Much to everyone’s chagrin, there were no Downrangers, however there were 5 ruckers and 3 runners for a total of 8 pax who beat the battle of 15 degrees and made it out.
Tag: Left Coast
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S&M…&R – from Bolt
Three stretched, three ran and all six were accountable.
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Mixed Bag – from Kenna Brah
Running,rucking, R2R Training, KOT
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KnOTters all around – from Charmin
In a rare occurrence, there were no runners. YHC was planning on walking around the park, however when all the HIM’s started their backwards trot, YHC decided a day of Knees Over Toes wouldn’t be the worst thing. Tenderloin showed up early and was speeding around the track already at 5:30. That being said, after 45 minutes (or so) we returned to the Shovel Flag and ended in a COT where we prayed for those intentions spoken and unspoken.
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Hump Day Shenanigans – from Vagabond
Warmup
Football field
Bear crawl 10 yards, then 3 more stations 10 yards apart
20 reps, descending
16
12
8
4
Bobby Hurley
Smurf Jacks
Burpees x5
Thrusters
Back pedal return
Plank and wait for 6Soccer
COT
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Easy as 1, 2, 3 plus an FNG – from Bolt
The pax gathered in the gloom, buzzing with excitement at the mere sight of the JBL speaker; great to see Kotters: Left Coast and Mambi along with Boo Boo who was doing penance for missing Thursday Rucking. Upon giving the disclaimer KnOTS headed their way while we were off to the middle of the field where the pax’s exuberance exploded upon hearing Rapper’s Delight, especially Vagabond, while Triple’s FNG certainly started to question exactly what he’d gotten himself into. Warmorama of the usual with demonstration/explanation for the pax who’d become Malware by the end of the BD (welcome to the gloom, brother). Music skip rule in effect.
The Thang:
Dry dock ladder up the bleachers
Squat ladder in reverse count down the bleachers, mosey to playground.Morning Call: all pax high plank while two pax do 5 pull ups, calling out the count for planking pax to merkin, Triple doled out a 5 burpee penalty about half through on a 5 minutes song with only 30 seconds to go. Mosey to the rocks.
Easy as 123 (AMRAP):
Chest press 1 min (really made the burpees tougher)
Burpees 2 min (goal 20+, Triple, fueled by competitiveness and his younger, lighter FNG’s stamina hit 32—impressive)
Step ups 3 min (the “Halfway there” announcement seemed to take 3 minutes)Circle up for 5 Absolutions OYO followed by Mary where Triple and YHC were feasted on by ants, ironically after YHC encouraged pax to seek an area without visible ant piles (the best laid plans…). KennaBrah took over the lead after my LBCs and Protractors (a pax favorite—Rudy where were u!?) with a plank/reverse plank alternating leg lift, while I disposed of the ants and passed it Cheese Steak for Hello Dollys and Mambi brought us home with ???
Return to the flag, COT and naming ceremony for FNG/Malware; come back for ur second BD and discover that F3 is for YOU. SYITG.
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Dawg Sleddin’ – from Vagabond
Warmup
Drag Scantron’s weighted sled around the lake plus 1 ruck
21 reps of each around the lake
Burpees
Big bois
SquatsStep ups
Dips
DerkinsPlank ups
Side lunge 1is1
Heel to heavenDecline shoulder taps
Incline burpees
Leg liftsSmurf jacks
Nolan Ryan 1 is 1
LBCsBobby Hurley
J Lo 2 is 1
Incline wife pleaserSunday Mornings
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Kenna Brah showed up – from Kenna Brah
7 hearty souls showed up to see for themselves that the Q actually showed up.
As a reward for their morbid curiosity, I invited the to a little fat melting exercise:
Warmups –
Properly Slow Abe Vigodas x 13
Arm Circle Circuit x 13
Imperial Walkers x13
Mtn Man Pooper Good Morning x13Main Event:
Paired with a fellow gloom buster, they faced opposite directions and when they met, they did:
Cumuluative count:
100 Merkins in sets of 25, after each set – run till you meet again. Got it?
200 Air Squats sets of 50
300 LBS in sets of 75Fun times:
Red Light/Green Light game
Then 7 min of Mary.
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Im Prompt 2 – from Vagabond
10 burpees x5
BLIMPS
More burpees and bench work
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Dream Sequence: Cinco de Mayo AND a Rudy Appearance – from Bolt
As site Q, YHC psyched to see Cinco de Mayo open since it’s the day that my ancestral people celebrate…u know, Anglo Saxon Americans who pretend to b Mexican as an excuse to drink copious amounts of tequila and cervezas, all the while thinking it’s Mexican Independence Day (NOPE) but I digress…
Imagine my exuberance when I rolled in hot to Q and saw Rudy—RUDY!—who avoided BC Uptowner since its inception bc he was “training for the Double Nickel” which apparently is now a double nickel and a penny. Really, he just hates burpees and mistakenly thought Mahatma was the Q—jokes on u! This WOULD require an audible, lest I scare Rudy off forever. Warmup of the usual stuff plus 5 burpees added in for Rudy plus it IS Cinco de Mayo.
The Thang: (descriptions at the end) Start with Plank Hurdles the length of the football field with Bolt’s cringy playlist serenading and mocking us all at the same time. Make our way to the playground equipment for M.A.Y.O. where every letter represents a series of exercises:
Morning Call (x5)
Aiken Legs (x23)
Yurpees (x5)
Outlaws (x23)
This is where the audible happened as I had a 100 burpee play list in the queue; switch to more M.A.Y.O.
Mountain Goats (x23)
Absolution (x5)
Yurpees (x5)
Outlaws (x23) u can’t unsee a group of men’s O faces…Return to the flag via backward mosey once on the track as a nod to knees over toes for 5 Yurpees (as Rudy astutely noted we skipped Y and did M.A.O. before leaving the gazebo area) plus Mary to fill the time—no short-changing the pax. Apple Watch said the BD was sufficient as did my sweat soaked shirt—Bogey concurred at coffee. Honored and humbled, men.
Morning Call
All but one PAX get into push-up position and hold the up position while one guy counts off doing 5 pull-ups. Every time a pull-up is called out, the PAX does a merkin. After 5 pull-ups, he joins the PAX and the next guy gets up and calls out his 5 pull-ups. The cycle continues until all have performed 5 pull-ups. No one leaves the push-up position unless it’s his turn to call out pull-ups or until all calls have been made.Mountain Goats
Like Mountain Climbers but with an added goat kick (where both legs leave the ground simultaneously) – exercise is done on a four count … three mountain climbers (1 – 2 – 3) and the 4 is the goat kick. Get those legs up high to 45 degrees! Repeato until you’ve had enough.Absolution
Start in plank position and perform a single Groiner (cadence “1” jump feet forward, “2” jump feet back), then Mahktar N’ Diayes to Chillcut position (cadence “3” & “4” with drop to each elbow), then Chilly Jack (cadence “5” feet out, “6” feet together), and finally Mahktar N’ Diayes to plank starting position (cadence “7” and “ONE, TWO, etc.” with rise on each hand).Aiken Legs
Done in succession with no rest — 20 Squats, 20 Box Jumps, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Split Jacks (10 each leg forward). Rinse and Repeated as many times as you can.Yurpee
Burpee Variation in honor of the Ruskie (Yuri Verkhoshansky) who developed Plyometrics to train Olympians. Merkin at bottom of burpee is a clap-merkin and on up portion there are 2 tuck jumps per burpee. Basically a Clurpee with 2 tuck-jumps.Outlaw
Sitting in the position for flutter kicks, keep your feet together and make a big “O” with them. 10 reps to the right and 10 reps to the left or as many reps as the Q deems necessary.Plank Hurdles
Done on a football field. In small groups of 5-6, everyone starts in the plank position in the end zone. 1st man from each group sprints to the 10 and planks, 2nd sprints, hurdles him, planks on the 20, 3rd man hurdles each, planks on the 30, etc. At the end of the group, 1st man sprints, hurdles everyone, etc. Everyone should finish in a plank in the opposite end zone.
