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Tag: Tanked Up

  • 21-15-9 – from Akbar

    YHC had 2 beatdowns in mind and was on the fence about which workout to do all the way to the parking lot. Would it be 21-15-9 or a block grinder? Figuring we’ll have plenty of block work the next month, 21-15-9 it is (with a little block work too).

    WU – 20 x SSH, Grass Grabbers, IW IC; Self-Love x 10 IC

    Thang 1: 21-15-9 reps each set. First 2 exercises are always Merkins and Squats

    Set 1 21 Merkins, 15 Squats, 9 Australian mountain climbers (BTTW position). Mosey to benches at justice center.

    Set 2 Freak Nasty, mosey to next concrete stairs

    Set 3 Sister MC. Bear crawl to top of stairs

    Set 4 Monkey Humpers, run downstairs, back up, lunge walk downstairs, lunge walk up, bear crawl downstairs

    Set 5 Calf Raises, mosey to benches or somewhere for triceps

    Set 6 Freak Nasties

    Thang 2: 21-15-9 block work

    Set 7 21 block rows, 15 curls, 3 dirkins – rinse and repeat for 3 total sets

    Set 8 21 Tricep raises, 15 Chest Presses, 9 Goblet Squats – rinse and repeat for 3 sets

    Recover, back to flag for Mary

    LBC, Hello Dolly, E2k right/left x20; Leg raises x 10

    Workout called, count-o-rama, name-o-rama

    Announcements: Kickball at St Pauls with FIA Thursday. YHC 2 year anniversary Saturday

    Great work today guys, thanks for letting me lead – Akbar

    NMM

    21-15-9 is a standard count for crossfit, and there are many variations. I believe the standard is to do 21/15/9 reps of each exercise AMRAP for time. Russo would know that each of those numbers are divisible by 3, so you could vary by 3 sets of 7 and so on. Too confusing for a guy who can’t even add ISI numbers without a calculator. Great to see Yellow Snow out again for his 1st Gipper beatdown.​

  • DORA and her sister.. – from Shooter

    YHC has a history of bringing coupons to the A1c and today would be no different.
    5 PAX joined at the top of the parking garage for the warmup which consisted of 15IC Cherry Pickers, Arm circles, windmills, Imperial walkers and Grass grabbers.

    PAX dropped below one deck to the FIT sitting with some coupons ready for the taking. Partnered up with a coupon instructions given. DORA 100/200/300
    Squat thrusters, Chest press and curls.
    P1 kept rep count while P2 back pedaled halfway up the ramp and turned and sprinted the remainder. Moseyed down on the return to pickup count. DORAs half sister 50/100/150 Kettle swings, Overhead press and Carolina dry docks or as Akbar calls them Stone Mountains.. This time Carioca up the ramp and Mosey backdown.

    With few minutes to spare returned the coupons to the FITest of resting places and back up too for some Mary. 20IC 💯s, leg raises and hands to heels..

    Appreciate you men following my lead and 👏🏼 to Moby for closing us out in prayer.

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • Tour De Covington – from Einstein

    Short disclaimer…

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Good Mornings, Hill Billys, Shoulder Shrugs, Imperial Walkers, Swimmers, Grass Grabbers, Seal Jacks

    Thang:
    We did various and sundry (excuse the tautology) exercises, all over town

    The PAX: Akbar, Barely Legal, BBQ, Bean, Einstein, MobyDick, Shooter, Tanked-Up, The Hammer, Turbo-Dog

    Count-o-rama, Barely Legal leads us out with a motivating prayer.

    Thanks guys. Always extremely decent of you letting me lead.

  • MISL in each corner and multiplier plus a bonus round – from BBQ

    Another beautiful morning for a beat down. A longer warm up like Einstein does and with me being a respect respect Q also. Self love, Arm circles, Swimmers, Boxers, Grass Grabbers, Willie Mays ( picked up in St Louis ), Mountain Climbers, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters, Merkins, SS Hops and at least two others I do not remember. The top deck of A1C was used for four corners of different exercises. Each corner exercise increased by 5 each round. Corner 1 started with 10 Merkins, corner 2 with 15 imperial walkers, corner 3 with 20 squats and corner 4 with 25 LBC’s. 4 rounds were completed. A bonus round was added with an exercise selected by 4 in the beat down. Hogs Breath picked the number at it was 17. He picked hand release Merkins. Hammer picked Mike Tysons. I have forgot the other 2. In between 2 of the 4 corners we ran alternating doing every other line touches , every other line jumps and back pedals. We prayed out to end another beautiful morning.

  • Chi Chi Ah Ah – from Jose10k

    Friday the 13th, how would I create a beatdown for this historic Friday. Thoughts were bounding around my head all day. I was excited after dropping off my daughter to start planning, however, my nephew blew up my phone with countless Algebra 3 questions late into the night. Still, I had to create something. Then I worried that the resident 80s/90s pop culture buff (Hammer) would find countless holes in my movie references. Too much pressure on YHC, so I limped in with a simple version of a Friday the 13th beatdown. All exercises were in reps of 13. Maybe next time.
    Warm-ups: ssh, torso twists, grass grabbers, arm circles, shoulder presses
    The thang: 4 corners each corner reps of 13, first round was merkins with simple jog between corners, then jump squats with back paddle half way, sprint the other half. Then a Waterpik fav, bear crawl the length of the parking garage with a merkin at each painted line. Lunge walk back. Moseyed to the rock garden for some coupon work. Curls for the girls, then rows, squats and kettle bell swings. Moseyed back. Then 5 calf raises each step all the way up, followed up with Mary. COT with Legal praying us out. Thanks for the chance to lead gentlemen, always a pleasure.

  • Alvin Kamara LITE – from Waterpik

    Scrounge around the garage for some coupons and emerge with a punching bag, a kettle bell, and some empty large pool chlorine buckets. There are some Alvin Kamara offseason training videos floating around you tube and this was an exceptionally weak attempt at replicating his workout.

    Here’s what happened.
    Strap a rope to the punching bag and drag it to the shaft on the Lakefront and back. Each Pax completed that at least once.

    YHC filled the chlorine buckets with water. Each pax competed step ups on the seawall and well as carrying the buckets the the street and back.

    Use the kettle bell for 50 reps of American hammer.

    Cot and thanks for letting me lead. Thanks to true coat for praying is out.

  • Leg Work 0’Plenty – from Einstein

    One humid mofo, early this morning, atop the St. Tammany Justice Center parking garage

    Short disclaimer…

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Good Mornings, Seal Jacks, Swimmers

    circle up in the shade of the lamp stand
    Event; from the F3Nation Exicon: Deck of Death – each suit is an exercise and each card dictates the number of reps
    Diamonds: Star Jumps
    Spades: Jump Squats
    Hearts: Ice Skater Hops (2 is 1)
    Clubs: Tin Soldiers (back vertical – bringing straightened leg up to horizontal, hip height, 2 is 1)
    Jokers: Merkins, Ramp/Stair Run
    Lagniappe – PAX did one burpee while card-puller walks up to choose card. So, continuous motion, finishing the 52 card deck right at the buzzer.

    The PAX: Akbar, BBQ, Einstein, MobyDick, Tanked-Up, Turbo-Dog

    Count-o-rama, Akbar leads us out with a prayer.

    Thanks guys. Always fun to lead.

  • No Monkey business at the A1c!! – from Shooter

    Knowing YHC would be out the next 2 days I wanted to give the PAX something to remember. There was no Monkey business but there was Monkey Humpers which brought a comment from Moby that had the PAX in stitches 😂😂 for some of the warmup.. Don’t quite remember the exact statement but I believe he shared “They’ll be no Monkey Humping from me in my future.” or something along those lines.. Either way the PAX really enjoyed his statement and if you want to confirm just ask the next tome you see him..

    Warmup
    Variations of 10IC/20IC arm circles, Cherry Pickers, Windmills, Butt kicks, Mummy kicks, SSH, Toe Touches and of course Monkey 🐵 Humpers..

    Thang
    YHC planted a special delivery at the northern side base of the parking garage.
    You guessed it coupon Friday.
    Picking the 7 of diamonds ♦️ from the Exicon for today’s beatdown.
    The attempt was 7 rounds of exercise. Brief description four corners or in our case 4 lamppost. Increasing rep count by 7 each round to 28 and backdown to 7. For the Qs sake an audible was called for the 28 count exercise 😰😰. 4 rounds of each
    7 rep count each lamppost 8count body builder with a thruster replacing the Plank Jack Tanked.. 14 rep count kettle swings, 21 block Merkins, 28 curls for the girls, 21 chest press, 14 squat thrusters and time expires.. PAX carried the coupon at all times and between each round… T👏🏼👏🏼to all the men on this day for sticking with it and pushing through.. We all agreed that Tanked seemed to just be getting warmed up as he grunted through the finish line, however he graciously informed the Q he was feeling toward the end and the grunts were an assist to finish strong 💪🏼 💪🏼…

    Count, announce and COT with the Q closing out with intentions for my neighbor and prayers for Amnesia’s wife..

    Thanks for posting and and keeping me accountable you fine men!!

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • The (Birthday) “Cake Walk” – from Grundy

    One might ask why someone would willingly hang around a group of guys who without fail would say that they hate them at the end every workout. To continue to endure that type of verbal abuse for 4 and a half years seems insane. But on this specific July 10th, those words would not be obligatorily uttered any more. The word “hate” would be replaced by silence. On this specific day, YHC moved over into the realm of “Those Who Shall Not be Named” (Those Who Shall Not be Named = The age group of 30-49 where you earn no extra “hate” or “respect”).

    I was now free of hate but had strangely grown accustomed to hearing it! So, in order to receive the word I had heard every workout for 4 ½ years, I had to give the PAX another reason to “hate” me. No problem, that would be a “cake walk”.

    Pre-Thang
    Normal warmup sequence commenced In Cadence ranging from 10-30 counts.
    • SSH
    • Windmills
    • Good Mornings
    • Arm Circle Series

    The Q then took the PAX on a longer than typical mosey to Milestone Marsh where the cake walk would begin.

    The Thang
    Credit Zoolander for saying the week previously that it would be funny to create a workout sequence called the “cake walk” that actually was really difficult. Challenge accepted! Since the beatdown would be on the Qs actual 30th birthday, it just made too much sense to create a workout that had the word “cake” in it. After a quick poll via GroupMe from both the Northshore and Southshore, a quick list of most “hated” exercises were gathered. From there, the Q just worked in the number of the day “30” and the (birthday) “cake walk” was born.

    The cake walk goes like this. Start on the baseline of the basketball court, you will begin with 30 lunge pulses on the right side pausing on every fifth rep for a five count hold before continuing the reps. Continue until every rep is complete. Once finished, you crab walk to half court (you can thank Zoolander again for suggesting this one on GroupMe) to do 29 Sister Mary Catherines. Crab walk back to the baseline for 28 Carolina Dry Docks. Crab walk to half court for 27 Bulgarian split squats (right side). Crab walk one more time back to the baseline for 26 manmakers in cadence (a real crowd pleaser). After you finish that, this is where you can insert a ten count or two since there is no crab walk after the manmakers which means you will still be on the baseline of the basketball court.

    You repeat the sequence of descending reps of Lunge Pulses, Sister Mary Catherines, Carolina Dry Docks, Bulgarian Split Squats, and Manmakers starting now on 25. For every sequence of the 5 exercises, you switch which leg you would do for the lunges and Bulgarian split squats. So, in the second sequence you would do your left side. Continue this sequence until you do the last manmaker!

    Finishing this was quite a challenge and the lack of mumblechatter just further evidenced that fact. Although, legend has it that Barely Legal is still out there doing his speedy crab walks! The workout was done, and the time showed 7:29 AM when we finished the last manmaker. We were half a mile from the lakefront flag but the PAX was gracious with their sentimental Q on this day. We decided that despite the time, we would take a nice walk back most of the way to the flag.

    Once we arrived around the flag we were able to officially welcome our newest FNG Pro Bono! After that I was able to express my gratitude to a group of men who quite literally shaped the man I am today. A group who showed me that as we strengthened our bodies we were also strengthening our friendships, leadership capabilities, and character. I wouldn’t trade this group of men and the lessons I’ve learned for anything and am beyond honored to simply be a part of the group. And although I will never hear the required berating of “hate” after my name again, I will never stop feeling the care that I’ve felt from the first day when I showed up one Saturday morning back in February of 2017. A feeling of care that has continued to grow and which actually feels a lot like love.

    Until Next Time,
    Grundy (He Who Must Not be Named)

  • Core Crusher and Flickerball – from Zoolander

    from TruCoat…”15 assembled Saturday at the North Shore Lakefront for a multi-phase workout and coffee. Following a short warm-up, the group conquered a 15 minute core toning medley of mountain climbers, V-ups, supermans, squats or jump tucks, and side touches. After a short mosey and 6 rounds of merkins with a soccer ball twist, the group divided and faced off for a 25 minute flickerball match. The Masters, led by Tanked-Up, and the Seniors led by very-soon-to-be-30 Grundy sprinted back and forth the long field trading scores. In the final moments, the Seniors’ secret weapon, 12 year old Baby Yoda, scored with a laser shot to the back of the goal. Bean made the highlight reel with impressive defense and Bird fearlessly recovered balls out of Lake Pontchartrain, proving gators, rough seas, and the possibility of a double dose Z-pak were no match for this aquaman. The game drew a few spectators, possibly to admire the elegant passing among the sides, or more likely, hypnotized by bare-chested Bushwacker wearing a much too small youth pinny. A good time had by all! ”