2 pax along with YHC braved the elements and posted to the milestone marsh on windy chilly morning to start the week off.
Pull-ups at the playground, then mosey to the lakefront stopping at several intersections for some additional exercises.
Hit the seas all for 3 sets of Bulgarian split squats and derkins.
Mosey back to the marsh to circle up for cot.
We know it, and love it. It has history, nostalgia, good memories of childhood or yesterday. We may have had our first illegal drink or magazine here. It’s been in epic movies like Heathers, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and Clerks. But we didn’t go to 7-11 today, the 7’s and 11’s came to us. .
Conditions:
WU: 37, feels like 31, no wind thank the Lord
Warm up:
x10 IC SSH, Toe Touches, Wind Mills, Butt Kicks, High Knees, Arm Circles (F/B)
Thang: 7-11
7’s Pull ups, Merkins at the playground
7’s Mosey to Lakefront stopping at intersections for Squat, Plank Jack
11’s at the wall. Irkins, Freak nasty, high skip
11’s at Rips: Calf Raises, Rocky Balboa’s on stairs
7’s Mosey back via Noah’s Ark, stop at intersections for LBC/ Wife Pleasers.
Mary LBC x 10 IC
Count, Name, Hammer prayed us out.
Announcements: Krazy Ivan Feb 8th. Run Cajun Run Feb 1st. Get your teams together.
Nake Man Moleskin:
Great conversation with Hammer as always. YHC was sore from last weeks beatdowns, so we took it easy today. The only man on the lakefront happened to walk by during wife pleasers – hope it made his day.
YHC felt the need to work off some Holiday calories after a week of Big meals, late nights, desserts, beer, wine, and cocktails. The holidays—YHC enjoyed a bit of it all, and they’re not over yet. But, alas, it was time to get back to work, including “work in the gloom”
After a brief warmup, YHC led the pax through a benchmark beatdown that was intended to be reminiscent of the origins of the milestone marsh- started by butt splice.
One minute of AMRAP merkins.
One minute of AMRAP big boy Sit-ups,
1 mile timed run down to the lakefront’s sea wall and back. (Hence the moniker, milestone marsh)
Back at the AO, it was time for 3-6-9. Thank you shooter.
Pull-ups, burpees, merkins. 4 sets total.
Close out by heading to center court for some mary.
cot and thanks to Akbar for praying us out.
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
Arrived at the Marsh to no fanfare but thankfully the previous day Waterpik had DM letting the YHC know he would be there.. So shortly after walking around the court sure enough out of the darkness Waterpik arrived and following brief chatter the clock struck 515…
Warmup
All 12IC Grass grabbers, Windmills, Good mornings, SSH, Arm circles and Cherry Pickers.. Followed by a warmup mosey around the block..
Thang was simply 3..6..9..12
12 rounds of 3 pull-ups. 6 Burpee’s and 12 Merkins breaking at round 4, 8 and 12. Ran
around the block stopping for 12 squats 2x..
Finished on time and closed with prayers for the Tornado victims and their families!!
Appreciate the post Pik and till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!
4 at the Marsh today for some ladders. An unusually quiet Bushwacker shuffled up to center court looking half asleep and frozen. Conditions were clear, cold, and delightful.
Warm Up: SSH IC 20, Grass Grabbers, Self-Love, Imperial Walkers, Butt Kicks, Arm Circles F/B IC x10. 5 & 10 Merkins, 5 Air Squat Presses OYO
Thang:
Mosey the big block to the Lakefront for stargazing, then to the Wall, Rips, and back up Noah’s Ark. Climbing the ladder along the way from 5 reps to 25 reps in 5’s. Merkin/Air Squat Press to the Lakefront Wall. Irkins/LBC’s at the wall. Calf Raises/ Supermans at Rips.
Descending Merkin/Air Squat Press in reps of 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 on the mosey up Noah’s Ark to the Marsh. Irkins IC x20 on the picnic tables.
Mary: LBC IC x20, Leg Raises IC x10
Announcements: Firefighter challenge Dec 11; Nightmare before Christmas Dec 12. Braveheart screening at Whackers 12/16 5:30
COT: YHC prayed us with thoughts of Hope for the week.
Thanks for letting me lead guys! Akbar
4 HIM at the Marsh today. Mumblechatter was all about Goose’s beatdown and the pain he brought to all. JV And YHC were sore from head to toe.
Conditions: 67 and misty
Warm Up: IW, Grass Grabbers, SSH, Butt Kicks, Self-Love x10
Thang: Slow tempo with focus on form. A beatdown made for the king of form himself, Waterpik. 3 exercises: Block row, goblet squat, merkin.
Block row and goblet squat at one end of the court, run to the other end perform 1 merkin. Perform 1 rep each, and add 1 each round. Rinse and repeat until time runs out. If form is compromised, stay at that number or decrease reps.
Slow jams accompanied us to keep the pace.
Metallica: Fade to Black
Foghat: Slow Ride
Twisted Sister: The Price
Deep Purple: Perfect Strangers
Puddle of Mudd: Blurry
Ozzy Osbourne: Dairy of a Madman
Dokken: Alone Again
Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
Pearl Jam: Black
Mary: Leg raises, hello dolly, Little Manny Crunches x10
COT: Jose prayed us out with thanks for the F3 brotherhood and how it changed his life physically and mentally.
Announcements
Turkey Trot Thanksgiving Day in Covington. 4-5 are hard commits. Sign up here if you want to join. https://solerssports.raceentry.com/races/san-antonio-food-bank-turkey-trot-/2021/register
NMM
Great to see Jose 10k out again with the school break. Waterpik came running in hot after being greeted by 2 dogs on his typical run to the AO. The dogs circled back around and hung out with us for a while, racking JV at one point. Rep counts were 17-20 before calling time. No clean up required this gloom, the playground was in good shape.
Til next gloom, Akbar
Simple beatdown at the Marsh this past Monday, the ol’ Walls of Jericho. But these were not the insurmountable, Grundyesque walls of old (which featured bear crawls halfway up the Gipper garage, sprints, and other such nonsense). No, we opted for much shorter walls – Steve-size walls. And good thing, too, we didn’t want to scare away the FNG that JV brought out.
Warmorama: IW’s, windmills, seal jacks, arm circles, cherry pickers, butt kicks, all around 15x IC.
Then a short mosey over to the Treen Center to get cracking on those walls. Seven reps of seven exercises, followed by a lap around the building. Seven times. The exercises were:
7 burpees
7 sit-ups
7 jump squats
7 t merkins
7 leg raises
7 smks
7 wide arm merkins
Finished all 7 rounds and headed back to the court for one final set of each (OCD kicked in and I couldn’t leave the final count at 49 for each of these, had to bump it up to 50).
COT and naming of our FNG, which was maybe the most painful naming in memory. But welcome, nonetheless, Wrestlemania™! It was great to have a new face out at the Marsh and we look forward to seeing you Saturday. And t-claps to JV for the EH. Thank you men for posting and getting me out there, it always feels good to start the week at the Marsh with you guys.
Brisk 45 degree temps greeted the Pax at the milestone marsh. Speaking of pax there was a mix of old faces (Bushwacker) and new faces (fletch) who showed up for the beatdown. It was good to see fletch out there making his first post to the marsh. And Bushwacker’s return visit reminded us how much we miss his constant chatter throughout the entirety of the
Workout. His stories and commentary were out in full force as were his wardrobe (beanie hat, his trusty sweatshirt and I think he even dragged his bed comforter out there to keep warm. All joking aside , please grace us with your presence more, mr fire fighter.
Thang was 4 corners, then mary.
Men, have a great week! Let’s all try to be the best version of ourselves this week.
Pik
YHC planned a coupon workout for this Gloom that would see the likes of 5 PAX.. Thank you to Hogsbreath for today’s title, but know gentlemen I have selected with great thought your Addams family names..
We started off with the warmup consisting of 10IC, some 15IC as well as 20IC mixture of Grass grabbers, Torso twists, SSH, Butt kicks, Imperial walkers, Hillbillies and Cherry Pickers..
Our cast members of the day included Hogsbeath (Gomez).. The Stache is golden and Bushwacker is sure to be jealous of how you rock it.. Then there is Akbar (Uncle Fester) wide eyed and refreshed returning from a trip with the family to VA.. Followed by JV (Pugsley) mostly for being the young chap at this mornings AO, but also seems like an individual who might have aggravated a sibling a time or two in his past… Next we have Waterpik (Cousin ITT), now I know there may be some confusion on this one, so let me explain. Last Thursday at the Scramble YHC had noticed Waterpik had not seen the barber in awhile, so much so that at the Mothership Saturday YHC noticed right away that his ears had been pulled back from a trim.. Now it is only fitting that I name myself (Lurch) simply because it was my duty to lead these men this morning..
Workout consisted of coupon Work starting out on the court and at the playground. Each PAX performed Squat thrusters while all did 8 pull-ups. Took to the street carrying coupons along the way alternating sprints, shuffles, back pedals and skips as we made our journey towards the lakefront stopping at each stop sign for called exercise. PAX without coupon did called core work while the PAX with coupon did stated rep count of called exercise. Coupon work consisted of shoulder presses, Block burpees, Kettle swings, One arm alternating kettle swings (which Gomez demonstrated perfectly in rhythm), Curls and cross arm block squats.. I realize there is another name but cannot think of it at the moment..Core work was plank, chillcut plank, Little Manny crunches, leg lifts, hello Dollies and flutter kicks..
Arrived back right on time for count, name and COT…
Appreciate the lead and follow gentlemen and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!
