Month: April 2022 (Page 8 of 10)

Warm up: SSH x15, Hillbilly walkers x15, Toy soldiers x10, Gravel pickers x10

Route 66 – burpees, downhill around Rankin Elementary

11’s – Diamond merkins and Bobby Hurleys , downtown

Captain Thor 1:4 big boys and American hammers, behind the bank (note: stay clear of the corner for early morning ATM users)

Mary, bear crawl around circle while others complete exercise

Announcements: Adopt a highway clean up at GasHouse 4/16, Rice and Beans sign up contact Virus, 2nd F lunch at Ray Nathans on 4/21 (Thursday this month), Honeyhunters game 4/24, Sunrise Easter service at Mclean marina

Prayer requests: Hufstetler family, Pax on IR, Turtleman, Big Pappy, Broke

This was a high intensity work out. Honored to lead these men.

-Gator

YHC keeps telling Flintstone that Monday is a rest day.  But with the Never Miss a Monday chant heard around town how can you not go once in a while?  So, on vacation eve YHC took the Q to start vacation off right.

Nine men joined me in starting their week off by posting at Sandlot.

Warm Up:

15 SSH / Grass Pickers / Imperial Walkers /   Plank Jacks & Moroccan Night Clubs in cadence.

Arm/Shoulder Stretch and R over L and L over R Leg stretches.

Whoopee announced a ruck/ sandbag beatdown the night before and challenged all to join him.  After seeing rucks and sandbags piled in the parking lot most of the group followed me.  Next exercise Bear Crawl the sidewalk toward Martha Rivers entrance.  Once YHC called this a few of the PAX were ready to take Whoopee up on his offer.   BC telephone pole one to pole two + 10 Merkins.  Lung walk Pole two to three + 10 Squats. BC pole three to pole four + 10 Merkins and Lunge walk pole four to five with 10 Squats.

Gather up and Indian Run the perimeter of the MR parking lot and stop at the top.  Partner up for DORA.  Our partnering was a bit of a challenge, but we got it figured out.

100 Merkins / 200 Apollo Ono / 300 American Hammers / 400 Flutters while partner runs top half of parking lot.

With this we were out of time.  YHC had to strike the Jack Webbs from the script.

Announcements:

2ndF Lunch April 21st at Ray Nathans BBQ.

Honey Hunters Baseball Sunday April 24th at 4:15 $9.00 tix.  Bring the family!

April 28 & 29 Smokey Mountain Relay

May 14 Jump Off the Rock 1/2.

MORE TO COME!!

Enjoyed it as always.   We had a great group of guys out this morning.

This morning we discussed how Jesus washed the feet of his disciples.
Bible verses were from John 13, 1-17.

Prayer request:
Big Pappys family, Oompa, Wirenut, Turtle Man, and others.

Disclaimer

Pledge

Warmup:

20 SSH IC

20 Moroccan Night Clubs

10 Merkins IC

10 Gravel Pikers IC

5 Burpees

Mosey to the Tennis courts for some Tabata work. 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes

3 rounds

Squats

Merkins

Monkey Humpers

Mountain climbers

Mosey around all of the tennis courts.

Next we lined up on the line of the first tennis courts for suicides

5 burpees at start mosey to next line

20 Squats mosey back

5 Burpees

20 Merkins

5 Burpees

20 Lunges

5 Burpees

20 V ups.

First round completed time running short, so we left the Tennis courts and repeated the previous work out at each telephone pole on the left until we got back to the start.

Back at the start we focused on core 25 reps of the following exercises

Flutters

Freddie Mercury’s

Peguins

Heals to Heaven

Time 6:15 am

Annoucements

Prayer Requests

Nameorama

I took us out in Prayer.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.  SYITG

Twas the week before the big rivalry game – the one that would ultimately end Coach K’s career, and that was all anyone could think about.  8 PAX gathered to play Final Four Corners and get in the Tobacco Road spirit.

The Thang:

• 10 x SSH (IC)
• 10 x Don Quixotes (IC)
• 10 x Hillbillies (IC)
• 10 x Moroccan Night Clubs (IC)

Mosey to the entrance of Martha’s to finish up the Warm Up

• 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)
• 10 x Dying Cockroaches (IC)
• 10 x Jingle Balls (IC)

Mosey down to the Picnic Tables by the Turd Shack for

• 15 x Superman Pull-ups (IC)
• 15 x Decline Peter Parkers (IC)
• 15 x Double Crunches (IC)
• 10 x Step-ups (OYO – Each leg)

Down to the main soccer field for a little 4 corners and some trivia.

Here’s how it’ll go.  We run to a location, we ask a trivia question, if the PAX get it right, they get to choose the next exercise.  If not, YHC chooses.  All questions are about the Carolina/Duke rivalry.  But before we start all that, mosey to station one for

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)

Next to the second corner:

Question: Does Coach K have a winning, losing, or even record agains the Tar Heels as Duke’s coach?

Answer: Winning (50-47)

PAX answered correctly and added 10 merkins, so we did

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 10 x Merkins (OYO)

Corner 3:

Question:  Who is the only All-American playing in the UNC/Duke Final Four Game?

Answer: Paolo Banchero

PAX answered incorrectly, so YHC added the only logical thing, 15 Bobby Hurleys

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 10 x Merkins (OYO)
• 15 x Bobby Hurleys (OYO)

Corner 4:

Question:  Who is Duke’s all-time leading scorer?  YHC gave the hint of all hints that JJ would know this one (which he would… in fact, the whole time, everyone wished JJ was there to make this whole thing easier… he would have known them all)

Answer: JJ Redick

PAX answered correctly, and added 20 Flutter Kicks, so the lineup was

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 10 x Merkins (OYO)
• 15 x Bobby Hurleys (OYO)
• 20 x Flutter Kicks (OYO)

So at this point, we turned around to go back, and undo all that we did.  At each station, we’d ask a question, and if the PAX got it right, they would get to take an exercise off the list.  If they missed, they all stayed.

Question: Which school, UNC or Duke, has won more NCAA Championships in basketball?

Answer: UNC (UNC 6, Duke 5)

PAX answered correctly and got rid of the Bobby Hurleys

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 10 x Merkins (OYO)
• 20 x Flutter Kicks (OYO)

Mosey to the next corner

Question: There have been 4 Wooden Award winners in UNC history.  Name 2 of them.

Answer:  Phil Ford, Michael Jordan, Antawn Jamison, Tyler Hansborough

The PAX correctly picked Jordan and Hansborough, so they got rid of the 5 burpees

• 10 x Merkins (OYO)
• 20 x Flutter Kicks (OYO)

2 questions left.  Next station

Question: Who is the most hated player in the history of the UNC/Duke rivalry?

Answers:  YHC would have accepted a number of answers, but the PAX were unanimous – Christian Laettner.  Take of the Merkins.

• 20 x Flutter Kicks (OYO)

Last corner

Last Question:  Spell Krzyzewski

No answer

• 20 x Flutter Kicks (OYO)

5 of 7 was a good test.  Solid 71% for this group.  If JJ were there, they would have aced it.

Back to the picnic tables for another round of:

• 15 x Superman Pull-ups (IC)
• 15 x Decline Peter Parkers (IC)
• 15 x Double Crunches (IC)
• 10 x Step-ups (OYO – Each leg)

Then with the time remaining, YHC wanted to do some 22’s in honor of the rebounding performance by Armando Bacot in the Elite Eight game, but we ran out of time, so instead, on the way back, every streetlight we passed we did

• 2 x Merkins (OYO)

to the entrance, then ran it out to the flag.

And that was that.

COT

Fun way to start a fun week.  Got some work in and learned who Duke’s All American was.  It was a privilege as always to lead these men.

Yabba Dabba Doo

Only 3 HIM were there to run between the rain showers.   A new route was explored and approved by the nantan.

Prayers

Turtleman

Huckleberry

Queso – checking out colleges

Good luck to all those running relays a races soon!

Defib out

8 including myself made it out to run a few

Some more than a few

6 of us stayed for a few words / quotes  from Mansfield’s book of Manly Men

Discussion was on men of action

Seems like if you do this enough, you’re bound to show up to Q and be the only one there.  Today it was my turn.

I rucked.

Prayer Request:

• Castle Rock’s mother-in-law
  • Prayer answered as the surgery that was scheduled was cancelled because her healing was progressing well enough that there was no reason for the surgery.

Yabba Dabba Doo