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Double Down at TBD

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Warm Up: Halloween monster imitation, clapping, flower picking

The Workout: Q brought a trunk full of toys and passed them out to everyone following the warm up. PAX spread out in a circle on the tennis court and were given assorted exercise to perform with their torture devices.

Format was as follows:

45 sec to AMRAP the given exercise, count your reps

45 sec of ‘active recovery’ exercise

Unlimited time to double your round one reps (hence ‘double down’)

Squat hold until all PAX are finished

Primary exercises included: merkins, lat pulls, tricep extensions, thrusters, med ball slams, curls for the girls, weighted punching, chest flys, halos, and squats

Active recovery included: mtn climbers, WWI, Freddy Mercury, Australian snow angels, dying cockroach, plank, side plank, bear crawl, heel taps, and something else.

PAX rotated stations after the completion of each round

Announcements: Xmas party, Even-The-Odds

Prayer: @abe’s parents – dad dealing with cancer + a stroke, mom providing care

@brexit has a job interview today

leading our families well during a season that can lead to selfishness and ‘the wants’

Lt Dan

No Legs and Two Big Balls

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Warm Up: SSH, Arm Circles, Some Clapping

The Workout: All PAX gathered a Cindy and readied themselves for an upper body beatdown. YHC is working through a knee issue, so we were doing this Lt. Dan style, no legs.  

Tabata style workout, 45on/15off, AMRAP all exericises:

2 rounds:

  • Chest Press
  • Overhead Raises
  • Dying Cockroach
  • Hex Press
  • American Hammers

15 merkins after each round

PAX then lined up shoulder to shoulder in a V-SIT and passed a 25lb med ball down and back a few times – Group American Hammers

2 rounds:

  • Curls for the girls
  • Halos
  • Weighted WWIs
  • Overhead Press
  • Dips

15 merkins after each round

Second round of group american hammers

1 round:

  • Rows
  • Plank
  • Standing Dead Lift
  • Shoulder Shrug
  • Low slow flutter

15 merkins

Mary: PAX sat in a circle and a large exercise ball was introduced. All members of the circle held a V-sit while throwing the ball around the circle. One merkin penalty for each time the ball hit the ground. The total darkness supplied by Purple Cobra added to the excitement. 

Yeehaw’n through 1985

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Warm Up: side straddle hops, daisy pickers, windmills, sir fazio arm circles

The Workout: Supposedly there was some large rotating storm in the area, thankfully it was a nice breeze and some drizzle for us. Nevertheless, a shelter workout was planned and that’s what we did. 

Tabata style rotation- Three sets of 4 exercises (30 seconds on, 15 seconds off) for 4 rounds. First set- mountain climbers, split lunges, erkins, and dips (RIP triceps). Second set- star jumps, dry docks, wall sit, plank jacks. Third set- LBCs, WW1, box cutters, saw plank. ~5 minutes left so we cooled down with some stretching, felt great. 

In celebration of my birthday we listened to the top hits from the year of my birth (’85). There was also a “yeehaw” sound on the timer that played around every 30 seconds. The music and the yeehaws got some laughs early on but were soon replaced by groans. The commercials from my free version of Spotify (like Lebron) were icing on the cake.

Mary: covered in the third tabata set

Announcements: Lots of events coming up- watch slack for updates and opportunities to serve.

T-Claps (Recognition): none specifically

Prayer: P.S.I. and family for safe travels

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Sweaty Rocks

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Warm Up: Frankensteins | Sir Fazio’s | SSH | Mtn. Climbers

The Workout: 5 PAX endured the suck with 2 smedium :rock:’s

Mosey with rocks

Wall Sits

5 rounds | 10 x

  • front squats
  • Frog hop over rocks crawl back
  • Should press
  • Mtn climbers
Erkins, Derkins, & Dips then Wall sits again
Moseyed back with rocks

Mary: Homer to Marge (Both legs then alternating single legs) | Pickle Pounders | Crunches | Box Cutters

Prayer: Pothole needs healing after his back surgery so he can make it to Warrant Officer School coming up soon.

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Comparing rocks

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Warm Up: SSH, Daisy pickers, imperial walkers, 5 burpees, hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, seal claps, overhead claps

The Workout: We moseyed over to the rock pile where PAX were instructed to get a mediumish rock for a good deal of reps. We circled up at the amphitheater.

Curls for the girls in cadence x30, Tris for the guys in cadence x30, ruh rohs in cadence x30, squats x30, WWIIs x30. Dropped the rocks and did a bear crawl down the sidewalk to the library door then mosey back.

Round two was the same but the counts dropped to 20. Round the saw counts of 10. Returned our rocks and moseyed around to the semicircle parking lot.

PAX lined up on their six for Guantanamos. We got two rounds in as we went almost all the way around the semicircle. On our way back to the start, we lunge walked past the book drop-off.

Mary: popcorn Mary took us right up to time.

Announcements: parking lot Coffeeteria (thanks to BnB) after the workout at Cletus/Crazy Ivan this Friday, stay hydrated and learn CPR

Prayer: Gizmo’s mom, man that Plunger saw at the golf course

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Relatively cool morning

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Warm Up: SSH, good morning, frankenstein, imperial walker, slo-mo merkins

The Workout:  YHC had nothing planned for today because YHC is lazy.  Started with 7’s in the parking lot (burpees & squats).  Mosey to the covered shelter for BTW & People’s Chair (X2), moseyed to the stage thing, stopping along the way for an exercise the name of which is escaping me at the moment, for dips & box jumps (X2).  Moseyed some more around the track and had some fun with Carolina Dry Docks and Reverse Lunges (X2).  Mosey back to stage thing for more dips, some derkins, then headed back.

Mary:  Started with a move I saw at F3 Timeshare in Myrtle Beach – On your six in a V position, start with left leg extended while the right leg is tucked to your chest.  Hold for 10 seconds.  Switch legs, hold for 10 seconds.  Then both legs extended, hold for 10 seconds.  

After that was popcorn Mary.  Box Cutters, Freddy Mercury, Jane Fonda, Heel Taps, and some elbow-to-opposite-knee thing that Jellybeans called.

T-Claps (Recognition): Prayer:  Forceps getting ready for a move to DC while also prepping for an interview to move up in his company.

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Roaming Yoga in a Thunder/Lightning Storm

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I wasn’t exactly raring to go today.  Signed up to Q last minute the night before because, who know why.  No plan, but feeling like I needed  a recovery sort of routine after this week, so I had a general idea of a slow mosey around the track with yoga stops along the way.  I know very little yoga so I wasn’t sure how this would go, but it actually went well, accomplishing just what I was looking for and pretty spot on with timing.

Rolling up to Cletus, the dark morning sky was flashing lightning in the distance, didn’t think much of it, but soon it just opened up and poured buckets on us.  It was awesome. 

The Workout:  Slow mosey walk, not run, around the track, stopping at each corner to attempt some yoga poses.  Each stop began with downward dog then progressed into: runner’s pose, crescent pose, warrior, warrior 2(?).   

I learned that Moose is alarmingly, and comically inflexible. 

We completed two laps around the track, then joined Crazy Ivan for COT.

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Building the Pyramid

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Warm Up: Grabbed some coupons from the back of Q’s car and carried them to the lot behind Hunt Center. Warmup OYO

The Workout: PAX worked OYO to complete a pyramid, 100 reps per level, building lap after completing each layer. Thats it. 

 

Mary: Popcorn around the horn. @jellybeans, @nemo, @wildturkey and @brexit joined for Mary + COT

Announcements: 3-alarm Q sheet

Prayer: Injured PAX + those we haven’t seen much recently, @brexit had a HR exam with a 49% pass rate ,@wildturkey prayed for self control for @brexit to not make ‘That’s What She Said’ jokes about it being hard during the test…. joke was not his best…

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Leg Day at Disney

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Warm Up:  SSH, Frankenstein, Hillbilly/and or Imperial Walkers, I dunno…Willy Mays Hays, standing quad stretch

The Workout: 

This worked out really well, time-wise.  Beat the legs down with two leg sets, then a recovery mosey around the parking lot w/merkins, repeat-o.  These may have F3 names, but whatever:

  • Bulgarian split squats on the half wall, 24 reps each side
  • Calf raise squats, 25
    • mosey
  • Super skaters, 25 ea
  • People’s Chair, 90 seconds
    • mosey
  • Step back lunge, 15 ea
  • Alternating side lunge, 15 ea
    • mosey
  • Single leg dead lift squats, 20?..I think only 15 ea
  • 3-way calf raises, Toes forward, toes in, toes out (15 fast, 10 slow ea)
    • mosey
  • Jump squats, 12
  • Box jumps at the half wall, 12

Mary:  LBC, Toe Taps…maybe something else.

Prayer:  Gizmo’s M is pregnant with their third child, expected December/January!

Cletus

Irrelevant bug facts and a Personal Anniversary

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Warm Up:  SSH, Willy Mays, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio, Seal Claps

The Workout:  7’s in the parking lot – Doubled up burpees on both ends…lol

Simple stuff today.  Set up stations under the covered picnic table area:  People’s chair, balls to the wall, curls for girls w/dumbbells, WWII, standard merkin, Squats w/30lb ruck, alternating shoulder raises w/dumbbells.

The timer was my homemade Quadzilla tire sled pull.  PAX chose a station to start in and the tire puller ran to the playground sign and back, at which time all PAX would rotate.  We got two full rounds in.

Mary:  YHC called box cutters then opened it for popcorn:  Freddy Mercury, reverse boxcutters, some goofy but difficult thing Pikachu called, low slow flutters…I don’t remember the rest.

Announcements: Trash pick up and backpack donation that Abe is collecting for

T-Claps (Recognition):  YHC share with the group that today is his 4-year sobriety anniversary.  In his old age, he’s not big on most anniversaries, traditional ceremonies and the like, but this one is different.  A time for reflection, praise and the sincerest of gratitude.

Prayer:  The usual