Tag: The Birdcage

  • Why So Many Sudden Changes?

    11 NOLA PAX decided to post on this cool morning in beautiful Audubon Park. Not knowing exactly what was in store, Reluctant Yankee did a little recon once he saw a tweet from the Fort’s Crabcakes about “Sudden Change”. He was kind enough not to spoil the fun for the rest of the PAX. There was also a little concern from the PAX since I decided to eat at DATDOG the night before… Alligator Sausage Dog with some White Trash Fries to wash it down.

    DATDOG

    Warm Up:
    Initiate the workout with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Reluctant Yankee
    SSH: 30
    Mountain Climbers: 20
    SSH: 20
    LSS (low slow squat): 15
    Jump Squats: 15
    Jump Lunges: 10
    Injured Bunny Hop: 10 each leg
    Squat Walk: 20 yds
    Bear Crawl: 20 yds
    Squats: 15

    Mosey to center of field

    The Thang:
    After some collaboration with the PAX at the Fort, it was pretty apparent I needed to share the joy Sudden Change brings to the PAX… Which is what I did. In short, every time “Sudden Changed” was called, PAX had to do 10 OYO.

    Sudden Changed was called a total of 11 times (if I remember correctly) with a total of 110 plus burpees.

    Point Drill (Tough to explain but I’ll try): Drill consisted of 3 types of exercises (4 point merkin, 2 point merkin, 4 point flip flop)
    4 point merkin: Plank position, chop your feet, on Q call belly flop and get back up in plank.
    2 point merkin: standing up, chop your feet, on Q call belly flop and get back up.
    4 point flip flop: plank position, chop your feet, on Q call flip over on your back in the direction Q points and get back up in plank.

    After each drill was completed, get up and sprint 20 yards. 4 point merkin completed 8 times, 2 point merkin completed 6 times, 4 point flip flop completed 4 times. Total yards sprinted after 280 yards.

    Mosey to the parking lot

    Break up in 2 teams and have a little suicide relay race. One PAX from each team would run down to the first light pole, do one burpee and run back… turn and run to the last light pole, do a burpee and run back… Pass to the next in line.

    Completed 2 full cycles of this relay with PAX either planking or doing Squats while waiting for everyone to finish.

    Mosey to the center of the field for the “Circle of Pain – Bounty Hunter Rendition”. Get in a tight circle in exercise starting position until your turn to exercise. Exercise as followed:
    Plank V Ups: 2 Revolutions
    Elbow Plank V Ups: 2 Revolutions
    Russian Twist: 3 Revolutions each side
    Legs Ups – 3 Revolutions
    Finish with turkish get up: 5 reps each side

    Moleskin:
    I was both honored and “Thankful” for the opportunity to come out and lead a bunch of great guys this morning. Even in it’s infancy, NOLA shows strong leadership with a hunger to grow the region into a powerhouse! A simple prayer goes out to all this week for safe travels and a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family. Oh yea, “Sudden Change”, anyone reading owes me 10 burbees!

    Bounty Hunter over and out!

  • Burpin’ In The Oaks

    Posting on behalf of Reluctant Yankee:
    Pre-thang –  A crew filming American Horror Story and some concerned security guards.

    The Thang:

    RY – QIC
    Run out to the right 1/8-1/4 mi   (2 min)
    Warmup COP:  SSH X12, Imperial Walker X 12, Mountain Climbers X 12, Peter Parkers X12  Slow Squats X 12
    Side Hops, Lunges, Bear Crawl, Crab Crawl, Sprint back to flag.  (3 min)
    FNG – Steel Magnolia shows up!
    Jack Webb.  Pushups and arm lifts 1, then 2 , then 3 ,up to 10.
    Sprint to bandstand/gazebo in park.
    @lake/pond
    using concrete wall – Dips X 12, inclined mericans x 12, left leg squat x 12 , right leg squat x 12, declined mericans x 12
    then run out to the track turn left and loop around again to the gazebo/bandstand
    6 minutes with Mary on the bandstand.

    Little baby crunches, little baby twists, hello dolly, flutter, bicycle/freddies, x 12
    Hand off to Roots

    Roots – QIC

    From Bandstand mosey to middle of Oak Alley:

    ” Burpin’ in the Oaks “
    Sprint out 50 yards and do 10 burpees
    Sprint back and do 9 burpees
    Sprint out and do 8 burpees… repeat down to 1 burpee.  Plank up and wait for the six.
    #mumblechatter  – “what is this guys deal?”, “awesome – i love burpees” –

    Plank’o’rama
    Regular, Elbows, Left Side, Right leg up,
    Regular, Right side, Left leg up, Regular, Elbows,

    Recover

    Run to picnic tables at shelter
    Step ups x 15

    Hard run .20 miles out to golf clubhouse and back
    Grab some wood @ picnic tables and hold starting dip position and wait for the six
    Dips x 15

    Mosey to shovel flag and plank up

    COT

    Announcements:

    _ Second Audubon workout(AO @ St. Charles Ave. entrance) to begin Friday 11/7/14 @ 05:30
    _ Announced alternate meeting spot at City Park for next two Saturdays @ 07:00 –new spot is called the Great Lawn or Quad in Front of Storyland.  As an AO it should be called Storyland

    Tclaps:
    -for Hawgcycle for the Shout out and filling in when I smoked myself
    -for Pain an FNG who killed it today – obviously we will try to keep up with him
    -for Roots for the burpie love fest – not my favorite person today  – If you had met McGee/Horseneck on Saturday you would have been friends
    -for Roots for starting a new workout on Fridays starting next week
    -for The Rev for agreeing to Q half of next Wednesday’s workout
    -for Redfish making the journey from the West Bank

    Thanks –
    RY