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Not my A Game

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A down week in running allowed YHC to become a little more involved in the bootcamp scene that has been so badly missed so what better way to get back at than picking up a couple Qs. Been a while since I’ve been down in the Quay so figured I make the trip to PT. Researched some previous backblasts and noticed there hadn’t been a tour of Varina in a while. Unfortunately my memory left me and some of the locations were not what I remembered. Regardless it was nice to see a good turnout this brisk winter morning.

EC: Pikachu from home, Skidmark

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Moroccan Nightclubs, Overhead claps, Seal claps, Good mornings
The Workout: 3 Indian Run lines mosey to the flag pole. The initial plan was for 21’s of WWIIs and Box jumps but the wall was higher than I thought and none of us earned an Olympic Medal in the high jump so we settled for step ups which ended up being quite time consuming. (modified)
Mosey to the giant wall for Preacher chair and then Ascending Testicles with merkins. Rumor was all Flex spending accounts were emptied and dental deductables not met so modified the testicles to Balls to the Wall after 1 set. 2 more sets of Preacher chair and BTTW.
Mosey to the home of the FV Democratic Party Headquarters or as many of us care to call it: Stephen’s Hardware. Jump up the rail for some side plank walks I guess. Quick feet as we wait for the 6.
Mosey to Aviator. Bear Crawl up the ramp as smell BBQ. Repeat.
Mosey the walk through wall for a set of dips, erkins, and derkins.
Mosey back to the park for 4 sets of Big Bang (reference exicon here).
Mary: 7 minutes in heaven. Yes, we did plank hold with various core exercises.
Announcements: 2ndF at Stick Boy, GrowRuck, GrowRuck light, heavy something. See Pablo for details. Monthly challenge
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Deadbolt hasn’t been feeling well. Hoping 2021 is better for most. YHC took us out

6 Men, 5 Presents, 4 Minutes of the Boss, 3 F’s, 2 Miles, and 1 Lady Stuck in the Mud

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The title above  says it all, but some details will be here in the BB. Very honored to take the Q at such a great AO on such a great day. YHC wanted to get to as many places as possible today on the wonderful grounds of Disney to deliver the Christmas Eve beatdown. Don’t say I never gave you anything…

FNG’s: No…but Snap saw a friend post-workout and it sounds like that fella may start coming around to workouts!
Warm Up: Everything x 12. Good Mornings, Fazio’s, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Daisy Pickers and a quick mosey lap. It was a this time that the 6 men returned from helping the 1 lady. Mosey over to the bottom of the big frisbee golf hill and split into two groups. We would need these groups for a couple gifts today.

The Workout:

Present 1: Two groups. Group 1 stays on the path and does AMRAP SSH until Group 2 returns. Group 2 does 5 burpees, takes the big hill, 10 squat jumps at the top, moseys along the ridge to do 15 merkins at the end, and mosey’s back. Then group 2 gets their turn. Indian Run to the community center, 2 lines.

Present 2: Group 1 Bear Crawls the length of the lot and at the end does AMRAP Monkey Humpers. When group 1 reaches the end and starts exercising, it’s group 2’s turn for the bear crawls. Mosey over to the wall behind the school.

Present 3: The whole PAX does a People’s Char for a 15 count per PAX. 2 Lines, Indian Run over to the large high school parking lot.

Present 4: A stacked up 4 corners with the whole group. 10 Hand Release Merkins, Sprint the long stretch down, then stack on 15 Star Jumps, then lunge walk the short end, the stack on 20 LBC’s IC, then sprint the long run back, then stack on 25 Pickle Pounders IC. 2 Line Indian Run back for Mary…was hoping to get to the Abyss, but not this time.

Present 5: YHC threw on the tunes. The great Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band! Their rendition of Santa Claus is Comin to Town is a bit over 4 minutes. So the Mary routine would be…
Mary: Constant AMRAP Squats with a burpee on every “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”. During the sax solo, we did SSH. I think we did, 16 burpees during the song… Have a Merry Christmas!
Announcements: Only 1 SW workout tomorrow at KungPOW…5:30.
T-Claps (Recognition): Deadbolt and DoubleD holdin it down on Christmas for us. The 6 Men (Deadbolt, Oboe, Dumbo, Buford, MadDog, and Roger Roger) helping the 1 Lady out of the mud up on the road. Apparently, she skidded off somehow this morning….HIM!
Prayer: Every PAX shared a hope for 2021 for their family. YHC shared that as men, we often want to fix problems, destroy obstacles, and provide solutions. Whereas we have many opportunities to do this, we shouldn’t lose sight of the times we are simply supposed to be present and walk beside someone else in their struggles and their pursuits…even those in our own home. YHC has been learning this lesson lately and wanted to share and challenge. There is the 3rd F, 2nd F was enjoyed by several after, and I’m hoping the 1st F delivered at Disney on this Christmas Eve. YHC took us out. Honored to be among these mighty men this morning!

The pre-blast was too damn late! So was this backblast.

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After spending all week preaching about the importance of getting backblasts put together I completely spaced on doing this one the past two days.  Sorry.

Also, I heard loud and clear from PAX that if you’re going to pre-blast make sure you do it early enough in the day.  While certain HIM were confused about when YHC actually did the pre-blast it emphasized the need to get it done early so people know what to expect.

Speaking of pre-blasts, YHC promised a morning full of legs and that’s what I hopefully delivered

FNGs: Nope

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Windmill x10 IC

Daisy Picker x10 IC

I honestly don’t remember all of it.  It was two days ago and I just make this stuff up as I go.  It was the usual stuff, nothing fancy.

The Workout:

We moseyed to the big port-a-john headed down to the ballfields and PAX were instructed to line up to do Walk Like an Egyptian down to the fence where the concession stand is.  Each PAX would lunge forward and hold while the one in the back did a duck walk to the front of the line.  We continued down this way, Indian run style, until we reached the gap in the fence.

Once there we grabbed a piece of wall on the building and performed People’s Chair Bat Wings.  While in People’s Chair we did 10 forward arm circles, 10 reverse arm circles, 10 seal claps, and 10 overhead claps.  We paused between each set and repeated the whole thing once we finished.

After that we went over to the small hill for 11’s.  Squats at the bottom and star jumps at the top.  Once that was done we went over to the knee wall by the stairs and did 20x step ups, 10x irkins, and 10x dips.  Rinse and repeat and then mosey back up to the parking lot.

Once we reached the parking lot we did another Walk Like an Egyptian until we reached the entrance to the tennis courts.  We all lined up at the sideline of one of the courts and made our way the width of two courts by doing a squat, lunge step forward, and then tuck jump.  Another squat, lunge step with the other leg, tuck jump.  Do this across the whole distance.

Lastly we went over to the wood wall in the court area and held People’s Chair while the PAX at the front of the line lunge walked to the end of the line and held.  Again, Indian run style, all the way down the wall and then back up it.

Mary:

American Hammer x10 IC

LSF x10 IC

Freddy Mercury x10 IC

Homer to Marge x10 IC

Homer to Marge with leg up – 5 each leg

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

Announcements:

Christmas party was Thursday.

Prayer:

Scrapple’s M’s foot surgery

Fanny Pack’s M’s surgery

 

Thanks for joining me men on a cold morning that was supposed to also be wet.  You braved what were supposed to be nasty conditions and were rewarded for it.

 

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DB and M4L 2020-21 Reunion tour kickoff

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I love Disney.  It’s always been one of my favorite AOs.  I remember the beta opening and Co-Site Qing it with Kid Cracker.  So much to do, well lit, away from homes and no cars.   🙂  So that’s why this morning, M4L and I decided to leave those grounds and head for a dimly lit, residential street with more cars that I counted on!

We wanted to bring back an old favorite – the Jamison Park hill.  Jamison Park was the original 12 Oaks (look it up) and it was great to see 7+ pax from the 12 Oaks hood make the journey to the east side for our Beat Down.

I planted the Shovel Flag on this 35 degree, cold, damp, foggy morning as 25 #HIM showed up in various clown cars.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: At 5:30 on the dot – we were off.

  • Mosey out of the soccer field parking lot and head to Middle Creek High School.
  • Stop at first intersection – Merkins x 20
  • Hand Release Merkins x 20
  • Mosey to end of road near Jamison Park entrance
  • I forgot what we did
  • Quick disclaimer to use your inside voices and we entered Jamison Park

The Workout:

Thang 1:  Pakistani Dora

  • Gather at the bottom of that big ass hill (At Jamison Park Drive and Wesley Ridge)
  • Partner up for Pakistani Dora – one partner runs hill – other partner does reps with cumulative counts
    • Turkish Get up x 100 (audible to 75)
    • LBC x 200
    • Squats x 300
  • It sucked but great effort
  • Even great effort by the White Accord that was paralyzed for several minutes by the sheer amount of man candy beside her car

 

Thang 2:  The 7-11

to celebrate M4L’s first job in America – we moseyed to the half pipe for a round of 7-11s

  • In the half pipe – do a set of 7s with Squats one one side – Star Jumps on the other side (6-1, 5-2, 4-3, 3-4, 2-5, 1-6)
  • When you cross in the middle at the bottom – do 11 merkins (every time)

Jail break to flag

Mary:

Bondo will be turning double Respect on Saturday so he led us in Mary

  • Side plank dips
  • Pickle Punders

Announcements:

  • Social tonight at bombshell – HIM only – so M or 2.0
  • BBQ

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • Praise to Bondo son for coming thru surgery

Prayer:

  • Peakweek co-worker
  • Fanny M
  • 187 M
  • Breach Mother

Here was namorama:  https://youtu.be/ywSU0FwHhB0

Breach took us out with a great message

On the fly….Again

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Second week in a row rain has altered YHC’s plans at Downtown Train. Audible called and we headed to the parking garage for a make up as we go boot camp.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Two laps around parkin garage, SSHs, good mornings, hamstring stretch

The Workout:

Suicide ladders-

Round 1: WWIIs 5, 10, 15, and 20

Round 2: Squats 5, 10, 15, and 20

50 LBCs (in cadence), 2 minute peoples chair

Round 3: Lunges (R leg) 5, 10, 15, and 20

Round 4: Lunges (L leg) 5, 10 , 15,  and 20

50 LBCs (in cadence), 90 second peoples chair, 40 SSHs (in cadence)

Round 5: Leg lifts (6 inches > 90 degrees) 5, 10 , 15, and 20

Round 6: Alternating lunge jumps 5, 10 , 15, and 20

50 LBCs (in cadence), 60 second peoples chair

Mary:  None

Announcements: Christmas Party (need more sides)

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX for coming out on a rainy Monday.

Prayer: 187’s wife, Fanny Packs wife, YHCs father, father-in-law, and mother-in-law

Hilltop NeedMore Ruck. Nice temperature for the Ruck.

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This is always a nice time to catch up and unwind on Sunday mornings. Enjoyed talking with all of you and I hope you have a Great week!

FNG: None

Warm Up: The RUCK

The Workout: We hit the red trail first. After that we did the small yellow loop. We finished up with the blue for a total of 5 miles. We had some great mumble chatter. Thanks for you all that showed up on this beautiful Lords Day!!!

Mary: None

Announcements: Christmas Party 17th Bombshell. Sign up.

Prayer: Praying for all PAX injured and family members having surgery and up-coming surgeries here at Christmas time. YHC took us out.

2020 South Wake Frosty CSAUP 12/5

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On a crisp December morning. Well not so crisp but it was December 20 HIM congregated at Possum Trot for the 2020 South Wake CSAUP..Ruck Style. That’s right all of us were carrying rucksacks with the appropriate weight inside. Trust me I checked. Cadre Breach was joined by Cadre Blue Hen and Cadre M4L. We kicked off the first workout at the Trot with Fonzie at the helm.

@Farva, @Dawgpound, @POTS, @Blue Hen, @M4L, @Finkle, @Bondo, @Alpine, @Flannigan,

@Fanny Pack, @Dauber, @Bingo, @Pikachu, @Latiner, @16-Bit, @Sprinkler, @LED, @Fonzie, @H1N1 and

@Breach on the Q

Possum Trot Q #1 BB (Fonzie)

25 days of Christmas

Chestnuts Roasting (Chest press with the ruck)

Hanukkah Billes ( Hillbillies)

Reindeer Rows (Rut Rohs)

Imperial Nutcrackers

Santa Squats

Taint Tinsel (Swings with the Ruck)

Merry Merkins

Abominable Snowman (LBC’s with the Ruck)

S-Hat Burpees (10)

 

After the Trot workout, we hit the pavement for our trek to Mutiny. There were 5 coupons in play 2 Firehoses, 2 Pain Sticks, and a sandbag. The load had to be shared by all so everyone took turns embracing the suck. Sprinkler decided to take a dive in the ditch and almost took himself out before we got to his Q. The pax only racked up 2 violations along the way.

Mutiny Q (Sprinkler)

Arrived to have 2 penalties. With pack 20 merkins, took the pack off for overhead press for the second penalty. Off to the parking lot. Lined up to do Irkins, Derkins and dips on the curb with crab walk and lunge walks from one side to the other for a total of 4 rounds.

Moseyed to Rockpile and claimed a partner. Partner 1 curls, bus driver, rut rows while partner 2 ran to 2nd light poles. Rinsed and repeated. Ended with 5 burpees OYO.

The Pax was given 5 mins to rehydrate, refuel and repack before getting back to the action. The pax were allowed to leave 1 coupon behind and they voted to get rid of a pain stick so we left that behind in the support vehicle. We pressed on to the next AO..The Nest. Upon arrival at the nest we grounded the coupons and the packs for the Nest Q via Finkle, there were no violations on this part of the trip.

Nest Q (Finkle)

Pax was taken down to the walls and the fence line for some Balls to the wall and people’s chair sets. On the first set we counted to 25 for Balls and seal claps to 25 till we got all the way around and then set 2 we did shoulder tap Ball and overhead claps. This continues till we got down to decreasing by a 5 count each round.

Second activity was bears and dans.  Bear crawl two parking spaces than did Lt Dan Taylors building each time up to 10 squats and 40 lunges.

 

Pax was given another 5 minutes to rehydrate and refuel, we lost H1N1, Fonzie and LED after this AO. The decision was made to leave the sandbag and a pain-stick behind for good behavior. Onward to Casino Royale. Along the way Cadre Blue Hen decided to have the pax do some Indian Runs. The back 2 guys run to the front and tuck in behind the flag bearers. During the journey he had them try to beat his timer, Flannigan with wings of glory ran ahead of the colors which resulted in a violation for the pax.  Which was assessed by him when we arrived at Casino Royale. 22 Diamond Merkins with the packs on.

Casino Royale (Fanny Pack)

BOMBS at the Casino. With a lot of the wall working and bear crawling already taken, YHC had to go to a hybrid plan C. @Dauber knowingly chose a number of reps to start with (15) and @Farva unknowingly chose B1 -Burpees rather than B2- bench presses with the ruck. 2 groups Indian run with no rucks in opposite directions. When groups meet, we did BOMBS. 15 burpees OYO, 25 Overhead Press with a ruck, 35 merkins, 25 big boy sit-ups, and about 3 minutes of squats.  Both groups got around the large track twice. YHC did call an audible and chose mercy over punishment and ended the squats about 20 seconds early. Honored to be a Holly Springs Pax and allowed to lead today with my brothers in the Quay!

Pax was given the last 5 min break of the day for hydration and fuel before stepping off for the final leg back to Possum Trot. Once we got to the railroad tracks Blue Hen decided to take the pax down the iron highway. The trek was slow going as the town of Fuquay did not place railroad ties very symmetrical to each other. We got a bit spread out due to the uneven terrain, but we got back in line for the final push up the hill and back down to the trot. We dumped our packs and coupons for the final time and headed to tennis courts to get smoked one more time by 16-Bit.

Possum Trot #2 (16 Bit)

PAX lined up on one sideline of the first tennis court to perform what I’ve named a Crab Boil. PAX crab-walked to the corresponding sideline of the next court where we performed 15 crab cakes in cadence. Resumed crab walk to the next court and did 15 crab bumpers (inverted pickle pounders). We were supposed to crab walk to the same sideline on the next court but a silver sneakers tennis tournament was starting to show up and that last court was getting occupied so our last crab walk was only to the sideline on the other side of the court we were on. When we got there we did 15 crab jacks in cadence.

The aforementioned tennis tournament stopped us from being able to rinse and repeat so we audibled to batwings which consisted of 10 of the following, forward arm circles, reverse arm circles, seal claps, and overhead claps.

We headed down the hill towards the baseball fields and circled up for Mary. We started with 20 American hammers in cadence and then went to Dr. W’s. These are one of my favorites but always cause a lot of confusion. It’s an 8 count exercise that we lost count during so I stopped after 7 or 8 of them. We finished up with an LBC circuit of regular, reverse, and side LBCs.

 

We ended in a very large COT with some great messages passed about our involvement in the community and our impact on others. We closed in prayer and got back to the front of the park for some very much needed coffee and biscuits courtesy of Forceps.

 

 

Bday Q #3 – Suicide Burpees

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It was an even cooler morning with sub-freezing temps around 30 degrees but that didn’t stop the legendary crew that showed up for Possum Trot this morning. Once the party started there was little consideration given to the cold as we didn’t stand still very long.

Thanks for coming out this morning and helping YHC celebrate my birthday. You guys are awesome and you make me better and stronger every day!

Let’s do it again tomorrow at Kenny’s Grave.

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

We moseyed around the tennis courts and circled up in the parking lot to get the blood flowing…
SSH x 20 IC
Daisy Pickers x 10 IC
Windmills x 10 IC
Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 10 forward/ 10 reverse IC
Imperial Walkers x 10 IC
Hillbillies x 10 IC

The Workout:

This workout took place exclusively on the tennis courts…
Part 1: Burpee Suicides – run to the end of court 1, perform 5 burpees, run back to start and perform 5 jump squats. R&R for all 4 courts.
Part 2: Usain Bolts – The man on the end calls out an exercise for everyone else to do while he travels the width of one court and back. Method of travel was one of the following: bear crawl/crawl bear/crab walk/gorilla walk/lunge walk/ duck walk. R&R x3 rounds with a different mode of travel each round. No exercises were repeated. Well done, HIM!
Part 3: Escalator – The man on the end called out a 10 rep exercise which everyone did together in cadence then ran down to the other end of the courts and back. Upon return, the next Pax stacked a second exercise until all added theirs to the stack. A slight audible was called due to time constraints and the rep count was reduced to 5 to make sure we were able to complete the round just in time for COT.
Mary: Included in part 3 of the workout
Announcements:
Frosty CSAUP on Sat – starts at 0600 at Fleming Loop (?) – check FB and Slack for complete details.
Ultimate under the lights at Ting on Mon., Dec 7th @ 0530.
Sign up for the Christmas party on Dec. 17th – Pax only.
T-Claps (Recognition):
All who came out to brave the cold and get shweaty to help YHC celebrate. Special T-Claps to 16-Bit for the 2nd F where there was a sighting of LED, Fonzie, and Fumunga.
Prayer:
Dauber’s job situation has improved dramatically in the last 18 months (praise)
Quiver has a coworker whose wife is dying of cancer
Fanny Pack and 187’s M’s – health issues
Those struggling during the holiday season esp. in light of COVID – reach out to those you haven’t seen. Keep picking up the six!

Prison Yard 12/1

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2 Pax got their December started on the right foot with a Prison Yard workout (Sprinkler and Warden Breach)

Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot and circle up for 22 rep counts of SSH, Windmills, Frakensteins, Daisy Pickers and Imperial Walkers.

The Workout: 6 stations of pain, 2 minutes per station with 15 seconds rest between stations

Station 1: Pain Stick (Round 1 Weighted Homer to Marge, Round 2 Up and over Merkins)

Station 2: Fire Hose (Round 1 Bear crawl hose pull, Round 2 Plank pull through)

Station 3: Med Ball (Round1 Strait arm raise, Round 2 Throw behind)

Station 4: Heavy Bag (Round 1 Bag Squat, Round 2 Plank Get up)

Station 5: Weight Plate (Round 1 Rut Rohs, Round 2 Sunshines)

Station 6 Sandbag (Round 1 Shovel swings, Round 2 RDL’s with a twist)

Announcements: FROSTY CASUP this Sat at 0600

Closed in Prayer:

RESPECT at NMR

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FNGs:none
Warm Up: none
The Workout:  rucked the back nine (20-30#) in reverse order; mosey to old holes, numbers 8-9.
Mary:  great mumble-chatter throughout the ruck and the cool down in the parking lot
Announcements:  CSAUP Quay; check socials
T-Claps (Recognition): thank you Sprinkler and POTS (RESPECT!) for helping me reach my #175 post goal in 2020
Prayer:  First responders, military, PAX and their family members who are ill.  YHC took us out.  Honored to lead. -Dauber