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  • Cool Cardio at the Mothership – from Fracsac

    YHC took the Q at the Mothership knowing it was going to be a cold and miserable morning.
    With a brief disclaimer given, 6 pax headed to the peristyle. Bogey, Catfish, Triple Shift, PVC and YHC circled up for the Warmup.

    SSH, GG, and Hillbilly’s followed by a mosey to the Storyland entrance. Finished with some arm circles with Moroccan Night Club where dancing was enjoyed by all!

    EMOM x 5 With 10 burpees (50)

    The Motivator!

    Stations:
    10 cleans with Sweetness aka 60 lb sandbag(timer)
    Derkins – AMRAP
    Big boi sit ups – AMRAP
    Jump rope – AMRAP
    SSH – AMRAP
    Step ups – AMRAP

    EMOM x 5 With 10 burpees (50 more)

    Mosey to the big lawn for some more fun with sweetness. Pax helped to make this really suck:
    Plank up and pull sandbag thru all pax and back, last pax bear crawls to the end. Rinse and Repeat.

    Embrace the suck: 7 SSH, 7 Merkins, 7 Bobby Hurleys over and over for 3 minutes.

    Finish off with some Mary with a couple rounds of Burpees sprinkled in to hit 120 total.

    Back to flags for COT

    We were warm and far from miserable at the end. Thanks for posting with me.

    There was supposed to be a down range Pax, but not this day.

    SYITG

  • It Was A Painful Morning – from Fast Tax

    Saturday, March 5, 2022
    It had been almost a year since YHC Q’d Mothership so I was rather looking forward to it…at least Friday evening. After a long night entertaining the relatives and drinking waaayyyy too much wine, I finally hit the bed sometime around 1 or 2am. Needless to say, when the alarm went off at 6:00, I knew it was going to be a very painful morning. Nevertheless, Tax Credit and I managed to get there just in time.

    After disclaimer was given, 8 Pax moseyed to the parking lot for some warmups consisting of SSH, Abe Vigodas, Nancy Kerrigans, and Hairy Rockettes. YHC’s inability to do the left side of the Nancy Kerrigans did not escape the attention/commentary of those in attendance…

    Unwilling to jump right into the highly anticipated main event, YHC kicked things off with 50 ish yards of Welsh Dragons.
    Welsh Dragons: While remaining in plank position, PAX bear crawls forward 5 yds, does 1 merkin, 1 plank jack, and tap the BACK of each shoulder 1 time. Repeat adding 1 rep to each exercise each 5 yds – bear crawl forward 5 yds, do 2 merkins, 2 plank jacks, 2 sets of back of shoulder taps… etc. We continued until we got to 10 reps each (I think), holding plank for rest of PAX to finish.

    Next bit of fun was the Indian Crab Walk Snake with a crabby wife pleaser twist at the end.
    Indian Crab Walk Snake: While lined up on your six doing LBCs, the guy in the back crabwalks to the front, weaving in and out of the PAX as he makes his way to the front where he performs two crabby wife pleaser merkins. As each PAX makes it to the front, the guy in back starts, at least in theory…It seems this proved too difficult b/c when YHC got to the front and looked back, there were at least three crabs heading his way.

    With time to spare, YHC thought Indian Rabbit Hop , sure, why not…
    Indian Rabbit Hop: PAX lines up, face down in plank position, all facing left with 2-3 feet between PAX. Last man broad-jumps over the planking PAX to the head of the line, Indian Run style. We continued cycling through until Q said stop.
    After retrieving his balls and cones, and dishing out a few penalty burpees, we headed to the Great Lawn for BATTLE FRISBURPEE.
    After a quick recap of the rules for PAX in attendance, we divvied up into teams and began to battle.

    Team 1 (black shirts): Almonaster, Tax Credit, Willie, War Eagle
    Team 2 (non-black shirts): Boo-Boo, Fast Tax, King-Kong, Mahatma

    The battle was hard fought and close…ish. Several PAX took advantage of the “last one touched” rule to strategically hit members of the opposing team that guarded too closely (mostly YHC), forcing them to stop and do 3 burpees. Almonaster learned (repeatedly) that you can be hit by the Baller even if you aren’t holding the Frisbee. Meanwhile, more than once, War Eagle’s demonstration of full-contact Frisburpee in a prior game was revisited on him and his teammates.

    Even though YHC’s referee skills maintained a fair and level playing field, Team 2’s victory was decisive with a final score of 6 to 2.

    With game over we headed to COT for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer.
    Breakfast at Café Navarre followed for most.

    Thanks for the fellowship!
    SYITG

  • 25 was the number of the day! – from Boo-Boo

    Mothership

    It’s no secret, YHC does not like cold weather. Upon arrival, the air temp was 34ish with a stiff north wind bringing windchills to 25 degrees. Days of rain preceding created damp and cold! Catfish shows up in a t-shirt and shorts, but at least he had shoes and socks.

    A short mosey to the parking lot across from the flag for what one would think are normal warmup activities; HOWEVER, choosing to forego Moroccan Nightclubs during arm warmups brought us to what only YHC can describe as near mutiny. Therefore, Moroccan Nightclubs were completed out of order, which barely fixed the problem.

    After the warmup debacle, PAX moseyed to NOMA for the following:

    25 merkins, mosey around NOMA x4

    Plank Jack waiting for 6

    25 X-factors (2 is 1) mosey halfway around NOMA x4

    Plank Jack waiting for 6

    Next a mosey to the Children’s Museum to take advantage of the coupons. Three rounds of the following were completed:

    25 triceps extension/chest press
    50 yards, 10 mountain climbers (2 is 1), and back

    25 squat, curl
    50 yards, 10 mountain climbers (2 is 1), and back

    25 rows
    50 yards, 10 mountain climbers (2 is 1), and back

    Coupons returned and mosey back to the flag for some Mary and a mosey around the parking lot to give us 3 miles towards RCR.

    COT and coffeteria followed.

    It is always a privilege to lead a group of leaders. And a special thanks to Catfish for pushing me to commit to a Mothership Q. It was good to be back!

    #Mothership #Boo-Boo#Hokie #Catfish #Snooze #Fracsac #Gabrielle

  • Dough Nguyener Beatdown of the week – from Hokie

    The slacker Q was moving slow and arrived at 6:31 and was grateful to Catfish for not cheating the Pax out of any of their workout

    The warmup included 8 count body builders, SSH, grass grabbers, Imperial Walkers & Ascending Testicles

    1st round of the workout
    10 burpees, run from pavilion to RR tracks & back
    100 SSH, run from pavilion to RR tracks & back and circle the six

    During round 1 the Q notices two pax were unable to participate in the runs so a quick modification was made. For all the following rounds, the non-runners would mosey the great lawn and the runs to RR tracks for remaining Pax were changed as follows

    Round 2
    10 burpees, run from pavilion to Cafe du Monde & back
    100 imperial walkers , run from pavilion to Cafe du Monde & back and circle the six

    Round 3
    10 burpees, run backwards across great lawn & back
    100 lunges , run backwards across great lawn & back and circle the six

    Round 4
    10 burpees, run around great lawn & back
    100 Merkins , run around great lawn & back and circle the six

    Round 5
    10 burpees, run around great lawn stopping for 10 burpees in each corner

    Return to flag for COT

    CRAZY IVAN
    RUN CAJUN RUN

    Prayers – Frac’s brother in law passed away at 45 after a stroke. Keep Frac’s sister, Jo, in our prayers.

    After 7 Pax for the workout, we had 8 at Cafe Navarre for Dough Nguyener, Thumb War’s in-laws, King Cake

    Thank you for opportunity to lead, sorry for being a slacker … reminder I was 1 minute late for the start … Q’s should post 15 minutes early! I apologize

  • All Day Baby……#2 – from Mahatma

    All Day Baby…..(it may take that long to read this thing)
    There is so much diversity in our Pax that if you stick around long enough you’ll learn something not only about various beatdowns but yourself as well!

    This leads us to the gloom of today…..
    YHC had an idea for incorporating a recent Rudy based beatdown and lore from recent grow rucks (and past military experiences) all designed to make a physically and mentally uncomfortable environment while pushing beyond a comfort zone.

    Short disclaimer then mosey to the great lawn circle up for a quick warm up of SSH, windmills, grass grabers, side lunges and self love.

    Then line up for craw-daddy’s where you start in a plank position bar crawl approx 10 yds perform 2 merkins and 2 double unders bear crawl another 10 yds then 4 and 4, bc then 6 and 6, bc then 8 and 8 now hold plank for the 6.

    We are getting warm now! Oh look hear 5 blocks set up in a line – all pax line up in plank position shoulder to shoulder on the left of the blocks now side step plank across and over until the last pax completes the line HOLD plank once complete we went back the other direction!

    Now warmed up the morning mission is given out pax divided into 4 groups 3 of 3 and 1 of 4 (Diddy Kong was the muscle of this group). Each group was to carry a block overhead at all time – if for any reason the block was lowered below eye level then the that team of pax had to do 3 burpees with instructions given we headed out for our objective – YHC left some additional blocks by the Stomp’s starting point to be retrieved – along the way YHC would have the groups stop for some varied exercises (blocks must be maintained in the overhead position). See a need for some change at some point YHC had PAX circle up and instructed that the blocks over head could be lowered yet there was some hesitancy by a few pax that thoughts this might be some evil trick to have them do burpees – not the case yet Rudy even requested YHC to make some ridiculous statement “Simon Says”. It was left up to his judgement to follow or not. From here we were close to a 1/2 point – so we pushed on – Once at the Stomp teams now retrieved 2 additional blocks that had to be farmer carried back with 1 Pax still keeping the other block over head. YHC realized he under estimated the strength of Vagabond and his gang as they seemingly toyed with their overhead block holding it with one hand while the rest of us grunted and mentally pushed through YET karma had her way when during an exchange their block dropped and so did they giving 3 punish burpees.

    As we were 1/2 way back Snooze all of as sudden remembered he had leave 15 minutes early putting his team of YHC and Frac to ponder the thought of carrying the blocks solo! Well YHC being selfish attempted to push the pace apparently giving the impression he was looking past his teammate Frac but with all the chirping from the normal suspects of Bogy and Rudy (maybe War Eagle too but he often got sidetracked as many millennials do looking at text on his phone while he was supposed to be working). Anyway YHC knew Fracs strength to carry on!

    Back at the great lawn we finished the adventure with some individual block exercises (and complaining) closing with some more block over block plank trains and 10 man makers.

    As we returned to the flag YHC requested the blocks be returned to his truck where Rudy was defiant until he he heard “Simon Says”.

    COT – prayers of gratitude and humility for serving others. Also recognizing the strength of joy in others as Tool is prepping for an 18 year birthday celebration for Speed-Racer.

    God Bless

  • Speed Walker – from MacGyver

    7 PAX showed up Saturday morning to ring in a new year the only way we know how, with a fun and relaxed get together.

    We all got together at the flag and started Warmups, Abe Vigotas x10 Imperial Walkers x 12 Side Straddle Hops x22.

    Then we Indian ran to the front of the Art Museum for AYOP Burpies. Time limit was set by how fast Q could finish theirs.

    We then mozed over to the far side of Big lake for more AYOP Burpies, after that we finished the lake loop at the bridge and did another set of AYOP Burpies.

    At this point burpies and running were old news, and we wanted to keep things interesting so naturally we ran again to the back of the museum for relaxing break of 25x donkey kicks on the wall. After that we ran back towards the Great Lawn stopping at a garden bed for Dips X 12, Bulgarian slow squats X 12, dips X 12, squatsX 20, LBC X22, and Flutter Kicks X22.

    We then finished our trip over to the Great Lawn for a little bit of team work, everyone picked a misery buddy, then one man did Buripes while the other bear Crawled across the field. When the Bear Crawler finished they started Buripes and their buddy started to bear crawl across the field to reunite the pack. Once we were grouped up again we did a murkin ring of fire, followed by Crunchy Frogsx22 Dr. W’s X ( 12 I think) Scissor kicks x22 and Big Boy sit-ups X10. After that we mosied back to the flag for one last set of Buripes everyone was too tired for, then COT

    The following evening Q remembered to write their First BB, in doing so they are pretty sure the missed 1-2 pax who attended and are definitely sure they missed a few exercises and messed up some of the counts, but I guess that better BB’s will come with experience.

  • Christmas Coal-Hauling (Mothership 2021-12-25) – from Catfish

    Conditions – Rather Warm for Christmas Day

    The Thang

    A nice little F3 / Stone Foundation beatdown with Wyldcat representing for the ladies this morning.

    Quick Mosey over to the parking lot for a warmup:

    Abe Vigodas x 10 (in cadence)
    Grass Grabber x 10 (in cadence)
    Imperial Squat Walkers x 20 (in cadence)
    8-Counts x 20 (in cadence)
    Peter Parker Peters x 20 (in cadence)
    Burpees x 5 OYO

    Went and looked under the trees around the fountain to see if Santa left any gifts there. Found some lumps of coal (rocks). Grabbed a few and circled up under the trees for:

    Curls x 15 (in cadence)
    Shoulder Press x 15 (in cadence)
    Curls x 15 (in cadence)
    Chest Press x 15 (in cadence)
    Flutter Kicks x 15 (in cadence)
    Curls x 15 (in cadence)

    Moseyed to the benches at the corner for:

    Low slow Bulgarians x 15 (in cadence)
    Derkins x 15 (in cadence)
    Low slow Bulgarians other leg (in cadence)
    Dips x 15 (in cadence)

    Moseyed to back of museum for:

    Donkey Kicks x 15 (in cadence)

    Moseyed to the museum and grabbed some stairs for:

    Calf Raises x 20 (in cadence)
    Side leg raises x 15 (in cadence)
    Side leg raises (other leg) x 15 (in cadence)
    Calf Raises x 20 (in cadence)

    Front of museum for 4x jack webs, starting at eight, adding four merks each round. Got up to 20.

    Back to flag zone for CoT.

  • Baywatch and his annoying bearcrawls…ugh – from Baywatch

    13 PAX joined yours truly on a fine, balmy December morn to get after it at the mother of all AOs…Mothership. It was a chattery bunch at first but that chatter soon turned to huffing and puffing. A disclaimer was given and we moseyed to the peristyle for the warmup:

    1. Arm circles F/B 15 IC
    2. SSH 30 IC
    3. Monkey Merkins 15 IC
    4. Imperial Walkers 20 IC
    5. Hillbillies 20 IC
    6. Peter Parkers 15 IC
    7. Parker Peters 15 IC

    Next came the fun. It’s not a true Baywatch Q without some bear crawls. So, we proceeded to the corner of the great lawn to begin. The thang:

    1st corner: Dying Cockroaches 25 IC
    Run to next corner
    2nd corner: 25 leg raises IC
    Bear crawl to next corner
    3rd corner: 25 flutter kicks IC
    Run to next corner
    4th corner: 25 LBCs IC
    Bear crawl back to start…oh what fun!

    Next we headed over to the parking lot for some modified suicides. The 4 suicide markers were the handicap crosswalks (about 80-90 yards to the last crosswalk marker). We started at the baseline and crab walked to the first marker and returned. Do 5 burpees. Lungewalk to the second marker and back. Do 5 burpees. Hi knee skips to the third marker and back. Do 5 burpees. Finally, run to the end and back. Do 5 burpees.

    Now that the group was less chatty, we did an Indian run over to the fountain in front of the art museum for some Aiken legs. No rest in between– 20 Squats, 20 Box Jumps, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Split Jacks (10 each leg forward). With that completed, we did an Indian run back to the peristyle to close it out with some ab work. We circled up and did 20 reps IC of penguins, slow wife pleasers, LBTs, and a 6-inches variation exercise by Fracsac that was quite unpleasant. With the clock striking 7:15, we headed back to the flag to close it out with a COT.