Warmup, track lap, 11’s with rock in field, circle up exercises with rock, Indian rum, Bobby hURLey’s , cot
Tag: Hand-Grenada
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1988 National Championship – Again – from Rudy
YHC decided to start the Birthday Week bonanza with a replay of his very first Q
So as 530 struck, 9 PAX set off to the rock pile (it would grow to 12 as late arrivers Heisenberg, Mr Rogers and Wedding Planner joined us during the warm up) while another 5 went off for KoT.
Circle Up for quick warm up to get blood moving. Grass Grabbers and Don Quixote (what they were called back in 2016, according to my backblast) and then describe the workout. Hand Grenada had the audacity to talk smack about the recency of this national championship. Yet he proudly recalled the 1959 Ole Miss championship year.
Lets relive the year.
Game 1: #13 ND 19 – #9 Michigan 17. 5 foot nothing freshman Reggie Ho boots 4 FGs. 19 count IW, SSH and Peter Parkers. False Start as Frac appropriately notified the Q that he was performing Hillbillies. And a 5 burpee penalty applied to Kenna Brah for talking smack.
Game 2: ND 20 – MSU 3. 20 Merkins in cadence. NOLA football star Michael Stonebreaker returns an INT for a TD.
Grab a Rock.
Game 3: As our young QB (Tony Rice) starts showing of his arms, we’ll start working our arms. ND 52 – Purdue 7. Overhead x15, Curl x15, Row x15, Push x7. Drop the rock (Yes, Mayhem – that was 52 total)
Game 4: ND 42 – Stanford 14. Repeat with x13, then x3 for the Push.
Game 5: TRAP ALERT! Looking forward to upcoming “Game of the Century”, ND squeaks by. ND 30 – Pitt 20. Repeat with x9, then x3 for the Push
Mosey to the football field, leave the rock on the baseline as we won’t be needing it for a bit.
Game 6: Catholics vs Convicts! #4 ND 31 – #1 Miami 30. Hero of the game, Safety Pat Terrel with an interception return, and breaking up the potential game winning 2 pt conversion with 30 seconds remaining. We’ll sprint the 50 yards, 10 Squat Jumps, sprint 50 yards back.
Games 7 & 8. The Military Academies. ND 41 – Air Force 13, and ND 22 – Navy 7. Suicide Sprints and Burpees. 10/20 then 10 burpees. 10/20/30 then 7 burpees. 10/20/30/41 then 5 burpees. Mr Rogers is FLYING through this.
Game 9: ND 54 – Rice 11. Rocket takes it to the house! 80 yard sprint. Oh wait, HE DOES IT AGAIN. 80 yard sprint back.
Grab your rocks, head to the pavillion
Game 10: ND 21 – PSU 3. Bad weather so the passing game is shelved, leaning on the stable of RBs. Work our quads with Step Ups – x21 each side.
Game 11: 2nd “Game of the century” of the year. #1 ND 27 – #2 USC 10. Coach Lou Holtz sends 2 starters home for “improprieties”. What integrity! We’ll take a seat in the people’s chair and watch the game with them. 27 seconds, then 10 curls. Repeat.
Getting late – return rocks, head back to the flag.
Game 12: #1 ND 34 – #4 WVU 21. Finish up with 34 LBC as we were running behind.
COT: Count Off, Prayers for Mr Rogers for his surgery this week. He swears he’ll be back for the Friday Birthday Q!!! YHC remains incredibly grateful for this group of men and the accountability and encouragement they bring. Prayers that we all may bring those same skills and abilities to all of our encounters.
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It Wasn’t Me – from Architect
Since the listed Q didn’t show, and no one else stepped up, I had no choice but to take the lead and use my enhance mental capacity to scheme up a decent workout on the fly.
Disclaimer provided, encouragement provided to push one’s self. Warm-ups conducted.
Mosey’d to playground for some group therapy. First group hung out, second group just sat there, and the third remained face down. Threw in some squats because there were some special requests for leg work. PAX rotated through the three stations above.
Partnered up and grabbed some rocks. Round 1 – Pairs made it across the baseball field, one riffled carried, the other bear crawled (also by special request). Partners switched as needed. Round 2 – repeat round 1 but with lunges (again, trying to accommodate special requests)
PAX whined about HR remaining too low (obviously they neglected to listen to the disclaimer). YHC threw in some sprints and BBsitups. After rocks returned, workout concluded with some Mary and COT.
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Pairs of 3 – from Hand Grenada
5:30a, per Rudy, intro, disclaimer and off to the rock pile for warm up
Grassgrabber IC X10
Abe Vagodas IC X10
Squat Twist IC X5
Kim Jung Uns IC X10
Arm Circles Front IC X10
On your face
Peterparker IC X10
Recover
Arm Circles Reverse IC X10
Back on face
Shoulder Taps IC X10
Recover
Morocan Night Clubs IC X10Grab a rock and off to the gym.
Break into pairs(in hindsight I screwed this up and shouldve broken into pairs of 3)
Dora with 100 chest press, 200 squats, 300 LBC’s, PAX1 does exercise while PAX2 traverses the obstacle course with assisted deep lunge up ramp, run around to back of building for crab walk on the wall, then around other side of gym to relieve PAX1.20 count from Rudy
Mosey to parking lot
All PAX in straight line from tree 1, standing curls IC X10, walk in line to next tree, Shoulder Press IC X20, walk in line to next tree, Rows IC X20, walk to next tree, Shoulder Press IC X20, walk to next tree, Standing Curls IC X10.Mosey back to rock pile, ensure that Bogey has dropped the sandbag, then horses to barn, COT, count off, name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, prayer
Always a pleasure to lead, men. Thanks for pushing me!!
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It’s going to be a Slower Pace – from Mahatma
El Diablo 8/9/2023
YHC was up out and 10 minutes give or take early……12 pax lingered in the early cool air of this late Summer morning. A broad disclaimer was give and 5 headed out as Knot bandits and 7 stayed behind wondering if they made the right choice. YHC stated this would not be a workout that one may come to expect yet a much “slower pace”!
It began…..
Warm Up
Scantron
Side Lung
Hill Billy
Scorpion Kick
Should Tap
SSHMosey to Bleachers for Stadium Work:
5/10/15 run the band of bleacher stairs
Once complete slow mosey to some rail work – upper row, split squat ea leg, upper row pull, BB sit ups100-200 Field Bear Crawl – ea pax counted off we crawl approx 10 yds this continued until we crossed the field
Mid Mary
Gas Pumpers
W – LBCNew Calisthenics – 2 rounds of 10-12 reps with approx 30-40 sec rest between.
Squat to handstand (scorpion or dinky kick)
SpiderMan Push Up
2nd round was done as ring of fire with each pax counting of alternating legs through 5 rounds.
Break Dancer1 round of dry-docks in cadence x 10
Finish Mary
Crunchy Frogs
WW2 SUHead to the flag for COT
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Dora’s lazy mean sister – from Kenna Brah
Birthday Q
8/7/61Arm Circles
Twists
Imperial Walkers
Abe Vigoda
Low Slow SquatFlora 1-2-3
100 Merkins – P1 does 10 with feet on coupon. P2 holds plank with feet on his coupon. Flapjack.
200 LBCs – P1 does 20 LBC holding coupon high on chest. P2 holds legs 6″ off ground, and extends arms w/ coupon over chest. Flapjack.
300 Goblet Squats – P1 does 25 goblet squats. P2 lowers to bottom of goblet squat w/ coupon, and holds. Flapjack.
200 LBCs – P1 does 20 LBC holding coupon high on chest. P2 holds legs 6″ off ground, and extends arms w/ coupon over chest. Flapjack.
100 Merkins – P1 does 10 with feet on coupon. P2 holds plank with feet on his coupon.
Rifle/any carry down to the gazebo for some recovery stretches
Return to rock pit for Ring of fire till times up – then backwards walk/jog to flag
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Rudy got sold – from Mayhem
Q started selling Rudy at 7:30pm the evening before on showing up to the proper AO… ABC (always be closing)… Rudy got sold
530am
Disclaimer
MoseyWarmarama: windmills, grass grabbers, side straddle hops, peter parker peter, mountain climbers, arm circles, reverse arm circles
Rock pile then to the parking lot
Doracides
2 PAX work together
Suicides first line, 1 burpee and back, second line 2 burpees and back, third line 3 burpees, tag other PAX and rotate
100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBCsTake the rock to the bollards, manmakers until Triple is done five, take rock back to the start
Circle up with me
Game of dice
Ended with Rudy’s low slow squatsBack to the rock pile
Back to the flag (one minute late because of Rudy’s squats)Prayer requests for PVC, Rudy’s daughter, Wedding Planner’s friend and all those that are going through a rough patch that we may not know
Have a great day and weekend
SYITG
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Hump Day Beatdown – from Vagabond
Warmup
3 exercises then round the gym between each with bear crawls and lunges
Pax choice under gazebo
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National Drive Thru Day – from Rudy
July 24th – National Drive Thru Day. Every day is a holiday, you just gotta find it. And this one had an immediate relevance for YHC, as it allowed me to break out a favorite Rudy-Family road trip song.
Yup, Weird Al’s 10 minute “Trapped in the Drive Thru”
Head to the rock pile for a quick warmup with some stretches (while Hokie and PVC disappeared for the mysterious KoT). While stretching, YHC saw the tracks and remembered how weak his balance is. So – lets mosey up to the tracks.
* Try to hold balance and get 5 squats. Once done with that, start walking the rail. Mayhem showed his prematurely old balancing (lack-of) skills, while The Architect was off to the races. YHC did manage to get 5 squats in But it was NOT easy.
Then grab a rock and lets head to the Pavillion for some Tabata.
Round 1 – the PAX were astounded at the riffs, the intricacies of the melody and the story of the drive thru. 10 sets, 45 seconds on 15 seconds rest, going through rock based exercises. The cycle completed just as Weird Al realizes “They forgot the Onions”.
Round 2 – same exercises, but the music this time was July 24th birthdays. Robbie Grey (Modern English – I Melt With You), J-Lo (On The Floor), Kristen Chenoweth (Popular), Marvin the Martian (I’m a Martian).
At this point, Bogey and others seemed VERY upset about the musical choices.
Finally – head to the building for a final round of Wonder Bra’s, celebrating the birthday of the Original Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) while she sang Put the Gun Down.
Mosey back to the flag to the sounds of Eye of the Tiger for our COT.
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El Diablo – from Pool Boy
Temperature 84 degrees.
After giving brief disclaimer, Mosey to bleachers near back of the playround.
Warmups –
SSH
Imperial Walkers
Grass Grabbers
Mountain Climbers
Arm CirclesRound 1
5 shoulder taps, 10 plank jacks, 20 merkins, 30 squats, run up and down bleachers, run around parking lot and back. 3x
Round 2
Mosey to mini levee, line up shoulder to shoulder with hand slap between pax. – Indian merkin ladder
Round 2.5
In teams of 2, bear crawl race.
Round 3
Under pavillion by the track, calisthenics consisting of dips, LBC’s, step ups etc
Round 4
Head to football field, 2 man relay. 100 yard sprint/jog; teammate does burpeesHead to the Flag. COT