12 pax awakened to 79° and a gentle breeze and came to the Wally to run, run faster, run not as fast, walk, ruck & KnOT
Tag: Triple Shift
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Tests of Strenth – my Festivus – from Rudy
YHC decided to try out some fitness tests that have been bouncing around in my head. Whenever I think “this is a bad idea, it probably won’t work”, I recall the immortal words of Hawgcycle from years ago – something to the effect of “Only one way to find out.”
So at 530 am, a solid group of PAX moseyed off towards the rock pile to get started. A warm up of some stretching and imperial walkers. Then a quick trip to the train tracks for some balance work. Try your best to get 5 squats in. Several minutes of this – SOGO was up to 20 squats, Mahatma had quit in frustration, and finally YHC managed 5 things that sort of loosely resembled squats. So lets grab a rock and head to the field.
At the field – YHC announces the Thang. 5 Fitness Tests. My Festivus, if you will.
Test 1: Rifle Carry your rock for 1 lap around the trap. YHC had been curious if this was doable, and if so – how long it would take. The answer: sort of doable, and roughly 5 minutes.
Test 2: The suck (7 SSH, 7 Merkins, 7 Squats), for 5 minutes instead of the usual 3. Dang, FracSac. Those farts were AWFUL.
Test 3: Bear crawl the length of the field, then lunge walk back.
Test 4: The Rock-Suck for 5 minutes. 7 Overhead Press, 7 Curl, 7 Row. Dang, Frac. Those farts were AWFUL. PAX kept shifting to avoid being close, but it didn’t matter. lack of wind meant that noxious fume just hovered over us.
Return the rocks.
Test 5: EMOM burpees for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, the Pickle-ballers decided to bail on this.
Back to the flag for COT. Thank you all for the many years of inspiration you have provided. And thank you Sky Q for the gift of one more year around the sun.
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Sprinting, KoTing, and S&Ming – from Fracsac
15 Pax showed up on a Tuesday morning to do one of those 3 things. 45 minutes later we did a CoT then hit Discipline is Destiny group. Just keep showing up!
SYITG
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Pairs of 3 – from Hand Grenada
5:30a, per Rudy, intro, disclaimer and off to the rock pile for warm up
Grassgrabber IC X10
Abe Vagodas IC X10
Squat Twist IC X5
Kim Jung Uns IC X10
Arm Circles Front IC X10
On your face
Peterparker IC X10
Recover
Arm Circles Reverse IC X10
Back on face
Shoulder Taps IC X10
Recover
Morocan Night Clubs IC X10Grab a rock and off to the gym.
Break into pairs(in hindsight I screwed this up and shouldve broken into pairs of 3)
Dora with 100 chest press, 200 squats, 300 LBC’s, PAX1 does exercise while PAX2 traverses the obstacle course with assisted deep lunge up ramp, run around to back of building for crab walk on the wall, then around other side of gym to relieve PAX1.20 count from Rudy
Mosey to parking lot
All PAX in straight line from tree 1, standing curls IC X10, walk in line to next tree, Shoulder Press IC X20, walk in line to next tree, Rows IC X20, walk to next tree, Shoulder Press IC X20, walk to next tree, Standing Curls IC X10.Mosey back to rock pile, ensure that Bogey has dropped the sandbag, then horses to barn, COT, count off, name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, prayer
Always a pleasure to lead, men. Thanks for pushing me!!
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Dawg Sleddin’ – from Vagabond
Warmup
Drag Scantron’s weighted sled around the lake plus 1 ruck
21 reps of each around the lake
Burpees
Big bois
SquatsStep ups
Dips
DerkinsPlank ups
Side lunge 1is1
Heel to heavenDecline shoulder taps
Incline burpees
Leg liftsSmurf jacks
Nolan Ryan 1 is 1
LBCsBobby Hurley
J Lo 2 is 1
Incline wife pleaserSunday Mornings
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Dora’s lazy mean sister – from Kenna Brah
Birthday Q
8/7/61Arm Circles
Twists
Imperial Walkers
Abe Vigoda
Low Slow SquatFlora 1-2-3
100 Merkins – P1 does 10 with feet on coupon. P2 holds plank with feet on his coupon. Flapjack.
200 LBCs – P1 does 20 LBC holding coupon high on chest. P2 holds legs 6″ off ground, and extends arms w/ coupon over chest. Flapjack.
300 Goblet Squats – P1 does 25 goblet squats. P2 lowers to bottom of goblet squat w/ coupon, and holds. Flapjack.
200 LBCs – P1 does 20 LBC holding coupon high on chest. P2 holds legs 6″ off ground, and extends arms w/ coupon over chest. Flapjack.
100 Merkins – P1 does 10 with feet on coupon. P2 holds plank with feet on his coupon.
Rifle/any carry down to the gazebo for some recovery stretches
Return to rock pit for Ring of fire till times up – then backwards walk/jog to flag
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Rudy got sold – from Mayhem
Q started selling Rudy at 7:30pm the evening before on showing up to the proper AO… ABC (always be closing)… Rudy got sold
530am
Disclaimer
MoseyWarmarama: windmills, grass grabbers, side straddle hops, peter parker peter, mountain climbers, arm circles, reverse arm circles
Rock pile then to the parking lot
Doracides
2 PAX work together
Suicides first line, 1 burpee and back, second line 2 burpees and back, third line 3 burpees, tag other PAX and rotate
100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBCsTake the rock to the bollards, manmakers until Triple is done five, take rock back to the start
Circle up with me
Game of dice
Ended with Rudy’s low slow squatsBack to the rock pile
Back to the flag (one minute late because of Rudy’s squats)Prayer requests for PVC, Rudy’s daughter, Wedding Planner’s friend and all those that are going through a rough patch that we may not know
Have a great day and weekend
SYITG
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Deep Sea Diver Down then Up and Up – from Heisenberg
Warmup Windmills x 10, Grass Grabbers x 10, Imperial Walker x 25, Arm Circles Forward, Backward, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps x 10, Moroccan Night clubs x 20
Deep Sea Diver Down – Starting at the top step of NOMA, 8 Shoulder Taps IC then descend a step and reduce the count by one until we get down to the bottom.
Deep Sea Diver Up – This was a failed attempt as we went up head first and it was way too easy so YHC nixed the experiment at step 5.
Mosey to the wooden steps – IC Right Leg Step ups 25, 10 Dips, Left Leg Step Ups 25, 10 Dips
Mosey to the Singing Oak – Ring of Fire – 10 Squats around the ring while Pax held the Al Gore. Frac failed to follow my clear instruction to avoid standing in ants.
Mosey to Field with Tall Grass – Pax held plank position as first PAX bear crawled to first tree and started 25 LBCs and then then bear crawled to third tree. As the first Pax started the LBC the next Pax would bear crawl. At some point Surge became impatient and started out of turn.
Mosey to Benches – Monkey Humpers IC x 25
Mosey to Swans – Jack Web to 5
Mosey Back to NOMA Steps – Deep Sea Diver Up – This time we started on the first step and went backwards feet first up to Step 8. This is the proper way to do a reverse Deep Sea Diver.
Mosey to Side Steps – Calf Raises IC x 10 then Slow x 10
Mosey to Back of NOMA – 3 Sunday Mornings
Mosey Back to Flag – Time for 5 Burpees
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Vacations continue … and so do workouts – from Hokie
As 0530 approached and no trains in eyesight, earshot or the app
2 pax went running (which grew to four) and one went to KnOT and no one did S & M
As 5 closed out at COT, we lifted up Frac’s mom and her recovery, Frac’s M and her continued health and Frac’s work headaches
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Z90s and some pax did a pretend workout – from Bolt
YHC dug back in the annals (reread the word without your filthy mind filter) of previous Qs for something I hadn’t done in a bit—Z90s it would be with the exercises tweaked and the modes of transportation unchanged. Like many NOLA pax who are also part of the coolest generation on planet Earth, I became an adult in the 90s so this workout title includes a Z for many 90s reasons: Z Cavaricci pants, it’s the end of the alphabet like we are the last generation to not suck, it’s the movement pattern we would follow around the bases, I could go on but on to the Thang which followed the usual warmorama stuff/soundtrack followed Morning Calls for the absent Rudy.
Z90s: 5 thru 20 reps/4 exercises, mix movement between between bases each round, mosey back to home. Skip rule in effect and an all 90s club mix playlist which guaranteed penalty burpees; it was far worse than the playlist I actually created if u can believe that!
Round 1 (bear crawl between home, 3rd, 1st, 2nd): burpee 5x, Cracker Jacks (frog>star jump>frog) 10x, merkin 15x, plank jacks 20x
Round 2 (crab walk): burpee, air squats, Peter Parker, American hammer 2:1
Round 3 (crawl bear): burpee, Bonnie Blair, Parker Peter, overhead air presses
It was at this point I gave the pax the option for Qs choice or a fourth round and after some debate Frac and The Architect split, pushing Bogey to be the swing vote, opting for round 4 (would’ve been Mary plus decadie of death) and there was mention of dancing so I called an audible on the movement between bases.
Round 4 (dance moves of pax choice): burpee, R/L side squats, diamond merks, mountain climbers 2:1
Back to flag—NOT. At the flag I noticed we had two minutes to spare so not wanting to cheat the pax out of their money’s worth we ventured to the edge of the outside track shoulder to shoulder to put on a show for the Old Metairie muckity mucks: Humping of the monkey followed by pleasing of the wife followed by O rings just to solidify the theme for the obviously horrified onlookers.
In retrospect, I either forgot how much Z90 can suck or it was a poor choice given all the workouts I haven’t been to recently and only kicked my own ass. I’ll let the pax chime in. Winded, honored, and grateful. COT.