Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: April 15, 2023

Great day for “4 Corners” at The Ricky Bobby

Warmup:  SSH, Imperial walkers, Merkins, Nolan Ryans (10xIC) and 5 burpees OYO.

Took a lap around the track and stopped at the benches for dips, step-ups, and derkins (10x each).  Took another lap around the track but diverted to the back parking lot for a series of “4 Corners.”  To keep things moving along, the first PAX to finish the assigned number of reps called “Done” and everyone moved to the next corner.
1st corner = 15 hand-release merkins
2nd corner = 30 Bobby Hurleys
3rd corner = 45 plank jacks
4th corner = 60 flutter kicks (count one side)

We carioca-ed the long way across the parking lot, between corners 1-2 and 3-4, and bear crawled the short side.

2nd round of 4 corners was PAX choice:
1st corner = 15 burpees
2nd corner = 30 CDD’s
3rd corner = 30 Mike Tysons
4th corner = 45 reverse crunches

Rinse and repeat both sets, but the second time around we nurred between corners 1-2 and 3-4.  Then moseyed back around the track to the benches for more dips, step-ups, and derkins (10x each).  That took us right to the end for pledge and COT.

Announcements:
Convergence 4/29 Midoriyama
2nd F lunch 4/19 at Papas and Beer
Time Laps 5/19 see Flintstone or Slack

Prayers:
Tesla’s friend Sam Warner and Sam’s wife
Orangeman’s cousin Mark Wilson having heart valve surgery
Marriages

Thanks to these HIM’s for another great start to the day at The Ricky Bobby
– Nutria

 

Rolling the dice at Pain Lab

Gashouse parking lot was near capacity at 0657.  Word must have spread about the awesomeness of today’s Pain Lab beatdown.  I managed to find few open parking spaces to set up a circle of seven stations of exercises written on note cards.  Whoopee led a warm-up and moseyed off with the Gashouse crew.  Pain Labbers assembled heavy objects around the stations.  Exercises were:
Squat-curl-press
Hand-release merkin pull-throughs
Kettlebell swings
Clean and press
Reverse lunges
Box cutters
Windshield wipers

Out of a brown paper bag came a bluetooth speaker and a jumbo-size red die.  I set up the music and explained the simple instructions:  Do the exercise at your station.  PAX at the first station (squat-curl-press) does 20 reps then rolls the big red die.  PAX move clockwise that number of spaces.  Rinse and repeat.  The design (7 exercises) was intentional so that nobody did the same exercise twice in a row.  Note “in a row” means two consecutive rounds.  After the first 2 rolls were 6 and 1, grumbling commenced from the peanut gallery.  Tough $hit. Keep working and may the odds be in your favor next time.  Mumblechatter commenced with occasional grumbling mixed in.

At 0725, after all PAX had visited each station at least twice (I think), we changed things up and flipped the note cards over for a whole new set of exercises:
Star crunches (20 reps, 10 each side)
Nolan Ryans
Lawn mowers
Superman pull-ups
Babymakers
Flutter kicks
Hello Dollys

Same rules applied.  PAX doing Star crunches did 20 then rolled the die to initiate rotation.  There’s always good mumblechatter when babymakers and Hello Dollys are on the agenda, but it was especially entertaining to explain the meaning of Nolan Ryans.  Thanks for that opportunity, El Toro!

After about 20 more minutes, we flipped the cards back to the original set of exercises and pushed hard til the end.

Announcements:
2nd F lunch 4/19 at Papas and Beer in Dallas
Convergence 4/29 0700 at Midoriyama
Check Slack for CSAUP details

Prayers:
Turtleman
Huckleberry
Praise for Stroganoff’s son earning his private pilot’s license

Privileged to start out the weekend with a fine group of HIM’s today
– Nutria

George Strait Rules

Bootcampers were low numbers but high quality. We were outnumbered by the Painlabbers but that is a good thing. They had a good showing.

We started with a WU that was actually longer than I usually do. I was not really feeling the F3 vibes this morning-reeeeaaaaallllllly wanted to fartsack this am but thankfully I was the Q and didn’t have the option. No flag when we started but Tube came rolling in with the flag during the WU then jumped right in. Quick disclaimer for the veterans just to be complete then we split off from Painlabbers.

4 corners in the lot to slowly ramp up from the WU: 5 Merkins at C1, same and add 10 SSH IC (thanks Strogi) at C2, same and add 15 Monkey Humpers at C3, same and add 20 Imperial Walkers at C4 then mosey to the library no parking zone up front. Partner up: P1 does exercise AMRAP while P2 hops across the no parking zone and then moseys back to start then swapparoo. Exercises were as follows: Mike Tyson, Squat, BigBoy setups, Monkey Humpers, and Merkins. No rest-mosey to pharmacy parking lot and this is when the fun started with some GOOD MUSIC from my Spotify playlist-just for the record, everyone loved my music, especially one pax that will go unnamed but kinda rhymes with rogan-cough. Some might describe it as “enamored” with how he felt about the music. At the parking lot at the pharmacy we did 11’s with flutter kicks and jump squats. Keep rolling-mosey to the football field…….son of a nutcracker, the gate is locked so we moseyed out to the lot in front of the school after hitting the wall on the way with some hip slappers because of someone’s smart allecky comment that may or may not have been related to the music…..keep rolling to do some Bojangles Biscuits X 2 (run the strait then mosey the turns-anyone catch that pun??? does anyone even read this??? beuler??? beuler???? do I really care because I am enjoying it anyway!!!) in the lot. After the Bojangles we moseyed to other side of the lot for a triple nickel with an occasional splash in the puddle-Monkey Humpers and Mtn Climbers. Weinke was on empty but still had about 15 minutes….dang, there’s a wall and at some point wanted to throw in some Dirty Hookups so we did some Hip Slappers, Wall Sits, and Dirty Hookups while listening to a little Guns and Roses (I Used to Lover Her) as well as the O’jays (Use ta Be My Girl) which really didn’t get much reaction at this point. Suspect they were missing the George Strait but didn’t want to tell me. We lunged back across the lot, moseyed down the hill, then hit the wall for some Donkey Kicks, Hip Slappers, and Dirty Hookups. We moseyed back to start for a quickie with Mary.

Let the record reflect that we enjoyed my Spotify favorite songs this morning. All of us enjoyed the songs. Even Stroganoff. I think I heard him say something like “this is waaaayyyyyy better than Rush.” After the workout he asked for my Spotify password so he could just log on or connect or whatever it is you do to get into my Spotify account that way he could just listen to my favorite playlist. That would be illegal so I did not do it just for the record.

We finished with COT with some prayers and praises. It was another really good morning.

I almost forgot, Rush sucks.

Whoopee

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