Month: April 2023 (Page 4 of 11)

Here comes El Toro, Nutria , then Timeframe making it just in the nick of time. I’m feeling a little stiff, so let get some warm ups in first. I’ve fartsacked a lot the last 2 weeks and I am paying for it now. It is amazing what a few days off feels like. We started with legs. What do they say, friends don’t let friends miss leg day.

For one minute: squats, step-ups, lunges, inner calf raises, then outer calf raises. Grab your coupon let’s rifle carry to  one end of the parking lot and curl it coming back. Rinse & Repeat

For one minute: ABC’s, SBC’s, LBC’s, R-LBC’s, CDD’s. Grab your coupon “you pick” to  one end of the parking lot and back. Rinse & Repeat

For one minute: flutters, heels to Heaven, starfish, American hammers, plank jack. Grab your coupon let’s rifle carry to  one end of the parking lot and curl it coming back. Rinse & Repeat

Good workout men! I’ve gained my weight back since Pushing Rocks and I aint happy about it. Need to add more AO’s to my diet. 

Announcements: Convergence @ Midoriyama this Saturday @7am  

Prayer requests: Nutria’s dad is having cataract surgery, his neighbor’s dad has a brain tumor, and Nutria’s two daughters are getting confirmed tomorrow. Tube’s M’s kidney stones and migraines. 

lost the weinke I had that day so on memory.

Warm up 15 side straddle hops in cadence, 15 windmills in cadence , right foot over left stretch then switch for 20 seconds.

Mosey down to lower shelter 3 rounds 15 reps dips then 15 squats, mosey up road stopping at each light pole 3 burpees Then we did the pledge and other stuff , back to the tennis courts partner up for Mrap and then Rackem Stackem 4 corners. Had to improvise first hour Q but we made it threw.

a few announcements

prayer request Ponyboys patient, Gearwrench coworker, happytrees mother in law

Disclaimer

Pledge

Warmup

10 SSH IC

RoL LoR

Don Q’s

R L leg up (quads)

Mosey to upper lot near tunnel.  Train, 5 burpees. Keep going to lot.

Round 1

Mike Tyson’s x 10

Squats x 10 

SM pull ups x 10 

Hillbillies x 20

Mosey around the buildings, R&R 3x 

Mosey over to the tunnel for wall work.

Wall work

Hip Slappers x 10 IC

Wall sit 30 seconds

Dirty Hookups x 10 IC

Wall sit 30 seconds

R&R 1x 

Mosey back to upper parking lot

Round 2

Flutter kicks x 20 count RH

Peter Parker merkins x 10 count both

Imperial walkers x 20 count both 

Obliques x 10,RH and LH

Mosey around the building and down the street to extend the run each round. head back up the stairs, R&R 3x 

Round 3 – 11’s

CDD’s – bat-flippers did burpees instead for part of these

Freddie mercuries 

Mosey back to start.

Mary 

Tesla – big boys 

Radar – mtn climbers

Watts Up – burpees 

Train –  more burpees 

CoT

Convergence April 29th mudoryqma 7 am. 

Time laps – Sunday trail runs 

Orienting kings mtn the 19th 

Saturday Belmont 5k park at bunker 

WWC Tuck  fest events – go check it out

CAM volunteer opportunity Post office on New hope rd- may 13th afternoon 2-7 

Talk to Flintstone. 

Prayers 

Radars sister- good scan recently

Huckleberry

Ratchet’s 2.0  – prayers for fortitude

Virus – 2.0 had heart valve replaced, everything going well. 

Orangeman’s cousin-in-law having heart valve surgery 

Sargento having surgery 

Mayor having surgery 

Orangeman traveling Saturday. 

Flintstone – parents 

Freon’s 2.0 having surgery for broken arm. 

Gumby – prayers for his mom

Happy birthday to Montross’ mom!

Coffeeteria

Met up for coffeeteria at Floyd and Blackies afterwards.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead!

Maybe it’s Maybelline 💋

Montross showed up for what turned into one helluva beatdown.  I deleted the weinke unfortunately so this is what I remember:

We said the pledge, did a warmup and then moseyed over to the town square.  Somewhere along the way he mentioned wanting to run and that was all I needed to hear.  We proceeded to do 4 corners, 4 exercises per corner and then moseyed over to a wall for hip slappers, dirty hookups and wall sits.  We continued our mosey back over towards ingles, then made some laps around different blocks.  Did another round or two of 4 corners and continued to mosey in between.  ended up getting almost 3 miles total and got in some solid work too.

CoT

Convergence April 29th mudoryqma 7 am. 

Time laps – Sunday trail runs 

CAM volunteer opportunity Post office on New hope rd- may 13th afternoon 2-7 

Talk to Flintstone. 

Prayers

Huckleberry – 

Ratchet’s 2.0  – prayers for fortitude

Flintstone – parents 

Gumby – prayers for his mom

Praises

Montross showed up and it was a sunny day 

Thanks for the opportunity to lead!

Maybe it’s Maybelline 💋 

We had a full squad of 9 in the starting lineup on the ballfields of Midoriyama for gummies, space cakes, Afroman, and a sandwich bag full of green stuff.  Hard to recall all the events through the haze, but I’ll do my best:

Slaw posted needing Qs, and 4/20 was available.  YHC felt like the man for the job, as leading the men of Midoriyama is often a worthy challenge, and a themed beatdown seemed to be the way to go.  Many were consulted, including a number of PAX from ours and other regions, Cheech and his buddy Chong, Willie Nelson, and Snoop Doggy Dogg.  We launched with a disclaimer, and a classic hit from Afroman as the beatdown began:

The Thang:

4 exercises, 20 reps each (IC):

• SSH
• Mike Tysons
• Dying Cockroaches
• Goofballs

To the woods for blocks, then to ballfield #2, not on the inside, nobody was gonna score tonight, but we’d use the corners and foul poles as marks:

Bleachers behind home plate, so

• 15 x Dips (IC)

Partner Up

• Partner #1 – 3 x Reverse Lunges (Count Left)
• Partner #2 – Farmers Carry both blocks
• Partner #1 runs to catch Partner #2 when finished
• Switch and Repeato until the team reaches the left field foulpole

From Left Field to Right Field

Rifle Carry the block, stopping at the ballpark lights & dead center field for

• 3 x Overhead Presses

So YHC stashed a bag of goodies in right field, so now it was time to break out the first round

Gummies – each PAX was given a gummy and encouraged not to eat more than 1, especially if they weren’t used to them

YHC also broke out the bag of grass for:

Puff – Puff – Pass

• Circle Up
• All PAX hold Al Gore while standing on the block
• The PAX with the green dropped for 2 x Merkins (OYO), then passed the bag to the next PAX (on the left, obviously) to do the same as he jumped back into an Al Gore
• Repeat til burned out
• Round 2 was the same, but with 6 inches & American Hammers w/block

The field started filling up, and some guys with bats started taking large cuts on the softball field.  It was 5:45pm and they had a game at 6:45.  Why they were there that early, YHC will never know.  It certainly wasn’t to get in a workout.  Doubt any of the guys ever stole 2nd base.  Anyways, that added a layer of confusion while we were already in a state of questionable decision-making, so we could’ve descended into chaos.

We stuck to the Weinke instead

• 30 x Dips (OYO)

3rd base side

• Farmers Carry & Lunges

Left Field to Right Field

• Rifle Carry and Overhead Presses

And it was about this time that they launched one over the fence that wasn’t ever going to hit us, but was a little too close to not get a courtesy warning call.  It’s like not yelling “Fore” when you slice the golf ball into the other fairway. It’s not like the golf ball is likely to hit anyone, you just yell it anyways.  We were their targets.  Like wooden ducks in a carnival game, and we were almost too dazed (from the workout) to realize it.

But realize it we did, so we grabbed up the goodies and headed to Field #3 where there were no overgrown softball mashers looking for target practice an hour before the actual event.

Last Round / Best Round as we delivered a special batch of 420 brownies to the PAX, with some showing restraint after the gummies and declining, while others dove in.  In the meantime, YHC gave instructions for:

Dimebag Destroyer

• Run to Right Field
• 1 x Burpee (OYO)
• Run back to the Left Field foulpole
• 2 x Burpees (OYO)
• Back and forth until the final round of 10 x Burpees (OYO)

And with that we were off, at least those of us that weren’t partaking in the edible delicacies.

Was good to run after a workout full of carries and block work.  We wrapped it up in time to make the long trek back to put the blocks up and put a bow on the day with the COT.  Was fun, stupid, and physically demanding all at the same time.  Mission accomplished.

Moleskin:

Midoriyama is the challenge, and Slaw isn’t afraid to throw it out there.  The heat that we’ll get for the next few weeks will toughen us up.  It’s a sifter to see who can handle it.  There’s been lots of sweat and hard work put in this year.  Keep pushing, even, or really especially, when it gets uncomfortable.  We won’t know what we’re made of until we start reaching beyond what we know we can do.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead

Yabba Dabba Doo

One planned audible after another…  Stay in the Bunker, runs some hills, nah stay in the Bunker…

Plans were set for a takeover midway through the workout.  Shhhh!

A quick count and disclaimer and we crossed the street to the Bunker.

Warmup:

SSH x 15, Gravel Pickers x 15. Imperial Walkers x 15, Mtn. Climbers x 15. Moroccan Night Clubs x 15.

Now time for stations.  10 Parking spots were pre chalked with an exercise and rep count.

Flutters x 50

Kettle Bell Swings x 25

Apollo Onos x 25

Block Curls x 50

Burpees x 25

Kettle Bell Squats x 50

Merkins x 25 or 50 chalk got excited and wrote 50 instead of 25 as planned.

LBC x 50

Plank Jacks x 25

Block Rifle Carry around Bunker perimeter.

Pick a spot and start.  Move in any direction. It’s You vs. You.

Accompanied by music this went on until 7:30 and until Flintstone said he was bored, and we needed to run Thorne hill.  So, with a few guys following Flintstone and the rest looking confused at me I sent them on.  A short mosey to one of the longer hills in Belmont and we were headed up for a round of three exercises, and back down.  A round of exercises and back up for another round before we were back down again.  One more round of exercises and we headed back to the bunker.

Mosey to the Bunker for some Iron Cross.

The pax were split in half.  One from each team picked up two-gallon jugs of water (8 lbs. ea.) and held them shoulder high until one guy had to drop.  While we watched we did a series of AMRAP exercises.  First up, the pax started with Monkey Humpers.  When the first guy drops his penalty is 5 burpees.  Winner calls next exercise and returns to his team while two more begin.  Most guys gave it a good try before time was called.

Something new, why not…

We closed out with praises and prayer.

Thanks for playing along.

BOS

10 PAX met me in the gloom for a beatdown,  this is what happened: 

Disclaimer

Pledge

Warmup

10 SSH IC

RoL LoR

Don Q’s (triple-time)

R L leg up (quads)

Mosey over to Food Lion

Round 1

4-corners all workouts 1x 

Mike Tyson’s x 10

Squats x 10 

SM pull ups x 10 

Hillbillies x 20

Mosey over to a wall for wall work. 

Hip Slappers x 10 IC

Wall sit 30 seconds

Dirty Hookups x 10 IC

Wall sit 30 seconds

R&R 2x 

Mosey over to gastones hill, back way

2x PPM’s every mailbox up(merkin to modify) 

Plank for the 6 at top 

Mosey back down 3 squats every RH mailbox

Al gore for 6, mosey back towards start. Stop at office building on the hill

Round 2 – 11’s

CDD’s x 10

Freddie mercuries x 10 count both 

Burpee in middle

Called an audible to get us back to the start in time. 

CoT

Convergence April 29th mudoryqma 7 am. 

Time laps – Sunday trail runs 

Orienting kings mtn the 19th 

Saturday Belmont 5k park at bunker 

WWC Tuck  fest events – go check it out

CAM volunteer opportunity Post office on New hope rd- may 13th afternoon 2-7 – Talk to Flintstone. 

Convergence 4/29 at midoriyama 

Prayers 

Radars sister- good scan 

Huckleberry 

Ratchet’s 2.0  – prayers for fortitude

Virus – 2.0 had heart valve replaced, everything going well. 

Orangeman’s cousin-in-law having heart valve surgery 

Sargento having surgery 

Mayor having surgery 

Orangeman traveling Saturday. 

Flintstone – parents 

Freon’s 2.0 having surgery for broken arm. 

Gumby – prayers for his mom

Thanks for the opportunity to lead!

Maybe it’s Maybelline 💋