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Charmander, the lizard Pokemon

After moving back a week in the Q schedule for Crazy Ivan to support Steamboat’s V Q YHC found himself with three Qs in one week. It lined up close enough to Pokemon’s 25 year anniversary so it only made sense to coordinate the workouts around the original three starters.

 

Today’s workout celebrated Charmander, the Lizard Pokemon. Charmander is easily the most popular of the original three starters and is the one that YHC likes the least. Therefore there were no Charmander references during the workout – this guy has had enough love over the years, trust me.

 

Word was received the day before that CarPex was going to arrive in force as they were considering starting a steel mace workout. YHC made sure that we hit the highlight tour of exercises for them to learn from – was great to have the company (even if it did come with an excessive amount of mumble chatter – that’s what burpees are for!).

FNGs:

None today – would’ve been great, we could have named them after a Pokemon.
Warm Up:

SSH x20

Hips in a barrel x5 each direction

Burpees x5 – the mumble chatter was already over the top

Good morning x11 IC

Still too much chit chat so we grabbed our maces and moseyed to the top of the deck

The Workout:

We moseyed to just past the entrance to the upper deck and circled up for a demonstration of the death march. We then performed 1 in cadence.

 

Moseying the short distance across the deck pax were given a demonstration of the 360. We then did 10 on YHC’s swing.

 

We gravediggered back to where we started up top for 2 death marches. Mosey back to the other side for 9 360s – Dawgpound figured out what we were doing. Repeato for 11s all the way through.

 

After finishing the 11s we moseyed back down to the bottom level. Circling up at start YHC demonstrated the ballistic curl – we did 10 and then moseyed halfway down the deck. There we demonstrated the mace deadlift – two legged first then one legged. 1 IC and then a new exercise – we bunny hopped with the mace back to the start. 9 ballistic curls kept our 11s going. Getting short on time we dropped the mosey/bunny hop and did our 11s stationary after the 5 / 6 set.

 

In the circle pax were instructed to hold their mace vertically overhead. After taking a knee, putting a hand down, and swinging the leg through they realized they were getting a very detailed Turkish Getup demonstration. Following the one getup we performed 5x Side Plank tucks – these were supposed to be the star of another set of 11s but 10 of those wasn’t going to happen and the clock was not being kind at this point. We did another Turkish Getup on the other side followed by 5 more side plank tucks and we moved onto mary.

 

We grabbed some call for preacher’s chair with the mace out front horizontally – 10x IC was followed by 10x Homer to Marge IC two legged then 10x IC one legged. We repeated all of those again on the other side.

Mary:

American hammer w/mace – 20x IC

 

Freddie Mercury x10 IC

 

Yoga – downward dog, knee down crescent lunge, pigeon pose

Announcements:

YHC’s TED talk tonight – “So you want to be a runner?”

Long ass run January 30th – sign up form is online

T-Claps (Recognition):

CarPex pax for making the trip to learn the ways of the mace

Prayer:

Saddique for wisdom, Mike for COVID recovery, Fumunga for surgery recovery, our country for a smooth transition this week.

Carpex Surprise!

FNGs: None

https://youtu.be/ambOzSEYA7Q

Announcements:  Mulch at Bass Lake – limit it to 5 at a time.
T-Claps (Recognition):  Juneteenth.
Prayer:  Families in F3.  BLM.

Wahoo took us out.

Doubling Down With QIC Triple Lindy

Ground Pounder. Triple Lindy wrapped up a successful Q-Swap week with a solid beatdown at South Wake’s only Saturday bootcamp workout. Here’s his account:

Warmup:

-No fng’s and no flag planted at our 7:30 start time so 5 penalty burpees were called to start the morning. Found out there was a flag in the trunk so got it planted and quick mosey around the parking lot. This was the extent of running for the morning.

-Circle up for some south wake style good mornings, side straddle hops, calf stretch, and daisy pickers.

The Thang:

-Mosey over time playground and find a section of bench or concrete wall for Aiken Legs. This is 20 squats, 20 box jumps, 20 lunges, and 20 split jacks.

-circle up for Air-squared. I know how much SW likes clapping, so hold people’s chair with a 20 count seal clap.

-spread out around the circle around the playground. Time for Apple Turnover. Pax to bear crawl halfway around the circle. Once halfway switch to crab walk until complete the circle.

-Partner up. Partner 1 does 10 reps of No Surrender while partner 2 holds back planks. Flip flop.

-still in partners, 1 does 5 pull-ups while 2 does Mike Tysons, which is plank hold against the wall, do a horizontal squat to a merkin. 5 rounds were called.

-empty wheelbarrows were called. Not the best idea at this point of the morning. Pax only made it quarter way around the circle before the Q called an audible.

-Global warming- circle up and side shuffle around the circle with every single pax calling out a 10 count exercise. With 19 Pax in attendance, this sufficiently sucked.

Mary:

Homer to Marge, American hammers, and gas pumpers to bring us to an end.

COT:

Count off, name-o-rama, prayers spoken and unspoken

 

QSWAP DAY 5: UTI ….. FOREVER MORE….

A pre-blast was sent to Carpex and South Wake looking for support for the to-be Q at Dazed and Confused.  With the numbers that these two regions have the potential to bring, YHC thought this was an appropriate time to swallow his pride and make the request for a name change.  I know… I know… I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!  But if there was ever a time to get the votes I needed, it would be today.  And hey, I’ve heard some of the mumblechatter about South Wake naming.  Peeping Tom’s name got shortened to PT when he moved to Carpex – Carpex will be sympathetic to my plight…. right?

1000 HCs were requested, the votes came in…

Carpex –

  • 10 HCs
  • 4 Laughed with me (I think)
  • 1 SC
  • 2 “Peeing” emoji – inappropriate!!!  EXACTLY THE SORT OF THING I’M TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM!!!  Calm…  Calm…
  • 1 “No Entry” emoji – I assume this just means no, I’m not trying to enter anything…  Minds in the gutter in this region…

SouthWake

  • 8-ish HCs
  • A whole bunch of protests –  “We Love You UTI… Never change..” stuff like that
  • A threat that I would be “Getting an English Ripping” – Australians… Am I right?

As 187 commented on the pre-blast, “UTI ….. FOREVER MORE….”

***I had no intention of changing my name.  Do we even have 1000 PAX between our 2 regions?  If 1000 had HC’d or shown up I might have had to change my name… I mean that would be some vote!  This exercise was for fun and a mockery of those posts you often see out on the social medias.  I scouted the FB pages of some of my elderly relatives for research and treaded lightly around the ones that focus on serious illnesses.  This was my inspiration 😀

 

EC: Warbucks, Full House, The Joker, 187, Skidmark, Lipstick, Pikachu

FNGs: Too Scared…

Warm Up: Mozy under the parking deck

Circle Up

1 Burpee

Daisy Pickers

2 Burpees

Windmills

3 Burpees

Imperial Walkers\Hillbillies

4 Burpees

SSH

5 Burpees

The Workout:

Thang 1

Count off 1,2,3

  • Group 1 Top of the Deck, Star Jumps until relieved
  • Group 2 Stairs, run to the top to relieve Group 1
  • Group 3 Bottom of the Deck, WWIIs until relieved

Groups 1, 2, and 3 cycled through this rotation until all 3 groups completed 10 climbs up the stairs

*Flaw in the structure of this, should have created groups of 3 and had them split up into 3 stations, continuing the rotation as a team of 3.  T-claps to Shut-In and other PAX that started calling out group numbers as they got to their new stations to help keep everyone moving.  Lesson learned for next time 😀

Thang 2

All PAX to the top of the parking deck, line up on the half wall

Bear Crawl the long way down the lot stopping at each light pole for 5 Merkins OYO

T-Claps to Theismann for calling out Chill Cut moves (and not Have A Nice Day) while we brought in the 6.  Lucky Charms and Pikachu – you guys are fast on those Bear Crawls!!!

Return to the other side of the lot – this time Lunge Walks, 10 LBCs at each light pole.

Thang 3

Mozy to the opposite stair case and descend.  People’s Chair while we wait for the 6.

Partner-up, Balls 2 the Wall / Sprints Out and Back on the short length of the deck.  AND SWITCH

5x per partner

Mary:  Runners Pose each side, Pigeon Pose each side, Have A Nice Day!

Announcements:

  • Q-Swap Week Continues Saturday – Banana Seat has your Q at Pheonix (Bond Park)
  • 2f2f lunch today at noon, Societa in RTP
  • Yahoo is back and safe
  • M4L, Shout out to the regular HIM that are making the trip to Bergdaw (sp?) – Encourage more of that from all PAX.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Thanks all for the great week in Carpex.  YHC completed a 5 pack in your beautiful region.  Terrific Hosts, putting 5-stars in Yelp, I’ve LIKED your FB page

Prayer:

  • Disco Duck is moving mom into a retirement home.  Prayers for a smooth transition.
  • Meatloaf’s 2.0 is heading back to college
  • Prayers for Chicken Little’s brother or friend.  No details but he needs your prayers.
  • Service men/women
  • South Wake’s own, Walaby
  • UTI prayed that Carpex might actually “bring it” next week… I guess we’ll see… 😀

Q-Swap Week – Disturbing the Peace

YHC hasn’t Q’d in a while and was eager to knock the dust off for Q-Swap. A workout was planned to handle a large crowd and to minimize the mumblechatter. Carpex is a difficult group to slow down. 13 for EC (of course SW PAX went for a run), 38 for the main event.

FNGs: Nope

ECP: Wahoo, Hamm, The Joker

EC: 2 milers: Warbucks, UTI, Slide Rule, Full House, Kosher, Redenbacher, Lipstick, 187

7.5 miles: Revere, Hanson

Warm Up:
YHC decided to start off on a high note with the slaughter starter (20 burpees OYO) to kill the mumblechatter before it really started. It slowed them for a bit before they were begging for a pledge and some good mornings.

A quick pledge of allegiance at the shovel flag and we were off on a mosey for carioca, side shuffles, butt kickers, etc. Circled up in the lot beside CC Jones park for:

Good mornings (SW style of course)
Goofball
Windmill
Sir fazio arm circles
Seal claps

Mosey back to shovel flag.

The Workout:
Thang 1:
Partnered up with PAX from rival territory for Flat tires across long parking lot with each partner working from 4:1 to 40:10 (wheelbarrow steps:merkins). When form broke down, YHC called recover and we mosey’d around to the other side of the church.

Thang 2:
Circled up for Howling Monkeys. 2 rounds were performed with each PAX doing 10 monkey humpers while other PAX held monkey humper starting position. Big circle, so we spawned off 2 active PAX. Slide Rule had enough and tried to stop the howling, but we continued for round 2. PAX then tried to mosey around to the other side of the building. It was at this point that Burt admired YHC’s pants and suggested I went shopping with M4L.

Thang 3:
Evolution of man (crawl, walk, run) x2 rounds

Line up on end of parking lot
Bear crawl to first island
15 merkins
Lunge walk to light pole
15 squats
Sprint to other side of lot
15 shoulder taps
15 WWIIs
*Repeato*

Mary:
Alphabet soup (CAPITAL LETTERS)
LBCs
American hammers
Hundreds

Mosey back to shovel flag for COT.

Announcements:
Q swap continues at Rush Hour tonight at 1800 (6pm).
New Carpex AO launches tomorrow at Waverly with 3rd F to follow

T-Claps (Recognition):
Carpex PAX for maintaining such a strong level of mumblechatter and living up their reputation.

Prayer:
No prayer requests, YHC took us out.

Thanks for the hospitality Carpex! It was an honor (and a challenge) to lead such a large and chatty group.