Day: December 22, 2021

6 HIM posted to the southernmost AO in all the region for some low impact but hard work today. As YHC pulled up, over 5 minutes early I might add, the PAX were lugging kettlebells and stuff out of their cars. They didn’t need them today. This is what happened…

No disclaimer, all veteran PAX

Pledge of Allegiance

Warm Up – Don Quixote to Abe Vigoda, Goofballs too

Walk over to the parking lot for Apple Turnovers. Bear crawl three spaces, switch to crab walk for 3, back and forth to the end of the lot.

Stay there for Bat Wings. Arms out for 20 Forward arm circles, hold, 20 backward, hold, 20 Seal Claps, hold, 20 overhead claps. Feel the burn

Walk to the covered area at the other end for the The Thang.

The 12-21-21

Yep, that was today’s date, the shortest day of light of the year. Partner up and while #1 goes around the loop, # does exercises. It’s like Dora but it’s not.

120 Sweat Angels

210 Jingle Balls

210 Randy’s

Walk over to the foggy greenhouse thing by the cafeteria for a round of Little Merkin Boy. Hold plank during Bing Crosby’s “Little Drummer Boy” and do a merkin every time they say “pa rum pa pum pum”. Feel the burn.

Walk to the start for a couple rounds of Mary to finish up. Great work men!

This AO a lot of fun if you give it a try and these guys are up for more moving around that you might think! Thanks to Time Frame for leading this AO for quite a while. It’s time to pass the torch and he’s looking to give another willing PAX the opportunity to keep this AO awesome. Who is up for the challenge?

Announcements – Convergence at Midoriyama January 1st at 7:00, Half Marathon in Biloxi, Smokey Mountain Relay last weekend in April

Prayers=- Those travelling during holidays, Covid, Tube’s friend’s mom had stroke, many PAX know folks with cancer, Turtleman may return in March!!!

It was an honor to lead today men, thank you for the push! AYE!!!

34 degrees and clear morning on this Monday morning before Christmas.  An excellent way to prepare for the sugarplums and fruit cake we are all sure to enjoy later this week.

It was really great to see the guys, some have been longer between than others but none the less great to see all.

5:30

Pledge

Relocate to the bank parking lot next door in efforts to not be on the shores of Lake Whoopeegonnagetcha.  Some mumblechatter about the roughness of the parking lot  but we all prevailed in champion fashion.

Some stretching and a few yoga poses were preformed in order to get us warmed and going.

Over to the BOA (yes, another bank) parking lot for the thang.

The theme was the Walls of Jericho.  This consisted of 7 trips around the bank stopping at each of the 4 corners for some exercises.

Corners 1-3 were 7 reps each of 7 different exercises.

SSH

Squats

Plank Jax

Merkins

LBC’s

Heels to Heaven

Windshield Wipers

In turn 4 we did 5 burpees.

All pushed hard, talked some junk, got a sweat going, acted a little stupid, and had a great start to the week.

Arrived back at the flag 2 mins early where Watts Up called approx. 30 IC flutters until time.

Announcements

Sat Jan 1, 7am Convergence at Madoriyama

Prayers

Watts Up’s daughter and family

Stinky Birds friend going through a rough time

Gastone’s friends

Thank you for the opportunity.

Merry Christmas

AYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Timeframe

The gloom was gloomier than usual at The Ricky Bobby this morning.  Something was off.  Every Wednesday morning, the soccer field is reliably illuminated as “The Sentinel” walks the track.  If you’ve ever posted here, you’ve seen him.  But today, the lights were off, the field was dark, and The Ricky Bobby seemed as dark as Tequila Sunrise.  OK, not really that bad, but close.  At 0529, 3 HIM’s emerged from the shadows and commented on the eerie atmosphere sans-Sentinel as the clock ticked over to 0530.  Let’s get going!

Warm up with SSH (in a cadence that continued until Bubba Sparxxx got his gloves on) and Hillbilly walkers (15xIC), then a one-minute chop-chop drill:  PAX circle up and “chop chop” (Boudin called it something different that I can’t remember) until Q calls “Up” or “Down” and PAX respond with either 2 high-knees jumps (Up) or burpee (Down) for a total of one minute.  It’s a really long minute but gets the blood flowing on a cold morning.

The Thang:
Partner up.  Partner 1 lunge-walks while Partner 2 runs around pre-positioned orange cones (a little further than to the edge of the covered walkway and back).  Before switching, partners do 10 hand-slap or “boo-ja” merkins.  1 full lap was a lot of lunge-walking, so before round 2, partners wheelbarrow to the middle cone (about halfway down the walkway) and back.  Then, rinse and repeat the lunge-walk relay with hand-slap Big Boys before partners switch.

Next, circle up for some PAX choice exercises.  One calls an exercise while the PAX to his left runs to the far cone and back.  Second round is Carioca to the cone and back.  Next three rounds are bear crawl twice around the circle.  This was dubbed “Crawl ‘n’ Call.”  There were lots of ab exercises plus several variations of merkins and squats mixed in.  The last 5 minutes went by pretty fast.

Announcements:
Convergence Jan. 1 7:00 am Midoriyama
Rice & Beans – see Tiger or Slack
Grow Ruck – late March in Greenville, NC
Other CSAUP events – check Slack

Prayers:
Bubba Sparxxx’s brother-in-law, spine surgery
Gator’s coworker whose mother passed away
Boudin traveling
All those with stress and anxiety during holidays

As always, a privilege to lead!

 – Nutria