Category: Backblasts

  • Return to the Marsh – from Akbar

    YHC was excited to return to the Marsh after missing a couple of weeks due to travel. Looking forward to seeing everyone and the traditional catch up on the weekend mosey to the Lakefront. At 5:13, looked like I would be talking to myself this gloom. At the last minute, Pik came running up and we got to work.

    Warm Up
    SSH, Self-Love, Butt kicks, Imperial Walkers, High Knees, and some other stuff

    Short Mosey to the playground for 3 sets of 10: Australian Pullups and Mountain Climbers

    Mosey to Rips, stopping at each intersection for Merkins and Sumo Squats, tempo style. 12 IC, 8 IC, 5 IC

    11’s at Rips. Plank Jacks and Bobby Hurley’s with a run up the stairs + 20 calf raises each round. Calf raises were cut out halfway to save time and make sure we could walk the rest of the day. Quick Hello from Pik’s M on her morning walk, asking if we were trespassing and we finished up at 5:50

    Mosey back to center court stopping a few times for Merkins and Sumo Squats. Mary was Heels to Heaven and LBC’s.

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out.

    Till next Gloom 👊 – Akbar

  • We Only Lost One – from MANCHOVY

    We started simply enough with 24 PAX and a mosey to the field in front of the zoo for a warm-o-rama which included SSH x 20, arm circles forward and backwards x 12 each, Windmills x 15, Peter Parkers and Parker Peters x 15. Then it was over to the Audubon statue for BLIMPS.

    Following the BLIMPS it was over to the levee for 7s with squat jumps at the bottom and Jack Webbs at the top of the levee. Afterwards we planked on the railroad while the PAX on the end did 5 merkins, ran to the end of the line, and re-planked. After two rounds it was back to the statue for right and left leg step ups, dips and a round Mary. We lost one PAX sometime during the above.

    We returned to the flag for count-o-rama with 23 PAX, the name-o-rama and welcomed FNG #Slow Poke .

  • Yen Yang: Scrum Edition – from Bolt

    Squats/Yang: hold bottom of squat for 3 count and push ground away, squeeze glutes at top for each rep
    Merkins/Yang: hold mission impossible for 3 count and extend arms with plank jack at top for each rep
    Reverse lunges R/Yang: hold left leg at 90 degrees/R leg full reverse lunge with tall torso for 3 count, stand up and touch L elbow-R knee
    Derkins/Yang: one derkin to Peter Parker to derkin for each rep
    Reverse lunges L: hold right leg at 90 degrees/L leg full reverse lunge with tall torso for 3 count, stand up and touch R elbow-L knee
    Irkins/Yang: one irkin to Parker Peter to irkin for each rep
    Side lunges R then L: focus on driving through lunged heel, “pushing Earth away from you” on the up
    Diamond merkins/Yang: diamond mission impossible for 3 count, extend arms with shoulder taps at top

    Tricep dips
    Last Man Sitting (hold people’s chair as long as possible and begin squats upon tapping out until last man breaks people’s chair)
    Mtn. climbers
    Mary (LBC, dying cockroaches, penguins, American hammers)
    Burpees sprinkled in with every song skip
    COT

  • False Fall is gone – Make America Burpee Again – from Hokie

    YHC awakened to another day and another Q-less calendar so I took the Q at Renaissance

    As 0630 approached 8 Pax gathered at NOMA

    WARMORAMA
    20 SSH
    Roll some ankles
    Shrug some shoulders
    Roll some necks

    THE THANG
    Partner workout

    Team up in teams of two
    EVERYtime the team pairs up 10 Burpees

    Pax 1 then runs around NOMA
    while Pax 2 start towards 100 team count of called exercise

    EVERYtime the team pairs up 10 Burpees
    Switch and Pax 1 continues exercise and Pax 2 runs around NOMA

    That is a lot of burpees over 35ish minutes!

    At 0710 back of NOMA for 10 more burpees and 100 seconds of Sunday mornings

  • No cars were damaged & Frac possibly broke a sweat – from Hokie

    At 0600 YHC noticed no one had signed up to Q either workout in New Orleans so I took Mothership and took a quick “minute” to decide, based on recent broken windows how to protect our cars.

    We gathered at our normal spot and did a minute each of warm ups with Slow Vigodas followed by grass grabbers and Imperial Walkers.

    We then moseyed about 20 yards towards the peristyle and specifically to 4 sets of benches with two pax per bench.

    With the continued theme of these thugs taking less than a minute to break into cars, we would do the following for one minute each

    First evolution – legs!

    1. L leg step ups
    2. R leg step ups
    3. L leg Bulgarian split squats
    4. Surprise… R L BSS
    5. Bobby Harley’s…
    6. Monkey Humpers
    7. L leg forward lunges
    8. R leg forward lunges
    9. L leg backward lunges
    10. R leg backward lunges

    At this point, my quads were already feeling the leg focus but Frac was complaining he wasn’t sweating and the ladies in the peristyle were working harder than we were, YHC did not allow the Mumblechatter to distract than plan so we did a rinse and repeat to focus on legs for this 1st evolution.

    Next a Tabata with …. ONE MINUTE of work and 15 seconds of rest and the goal was for the Pax to work for the entire minute in each of the 10 rounds. 10 rounds of 1 FULL minute of burpees followed 15 seconds of rest was the plan but modifications seemed to be the plan of most Pax

    Next evolution…. SHOUKDERS

    Another Tabata EASING up on the Pax so only 45 seconds of work and 15 seconds of rest…

    1. Hindu Merkins
    2. Mountain climbers
    3. T—Merkins
    4. Shoulder Taps
    5. Angle grinders

    Rinse & Repeat

    Last evolution

    Only 30 seconds of work, 15 seconds of rest
    10 Rounds
    Burpees

    Thanks for allowing me to Q. Sorry it was too soft. 😜

  • Kansas City Chiefs Rally – from Einstein

    But BBQ doesn’t.

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Shoulder Rolls, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillys,
    Neck Rolls

    Thang:
    With Deck of Cards, each pax is assigned their suit: Moby-hearts, Jose10K-spades, Mathlete-diamonds, Einstein-clubs
    one at a time, each pax draws a card, the owner of that suit calls out an exercise of their choice and we do that amount of the card.
    Jokers – back-peddle around the upper deck

    We made it through the deck just as time expired.
    BBQ missed it all – his sweat-o-meter KCC hat would have registered south of the top squatchee button.

    Count-o-rama

    Jose-10K led us out with a prayer

  • God Save The Queen (and us) – from Tinkles

    Good idea, poor execution. We ventured away from higher learning and back to our playground roots. After a warm up we BLIMPED our way down St. Charles to Daneel playground. Partnered up for some Dora 1-2-3 with burpees, LBC, and squats. Noted on the corner was the house of one of our limey pax flying the Union Jack. A moment of silence was considered but we were short on time. Indian run back the flag with modification and chaos ensuing. Oh well. Count off and namorama with a welcome back to Poboy. Blessings for a great weekend.

  • Gipper Gold – from Einstein

    Plenty of entertainment at the Gipper on this cool 60 degree morning. With BBQ displaying his Irish Riverdance skills
    and Fletch pining about his unsuccessful panning for Gold after swallowing his gold tooth crown.

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Shoulder Rolls, Imperial Walkers, Hi Jack Hi Jills, Hillbillys,
    High Knees, Butt Kicks, Neck Rolls, Thumb Drives, Scissor Kicks (aka Irish Dance), Good Mornings, Cherry Pickers,etc.

    Thang:
    Carry, Pick up, and put down cinder blocks many times

    Mary:
    Rosalittas, Gas Pumps, V-Ups, Big Boys Sit-Ups

    Count-o-rama

    Fletch meister led us out with a prayer.