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  • Fair Day – from Jose10k

    It was a simple beatdown on my day off. We did a nice warm up that including ssh, grass grabbers, self love, arm circles, high knees, imperial walkers.
    We went to the rock garden to get some coupons because you can’t ride the rides at the fair without your coupon. We did shoulder presses, curls, 45 degree chest presses, and kettlebell swings. 3 rounds of 20 reps of each. A little bit of moseying with another history lesson about downtown Covington. At the fair there are animals, so some duck walks, bear crawls,and monkey humpers. Back to the top of the parking garage for some four corners, 7 merkins at each corner, then 14 at each. Then 21 squats at each, then 28. Moby prayed us out.

  • IPC Week 3 – Mrs. Burns – from Akbar

    Saturday, what a great day. YHC hasn’t really thought about it lately, but it’s true. As Wicket told me after Coffeeteria – On Saturdays I get to go to F3, wear my gym shorts all day, play with friends, don’t have to do school, and eat donuts and pancakes. That’s good, and so was the beatdown.

    YHC and Wicket arrived early to set up, seeing Pik and Speedy for the pre-thang 2miler. Circle up for the flag just in time to hear loud crying – Hammer brought Machete out for a beatdown. Machete cried pretty much the whole time, until we started the warmup. The cadence call was like a lullaby for the young man.

    Everyone arrived and we started out with warm ups x 10 IC, except for 1 exercise that was x9IC. SSH, arm circles front/back, imperial walkers, hillbillies, high knees, butt Kicks, self-love, toe touches, and grass grabbers.

    Grab blocks, head to the tree/start line and instructions were given.

    Week 3 was called Mrs. Burns, doing 571 reps to honor Kathleen Walzer and her fight with pancreatic cancer for 571 days.

    5 Rounds + one extra 400m run at the end. 571 reps for time

    20 Overhead Presses

    20 Burpees

    20 Curls

    20 V Ups

    20 Goblet Squats

    13 Manmakers

    400m run

    Grundy, Tank, and Steve were out of the gate fast. Wicket did some stuff, then put on my shades and decided to DJ for a while – then got back to work. This was brutal. The workout pretty much took everything out of you making the run harder. So instead of making up time on the run, it was more recovery. Halfway through a guy joined us that was unrecognizable, and I thought we may have another Fly By EH. But it turned out to be Gronk who we haven’t seen in a couple of years. Great to have you back man.

    T Claps to the top unofficial finishers, meaning the guys sitting on the wall while everyone else was still working hard. Grundy, Tanked Up, Steve, and Hammer

    Time called, with a short rest in the grass. A brief glimpse of Jose 10k holding Hammers legs over the seawall. YHC figured Machete had dropped a baby toy in the water. Hammer waded in the murky water to retrieve only his hat. Which is much better than dropping a toy.

    Head back to the flag just in time for Count and Nameorama.

    YHC closed us out with this prayer – which was said each day the Kathleen Welzer had pancreatic cancer:

    “Lord, we thank you for this day. A day we get to choose. We get to choose between darkness or light. Today, we choose light. Amen”

    Coffeeteria at Book and the Bean:

    Great work today guys, way to push hard and get it done. 1 more week and IPC is in the books.

    SYITG – Akbar

  • Moseying with Moby – from Jose10k

    Beautiful morning, beautiful sunrise, and perfect weather for a little beatdown. After a quick warmup, Moby and I decided to mosey around down town Covington. We stopped at the Rock Garden for some 30 for 30. Curls, squats, shoulder presses. 15 IC, two rounds. Then to the Gipper for some freak Nastys, leg raises, crunches, jane fondas, and calf raises. Some more moseying with a great history lesson of Covington. Moby has some great historical facts about downtown Covington, the water holes and prostitute homes were quite a lesson. Back to the top after two calf raises on each step. Once up at the top, 4 corners of 20 merkins each. Circled up and did 20 more merkins for an even 100, finished off with 3 minutes of stretches. COT, turkey trot is out there to sign up gentlemen. IPC tomorrow. Moby prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead again. SYITG

  • Kansas City Chiefs Rally – from Einstein

    But BBQ doesn’t.

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Shoulder Rolls, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillys,
    Neck Rolls

    Thang:
    With Deck of Cards, each pax is assigned their suit: Moby-hearts, Jose10K-spades, Mathlete-diamonds, Einstein-clubs
    one at a time, each pax draws a card, the owner of that suit calls out an exercise of their choice and we do that amount of the card.
    Jokers – back-peddle around the upper deck

    We made it through the deck just as time expired.
    BBQ missed it all – his sweat-o-meter KCC hat would have registered south of the top squatchee button.

    Count-o-rama

    Jose-10K led us out with a prayer

  • All about the Benj🤑mins!! – from Shooter

    Doubling up the Q sheet to close the Friday A1c, YHC felt compelled to make it ALL about the Benjamins… With Lamar Jackson contract negotiations being the headline of the day in sports and knowing that he will eventually get a BIG 💰 day 4 PAX Moseyed around Covington stopping at various spots along the way..Jose10k having a background in Math was intent on catching on to why YHCs count was always equaling 25… Q broke down a series of SSH, self love, cherry pickers, grass grabbers, windmills, arm circles IC of 12-13 or simply doing 25 total of called exercise.

    Thang

    School board
    25 Plank jacks
    25 Mountain climber’s
    25 Peter Parker
    25 Parker Peter

    Rock pile (Coupon)
    25 Overhead press
    25 Squat thrusters
    25 Curls
    25 Rows

    Front of Justice center
    25 Calf Raises as we ascended the stairs
    25 Bunny hops Up stairs R/R
    25 Right leg Bulgarians
    25 Left leg Bulgarians

    Back of Justice center
    25 Irkins on the benches
    25 Carolina dry docks
    25 Freak Nasties
    25 Derkins

    Returned to the top of the parking garage

    25 LBCs OYO
    25 American Hammers
    25 Flutter kicks
    25 Alternating Nolan Ryans

    Closed with chillcut plank..

    Count, Annouce and COT

    Thanks to BBQ for the prayer’s and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Split Q (IronPax and Cakewalk) – from Russo

    78 degrees to start today, and looking for any reason for positive weather news, (1) there was no rain and (2) it was slightly less humid than it has been. Really good start to the morning for a split Q of IPC week 0 and a birthday cakewalk.

    Warmup (between 10x and 14x, all IC)

    -Toe touches
    -Arm circles
    -Self love
    -Cherry pickers
    -Grass grabbers

    Thang: while Zoolander took half the pax to the west for IPC, YHC led a cakewalk (trademark to either Grundy or Zoolander), your basic descending ladder of exercises and reps, starting at YHC’s age (in this case, 44) and work your way to 1, with some moseying in between around Old Mandeville/Lakefront.

    The order:

    44 High knees (2 is 1, which YHC forgot right off the bat and thought “count by 2”, so thanks to Jose for keeping me honest. Math is hard)
    43 SSHs
    42 Plank Jacks
    41 goof balls
    40 squats
    39 Hello Dollies
    38 Calf raises
    37 Apollo Ohno’s
    36 Freak Nastys (correctly guessed by JV Raider Pride!)
    35 step ups (also correctly guessed by the Pax)
    34 flutter kicks
    33 butt kicks (2 is 1) (lead IC by the entire pax rotating, very nice job, gents!)
    32 Peter Parker’s (2 is 1)
    31 imperial walkers
    30 Shoulder taps (2 is 1)
    29 American hammers
    28 Monkey Humpers (Happy Birthday JV!)
    27 Merkins
    26 Smurf jacks (where we were joined by Ms. Cute Young Jogger, who either (1) felt bad for the old guys struggling to mosey and catch their breath, (2) knew it was JV’s birthday and wanted to give him an early birthday present, (3) was on a runner’s high and wanted to be friendly on a Saturday morning, or (4) some combo of all of the above)
    25 leg raises
    24 Rosalitas
    23 crab jacks (crab position – think reverse plank jacks, which Moby was having none of)
    22 groiners
    21 Bear crawls (counting your right hand as a rep)
    20 murder bunnies
    19 Wide merkins
    18 Bobby Hurley’s
    17 crab cakes
    16 circle ups
    15 Bulgarian split squats
    14 durkins
    13 big boy sit-ups
    12 LMCs IC
    11 diamond merkins
    10 star jumps
    9 donkey kicks (an ode to Shooter)
    8 wife pleasers
    7 merkins
    6 6 inch drills
    5 Carolina dry docks
    4 SMCs (2 is 1)
    3 jump squats
    2 burpees
    1 minute plank

    COT, name-o-rama, announcements, and prayer closed us out.

    Thank you, gents, for either joining me or pushing yourself hard with IronPax. And a larger thanks to each of you for not only pushing me harder, making me better through your example, and providing friendship for 4 of my 44 years, but for being a light in your families, work, and communities.

    SYITG

  • 100/200/300 Dora-Hammer Style – from Jose10k

    A great way to start your weekend off right: a beatdown at the A1C. Where else can you have the average age of participation over 55, gasous emissions from Hammer that could be weaponized and used to torture terriorists?
    The Thang: A hammer style dora on the side of the parking garage. Partner one runs a lap, while partner 2 completes the exercises. 100/200/300 big boys, squats, merkins. 2 calf raises each step back to the the top for some 4 corners. 7 reps at each corner, then 14, 21, and finish with 28. Merkins, Squats, Big boys, lbcs. Hammer pushed me to finish it right at 6, COT, prayers for JV and my family. Run to remember next Saturday, Russo’s Q tomorrow. Thanks for letting me lead Brothers. SYITG!

  • Kickball Redeaux – from Akbar

    21 strong at the Lakefront for a redeaux of Kickball. This time, it was simple.

    Conditions
    Wet, muggy, just another day in SE Louisiana.

    Warm Up
    SSH x20 IC, Grass Grabbers, Butt Kicks, Self Love, High Knees, Imperial Walkers, Mountain Climbers, Merkins – x15 -10 IC

    Thang
    Mosey to the baseball field, count off 1’s and 2’s and teams were made. Regular rules apply this go round, with exercises called by QIC at random of Merkins and Sister Mary Catherines. Team 2 came out strong with a big lead, while Team 1 went 3 and out pretty quickly. A modification was made to not let all the kids kick first, and it was better. After a couple of innings, we were getting stomped. At this point, Mathlete had a suggestion that YHC implemented- Team 2 would have to Bear Crawl the bases to give us a chance. We made a short rally, but still got squashed by double digits.

    We headed back to the flag a little early since we didn’t really exercise that much and YHC implemented the Red Hot Chili Pepper. A standard of Hogcycle, we did Merkins and Squats to finish out in 3 rounds. Merkins and Squats x20 IC, Merkins and Squats x15 IC, Merkins and Squats x 10IC

    Count, Name
    Announcements

    Sept 10 5k/5mile at Covington trailhead

    Iron Pax is coming in September

    Hammers bible study Wednesday at 8:30 at the Crisi Pregnancy Center

    Bubba prayed us out with special prayers for JV’s Grandma who passed this morning at 98.

    Head to Coffeeteria and called it a day

    Thanks for following my lead – Akbar

  • Reps and repeat at the A1c!! – from Shooter

    Rolled in hot at the A1c to the sights of 4 PAX at the top of the garage.. Along the way up YHC dropped off coupons at different locations for the morning beatdown.. Having thought of the beatdown the previous day, Q quickly realized upon arrival he had forgotten the deck of cards, which was to be used while the PAX alternated rotations through the 3 stations.. So, quickly exiting my vehicle and jumping straight into warmup, YHCs started thinking of the alternatives and the lack of proper planning quickly became apparent with some of the cadence being off. Jose10k quickly corrected the Q with his sharpest of mind when it comes to Math.. Guess your mind is much clearer at 0515 when one has already technically completed somewhat of a beatdown before anyone else had arrived…
    T👏🏼 to 10k for staying committed to the ISI issued out by Zoolander earlier in the month..
    Let’s begin
    Warmup
    10IC Good mornings, Toe Touches, Air presses, seal jacks, self love and arm circles..

    Thang

    Reps of 60, 40, 20 for the first series around..

    Each PAX took turns cycling through 60 count jump rope, 40 curls for the girls with tuck plate and 20 squats..

    Said HIM work through the circuit was the clock so to speak as the remaining PAX did stated work of upper body, core and lower body with rep counts of 10, 20, 30..

    Rounds consisted of Merkins, Big boys, lunges, Carolina dry docks, bicycles, Sister Mary’s, 8ct body builders, LBCs, 60deg lunges, Irkins, hands to heels, jump squats, Diamond Merkins, American hammers, and squats..

    With the first cycle taking roughly 25 mins we cut rep count in half of all said exercises and R/R for the 2nd round..

    Appreciate the post gentlemen always great to start the day with HIMs like each of you this Gloom..

    Thanks to Jose10k closing with 🙏🏼…

    Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Where Was Hammer? – from Jose10k

    I prepared an epic playlist for musical/pop culture trivia with our local expert, Hammer. However, when he didn’t show, the local, usual group were not impressed with my tunes. However, they tolerated my tunes and my choice of the beatdown. It was simple. 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 lbcs at the corners, 10 times. Then a mile run stopping at every stop sign and doing an additional 20 squats.
    Back to the parking garage for COT, Einstein prayed us out. Happy Birthday weekend to Einstein, safe travels for BBQ to visit that new grandson, prayer requests for my mother-in-law. Thanks for letting me lead gentlemen. SYITG