YHC celebrated #55 on Sunday, so Mt. Hollywood served as the infamous birthday Q.

Warmup: 55 SSH oyo, 55 merkins oyo, Bolt 55s (variation of the 45s), 5 burpees

The thang: Mosey to the flag at Veteran’s Park for the Pledge and 22 merkins for the Vets, on YHC’s count. Being this is the bottom of the hill, a little Burpback Mountain was called. PAX paired up with P1 nurring up the hill and running back down while P2 performed burpees. Seeing as how YHC has to share a birthday every year with his twin, Siri, 110 burpees were called.

Mosey to the top of the big hill, Crest, for the start of the BIRTHDAY celebration. Each letter represents an exercise, and each exercise has 55 reps. Here’s how it went down:

B=Bonnie Blairs (jump lunges), count each leg

I=Imperial walkers, count each side

R=Reverse crunch

T=Twinkle toes (an Al Gore with calf raises)

Mosey back to the start to finish the celebrating

H=Hand release merkins

D=Dying cockroaches times 2 for Siri

A=American hammers, count one side only (you see, YHC knows what Y is, and is really trying to call time before, but that is not going to be the case)

Y=Yurpees (burpee with clap merkin at the bottom and two tuck jumps at the top) until time was called.

Announcements: New AO starting Wednesday, January 8th @5:30am, New Hope Elementary, Sargento is the Site Q; New Year’s Day at Prison Break and a Murph following; Please sign up for the party

Prayer Requests: Tiger’s list to be posted later, Shell Shock’s Mom, Tiger’s Dad, Sparky’s family

YHC took us out.

It was an honor to lead -Orangeman

‘Twas the Thursday before the Hustle, YHC was saving energy for the race, so a little bit of running, and some staring into space. (You did see the moon setting Thursday morning?)

Warmup: 12 burpees, 12 I/C SSHs, mountain climbers, low slow copperhead squats, and toy soldiers.

Mosey to the Goat Island bridge… LOCKED!! Omaha up the big hill to the school.

The thang: Core time with Orangeman, on the cold pavement, everything in 12s (check the date), PAX called exercises. This was suppose to be all core, but one of the PAX called merkins, so it became ArmOrCore, just be sure to keep your core tight! After each round, a quick run to the end of the parking lot and a bear crawl or crab walk back for another round. 5 burpees for the train, some complaining about the cold pavement and something about “don’t let Orangeman lead a camping trip”. Four rounds of ArmOrCore, and a mosey back to the start.

12 burpees for the bookend.

Pledge

Announcements: Convergence at Gashouse on the 28th, Xmas party January 4th at Lewis Farms

Prayer requests: remember the F3 men that are injured or we haven’t seen in a while, Tiger’s dad, 2.0s coming home for the holidays, and remember the real reason for the season.

Name-o-rama

Dr. Seuss took us out in prayer.

A great honor to lead this morning. -Orangeman

See YHCs previous post for the humble apology for backblast tardiness.

A second Q in less than a week after a long vacation out of the country, and knew it would be needed to get the body and mind reacquainted.

Warmup: SSH I/C, 5 merkins, 2 burpees; Imperial walkers I/C, 10 merkins, 4 burpees.

The thang: Mosey to the 27th parallel wall for a bit of Double Ds. 10 dirkins/10 dips, 15 dirkins/15 dips, 20 dirkins/20 dips.

Mosey just a bit for YHCs classic Route 666. Similar to the good ‘ol Route 66, but with a little hell thrown in, so instead of one exercise done in increasing amount, there are six exercises to be performed. Called were squats, Bobby Hurley’s, lunges (count one leg only), flutters (count one leg only), WWs, and American hammers (count one side only).

Mosey to the bank lot for a little partner work with Dora. 100 merkins, 200 LBCs, and 300 squats.

Time to mosey back to the start for the pledge, name-o-rama, announcements, and the prayer.

An honor to lead… -Orangeman

My sincerest apologies to the PAX and site Qs for backblast tardiness on this and the following post. I learned that 2 weeks of vacation do not mix well with work and Q’ing, so that by the time I found time to write a BB, I forgot (It’s a problem for YHC). Anyway, with that out of the way, let’s get to the meat!

Warmup: SSHs, mountains climbers, seal jacks, and toy soldiers, all 15x I/C.

The thang: Mosey along the tracks to the bridge for 5 burpees. Mosey to the light for 5 more burpees and lunge walk, 10 each leg. Mosey down the big hill for 5 burpees, 10 lunge walks, then nur up the hill.

Time to beef up those soccer arms… 10 merkins, 50 lbcs, 10 diamonds, 50 squats, 10 Chuck Norris merkins, 25 WWIs, 10 ranger merkins, 50 Bobby Hurleys, 20 wide arm merkins, 100 flutter kicks, rinse and repeat until YHC called time.

Mosey back to start for the pledge, announcements, and the prayer.

An honor to lead you all this morning!

-Orangman

Recycling is suppose to be good, so why not recycle your VQ bootcamp. That’s just what YHC did, with a few minor changes, of course.

Warm-up: Side Straddle Hops i/c, 3 burpees, Imperial Walkers i/c, 6 burpees, Moroccan  Night Clubs i/c, 9 burpees, mosey to the bank parking lot.

11s: Hip Slappers, count one side only, and WWIs.

Mosey to Veteran’s Park. Pledge and 22 merkins for the Vets.

2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back… start at the bottom of the hill, run to the first cross street, perform an exercise/10 reps, run to the next cross street, perform an exercise/20 reps, run back to the first cross street, perform the first exercise/reps again, run to the second cross street, perform second exercise/reps, run to the third cross street, and back and forth you go. For those who have not had the opportunity to enjoy Mt. Hollywood, it is hilly, and this is a 1/2 mile climb.

Cross street 1: 10 crunchy frogs

Cross street 2: 20 CDDs

Cross street 3: 30 american hammers, count right side only

Cross street 4: 40 squats

Mosey back to the start for Mary, called by PAX

Announcements: 6/29 Gashouse convergence, check with Defib about a Ragnar team at Anne Springs, searching for a few more HIMs for a second Tuna 200 team, tubing trip upcoming (check slack)

Prayer requests, PAX traveling, Tiger’s weekly prayer list.

Name-o-rama, then Doodles took us out.

It was an honor to lead -Orangeman