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Tag: Bolt

  • Double Pidgeon, Butterflies and Scantron Running (Oh My!) – from Charmin

    At 5:29, jokes were made about YHC’s shirt since it was part of my Halloween Costume, but now it is just a part of my rotation. After the jesting, YCH lead the count off since Triple Shift was already there thus we figured more coming wasn’t as likely.

    Starting at 5:30 Knotters walked away backwards, stretchers walked away backwards, and the runners ran away forward sine they apparently still haven’t received the memo.

    That being said, YHC mentioned on Monday that his hips were tight, so he directed Stretching with that in mind. We started out with Pool Boy (THE New Orleans Resident) and at some point he was traded for Kennah-Brah from the runners. YHC won’t say who received the better end of that deal, but all the locals know.

    At 6:12 with YHC watching my watch, wanting to get back to the proverbial shovel flag, Bolt decided to get creative by creating a stretch. We had just done the Pidgeon Stretch; so he decided to do a Double Pidgeon. It ended up being one of his better creations. Maybe Kennah-Brah was rubbing off on him.

    With a little over a minute to go, we make our way across the field and notice all the runners sitting doing a butterfly stretch. Apparently, they forget to run for 45 minutes without Pai Gow, or maybe we should rename Tuesday to Wally Stretch.

    That being said, we all start walking towards the flag and notice a tall, lanky, skinner runner coming in hot. It wasn’t until he was on top of us, that we realized that Scantron was coming in HOT! Jokes were made about him not running backwards, but it was good to see him push himself.

    COT consisted of Count-Off, with more that we started with, Name-O-Rama, and Announcements and Intentions. YHC then read from Matthew (9:20-22) galvanizing the PAX to discern what we have been suffering with for too long, and to take that to Our Father in Heaven. Even though he knows all, just like an earthly father wants, he desires his children, us, to share it with him.

  • 1 Year Manniversary – from Pool Boy

    Beautiful Friday morning 57 degrees. Gave the obligatory warnings and headed to the Football field. Scantron and Triple Shift went KOT’s.

    Warmups consisted of:
    SSH’s
    Armcircles;all types
    Abe Vigoda’s
    Grass Grabbers
    Low Slow Squats
    Imperial Walkers
    Slow Merkins
    Burpees

    The Thang
    100 yard’s back and forth of Bear Crawl, Leap Frog, Leap Frog with Partner, Leap Frog Burpee
    Mosey to the Rock Pile and select a rock. In silence: sort of
    Rock Merkins
    Curls
    Overhead Press
    Squats
    Crunches(with rock)
    Rock Press
    Mosey back toward the flag for Rock Toss – Partner up and chunk the biggest rock you have back and forth over the fence to one another. About 5 minutes. Rifle carry Indian Walk back to the rock pile.
    Finished with Mary
    Sprint back to the flag.
    COT
    As this was my 1 year anniversary, thank you all for your support.

  • All Souls Day Beatdown – from Charmin

    Vagabond was very insistent that the shorted form of his name is pronounced Vag and not Vag. Since he ran with Fracksack, we named them Vag Frack. Bolt tried to steal the Q but when he said he didn’t want to write the Backblast so YHC is getting credit again.

    Ended in a COT praying for family members both who are sick and who have passed on since it is All Souls Day today.

  • Running and stuff – from Charmin

    Same ole same ole. Consistency is key.

  • Fathers Pushing Farther – from Charmin

    Originally, YHC was supposed to Q this workout on 10/23, however when a stomach bug required more Charmin than anything, plans had to be postponed.

    That being said, a week later, the Q comes and 5 pax show up.

    Important Numbers for this workout: 12, 3, 10, 22,

    My father was born on 12/3 and died 10/22/22 and so these numbers served as the basis for rep counts for this workout.

    Countoff to start so that we would know that no man gets left behind.

    Mosey to jungle gym area.

    12 x SSH IC
    3 x Burpees OYO
    10 x Grass Grabbers IC
    11 x Peter Parkers IC
    11 x Parker Peters IC
    (11+11=22)

    Arms: 10 of each Forward, backwards, T Claps, MNC’s, Picking Cherries, Dropping them in a bucket. Picking and Dropping Cherries was done until groans since Kennah-Brah didn’t think that they hurt enough from Monday.

    Mosey on over to JPAC. Along the way, there was mumblechatter about if it was JPAS or JPAC and it was decided that from henceforth, it would be know as JPAX.

    Self love at the newly named JPAX.

    The Thang:
    Wall of Jericho as a group around the JPAX. Talk about your fathers and a memory you have of/with them while doing this. When we return to the front, we would do one of the following exercise.

    12 x Merkins IC
    3 x Monkey Humpers towards to police station OYO (this received more criticism than expected)
    10 x Groiners IC. Since this weeks Q-Source is about apprenticeship, YHC decided to apprentice Vagabond in leading groiners.
    22 x Squats IC

    12 x Partner Shrugs OYO. This was a good trust and ab exercise and will be incorporated i to future workouts much to pax’s chagrin.

    Back to Playground for Mary
    ABC’s with our feet, which are a great but simple way to end the workout. Also note, all capital letters.

    COT Ended with YHC sharing about my father and the impact he had and continues to have on my life. While his death was sudden, the way he lived his life was purposeful. His love language was definitely asks of service, which has shown me how to love others intentionally.

  • Accountability trumps blustery weather – from Bolt

    YHC debated posting as he handed out candy and occasionally ate some (to merely enhance the taste of the wine—er, I mean heart “medicine”). Charmin shared he was a scratch, choosing salvation over suffering in the gloom, as did Minute Rice…my likelihood of posting was dropping with the temperatures. War Eagle called for attendance in Slack and offered to Q—there was no going back; I had to Q lest I be subjected to whatever War Eagle would’ve cobbled together and with text commitment from Rev, it was decided.
    Waromrama of the usuals sans music (I did not like it—one and done). Queue the music for the Thang:
    30 sec timer holds a pull up position while pax do an exercise AMRAP, rotate until each pax is timer: Merkins, Squats, Derkins, Lunges

    Make our way to gym equipment changing mode of transport every other light pole: high knees, mosey, shuffle each direction, Carioca facing each way, walk forward/ backwards, toy soldiers, open/close gate.

    Once at the gym, Morning Calls (5 pull ups called while pax plank and move on the count: derkins). The Thang, Thang: Four stations with 1 minute of work
    Followed by 10 sec rest/switch stations: Incline press, tricep dips, step ups, decline big boys. Rinse and repeat then mosey back to flag on Rev’s pace.

    Not wanting to cheat the pax out of their final minute, on the six for everyone’s favorite: Protractors! That seemed like and 86 second minute.

    COT. Prayers for PVC’s nephew, Boo Boo, War Eagle’s wife’s pregnancy, and Bolt’s boss after the loss of her dad. Thanks for keeping me accountable, men.

  • 10 Things, 10 Times for 10 Rounds – from Kenna Brah

    This BD is based on ONLY doing warmup type exercises as the Thang. And there is NO running. Well only to the start.
    Mosy’d over to the Entrance to the Center

    Excercise Set – each movement is performed 10 times and is perfromed in it’s “normal” count. 2 is 1, 4 ct etc.

    SSH – 4CT
    Toy Soldiers- 4CT
    Imperial Walkers – 4CT
    Hand Release Merkins – Call the UP
    Peter PArker – 4Ct
    Freddie MErs – 4 Ct
    LBC – 4CT
    Flutter Kicks – 4CT
    Low Slow Sw – 4CT
    Bonnie Blairs – 4CT

    Repeat up to 10 times – but we only made through 7,
    Slowsy back to the flag for a bit of stretch and COT

  • Back at it – from Charmin

    After completing the 1st Grow Run and GRE-41 over the weekend, YHC was eager to get back out to the gloom. Thankfully, Hokie reached out to Bolt to HC since YHC needed stretching. Started with mirroring the KnOTters by walking backwards away from them. While they did their own thing, Bolt and Vagabond heard a recounting of the weekend, along with groans from the much needed stretching. Vagabond added his own gassing from time to time.

    Worked our way back to the shovel flag for some COT where YHC asked for prayers as this weekend is the 1 year anniversary of my father’s sudden passing. Glad to be back in the gloom with brothers.

  • Trading places. – from Charmin

    YHC took a different route today, choosing to go with the KNOTers. There were a cornucopia of conversations, from what planets were in the sky, to ways to increase tibia torsion, and the downsides of being a bitcoin mining owner.

    When we came back with mi it’s to spare and saw the runners stretching so maybe they decided not to run. Their leader Pai Gow wasn’t there to tell them what to do so who knows.

    Ended with a COT where we prayed for those suffering.

  • Columbus Day Dirty Dozen – from Bolt

    Arriving at the planted shovel flag with a WHOLE 5 minutes to spare yet seeing no pax I knew at least one other person was there. War Eagle and PVC were lurking in the shadows and as the disclaimer was given on this chilly morning we moseyed to JPAS (where War Eagle proclaimed no need for music=turn it up) to get the blood flowing for the warmorama of usual stuff plus a new one to War Eagle: Willie Mays.

    Columbus Day being the day of discovery that it is (or at least was until it became about pillaging for the millennial and younger generations) YHC hoped today’s BD would have the pax discovering how far they could push themselves—physically and mentally with the Dirty Dozen.

    The Thang
    Ascend the ramp to the second floor landing of JPAS. where we’d do 12 reps of an exercise before descending/ascending the stairs and add a second 12-rep exercise to the first for round two. Repeat where round three consisted of three 12-rep exercises for a total of 36 reps before the down/up stairs. 12 rounds ending with 144 reps across 12 exercises if you finish—we did not. We all got into round 11. War Eagle no longer cared about (or even processed the music) playing.

    Exercises/cumulative rep counts::
    Monkey Humpers 144
    Shoulder Taps 132
    Big Boys 120
    Bonnie Blair’s 108
    Merkins 96
    Leg Raises 84
    Scoop Squats 72
    Carolina Dry Docks 60
    Compound Ws 48
    Burpees 36
    Mountain Climbers 24
    SSH 12