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  • A/O for the Aging – from Einstein

    Just the old guys at The Gipper this morning – our pill of choice -> Geritol.
    Somewhat pleasant weather with temps in the mid 70s.

    After a strong warmup, we picked up some cinder blocks and tossed them around for awhile.

    BBQ did the prayer

  • The AARP at the A1C – from Jose10k

    70 degrees to start a beatdown? It’s glorious to finally have cooler temperatures in the morning. A quintet took the red pill and showed up this morning. It was the usual group of older gentlemen. I know the splash pad likes to think of themselves as the “young guns”, and they often make small cracks about the average age of the A1C. Don’t worry, we’ve heard all of them. 1. Which underwear brand do seniors love best? It Depends.
    2. You know you’re getting old when your birthday cake is a fire hazard.
    3. Aging gracefully is a nice way of saying you’re slowly looking worse.
    But perhaps one of my favorites: A wealthy old man spots an attractive lady at the grocery store and approaches her with an offer.
    He says, “Ma’am, you are very beautiful, and I would love to give you $1,000.”
    The woman, surprised and flattered, says, “That’s very kind of you, but what would I have to do?”
    The old man says, “Just follow me home, take off all your clothes, pick the money up off the floor, and then you can get dressed and leave.”
    “Wow, she says, that sounds great, but I’ll have to ask my husband if it’s okay with him first.”
    *Woman calls her husband, explains the proposition and asks him what he thinks*
    Husband says, “Yeah baby, we could really use the money. Just pick it up real quick, get dressed, and get out of there.”
    So the lady goes back to the old man, says she’ll do it, then follows him home, strips completely naked, and starts picking up the $1,000 off the floor.
    *An hour later, her husband calls her cellphone and asks what’s taking so long.*
    The lady, huffing and puffing, says, “That dirty old man paid me in quarters, dimes, and nickels!”
    You can make fun of the average age at the A1C all you want, but they’ll put a beatdown on you, and you’ll be sore the next day.

    The warm-up: the usual exercises to get the blood flowing
    The thang: The deck of death gentlemen. Normally YHC goes crazy with the Merkins, however, I was feeling a little frisky this morning. I called out nothing but wife pleasers for the clubs. Burpees for the lower numbers, various exercises for the high numbers. Reverse mountain climbers, scorpion kicks, leg lifts, squats, and then the crazy BBQ jokers. Deon Sanders back peddling, Star Jumps on every other parking line, and then the attempt to throw another Joker in the mix. These old guys tend to forget that there are only 2 Jokers in the deck. Dementia seems to be settling in. 45 minutes later, full body work out, sweat jug getting filled (look out Zoolander), and a sense of accomplishment to start the day. COT, intentions to young Phoenix who is doing better each day. 9/11 run to remember with Bushwacker on the 9th at the Gipper. Grundy has week 0 of the IronPax challenge. I heard it’s tough. So tough that Frank the Tank can’t even do it. Apparently he’s too old to even attempt it. BBQ prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead such a great group of “young” men. Suck it splash pad. Thanks for the read y’all and Russo.

  • R.E.S.P.E.C.T find out what it means to be!! – from Shooter

    All YHC can say today is that he has the utmost Respect for the PAX he was privileged to lead today!! Having the availability to post the A1c with my gym partner away fixing to crush his qualifier, it was nice to have 6 men take the red pill 💊 on this 🥵 Gloom..

    Warmup
    10IC and 15IC
    Arm circles, Torso twists, Cherry Pickers,
    Toe Touches, Grass Grabbers, SSH, Imperial walkers, Hillbillies and Mummy kicks..

    Thang
    PAX moseyed to the Northside parking lot. Instructions were simple 5 burpee, 10 Merkins, 15 Jump squats, 20 Flutter kicks 2:1, 25 leg raises and 30 Mountain climbers 2:1.
    Each station we added the exercise but also started with each of the previous. So the rep counts accumulated and some heavy breathing occurred. The hot 🥵 asphalt intensified the sweat, so much so that Jose10k rang out his shirt multiple times along the way mentioning the old sweat jug challenge and how he could have filled half the jug potentially just this morning 🤢.
    Once finished we moseyed around the parking garage a found the hottest little corner with no circulation of air. There we located a barricade for the next instruction of overhead presses 25 OYO, while the PAX utilized the wall for JackWeb Burpees 1 burp 2 donkey kickoffs.
    Moseyed to the opposite corner of the garage with another barricade available. Partners for curls with the barricade, while the PAX moseyed down and backpedaled back..
    Moseyed back to the flag and wrapped up with count, announce and COT provided by Jose10k..

    Appreciate you men following my lead and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Hot and Sweaty – from Mobydick

    It was Hot. So whats new. YHC picked up the Q minutes before the beat down so improve was the catch word. After a thorough stretching with Torso twists big arm circles grass grabbers windmills side straddle hops neck rolls ankle rolls for about 10 minutes it was off to the coupon pile. The thang was a 1min work 1 min rest tabata. Starting with presses then rows. Next on our sticks for crunchs and chest presses followed by squats and kettles. Time allowed 2 1/2 rounds tgen finished iff with rifle carry coupons back to the pile. Countarama and COT and we are done. Didnt count reps but it felt like a lot.

  • Campfire Sing Along at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Well, it was more of a fart-along with Moby farting to the tune of “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple.
    The Pax arrived to the A1C in total darkness – with the usual parking lot lighting not in operating order. And with the almost new moon, it was just plain dark.

    Luckily, eagle scout Jose10K just happened to have a lantern in his car, so with that, we circled around the light, whipped out the trusty deck-of doom and we were off.
    So, warm up (as if we needed to be warmer), then hit the deck with a round-robin, each Pax assigned to a suit, and their choice of exercise.

    BBQ led us out with prayer.

  • Farraginous Activities at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Hot and humid at The Gipper.
    No one signed up to queue, so what do you do? Round Robin was the consensus.

    Long Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Swimmers, Neck Rolls, Hi Jack Hi Jills, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Merkins, Peter Parkers, etc.

    Then onto the Coupon event; rows, curls, presses, etc. mixed in with a run, and floor exercises
    All in all, it was a good beatdown – even my eyeballs were sweating.

    Circle-up, Count-o-rama, DarkWingDuck leads us out with prayer.

  • Variety Pack at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Summertime at The Gipper, with typical heat and high humidity.
    Humidity should be added to the Exicon as a stand-alone exercise – as it sure is draining.
    And welcome guest pax Dinghy – from the Hillsborough, NC location.

    Long Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Swimmers, Neck Rolls, Hi Jack Hi Jills, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Shoulder Slingbacks, Butt Kicks, Smurf Jacks, etc.

    Mosey to the Taj Mahal parking lot for leg swings, font to back, left to right. Then using the stripes for a ladder template do a set of stops and starts forward, reverse, left shuffle, right shuffle. Then trott to the front of the Taj for ring-of-fire: each pax bear crawls into the flag pole and crab crawls back – whilst the rest of the pax holds plank waiting for their turn to crawl in/out.
    Then to the nearby grassy knoll for 10 OYO sprawls(kind-of-a burpee without the push-up).

    Mosey down the street to the Justice Center Parking Garage, at the garage entrance; backward lunge haf way then sprint, repeating up the ramp concourse.
    once on top; some core work, bear crawling, and sprints.

    Mosey to the front of the court house for some freak-nasties and rocky balboas.

    Mosey back to the flag for a minute of V-ups

    Circle-up, Count-o-rama, Dinghy leads us out with prayer; lifting up those recovering from injuries, the elderly, and families dealing with difficult challenges. And for “meet-less” BBQ, who has lost his alarm clock.

  • 3 year anniversary of the A1C – from Jose10k

    Could the A1C shutdown the cross town rival splash pad? Could the anniversary bring out seldom seen brothers like Tanked Up? Could Moby be sick and tired of CottonEyeJoe and the Cupid Shuffle? The answer to all 3 of these questions is simply, hell yes. As Bushwacker once told me, if you build it, they will come, just not him this Friday. 10 men took the red pill this morning to better themselves to celebrate the creation of the A1C 3 years ago. We prepared to dip into some of the favorite workouts in my bag of tricks, however, Moby is sick of the songs I think. So YHC was amused to see the chain gang on the back of his truck as he pulled up this morning.
    Warm-up: yeah, we had one
    Mosey to the Courthouse for some Dora with the hand rails. Partner one: did 50 merkins, then planked up until partner 2 came back from going up the ramp going hand over hand on the rails.
    2nd Round: partner one 100 squats, followed up with holding an al Gore. Partner two did the handrails again. 3rd Round: LBCs (300 cumulative, with alternating hand rails). Mumble chatter was great as always, amazed as Steve flew up those rails despite being vertically challenged. See Cowbell, can’t use it as an excuse. Mosey back to the top of the parking garage with the group separated into two groups of 5. Each group performed whatever exercise they pick while one person drags the chain across the parking garage. Each person dragged the chain a total of 3 times. Finished up with a Merkin Ring of Fire getting up to 101. COT with Hammer praying us out. Intentions for Waterpik and recovery from his soccer related injuries. Bushwackers FF challenge tomorrow. Thanks for coming out gentlemen, thanks for supporting me, and pushing me to be better.

  • DORA of Fire – from Jose10k

    Remember the great fire of 1979 that supposedly started in your garage when that chipmunk ingested some fertilizer and then fell into a can of kerosene instantly turning him into a flying-lil’, fluffy-lil’ molotov cocktail that set a blaze leveling the whole neighborhood West of Newton’s Hardware Store?

    You started that fire?

    No, but that was pretty cool, huh?

    Bonus points to whoever knows what movie masterpiece I took this quote from. I am counting on Hammer to be the first to respond.
    This was the topic of conversation at the Gipper this morning. The fire that knocked out power for so many of us. In addition to the power outage, the other topic of conversation was the increase of persons with no fixed address at the Gipper. Anywho, 6 showed up to a relatively cool morning to get some exercise in before starting their day.
    Warm-up: y’all know
    The thang: Dora with some coupons. Partner 1 ran down the path behind LOLA and back up the front. Partner 2 performed the exercise. 100 Merkins on your coupon, 200 squats with coupon, 300 big boy sit ups with your coupon. Once finished, shoulder presses while the partner ran the loop one extra time. Finished up with 1 minute of deep stretching. COT with Maverick praying us out. Intentions for Phoenix, 3 year anniversary at the A1C this Friday, Bushwacker FireFighter workout this Saturday. We’ll see if Russo copies my beatdown yet again next week.

  • Hottie police officer? I was really looking forward to meeting you in the municipal court on or before June 6th! – from Jose10k

    Short and to the point today…After a warm-up, time for the deck of death. Each member was assigned a suit, and the beatdown began. Merkins, squats, lunges, monkey humpers, burpees, big boy situps, wife pleasers, hello dollys, scorpion kicks were among some of the exercises performed today. Two jokers at the end meant two laps around the A1C to finish things off. COT and YHC prayed us out. Thanks for allowing me to lead, and thanks for reading this backblast. Zoolander’s birthday Q tomorrow (Can’t believe he’s only turning 26). July 28th, 3 year anniversary of the A1C.