Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: October 29, 2016

Sprints and Burpees

As YHC composes this BB, he must apologize for the tardiness of the post. The guys at Midoriyama are renowned for their pathetic counting, now it seems as if their memory is starting to fail as well. Huckleberry asked YHC to pick up the Q due to a last minute schedule conflict. After agreeing to Q, YHC had little time to come up with a great Weinke. YHC went back to basics with this one. No FNG’s present, so with the usual disclaimer, YHC led 9 other HIMs through the afternoon Midoriyama gloom (that’s not a thing, just sounded kinda cool. The weather was great, actually!).

Pledge

Warmup:

  • SSH
  • Moroccan NC (until Billy Madison joined the PAX)
  • Imperial Walkers
  • Don Quixotes

The Thang:

First up were Rugby Sprints. YHC picked these up from our brothers at the Deep. All PAX line up side by side facing in the same direction. At his discretion, Q calls an exercise. PAX begin the exercise to a random count until Q calls “SPRINT!”. PAX then sprint approx. 25-30 yards away then sprint back to start line. PAX then slow mosey back to other end of the 30 yard mark. Q then calls new exercise at a random count then rinse and repeat the sprinting. Thanks to Crabcakes at the deep for this one! Exercises were Merkins, Werkins, Mountain Climbers, LBC’s and Flutter Kicks. After 2 rounds, Billy Madison self-reported an attack of SV and headed home. Hope you get better, Billy! See you next time.

YHC decided to do a little “Turd Shack Tango”. PAX got on the wall at the Turd Shack and performed 10 Mike Tysons IC. PAX then lunge walk around the shack then performed 10 Hip Slappers IC. Lunge walk around again. Next was 30 sec wall sit then lunge walk around one last time.

Mosey to play ground and partner up. Partner 1 does 5 pull ups, partner 2 – 10 Merkins. Switch and repeat. PAX then rinse and repeat but sub Diamond Merkins for Merkins. Rinse and repeat but sub Military Merkins for Diamond Merkins.

Mosey back to flag for 4 count Burpee beatdown. PAX slit into 4 two man teams. Team one starts the Burpee. Team two begins their Burpee when team one is almost finished with theirs. Team three follows team two, team four follows team three. Once team four is finished, that counts as one Burpee. Q announced this would be performed until Q calls it.Through mucho mumble chatter and a constant struggle to accelerate/decelerate the pace, the PAX pushed through 12 minutes of Burpees! We lost count after 100. Way to push, men!

Sensing an impending mutiny, YHC called for more Rugby Sprints. One round of Merkins, one round of LBC’s.

Walk back to the Flag for some Mary. YHC cannot remember them all, but does remember Parker Peters, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, High Plank Hold, WW1’s and 5 Burpees OYO (thanks Lil’ Sweet!). YHC attempted to introduce an 8 count ab exercise called the Dr. W. Look it up on the Lexicon. After a demo, YHC got the “are you kidding” and “I don’t think so” stares from the PAX. It is an 8 count exercise, and we have a hard time getting to 4 at Midoiyama! YHC Omaha’d to Michael Phelps flutter kicks instead.

Finished up with 22 Merkins for the Vets.

Announcements:

CSAUP in 2 weeks, Advisory board meeting 10/30 @19:00 at On the Border.

Prayer requests:

Floppy Disk’s M and their family. Tool Time and his calf (muscle, not cow), Def Leppard (broke toe). Others were mentioned and YHC apologizes for not being able to remember them.

Thank you men for allowing me to lead. The men of Midoriyama are an awesome group of men, and YHC is proud to be one of them! Keep pushing the rock, men!

AYE!

Slaw

HALLOWEEN and the Ghost Beaver

Thursday in the gloom found me stand by my lonesome in downtown Cramerton. Where is everybody? Don’t tell me I’m posting alone AGAIN!!! From around the corner Radar appears like a ninja. Pleasantries were exchanged and we wondered if we should go home since it was just the two of us. About that time a hooded figure wandered up from the other direction. Who’s that?!? Top Hat!!! Aye, threes company and the event is on.

No disclaimer other than I’m an idiot.

Warmup

Sun Gods x10 IC, MNC x20 IC, CDD x10 IC, American Hammer x10 IC, Goof Balls x10 IC

Pledge

From there we moseyed to the other side of the street near the bridge for The Thang. YHC figured this would be the last workout he’d Q before the great candy day so I tried to get creative and came up with the HALLOWEEN workout. It went something like this.

H – Howling Monkeys, this was like ring of fire except the exercise was Monkey Humpers. Each PAX would perform 10 while the others held the position. Rinse and repeat.

A – ABC’s, spell out the alphabet with your feet IC.

L – La La Leggy, 10 squats, 10 lunges each leg, 10 drop lunges, 10 squat jumps, 10 calf raises

Then we moseyed to the other end of the bridge for a change of scenery.

L – LBFCs, little baby flutter crunches x15 IC.

O – One Call, apparently someone in another region got fed up with his PAX slacking off and performing merkins like a 3rd grader would. To ensure good form, he came up with the One Call- from the plank position, drop to your chest, then lift your hands off the ground, extend back up, and do a Floyd Mayweather with each arm. That’s one rep. We did 10 IC.

W – Walkerstrong, imperial walkers for 2 minutes with the last 30 seconds AMRAP.

E – Elevens, I gave the PAX the choice of exercises on each end. Radar chose plank jacks, Top Hat went with sweat angels.We did these with about a 25 yard run in between. This is where some weird stuff happened. On the first or second round there was a huge splash right beside the bridge but we didn’t see anything in the water. What could it be? Maybe this bridge is becoming haunted!

After the work was done on this routine, we slow moseyed back across the bridge and noticed something down on the bank, the biggest beaver YHC had ever seen! Maybe this is what casued the splash earlier. We stayed strong, fought the urge and held back on the obvious beaver jokes.

E – Escalator, 10 jump ups, 20 burpees, 30 merkins, 40 squats, omaha the last set of 50 lunge walks due to time.

N – Never Cross Dolly, this is like good morning dolly where you move your legs out and in. The tough part is you hold the iron cross (arms out to side) while doing the dollys. We did 5 of these and that’s all she wrote. HALLOWEEN, nothing too scary about it.

Great work men, I enjoyed pushing the rock with you this morning. AYE!!!

Prayer requests: Bandit’s family, T Square’s family, Basil Merritt in Belmont, our country.

Close with prayer.

Bootcamp Tour of Belmont

7 Brave souls fought off the urge to fartsack on this beautiful fall morning.  Pax straggled in one by one with a “new” face from Rock Hill in the mix – Vuvuzela.  I thought perhaps we may have an attempted coup on the ghost flag (which is at the gas house today) but actually just a friendly fire invite from DDC.

 

Began workout with pledge and disclaimer then moseyed to picnic tables for warmup.

 

Warmup:

SSHx 20

Don Quixote x15

Imperial Walker x 15

Mountain Climbers x 15

Merkins x 10

LBC x 20

Toy soldiers x 10

Thang:Although I was tempted to run for an hour straight with temps approaching 60 and not a cloud in sky I decided that except for Keesh (who had just run 10 before the workout) that we would probably have a coup on our hands therefore the moseying was broken up into 4 venues around Belmont

First stop-  Belmont Middle School for some wall work 2 sets of each of the following:

Wall sits with 25 Moroccan NC, 10 Donkey Kicks, 10 Hip Slappers

Second venue: Davis Park to rattle the bleachers with 2 sets of the following:

Dips x 15,  Step ups right then left 15 each, Derkins x 10

Third Stop: the outfield(ok so this wasn’t exactly a great distance away) – for some ab work 3 sets of lounge walking to 5 different exercises – 10 Freddie Mercury, 20 American Hammers, 30 LBC, 40 Flutter kicks and 50 Mountain Climbers

Finally Mosey back to school ball field to do some starfish work – Merkins in center with Squats, Dying Cockroaches, Bobby Hurleys, and SSH on points – apparently this was a “special ” starfish with only 4 arms.  We did 15 seconds AMAP at each station.  Fortunately for the pax (?unfortunately) we ran out of time otherwise we were to increase by 15 seconds at each station until getting to 1 miniute of each.

Therefore – back to home base for COT and namorama.

Announcements: CSAUP sign up for Climb (Nov 11, 12)

Prayer Requests:

Floppy Disc’s M about to have surgery, Bandit’s family, Friend battling cancer

 

Hope all have great weekend – As always the pleasure/honor was mine to lead this morning.

 

Defib

 

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