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Tag: The Gipper

  • Imitation is the Sincerest Form – from Jose10k

    They say mimicry is the highest form of flattery—so after Steve’s BLIMPS beatdown, I brought that same fire to the seasoned crew at The Gipper.

    We kicked things off with a fast-paced warm-up, then hit the streets:
    • Ran toward the courthouse with karaoke halfway, switching sides, then backpedaled each block—capped with 20 squats.
    • Rinse and repeat: karaoke, reverse, backpedal, 20 squats.

    Then came the main event:
    • 5 burpees at the bottom, run up the garage, down the stairs, sprint across.
    • Then: 5 burpees, 10 lunges, 15 imperial walkers, 20 merkins, 25 plank jacks, 30 squats.

    For the finale, we hit 30 squats at every level on the way down, one last round at the courthouse, and a final series of karaoke, reverse, and backpedal all the way back to the flag.

    Moby closed us out with a heartfelt prayer—for Steve and his grandfather’s funeral, for Coachella’s job search, and for Einstein’s son at his conference.

    Honored to lead. Respect to the men who showed up and pushed. One thing though: still no Mandevillians in Covington again. I guess I should log a formal complaint with the Wacker!

  • 4 Up, 4 Down, & Around – from Einstein

    Nice morning at The Gipper ~ 72 degrees
    Pax included: Shooter, MobyDick, Jose10k, DarkWingDuck, FletchMeister

    WARMUP: toe touch, windmills, side straddle hops, shoulder rolls,
    snap crackle pops, book covers, etc.

    THANG 1: Two sets of Eight Exercises – 4 on your feet & 4 down on the ground, followed
    by a run up to the Justice center steps – bunny hop up – run around the block back
    to start point.
    Skater Hops
    Sister Mary Catherines
    High Knees
    Tuck Jumps
    Floor Wipers
    Freddie Mercurys
    Plank with opposite arm lift, opposite leg lift
    Archer Pushups
    Run the Long Block
    Repeat

    THANG 2: To the block garden for coupon work – curls, laterals, kettle bell swings,
    figure 8s thru the legs, overhead press.

    Mary:
    couple of minute for stretching, including the Fletch Stretch.

    Dark Wing Duck prayed us out.

  • Block party – from Jose10k

    🎉🔥**EVERYTHING MUST GO — FINAL FITNESS FRENZY BLOWOUT!**🔥🎉
    THIS IS IT — The Last Block Party Workout Review!

    LAST BLOCK PARTY TIME: FRIDAY NIGHT, DOWNTOWN COVINGTON!
    You heard it right, folks — the final block party, the last hurrah, the ultimate end of the month workout bash that had more pump than a clearance rack on Black Friday!

    🪧EVERYONE GRABBED A COUPON
    That’s right — no early birds, no doorbusters — just raw muscle. Rifle carry those bad boys around town like human billboards of beast mode.

    🚦STREET-CORNER SIZZLE SPECIAL!
    Each intersection was a deal you couldn’t pass up — 20 curls for the girls (in cadence, because class matters). That’s right — form, function, and flex appeal. Boom.

    🏢TRIPLE FLOOR MADNESS!
    We climbed the A1C express elevator of pain —
    • Top floor: Curls for the girls, encore edition!
    • Middle floor: Shoulder presses so strong, they almost voided the warranty!
    • Bottom floor: Deep squats so low we found hidden inventory from 1993!

    🏛️COURTHOUSE COMEBACK DEALS!
    Rifle carried our way to civic glory —
    • Up the stairs. Down the stairs.
    • BOGO squats at the base — we’re practically giving them away!

    We brought it back with Mary, sweet Mary — the cooldown closer, the loyalty program finisher, the free gift with every purchase of pain.

    At least the Covington crew posted, you can’t trust those Mandevillians!!!!

  • Deck of Doom strikes again! – from BBQ

    The deck of doom strikes again! A good warm up. Got the Thang we used a deck of cards. Each card represented the # of reps. We went round robin and each chose a different exercise. Moby Dick’s picks were a core theme. Fletch was heavy into Merkins. YHS had a hip therapy theme. The down rangers from Houston showed a little late. Pump Jack and Negotiator got some bad coordinates for The Gipper. They jumped right in and added some different exercises. We went an extra 5 minutes but still had 5 cards to go. Pump Jack was impressed by the respect x 1,2 and 3 in the PAX. Fletch prayed up out.

  • What’s this workout???? You’re Will to Live – from Einstein

    Einstein, Moby and Hogs Breath all took the pill and got out of our fart sacks to show up at the Gipper .

    As we entertained ourselves prior to the scheduled beat down time, Einstein stated, no one had the queue, so we began a round robin. Each Pax picked an exercise and began, normally to a count of 10. Hogs breath threw in a few funky things “Persian gods” which began in a squat and rotating the upper body to the side of the front leg, to a count of four just like facing the Persian gods to the east . Another good one was mountain man poopers, always a hit!

    After about 10 minutes of a warm-up, Einstein suggested blocks. We mosey’d to the coupon pile. Hogs breath had everyone pick a block and run over to the A1C. Backpedaling up the parking garage ramps. Some coupon work went on for about 10 minutes at one point Moby asked “what does this work?”
    The response came back “your calves, stamina, and will to live…”
    We returned the coupons back to their pile and finished off with a round of Mary, going one minute over the time!

  • Repeat 52 Get-Up at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Rainy morning, at The Gipper, and hard to find any dry spots.

    WARMUP: all IC15x; toe touch, side staddle hops, snap-crackle-pops,
    shoulder rolls, etc.

    THANG: Deck of Doom – each player chooses the exercise when their suit is drawn.
    with the usual rule; everyone has to get up off their six
    between card draws – hence the 52 get-ups.

    Diamonds – BBQ
    Clubs – Mobydick (with any more weight loss, Moby will have to be renamed to Flipper)
    Spades – Einstein
    Hearts – Barely Legal

    Joker – bear crawl, sprint with back peddle

    Mary: no time

    BBQ prayed us out

  • Who signed up to Queue? Que? Quis? – from Einstein

    Decent weather at The Gipper this morning ~ 70 degrees

    Round Robin had the queue today and today’s workout ended up being
    one continuous Warm-Up. Interspersed with moseys from The Gipper, to the Taj Mahal,
    to the Justice Center, and back to The Gipper.

    We, as in, Moby Dick, Einstein, Barely Legal, & DarkWingDuck all worked up a sweat.

    Barely Legal prayed us out.

  • 75 Is the New 20 OR 4 Is More, But Ocho Is Great – from Bushwacker

    15 minutes early, YHC was greeted by a chilly last respite from what we down south all know is coming, as well as the remnants of the full moon 4 days back. Since Jose was likely at that moment sleeping the sleep of the over-imbibed and sexually satiated, and not pre-thanging the lonely streets of downtown Covington, the maroon-hooded miscreant moseyed a preview of the route along which the beatdown would lead. Upon returning, Wacker may have made his Cuz slightly uneasy calling out some sort of nonsense from afar without properly identifying himself. Legal had also arrived to greet the gloom. And when Moby approached from YHC’s 6, the sudden recognition of the hoodie caused a cuss to escape his lips, knowing he had already passed the point of no return.

    WARMORAMA

    IC x10:
    SSH, Cherry Pickers, IWs, (When what to Wacker’s wondering eyes should appear, but a grey pick up truck and Ocho wandering near!) Torso Twists, Butt Kicks, Windmills, Dancing Bears, Scorpion Kicks

    THANG

    Mosied to the flag pole at the School Board where we circled up and did x 100;
    AL Gore/JumpSquats
    Plank/Merkins
    Up/Downs (Tenacious as hell and giving everything he had, Moby was slow to get down and even slower to get up)

    Mosied to the Court House where , in similar fashion Freak Nasty Up/Downs (think plank/Merkin except a Freak Nasty) x100
    Next PAX do continuous Step Ups as each man runs to the stairs, Bunny Hops up, then returns in a Sprint. Finally, alternating as needed between lunges and squats while each man runs to the ramp, Bear Crawls up and runs back. At this point you may have expected Moby to be gasping his last, but check yourself, Boyo, because this Diamond-Studded Septuagenarian was kicking ass and chewing bubbble gum (except he was all out of bubble gum!) He lead the pack as we mosied back to the flag for …

    MARY

    Similarly to our first 4 sets of exercises, we were on our sixes with hands and feet elevated, counting to 50 reps of individual V Ups, followed by Supermans in the same tune. 25 IC Hammers, Flutter Kicks, and E2Ks (25L/25R) to wrap things up.

    COT

    Count/ Name/ Ocho prayed us out. 2nd EVER F2 Extravaganza! 5/10, prayers for our own Frank the Tank as he prepares to embark on his foray into the Boston Marathon this Monday.
    To quote Andy Stitzer, “Is it true that if you don’t use it you lose it?” Yes Andy, it is. But at F3 Northshore’s Retirement Village, they clearly still know how to use it, because they haven’t lost a step! And, you know, that fact will help YHC sleepp a little better tonight,

    SYITG

  • Elevens at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Nice and cool at The Gipper this morning ~ 45 degrees & low humidity

    WARMUP: windmills, toe touch, side straddle hops, shoulder rolls, hi-jack hi-jills,
    snap crackle pops, book covers, side to side lunges, backward lounges, etc.

    THANG:
    Mosey to the Justice Center Courthouse
    Set of Elevens; 10 burpees to start, run up the steps, 1 merkin at the top,
    run down and around to starting point, and descend/ascend.

    Mary: none, no time left

    T-Claps to Moby (74.99452054794520547945205479452055 y.o.) for doing a good job on the running.

    Barely Legal prayed us out with intentions for his Mom and for Fletch’s Mom

  • F3 A to Z – from Bushwacker

    It’s a rare thing that seems to happen just a hand full of times a year, and when it happens it makes me envy my future self. That thing is the opportunity to visit F3 Northshore’s own Retirement Village in downtown Covington, also known as the Gipper.
    So YHC figured he ought to throw down an equally, if not more, rare beatdown to the the PAX that make a 44 and 46 year old, respectively, the “kiddos” of the AO…

    WARMORAMA

    In the interest of time Q kept it short and sweet and covered all the basics:
    All IC x10:
    Torso Twists
    Self Love
    Hi Knees
    Butt Kicks

    THANG

    The rep counts varied, as did IC vs OYO, but here’s a complete list of the exercises grumblingly (new and appropriate adverb) completed by the assemblage of PAX with the combined “experience” of more than 340 years:

    Absolution
    Big Boy Sit Ups
    Cut-a-Flip
    Dying Cockroach
    E2K
    Freddy Mercurys
    Guantanamo
    Hundreds
    Indian Crab Walk(missed you Legal!)
    Jackees
    Killer B’s
    LLCoolJs
    Monkey Humpers
    Never Cross Dolly
    Obamas (Tanks’s favorite!)
    People’s Air Press
    Quixote (new exercise)
    Rochamburpees
    SSH
    T Merkins
    Upstraddle Hop
    Van Godas
    Werkins
    XYs
    Yurpees
    Zombie Crunches

    And so you see, from A to Z the PAX put in the work. Though grumbles did bely the fact that some of them did hurt. But certainly you’ve heard it said “no pain, no gain”, it’s true. So post tomorrow, if you dare, cause Wacker’s got that Q too!

    SYITG