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  • Friday morning Football – from Pool Boy

    Weather a nice 81 degrees. Quick disclaimer as Knots headed for their workouts and we hit the football field. With it being football season, thought some of us could relive our glory days.
    WARMUPS of:
    SSH
    Grass Grabbers
    LBC’s
    Arm circles
    Peter Parkers
    Imperial walkers
    Hillbillies
    Merkins
    7 FOOTBALL WORKOUTS
    1ST Karaoke 40 yds- 10 merkins. Karaoke 40 yds back – 10 merkins
    2nd Backpedal 40 yds – 10 merkins. Backpedal 40 yds back – 10 merkins
    3rd High Knees 40 yds – 10 merkins. High-knees 40 yds back – 10 merkins
    4th 12 up downs
    5th With 4 cones in a square, back pedal to 1st cone, then shuffle to 2nd and sprint. 5x
    6th With 4 cones in a square, bear crawl to 1st cone, then karaoke to 2nd and sprint. 2x
    7th With 4 cones 3 yds apart, agility drill of shuffling feet. 5x

    Game time! After a few rules, a football game commenced.
    Team 1(shirts): FNG(Manziel), Wedding Planner, Hand Grenada, Mayhem
    Team 2(skins): Pool Boy, Mahatma, Vagabond, Architect
    I believe skins took it 3-2.
    All time QB – Bogey Montana

    Some Mary to finish out.
    COT. We welcomed FNG – “Manziel” to the group

  • Hump Day Gloom – from Vagabond

    Black Jack 21s

    Run lap, warmup

    7 stations

    Field
    burpees
    Sit-ups
    Squats

    Gazebo 1
    Step ups alternating
    Derkins
    V ups

    Wall Gym
    Plank ups
    Wall step ups
    Incline wife pleasers

    Stairs Gym
    Calf raises
    Balls to walls 21 secs
    People’s chair

    Gazebo 2
    Dips
    Bulgarian split
    Decline shoulder taps

    Hill
    Bear crawl to top and crawl bear down
    Incline hello dolly
    21 incline burpees

    Rocks
    Thrusters
    Curls
    Russian twists

    Mary

  • Uptowner Old School AMRAPs – from Mahatma

    YHC – showed up with 5 minutes, planted the flag AT the Rock Pile as we did pre plandemic. Dropped off his TJ Max bag with Pickleball gear then headed down to the cage arriving just as the seconds ticked off to 5:30. Quick disclaimer as the Knots crew headed to the track and the rest of the pax to a slow walk back to the rock pile all the while with chatter as to what’s this about an “old” starting spot for “the” Uptowner!

    After 6 years YHC learned a few things and one is don’t get sucked in to the chatter as it will never go your way! So circle up for a warm up.

    Various cadence:
    2 rounds Scantron stretch
    Side Lunge
    Windmills
    Nolan Ryan’s
    Peter Parker’s
    Mnt Man Poopers
    Parker Peter’s
    Forward Lunge Left leg with Arm circles
    Flap Jack
    SSH

    Grab a rock
    1st AMRAP (as many ROUNDS as possible)
    Thrusters (a.k.a. squat press) x 10
    Merkins x 10
    10 wall jumps or alternating step ups
    Lunge walk from tree to light pole
    Walk or run back
    This is 1 round – complete as many rounds as possible in 10 minutes

    Grab your rock relocate on the other side of the road – 4 rounds of Mary

    2nd AMRAP
    6 burpees
    Extended Curls x 10
    6 burpees
    Squat front raises x 10
    Bernie Sanders from tree to power pole
    Walk or run back
    That is one round – again complete as many possible in 10 minutes

    Rtn the rocks – 1 minute of plank to push ups

    COT

  • Tests of Strenth – my Festivus – from Rudy

    YHC decided to try out some fitness tests that have been bouncing around in my head. Whenever I think “this is a bad idea, it probably won’t work”, I recall the immortal words of Hawgcycle from years ago – something to the effect of “Only one way to find out.”

    So at 530 am, a solid group of PAX moseyed off towards the rock pile to get started. A warm up of some stretching and imperial walkers. Then a quick trip to the train tracks for some balance work. Try your best to get 5 squats in. Several minutes of this – SOGO was up to 20 squats, Mahatma had quit in frustration, and finally YHC managed 5 things that sort of loosely resembled squats. So lets grab a rock and head to the field.

    At the field – YHC announces the Thang. 5 Fitness Tests. My Festivus, if you will.

    Test 1: Rifle Carry your rock for 1 lap around the trap. YHC had been curious if this was doable, and if so – how long it would take. The answer: sort of doable, and roughly 5 minutes.

    Test 2: The suck (7 SSH, 7 Merkins, 7 Squats), for 5 minutes instead of the usual 3. Dang, FracSac. Those farts were AWFUL.

    Test 3: Bear crawl the length of the field, then lunge walk back.

    Test 4: The Rock-Suck for 5 minutes. 7 Overhead Press, 7 Curl, 7 Row. Dang, Frac. Those farts were AWFUL. PAX kept shifting to avoid being close, but it didn’t matter. lack of wind meant that noxious fume just hovered over us.

    Return the rocks.

    Test 5: EMOM burpees for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, the Pickle-ballers decided to bail on this.

    Back to the flag for COT. Thank you all for the many years of inspiration you have provided. And thank you Sky Q for the gift of one more year around the sun.

  • It Wasn’t Me – from Architect

    Since the listed Q didn’t show, and no one else stepped up, I had no choice but to take the lead and use my enhance mental capacity to scheme up a decent workout on the fly.

    Disclaimer provided, encouragement provided to push one’s self. Warm-ups conducted.

    Mosey’d to playground for some group therapy. First group hung out, second group just sat there, and the third remained face down. Threw in some squats because there were some special requests for leg work. PAX rotated through the three stations above.

    Partnered up and grabbed some rocks. Round 1 – Pairs made it across the baseball field, one riffled carried, the other bear crawled (also by special request). Partners switched as needed. Round 2 – repeat round 1 but with lunges (again, trying to accommodate special requests)

    PAX whined about HR remaining too low (obviously they neglected to listen to the disclaimer). YHC threw in some sprints and BBsitups. After rocks returned, workout concluded with some Mary and COT.

  • Three Sixes leading up to Poker Night – from Mayhem

    Q arrived early to setup the cones
    5:29 Hokie and the KnOT tribe tried to steal my Q thunder
    5:30 sharp gave the normal disclaimer, reminding Pool Boy that Q actually is not a professional trainer

    Mosey near the tracks for warmup: AV (supposed to be slow, but Q was excited), GG, SSH, IW… on your face ST, PPP… recover AC

    Hit the rock pile for a rock that you can rifle carry to the far side of the hill
    The Architect went big, it would cost him later

    6x6x6 (six rounds, six stations, six reps)
    Run up the hill to the cone, 6 reps of given exercise
    Run down the hill to the cone, 6 reps
    Bear crawl to the cone, 6 reps
    Run backwards to the cone, 6 reps
    Up the hill backwards to the cone, 6 reps
    Down the hill backwards to the cone, 6 reps
    Mary or pick up the six before moving on to the next round as a group

    Rd 1: Burpees
    Rd 2: Bonnie Blairs
    Rd 3: Mountain Climbers
    Rd 4: Squats with the Rock
    Rd 5: Merkins
    Rd 6: Man Makers

    Return the rocks
    Back to the “flag”

    COT
    Gnarly Nutria reminder 7/19 @ 6pm
    Continued prayers for Boo Boo and his M, as well as Tenderloin
    Thanksgiving for Charmin getting his new ride

    Gratitude for myself and my M, today is our 20yr anniversary of the day we met

    I have a feeling that those in the gloom are not going to poker, and those going to poker were not in the gloom…

    Thanks for letting me LEAD!

  • Some ran, some stretched, some did knees over toes – from Hokie

    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

  • 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 x13

    Main 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 75

    Fun times:
    Red Light/Green Light game
    Then 7 min of Mary.
    COT

  • Not A Licensed Professional – from Pool Boy

    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!