Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: December 10, 2019

Drink Up

Watts Up led us off with a few rounds in Cadence.  Next thing you know he had the Bootcamp moseying away, leaving me with a thirsty pack of Painlab ready to start drinking.  Well, we would have started a bit sooner had I not forgot to set out the mini station weinke’s in advance.  Taking note of how many HIM’s we had for Painlab, we added a few kettlebells to the rounds.

Linus has no music, Q fail noted, Rudolph to the rescue.  His phone had no issues telling us it was cold.  No worries, we had plenty of alcohol on hand.  First round was working with Cases of Coors, not the light variety.  Best I can tell we completed two rounds of the following:

Heels to Sky x 25

Merkins or Block Merkins x 25

LBC’s x 35

Flutterkicks x 100 (sgl count)

Overhead Block Press x 25

Big Boy Sit Up’s x 25

Block Squats x 25

Curls x 25

Kettlebell Swings x 25

Something else x 25

In between each set was a 20 yard mosey (however mosey you feel) and complete one flying squirrel.  Double back and drink some more.  Rudolph had me doing anything but slow mosey which included some Nur and Karaoke.

Getting a bit tipsey it is time to journey on to the bar crawl.  Taking our not needed Coors cases with us, we slow mosey down the Schiele trail to our two bar bridges.

Still managing to hold my merlot, we started a bar crawl named one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.  Ie, One exercise, one constant, one ascending burpee.  These essentially sucked, and this is how we partake.

Homer Marge IC

20 Dying Cockroach

1 Burpee

Mosey to next bar:

Squats IC

20 Dying CR

2 Burpees

Mosey……..

Merkins IC

20 Dying CR

3 Burpees

Mosey……..

CDD’s IC

20 Dying CR

4 Burpees

Mosey……..

Boxcutters IC

20 Dying CR

5 Burpees

Lunge Walk Mosey to the last bar (you can about imagine how this looked)

20 Dying CR

6 Burpees

Still about 12 minutes on hand changed to some Partner AMRAP’s.

Partner one KLAW about 3/4 up the hill, Partner two AMRAP American Hammer

Rinse and Repeat with V-up’s.

Good enough to sober us up a bit to drive back, take what’s left of the Coors and bring them back home.  I’m not a traditional Painlab attendee, but I love Q’ing this group.

Until the next time.

Aye…..Linus

Oompa looks like a deer going off to die!

As we are assembling, Oompa Loompa looks in bed of my truck to see … Coupons! And decides he’s taking a zero on today’s “Pop” quiz!
As he wanders to the track …. with the fog settling in Linus suddenly remarks how Oompa looks just like a deer heading off into the woods to die!!
Pledge disclaimer no fngs off we go…
(Gump would arrive a little after the warm up … his warm up consisted of a short walk across the street ( from Kinmere!!) and he’d do this afterwards!
MNC. IC 13x
imperial walkers IC 13X
Side straddle hops 13 x
Merkins IC 13x
Lbcs IC 13x Mayor had us all move under shelter so his pants wouldn’t get wet!
We then repeated all 5 to the same tune

Grab a coupon grab a partner ( I had none until Gump would arrive ) but there were 3 exercises called each time and you and your partner would half the number together …. 104 for each called exercise
Round 1 tricep extension/curls/ swings
Then we lunged to light pole and lunges back
Round 2 press /curls/ pull throughs ( or push)
Lunge
Round 3 curls / squats/ lay on ground for chest press and lunge
Found 4 repeats last set and lunge for time!

Everyone seemed moderately confused and kept thinking maybe if we half the half of the half or the third …. there were some mentions of obscene math problems …. but
There were 5 exercises in the warm up done 2 times
They were done in cadence ( meaning double numbers ) 13x …. translates to 26 two times
Distance for lunges was 7 parking spaces which roughly translates to 52 feet
With your partner … you should only have been doing 1/2 of each exercise (104) …. which is 52

Today I celebrate 52 years circling the sun

Announcements Gump at the Yank with 6:00 start due to Santa Hustle traffic
Christmas town ruck tomorrow .. check pre blast
Toys 4 tots drive and Freight at Gashouse for food drive

Prayers for Mayors neighbor with breast cancer to start treatments soon
Dry Rubs M at CMC
Gump … kids and testing
Outhouse father in law falling pretty well banged up and will be sore for some time

Still not old enough for the senior discount … but I can wait ….. til next time !!

No Sleep ’til Brooklyn

So, I have been so super stressed lately working on Christmas orders for a side business I have making things (like Cigar Box Guitars and hollowed out book safes, and things with damaged vinyl records). My day job is kicking into high gear (which it’s always in at least 4th or 5th gear anyways, so maybe someone (me) managed to hit the turbocharger). I have also had Beastie Boys music stuck in my head, at random times, for weeks now.

Monday of this week was nuts and I managed to upset my wife before she went to bed, over something completely stupid (brain was more than shot and I seriously was not thinking). I then stared at the clock last night and did not sleep at all. I went to be around 10pm. I looked at the clock at 11pm, 12:30am, 1am, 2am, 4am, and finally got up at 4:30am for the 5:30am workout.

The Thang:

  • 15 Side Straddle Hops – in cadence
  • 15 pansy pickers – in cadence
  • 15 mnt man poopers – in cadence

Mosey to the street.

We tried doing an Indian run with 5 Flying Squirrels (or Burpees), 5 Bobby Hurleys, and 10 Goof Balls… but this is a new concept for some of the Pax in attendance. We barely made it with all the Pax getting thru the Burpees/Squirrels and the run to the top of the hill.

Pledge!

We did two rounds of Iron Hulks “Man, those are easy. You ain’t got no weight” typically says no one… though I think Volt said it in jest this morning.

We moseyed to the adjacent parking lot.

I tried calling an arm and shoulder workout, an ab work out, and then 40 fast high knees. We definitely got the 40 fast high knees in, but the rest was a combination of Merkins, LBCs, Flutters, Mountain Climbers, Peter Parkers, Jump Squats, Stogie-fied Mike Tyson’s (horizontal plank to a horizontal squat – no push-up). We mostly did 20 of these other exercises.

We ran back to start and I had to leave to fix breakfast and help get my kids ready for school . I left Montross and Tater Hole in charge to finish out the last 15 minutes of the workout with some “mary” and the COT.

I had a wienke  prepped, but when I saw Hacksaw and Roadie show up I tried to switch things up from my original plans (make things not so “JV”). I think a combination of this and the lack of sleep caught up to me, as I paid more attention to the Pax than I did myself (my personal limitations). I wanted to push them which in-turn almost caused the Q to splash merlot on the mosey back to the parking lot. My cheap ECG Watch was already vibrating a couple of times during the workout to tell me my heart rate was spiking, but I pushed on – trying to keep up. The Pax there held me to what I called, and also helped calling out exercises when my sleep deprived brain decided to fart out whatever I was about to say, sometimes during mid sentence. Even though the workout wasn’t as “turri-bull” as some of the other workouts I have attended… thank you for supporting and pushing me… and allowing me to try doing the same for you.

See you around.

~Stogie

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