Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: November 8, 2016

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Turtles

Leroy Brown, otherwise know as Encyclopedia Brown, had one helluva  stumper on his hands Friday morning as a group of grizzled men slowly paced to and fro as the smell of future sweat churned in the air.  One glance at the lowly box of salted caramel turtles that rested gently in the middle of the arena, Leroy Brown feared his Q would either end in pure savagery or the disappearance of all six packs known to the group…..to be continued.

WARMUP:
Flutterkicks 15 in cadence
LBCs 15 in cadence
Freddi Mercury 15 in cadence
Box Cutters 15 in cadence
Merkins 15 in cadence
Squats 15 in cadence

PLEDGE

THE THANG
Run around 2 Blocks
Wall Sits, Shoulder Press 10 in cadence
Hip Slappers 10 in cadence
Run to Pavillion, deep sea divers

12 stations:
4 blocks, 4 bricks, 4 body weight

1 minute per exercise, move clockwise to next pain station.

Cinder Blocks: Squats, Curls, Shoulder Press, Rocky Balboa
Bricks: Speedbags, American Hammer, Bent Rows, something else
Body Weight: Merkin, Dying Cockroach, Lunge, Flutterkicks

Run around 2 blocks & repeat:
Cinder Blocks: Squats, Curls, Shoulder Press, Rocky Balboa
Bricks: Speedbags, American Hammer, Bent Rows, something else
Body Weight: Merkin, Dying Cockroach, Lunge, Flutterkicks

We had 1 minute remaining to hammer out some Peter Parkers and Don Quixotes.

COT: Floppy Disk’s Wife and Family, my 2.0

Great start to Friday!

Hodor and Jack

In an effort to generate some more interest at TheStorm AO, I pre-blasted that I had something special today. It was all a ploy to see who might show-nothing special, just a good old-fashioned beatdown planned. The weather has been just right and I think I have finally recovered from the extra hour of sleep from Daylight Savings so I was looking forward to getting out there on a day I don’t usually make it.

At 530A we started with a mosey to the baseball field to load some cinder blocks for the upcoming CSAUP. They were put into Freight’s sled so he could deliver to the CSAUP on Friday. He was probably a little late to work so I’m going to count him as being “sort-of” present for today’s workout-thanks Freight. Can’t wait for Friday so we can get a good “Midorymama heat” experience Downtown when you Q. Dolph mentioned he was going to wear something special…..let’s see if he delivers. #gottaleaveearlyifhedoes

After the mosey and quick block work (apologies to BA-should have done something besides carry them to the truck), we did a quick disclaimer then finished the WU with 10 IC SSH, Squats, Mtn Climbers, Flutter Kicks (?20-25ish), Imperial Walkers, then Merkins. We finished the WU with 5 burpees OYO then did a short mosey with buttkickers, high knees, slide this way, slide that way, karaoke, then mosey to the wall outside the weight room. No keys to the weight room so had to sweat it out in the cooler weather. Somebody send BA some flowers and a box of candy so he makes sure not to miss a winter workout once it is cold-the weight room sure looked comfy today.

My pre blast showed a pic from Game of Thrones-my latest attempt at reading a book series-HOLY NUTS it is long-think I am on page 2,300-something and have a long way to go. There is a guy named Hodor that is somewhat of a mental midget and carries around a crippled character. This was my motivation for the workout. We did a Hodor Hip Slapping Escalator Down exercise. Partner up, 10 Hip Slappers, Hodor Carry partner about 40 yards (second island in parking lot) then both mosey back. Hodor Carry is either piggy back or fireman carry. I was lucky enough to have Mayor on my back and got to hear about the games he and Dolph have played in the past….#comeinTokyo. I made that trip as fast as I could-was wondering if I was going to need some vaseline before it was all over. Good thing it was cold out…..We did 4 trips I think (2 each) with Hip Slappers X 10, 8, 6, then 10. For the record, we voted on the # reps for last one (it is election day, isn’t it??) but only Dolph (maybe Huckleberry also???) spoke up so we did what he said….

Next we moseyed around the school to the back lot (Dolph demonstrated some fine hurdling skills) and considered climbing the wooden platform that could have been a lot of fun and dangerous. Brought back memories of “hey y’all watch this. Figured we didn’t want to get booted from this AO or end up in the ER just yet so we passed on that. Once at the back, we met Jack Webb-no one knew who Jack Webb was so we did a full set of 10 Jack Webbs. I offered a 2 point discount but was not gonna happen today. Look it up, may come in handy in the future. After the Jack Webbs, we partnered up again (different partners) and did 2 minutes of AMRAP for 3 exercises (with a short break in middle cause the Q was in pain) separated by short mosey, jump up on the loading dock, then Hodor carry partner down the ramp. We did Merkins, SSH, then Flutter kicks. Don’t think I really liked 2 minutes of SSH so that will definitely be in the future again.

We moseyed back to the front with a short people’s chair on the way, then did some wall work. I again put it to a vote: donkey kicks or hip slappers…..and the winner was….both. Thanks guys for not wussing out. Suspect the guys at Midorymama would have just done 1 or the other, certainly not both. We finished with the wall work then moseyed to the flag for Mary (5 reps of something by all present-can’t remember all of them but I know someone, maybe Mayor, did V ups and we finished with Huckleberry’s Burpees).

We finished with the Pledge, announcements, namorama, and a COT/prayer. Glad to report that Floppy Disk’s wife did well this past week and hopeful for those on IR to return safely soon.

If posting this week and able, please bring Chicken Noodle soup, gatorade,…liquid nutrition stuff when you post for my 2.0’s Girl Scout Project for Silver Award.

Great work today guys. Again, don’t forget about Freight posting Friday AM and bringing the Midorymama heat….

Whoopee

Saturday Stroll

6 faithful High Impact Men hung in there with me this past Saturday.

I forgot to call it on Twitter beforehand, but decided to get in a pre-warmup mile.  I’ve really been pushing myself more thanks to great running tips from Whoopie and JK2 about thinking FAST thoughts (deer, squirrels, jets, drag racers) and controlling breathing.  This has helped me immensely to gain endurance and stamina!  I also decided to distract myself by singing in my head, but being the musician that I am, couldn’t keep it in. So anyone around Grier Middle School at 0645 on Saturday heard a really bad broken up breathy version of Eye Of The Tiger! As I reached the climax of the chorus on the home stretch down the hill “…watching us all with the eyyyyyyyyyeeee…..” I hear someone yell across Garrison Blvd “…OF THE TIGER!!!”  Unbeknownst to me, JK2 also was taking a pre-warmup run!

We met some more HIMs at the AO and got a 2 minute late start on:

SSH IC x 20, Moroccan NightClub IC x50, Plank Jack IC x20, Imperial Walker IC x25, LBC IC x15 & American Hammer IC x30

A little mosey to the flag pole to salute Old Glory and then we moseyed back up to Grier Middle football field.

The Thang

I chose team and partner exercises and we ran half lap to the other goal post in between — WalkerStrong, 2 sets of Partner Derkins x 10 , 2 sets of Partner WallSit @ 30 seconds and Bropees x 10

Then taking advantage of the picnic tables we alternated a lap down steps, around behind the dugout and back up (if you are familiar with the AO you hate that hill!!) with: Stepups starting with Right leg x 30, Stepups starting with left leg x 30, Derkins x 30 and Dips x 30. There was still plenty of time for a little Ring Of Fire.  YHC cannot do math whilst working out so I screwed up the count at the beginning, but we went with rounds of merkins for each number 1-6.

We moseyed back to the parking lot with a quick salute to traffic with Monkey Humpers IC x 10.

With still plenty of time, we headed down the monster hill at the nature trail for some random Mary-ish exercises.  Merkins IC x 10, Flutter Kick IC x 50 (thanks JK2 for calling this one), Imperial Walkers IC x20 (thanks ShortSale for calling this one).  We had just enough time to climb the hill and finish off with 10 Burpees OYO.  The bells of freedom rang at about #7, but we all finished anyway.  Thanks to this great bunch of men who push me into better physical and mental shape!

Prayer requests for Spiderman’s daughter, our country for election day (and after), men on the IR.  Don’t forget “The Climb” CSAUP next weekend!! All reconvened for Coffeteria and an impromptu 3rd F led by Sledge-O-Matic.

YHC — DaVinci

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