Author: Sargento (Page 22 of 30)

The PAX didn’t realize that YHC is a gardener. Roscoe does, but he wasn’t present. Crowder Green forever, ask Roscoe if you don’t know. This may be the first gardening themed workout in the history of Gashouse. This is what I remember…

Warmup:

Plank Jacks, Dying Cockroaches, Grass Pickers

Pick up some coupons from the back of my M’s kid carrier.

Mosey to the pad for some Triple Nickel.

5 Pickle Pounders (because cucumbers are grown in a garden then made into pickles) at the bottom, 5 Morning Woods at the top. X 5

Mosey up to the picnic shelter for Elevens: Dips and WWI situps.

Mosey back to the start to pick up the surprise, the big daddy double tire wheel barrow! What could this be for? Keep moseying to the Pit for the next round.

The Thang – Partner up, all the PAX does the exercises while on couple does a partner wheel barrow route (one PAX ride in the wheelbarrow while the other drives) with 10 shoulder shrugs in the middle. Trade with the next group in line and get to exercising!

Merkin Mania: 5 each of Diamonds, Merkins, Wide Arms, Crucibles, Staggered L & R, Tempo and Hand Release versions of the chest work. Aye!

Ab Killers: 10 Oblique Crunches L & R, 50 LBCs, 15 Oblique Crunches L & R, 25 LBCs, 20 Oblique Crunches

Spiderman Crawl to the line then back.

Rinse & repeat for a whole nother round. Strong work men!

Okay, so maybe everything wasn’t gardening related but we used a wheelbarrow and I’ve never heard of this in a workout.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead! Y’all are the best!!!

I’ve gotten pretty good at timing the drive to all the AO’s I plan to post at. This morning when my alarm went off I accidentally switched it off instead of just snoozing it. Woke up at 6:38! Oh crap, gotta go!!!

YHC jumped out of the car at 7:01 to plenty of jeers from the PAX, deservedly so. I had to make up for my tardiness somehow. It’s a good thing I planned a beatdown on the extra large weinke.

Disclaimer since we had an FNG, nice job Breaker Breaker!

Warm Up:

LBC’s (thought I’d do good balls, didn’t ya?), Plank Jacks, Morrocan Night Clubs, then GOOFBALLS!

Mosey up the sidewalk then get a count-off at the corner from the PAX so we can keep tabs on everybody. 14 in all, good crowd.

Route 66 – do CDD’s (Def Leppard Merkins) at each telephone pole adding 1 extra at each one until we reach the corner. Countoff…

Mosey around the corner to the back of the middle school for a new routine YHC found in the exercisicon.

The Thang:

The Gross – do 12 reps of 12 different exercises- YHC picked 12 I really don’t like doing too much. ALL WERE IN CADENCE!!! Sort of…

• Gorilla Humpers
• Burpees
• Werkins
• V-Up Roll Up (for Nantan emeritus ToolTime)
• Lunges (Orangeman had the brilliant idea of making them jump lunges, so we did that at the halfway point)
• Diamond Merkins (I really hate these)
• Hip Slappers (but not as much as these)
• Shoulder Taps
• WWI Sit Ups
• Tiger Squats
• Mike Tysons
• Maktar N’Diayes

Countoff… this is where Tiger left…then mosey down, around the track and to the shelter where the concrete is smooth for…

The Grater (a Sargento original where we get our cores shredded! Get it?)

• Weezy Jeffersons (look it up)
• Windshield Wipers
• Crunchy Frogs
• Oblique Crunch (for Nantan emeritus ToolTime)
• Protractor
• Peter Parkers
• Parker Peters
• Outlaws
• Dollys

This is where the FNG said he had to leave to catch his 5 year old’s t-ball game. We had to name him before he left so YHC stopped the proceedings to learn a little about him then give him his name. Welcome 5 Degrees!!!

Mosey down to the amphitheater for one last hurrah.

The Triple Nickel – Mountain Climbers, which YHC switched to Plank Jacks at the bottom, Big Boy Sit Ups at the bottom. Plank for the 6. Tesla was the only one who followed the instructions. Great leadership Site Q.

Mosey around the park, do a Death Spiral lap around the fountain, then head to the Yank for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Announcement – Mt. Mitchell hike rescheduled for the 19th, 5k in Belmont, other stuff

Prayer requests – way too many for me to remember. Just remember to lift each other up and encourage everyone.

Moleskin – The last few weeks have been pretty tough trying to keep everything together with my M-in-law getting very sick then going to be with the Lord. Knowing that our PAX has each other’s back in prayer and in our lives is very real and powerful. Thank you all for your thoughts, prayers and support. Our wives need the same type of community that we’re so blessed to be a part of. Please encourage and support your wives to get involved in relationships outside of the usual family unit that can provide similar support like we have. Church, exercise groups, neighborhood groups, wherever they need to go to develop the ShieldLock that we all have. It’s critical for them just as much as it is for us.

Until the next time I’m just making it to a workout…peace.

Another beautiful spring morning in Belmont for the Yank. YHC had the Q and I wanted to make it something unique. 14 PAX were present once DDC and Vuvuzela showed up after the warmup. Let’s get it on!

Warmup

Goofballs (of course! The Goofball is the first cousin of the Side Straddle Hop, so it’s ok to start with. It was made even better because ToolTime hates them so)

Don Quixote (see above, sorry brother!)

Can’t recall the last warmup

The Thang

YHC brought back a weinke used 2 years ago on the same Easter weekend Saturday. It’s a tour of worship locations throughout Belmont.

Mosey up the street to our first stop, the Lutheran Church. Here we did the King of Hearts (that’s Jesus!) routine. Suicides from one end to the other doing Karaoke L, Karoake R, Skips and regular sprints. There was plenty of mumblechatter and general mouthiness about having to run. Don’t worry, it’s good for you. Rinse and repeat.

Mosey from there to the campus of Holy Angels which used to be Sacred Heart College. Plenty of worship and praising our Lord happens here. We gathered in the gazebo for the next routine, Six Minutes of Mary (she was the mother of Jesus). We did our first countoff to make sure everyone was present and accounted for, 14 total. YHC set a timer for 6 minutes and called various ab exercises that lasted between 45-60 seconds each. All exercises were called in cadence even if they’re not normally. This caused epic laughing from lots of PAX, especially the Nantan emeritus ToolTime who sounded like the guy from Revenge of the Nerds more than once. I think I’m a pretty funny guy but TT took it to the next level here. Good times!

Mosey up to the intersection where we had a view of our nations flag so we recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

Keep moseying down the street, stopping a couple of times to let the 6 catch up until we reached the Belmont library. YHC’s idea here was to make up for the train that passed through earlier of which we didn’t pay respect to with burpees. 5 burpees OYO. It was at this time that Anchorman pulled a moving EH and what do you know, the young fella took him up on the offer. We had a mid workout unexpected FNG! BOOM!!! Nice job Anchorman!

Mosey to the First Baptist steps for Jacob’s Ladder. Increasing reps from 1 to 7. Burpees at the top, Bobby Hurley’s at the bottom.

Mosey to First Presbyterian parking lot for a quadruple smash up. Hail Mary’s (Q fail, didn’t remember what this exercise was on the first go round but thanks to the F3 app YHC figured it out), Prayer Squats x20, Superman’s for 1 minute, Hallelujah squats x20. Rinse and repeat 3 times.

Mosey back to the pad for one last exercise. Nolan Ryan’s x15 IC.

Time’s up. Welcome FNG Halftime! Way to push the rock everyone!

Jesus is Risen, He is Risen Indeed!!!