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  • Back to School!! – from Shooter

    YHC arrived to Grandmas with a familiar vehicle from the North.. Jose 10k is back and all it took was the kickoff of RCR 2022 to bring Mr. competitor out to the AO.. With mild temps and the possibility of a radio in hand Bushwacker, Qs beatdown would keep us at the Trailhead..

    Warmup
    12IC Windmills, Toe Touches, Imperial walkers, Hillbillies and Arm circles..

    Thang
    Simple
    “Billy Madison”
    Exercises consisted of Merkins, Squats, Air Presses, Flutter kicks, Leg raises, SSH, Lunges, Mountain climbers and Burpee’s.. Only able to get through 9th grade as our laps consisted of roughly a quarter mile around the trailhead giving those tracking mileage for RCR a total of 2.25… Of course overachieving Jose 10k and Steve corresponded for a little Prethang action, so each of them probably hit 5 miles and the anticipation of JV rucking it out 3x a day with the dog walk he will also get started on a good note over 5 for the first day… Glad to have you join in on RCR2022 JV!!

    With the PAX having to dropout after 9th we will eventually need to go “Back to School!”

    Hogsbreath prayed us out and shared the future shovel planting next Monday at Heritage park in Slidell!!
    Recruit anyone you know in the Slidell area and join in Monday 0530 2/7/2022 to welcome in this fresh start with HIMs and Pass Interference…

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

  • Deck of Death Part IV: A New Hope – from Russo

    36 degrees greeted a Pax of 6 at Granny’s for the return of the deck of death: version 2022.1. This upgrade featured the “Animal activity pack”, with crowd favorites Monkey Humpers (you’re welcome Hogs Breath), Crab Cakes (just for you Jose!), Donkey Kicks, and Crunchy Frogs.

    Warmup (all IC, varying reps, like a locker combination: to your RIGHT!)

    -Seal jacks
    -Cherry pickers
    -Imperial walkers
    -Grass grabbers
    -Self love
    -High knees

    Thang

    Bench work with 20 freak nastys and 20 step ups, followed by 10 of both, and then 5 more.

    After a quick mosey, Pax knocked out the Deck of Death (exercise and count based on value and suit of the card turned over from a standard deck of playing cards). YHC likes to split the deck into 4 groups to vary up the exercises, with some moseying before, during, and after.

    Hearts – Monkey Humpers, Jump squats, SMCs, Nut Crackers
    Diamonds – Diamond Merkins, Merkins, Peter Parkers, Shoulder Tap Merkins
    Clubs – LBCs, Leg Raises, Crunchy Frogs, American Hammers
    Spades – Crab Cakes, Donkey Kicks, Gas Pumps, Angels in the Outfield

    Mary
    With about 5 minutes left, Pax completed some calf raises up the pilot house, 2 each step, a minute of plank, and a final 10 merkins.

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

    Note the Crazy Ivan is coming up on 2/3 and HogsBreath and Pass interference are working on a Slidell AO. Keep checking Slack for more info.

    Thank you all again for joining, letting me lead you all. As always, really enjoyed the mumble chatter.

    And finally, the vote count, subject to independent verification next week, was 11 A’s and 7 T’s. And in case you’re wondering, I vote T.

    SYITG

  • Chilly Chain Gang – from Mobydick

    Upper thirties and breezy made the second level of the parking garage the better choice.
    Warmed up with 20x IC SSH/Slow Squats/Windmills/Torso Twist/Self Love High Low and Hug maybe something else. Then a lap around the garage and back to the start for the thang.
    Really simple. Split the PAX on either end of the garage and first man took off dragging “The Chain” (120’ of 3/8” cargo chain) the full length of the parking garage. Wire to wire. On rough concrete that makes for some serious effort.
    While waiting a turn the rest cycled through 5 Reps each of Squats/Merkins/SSH til everyone had two drags.
    Straight into shuffle left/right the length of the second deckand back. Then up the stairs double pumping each step calf raises.
    At the top another shuffle left/right to the ramp and back peddle down to second deck for some core.
    On our sticks for 20x IC Crunches/Leg Lifts/Jane Fondas
    With 5 minutes to go another round of chain for everyone. COT

  • And that’s a wrap for 2021 – from Mobydick

    Pax: Einstein Waterpick Hawgs Breath BBQ Jose 10K Ackbar Mobydick

    A perfect December morning…if we were in Miami 72 degrees and a light breeze for a New Year’s Eve. Since YHC, Mobydick, is not a big fan of running Waterpik had to make do with a focus on Core and upper body. After a brief warmup with 20x Ic SSH Grass grabbers Self Love High Knees
    The Thang began with a circle up. 10x Merkins. Staying on the deck pax flips on your sticks for 20x IC Leg Lifts.
    Pax rolls to right and OYO 10x Diamond Merkins. OYS and 10x IC Hello Dollies
    Roll to the right and 10x OYO Diamond Merkins Flip OYS 10x IC Rosalitas.
    ROLL right and 10x OYO Wide Merkins Flip and 10x IC Freddy Mercury.
    Roll right 10x OYO Shoulder Taps flip and 20x LBC Recover.
    Since quality over quantity was the theme PAX Lunge walked with Knee touch 50yds’.
    A little breather taken by back pedaling 50yds’, side shuffle right 50yds’ Side shuffle left 50yds and back pedal 50yds to return to start.
    A brief mumble chatter and on to iso. 1 minute of Al Gore down low hugging the tree close to the ground. Followed by 1 minute Regular Plank. 1 minute of Left Plank. 1 minute of Right plank.
    Another round of Back pedal/Shuffle. Lead up to close with some more stretches Self love, up high, down low then Toe touches legs straight and stretch it out and some windmills Last one 10 Dirkins.and COT

  • The Nightmare Before Christmas 2021 (The Return) – from Grundy

    Twas six nights before Christmas, in 2020 it was spurned, but now the year reads 21’, and the nightmare has returned.

    This workout is intense, you need not take my word, that’s fine. But if you need a reference, Tanked up will tell you I’m not lying. Sometimes we went slick and other times was with a ruck, and in the times that it got hard we had to just embrace the suck.

    This year there was Hogs breath, Steve, and Junior Varsity. Russo and Amnesia and the newly disdained Grundy

    For those still unaware (or knew before and did not show), here’s the list of all we did…

    For workout see below:

    150 burpees
    2 miles of running
    150 man-makers
    2 miles of rucking
    100 Merkins
    100 Sit-ups
    100 Squats
    100 4 count SSHs
    100 4 count mountain climbers
    100 4 count flutter kicks
    100 Ruck Presses
    100 2 count Ruck twists (American Hammers)
    100 Ruck Pull Throughs

    We left with aches and bruises and pray we have no long term damage, but the tales we heard from Hogs breath will help us carry on and manage. The man shows up to beatdowns from the far land of Slidell, so if there was a “commitment” award he’d surely win the title.

    JV has become a real staple of our crew. With his completion of the nightmare he’s now earned his stripes to boot. He now joins a fraternity of those who’ve reached the end, forevermore he’s one of us and one I’m proud to call my friend.

    Russo showed up with what seemed was insufficient baggage. But once more it’s been shown “it matters not the size of package”. In the end it made it through with Russo’s sheer determination, and that describes the man I’ve come to have such admiration.

    Amnesia powered on when his body said ‘enough’! But just one look at that man’s legs will tell you that he’s tough! When the last rep was accomplished, and after talking with his spouse, Amnesia climbed up on his bike and then he rode back to his house.

    Steve returned once more for what could maybe be called penance, but how could one commit such evil where this would be the sentence?! The only way I can account for Steve repeating this endeavor, is that he’s a man who’ll walk ‘longside a brother through whatever.

    These examples, and countless more, are the reasons we all do this. And thus our workout completed once more “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.

    Until next year….
    Grundy

  • 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