Bolt lead stretch & Mobility witb Willie & Big Willie
El Guapo lead 4 runners in intervals with First Shot, Mahatma, Mambi.
Kenner Brah ran and then joined Hokie & Rougarou for Knees over Toes
Bolt lead stretch & Mobility witb Willie & Big Willie
El Guapo lead 4 runners in intervals with First Shot, Mahatma, Mambi.
Kenner Brah ran and then joined Hokie & Rougarou for Knees over Toes
IMPACT Warm Up
Imperial Walkers
Merkins
Plank Jacks
Alt Should Taps
Crunches
Tie Fighters
First and 10
Heavy Rock – 11’s
10 yd Line – 10 Curls, 1 OHP
Sprint to Far end Zone,
Recovery Jog Back
Added Some Mary since we killed that first round!
Recover on the Other End
13’s
Reverse Run Like Before
12 – Sumo Squat,1 – Clean
On a balmy, humid Sunday, YHC arrived at The Renaissance around 0610
At 0615 FNG arrives and YHC welcomes said FNG requesting information on who EH’d. As it turns out he was EH’d by someone in an online Dad’s mentoring group from afar (I believe Phoenix)
At 0630 Disclaimer was given and Warmorama proceeded. At approximately 0635 1776 was introduced
18 exercises
17 for 100 seconds each
10 second transition between exercises
18th exercise, burpees for “only” 76 seconds.
It is Sunday and it is Renaissance so to the back of NOMA for Sunday mornings
COT and naming of FNG, a board game enthusiast, …
Welcome Monopoly who is getting ready to join his M, welcoming their 3rd blessing into this world
Halfway through 2023, YHC knew it was time for a re-focus on acceleration: reviewing where we are with goals we set up back on January 1st, and setting up for growth over the rest of the year. So today’s Q would focus on Goals and Accountability.
And even better – Spaulding stepped up for his VQ. Way to accelerate, Spaulding!
YHC started with a lengthy disclaimer. Two items to present to the 13 gathered PAX:
1. At the end of the workout, everyone would get the chance to step forward and announce their goal for the rest of the year. Say it out loud, own it, and trust the PAX to hold you accountable to achieving it.
2. Find your Burpee Partner. We will have 8 1-minute burpee breaks during the workout. Tell your Burpee Partner how many burpees you are going to do total during these breaks. Make a commitment to doing it.
Then mosey over towards the rocks for a quick warm up with some stretches and imperial walkers. Spaulding took center stage for a strong SSH cadence. Nicely done!
YHC’s goal for this year is a murph. That’s gonna require a LOT of strength training. So lets get a rock and partner up. (BUT FIRST – Burpee time #1!). Dora’s stay-in-one-place cousin: 100 Merkins, Squats and BBSU, with 20 Rows as the timer. Go… Stopped for a few more burpee breaks along the way.
Then circle up for more rock workout. Lift your rocks – then the warning: if you put your rock down, the PAX to your left will pay the price with 5 burpees. Overheads, Curls then Rows. 10, then 8, then 6. Then time for another Burpee break (#5, I believe).
Return the rocks, and let Spaulding take over.
Mosey to the field in from of NOMA. Beach Volleyball – count to 21 for a winning score. What was each count? 2 lunge steps and a squat, all in cadence. Rudy thought that sounded easy. Rudy was Rong.
Mosey to the baby foundry (stopping for more burpees). Spaulding tells the PAX about the correlation between grip strength and longevity – so in the interest in helping all of us, he’ll have us do rounds of 1 minute dead hangs. Most PAX appear to be on track for longer lifetimes than YHC….
Mosey to Tool Wall for some calf raises. Then we need to head for home. Back at the Great Lawn for the final round of burpees, then head to the flag for what would promise to be a lengthy COT.
All PAX hit their burpee goals. Nicely done! Good thing – because if you came up short, your Burpee Partner would pay the price by making up the difference. Then during the COT all of the PAX called out their goals. Several joined YHC in committing to a Murph. Lots of weight goals. Cheeto going to do his first Marathon (in absentia – Mayhem committed to a Half-Marathon). All of the goals will be in Slack, and all PAX are invited to hold us accountable and join in the fun.
Thanks to all of the PAX who have helped me grow by encouragement and accountability over the years.
Started off with a Geaux Tigers and that I am not a licensed professional.
Some headed to KnOT while the rest moseyed to rock pile.
WARMUP
SSH
Squats
Imperial Walkers
Arm circles
5 burpees
Peter parkers
Parker Peters
Grass Grabbers
THE THANG
Grab a rock and head to football field
With the rock, we did 60 calf raises, 50 squats, 40 lunges, 30 overhead press, 20 bench press and 10 manmakers with each exercise followed by 400 meter run.
After rock workout, we finished with LBC’s, flutter kicks, Dying cockroaches, penguins and a 2 minute plank. Head back to rock pile and run to the COT.
Countoff, Namerama and closed with prayer. Great Way to start off Friday guys!
Three options for the pax: Pai Gow sprinting, Scantron KnOT, Bolt S&M
Let the KOT folks get on with their routine, then gathered the PAX for some warm-ups and stretching. Proceeded to induce confusion early on which lingered throughout the workout.
Everyone grabbed their favorite rock, and we made our way to the parking lot. I provided as much clarity as possible as we went through some suicides with and without the rock. FNG showed up late, but jumped right in. PAX felt guilty and grumbled that no one brought an extra rock to share.
We moseyed over to the Hill, and capped the workout with some 11’s accompanied by OHP at the top.
Ended with more confusion in the COT, but was finally able to get FNG a shiny new name, Radiohead.
Coming in hot and tempted to grab my speaker given Kenna Brah’s previously scheduled Q, I opted to have faith KB would screech in behind me to lead the BD—shoulda grabbed the speaker. Too late; disclaimer and urging the pax onto the field still hopeful for the Qs emergence during the “Warmarama (sans music—the pax were disappointed). Usual stuff with a Scantron stretch added in just because. Guess YHC is the Q and also not Kenna Brah.
The Thang: Bogey astutely noted as Warmarama ended that pax would gather along the goal line in plank for what was going to b a periodic BD opener and now YHC is almost forced to make it as much a mainstay as Rapper’s Delight and burpees (u can thank Bogey)—Plank Hurdles (the pax from Monday rejoiced) and Vagabond started us off on the right hash rather than midfield, the path had been set. Upon completing the length of the field to the back of the opposite end zone (despite Bogey urging to continue to the tracks) it was time to circle up for 25 LBCs, on your feet for 5 burpees OYO, sixes for 20 wife pleasers, up for 5 burpees, sixes for O-rings 10x each direction, 25 monkey humpers (a theme had developed which cleared the track of all onlookers) 5 burpees.
Continuing his Nostradamus-like ability, Bogey correctly predicted after our mosey to the playground equipment that morning calls were next. These really sucked on Monday with 12 people and they still sucked today with only seven people.
Mosey to the far curb of the gym parking lot for 20 tricep dips to warm us up for bears eat crabs in honor of Charmin (who it turns out had a fender bender otw to the BD). The Architect was successful again in completing the course as a crab along with Heisenberg who ventured in with his passport from the BIG CITY. All other crabs became bears upon my tag, yet ate no crabs. Circle the six and bear crawl the rest of the way with them—no man left behind.
Mosey to the pavilion for 20 RLSU, 15 derkins, 20 LLSU and then in honor of Mahatma, the plank-merkin Indian “run” much to everyone’s delight–ful groaning as we got to the halfway point.
Mosey back to nearest end zone and circle up for protractors cuz Pool Boy remarked how much he liked them Monday except we were only able to dedicated 1 minute to them for time—I won’t let u down next time, Pool Boy. Back to flag, COT.
Warmorama of the usual but almost with the wrong song—corrected, commence, complete.
The Thang: Plank hurdles the length of the football field. Circle up past the goal post for musically directed work…
Danger Zone: SSH the entire song except, squat 1x on title words. Starts as a cake walk, ends as a barely can walk. Mosey to playground and plank along edging for Morning Call (really wicked with 12 pax; modify to two groups of six next time???).
Mosey to rock pile for medium rocks and all the parts (lower body, upper body, abs):
Curls, LBCs, reverse lunge, protractors, tricep press, O rings, wife pleasers, Yang squats. There were several 5 burpee tolls paid to skip songs, mainly at War Eagle’s hand (for those who don’t know, War Eagle is practically a Kotter and when he does post, he likes to complain about being there for a real workout while not actually working out…). Back to the flag for COT with the KnOT group. Two DR: Cliff Notes (79!), Cousin Eddie.
Bolt pushed us ruckers to a pace of 16:52. The runners did whatever it is they do, and the kots guys were late (what’s new lol).
Cot was about loving our loved ones while we can.