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  • Did I say Frisburpee? – from Fast Tax

    I could detect a hint (or was it a modicum) of disappointment in the air emanating from the 11 PAX assembled as YHC arrived to Q El Diablo this morning. Alas, what tragedy was responsible for this burgeoning discontentment? Apparently, it was seeing my hands bereft of any battle balls or Frisbee. It did not take YHC long to remember (or be reminded) that the workout description for today said “Battle Frisburpee Likely.” Not today – Sorry…

    After disclaimer, we moseyed to the rock pile area for warmups consisting of:
    • Grass Grabbers
    • 5 Penalty burpees – Rudy renaming Q’s exercises
    • 5 Penalty burpees – Rudy renaming Q’s exercises AGAIN
    • Mountain Man Poopers
    • Nancy Kerrigans – YHC was not the only one having trouble standing on one leg while sticking the other leg back and rotating both arms in circles…
    • Hairy Rockettes

    Following rock selection, we headed to the football field and lined up on the goal line for the first event, Colt 45s.
    Colt 45s are basically a broken down curl (with rock) performed IC:
    • 15 reps go from the bottom of the movement up to the halfway point (with your arms at a 90 degree angle and hands at elbow level).
    • 15 reps go from the halfway point up to the top of the bicep curl (hands up near shoulder level).
    • 15 reps start at the bottom of the movement and complete a full range of movement all the way up.

    Red Barchetta was the next event, enhanced by the musical accompaniment of Rush’s 1981 hit – Red Barchetta. PAX line up on the goal line and perform the following sequence OYO no resting:
    • 10 O/H Press; 100 yard dash, 100 SSH, run back to goal line
    • 10 O/H Press; 75 yard dash, 75 mountain climbers (2 is 1 of course), run back to goal line
    • 10 O/H Press; 50 yard dash, 50 LBCs, run back to goal line
    • 10 O/H Press; 25 yard dash, 25 merkins, run back to goal line
    • 10 O/H Press; 10 yard dash, 10 Burpees, run back to goal line

    After a 30 second breather, it was time for Captain Thor, a 1:4 ratio of BBS to American Hammer, performed OYO, increasing by 1:4 each rep, typically 10 reps. Noting the lack of gasps and groans halfway through, YHC thought we could use a couple more reps…so let’s make it 12. For those who don’t want to do the math, the last rep was 12 BBS & 48 Amer. Hammers for a total effort of 78 BBS and 312 Amer. Hammers.

    Digging deep into his repertoire of exercises for something interesting and entertaining, YHC selected Vertigos.
    PAX run to the 50 yd line but with each step you rotate so that you are always spinning as you move forward (clockwise or counter-clockwise, your choice). On reaching the 50 yd line, and letting the dizziness subside, we performed 10 absolutions and ran Vertigos back to the goal line.

    With a few minutes to spare, we paused our mosey back to the rock pile for 5 Welsh Dragons.

    Then it was back to the flag for count off, name-a-rama, announcements, and prayers.
    Happy Birthday to @Belloq

    Followed by Coffeteria at PJs.

    Thanks for the fellowship!
    SYITG

  • Westward Ho—down R.E.S.P.E.C.T – from Bolt

    Warm-o-rama
    SSH (25), Abe SLOWgodas (12x), arm circles forward/back, seal claps, overhead claps(all 20x), self love (10); Toy soldiers, Hillbillies (15x)

    Frac rules enabled (plane coming in=pause the current exercise for 5 burpees then resume whatever was going on (2X)
    Rochamburpees
    winner does merkin/loser burpees and ties both do merkins, reps equal to round (10 rounds)
    Everest(up/over/back the levee):
    Lunge up one step, perform 1 squat, lunge up with other leg, perform 1 squat.
    Side straddle hop burpees:
    Perform 5 Side-Straddle Hops in cadence, then drop and do 2 Burpees (5 rounds/10 burpees)
    Planks Jacks (ICx50, Duh!?)
    Escalator:
    10 jump-ups, 20 burpees, 30 merkins
    Chumbaburpee:
    SSH at beginning of song, then every time they say, “I get knocked down, but i get up again” you do a burpee. While not doing burpees, you are continuously doing SSH.
    Tie Fighters
    Baby Arm Circles in a lunge position. Forward BACs with right leg forward. Backward BACs with left leg forward to balance the Force
    Mary
    Dying cockroaches 50x, again—Duh!?)
    Wife Pleaser-Squeezer: heels close to butt, elevate to wife pleaser but hold at the top for three count-lower to ground=1, rinse repeat for 10, Mahatma swore his butt didn’t tingle to which I say BS—too scared to admit it!
    Bogey insisted I was gonna need a defibrillator due to my excessive panting throughout the workout to which I say, if I’m not out of breath there’s no way Triple Shift has even broken a sweat.

    COT: beyond honored to be pushed by you men and appreciate those who joined my respect misery.

  • Nothing Fancy, Just Grinding it Out – from Baywatch

    The rain missed us on Sunday and spared the PAX at Pontiff. It would have been a wet, muddy, and cold morning otherwise. Instead, the cooler temp was pleasant with an 18 mph breeze, so YHC made sure the workout wasn’t so pleasant. We headed over to the rock pile for a warmup.

    SSH 25 IC
    Mountain Climbers 25 IC
    Imperial walkers 25 IC
    Hillbillies 25 IC
    Arm Circles 15 IC (both directions)
    Grass Grabbers 10 IC

    With the warmup complete, everyone grabbed their obligatory rock and headed to the field.

    The Thang

    Grab a dance partner. While one partner is doing the rock exercise, the other partner runs to the 50 yard line and back. Then switch.

    100 over head presses
    200 curls
    300 chest presses
    400 flutter kicks

    I must admit, the curls were brutal. Although, my rock choice sure didn’t help. This took a little longer than expected so YHC cut short the next exercise. With a few minutes left, we lined up on the goal line. We bear crawled to the 20 yard line, did 5 burpees and bear crawled backed. Then we did the same thing to the 10 yard line and back.

    With rocks returned and all PAX back at the flag, we did some low slow squats and merkins IC to close out the morning.

  • Lucky Bear vs Form Police – from King Kong

    Q vs Q on 1/7/2022

    Our Department had been receiving calls for months about a group of “guys” working out at 5:30 a.m in Kenner. The complaints were never about the noise or other nuisances, but they were about the form. He complained about the push ups…. (they call it “Merks or Merkins”), squats, lunges, burpees, and the list goes on. I recognized his voice every time he called. I couldn’t ignore his complaints anymore since he was so persistent and passionate about the form. As Lieutenant King Kong from the Form Police Department, I showed up on 1/7/2022 ready to hand out citations.

    Upon arrival, I noticed 13 other “guys” (they call themselves “Pax”) showed up promptly on a cold, chilly, windy morning. While I was introducing myself to the Pax and why I was there…. One of the Pax called himself “Rudy” aka Lucky Bear was challenging and questioning me like he was defending his turf.

    A Kenner Native named “Mambi” led a warm up with jumping jacks (they call it “side straddle hops”), windmills (aka “Abe Vigoda”), and a stretch named “grass grabbers.”

    I saw an opportunity to take the lead after Mambi was done with the warmups. I called out another Kenner Native – Mahatma to demonstrate the proper form of a Merkin…. then Gabrielle with squats. After the demonstrations, I led the Pax with 10 merkins, ran to the stop sign, did 10 squats, ran back. When I noticed bad forms, I blew my whistle and everyone had to do 5 burpees. We did that for about 2 rounds… then Lucky Bear interrupted me by telling the Pax to grab a “coupon”, which is a cinder block, and headed towards the levee.

    At the levee, we did something called Gorilla. With a coupon, PAX performed the following OYO without stop: 8 Curls For Girls, 8 Rows, 8 Overhead Presses, 8 Chest Presses, then drop coupon followed this up by a quick mosey over the levee and back. Rinse and repeat until Lucky Bear yelled “halt.” Afterwards, we did few rounds of king kong with the coupon up and down the levee until Lucky Bear yelled halt again.

    At this point, I’m getting tired of Lucky Bear’s nonsense… so I gathered the Pax away from the levee and redirected their focus back on form, but this time with the coupon. We did 7’s (one side with a manmaker, ran to the stop sign and did squats). About half way through, I was interrupted again by Lucky Bear. He must have loved my idea of 7’s. He instructed the Pax to do “Lucky 7’s” – 7 burpees follow with an exercise of his choice in one minute for seven minutes nonstop. I blew my whistle couple times when I noticed his bad form.

    By the end of this, Mambi had enough and halted the entire workout because the environment felt like Form Police versus Lucky Bear. The group voted that I was the winner…. didn’t even know I was in a competition. Now I was asked by the Pax to come back out to Kenner in a month and challenge someone else. They called this “Q vs Q.” I called this a sucker bet to get me out to Kenner at 5:30 a.m. Since I don’t mind getting back out here, only fitting for me to challenge the caller who filed all these complaints. He is Triple Shift.

    Side notes worth mentioning – Fracsac showed up in a Godzilla costume looking for King Kong. Willie is the one who gave me the idea to be Form Police. But the Oscar award winning acting and calling out Triple Shift…. That’s all me.

    Blessed and honored to lead a Q vs Q workout. SYITG.

    King Kong

  • MABA with some make up or lagniappe – from Hokie

    It was an ever so slightly chilly, 36°, upon our arrival, so after a very quick disclaimer, we started with a 300m mosey to get the blood a-flowin’ followed with SSH, grass grabbers and arm circles before lining up along the goal line for the explanation which was short n sweet …

    Do 5 burpees,
    lunge walk 5 yards,
    rinse & repeat to the other goal line…
    100 yards of lunges, 105 burpees

    Lunge back and circle the six so some got an extra 10 – 40 burpees

    Mosey to the rock pile with the instructions to get a rock heavy enough to challenge yourself and bench press for 1 minute.

    Next evolution, EMOM 5 burpees and then bench press your rock

    After two minutes we rotated counter clockwise one position so we could all see who had heavy and who had light rocks 😉

    15 minutes later we moseyed back to the flag for our final 5 burpees and some stretching.

    Thank you for allowing me to lead!

  • Pass the Rock – from Mahatma

    SSH
    Side lunge
    Scorpion Kicks
    Mnt Man Poopers
    Hand Release Merkins

    Grab a rock – on our way to the field 2×2 rinse and repeat pull ups

    Opening
    CrawDaddys
    Start in plank at the goal line –
    2 merkins 2 double under 2 ST
    crawl bear to the 5
    4 4 4
    crawl bear to the 10
    6…..
    8…..
    10…..
    Hold plank for 6

    12 x 2 x 7
    Always start with 2 burpee then 7 of the exercise alternate running with rock overhead or Kong to the next yard line starting at the goal line (Pax stayed together)
    At the 50 it will be a double down
    7 burpees x 24
    1 cross over push ups
    2 front raises
    3 squat press
    4 amr hammer
    5 curls
    6 7 BP x 24 Big Boy
    7 Tri cep ext
    8 v ups
    9 Carolina dry docks
    10 Rowa
    11 Man Makers

    After finishing pax lined up for some requested Mary x 20 ea
    X-Factor
    Susie Q
    LBC

    On our way back 2x2x2x2 rinse and repeat pull ups

    Head back to the flag

    COT

    At the time it was unknown why FastTax was a no show so YHC busted his balls a bit but ultimately passed the Rock City Site Q to him. Now knowing he’s in Nashville caring for his ill dad, prayers are being lifted up.

    Honor to lead – push yourself outside your comfort zone

    God Bless

  • Il Giro d’Italia – from Rudy

    YHC started taking Italian classes over the last year, with the hopes and expectations of being able to speak the language on a yet-to-be-scheduled trip to Italy. The year started strongly, leading to a promise made to El Guapo that YHC would lead a Q in Italian by the end of the year.

    Then YHC fell off the wagon. But the promise remained. And running out of time, YHC finally bit the bullet and decided to give this a whirl. So 9 PAX joined YHC for a journey through l’Italia on this gloomy, wet morning. Welcome Boucher from Macon, GA! And good to see Special K back in the gloom!

    E cinque e mezzo. C’é F3 e mi chiamo Rudy. No sono un formatore professionista. Sei responsibile della tua sicurezza. Spingerti, ma non farti del male. Andiamo in campo!

    Warmup:

    SSH, Abe Vigoda, Pietro Parker, Parker Pietro. Posizione di portenza, Mossa! In Cadenza, Esercizio! Uno, Due, Tre….

    At this point, PAX count dropped by 1 as Magcyver sprinted off to “take care of some business”

    The Thang: A tour of Italy

    The fortress cities of the Tuscan Region. Lets tear down the walls (of Jericho). 7 8-count-body builders, and a lap around half the field. Repeat 7 times.

    The northern Alps. At the front of the gym, lets climb the mountains (aka “stairs”). Bear crawl up, 5 merks. OK, that one is easy. Lets get harder… Repeat with Crawl bear, Crab walk, and Walk crab. Then repeat going back down the ladder.

    On to Pompeii (the Gazebo), in the shadows of Mount Vesuvius (the giant hill…). Here, the PAX recreated the everyday activities that the people of Pompeii were engaged in when the volcano erupted. We “put the dishes in the cabinet” (aka, Right Leg Stepups). Then put some dishes in the Left cabinet. Then we went and sat down for a bit in our Peoples recliner chair.

    On to the ruins of Roma (the Rock Pile). Grab a rock for some “Eternal City” exercise sets. Rows, Curls, Situps. In silence. Just start going. YHC has a count in his head, and announces when we have hit the end. But until then – just keep on lifting.

    Finally, a quick visit to the rocky mountainous island of Sicily (i.e., the railroad tracks) for some balance and walking as we stare into the lights of the approaching train.

    Then back to the flag for a COT (welcome back Macgyver!). Prayers of thanksgiving and for health of ill PAX. Thank you all for pushing me to meet a commitment. May 2022 bring me a better grasp of the Italian Language!

  • Rocks or Blocks – from Kuch

    YHC made the trek to Metry to Q Rock City for another LVCC member who could not make it. The reception was positive – everyone agreed YHC was a clear upgrade. Well, I think that was implied with comments like “oh, you’re the Q” and “so you’re actually going to lead a workout today?” You had to be there

    We moseyed to the warm-up area for some warm-up exercises and some 8-count bodybuilders, which I guess are now a warm-up exercise for F3 Nola anyway. I think Triple Shift was a little late (workouts start promptly at 5:30 AM sir), but it might have just been that he needed some heavy machinery to move his rock.

    Next, we hit the field for some sprints and exercises. Bring the rock once, leave it for the next one. We did some curls, rows, thrusters (with rocks) as well as some burpees, merks, etc… without a rock.

    Next, we hit the hill for 11’s with heavy freddies (rock side) and burpees on the non-rock side. Everyone went hard and we just about finished before heading back to the rock pile. While we waited for everyone to arrive, we did some merry, including a set of 50 flutter kicks IC for a little added fun. Gotta bring the lagniappe.

    Back to the flag at 6:15 for COT. I was sore the following day, which reminds me that I need to hit other AO’s more often to get more variety. Rocks are different from blocks, and I suspect they force you to employ more stabilizer muscles because they’re unwieldy. So thanks to my Metry friends for reminding me of that.