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  • Frac Attack (Oh No He Didn’t) – from Fast Tax

    The Uptowner 8/12/2022

    Backblast disclaimer: Given the passage of time, YHC’s aging memory, and the Fracsac transgression, the events in this exercise represent my best recollection of what transpired and may not be entirely factual.

    After disclaimer, we headed to the field to attempt to find a dry-ish spot for warmups consisting of:
    Grass Grabbers
    SSH
    Hairy Rockettes
    Toy Soldiers
    Swan Dives

    Catch-Me-If-You-Can was the first exercise. Separating into teams of 2, while PAX 2 ran backwards around the track, PAX 1 did 10 merkins then sprinted to catch up, then PAX 2 did the merkins while PAX 1 ran backwards. This cycle was repeated until we made it all the way around the track.

    Next, we circled up for a roll of the dice. In a circle, PAX took turns rolling the 10 sided exercise die gifted to YHC on his birthday Q from Bolt. Exercises included burpees, merkins, LBCs, and others that I can no longer remember.

    With 25 minutes left, it was time for Battle Frisburpee.

    Team 1 – Rafiki, Smalls, Hand Grenada, and Fast Tax
    Team 2 – PVC, Glamper, FracSac, and Bogey

    While Team 2 prevailed (3-1), it was likely in large part to Fracsac’s blind-side tackling of YHC as YHC was about to score. It is likely that without the incorporation of tackling into the game, Team 1 would have triumphed…at least that is how my concussed brain recalls it…

    Also noteworthy in the game was PVC’s use of passing the ball from one baller to another in order to tag more opposing players. While the move was clever and not specifically prohibited in the rules (yet), this use of the ball is still being reviewed by the Battle Frisburpee committee…a ruling is expected before the next game.

    With game over, we headed to COT for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer.
    Thanks for the fellowship! SYITG

  • Ethanol burned our shoulders and got in 100 burpees – from Hokie

    Ethanol reached out several weeks ago to let us know he was posting down range and loves to Q

    Warm up at meeting spot
    Windmill x10
    Frankenstein x10

    Main event – mosey to parking lot
    Thunderstruck SSH/burpees
    Indian merkin line

    Mosey to shelter
    Dip/ incline merkin 50/40/30/20/10
    With v ups/iron cross/Freddie Mercury in between each set

    Mosey to parking lot
    Parking lot burpee suicide 1-11

    Mosey to flag
    99 burpees is not 100 so

    1 burpee & COT

    Ethanol closed us out reminding us to be humble

  • How do you get to 100…..1 at a time – from Mahatma

    The morning air was wet with streaks of lightning off in the distance – a perfect setting of gloom for the Uptowner.

    8 pax meet in the chain link box at Pontiff with high anticipation of what this morning will bring. YHC approached with a trash bag of goodies and his boom box fully charged.

    Playlist started with “Greenie Rule” in effect. If you don’t know and are curious sift through my last couple of BB for description otherwise if you don’t care no problem as it will be in all future beatdowns that tunes are played.

    Quick disclaimer with Charmine emphasizing that YHC is not a professional…..which I whole heartedly agreed and we kicked off the warm up.
    5-7 of each
    SSH
    ABVAGODA
    MNT MAN POOPERS
    GOOD MORNINGS
    5 OYO Burpees for good measure

    Slow mosey to the kiddie land – 2 lines formed at the rings for pull ups 3 rounds of 3.
    5 Burpees for good measure

    Mosey back
    5 more Burpees – at this point Bolt is seeing that YHC is at least attempting to maintain the focus towards 100.

    Cnt off 1,2 until 2 4 pax teams created. Cones and bats brought out for relay challenge.
    The 2 teams competed:
    1st in dizydean burpee which was 5 times around the bat then perform 5 burpees run to the other side repeat 5 times around the bat followed by 5 more burpees then run back. Each time the bat was dropped another pax was to jump in. End in a close tie with Hokie and Charmine sprinting to the finish so ALL did 5 penalty burpees.
    2nd was the same except no burpees after the 5 times around the bat – team 1 lost and had 5 penalty burpees yet most of not all pax on team 2 joined in.

    At this point there had been 2 Greenie changes – YHC and Sandbar

    Now the “game” – Cabbage-Burpees which was 1st played in the Summer of 2019 (before the world went crazy!!!! and things we know today are the unfortunate infiltrations of our past)

    How it’s played:
    2 pitches (if the pitcher sucks he will be penalized by YHC with Burpees then moved to a new position).
    Strike Out – batter 5 BP
    1st out batting team 2BP
    2nd out 4BP
    Ea base hit or advanced base equals a BP for the defense.
    So a single 1
    Double 2
    Triple 3
    HR 5
    These are to be performed immediately after the batting takes place before next batter for both offense and defense.

    1 burpee for ea run scores accumulated for the inning and performed between innings while changing roles on the field.

    Losing team 10 burpee Penalty.
    Team 1 – Hokie, Sandbar, Stroganoff and Mahatma
    Def
    Team 2 – Glamper, Bolt, Charmine and Rafiki

    Mary – x 20 weighted ball with BigBoy sit ups
    X 20 leg extension throws (you had to be there to understand)

    FlipFlop

    COT

    Prayers for our brother TenderLoin who will be undergoing open heart surgery next Friday. No doubt God brought him into our Pax to help build a base of support both physically and spiritually for what lies ahead. I’m confident he will be back on his feet in no time running the track.

  • The cards cast our fate – from PVC

    We welcomed Cauliflower of NC
    Warmorama
    The usual
    The Thang
    Circled up and layed the deck of cards In the center. We went around the circle doing 20 of whatever card chosen(lots of Merkin’s). The Burpee option was given for those doing the Friday burpee challenge and Bolt and Hangrenade completed100 each.
    COT

  • BBB (Bolt’s Beast Builder) – from Bolt

    Warmorama: Rapper’s Delight edition with an emphasis on the parts used in burpees. The Thang: 100 burpees for time and with the mantra of, “Leave No Man Behind, Leave No Man Where You Found Him” we will all continue supporting those still pushing themselves until the Six is in! Hawg led the pack, establishing himself as a beast with a time of 7:18. War Eagle opted for a couple laps after 1.5 burpees, Triple showed up coiffed and just after the main Thang ended—shocker. A game of FastTax’s brainchild, ultimate frisburpee, ensued, resulting in Thumb War’s consternation with the rule differences from the far less interesting ultimate frisbee. The end result was the non-R.E.D. Team lost 1-0.

  • Full-Body Friday – from Boo-Boo

    With rain all around but none at the AO, four PAX assembled for a slightly cooler than usual beatdown.

    Tenderloin was so excited, he started early. The remaining three moseyed to the field for a warmup consisting of SSH x25, IW x20, Abe Vigodas (4-ct per side) x 10, MHC x20, Batwings (with dancing), and Mountain Man Poopers.

    Off to the rock pile, stopping to greet TL on the way. A rock selected conducive to curls and overheads.

    Mosey to the small baseball field and rocks carefully placed in the middle. 11s starting with Burpees (of course), stopping in the middle for five curls. Big boi sit-ups on the other side, stopping for overheads on the way back.

    Upon completion of the 11s, PAX assembled on one side of the field, with rocks, for Lt. Dans (with rocks) to the opposite tree line and back.

    Rocks returned to the rock pile and a mosey back to the flag for some Mary (LBCs and Lazy Boyz).

    COT, announcements, prayer, OUT! It’s always an honor to lead HIM.

  • BREAK IN THE RAIN – TABATA – from PVC

    WARMORAMA:

    Imperial walkers
    Hillbillies
    Abe vigoda
    Low slow Squat
    Forward arm circles
    Reverse arm circles

    The Tabata Thang
    1 minute on 20 second recovery

    Burpees,
    Lunge,
    Peter Parker,
    Bear crawl,
    Jump squat,
    Bear crawl,
    Mountain climber,
    Lunge,
    Burpees,
    Lunge,
    Shoulder tap,
    Bear crawl,
    Monkey Humpers,
    Bear crawl,
    Plank,Lunge,Burpees,Lunge,Parker Peter,Bear crawl,Squat

    COOLORAMA:
    1/2 LAP MOSEY
    Imperial walkers
    Hillbillies
    Abe vigoda
    Low slow Squat
    Forward arm circles
    Reverse arm circles

  • Good Friday – Humility – from Mahatma

    Quick disclaimer

    Mosey to the football field watering hole end with:
    4 pax on the beam overhead
    4 pax on the rope overhead
    Tinder loin in tow

    Warm up all 14 or 7&7
    SS
    AbVagoda
    PeterParker
    Shoulder taps
    Side lunge

    Penance Box
    Any pax can call out another Pax to the penance box for 7 burpees kicker is you must go with them and do penance too.
    Can’t be called more than 2 times in a row.

    ****turns out all trips were made by the entire pax 6 total 🟰 42

    14
    13 double under 1 merkin
    12 double under 2 merkin
    Continue until # swap
    YHC was feeling the pain of a prior day chest workout – 45 sec “pause” at 7 and struggled to finish – this will make a return at a future beatdown

    2 teams again – YHC attempted to match heights as best possible.

    Rnd 1
    Team 1 Beam extension and flutter kick
    Timer:
    Team 2 run the track with rope over head (can be one hand)
    Flip Flop

    Rnd 2
    Team 1 Beam curl to overhead press
    Timer:
    Team 2 both hands on rope overhead run to goal line and back
    Flip Flop

    Rnd3
    Team 1 2 pax Beam press other 2 spot (flip flop when Team 2 reached the 50)
    Timer:
    Team 2 both hand on rope overhead while lunging to the 50 and back
    Flip Flop

    Circle up for Mary
    Leg lifts to press
    Gas pumpers
    1 minute low plank
    Star cross

    Head to the flag

    COT – welcome to F3 – Shrinkwrap
    Downrange from Jackson MS – Webelo

  • Creativity Gone Awry – from Fast Tax

    The Uptowner 4/01/2022 – Yes, I know it’s late…

    Notwithstanding that YHC originally listed Battle Frisburpee on the website as a description for the day’s exercise, YHC was hoping to debut (or beta test) a few new ideas. However, the Pontiff custodians threw a curve ball, given that the usual gate to the field and our COT area was locked. No matter…persevere, adapt, and overcome.

    After disclaimer being said on the jogging path, we headed North along the fence for 30ish yards and stopped for warmups consisting of:

    Bat Wings
    Manatees
    Crab Merkins Plank
    Australian Mountain Climber (upside down, vertical mountain climber performed against the fence)

    While still against the fence, and having some success trying out the Australian Mountain Climber, YHC thought it was a good time to dive into his next creation – the Crazy Indian Chicken Pecker.

    All PAX against the fence (or wall of a building) in balls to the wall (BTTW) position. While all PAX are doing Chicken Peckers (aka upside down shoulder taps i.e. Feet up on the fence/wall, hands on the ground, lift your hand and touch your opposite shoulder) the last PAX drops down from BTTW and runs to the front of the line then gets back into BTTW position and continues the Chicken Peckers. Next PAX follows and this repeats until Q says to stop or PAX begin to mutiny. It took less than a minute for signs of an impending mutiny to be evident. Time to abort. Maybe retool and reintroduce later, maybe not.

    On to the next exercise, the Triple Check: Separating into teams of three, the first PAX holds the peoples’ chair, second man in front of him in plank, third man sprints 100 yards and back, then cycle positions, rinse and repeat times two more times.

    Final exercise before the game was the Mad Mad Race.
    Keeping the teams of three, each PAX in the team chose one of the following exercises: soldier crawl, broad jump, or crab walk – no duplicates. From the line, the teams had to traverse 40ish yards, switch positions, and come back. Losing two teams had to do 15 burpees and the winning team did five. With Bolt lamenting the lack of Burpee opportunities, we all added 10 more.

    With 25 minutes left, it was time for Battle Frisburpee. As YHC hopped the fence and began to setup the cones, the remaining PAX were running to the next gate, since the usual entrance was locked. Alas, entry to the field was not meant to be…all gates were locked. Quickly picking up the cones and vaulting them and me over the fence, we made it to the baseball diamond with about 15 minutes to spare.

    Battle Frisburpee:
    Team 1 – Pillsbury, PVC, Hand Grenada, and Bolt
    Team 2 – Boo-Boo, Bogey, Scantron, and Fast Tax

    Team 2 prevailed, 4-1 (I think…could have been the other way around or I could have screwed up the teams since it’s been 8 days since we played 🙂

    With game over we headed to COT for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer.

    Thanks for the fellowship! SYITG