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Tag: Chewy

  • Change of pace with the change in weather!! – from Shooter

    YHC loves the seasonal change to fall, there is much reward when you open the door and your not slammed by the heavy humidity that south LA can bring.. It certainly puts a pep in one’s step especially when there is running involved…
    Must give a BIG T👏🏼 to JV for posting even though a late night text from Akbar explaining he would not be rucking this morning and YHC EHing him into running..With a nice showing of PAX we broke into two groups..

    Warmup
    15IC SSH, Toe Touches, Windmill’s, Hillbillies, Imperial walkers and leg swings front/back left/right..

    Thang
    Speed group consisting of Waterpik, Bird, Cowbell and Zoolander journeyed the standard route with 2x through the loop..

    YHC, Chewy and JV to the point and returned to the AO.. Completed 50 SSH OYO, 25 Butt kicks OYO, 15 slow squats with 3 second hold at the bottom.. Targeted stretching and wrapped up with 25 LBCs OYO and 25 hands to heels..

    Appreciate Bird for the closeout and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • Squats and Merks, Cardio and Mary – from Russo

    We did indeed reach down into the 60s this morning at Granny’s (67 to be more precise), where a Fantastic Pax of 4 gathered to start their day. Really good mumblechatter today revolving mainly around Cobra Kai, driver’s ed, gambling with quarters, and good Hulu shows about drugs, with a special appearance by the lunge vs. squat debate.

    Warm up (all IC, 10x)
    – Good mornings
    – Cherry pickers
    – Arm circles
    – Toe touches
    – Imperial walkers
    – Self love

    Thang

    40 seconds Tabata – taking turns among Pax choosing between “Squats and Merks” and “Cardio and Mary”, flip a coin to determine which one of the two, then roll dice to determine the actual exercise.

    Choices:
    Squats (Heads) and Merks (Tails)

    2 – Bobby Hurley’s Knerkins
    3 – Jump squats Wide
    4 – Sumo squats. Diamond
    5 – hallelujah squats Split
    6 – Deep squats Side to side
    7- Side to side squats Partner
    8 – Tuck Jump T merkins
    9 – Split squats Merkin (normal)
    10 – Narrow squats. Wild card
    11 – Wild Card Wide
    12 – In and out squats Hand release

    Cardio (Heads) and Mary (Tails)

    2 – High knees Hello Dollies
    3 – Butt kicks Box cutters
    4 – SSHs Rosalitas
    5 – Wild card. Flutter kicks
    6 – Seal jacks. LBCs
    7- Suicides Big boi sit-ups
    8 – Back pedals Wild card
    9 – Karaoke. Leg raises
    10 – Goof balls Gas pumps
    11 – Plank jacks Heels to heaven
    12 – Moroccan night clubs Circle ups

    As promised, there were no burpees and moseying was kept to a minimum (although just barely meeting the “minimum” standard after the suicides).

    COT, Name-o-Rama, announcements, and prayer to close us out.

    Thanks for joining and reading. I’ll work on something even more complicated and with more props for next. SYITG

  • Squats and Merks, Cardio and Mary – from Russo

    We did indeed reach down into the 60s this morning at Granny’s (67 to be more precise), where a Fantastic Pax of 4 gathered to start their day. Really good mumblechatter today revolving mainly around Cobra Kai, driver’s ed, gambling with quarters, and good Hulu shows about drugs, with a special appearance by the lunge vs. squat debate.

    Warm up (all IC, 10x)
    – Good mornings
    – Cherry pickers
    – Arm circles
    – Toe touches
    – Imperial walkers
    – Self love

    Thang

    40 seconds Tabata – taking turns among Pax choosing between “Squats and Merks” and “Cardio and Mary”, flip a coin to determine which one of the two, then roll dice to determine the actual exercise.

    Choices:
    Squats (Heads) and Merks (Tails)

    2 – Bobby Hurley’s Knerkins
    3 – Jump squats Wide
    4 – Sumo squats. Diamond
    5 – hallelujah squats Split
    6 – Deep squats Side to side
    7- Side to side squats Partner
    8 – Tuck Jump T merkins
    9 – Split squats Merkin (normal)
    10 – Narrow squats. Wild card
    11 – Wild Card Wide
    12 – In and out squats Hand release

    Cardio (Heads) and Mary (Tails)

    2 – High knees Hello Dollies
    3 – Butt kicks Box cutters
    4 – SSHs Rosalitas
    5 – Wild card. Flutter kicks
    6 – Seal jacks. LBCs
    7- Suicides Big boi sit-ups
    8 – Back pedals Wild card
    9 – Karaoke. Leg raises
    10 – Goof balls Gas pumps
    11 – Plank jacks Heels to heaven
    12 – Moroccan night clubs Circle ups

    As promised, there were no burpees and moseying was kept to a minimum (although just barely meeting the “minimum” standard after the suicides).

    COT, Name-o-Rama, announcements, and prayer to close us out.

    Thanks for joining and reading. I’ll work on something even more complicated and with more props for next time.

    SYITG

  • Mixed bag! – from Shooter

    With a nice cool front in store, 7 PAX decided to take the Red pill this Gloom and get better in the category of Fitness.. Q had a mixture of levels containing ruckers, runners and joggers to satisfy.. So after a brief warmup of 10IC SSH, Imperial walkers, Windmills, Toe touches, self love and cherry pickers, YHC instructed the RUNNERS in Cowbell, Hammer and Waterpik to journey out the ole path of the Scramble down Messina and through the loop and to the pier (still no progression) back to the AO. Ruckers in JV and Russo set out for 15 mins out and back while Chewy and YHC jogged Messina straight away to the pier and back looping back for the six upon returning. In all the runners completed 3.8 miles while the joggers logged 3.1 and the ruckers somewhere around 2 miles for the gloom. Once back at the AO PAX completed LBCs, hands to heels, wife pleaser’s, flutter kicks and Jane Fonda’s Ic 15IC for all.

    Appreciate you gents for the post, and any Mandevillians out there looking for some extra work checkout Bacchus’ Q at the newly named Splash pad Friday at 0515..
    Anyone further north can join me at the A1c with Jose10k and the Covington crew..

    Appreciate Cowbell for closing in prayer with intentions offered up for the travels of JVs family this weekend and Waterpik’s father in law with his current health..

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Duck Duck Goose! – from Russo

    77 degrees to start this morning, which has YHC longing for the days when he is chastised for wearing short sleeves in 24 degree weather. Whatever God has been baking is done.

    But, after a particularly eventful last week, YHC was blessed to get a little normal in the form of a Granny’s visit, even if things were a little sideways this morning (e.g. Cowbell was on time and it was a late arriving crowd).

    Warmup (all 10x-15x IC)
    – Good mornings
    – Self love
    – Grass grabbers
    – Arm circles
    – Toe touches
    – Butt kicks

    Thang

    Duck Duck goose (T claps to Grover for first implementing the concept)

    Duck circle forms at the stage, and the Goose is picked.

    Geese mosey to the pilot house/ other side of Granny’s to perform exercise assigned at the top.

    Ducks – Plank
    Geese – 20 merkins

    Ducks – Al Gore
    Geese – 25 SSH

    Ducks – Squats
    Geese – 20 crab cakes

    Ducks – Shoulder Taps
    Geese – 5 Krakken burpees

    Ducks – Peter Parker’s
    Geese – 10 SMCs

    Ducks – LBCs
    Geese – 10 leg raises

    Ducks – Side lunges
    Geese – 15 star jumps

    Ducks – Penguins
    Geese – 20 gas pumps

    Ducks – Chill jacks
    Geese – 25 monkey humpers

    Ducks – Big boy sit-ups
    Geese – 30 scissor kicks

    Ducks – Butt kicks
    Geese – 10 kneerkins / wide merkins

    Ducks – Lunges
    Geese – 5 burpees

    Ducks – Apollo Ohnos
    Geese – 20 Apollo Ohnos

    Ducks – Cherry Pickers
    Geese – 10 Bulgarian Split Squats

    Ducks – Mountain climbers
    Geese – 20 step ups

    COT, Name-o-Rama, announcements, and prayer to close us out. Reminder that Hammer’s Bible study (this Wednesday) and the September 11 5k (on 9/10) are both ongoing or approaching. Check Slack for more info.

    I’ve got Q on Saturday for a cakewalk, and there’s a very good possibility there will be a breakout IPC group if masochism is more your speed.

    Special intention for JV and his family.

    Great work today, gents, and as always, thanks for joining. SYITG

  • Part 1 of Super 21! – from Shooter

    Having signed up a few weeks back to Q Granny’s and the upcoming A1c YHC decided to pull out an old one from the Exicon.. Knowing that the allotted 45 mins would not be enough time for even the fiercest of competitors in Cowbell and Steve to finish YHC gave the PAX an opportunity to commit to Friday’s A1c for a to be continued Super 21…

    YHC was quite impressed with the number of men who took the 💊 on this Tuesday Gloom..
    Arriving a little early to the AO some good chatter was already occurring about the recent ISI thrown out by Zoolander.. Much kudos to HIM as he clearly exemplifies amazing leadership in the way he EHs and challenges the PAX..

    With the arrival of more PAX the time work was upon us, so we jumped into a brief warmup of 10IC Grass grabbers, Torso twists, Cherry Pickers, Arm circles forward/reverse and Imperial walkers..
    PAX then moseyed to the Treen education center where the details of the Super 21 were administered..
    Rounds 1-7 8 count body builders, plank jacks and squats.. 21 LBCs Moseyed loop around the center between each round..
    Rounds 8-14 Merkins, Mountain climbers and alternating leg lunges 2/1. 21 Crunchy 🐸..
    Rounds 15-21 to be continued….

    Most PAX ended around the 12th to13th round with Cowbell and Steve getting through the 14th..

    Moseyed back to the flag with closing of Mary.

    Plank position held with alternating left/right arm high followed by 5 each side Nolan Ryan’s, Up/down plank to chill cut and finished 10 Super mans OYO…

    Count, announce, COT

    Thanks to Fletch for the closeout in prayer..

    Lots of activities on the calendar…

    Till the next Gloom 👊🏼👍🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Rolling Bones – from Russo

    Way too hot and muggy for a Tuesday morning, but with the unnecessary humidity came a glimmer of hope, provided by Jose: the recently recaptured flag, signed by multiple of us and just begging for more John Hancocks.

    For those keeping track at home:
    (1) No, I did not arrive with shoes on.
    (2) Yes, Cowbell did arrive on time.
    (3) Yes, Chewy was back for what I hope becomes a semi-regular occurrence.
    (4) No, there was not a great deal of running, despite what JV might opine.

    Warmup (all 10x-20x IC)
    – Sealjacks
    – Air presses
    – High knees
    – Self love
    – Grass grabbers
    – Toe touches
    – Good mornings

    Thang

    YHC brought out the dice again to give each of us an opportunity to craft the beatdown (and in the case of JV, roll doubles constantly, which meant twice the reps).

    Relatively simple format, varying moseys, backpedals, and side shuffles between blocks, then when we stopped it was 10 reps of each exercise based on the number of the roll. A double roll? Double the reps to 20

    Roll of 2 – 8 count body builders
    3 – Monkey Humpers
    4 – Leg raises
    5 – Sideswipe merkins
    6 – Big boy sit-ups
    7 – Hallelujah squats
    8 – Gas pumps
    9 – Pew kneels – 4 count, drop to one knee, then the other, one leg up, then the next
    10 – Groiners
    11 – Merkins
    12 – Calf raises

    Pax finished the mosey just in time for COT, Name-o-Rama, announcements, and prayer to close us out. Reminder that THIS FRIDAY is the A1C’s 2nd anniversary, and that both the St. Vincent 500 (August 13) and Hammer’s Bible study are quickly approaching. Check Slack for more info.

    Special prayers up for the teachers and students gearing up for school.

    If you’ve read this far, thank you. If you’ve read this far and joined this morning, even more thanks. I rarely want to pick my head up, turn off the alarm, let my feet hit the floor, and get dressed to sweat like crazy and often fight soreness and fatigue after. But every time I post, I remember why I do. Thanks, gents.

    SYITG

  • These go to 11…or 9…or 11 – from Russo

    A brisk temperature of 48 degrees (still not cold enough for sleeves) and a clear sky greeted a pax of 5 this morning for an organized, balanced, and repetitive beatdown that of course incorporated number patterns because that is how YHC maintains a small measure of control in an otherwise chaotic world.

    Warmup (believed to be all IC, 10x, but that’s difficult to confirm when Bushwhacker gets to talking about rookie hazing and toilet scrubbing at the firehouse)

    – Grass grabbers
    – Torso twists
    – Cherry pickers
    – Toe touches
    – Arm circles
    – Good mornings

    Thang before the Thang

    A two block mosey down Girod to the Rusty P and their outside benches to get us started, where YHC wondered how long it would take before someone figured out the secret repetition code. Answer: not long, even in the early morning hours, not with a sharp as a tack Chewy on the case.

    11 step ups were followed by 9 freak nastys, then 9 step ups followed by 11 freak nastys.

    The gig was up, but the question remained: Why 9 and 11? Despite thoughts of September 11, January 19th, calling 9-1-1 hoping Bushwhacker makes house calls, and something or other about 91, the clue of today’s date finally allowed YHC to see the bright light bulbs going off among the Pax: November 9, which is either brilliant or incredibly lazy in its simplicity. It was probably the latter.

    As we moseyed closer to Granny’s (with either 9 or 11 diamond merkins, jump squats, big boy sit-ups interspersed) the pax was briefly stopped by some “traffic”. Prayers up to that mailbox.

    Pax made it to the bus stop, where the sequence was 11 Bulgarian split squats, 9 durkins, 9 BSSs, and 11 durkins before a short mosey to begin the Thang:

    With only 2 minutes or 25 minutes left (depending on whether you were using Bushwacker’s timekeeping or YHC’s), we worked 6 rounds of alternating reps of 11 and 9 at each column, followed by a trip up and back down the pilot house:

    – 11 SSH and 9 squats
    – 11 seal jacks 9 merkins
    – 11 high knees 9 LBCs
    – 11 Apollo Ohnos 9 plank jacks
    – 11 mummy kicks 9 lunges
    – Butt kicks, hello dollys, and merkins in a 9-11-9 sequence

    Just enough time remained for a 90 second plank, and then we closed with a COT, name-o-rama, announcements, and prayer.

    As always, I’m appreciative of the opportunity to lead such a fine group of men.

    SYITG

  • Fall Back – from Steve

    Talk about a dark warmorama. About the only definable figure I could make out was, well nobody, really, since Shooter wasn’t there. Of course I knew Jose was present from the early morning grumbling, but the rest of the crew were shrouded in mystery. Given such circumstances, YHC delivered a clear disclaimer in case there were any FNGs (turned out there were two), and we got things rolling.

    Started off with the usual – good mornings, windmills, torso twists, arm circles, IW’s, Hillbillies, SSHs, High Knees – mostly at 10x IC, but a 15 and a 30 crept in there. I like to say those instances are “to keep the pax on their toes,” but of course the pax is smarter than that – they know it’s just early morning brain fog.

    We hadn’t moseyed to the playground in a while, so that was on the menu today, stopping at each intersection for a set of 10x deconstructed burpees. Zoolander’s No-Booze-November had hit a snag the night before (a snag by the name of Woodford Reserve), and so my originally planned set of x20 burpees seemed cruel as he had, not but 5 minutes before this point, requested “no burpees, please.” So we deconstructed instead, which would mean 10x squats, 10x groiners, 10x merkins, and 10x jump squats. Knocked those out at the three intersections and then hit a fourth one when we reached the playground.

    Then it was time for one of my lakefront standards, a partner routine where P1 wall sits and performs overhead air presses while P2 hits three stations: 10 t-merkins, 10 jump squats, 10 big boys. Three rounds of that and it was on to neighboring grass patch for a few games.

    That’s right, games. Let it not be said (Toto) that I do not include any fun in my beatdowns! First up was a game called When Animals Attack, which features one pax (it) bear crawling to tag any of the other guys, who are all crab walking. Any one who is tagged then performs 5 burpees and immediately joins in as a bear, to help tag the rest of the crew. I had initially envisioned a rabid, growling Tanked Up tearing through that patch of grass, but alas, when the sun finally rose this morning and it was clear who was standing before me, there was no Tank to be found. Grundy was the next best choice, so he became the first bear. Now, whoever invented this game clearly did not know the Northshore region’s distaste for crab walking because when the game finally began, the crabs all just sat in place waiting to be tagged. Some even moved closer to the bear! It seemed unanimous – the guys would rather do their 5 burpees and half-heartedly attempt to tag others than crab walk five steps. The next round was hardly better than the first, with Zoolander and his stomach of steel as the bear, and so we moved on to another game: Duck Jousting.

    To say duck jousting was more successful might be a stretch, but it was certainly more entertaining. In this game, it’s every man for himself. You get in a low duck walk position with your arms across your chest, and hobble over to the nearest pax to try and topple him without the use of your hands. Once you’ve been knocked over, you start high kneeing until the game ends.

    Though this was totally a Mathlete type of game, a surprise attack by Zoolander knocked him out early on. It came down to Jose, Swole, and Zoo. Swole attempted a Switzerland type of strategy, where he simply sat (or squatted) off to the side and awaited the victor between Jose and Zoo. But this proved faulty when Zoo took him down by surprise. By this point, our two gladiators had entirely abandoned the rule of duck walking (well, let’s be fair, Zoolander was never actually duck walking from the start). Even with an assist from Bird, Zoo was unable to take down Jose, but one final assault sent both men to the ground in a tie.

    Time to head back, so we formed two lines and Bataan Death Marched back to the flag. Once back, we did some single leg squats to the sea wall while Turbo graciously picked up the six. Quick Mary and time for COT. Welcome FNG’s Slater and Woody, and t-claps for hanging in there. Hope to see you guys back out soon. (And a personal thanks to our FNG’s for forcing me to write a backblast after months of negligence.) Hammer prayed us out and off to Book and the Bean for coffeteria. Appreciate the opportunity to lead you men, SYITG.

  • Another Cakewalk – from Russo

    Hurricane Ida wrecked a lot of plans this year. She did a lot of damage, broke a lot of hearts, made life a ton more difficult. But one thing I’ve learned is that even in the darkest of hours, God can find a way to turn something terrible into something good.

    I don’t want to belittle the struggle our region is still dealing with, and I can tell you firsthand there is a lot of work left. But I can also tell you firsthand that God has given us an opportunity to grow together, help each other, and all in all, be better people.

    My original plan for the first week in September was to do a birthday Q, and following the lead of Grundy and/or Zoolander (depending on how good an idea it was), complete another “Cake walk” and hope it catches on as a thing.

    Well, those plans changed due to Mother Nature, but God’s timing is perfect, so a pax of 17 said “Take Two” under beautiful weather with low humidity and temps topping out at around 71.

    Warmup (between 10x and 20x, all IC)
    Seal jacks
    Toe touches
    Arm circles
    Torso twists
    Goofballs

    Thang: A cakewalk, your basic descending ladder of exercises and reps, starting at YHC’s age (in this case, 43), and work your way to 1, with some moseying in between around Old Mandeville/Lakefront.

    The order:

    43 High knees
    42 SSHs
    41 Plank Jacks
    40 merkins (where Bird started to wonder where the burpees were)
    39 squats
    38 Hello Dollies
    37 Calf raises
    36 Apollo ohnos
    35 Freak Nastys
    34 step ups
    33 flutter kicks
    32 butt kicks (2 is 1) (lead IC by the entire pax rotating, very nice job, gents!)
    31 Peter Parker’s (2 is 1)
    30 imperial walkers
    29 Shoulder taps (2 is 1)
    28 American hammers
    27 George thoroughgood
    26 Smurf jacks
    25 leg raises
    24 Rosalitas
    23 crab jacks (crab position – opposite plank jacks)
    22 groiners
    21 Bear crawls
    20 murder bunnies
    19 Hand release merkins
    18 Bobby Hurley’s
    17 crab cakes (2 is 1)
    16 circle ups
    15 Bulgarian split squats
    14 durkins
    13 big boy sit-ups
    12 LMCs
    11 diamond merkins
    10 star jumps
    9 donkey kicks
    8 8 count body builders
    7 makhtar n’jais
    6 6 inch drills (where Zoolander was wise to my plan)
    5 Carolina dry docks
    4 Bonnie Blair’s
    3 jump squats
    2 burpees (here they are Bird!)
    1 minute plank

    COT, name-o-rama, announcements, and prayer closed us out.

    This Q doubled as my 3 year anniversary Q, so it’s time for me to again thank Toto for EH’ing me. Like I suspect has happened to many of us, I had no idea what I was in for. I showed up late to my first beatdown (Splice was Q) and quickly wondered what I got myself into. Manny’s words to me were “just stick with it” and he was right.

    More than once, I was the 6. I’m still the 6 on occasion. But each and every time, someone is there to pick me (or you) up. Tanked up was the first I remember. Shooter seems to do it the most (especially on moseys).

    And that’s what makes this group of men so darn solid. What started out as “I could use the exercise” or “I want to get back in shape” quickly turns to something more.

    The F for Fitness is lowercase. The other two are uppercase. I’ve enjoyed laughing with you all, especially when Hammer gets a pax going with his 80’s references, or Zoolander makes an off color joke about doing a Freddy Mercury. You each have enriched me, made me a better person, lended guidance, and just in general have been a blast to be around.

    Before I started, I didn’t have a lower back that constantly aches or stiffens up, nor did I have a left shoulder that tells me “That’s enough merkins for today.” I didn’t even know I had an Achilles’ tendon.

    But it has all been worth it. Ever nagging pain and shortness of breath: worth it knowing I’m making a decision to better myself as a leader, a Christian, a productive member of society. And that’s due to each of you, whether I called you by name above or not. Because finally, after 3 years, I think I’ve learned your real names, which is maybe a bigger compliment.