Author: Freight (Page 6 of 31)

12 total showed up for a little QvQ practice for YHC. I’m testing out some ideas for the upcoming competition. It was a wonderfully warm February afternoon. For all of those that complied with my request to let your cars run all day back when it got really cold, thank you!

Warmup:

Sealjacks ic x 10

Don Quixotes ic x 10

Merkins position for about 45 seconds then 5 Merkins ic

Mosey to get a block and over to the parking lot……good grief!

Tha Thang:

P1 runs a lap around the parking lot. P2 starts doing reps. 3 blockees, 6 merkins, 9 squats. Rinse and repeat until your partner gets back. We did this for about 10 minutes.

After that we lined up along the curb just past shoulder width apart. The person at the beginning of the parking lot bear crawled to the end of the line and got back in place. Then the next person started bear crawling. Everyone else held the Al Gore pose. Picture an indian run but much slower. We did this fully through several rounds until we got to the other end of the parking lot. It was very amusing. We had slow bears, slower bears, and even a happy bear.

Spread out in the parking lot and get on a line for a parking space. Do 1 merkin on the line then plank crawl sideways to the line on the other side of the space. Now do 2 merkins. Go back and forth adding 1 merkin each time going up to 10.

Following the same method as above we did WWI situps and sidewinder crawls.

Next we used the same method as above but used 2 parking spaces lunging in between and doing squats on the line.

After that we moved back over to our blocks for the finale. Do 2 thrusters….ugh good grief! Then do 2 burpee block jump overs. Continue this going up by 2 reps each time until you get to 20. Well actually we ended due to time. I think I made it to the round of 12.

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Moleskin:

Not too bad today. Just some ideas that popped in my head I thought we could test out. You may see parts of these show up in a QvQ near you. Or not, you don’t really think I’d show my cards before we compete, do you? Comeout to Midoriyama on 3/9 to watch me break Broke. If you are looking to push some rocks these QvQ’s are going to be a good place for it. Everyone is going to be bringing their A game so it’s likely to be hard. If you’re not, then meow somewhere else.

8 men unafraid of the rain posted at Midoriyama Thursday night for yet another workout not led by Blart. You hate to see it! I blame myself. I’ve obviously not done enough to transform Blart into a leader. I shall take him under my wing and sharpen him into the tip of the fiercest dagger.

Warmup:

Under the protection of the picnic shelter, we did some stretches and SSH’s before moving into a tabata style workout.

The Thang:

Kind of the standard for the shelter workout. 1 minute of reps, 20 second break, and move into another minute of reps. We did 3 exercise rounds x 3 rounds then ran a lap around the parking lot.

Diamond Merkins, LBC’s, Squats x 3 rounds

Run a lap

CDD’s, Freddy Mercury, Lunges x 3 rounds

Runa lap

Shoulder Taps, Plank, Step ups

With a few minutes on the clock we did 10 burpees in one minute. Then 9 burpees in the final minute. This is where I realized how much work I had cut out for me with Blart.

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Blart took us out-the sharpening begins

Moleskin:

Can you take a joke? Are there some things you can take and some things you can’t? Are there some things you can take better than others? Just some things we’ve discussed lately you should mull over. If you can’t take a joke, well you better hold on cause life is gonna hurt.

14 total at Midoriyama on Tuesday. 1 seemed hungover. Maybe too many grapes.

The Warmup:

Sealjacks, low slow squats, merkins. Let’s mosey over to the side parking lot.

The Thang:

On one end of the parking lot start with 12 merkins, run to the far end and do 12 squats. Run back to the other end but stop one parking space line short and do 11 merkins. Now run back to the other end, one space short, and do 11 squats. Continue this until you get to the middle and do one of each. This exercise also worked the mind as everyone had to keep counting to figure out which line they should be on.

Mosey over to the long parking lot to the first light pole on the left side near the corner. Do 10 Freddy Mercury’s(count one side), karaoke across the parking lot to the light pole on the right and do 10 burpees. Keep doing this zig zaging across the parking lot. 4 poles on the left and 3 poles on the right. Once complete we did it going back with 10 lunges on the short side and 10 dying cockroaches(count one side) on the long side.

Mosey back over to the side parking lot for the countdown again. 12 CDD’s and 12 SSH’s. We finished this up and Broke said he wanted to run it back going up from the middle doing Mike Tyson’s and WWI’s. We had a little more time so sounds good to me. We made it to about 8 or 9 before time was called.

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Namerama-yes I broke my own rule. I prayed us out before I did the namerama. I know! I make mistakes too. I’m as surprised as you are.

Come out next time, maybe Blart will Q.

14 men joined YHC Tuesday at Midoriyama. Thats 15 total for those of you that struggle with things like math and wear a lite pole is shining.

Warmup:

SSH x 2 ic. Lets mosey. We grabbed some blocks and moved them down the road to the stop sign.

We did this during my last Q but didn’t have time to finish it all so I saved it for another day.

The Thang:

10 block swings, run to the next light pole ON THE ROAD(that means the light pole positioned to shine it’s lite on the road, not just any pole you can see from the road)(for future claritys sake), do 10 V-ups, run back to your block, rifle carry it to the next pole, rinse and repeat to the end of the rode. Good times right hear. We turned around and started working our way back doing the same thing but with 5 thrusters and 5 hand release merkins. Instead of a rifle carry we did farmers carrys. I have to admit I like this style of WOD and believe I will use it often in the future. It works great at midoriyama with the amount of lite poles on the road(if you count them write).

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I read a little from Jocko about remaining vigilant

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Molseskin:

To be clear I filled this BB with grammatical errors for my friend Mayor. Hes into that sort of stuff.

No I’m not talking about T-bone style sleeping Slaw! If you don’t know look it up in the lexicon. I’m talking about working our way through the park light pole to light pole.

I read a Bible verse that hit me the other day. Proverbs 24:10 If you falter in the day of Adversity, your strength is small.

Warmup:

Pfftttt let’s go get some blocks and mosey down the road to where you first turn in.

The Thang:

Do 5 blockees, run to the next light pole, do 10 jumping lunges(feeling those this morning), run back to your block, rifle carry it to the next pole, and rinse and repeat. Looks to be about 14 poles. This was a good grinding workout!

After that we grabbed some wall at the turd shack. Wall Walk up the wall to the BTTW position then walk back down. Grab your block for 5 thrusters. Rinse and repeat for 5 rounds. Nice! Wall Walk? Plank position with feet against the wall. Now start walking your feet up the wall while walking your hands back to the wall until you are vertically in the Balls To The Wall position. Now walk back down.

That about done it so we grabbed our blocks and headed back.

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