary on tennis court – popcorn style