Author: Norwood (Page 2 of 3)

We started off running…all the way to Page Primary School.  It was a little over a mile warmup.  Once we got to the school we found a nice brick wall and did a 60 second wall sit.  Moseyed around to the back of the school for some Corewood that consisted of:

• LBCs
• Crunchy Frogs
• Dying Cockroaches
• American Hammers
• A round of protractors where each pax called out an angle and counted to 10

Then we did a Route 66 with merkins along the parking spots.

Back to the wall for a 60 second wall sit.

Moseyed around to the front of the building for a Dora 1-2-3 where YHC challenged the pax to partner up with someone they didn’t know well.  We did 100 shoulder taps, 200 LBCs, 300 squats for the exercises.

Back to the wall for a 60 second wall sit.

Pledge.

Mosey back to the bottom of Hawthorne for a triple nickel.  Monkey Humpers at the bottom, plank jacks at the top.

Mosey to the yank to finish.

Of course, there were trivia questions sprinkled in throughout the workout.

Announcements

Prayer concerns/celebrations:

• Scurvy just got engaged (to El Tigre’s daughter)
• El Tigre’s brother is having prostate surgery
• Rebar is having heart issues

Thanks for joining this morning, men!

YHC got to The Yank a little early to set up and fact check some of the trivia questions.  There was already a guy there.  I didn’t recognize him, but he had an F3 shirt on so I new he was not foe.  It was Carrier who came across the mighty Catawba to join us for a beatdown and pick up some shoes from BOS.

Quick disclaimer since there were no FNGs.  Like I normally do, I let the pax know there was going to be some trivia for them this morning.  A question would be asked.  Exercise ensues.  An answer would be given.  If that answer was correct, we just keep on moving.  If that answer was wrong, 5 burpees for everyone.  I was a little nervous when I saw Sargento show up, since I’m not sure he’s ever gotten one of my trivia questions wrong before.  The dude is a walking, talking encyclopedia.

Mosey the long way around to the pavilion for some Corewood.  We did 25 of each exercise on my count:
– LBCs
– Crunchy Frogs
– Pretzel Crunches
– Freddy Mercuries
– Leg Raises
– American Hammers

Mosey to the pit where I had written several exercises in chalk in parking spaces.  The pax needed to do 25 of each exercise then run a lap around the pit.  Some of the exercises included:
– Merkins
– Lunges
– SSHs
– Diamond Merkins
– Hill Billies
– Bobby Hurleys

There were more and I had them all written down on my weinke, but my M threw it away.

Mosey up near the field of dreams.  Pax had to do the following exercises – pull ups, merkins, dips and one lap around the track.  Started with 5 pull ups, 10 merkins and 15 dips for the first round.  Second round we went up to 10 pull ups, 20 merkins and 30 dips.  For the third round, the weinke had us going up to 15, 30 and 45 but I heard a little mumble chatter asking to go back down after the second round instead of up on the reps.  So we ended up doing 5, 10 and 15 for the third round.

We then did some Dora 1, 2, 3.  It really only ended up being a Dora 1, 2, 1 since we were running low on time.  100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 100 LBCs.

Mosey back to where we started for our COT and pledge.

Prayer concerns:
– Brutus’ M having surgery

Announcements:
– PT Test next week at Gashouse
– BCO takes donations for gifts for kids for Christmas
– Carrier thanked the pax for all of the shoe donations

It was a lot of fun, men.  Thank you!

There were 19 on the schedule to Q this morning, but ultimately YHC showed up with biggest weinke and was given the honor.

Keesh and Pizza Man were finishing a run, but were scared when they found out YHC had the Q and backed down.

We moseyed to Hawthorne for a triple nickel.  Burpees at the bottom and monkey humpers at the top.  Flush, Tool Time and Boudin all thought it was a triple triple, but were quickly corrected.

Then we moseyed to the back of the middle school for a little wall work.  It went something like this:

30 second wall sit
10 hip slappers
40 second wall sit
10 hip slappers
50 second wall sit
10 hip slappers
60 second wall sit
10 hip slappers

Then we partnered up and did some Dora 1-2-3 with a couple extra exercises, so essentially some Dora 0.1-0.25-1-2-3:

10 pullups (each)
25 leg throws (each)
100 merkins (combined)
200 squats (combined)
300 LBCs (combined)

It was now time for some Corewood!  Tool Time did some “back seat driving” and was highly critical of how YHC ran this portion of the beat down.  Here are the exercises we did:

Crunchy Frog
Heels to Heaven
Pretzel Crunches
Dying Cockroaches
American Hammers
Freddy Mercuries
Protractors

Short mosey back to the flag for the pledge where Pizza Man met up with us after what I believe was his SECOND run this morning!

Being that this was the last workout of 2017 at the Yank, I decided to mix in some 2017 trivia.  Some things we learned – The one hockey question I had was answered correctly, but not by Tool Time.  Tool Time thought Bitcoin showed a 1,792,632% gain during the year.  And the pax do not know their horse racing.

Announcements:

• Speed for Need race next week
• Convergence at 0700 at Dark Knight/Pelicans/Snoballs/Martha’s on 1/1
• Rooster marathon relay 1/20

Prayer Requests

• Rusty and his family
• Amy and her family

COT

Thanks guys, I had a blast!

With it being early fall I decided to try a football-themed beatdown.  Sorta hard to do being that I knew we probably wouldn’t be running routes and tackling.  Although, doing an Oklahoma Drill definitely crossed my mind.

We had one FNG who apparently Keash knew, but had no clue who this Queeche guy was.  Full disclaimer was given for his benefit, letting him know I’m an idiot.

Warmup:

• SSHs
• Don Quixotes
• Goofballs

Pledge

We then moseyed up to the football field for a double quarter pounder with cheese.  It was supposed to be done on a football field, so I felt it went along with my football theme, right??? It went something like this – run to the 25 yard line and do 25 merkins.  Run backwards to the end line.  Run to the 50 yard line and do 50 squats.  Run backwards to the end line.  Run to the 75 yard line and do 75 mountain climbers.  Run backwards to the end line.  Run to the other end line and do 100 SSHs.  Run backwards to the end line.  Plank for the six.

Easy mosey around the track.

Then the double portion of the double quarter pounder with cheese.  It included 25 jump squats, 50 LBCs, 75 Moroccan Nightclubs and 10 burpees.

Easy mosey around the track.

We then did the Panther Pounder.  We would jog in place, but would mix in some high knees and butt kickers too, and YHC would call out either burpee or merkin and we would drop and do whatever was called out.  During this odd version of Simon Says we found there really wasn’t much of a  difference between the two when starting in an upright position.

We moseyed down to the pavilion for some Corewood.  60 seconds AMRAP with 30 seconds rest in between each one.  Here are the exercises I can remember:

• Crunchy Frogs
• American Hammers
• Protractors
• Flutter Kicks

We headed down the hill for a Triple Nickel.  Monkey Humpers at the bottom and WWII sit-ups at the top.

We had 3 minutes left and I tried to call it, but the pax wouldn’t have it and we did three rounds of Mary.  Broke called for dips, Kuiche called for Freddie Mercurys and Sargento called something else.  I don’t remember what.

During the workout I mixed in some football trivia.  When I let the pax know I planned on doing that Keeshe started yelling out random former Buffalo Bills (“oh oh Jim Kelly, uhh Thurman Thomas, uhh Don Beebe…”).  None of them were correct.  We learned Sargento is a walking talking football encyclopedia and at times I was having to Omaha mid-question because he was answering before I could finish.  Next time, Sargento, my questions won’t be so easy!

Prayer Requests

Announcements

Name-o-rama

COT

Thanks for the push today, guys!  Go Bills!