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  • Not a Dry Shoe in Sight – from Fast Tax

    Only 4 pax braved the sloppy Rock City soup to see what new creative adventures Fast Tax had put together.

    After disclaimer, we headed to the rock pile.
    Warmups consisted of:
    o Abe Vigodas X 10 IC
    o Happy Jacks X 15 IC
    o Bat Wings FAC, RAC, SC, OH, MNC X 20 IC

    We grabbed our rocks and headed to the field for the first routine, Field of Dreams.
    Partner Sequence OYO consisted of: PAX 1 begins to traverse the field as follows: lunge with rock to 25yd line, drop rock, bear-crawl to 75 yd. line, lunge remaining 25 yds. 50 BBS at goal line, repeat back. PAX 2 does 15 rows, 15 curls, and 15 O/H press then runs to switch with PAX 1 who runs back and does the rows, curls, etc. Cycle repeats until they are back at the starting point.

    After Field of Dreams, it was time to get our rocks off (or up). Holding wife pleaser position with rocks on the ground past their head, sequence is IC:
    As YHC called “up,” triceps lift to overhead and back down. 3 sets of 10 reps.

    Next was Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes: a 10 count arm and shoulder workout with rock, 20 reps IC.

    Following 2 cycles of an Indian Crabwalk, the festivities on the field culminated with Captain Thor, a 1:4 ratio of BBS to American Hammer, performed OYO, increasing by 1:4 each rep (i.e. ending with 10 BBS and 40 Amer Hammer). Then it was back to the rock pile and a quick mosey to the flag for COT.

    Coffeteria at PJs followed.

    Thanks for the fellowship!
    SYITG

  • Fear and Self-Loathing in El Diablo – from Bolt

    After a cold-induced break and a quick trip out of town, nine days lapsed between posts so yours truly was full of self-loathing and fearful of phoning in the Q. Hopefully the PAX didn’t feel that way after I decided to try out an idea I’ve been toying with: a Yin/Yang themed workout taking advantage of the universal truth of equal and opposing forces that keep all things in balance.

    Mosey to rock pile, cue obligatory highly curated playlist (which began with the classic “Rapper’s Delight”) and warmup then carry a medium rock to the pavilion, grab some bench. YHC explained each round would consist of an exercise done as we always do (Yin version), followed by a modified version that incorporated doing it from an equal but opposite perspective (Yang version). After doing the first two exercises in cadence we switched to OYO for the designated reps on the Yin and IC for the Yang.

    Warmup IC: SSH, arm circles forward/back, tclaps, seal claps, Moroccan night clubs, self love (all 20x); Toy soldiers, Hillbillies (15x)

    YIN-YANG:
    Squats(rock)/Yang (no rock): 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

    Return rocks to pile, mosey to flag for COT, etc., welcoming FNG>Satchmo who happens to be my 17yo. Thanks, men, for joining me in the gloom and hope you enjoyed the suck as much as I enjoyed the Q. Until next time…

  • WF3Q: all the hits, all the time – from Bolt

    This early morning radio show included classics by artists such as Ludacris, Kenny Chesney, Darude, and Survivor, so basically a playlist created by a total nut job.

    Guest appearances by WB Pax (Frozone and Short Bus—thank you!) that’s what happens when cocktail-ing with Mahatma…

    Warmup IC: SSH, arm circles forward/back, tclaps, seal claps, Moroccan night clubs, self love (all 15x); Toy soldiers, IW, hillbilly squats (15x)

    Mosey to bleachers for dry docks up the bleachers, increasing by one rep each row except top one for 10 reps. Tricep dips down the bleachers staring with 10 reps, decreasing by one each row.

    Mosey, grab rocks, carry to parking lot and place pairs of rocks at each tree. Pair up for 5 rock station circuits (10 reps each) plus bonus track (Deca-die of pain): Squat , OH press, Curls, Lying press, tricep press. 3 rounds, moving between stations differently each round: mosey, reverse crab walk, bear crawls. Fracsac, ever the masochist, rolled out first deca-die after which we had to perform the move/count it landed on.

    Return to rock pike and circle up for Mary, Pax choice/lead in cadence. Return to flag for COT; thanks men for showing up and allowing me to lead!

  • It looked better on paper – from Rudy

    Large crowd in the gloom at El Diablo this am. Weather was delightful. Ground was moist, promising a nice, muddy workout. So at 5:30 – YHC gives a disclaimer and 12 PAX head to the football field. BooBoo starts the festivities by mocking the Q about said disclaimer, so all PAX get to start with 5 OYO Boo-Boo Burpees. Then we warm-up. Stretches, SSH, IW, arm circles. Get the blood flowing. And lo-and-behold, Vagabond emerges from the gloom just in time to make for an even 13 PAX.

    The Thang 1: Two teams, count total reps. Losing PAX team will have to do more Boo-Boo Burpees. What’s the event? 10 8-cts, run to the other bench and back (i dunno, maybe 20 yards each direction?) 10 BBS, run to the bench and back. That’s 1. Do it again. OYO. Count how many iterations you get done. YHC sets a timer (8 minutes, but don’t tell anyone. Its more fun when you have no idea how long you’ll be working….). Go. Team 1 (with only 6 members) still outshines team 2 28-27. Way to go FastTax and Hawg, leading the way.

    OK, that part worked ok.

    Lets head to the playground. Quick round of 6 stations with pull ups as the counter. I’m not even sure what other exercises we did. This part definitely did not work out right. YHC was very confused about how to split PAX into 6 groups. So rather than multiple rounds, lets just get the heck out of here and go get a rock.

    The Thang 2: Line up. What’s the event? 10 Overhead, 10 BBS, 10 Press, Bearcrawl 2 trees (20 yards-ish), mosey back. That’s 1. YHC sets a timer (again, 8 minutes. But don’t tell anyone). Go. OYO. Timer finishes, line everyone up by how many laps they got done (Bogey, FastTax, Vagabond and Hand Gernada led with 7). (one brief pause for 5 Hawg-Burpees as punishment for mocking the Q)

    Lets do it again – the winner of each group gets to watch the losers do burpees. YHC sets a timer again (4 mins this time). FastTax, BooBoo, LeftCoast and someone from the “other-side-of-the-fence” group were the winners. Everyone else got to do 5 RevSox Burpees.

    Overall, that one worked pretty well. Some room for improvement, though.

    The Thang 3: OK, this one didn’t work. I hesitate to write it. But it happened. Partner up. PAX 1 does *whatever PAX 1 wants*. PAX 2 mirrors it. 90 seconds, then flipflop. The idea is to challenge our awareness, responsiveness, agility. Rougarou nailed it with a weird Irish clog dance that Hawg desperately tried to follow. War Eagle seemed to take it to mean “Can I just stand here?” which is, technically, allowed.

    This one didn’t work so well. But YHC will adjust and try it again one day. Be warned.

    Mosey back to the flag (3 mins late…)

    NMM: Thanks, Vagabond, for sharing a story of forgiveness. Good reminder for each of us to avoid holding grudges. Reach out to those we may have hurt, or those who have hurt us. Offer forgiveness. Bring ourselves to feel the forgiveness in our heart, even when our brain is not ready to.

  • A roll of the die birthday Q – from Fracsac

    14 Pax including 1 FNG made a choice to take the DRP on their journey to get right and posted to the Renaissance wondering what awesomeness YHC had in store for his Birthday Q! With a shovel flag planted, disclaimer was given, then:

    Mosey to the steps of NOMA for a warmup

    IW x 15
    Abe Vigodas x 10
    GG x 10
    Bat wings (dancing during Moroccan NC)

    Mosey back to the fountain to reveal what YHC had to share….a six sided box aka the die of death…

    Motivator
    Embrace The Suck
    Sweetness Run
    EMOM x 5 minutes
    Deconstructed burpees
    Jack Webb

    First roll brought the Sweetness Run. This is a combination of an Indian run, Bataan death March, and a ruck. Form a column, pax in front starts running with Sweetness, a 60 lb sandbag. All other pax drop for 5 burpees then last man sprints to catch Sweetness. Continue until all Pax get to dance with Sweetness.

    Second roll brought….

    The Motivator! Deconstructed SSH descending from 10 to 1. It’s a real crowd pleaser!!!

    Third roll brought….

    EMOM x 5
    That’s 5 minutes of 10 burpees every minute on the minute.

    Last roll brought…..

    Embrace the Suck. 3 minutes of 7 x Jump Squats, 7 x Merkins, and 7 x LBC’s over and over calling out your rounds.

    Finished with Sunday mornings at the back of NOMA.

    COT with the naming of the FNG. Welcome Bag Pipes!!!

    NMM

    -Having 14 at my birthday Q was awesome! I felt the love.
    -100% attendance at coffeteria!
    -Received a gift from Vagabond that was in a Frac – Sack! Perhaps those awesome shorts will become the brotherhood of the traveling shorts, with the birthday Q wearing them??
    -Gideon captured some great footage with the drone!
    -Thanks for everyone’s love and support!

    SYITG

  • Great Day for a Beatdown! – from Fast Tax

    PAX at El Diablo: Bogey, Bolt, Hand Grenada, Rev Sox, Vagabond, and Fast Tax
    Not to be swayed by a little water and mud, 6 pax ventured forth to El Diablo to embrace the SUCK and see what Fast Tax had up his sleeve this time. It was quickly pointed out that I was 45 seconds late, so disclaiming while moseying, we headed to the rock pile.
    Warmups consisted of:
    o Abe Bagodas
    o Matt Biondis
    o Mountain Man Poopers
    o Star Jacks
    o Swan Dives
    o Australian Snow Angels

    Though Vagabond was hoping we would be heading to the parking lot that would have been waaaay too clean…to the field of puddles we go.
    The first exercise was Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, starting on the goal line with your rock. Each pax performed the following sequence OYO: Squat, double arm shotput rock, broad jump toward rock, lunge the remaining distance and repeat the sequence until you got to the 40ish yard line. After a 20 sec breather, we repeated the exercise back to the goal line. One of us may have “accidentally” thrown his rock in the very large mud puddle by Rev Sox’s feet…oops.
    Red Barchetta was the next event (would have been done to the musical accompaniment of Rush’s 1981 hit – Red Barchetta if the Q remembered to bring his phone)
    Sequence OYO no resting:
    o 100 yard dash, 100 SSH, run back to goal line
    o 75 yard dash, 75 mountain climbers, run back to goal line
    o 50 yard dash, 50 LBCs, run back to goal line
    o 25 yard dash, 25 merkins, run back to goal line

    The festivities on the field culminated with the Rapid Fire Rock Set.
    Set of 20 curls, overhead press, triceps extensions, and rows all with rock, IC, and fast paced. Repeat – 15 reps then 10 reps.
    With Bogey lamenting that Rudy was not here to enjoy the festivities (and the mud), we moseyed back to the rock pile to drop our rocks.
    After determining pax were not muddy enough (and time remaining) Q introduced the Welsh Dragons: Bear crawl forward 4 steps, do 1 burpee, 1 merkin, and tap the BACK of each shoulder 1 time. Repeat adding 1 rep to each exercise each time – bear crawl forward 4 steps, do 2 burpees, 2 merkins, 2 sets of back of shoulder taps… etc., repeating until we covered about 40 feet.
    Light stretch and head back to flag for countoff, name-a-rama, announcements, and prayers.

    #Bogey, #Bolt, #Hand Grenada, #Rev Sox, #Vagabond, and #Fast Tax

  • Summer Sweat is Back – from Tinkles

    The days are starting to get a bit more humid and what was recently tolerable seems to be getting tougher. Today seemed that way, and I was happy when the workout was over.
    Warm Up:
    • Mosey around a bit and settle at the Tulane lawn
    • SSH IC x 30, Imperial Walker IC x 20, Forward arm circle IC x 20, Reverse arm circle IC x 20.

    First Thing:
    • 10 Burpees EMOM for 10 minutes- sorry about the lack of music, will do better next time!
    • Recover with some penguins IC x 20, and LBCs IC x 30

    Second Thing:
    • Mosey over to the garage, backwards run up the inclines and forward run the flats to the top
    • Down the stairs to the bottom and then back up the other staircase
    o To illustrate the lack of ventilation in the stairwell, someone’s weed lingered in the air adding to the sweat
    • Back down again

    Third Thing:
    • To the benches for right leg power up IC x 10, Decline merkins IC x 10, left leg power up IC x 10
    • Mosey back to the flag for some time killing wife pleasers

    COT:
    • Count off, namorama
    • Welcomed FNG. Previous run-in with Pop o’ Lock or friends yields ‘Perp’. Welcome Perp!

  • Westward Ho-lotta Huffin’ – from Bolt

    Warm up: SSH 25x, Abe Vigoda 10x, Hillbilly squats 15x, Toy Soldiers 15x, Arm Circles froward/back, Moroccan Nightclubs, Seal Claps, finishing with Self Love all 15x

    Bring Sally Up (4:00): squats, reverse lunge R/L, squat hold, air press, shoulder taps, mountain climbers, mission impossible

    5 reps, adding 5 reps to each exercise at each tree (movement between trees listed) with a mosey back to beginning:

    Round 1 (rear crab): burpee, Cracker Jacks (frog>star jump>frog), merkin, plank jacks

    Round 2 (bear crawl): burpee, air squats, Peter Parker, Moroccan night clubs

    Round 3 (forward crab): burpee, Bonnie Blair, Parker Peter, overhead air presses

    Round 4 (bear crawl): burpee, R/L side squats, diamond merks, wife pleasers

    Mary: dying cockroachesX25 and tin snipsX20 and 5 bonus burpees at FCOJ’s request
    Count-orama, Name-orama, announcements, and intentions

  • SPACE – The Final Frontier – from Rudy

    Cool gloomy morning – the best kind for a workout. Remember mornings like this when we are in the dog days of July and August. 4 PAX set off after a mislocated disclaimer (YHC was just testing whether the PAX were listening when announcing “Welcome to Okwata”).

    60 years ago today: Yuri Gargarin becomes first man in space. 40 years ago today: First takeoff of the US Space Shuttle (Columbia). So a quick SPACE warmup with Side straddle hops, Plank jacks, Abe vigodas, Crunchy frogs and Eight count body builders. Then get a rock. The field was wet. Too wet, even for YHC, so instead head to the parking lot and line up.

    Elevens with 8 count body builders and Squat Jumps. 10x Curls or Presses whenever you pass your rock. Then walk/mosey/meander to the gazebo for 2 rounds of Step Ups, Dips, Irkins and Derkins. Grab our rocks and rifle-carry back to the pile for a few rounds of Mary before the run back to the flag.

    NMM: Thanks for letting me Q. Weekend reading had included one prayer that prompts me (and all of us) to always strive to be better today than we were yesterday. Each day, we will fall short of our ambitions, our goals, our calling. But that can never let us stop trying to be the man we are called to be the next day. Each morning as the sun comes up, we have a new opportunity, a new gift of a day, to lead by example, by word, by deeds. Let us use this gift of today. Prayers especially for Bolt’s father-in-law, who is in need of those prayers.