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  • A half of a bottle of Caribbean Hot Sauce for two scrambled eggs? – from Fletch

    As for the norm, I showed up and there was Jose and Moby doing their normal prethang together. Fast pace walk with good conversation. I jumped in to join in the rant a little. Einstein joined then came Darkwing.
    Warm-ups: of course, we’re old, we need extra stretches to get the body going.
    First thing: 11’s on the ramp. Merkins on the top, squats on the bottom. Vary how you go up and down the ramp. About halfway through, Jose needed a break. He almost splashed merlot. That’s when we heard about his dinner last night. On his journey to lose weight for the Beast, he decided to eat a healthy dinner of 2 scrambled eggs. He took out his Caribbean hot sauce, opened the top, turn it over to splash a little of hot sauce, he accidentally poured half the hot sauce onto his eggs. A normal, intelligent man would have simply made two new eggs. Did Jose do that? Nope, the goofball didn’t want to waste the foreign hot sauce. After dinner, he proceeded to have a night filled with Tums and Pepto.
    After the 11’s, bear crawls came next. 1/3 of the parking lot, normal bear crawls, 1/3 crawl to the left, 1/3 crawl to the right the length of the parking lot. Then it was time for core: leg lifts, big boys, penguins, box cutters, wife pleasers. Then to the stairs, 2 calf raises each step to the bottom, 20 merkins, run across the parking lot, back to the stairs for 2 calf raises back up. COT, prayers for the poor girl who lost her mother and younger sister yesterday, and for Bird’s family

  • Tabata timer please!! – from Shooter

    Big thanks to Moby for having the Tabata timer available this gloom as the YHC came less prepared.. 6 PAX converged on the corner by the gravel pit after warmups of 20IC/10IC Imperial walkers, Hillbillies, SSH, Cherry pickers, Arm circles, Good mornings and Mummy kicks..

    30 secs work, 20 secs rest, 4 rounds of each and loops around the rail.. Rope, one arm kettle swings, curls, chest press, squat thrusters and Shoulder press..

    Thanks to Hammer for COT and the headlock for 5 AM Spartan at the Scramble…

    Appreciate the post gentlemen and until the next Gloom 👊🏼👍🏼✌🏼!!!

  • 4 “Core”ners – from Jose10k

    3 HIMS took the red pill this morning to better ourselves. The Q was open, so I decided to take it and focus on core today. Warm-ups: The ususal.
    The thang: 4 “Core”ners. We did a series of core exercises at each corner. Penquins, flutter kicks, lbcs, big boy sit ups, and off course wife pleasers (with a fun extra twist). Lt. Dan to the next corner. Finished off with 3 minutes of deep stretches. COT, Moby prayed us out the intentions for Bird and his family with the loss of his first cousin. One other intention: we get to give DarkWing respect starting tomorrow, he’s officially turning 50!

  • Coupons & Sweat at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Good group of seven today at The Gipper
    Warmup: toe touch, side straddle hops, arm circles, imperial walkers, scissors, hillbillies, hi jack hi jills, smurf jacks, etc.
    Thang: 3 sets of coupon work interspersed with downtown trapezoid runs.
    Fletch prayed us out.

  • TIL YOU cant no more – from Mobydick

    Every time I Q I am concerned this 74 yo isn’t going to give the pax their money’s worth. Having been routinely beat down to MY limit by you young punks. So I came up with a plan. After a rather routine warm up of SSH Arm circles toe touches torso twists scissors hops butt kicks etc etc I laid out a simple plan. Each pax was to do each exercise to his limit. Til YOU can’t do any more. That was a short list. Freak Nasty Squats Leg Lifts Merkins. All done slow and complete without concern for count just til there wasn’t any thing left. In between each set of those was a lap. The thang went to 3 sets of limits each a little shorter than the last. Closed out with stretches COT and a prayer of gratitude for the strength we each found with in ourselves.

  • It’s good to be back with the Gipper’s!! – from Shooter

    With the summer season here and the opportunity to post again at the Gipper.
    YHC figured the best way to do it would be to take the Q. Jose 10k head locked YHC for the pre-miler but you better not be on time or your late is what I gather as he was already moseying when I arrived. Stated a quick GM and hello to Moby while he was planting the flag and off I went to try and catch Mr. Anderson.. Before the turning point joined up with Jose 10k and returned to the AO with the PAX now at 4. Jumped into our warmup of 15IC Imperial walkers, Hillbillies, SSH, Grass grabbers, Toe Touches, Cherry pickers, front claps. 10 OYO arm circles forward and reverse and finish with selflove..
    Plan was to touch all the memorable spots around on Covington with some reps along the way. First stop SB admin building with a series of hop scotch and back pedal, 30-40% sprints and Carioca back 2x, leg lunge 2 parking spots and bunny hop 2 R/R till the end.. Moseyed to the flag pole for AL Gore and some George Thourogoods while we completed a ring to 5 of 8 count bodybuilders. Moseyed to the backside of Justice center.. Partner 1 did stated exercise with the benches while Partner 2 moseyed up the steps and completed a Burpee. 2 rounds each of jump overs, Freak Nasties and bench Mountain climbers. Moseyed to the front of Justice center for step ups P1 and P2 up the steps for choice of 5 count Merkins 2x.. Time of 10 mins remaining had to make sure to get in the Rocks so moseyed over and instructed medium rock or the option of a cylinder block. Overhead press 20x, Curls 20x, Rows 20x and Chest press 2x 40 reps each.. Returned coupons and moseyed back for 3 mins of Core. LBCs, Flutter kicks and 💯s 100 OYO..

    Appreciate the morning with you gentlemen and prayers extended for intentions of BBQs coworker and the loss of his mother, prayers for Jose 10ks coworkers surgery and prayers for Einstein’s son with the closing of his job at the end of the month and the landing of another to come soon…

    Always enjoy the gloom with you gents and until the next 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!!

  • The Return of Echo India – from Steve

    Man it has been a while. YHC couldn’t remembered exactly when Ei left, partly because even when he still lived here he had stopped posting regularly, was skipping the annual event he started and – maybe most heartbreaking of all – had ceased all GroupMe musings like his infamous “No Horses In The Tunnel” post. Despite that, he is a tough man to forget.

    Or is he?

    Much to Ei’s chagrin, when he pulled in to the Gipper and enthusiastically greeted Moby after a three year absence, Moby couldn’t remember who the hell he was. Though, as Moby offered in consolation (pointing at me): “Hey, I can barely remember that little shit.” Fair enough – us Mandevilleans have not done such a great job posting to the Covington (or Slidell!) AO’s. Hoping that changes now that Summer is here and some of us are no longer beholden to our kids’ school schedules.

    Anyhow, it was good to have Ei’s wit and energy back in the Pax and, once Legal, BBQ, and DarkWing Duck rolled in, we got to it.

    YHC had the day before received the Nation’s email about the tragic passing of Jason Richard, aka “Falcon” (of the St. Louis – Mermemac region), father to four and husband to a wife who has been battling cancer. He was an FNG who collapsed on his first workout just as the pax were naming him.

    So in his honor, we stuck together and performed “The Falcon 026”:

    14 SSH’s (IC)
    26 Flying Squirrels
    26 American Hammers (IC)
    26 Lunges
    26 Curls
    One Lap around the depot (approx. 400 meters)
    26 No cheat merkins.
    14 SSH’s (IC)

    BBQ prayed us out with intentions for the Richards family, and gratitude for the return of old friends like EiEi. Good to have you back, brother, even just for a day.

  • 7s at The A1C – from Einstein

    long warmup:
    toe touch, good mornings, grass grabbers, arm circles, soccer foot stretch, swimmers,
    hi jack hi jills, imperial walkers, hillbillies, side straddle hops, etc

    thang;
    line up at the upper deck end zone for sevens, running to each of the four corners for:
    4×7 burpees
    4X14 flutter kicks
    4×21 merkins
    4×28 squats
    4×21 dips
    4×14 crunches
    4×7 backward lunges
    ran about a total of 12 football fields
    10 star jacks before calling time

    chatter was good
    all worked up a sweat
    DarkWingDuck prayed us out

  • A motivated James Bond coupon – from Hogs Breath

    Began with a warm-up. Abe Vigoda arm circle, self love, Einstein’s theory of relativity, world’s greatest, and a new one Inca gods.

    We began with a rousing rendition of a motivator. A 10 to 1 SSH beatdown. We began with a full SSH, star hop, leg only, and a bunny hop. Much to Jose’s delight, the balls of our feet and our calves were aching…

    The thang

    Next up was some Slidell [the 007]love. YHC saw an article from “The Art of Manliness” about a James Bond workout. Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond series of books, described the famous spy’s workout routine in one of his books. The article even had a nice graphic of a tuxedo’d James Bond performing various exercises. The beatdown began with 20 slow count Merkins. This is then followed up by some leg levers and grass grabbers. And ending with freak nastys. This was a great rendition, especially since the Q was visiting from the 007 AO!

    Next up was a coupon walk and the Deck of Death. One pax would walk with the coupon, while other pax drew a card and performed the exercise listed. Once the coupon was dropped everybody else sprinted to said coupon. The pax then rotated out and begin again.

    Next step was a hot potato, swapping the coupon back-and-forth while all pax went the stairwells and did calf raises.

    Ended with a few minutes of a circle of trust.

    A great Motivated way to begin our Friday!

  • MotherF**ker Jones – from Jose10k

    Let’s see, 77 degrees outside with a nice breeze that broke up the humidity. 4 HIMs took the red pill this morning. The keys to the bus were available and YHC picked them up. After running at the Scramble yesterday, I honestly had no clue what to do. I decided to utilize the outside of the A1C this morning. After a series of warm-ups, we moseyed to the outside of the parking garage where there are concrete seats. We did a series of exercises, followed by a lap around the entire parking garage. We did bulgarian split squats, regular squats, wife pleasers, another core exercise, freak nasties, and derkins. We successfully completed 3 rounds of that. We then did Lt. Dan up the parking garage, moseyed the straight away, then Lt. Dan up the next level to the top. We circled up to finish up with some deep stretches to a count to 10 in a different foreign language including German, French, Spanish, Pig Latin, Roman numerals, and binary.
    COT: Moby prayed us out. Reminder: Mother’s Day is this weekend. And our own DarkWing Duck will celebrate his 18th wedding anniversary on Sunday as well. TCLAPS to him and his M.
    Double Q tomorrow from Steve and Bushwacker. I even EHd JV to do the prethang tomorrow.

    Spartan Beast Race in October, see Hammer for the information. Join the group of crazy men who are already doing some insane workouts to prepare for this event.
    Thank y’all for letting me lead, and thanks for reading this bb.
    Oh Shooter, I noticed no Mandevillians posted today 🙁