Apparently today was YHC’s Maniversary; so to celebrate I have written a lymrick:
I posted in the gloom today for a ruck.
I chose this ’cause I knew running would suck
In total there were 9 runners
1 walker, and 3 ruckers
We are all thankful for F3 getting us unstuck
YHC arrived early to assess the grounds and avoid a train delay. Committed to keeping the PAX off the hill and out of the grass for the most part.
Flag planted by @Fracsac, disclaimer given, mosey halfway to the rocks. Warmup location reminiscent of where @Mahatma took us my first day ever posting 11/28/22.
Warmup included SSH, AV, GG, Arm Circles, Reverse Arm Circles, PP, PP. 10 burpees OYO. No clubbin’ to @Charmin’s dismay.
Mosey to the rock pile. Medium rock selected and head to the parking lot.
Three rounds of A.L.A.R.M.S. ensued (Arms, Legs, Abs, Run, Merkins, SSH):
Round 1
A – 50 curls with rock
L – 50 squats with rock
A – 100 LBCs
R – 250yd run (one PAX brought the rock)
M – 25 merkins
S – 25 SSH
Round 2
A – 50 shoulder press with rock
L – 30 lunges with rock, 2 is 1
A – 100 flutter kicks, 2 is 1
R – 250yd run (one PAX brought the rock)
M – 25 merkins
S – 25 SSH
Round 3
A – 30 triceps with rock
L – 50 calf raises with rock
A – 50 big boy sit-ups
R – 250yd run (one PAX brought the rock)
M – 25 merkins
S – 25 SSH
Return the rocks, penguins, one-legged wife pleasers. Mosey to the flag for CoT.
@Fracsac reminded @Kenna Brah not to forget to set his ALARM in the future. To which @Kenna Brah decided to give YHC an ‘F’ for Q… “F’n A.L.A.R.M.S. Blaring”
Let’s all keep @Macgyver in our thoughts and prayers.
Thanks for posting with me! My 2nd Q and 17th post in 2023!
SYITG!
Pax split into tag teams of 4 and competed to bear crawl pushing two 5 gallon water jugs around the perimeter of the great lawn. Did 100 big bois. Pax choice of exercises with rocks. 6 mins of jump rope.
It’s been 32 days since I turned 55 on December 24th, 2022 and I had the Q for Mothership. With a crazy 27 degrees and super windy, I was humbled to have Rudy, Fracsac, Heisenberg, Catfish and Hokie come out to my workout. I don’t remember my entire workout because it happened 32 days ago, but I do remember going by the Botanical Garden entrance to get out the wind to warm up and then headed to the front of NOMA where I did some sort of routine that involved elevating everyone’s heart rate with body rows, burpees, lunges, merkins, and other exercises. After that, everything gets fuzzy but laughter and mumblechatter were plentiful and in rare form. Thank you for making my Double Nickel Q one to remember….or not.
YHC has Q for 3rd time in rapid succession. Much grumbling ensued. I think I offered a fake promise of No Burpees. But I had every intention of burpeeing through the morning. Disclaimer and head to the field for warm up. Immediately Charmin starts with “Waaah! I want Rocks!” Quick warm up, then time to get busy.
January 23rd. 1st month, 23rd day. what else has those numbers? RIGHT – Dora! Count-off to find your partner, then to the sidelines. 100 burpees, 200 merkins, 300 squats. PAX 2 runs back and forth across the field.
Finished up right on 6am, lets get over to the rocks. Time for…. Yup, another Dora 123! Different partner. 100 Shoulder Presses, 200 Curls, 300 Flutter Kicks. PAX 2 is holding their rock up while PAX1 completes 10/20/30 reps.
Back to the flag with 3 mins to spare for some Mary. PAX disputes that Scantron’s choice of J-Lo counts as Mary, but we did it anyway.
CoT with War Eagle praying us out.
Brisk Mothership morning. 12 PAX in the cool gloom came out to better themselves. YHC wanted to reward them – and what better way than with burpees.
Mosey over to the Peristyle for a quick warm up of some stretching and SSH/IW.
Thing 1: YHC went way back in the backblast archives looking for something new, and found what Reluctant Yankee termed “The Maverick” from July 2015. But – YHC wanted to one-up them. The Maverick was 11s. What one-ups 11s? A larger number. So in honor of the 220th anniversary of Louis XVI’s beheading – we went for 16s.
16 Squat Jumps to start, in the Peristyle. Run to the benches, stopping for 1 Hand Release Merkin on the way. Then 1 Dip. Return for 15/2/2. 14/3/3. You get the idea. That was a gasser… Way to go, SOGO and Mahatma (the early finishers) as they pushed the rest of us through to completion. Spaulding’s form was, as always, impeccable.
YHC was accused of running away, merely because he had to return to his car to get…. The Deck o’ Death. Mosey to the center of the newly-resurrected Great Lawn.
Thing 2: Hearts = Burpees, Diamonds = Squats, Clubs = Sit Ups, Spades = More Hand Release Merkins (Kennah Brah started griping about that early). Meanwhile, because Macgyver refused to pay attention, he drew a 5 burpee penalty while the rest of the PAX waited. Then the cards began. Out of the gate, Squats took the early lead. But then Hearts started showing. Again. And again. Forever it seemed.
20 mins later, 26 cards down, YHC called it – so we could get to the last thing. 12 of 26 cards were BurpeeHearts. Frac reported that we did a total of 91 burpees.
Thing 3: A few rounds of Tyson, with Core exercises. Sprint half-way on the lawn, 10 reps. Sprint to the end, 10 reps, Sprint halfway back, 10 reps, Sprint to the end, 10 reps. Start with V-Ups. YHC instructed PAX who finished first to keep going until the 6 finished 10 reps. Several of the PAX revolted – leading to a 5 Burpee penalty (96 burpees, YHC thought to himself).
Then we did rounds of Freddy Mercury, Wife Pleasers, and Hello Dolly. Heisenberg and Frac TRIED to get additional penalty burpees to hit 100. But YHC would not bite.
7:29 – time to head back to the flag. BUT WAIT: 3 more burpees, just because. 99 burpees total.
COT: Close up with a count-off and name-o-rama. Lots of stuff going on, especially running – Run Cajun Run, Krazy Ivan and City Pork. Several intentions – new life (congrats Disclaimer!) and sad passings. Prayers go with those heading to the next stage of life, and for comfort for those they have left (temporarily).
And prayers for Spaulding’s friend suffering from Shingles. PSA: The shingles vaccine. If you haven’t (looks askance at himself), please get it. It is painful and 100% unnecessary to suffer through. That is all.
YHC warned the PAX that it was going to be a soggy shoe day. The overnight rain came through as expected, and sure enough – the grounds of Okwata were as soggy as I hoped. Much to my surprise, the Lakeview PAX made a strong showing. Perhaps rumors of the collective fear of water are overstated. 530, time to start with our disclaimer (and one last reminder to expect wet shoes) and mosey to get started.
Warmup: after about a 15 yard mosey, warm up with Open the Gate (PAX were quite insistent on Close the Gate as well, which they earned after a 5 burpee “just be quiet” penalty). Some Grass Grabbers, Abe Vigodas, SSH and Imperial Walkers to get the blood moving.
Thing 1: Across the soggy grounds to the Levee. Quadrophelia. Does an Okwata workout really count if you don’t do Quadrophelia? Discuss amongs yourselves.
Thing 2: Mosey 10 yards along the top of the levee. From the way-back-machine, found reference to a Triple Nickel. Lets do it. 5 exercises. Each exercise is 3 sets of 5 reps. Start at the top of the levee – down one side for 1 set, back to the top for 2nd set, down the other side for 3rd set, back to the top to plank and wait. Sit Ups – PAX grumbling that more than their shoes were getting wet. Hand Release Merkins – yup, lets get the front side wet and dirty too. Jump Squats, Dr Ws and wrap up with Carolina Dry Docks.
Thing 3: 4 groups at the House of Pain. Bear Crawl up the levee, 3 burpees, bear crawl back down (timer). Pull Ups, Sit Ups, Hand Release Merkins. Got through 2 cycles. If there was any remaining doubt about shoes – the 6 inch puddle under the pull up bars solved that problem.
Thing 4: Across the street to the planters for a few rounds of RLSU, LLSU, Dips, Box Jumps
COT: Cracklin’, we’ve got your back through prayer and action. QSource on Language, which gave YHC a chance to talk about one of my NY Resolutions: to better watch my own language – not only remove cursing, but also enhance the quality of my language. Speak intentionally, reflect not only the person I am but the person I hope to be.
Thanks for the chance to lead – and trust me, the shoes should be dry by Okwata next week.
Warmorama rappers delight edition except with 51 SSH of course. The Thang; mosey to the backside of the gym, grab some wall, and let the bodies hit the floor! Hold high plank position while the song plays and donkey kick above the line every time you hear the title and Merkin on the count.
Mosey to parking lot in front of gym for Z90s: (traverse a Z shaped course, stopping at each point of the Z for an exercise in honor of those of us who became legal during the 90s, let the drum machine-laden club music rain down on your ear drums—you’re welcome): 4 exercises, 5/10/15/20 reps
Round 1 (bear crawl): burpee, Cracker Jacks (frog>star jump>frog), merkin, plank jacks, mosey to start and plank for (not on!) the six.
Round 2 (crab walk): burpee, air squats, dry docks, Peter Parker
With 5 rounds planned, I introduced the Bolt Birthday Option after round 2: yell, “Happy Birthday” and roll one of two deca dies and let fate decide except “water break” because we r not chicks (numerous exercises followed ranging from 15-30 reps). I’m humbled by how many pax wanted to give me gifts…or perhaps they’d simply had enough Z90s since I heard very little mumblechatter during the rounds.
“Shockingly” the rest of the BD was headed toward endless rolls of the die; time for Rochamburpee (partner up in head to head low plank for 10 rounds of rock, paper, scissor with the loser doing burpees while the winner does merkins with the count being the round number). Some pax made 10 rounds while others were content that it was time to return to the flag for COT. I was humbled and honored to share the gloom with 12 other pax as I complete my 51st trip around the sun with my watch recording an average heart rate more than 100 beats over my age—progress.
Warm-up IC IW x20, Abe Vigoda 15, Grass Grabbers x 15, SSH x 31, Arm Circles x 20, 8-Count Body Builders x 10
The Thangs:
Alternating Lunge Walks/Bear Crawls with five burpees at each of the ten cones for 100 yards
Mosey to locked fence and back to endzone for . . . . .
Death by Burpees – With one-minute rounds we started with one burpee, and added a burpee with each successive minute. The first 5 minutes were almost a waste of time. Minutes 6-10 were a little more exciting as the time available for rest continued to decline. I ran out of time at round 12. I am not sure if anyone made it past round 14. Rudy insisted we complete round 15. Rudy has developed an affinity for burpees.
Back across the field to use up the remaining 10 or so minutes.
LBC, Flutter Kicks, LBT’s, Low Slow Squats, Monkey Humpers, Wife Pleasers, American Hammers and 10 more burpees.
TClaps to Triple Shift for doing much of the above with a sandbag.
I executed approximately 160 burpees bringing my 2023 burpee total to 1400
To assist Frac and me in accomplishing the January ISI goal of 3,100 burpees, I signed up to Q the 385-ish running of the 610 Stomp. I devised a simple algorithm to perform 10 burpees every 6 minutes to keep the math simple. I announced we would run out and back along the Bayou Saint John route, turning around at the 21-minute mark or 5:51. We would perform ten burpees every 6 minutes. So starting at 5:30, the PAX would perform ten burpees at 5:36, 5:42; 5:48, 5:54, 6:00, 6:06; 6:12 for a total of 70 burpees and, time permitting, finish with 10 to seal the deal. We were all in synch at 5:36; then chaos resulted as the lead pack failed to perform the next set at 5:42. Instead, they started the 2nd set of burpees at 5:43. Evidently, the original 610 Stomp used a much more complex algorithm requiring a six-minute and 1-minute timer. So back in the old days, the OG’s would repeat a 6+1 round where they would run for six minutes – burpee/walk for 1 minute, then repeat. I like my Straight-6 method as it allows for more burpees. Next, 610 Q I will hand out cheat sheets to avoid confusion and get the full 80 burpees in the allotted 45 minutes.
