Day: December 24, 2021

It was the perfect opportunity for 19 HIM to get better Downtown today. This is what happened…

Circle up beside the Rotary pavilion that is home to the beautiful Christmas tree.

Disclaimer

Pledge of Allegiance

Warmup – Goofballs, that is all

Mosey west toward US Hwy 321 for the first round of pain.

Route 66 – Do a merkin at each pole, increasing by one at each successive one.

Arrive at the front steps of First ARP Church. YHC felt, in order to prepare ourselves for the anticipated celebration tomorrow, that it was appropriate to read scripture from Luke 2:1-7. I encourage you all to do the same again.

Head to the most primo parking lot in all the land here on the church property for a Triple Nickel. At one end do 5 Jingle Balls (making sure not to do Parker Peters), run to the next island, do 1 burpee, keep going to the next island for Star Crunches. Do that x5.

Mosey back toward home base, stopping at McQuiter’s wall for the second reading from the Gospel according to Luke chapter 2 verses 8-12. Read it for your selves. We did 20 step ups each leg.

Mosey to the top of parking deck for the final reading. Luke 2:13-20 – This is our Lord’s birthday celebration!

The Thang – The Top to Bottom

Because the date is December 24th, we would do 12 Hallelujah squats at the top, run the stairs down and do 24 Heels to Heaven, then take the long way back up. Keep doing this until YHC says to stop. After the first round of this we switched the direction to go up the stairs and down the long way. We got in at least 3 full rounds of said routine.

Mosey back to the start through a previously unknown alley due to construction fencing impeding our route the other way. Time!

Announcements – Convergence at Midoriyama January 1st

Prayer Requests – EZ Rider’s coworker who had a stroke, Big Pappy’s 2.0 with covid, Orangeman’s family with covid, Dirt’s mother in law, Mayor’s friend’s recovery from surgery, CMPD, JJ’s brother in law’s father passed, Bartender at Primal’s family, those who struggle this time of year for various reasons

Moleskin – I wanted the Q for Christmas Eve because it’s a special day and the height of anticipation for a lot of us and those we love. Weeks and months of preparation and celebration on many fronts do make this the most wonderful time of year, as the song goes. Let’s stay focused on why we celebrate this special day though men. This is the birthday of our one true hope, Jesus. All the ancillary benefits of time with family and friends, good food, and all the rest are great but let’s not allow that to take our attention off of what we should be paying attention to. If you need a reminder, just read Luke 2:1-20, that will set you straight.

Thank you for the opportunity to lead! AYE!!!

So YHC was up at Tequila Sunrise on this Christmas Eve, and one where at 7 am we would see the light for the first time in a while at the AO. So it was determined to be a get with it workout. Our Folsom brothers had posted at Downtown earlier so for them quite a hearty day for sure! Went like this as we headed to the filed, a crowd of 22 pax to do this ting.

COP:

SSH X 20

IW X 20

Grasspickers X 20

Grapevines

Mtn. Climbers

Pick a partner and time for some Kevorkians, partner assisted suicides as follows:

Round 1 – HR merkins

Round 2 – Jumps squats

Round 3 – CDDS

Round 4 – Big boy situps.

P1 – Run to the first goal and drop and do 5 of the called work, go to the end goal and drop and do 10. Run back to P2.

P2 – Do the called work the whole time.

Plank up and wait for six each round and then restart as a unit.

Over to the monkey bars, count off by 4s.

1s – Pull ups , 10X

2s – LBCs, 10X

3s  – Merkins, 10X

4s – Run across the field.

Go through each of these 3 times.

Assemble on the side of the field for some work.

5 burpees, start line, middle of field, other side,  lunge walk, mosey back.

Heels to heaven X 10 same as above, Broad jump across.

Count off by 2s, line up for bear crawl slalom, YHC on one end (1s)(back), our 2022 Nantan Sargento on the other. Then we did our thing and wore out the rest of the pax in the process. Again, as Bear Bryant said, winning is not imperative but getting tougher in the 4th quarter is! We were doing it.

Got a few minutes left so we did the following:

SSH X 10

Grass drill/chop-chop X 10

Hold plank for 2 minutes and finish!

Pledge, coffee at HT since we had a big crew today.

NMM:

Great work today by the guys! Enjoyed the opportunity to lead this group. Gives me inspiration to do this and to be better. We’ve all had a difficult 2 years and it shows. But we’re going to be the guys who lead us back.

As I said in my GTE 24 AAR  I will look back on these difficult times and think that I was fortunate to be in the company of such men who stood up and led when the world needed them to.

God bless all of you and keep pushing the rock! This is what matters.

Tesla

11 Boneheads showed up for my Christmas themed workout at the Goat. Nothing was really coming to me when I was working on my weinke, so I just went with something easy, on paper anyway. It was cold and I’m not sure I will ever get used to the cold, but this am seemed colder than usual. We started with a disclaimer and quick warmup then headed up the street past Floyd and Blackies. On the way we started to get a little spread out so we stopped at a light for some squats. We headed up into a parking lot then I was informed one side of the lot was an apartment complex so we quietly moseyed across the street to a church with a nice parking lot and the group was informed of the plan: the Christmas themed workout would be based on a Christmas movie we all know and love: DieHard. We started up by the church with a nice wall and did 10 reps of the “D” exercise then took a lap around the lot. Once we all returned we did 10 reps each of the “D” and “I” exercises then took another lap. Once we all returned we did 10 reps of the “D” then the “I” then the “E” exercises then took a lap. This continued until we finished all exercises as below:

D-Donkey Kicks     I-Imperial Walkers     E-Eight Count Body Builders     H-Hand Release Merkins which changed to Humpers, the monkey variety after the first round.     A-Ass slappers (similar to HIP SLAPPERS), however Tesla had to be cautioned multiple times to slap his own ass.     R-Reverse Lunge     D-Deconstructed Burpees

This took longer than I expected which actually worked out pretty well for me since I had nothing else planned. We moseyed slowly back and got 3 burpees at each light and took the long way around the Goat park. Once back to start we had time for some Mary then called it a day.

Great group of guys out here today. Everyone pushed the rock and more than half of us went to Floyd and Blackies for a little fellowship. It’s times like these I realize how much more this morning routine is than just some exercise group. It was nice to just slow down for the morning and hear about what is going on with everyone. We saw a few of the M’s coming in for coffee and 2-3 Pubbers coming over for fellowship and some blade sharpening.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead and for the guys who posted on a cold morning.

Whoopee

Talked one of our brothers from the North to come down and across the river to Q at The Yank.  Gnarley Goat has been around a while and was open to the idea right away when we discussed open dates.  The weather was the weather for this time of year.  Cool, wet, chance of rain leading up to and through the day 80%.  Did we get wet?  Not really unless you were counting sweat.

Warm up at the flag by Nutria our Bunker Q.

SSH and Moroccan Night Clubs and that was all I remember before we split and went our different directions.  Nutria, Doodles and Voodoo headed to the shelter on top of the hill.  The rest of us headed up main street to look for fire hydrants.  Gnarley Goat retired a few years ago from Charlotte Fire so he had us catching fire hydrants.  We ran hydrant to hydrant up main street stopping at each one to knock out the called exercise.  There were merkins, LBCs, squats, monkey humpers, step ups and more as we made our way up to the popcorn factory and back to the park.

Now for the fun part, Heaven to Hell.  GG had us start at the playground with one pull up followed by a run across the tracks to Twisted Sugar for some deep stretching.  There was more groaning and chatter at the stretching than at the pullup bars. Back to the playground for five rounds increasing your pull ups by one each time.

Next round toes to bar replaced the pull up.  This one was new to some of us and a challenge for most.  Except for the back flip Gator pulled off during his dismount.  Kids…

With five minutes on the clock we hit the hill for a quick triple nickel before making our way back to The Fighting Yank to meet the Bunker men.

Great group of guys came out.  The stretching was a great addition to the workout.  It was nice to have a Q join us from another region to mix it up a bit.

Enjoy your day!

BOS for Gnarley Goat