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  • Die Hard is a Christmas movie! – from Jose10k

    Warm-ups: ssh, self love, grass grabbers; windmills, high knees

    The thang: After the warmups, the PAX moseyed to the courthouse. The tragedy at Nakatomi plaza occurred on Christmas Eve, and we gathered today to honor the hero of Nakatomi: John McClain. The event occurred on the the 30th floor, so that’s where we started. 30 merkins, 30 squats, 30 big boy sit-ups, 30 leg lifts. In between each exercise ran the length of the courthouse leading up to the stairs, up the stairs and then back down. Once the pax was finished we ran 1 lap around the entire courthouse. This is when the terrorists almost took out Grundy (asthma attack) and where we picked up some extra help from Miles Davis posting from Mississippi. We now stopped on the side of the courthouse.
    ‘‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring,except for the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two formation.
    Paired up. Partner one : side lunges the entire grass section to the concrete and back, partner 2= holds an al gore thoroughgood. Repeat.
    The terrorists planned to use C4 to blow up Nakatomi Tower. The PAX completed in cadence 15 reps of these 4 “c”ore exercises: little Manny crunches, flutter kicks, Freddy Mercury’s, and cowbells favorite: crunchy frogs.
    Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.
    Famous line from the air ducts: time to do some ac duct crawling, while partner 2 does squats. Side not, ac duct crawling no fun when you hit the acorns. Mosey back to the second floor to do a Hans Gruber pull-up: the pax hung from the raptors for 10 count, then did 30 Superman’s (he did fall 30 stories) .back to the stair well to do 5 calve raises each to the top. And time was up. Cot, Russo prayed us out. Thoughts and prayers to Zoolanders friend. And to further celebrate the heroics of John McClain, a yell of Yippie Ki-yay Motherfu**er. Thanks for letting me lead gentleman

  • No Shoe Left Untied…No Cowbell Either? – from Bushwacker

    It was great to be back out at the Scramble, especially on a crisp clear morning with Christmas carols in the air! As we began the warm up, a bright pair of head lights made the corner and what to our wondering eyes did appear but Zoolander arriving to spread Christmas cheer…but no Cowbell.

    WARMORAMA

    x10 IC:
    SSH, High Knees, Imperial Walkers, Slow Squats, Windmills, Toe Touches

    THANG

    It seems since Ida took out out the pier, there is no more “Regular” route, and Qs have been trying to be clever with various trajectories and tribulations for the PAX to suffer through. QIC was similarly inspired last night, but that inspiration was dashed by a wave of life and the Scramble was all the better for it. We went something like this: Messina to Monroe to W Beach to Lakshore to Coffee to Villere (through Pik Pass) back to Messina and returning to city hall. Along the way YHC had to stop to retie his shoe, it’s always this pair, always the right one. So I chose to keep a brisker pace in order to catch back up the the pack O’ scramblers each of the 5000 times it happened!

    MARY

    7 minutes more, the better to kill the core! 100x OYO:
    LBCs, 100s, Freddy Mercurys, Flutter Kicks, Roslitas

    COT
    Count/name (still no Cowbell). Requesting special intentions for a friend, Bird reminded us that the holidays can be a hard time for some people. YHC took us out with a focus on the value we bring to each other, and the urging to share that value, in whatever form, to others we encounter.

    As were were concluding our activities, Waterpick’s Dick Tracy watch went off alerting us all that Cowbell had gone straight to Liz’s Where Ya At to reserve a table for a lil coffeteria . What do ya know, Cowbell showed up after all!

  • 51 – from Akbar

    Another year in the books as YHC turned 51, joined by 8 HIM who woke up early Monday morning – some after Sunday’s Nightmare Before Christmas. The theme was 51 on paper, 5 sets, 5 exercises 10 reps each, with the last exercise being a 10 second hold. Sometimes paper doesn’t translate in reality so there were some modifications.

    Tunes accompanied courtesy of Grover’s Camp playlist.

    Rd 1: Block press, shoulder taps, squat press, Alpo’s, 10 count mid-way hold.

    Rd 2: Block row wide, block row narrow, supine row, renegade block row L, renegade block row R. 10 count hold.

    Rd 3: Merkin, chest press wide, chest press narrow, right arm single block press, left arm single block press, 10 count hold.

    Rd 4: Block curl wide, block curl narrow, forearm curl, left arm block curl, right arm clock curl ( the single arm curls did not happen). 10 count hold

    Rd 5: Diamond merkin, overhead block extension wide, overhead block extension narrow. 10 second hold.

    Mosey to the stop sign and back, circle up for Mary

    Squats x 20, Lunges x 20, LBC – leg raises, dolly x10

    Count, Name-o-rama, and YHC prayed us out with thoughts of focusing on unselfishness this week and thanks for accountability.

    Thanks for letting me lead, it’s always a blast.
    Akbar

  • Battle of the Bulge – from Hokie

    The Q was caught up reading The MiniVan Centurion and had to come rolling in hot but made it with 2 minutes to spare…. Reminder, the Q’s should be present at least 10 minutes before workouts to ensure guests are greeted.

    We started with a mosey to the Mardi Gras Fountain where we did warmup.

    The Warm Up

    SSH x 15
    Hillbillies x 15
    Abe Vigoda x 15
    Grass Grabbers x 15
    Mosey to the top of the levee for an explanation of Battle of the Bulge
    Dec 16, 1944 – Jan 25, 1945

    12 (for December) Hokies (Lay on your back with heels and backs of hands on ground like a giant X. Lift torso and bring in legs to a cannon ball position. Then back to X and repeat)

    Quadrophelia (aka Bernie Sanders) up the levee and at top of levee do

    16 Hand release merkins

    Bear crawl down levee toward street and do

    44 Squats and plank for the six (12.16.44)

    We took a brief moment to reflect on the start of the Battle of the Bulge was December 16, 1944.

    We then discussed the Battle’s end date of January 25, 1945 so we could then do

    1 (for January) Burpee

    Quadrophelia (aka Bernie Sanders) up the levee and at top of levee do

    25 Shoulder taps (2 is one) then

    Bear crawl down levee towards lake and

    45 Jump Squats and plank for the six.

    We took a brief moment to reflect on the start of the Battle of the Bulge ended January 25, 1945. So during the Battle of the Bulge there was no break so we did everything again without a stop after the 44 squats. 12.16.44 – 1.25.45 then plank for the six.

    Now that we all have the exercises down for the Battle of the Bulge, we discussed each time up and over the levee AND back again is one round and switching to talking about our beloved Saints, a round would be comparable to a quarter and since there are four quarters in a game, we will rinse and repeat 4 more times! (12.16.44 – 1.25.45 ) x4.

    Let the Football portion of the Battle of the Bulge begin so (12.16.44 – 1.25.45 ).

    At the end of the 1st quarter, our Q (the coach), eliminated bear crawls and modified the game plan to running down the levee.

    So the 2nd Quarter we ran instead of bear crawl (12.16.44 – 1.25.45 )

    Looking at his watch, the coach (aka the Q) made a half time adjustment for the 3rd quarter and switched all six exercises to 10 instead of 12.16.44 – 1.25.45 so 10 Hokies, quadrophellia, 10 hand release merkins, run down, 10 squats, 10 burpees, quadrophellia, 10 shoulder taps, run down and 10 jump squats….

    End of the 3rd quarter and looking at his watch the Q decided to run the 2 minute drill for the 4th quarter

    2 Hokies, quadrophellia, 2 hand release merkins, run down, 2 squats, 2 burpees, quadrophellia, 2 shoulder taps, run down and 2 jump squats….

    Timing was perfect for a mosey back to the flag where High Rise helped us recover and educated us on injury prevention with some mobility.

    Thank you for the privilege and honor to Q

  • Black Friday Shopping – from Jose10k

    ‘‘Twas the day after Thanksgiving and all through the house, not a creature was ….not entirely true, I was up, moving slow because I consumed way to much thanksgiving day food. But it was Black Friday, and the beat down needed a theme for such an occasion. I couldn’t disappoint the whacker of bushes, so I created a workout that mirrored the Black Friday,
    Warmups: ssh, windmills, grassgrabbers , self love , torso twists
    The thang: you can’t go shopping without coupons, so yhc brought some. He set the up in a line so as my customers were waiting to check out, they each had to perform an exercise . 1. Man makers 2. Altos. 3. Curls. 4. Windshield wipers. 5. Overhead presses. 6. Squat Thrusts. 7. Rows with two 30 pound dumbbells. Each customer exercises while one shopper bear crawls the width of the parking lot, back pedals halfway up the length of the garage, sprints the rest, bear crawls again, back pedals, and sprints. Upon returning to the line, everyone moves up a spot in line. Kept going until everyone went through once, completed 3 extra shoppers. The group helped turn in their coupons, finished off with leg raises until my nephew had to stop twice. He smoked me at the turkey trot, I had to beat him in something. Cot, hammer prayed us out with great words of thanks and appreciation. And we had an FNG… welcome Chaps.
    Thanks for allowing me to lead my brothers. SYITG

  • Nothing but THANKS – from Russo

    YHC is a big fan of finding little things to be thankful for every day. Something new or different. Something unexpected. Something unique. Anything to keep me plugged into how blessed we are.

    Blessings like a bathroom at Grandma’s house. Like a cool, crisp 43 degree morning. Like lunch dates with potential love interests. Like 7 HIM sharing a common experience and making themselves better. Like Zoolander’s encyclopedic knowledge of early-to-mid 90s Halloween and witchcraft movies.

    Giving thanks was the name of the game today at granny’s.

    Warmup (all 10 to 20 IC)
    – Seal jacks
    – Grass grabbers
    – Torso twists
    – Imperial walkers
    – Arm circles
    – Cherry pickers

    Thang

    Mosey around the lakefront, where we stopped intermittently to give THANKS: each exercise starting with the proper letter. T claps to Cowbell for picking up on the pattern quickest (I think).

    T. T merkins (10)
    H. Hallelujah squats (15)
    A. Apollo ohno’s (10: 2 is 1)
    N. Not-so-lazy boys (10)
    K. Knuckle merkins (10)
    S. SMC’s (10)

    T. Traveler merkins (10 in a clockwise pattern)
    H. Hip slappers (20: 1 is 1)
    A. American Hammers (25: 2 is1)
    N. Freak Nastys (15)
    K. Kraken Burpee (5) – T claps to Steve for correctly guessing what was coming.
    S. Step ups (20: 1 is 1)

    T. Twinkle toes (20: 2 is 1)
    H. Hand release merkins (10)
    A. Alligator merkins (10)
    N. Nutcrackers (10 IC)
    K. Knuckle merkins (10) – Respect to JV and Slots (and maybe others) knocking them out on the concrete without gloves
    S. Scissor kicks (20: 2 is 1) – or maybe it was flutter kicks, I can’t keep them straight.

    The mosey back ended with one minute to spare, so Pax planked until the clock hit 0.

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

    Here’s where I give thanks, not only this week, but every day for this group of (and all) HIM. Getting up before 5 to push harder with the vague goal of making ourselves better, however we want to define it, is never an easy decision, but it’s often the right one. I hope we continue to be able to take some time to give thanks for what God has blessed us with.

    Like breath in our lungs to do Hallelujah squats in a circle in the middle of Girod street, like a cult worship, without getting hauled away to jail to “sleep it off.”

    SYITG

  • Muhammad Jenga – from Hogs Breath

    So YHC was wide awake at 0300, wide awake… No excuse not to post on a cool autumn Friday.
    So after a trip to the coffee pot, and a quick check of the Q list, YHC saw “A1C Needs a Q”
    Always at the ready I grabbed the giant F3 Jenga and made way towards the 22nd Judicial Court parking garage [A1C]. Arriving at precisely 0515 with my fuel gauge so low the needle was ready to break off.
    Jose 10k, BBQ, and Aikbar steadfastly waited for my amazing arrival, mustache and all!
    “Anyone have the Q?….Alright I got this!” I declared.

    Warm Up:
    20 SSH ic
    10 Mummy kicks ic
    10 Good Mornings ic [with lots of Dad groans]

    We then did a Muhammad mountain mosey to the start of the parking spaces; Mosey forward 3 spaces, and backpeddle 2 spaces; lather, rinse and repeat till we made our way across the entire garage floor. At the far side of the parking garage we did a Muhammad mountain bear crawl; three spaces bear crawl forward and two spaces backpedal.

    The thing

    This is where the giant outdoor Jenga took place. After assembly in the middle of the A1C garage YHC went over the rules

    Much like Jenga each pax would move forward and remove a block. Only One block could be removed, or touched, at a time. The block was then placed on top of the tower and pax would preform the exercise listed, it was dealers choice if OYO or IC. YHC also gave the stipulation if the tower fell, then the person who removed the block and the pax to the left would preform burpee’s until the other pax rebuild the tower.

    Who knew that grown men could have so much fun at Jenga? The suspense built as the tower also was built in height. The tower developed a northern lean as we built it up. There were many surprising moves “he won’t get that block out!!!! Oh crap he did!”
    “It’s the game where everyone wins!” Said Hogs Breath
    “Hey don’t make me do burpee’s” dryly replied Jose 10k

    The tower ended up growing to 19 stories. Since this jenga set had both a combination of Fia/F3 names there were differences in lexicon and ex icon terminology
    “What is a curtsy lunge?” And “what are leg levers [leg raises]?” Pax did their best to interpret and adjust on the fly. There were several blank blocks which became dealers choice, which meant merkins.

    On the 19th tower level, Hogs breath removed a block “jump squats” and place it on top of the ‘north leaning tower of Covington’. Jose 10k took several steps back so his massive earth shattering jumps would not impact the tower. But it was to no avail, around the fourth or fifth iteration, at precisely 0556, the tower’s lean became to much and came crashing down. BBQ and Hog’s Breath began burpee’s while Jose and Aikbar listened to confusing mumblechatter of rebuilding the tower, or putting it away, then rebuilding, finally deciding to clean up the blocks and place them away.

    One more round of Muhammad mosey, three forward, two backpedal to round out this a.m.’s beatdown.

    Ended with Count-o-Rama, Name-o-Rama, and COT

  • The Addams family – from Shooter

    YHC planned a coupon workout for this Gloom that would see the likes of 5 PAX.. Thank you to Hogsbreath for today’s title, but know gentlemen I have selected with great thought your Addams family names..

    We started off with the warmup consisting of 10IC, some 15IC as well as 20IC mixture of Grass grabbers, Torso twists, SSH, Butt kicks, Imperial walkers, Hillbillies and Cherry Pickers..

    Our cast members of the day included Hogsbeath (Gomez).. The Stache is golden and Bushwacker is sure to be jealous of how you rock it.. Then there is Akbar (Uncle Fester) wide eyed and refreshed returning from a trip with the family to VA.. Followed by JV (Pugsley) mostly for being the young chap at this mornings AO, but also seems like an individual who might have aggravated a sibling a time or two in his past… Next we have Waterpik (Cousin ITT), now I know there may be some confusion on this one, so let me explain. Last Thursday at the Scramble YHC had noticed Waterpik had not seen the barber in awhile, so much so that at the Mothership Saturday YHC noticed right away that his ears had been pulled back from a trim.. Now it is only fitting that I name myself (Lurch) simply because it was my duty to lead these men this morning..

    Workout consisted of coupon Work starting out on the court and at the playground. Each PAX performed Squat thrusters while all did 8 pull-ups. Took to the street carrying coupons along the way alternating sprints, shuffles, back pedals and skips as we made our journey towards the lakefront stopping at each stop sign for called exercise. PAX without coupon did called core work while the PAX with coupon did stated rep count of called exercise. Coupon work consisted of shoulder presses, Block burpees, Kettle swings, One arm alternating kettle swings (which Gomez demonstrated perfectly in rhythm), Curls and cross arm block squats.. I realize there is another name but cannot think of it at the moment..Core work was plank, chillcut plank, Little Manny crunches, leg lifts, hello Dollies and flutter kicks..

    Arrived back right on time for count, name and COT…

    Appreciate the lead and follow gentlemen and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Double dipper! – from Shooter

    4 PAX showed up at the Scramble for a humid Gloom. T👏🏼 to Hogsbreath for journeying over from Slidell not once but twice on this day.. He and the M Barcelona were due back in Mandeville for 6:15 tonight for the FIA mixer.. Hogsbreath brought along a buddy of bricks, plates or something totaling 50lbs as he Rucked the Scramble while YHC, Waterpik and Zoolander ran the normal route..
    warmup
    All IC10 Arm circles, Windmills, imperial walkers, hillbillies, Butt kicks, high knees and Torso twists..

    Returned after the run for some LBCs, Flutters, leg raises, regular Merkins and alternating left and right offset Merkins.
    10IC

    Appreciate the follow and allowing the lead and till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

    Thanks to Hogsbreath for the COT..

  • Streaking – from Russo

    YHC believes streaks were meant to be broken, and then celebrated. Cal Ripken wasn’t penciled in for game number 2,633. DiMaggio went 0-fer in game 57. The Patriots couldn’t overcome a miracle play from David Tyree and Ei Manning and finished the season 18-1. YHC can only eat the same lunch for 5 or 6 days in a row.

    So hearing that Steve had Q’ed Granny’s for 4 or so straight weeks, I thought he might need a break and let someone else count cadence for once.

    Pretty decent weather on Tuesday morning for a Pax of 7, including a returning Bushwhacker, with temps topping out at 77 degrees, plenty warm enough to sweat profusely.

    Working in a profession that requires balance, order, and consistency, YHC carried that over to rep count.

    Warmup (all IC 15x)
    Seal jacks
    Imperial walkers
    Toe touches
    Cherry pickers
    Mummy kicks

    Thang
    With Granny’s still feeling the effects of a spruce up, remodel, and/or renovation, her benches were not available behind fence, so Pax moseyed over to the Rusty P for some work:

    At benches:
    15 freak nastys
    15 step ups
    15 derkins
    15 more freak nastys

    Some more moseying took us to the bus stop, where 15 box jumps were in order, and then more mosey to the tunnel, where we knocked out the main portion of the beat down:

    5 merkins, a mosey through the tunnel, where it was 5 more merkins in the center, and then a reverse mosey and 5 more merkins at the top, repeated 5 times.

    Heading back home, we knocked out 15 squats IC around coffee st., and then wrapped it up with some Mary:

    15 plank jacks IC
    15 LMCs IC
    15 six inch drill IC

    COT, name-o-Rama, announcements (F3 and FIA game night 10/21 at what’s left of the Mandeville Gazebo at 6:15, NOLA convergence on Saturday), and prayer closed us out.

    Thank you gents for joining and making it another good one.

    And If you’ve read this far because of the title and hoping to hear about us going streaking through the quad Old School Will Farrell style, I hate to disappoint you. But there’s always next week!

    SYITG