Tag: TurboDog

  • Die Hard is a Christmas Movie – from Jose10k

    YHC arrived early, a little extra time to stretch. Akbar must have been thinking the same, so I had someone to chit chat with this morning. During the conversation, 4 Covington PD came in hot on the top of the A1C, just to “check things out” according to the officer. We were blessed by an out of town brother, Webelow, joining us from Jackson County (I apologize if I spelled it wrong)
    Warm-up:ssh, grassgrabbers, torso twists, imperial walkers, self love (all to Christmas Time in Hollis Queens). Where the first trivia question, who was John McClain’s limo driver? Russo didn’t know the answer to this question(which was the theme of the beatdown). Argyle was the answer.
    The next question was what was John McClain’s wifes name: russo was wrong yet again. Holly Generro
    The thang: After the warmups, the PAX moseyed to the courthouse. The tragedy at Nakatomi plaza occurred on Christmas Eve, and we gathered today to honor the hero of Nakatomi: John McClain. The event occurred on the 30th floor, so that’s where we started. 30 merkins, 30 squats, 30 big boy sit-ups, 30 leg lifts. In between each exercise ran the length of the courthouse leading up to the stairs, up the stairs and then back down. Once the pax was finished we ran 1 lap around the entire courthouse.
    12 Terrorists entered Nakatomi: 12 burpees
    We now stopped on the side of the courthouse.
    ‘‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring,except for the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two formation.
    Paired up. Partner one : side lunges the entire grass section to the concrete and back, partner 2= holds an al gore thoroughgood. Repeat.

    The terrorists planned to use C4 to blow up Nakatomi Tower. The PAX completed in cadence 30 reps of these 4 “c”ore exercises: little Manny crunches, flutter kicks, Freddy Mercury’s, and penguins

    Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.
    Famous line from the air ducts: time to do some ac duct crawling, while partner 2 does squats. Mosey back to the second floor to do a Hans Gruber pull-up: the pax hung from the raptors for 10 count, then did 30 Superman’s (he did fall 30 stories) .back to the stairwell to do 5 calve raises each to the top. And time was up.
    Trivia Question: What type of watch was Holly wearing that Hans hand was caught on? Russo was incorrect with Seiko. Pelican for the win with Rolex. Given to Holly from Ellis. More quotes from Hammer.
    5 Calf raises on each step on the way back up. Circled up for the first thing McClain did after going to the ER: Wife Pleasers in cadence for a 60 count. That’s when we were joined by Moby and turbodog. A few more core exercises.And to further celebrate the heroics of John McClain, a yell of Yippee Ki-yay Motherfu**er. The Trivia Question that Russo finally got correct. Thanks for letting me lead gentleman. COT and Hammer prayed us out. Thanks for the SplashPad joining us, thank you for Hammer to help create peace between battling AOs.
    Thought for the Season: Is Lethal Weapon a Christmas Movie? The answer is yes, and possibly the theme for the next beatdown.

  • Return of the Mack – from Jose10k

    Oh, oo-o-oh, come on, ooh, yeah
    Well I tried to tell you so (yes, I did)
    But I guess you didn’t know, as I said the story goes
    Baby, now I got the flow
    ‘Cos I knew it from the start
    Baby, when you broke my heart
    That I had to come again, and show you that I’m real
    all those times I said that I love you
    (You lied to me) yes, I tried, yes, I tried
    (You lied to me) even though you know I’d die for you
    (You lied to me) yes, I cried, yes, I cried
    1-(Return of the Mack) it is
    (Return of the Mack) come on
    (Return of the Mack) oh my God
    (You know that I’ll be back) here I am
    (Return of the Mack) once again
    (Return of the Mack) pump up the world
    (Return of the Mack) watch my flow
    (You know that I’ll be back) here I go

    You got to love that 1996 r&b classic. Why do I start the backblast with this: DarkWing returned to the A1C today. After the Flu wage war with his family for over a month, the Darkwing Clan is officially healthy, so we finally have Return of the Duck.

    Warmup-SSH, grassgrabbers, merkins, squats, etc…
    The Q sheet was open, so it was sort of a brain storming type of beatdown. We started off with 11s: Squats and Merkins, followed up with round robin core with Moby stretches. COT with DarkWing praying us out. Movie night was a success, Shooter is slowly nursing injuries caused from picking a fight with the tax dollars of the city of Mandeville (God Help those Deer this weekend), and we had a BBQ sighting. Waterpik has the Q tomorrow.
    Next Friday: Back by popular demand, the celebration of the tragedy that struck the Nakatomi Plaza beatdown will occur. Come on Splash Pad, join in our remembrance of the heroics of one Mr. John McClain. SYITG

  • Cyber Monday – from Akbar

    Chilly day at the Marsh, where the regular HIM joined YHC for a Cyber Monday beatdown. Not a big fan of spelling workouts, but something new was learned. Did you know you can google a list of exercises that start with each letter of the alphabet?

    This is how it went.

    Warm Up: SSH, High Knees, Butt Kicks, Windmills, Grass Grabbers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Self-Love, Arm Circles

    Thang: Exercises correlated with Cyber Monday, starting with 4 corners around the block, a stop at the playground, and another 4 corners on the court and more stuff. Most exercises x10 IC, some OYO, 2 is one on single leg exercises.

    C – Cobra Squat
    Y – Y Press – like a superman, only moving your upper body
    B – Bridge – 1 legged Wife Pleasers
    E – Explosive Merkin – Think handclap Merkin, without the clap
    R – Rocket Jumps – basically a Bobby Hurley with two hands on the ground, no jumpshot

    M – Martial Arts Kick – Karate Kid kick each leg
    O – One legged Squat – Romanian Split Squat
    N – Nordic Skater – Apollo Ohno
    D – Dips – Freak Nasty
    A – Atomic Merkin – 4 count Merkin with mountain climbers – this was brutal
    Y – Y Superman – Superman with a row

    Mosey around the big block 4 corners style for CYBER x 10 IC each exercise. Playground – 3 sets of 5 pull ups and 10 LBC’s. MONDAY 4 corners on the court. CYBER MONDAY on the court 4 corners style again.

    Court sprints – High Knees to half court then sprint. Butt Kicks to half court then sprint. Karaoke full court.
    Mary – Atomic Merkin, Hello Dolly, Rosalita, Wife Pleasers, LBC’s

    Count, Name, and Waterpik prayed us out with thoughts of his 2 employees, Freon and family, and the Latino’s daughter (eye cancer).

    Announcements – Nightmare Before Christmas (Dec 17th?), Krazy Ivan, Run Cajun Run coming soon.

    SYITG,

    Akbar

  • The Few, the Proud, The A1Cer’s – from Jose10k

    A day after the massive feast that I hope everyone enjoyed, two crazy HIMs joined together at the top of the parking garage. Warmups: slow stretches to work out them muscles.
    Just the two of us and a cluttered A1C. So we decided to do 5 slow merkins and 10 deep squats while we picked up the A1C. COT and it was over. Happy Black Friday y’all.

  • Do Mandevillians Travel? – from Jose10k

    The cool weather came in and YHC was ready for round 2. It was chilly, much different from the humidity from yesterday. Moby was the first to show up, while TurboDog refused to get out of the truck due to the weather. Einstein was next to show up, plant the flag, and the beatdown began. Warm-up: stretches, ssh, neck rolls, etc… That’s when we noticed something…Mandevillians don’t travel well. I wonder what about 190 scares them. It’s just a quick trip to the Gipper y’all, come on man. Any who, we grabbed some coupons to the gravel parking lot we went for some 11’s. Curls on one end, squat thrusts on the other side, rifle carry the coupon between exercises. We followed up with a quick couple of laps to test out this shin. We then did 3 rounds of 11/22 merkins and squats. Followed up with Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (new stretch). You have to come to Covington to learn this one. Moby prayed us out. Safe travels to all. SYITG

  • Stripes: Razzle Dazzle! – from Jose10k

    Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell’s the matter with you? Stupid! We’re all very different people. We’re not Watusi. We’re not Spartans. We’re Americans, with a capital ‘A’, huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We’re the underdog. We’re mutts! Here’s proof: his nose is cold! But there’s no animal that’s more faithful, that’s more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw “Old Yeller?” Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end?
    Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? I’m sure.
    I cried my eyes out. So we’re all dogfaces, we’re all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. We’re mutants. There’s something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us – we’re soldiers. But we’re American soldiers! We’ve been kicking ass for 200 years! We’re ten and one! Now we don’t have to worry about whether or not we practiced. We don’t have to worry about whether Captain Stillman wants to have us hung. All we have to do is to be the great American fighting soldier that is inside each one of us. Now do what I do, and say what I say. And make me proud.

    Psycho: The name’s Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I’ll kill you.
    Leon: Ooooooh.
    Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. And I don’t like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meat-hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you. Also, I don’t like nobody touching me. Now, any of you homos touch me, and I’ll kill you.
    Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis.

    Recruiter: Now, are either of you homosexuals?
    John Winger: [John and Russell look at each other] You mean, like, flaming, or…
    Recruiter: Well, it’s a standard question we have to ask.
    Russell Ziskey: No, we’re not homosexual, but we are *willing to learn*.
    John Winger: Yeah, would they send us someplace special?
    Recruiter: I guess that’s “no” on both. Now if you could just give Uncle Sam your autograph…

    John Winger: Why’d the chicken cross the road?
    Soldiers: To get from the left to the right
    John Winger: He stepped out of rank, got hit by a tank
    Soldiers: He ain’t no chicken no more

    I am hoping with the title that you started remembering how great that movie was, and how it could not be made today. Oh well, it was the theme to the workout this morning. So we had a warm-up, picture us singing
    There she was just a-walkin’ down the street, singin’
    ‘Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do’
    Snappin’ her fingers and shufflin’ her feet, singin’
    ‘Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do’
    She looked good (Looked good)
    She looked fine (Looked fine)
    She looked good, she looked fine
    And I nearly lost my mind

    Okay, to the actually workout. The stripes on the parking garage: 1merkin, skip a stripe, 2 merkings, and so on. On the way back, 1 squat, skip, 4 squats, skip, 8 squats, and so on. Back again, lunges. 2 is 1: 1 skip a stripe, 2, skip a stripe, 4, then 6, and so on. Finished up with 2 minutes of stretching. COT, prayers for my coworkers husband in ICU, Hammer and his home purchase and future house being sold, and good will to all that need it. SOGO has the Q tomorrow, turkey trot next thursday. SYITG, thanks for letting me lead this amazing group of young men.

  • 4 Corners – from Akbar

    PAX: Akbar, Bird, Hammer, Moby Dick, Waterpik, Turbo Dog

    Conditions: Pleasant 66, foggy, full moon

    5 HIM today at the Marsh, for another gloomy gloom and another 4 corners.

    Warm Up – Toe touch hold for 10 count, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Arm Circles, Self-Love, Grass Grabbers, Windmills

    Short jog down Lamarque to the stop sign and back to the court for the Thang.

    4 corners on the court. Freak Nasty, Squats, Merkins, Shoulder Taps on each corner, starting at 40 reps and working down 10 reps each round (might have skipped 20).

    Long side of court bear crawl, short side of court lunge walk. Once done, mosey to the playground for max pull ups and another jog down Lamarque to the first stop sign and back.

    Rinse and repeat to 5:55am.

    Mary
    LBC, Hello Dolly, Rosalita, Flutter Kicks, JLo’s (7), Wife Pleasers, Jane Fonda x 15 IC

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out. Intentions for Hammers brother-in- law after a bike accident, Calliope on the South Shore (bike accident), upcoming Holiday safety through the rest of the year.

    Announcements: YHC has the Q Saturday, F3 camping trip this Saturday at Kokomo (see slack), HogsBreath HIM November CSAUP – look for Google Sheet coming soon.

    Thanks for following the lead.

    SYITG – Akbar

  • We lost a Moby, BBQ is NOT a Swifty, and Steve still can’t write a backblast – from Jose10k

    Happy National Beer Day gentlemen. It was a foggy, smokey morning at the A1C. Discussions were plenty during the warm-ups. So much so, there wasn’t even a cadence. And after grass grabbers, there wasn’t a Moby anymore either. He tweaked something in his back. But the beatdown had to continue. After the warm-ups, where we learned that BBQ is not a Swifty, even though he is a huge Chiefs fan, we moseyed to the Rock Garden, aka Stonehenge, aka BedRock, aka the butterfly sanctuary for some rock work. 7 exercises, 10 reps each: shoulder presses, curls, rows, squats, lunges, chess presses, and big boy sit ups. Rotate to the right and repeat. YHC was worried about Moby, so we moseyed back up to the top to see him stretching out that back. So we did some 4 corners. 5 burpees at each, and lt. Dan the length of the parking garage, 2 lunges, 1 squat, 4 lunges, 2 squats, and so on. Finished up with 5 minutes of Mary. BBQ prayed us out, remember about the spooky monster mash tomorrow gentlemen. See Steve, that’s what a backblast looks like.

  • Star Light, Star Bright – from Akbar

    Beautiful morning, clear, perfect 51 degrees, starlit sky, and 4 HIM. Still feeling the burn from Legal’s beatdown Saturday, we would press on to work the full body this gloom.

    Warm up
    SSHx20, Imperial Walkers, grass grabbers, windmills, arm circles, self-love, high knees, butt kicks, toe touches

    Playground – 3 sets, OYO. Max Pullups, 10 SSH

    Thang – Mosey to the Lakefront down Marigny stopping at each intersection for 10 Merkins 10 Squats IC. Last 2 sections were 5/5 IC. Moby Dick went 2 blocks and headed back to stretch until we returned.

    Wall – x10 IC – Dirkins, Bulgarian Split Squats and Freak Nasty, Step Ups

    Rips – Supermans x 10, run stairs, 10 Calf raises at top, 10 Rocky Balboa’s.

    Run back to Marsh for a Mary of 30 LBC’s IC.

    Count, Name – and Waterpik prayed us out.

    Announcements – Whacker camping trip in Kokomo early November – check slack.

    Thank for the post fella’s – SYITG – Akbar

  • Grannies BLT – from Akbar

    Grannies BLT

    Nothing like a BLT sandwich on a hot summer day, but it’s also good on a cool fall morning. Especially after a ridiculous IPC finale consisting mostly of Chest, Shoulders, and Back. Our BLT this gloom was Biceps, Legs, and Triceps and was enjoyed at our close neighborly AO, Grandmothers House. We did have a little chest action for desert.

    Warm Up
    SSH, Grass Grabbers, Imperial Walkers, Toe Touches SSH, Arm Circles, Self Love, Copperhead Squats

    Mosey to the playground for 3x 5 pull ups, 10 squats

    Mosey to Grannies, stopping along the way for Copperhead Squats and Mountain Climbers at each block.

    Grannies visit

    Benches: Freak Nasties and Bulgarian Split Squats x 10 IC

    Pilot House: 11’s Peter Parkers at bottom, run stairs, Sister Mary Catherin’s at the top – 2=1

    Stage: Superman’s and Merkins x10 IC, x8IC

    Grass Patch: Star Jumps, Karaoke to other side for something else, return x 2

    Benches: Freak Nasties/Wife Pleasers x 10 IC, x 8 IC

    Mosey back to the Marsh stopping at 3 intersections for ab work x 10 IC – LBC, Flutter Kicks

    Circle up for a 30 second plank, and we called it a day.

    Count, Name, and Moby Dick prayed us out.

    Announcements – Whacker camping trip Saturday Nov. 4-5, 1 night in Kokomo

    Thanks for the post guys, and the opportunity to lead.

    SYITG – Akbar