It was a beautiful Saturday morning at Folsom with a strong showing of HIMs. On this morning, we had an 80’s themed work out highlighting a few events in a decade that was lead by the our 40th President Ronald Reagan.  We that knowledge we kept it simple. The reps will always by 40.

To start, we honored two great boxers. We staying in the lower lot and did Mike Tyson on one side of the parking lot and Rocky Balboas on the other side. Westside looked at YHC in disgust and shame. There was no proper warm up and the struggle was real.

We continued back and forth with the 40 Rocky Balboas and 40 Mike Tyson listen to:

• Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
• No Easy Way Out – Robert Tepper
• Pushin’ – Frank Stallone
• Gonna Fly Now – Bill Conti

The next song was the Airwolf theme song and that was our queue to take a quick mosey to the amphitheater. There we honored the fall of the Berlin wall by doing Australian mountain climbers and wall sits. As we work through the reps back forth, a PAX would take a cinder block and throw it up the hill and then down. YHC expected for the cinder block to break as a visual to the Berlin wall falling, but not by the method of which it happened. Mayor threw the block like he was in Highland games shattering as it landed. Beetle Baily sure has an arm, he was throwing the shambles of stone all over the place.

The playlist continued on with:

• Looking For Freedom – David Hassellhoff
• 99 Red Balloons – Nena

Once the Sweet Child of Mine from Guns and Roses came on, we wrapped at the amphitheater and headed down to the lower parking . Here we did dips and steps ups to honor Live Aid. A concert that generated revenue for famine in Ethiopia.

The playlist continue with:

• Money For Nothing (Live at Live Aid, Wembley Stadium) – Dire Straits

The Ghostbusters theme song played next and it was our queue make our way over to the lower lot.  Mayor was 1st. Please congratulate him. There were tears of joy at the accomplishment that was achieved in this act.

At the bottom of the  parking lot we did LBC’s at every other parking spot. Tator Hole really shined. This man can do LBC’s quickly and  a lot of them.

The playlist continues on with:

• Little Red Corvette – Prince
• We Built This City – Starship

Our last stop was the upper shelter.  This is were we spoke of the wild diets of 80’s. The cabbage diet, the grapefruit diet, and the liquid protein diet.  Wichita gave us his thoughts and we listened.

We wrapped up the playlist with Eat It by Weird Al Yankovic and took the short mosey to start.

We did the the pledged and completed the COT.

Prayer Request

• Huck
• Wichita
• Relay Runners
• Injured PAX

Ephesians 5:14  – for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Big Pappy

Disclaimer

The Pledge

The Warmup

The Thang;

We moseyed for a few minutes, stop, drop and complete 5 burpees, 10 merkins, 15 squats.
Mosey some more down to lower parking lot of Martha Rivers park, stop, drop, and complete 10 LBCs, 10 flutter kicks, and 10 American Hammers. Continue mosey with stops every so often alternating between group of above exercises.
Finally made it to Gastone’s Hill. At bottom, 5 burpees, half way up, 10 Merkins, at top, 15 squats. Mosey to street on right down to cul-da-sac for a round of core exercises in cadence count.

Start mosey back towards Snoballs, sprinkling in some more burpees, merkins, and squats along the way.

COT

Announcements

Prayer Request

YHC closed in prayer.

Over and out,

Breaker Breaker

Wojo couldn’t Q this morning… and I haven’t Q’d in a little bit. I had been thinking I need to Q more Saturdays (since I show up early and leave early during the week and catch too much crap when I try Qing during the week).  The other thing is, I am lazy and don’t always want to Q. So, I swallowed hard… waited 10 minutes for someone to say they’d pick it up… and when they didn’t I said I would take it. Having been through a Wojo Q a time or two before I thought, “I can probably, actually, run something similar to his type of Q and it be a good workout”.  I was only sorta correct with this assumption.

Collective Pain Lab/Gashouse Warmup:
20 Side Straddle Hops – in cadence
15 Gravel pickers – in cadence
10 mnt man poopers – in cadence
15 Imperial Walkers – in cadence

Gashouse “Slowseyed” (slow mosey) to the track…

The Thang – Dynamic Stretches 50yd in field (side line to side line)…
Karaoke (switch sides on the  the middle)
High Knees
Goose Steps
Skips

Repeat in reverse order!

Countdowns from 10 to 1 a little rest between – Thanks for the Pax counting these to keep the pace higher than my own.
SSH
Stogiefied Mike Tysons (horizontal squat – Mike Tyson with no merkin)
Mountain Climbers
LBCs

1 mile (4 laps) of In and Out:
Speed Walk the straight aways and then run/sprint through the curves (blue line to blue line).

Pair up! – Tortoise and the Hare:
Zombie walk (two lung walks and a squat) and 5 Flying Squirrels.

We made it halfway around the track before we needed to start heading back to the COT. So we “slowseyed” the rest of the way around the track back to the gate. Once there we picked back up with the Tortoise and the Hare up to the top of the sidewalk.

We then “slowseyed” back to the COT for some Mary until it was time:
– Flutters
– Oblique Crunches
– LBCs
– Stogified Gaspumps/box cutter

So, I asked Wojo for a partial wienke, or a link to an old backblast. I took about 75-80% of what he had and then added my things (or swapped out an exercise here or there). I then barely made it through the workout without merloing. If I tried actually running the last lap on the track (and not jog it) I am pretty sure whatever was left of the glass of water I had before the workout would have come up. I am not much of a runner (and told the Pax this), but had my mind set we were going to follow this workout (and that I could do it). The Pax were very gracious to working out with me, allowing me to lead, but also making this me vs. me. This pushed me as well as allowed me to not strive to keep up with a pace that would cause me to fail. I think we all did out best and it was a good workout overall for everyone.

Announcements: None

Prayer Requests: 
– Relays
– Turtleman
– Guys on IR
– All the Fartsackers that didn’t attend
– Bondo’s “Aunt” Cathy with brain cancer

YHC took us out in Prayer. Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

~ Stogie

10 men Downtown putting in the work.

Warm-up:

SSH, Gravel Pickers, Hillbillies

The Thang:

Mosey to the post office, using the driveway beside it for a lil Triple Nickel action.  5 Big Boys at top, run to far end for 5 Burpees at the bottom, back to start.    Complete this for 5 rounds.

Mosey to the main street starting at corner of Pita Wheel. Lots of light poles uptown, so do my favorite routine of Route 66.  Start with 1 Hand Release Merkin at first light pole on the left. 2 at the next light pole on the left.  Continue until you finish with 11 Hand Release Merkins.

Mosey around the block to McQuiters wall for the next exercise called, Lindsey’s.

10 Dips/30 Derkins

15 Dips/ 25 Derkins

20 Dips/ 20 Derkins

25 Dips/ 15 Derkins

30 Dips/ 10 Derkins

Mosey back towards the flag. Stopping at a wall for 2 rounds of 10 Hip Slappers (ic) and 15 Dirty Hookups.

Time running low, head back to COT. Finish up with 10 Burpees, Time!!

Announcements

Prayer Request

Nameorama

Nice work today men. Good push from everyone.

SA

We started out with the serious animals out early for their runs.  Tonka who is new(ish) to the ranks is already out there running with Roundup and Dr. Seuss.  The rest did various runs.  Bedpan accompanied me on my forefoot run since I am trying to work on my form.

Announcements:  Convergence (May), DBC starting after May 31, QSource kicking back off at Crossroads.

Prayers: Miranda Adams (loss of son), Tank (Loss of father), Roundup, Big Pappy, Gump and the baby/family of those affected

Praise: My grandfather coming home from rehab facility on May 22 so he wont die in the home, Bedpan going back to church and out with family for first time since Covid.

Pledge and COT

Warm Up:  SSH, Gravel Pickers, Short Mosey

40’s :   Step-Ups and American Hammers  (sets of 30/10, 25/15, 20/20, 15/25, 30/10.)

Mosey to the 9th Street Hill

Frog Jumps halfway up the Hill,  Bear Crawl up the Rest of the Hill.

Mosey to 8th Street by Floyd and Blackie’s  (but not for coffee … yet )

Stacker-Suicide BLIMPS up the 8th Street Hill.   Reps of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.    Three Burpees upon arriving back at start, each time.

(Buckshot totally killed that BLIMPS set!)

Hill Sprint (just one)

5 MOM

Time!

Public safety announcement:  Apparently we had safety concerns from local drivers about the PAX being in the road while we did our reps for the BLIMPS set.  It would have been safer and less stressful to drivers if we had been on the sidewalks.   As SiteQ, I’ll reinforce that street safety practice with each Q at The Goat, (and myself).

Announcements

Smoky Mtn Relay

Tue, May 2 – R U Smarter than a 5th Grader

Tue May 2, Rice and Beans

COT

Prayer Requests

Family members in general

Tesla lost a friend to COVID

Orangeman’s Boss’ health

Nutria’s brothers’ surgery

Buckshot’s co-worker’s husband – cancer

Watts Up took us out.

Thanks for the chance to lead,

-Bubba Sparxxx

First, sorry for the late back blast! My bad men. But it was still a great workout. Went like this:

COP:

SSH-burpees X 5

IWs X 20

Gravel pickers X 20

Grapevines

Mtn. Climbers X 20

Move on over to the track for a six shooter.

10 burpees – lap

20 Big boys – lap

30 merkins – lap

40 AHs – lap

50 CDDs – lap

60 SSH – lap (Watt’s Up wondered why we did cardio after cardio. Told him Herb Brooks did it that way. He didn’t know who Herb was. You all should.)

Line up at the end for a Tesla fave – Bear Crawl Slalom! Everyone got three rolls here.

SSH X 10

Bobby Hurley’s X 10

same lineup to go back, this time we run the human obstacle course.

SSH X 10

BHs X 10.

Over to the basketball courts for some suicide work;

R1 – Merkins, 5 X 10X 15

R2 – LBCs, 5X10X15

R3: burpees 5X10X15

Done with that! Time for some circle work.

One pax calls the work. Does burpee broadjump around the circle while the work gets done. Got 4 rounds in.

Pledge.

NMM:

Short crowd today. But quality.  Quality > Quantity! Great morning to work in to.

Pleasure to lead!

Tesla.

Wednesday at the Labyrinth and it was a good day to have a good day.  Strong group of 6 got out and mixed it up.  Here’s what I remember:

The Thang:

• 10 x SSH (IC)
• 10 x Don Q’s (IC)
• 10 x Hillbillies (IC)
• 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)

Grabbed a bag from my car and didn’t wait around to show it off, ran to the next stop which was the far entrance at the maintenance building for:

Triple Triple

• Pick a parking spot
• With hands on the lines, crawl sideways to the end of the spot
• 3 x Werkins (OYO)
• Crawl sideways back to the start
• 3 x Werkins (OYO)
• Repeato for a total of 3 times

Grab up the bag and mosey into the park.  We didn’t pay the bills again, so the lights were off, so care was taken not to hit a root on the back side of the fields, heading to the picnic shelter by the turd shack for:

• 15 x Dips (IC)
• 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats L (IC)
• 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats R (IC)
• 15 x Decline Peter Parkers (IC)

What’s in the bag?  Jump ropes! YHC passed ’em out and everyone got familiar with their ropes.  No double dutch was done.  This time.  Instead, it went like this:

• Mosey to the 2nd island
  • 15 x Hand-release Merkins (OYO)
  • 15 x Superman Pullups (OYO)
  • 15 x Double Crunches (OYO)
  • 15 x Penguins (OYO)
  • 15 x Gorilla Humpers (OYO)
• Mosey back to back
  • 10 x Jump Ropes (?) (OYO)
  • This side escalates to let us know what round we’re on, so 20, 30, 40, etc.
• Repeato x 5 for a total of 6 rounds

We took a “break” after round 4 to go back to the shelter for a second round of

• 15 x Dips (IC)
• 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats L (IC)
• 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats R (IC)
• 15 x Decline Peter Parkers (IC)

We finished all 6 rounds and moseyed back, and we were only 2 minutes late!  YHC stuck around and knocked out my 20 burpees for bringing the PAX in late.

Announcements:

• JJ on Q next week (May the Fourth)

Prayer Requests:

• EZ Rider’s Family
• JJ & M married for 20 years

Enjoyed gettin the jump ropes out.  Nobody struggled with it at all.  They’ll definitely be back out.

Good stuff.  Thanks y’all.

Yabba Dabba Doo

Disclaimer

Warmup

• SSH
• Don Qs
• Hillbillies
• Grass Pickers
• 6 Burpees

Mosey around track

Grass Pickers

Mosey around track

The Thang;

10 Rounds

• 30 mountain Cross Climbers
• 10 Squats
• 10 Merkins
• 10 Freddy Mercuries IC
• 10 Shoulder Taps IC

Mosey back for COT and FNG naming

COT

Announcements

Prayer Request

YHC closed in Prayer

Welcome Beach Boy!

As always, fun to be at TRB! Thanks men for allowing me to lead you this morning. Werk was put in by all!

Over and out,

Breaker Breaker

Warm-up

The Thang

AMRAPS with The Coupon for 40 minutes

10 Lunges (per leg)

10 Curls

10 O/H Presses

10 Flutter Kicks

10 Thrusters

10 Romanian Dead Lifts (5 per side)

10 Chest Presses

10 Swings

10 Bent over Rows

10 Calf raises

Rifle carry to end of parking, drop coupon and 10 Merkins and 20 American Hammers

Start heading to the Fighting Yank to meet up with Bootcampers for COT

Announcements

Prayer Requests

YHC closed in prayer

Over and out,

Breaker Breaker