Tag: Downtown (Page 11 of 21)

19 for a pleasant weather morning showed for some work.

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The Thang:

25 SSh

10 Merkins (It was at this point that Whoopee said something about in position and that I was not calling the workout correctly) Good point

Howl like a Monkey, everyone in Monkey Humper position with one guy at a time doing 20 Monkey humpers while the rest of us hold position. Howling did happen and some by me.

10 Burpee’s

25 Imperial Walkers

Mosey to the bridge.

Nest on a Bridge. Partner Up, While one guy does Burpee’s the other Bear Crawls to the other side then runs back to switch. Rinse and repeat.

LBC’s while you wait.

3 Sets of Dips, Derkins, and Up-Erkins. 20 first set, 15 second, and then 10 Dips, 12, Derkins, and 13 Up-Erkins.

Mosey across the street to the grass. Watch out for ants.

Joe Webb up to 7 and back down.

Mosey back across the street.

Have a seat on the wall.

25 in cadence marching with hands in the air while in seated position.

50 Sumo Squat Jumps

Mosey across the steet and then weave through all the poles. About 20, touch the wall and then come back.

Wall Sit March to 20.

50 Monkey Humpers

Pole Weave and back.

Wall sit March to 15.

50 Squats

Weave and back.

(Train) 5 Burpee’s

Shoulder Tap to 20 counting your right shoulder.

20 Diamond Merkins

Shoulder Tap to 15

Staggered Merkin right arm back

Shoulder Tap to 10

Staggered Merkin left arm back

Mosey back to start. Some collected the six and some did LBC’s.

Done, just like that.

The Moleskin:

Good fun this morning with some humor. Got to meet Big Country, honor.

Convergence on the 30th.

Lattini Run the same day.

April 13th Community Run, sign up now and it’s only $20.

May 5th is The Summit, from base camp to the top of Mt. Mitchell and back down. 11 miles.

Prayers

Thanks for the opportunity, it is always and honor to be Q.

Gastone, until another day.

9 of Gastonia’s finest showed for one of the best locations in the area.

The Thang:

Pledge

20 SSH

15 Merkins

20 Imperial Walkers

5 Diamonds

Mosey to the bridge.

Lunge Walk across bridge. Many disappointed in no bear walk.

Mosey across the street and down to courthouse steps.

Plank

20 Merkins

Then everyone take a step.

20 calf raises feet together.

15 Calf raises feet apart.

Mosey to back parking lot.

Parnter up run around the parking lot meeting your partner at other side for 20 Merkins. (We did twice and I changed the plan)

Met at back corner for:

50 Squats

Bernie up the hill

15 Diamonds

Karaoke down the hill

50 Monkey Humpers

Karaoke up the hill

20 Merkins

Backwards down the hill

40 Mountain Climbers

Bernie to the top again.

20 Burpee’s

Mosey to the Uphill dead end of the prison.

15 Diamonds

Mosey back down and around to hill.

Stagier Merkins at next 4 post on the way up.  Switch which had is forward and backward each time.

Stop at the light and 5 Burpee’s.

Cross the street to bridge. Bear crawl across.

Once in parking lot, on your backs.

On my count American Hammers, Slow Motion.

Flutter’s to 40

30 Crunchy Frog’s OYO

Mosey to start.

The Moleskin:

Whatsup, continues to impress. Watch out for this guy because he might end up being the next Bulldog. All gave a great effort and was a pleasure to be part of all of you today.

Prayers for several that are ill and to all with the flu.

Thanks and Out,

Gastone

For Day 6 of HIPAAPALOOZA YHC promised the PAX some true Rock Legends. It was a Friday so YHC was expecting bigger crowds, 13,000 showed, well maybe it was 13. Anyways, bottled water prices didn’t increase and all that were in attendance were ready to rock!!

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Warm-Up

SSH 15 IC

Merkins 20 IC

Volcano squats 15 IC

IW 15 IC

The Thang:

Mosey down Main st to York.

Roxanne Red light at York st so grab some Pink Floyd Wall

BTTW

Australian Mountain Climbers 10 IC

Recover but Roxanne kept her red light on so Rinse & Repeat

Recover

Roxanne had her Red light on again, damn, lets just wait. Green, GO DOG GO!

Mosey down Main to N. Chester. YHC did some Google Maps recon and saw some big rocks in the aerial shots. I had to confirm so drove out to site night before. BedPan was aware of my recon work. He was proud that someone was taking his AO seriously.

Grab some Rocks and dont be weak. Grab someting big and heavy! “Go Big or Go Home”

Overhead fellowship mosey to Snyder Pl. and Main St. Home of “Legends Bar & Lounge”

I told the PAX in the twitterverse that some Rock Legends would be present. YHC did not disappoint or lie. I held up my “Rock” in front of “Legends” Bar and Lounge Sign. Hence “Rock Legends”! I got a few laughs from that.

Time for some Dora 123

P1

100 – Overhead tricep extensions with rock

200 – Curls with rock

300 – Chest presses with rock

P2 overhead rock carry to light pole, 1 burpee overhead rock carry back swap with P1

Recover.

Drop rocks mosey to Leather and Lace.

Time for some Motley Crue: “GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS”

Lineup along fence with your backside to Leather N Lace front door

Monkey Humpers 20 IC

RnR

***Side Note, YHC has been absolutely dying to do Monkey Humpers in front of LnL for a long time. Glad I finally got the chance!!

Mosey back to legends

Pickup rock

Grab some Pink Floyd Wall

Peoples chair

Overhead Rock presses 20 IC

Recover

Peoples chair

Rock press with March 20 IC

Heard rocks drop but i didn’t say recover!

Pick it back up and lets do peoples chair for a minute as punishment

Recover.

Fellowship mosey back to rock pile. Stop at each street light  for 1 rock squat

Rock toss into rock pile

We got “Time” like Pink Floyd so let’s do some Bear Crawls up the “Time” Data Svcs. Ramp.

Rinse & Repeat

Mosey back to start

Mary – PAX choice

COT

Announcements

Prayer Requests

WOW! So much Rock pushing this AM by all! So proud of these groupies!! Not sure what BedPan had been smoking during HIPAAPALOOZA but he thought he was me??? Crazy stuff man! All kiding aside, it is always an absolute honor and priviledge to lead you guys. I hope you enjoyed the workout as much as I did. Even if you didn’t, I dont give refunds for this festival.

AYE!

HIPAA

Easy answer – he trained the dog to act like a reindeer.

A very mild morning in the gloom, almost felt like spring time.  The forecast was calling for yet another morning of rain, so YHC had two plans.   There are many options downtown, however, YHC tends to melt in the rain so went with a parking garage beat down.  We welcomed a FNG, none other than Whoopie’s brother Frankie Letts.

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Warm Up – An ode to honor to our Site Q’s 40th Birthday (Bedpan), who had previously disclosed that his M had plans for him and would be MIA.  Happy birthday Bedpan

SSH’s x 40 IC

MNC’s x 40 IC

LBC’s x 40 IC

The Thang

Mosey through downtown to park

Dips x 20 IC

Derkins x 20 OYO

Dips x 10 IC

Derkins x 10 OYO

Mosey towards main street, hang a right and then into the parking deck

Completed 5 cycles of the following

Lower Level 5 pull ups

Bear crawl up south ramp

Next Level 20 WWI’s

Crab walk up north ramp

Next Level 30 Squats

Down the stair case to the starting point.

Rinse and repeat; completed the first two cycles together, to ensure the PAX understood.

Recover – next up 10 burpee’s OYO, then dead hangs for 60 seconds

Rinse and repeat – 10 burpee’s OYO with dead hangs for 45 seconds

Mosey towards Franklin, right turn towards the old court-house

Stopped for 30 monkey humpers OYO at 3 lights

Bernie Sanders up the hill to the light on Main

Mosey back to the Christmas tree and finished out with a few sets of mountain climbers

Announcements:

Monday AO’s start at 7am: includes Mt. Hollywood and Black Knight

Workout at the Storm on Christmas am starts at 6

The Yank on Saturday; starting point moved to Glenway due to Belmont race

Namearama – FNG Frankie Letts 49 named Rhousey based on MMA background and something about a beatdown of his kid brother.

Good work by all.  Always fun with this group.  Thanks for the opportunity to lead.  Merry Christmas to all.

Turtleman

it was a week ago when Malfunction who has only attended 3 workouts over the summer before he headed out to attend The Citadel called me to get his first Q done today. I would say he has this figured out.

The Thang:

You should have been there, we did lots of Merkin’s and running in the parking garage. One leg bear crawls, Scary Merkins, and much more.

The Moleskin:

The VQ was completed and Malfunction is now able to knock out Q’s all the time. He planned on an hour and was ready to take us another 15 but we all ran from him and left him in the garage. Fun morning and very creative workout.

Operation Sweet Tooth, bring to the Christmas Party.

Singing for Santa Saturday Morning.

Prayers out to several.

Gastone the BB writer Out.

12 men found their way out of the fartsack to burn of the Thanksgiving gut. It was cold, windy and I was still full and sluggish. Oh well I volunteered for this!

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Let’s mosey to the deck to get out of the wind.

Warmup:

Seal Jacks x 15ic

Low Slow Slaw Squat x 15ic

Morroccan Nightclubs for a while. For added work throw in your longhorns!

CDD x 10ic

Flutter kicks x 10ic

LBC x 10ic

Man it’s hard to bend at the belly!

The Thang:

3 exercises on each level(we did 4 levels). Starting with 15 of each.

1st level-Donkey Kicks, Wall sit and march, Freddy Mercury

2nd level-Ski burps, lunges, dirty hookups

3rd level-bird dogs, plank jacks, broad jumps

4th level-Eddy Gordo(ask and I can show you), squats, burpees

Joe Hendricks on all the ramps going up of course!

Crab walk each one and mosey back to the bottom.

Do again but this time 10 each.

Running low on time I gave Golddigger the chose of option 1 or 2. He chose so we headed back to the flag.

Deep sea divers-15 up and 10 back down.

Circle up for the Iron Hulk. We had 12 so everyone got a chance to call it. 12/48 was the last count.

Pizza Man lead a few exercises while I grabbed my phone.

Sorry guys maybe next time we will do shoulders!

COT:

Namerama

Announcements-SFN C-town, Christmas party 12/15 info coming

Prayer Request- Family, Addictions

Moleskin:

A little word about how you are never truly not a sadclown. He is always there waiting to come out! Great to be out today. Do not take it for granted!

Never Q’d Downtown before. Vast area to perform multiple different exercises; however, YHC knew it was going to be cold and rainy so thought I’d use the parking deck. Visited the Ye ol Exicon database to get some inspiration for some new or rarely used exercises. Really wanted to bring out some coupons but I had gotten sidetracked with life during the week so wasn’t able to get them made, that said had to modify the weinke last minute

Warmup in the pavilion out of the rain:

SSH – 50 IC

Imperial Walker – 15 IC

MNC – 50 IC (Whoopee liked to pretend I was feeling him up during this exercise)

Mosey out of pavilion and stop in front of flag poles. Single file line for the Death March. Very slow, fellowshipish mosey while last guy in line does 5 burpees. After he finishes taps last guy in line to do burpees and sprints to the front. Rinse, repeat through line until we make it to the top of the parking deck.

Take stairs to lower level of Parking Deck

Jacobs Ladder
P1 – Merkins, Squats, LBC’s, CDD’s
P2 run up stairs, 2 Burpees run back down stairs & switch. Next time up 4 burpees, repeat until 8 burpees each PAX

Chilly Jacks – 15 IC
Crowd Pleaser – 1 Merkin 1 Groiner 1:1 to 5:5 to 1:1
Makhtar N’Diayes – 10 (Broke get’s bonus points for naming the UNC standout by only 1 clue given by YHC “UNC player from Senegal”)
French Fries – 25 each arm

Mumblechatter was at an all time high. Whoopee and I got into it on the French Fries as YHC was trying to steal them. He didnt care for that too much and ended up making a complete mockery of me. Made me laugh so hard it was a triple core workout for me. Pretty sure he tea bagged me a few times as well. Well played sir!

Mosey back to the pavilion and circle up for Barrell of Monkeys?? Squirt and YHC seem to recall thats what the exercise is called. Come to find out later the official term is called “Howling Monkeys”.  In a circle, everyone grabs their ankles in Monkey Humper fashion (or Gorilla Humper, for the fearless) . The first person does ten monkey humpers followed by the next person and so on as in other “ring of fire” exercises. Don’t let go of the ankles!

Next we did an Around the Horn style MARY. We heard a train so of course 5 burpess.

Announcements

XMAS Party and other some other events that have already happened

Prayer requests spoken & unspoken

Squirt took us out.

Bed Pan,

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to Q at your site. I know you will do great things with this Downtown AO. Makes me happy to think we started at the same time and we are already running our own AO’s. For the rest of you, thanks for resisting the fartsack and coming out to support me and make yourselves better at the same time. See you all again soon!!

AYE!

HIPAA

5:30 struck and a Q had not arrived. Gastone noticed and stepped to the middle to temporize the crowd. But, after 12 of us started with SSH, Spiderman came up and said Gastone you can keep it if you want. I oblige, the cheering began as you could hear the crowd with all the excitement to be part of a Gastone Q.

The Thang:

30 SSH (3 Count)

15 Merkins (3 count)

Mosey to the bridge.

Bear crawl across.

Mosey to parking lot with 2 sets of stairs.

Partner Exercise. Circle path in the parking lot around the stairs. Meet your partner at the top and the bottom. Start with 10 Partner Merkin’s at the top and 9 at the bottom. Rinse and Repeat until you run out of numbers.

LBC’s until all finish.

Mosey to the stairs with a hand rail. Everyone up on the railing with feet and hands on the top railing. Huckleberry at the bottom bear crawl to the top as we all slide down and then the next guy. Once finished  we reversed and went downhill. (next time feet on the top rail and hands on the second rail down)

Mosey back to parking lot. (about 10 yards)

First parking spot, 50 Monkey Humpers

Next spot, 20 in place lunges counting the right leg. (Clavin counted the left the entire time so he should make up for this today on his own time)

Next, 50 Squats

Next, 40 calf raises with feet together

Next, 50 Gorilla Humper’s (Same as Monkey except your spreed your legs further)

Next, 40 calf raises with feet apart.

Run backwards around the parking lot and back to the same parking spot.

Mosey back to bridge. (Peddles mentioned something about partner carry)

Bridge, Wheelbarrow across with partner. (Good idea Peddles with more partner work)

Backwards around this parking lot. It was flat.

Quickly tried Circle Derkins around round area. Not enough space.

5 Burpee’s for the train.

Jailbreak back to start.

The Moleskin:

We got to work this morning and some say that they were mad at Spiderman for handing off the Q. But, I will make note that he has been bringing the heat for a long time and his workouts can make mine look friendly. Another note, Q’s are available for you to pick up and unlike Cam Newton I don’t mind jumping on the ball when needed. Can you jump faster?

Prayers for Officers and families involved in the shooting in Florence.

Thanks for the opportunity, it is always an honor to be the Q.

Gastone Out!

16 Men showed for a Spiderman Q but at 5:31 we had no sign of our webbed friend. So everyone at that point cheered when Gastone stepped to the middle of the circle. Linus and Toto came strolling in as we did warm up’s but still no sign. The excitement was in the air.

The Thang:

SSH 31

5 Diamond Merkins

10 Merkins

20 Imperial Walker

5 Diamond’s

20 CCD’s

Mosey to McQuitter Wall.

20 Dips

50 Wall jumps

25 Derkins

30 Lunges counting right leg

30 Incline Merkins

15 Dips

30 Wall Jumps

20 Derkins

20 Lunges

20 Incline Merkins

10 Dips

20 Wall Jumps

20 Lunges

20 Incline Merkins

Mosey between to small hills and partner up.

5 Burpee’s due to train.

Partner A run down one hill partner B run down the other. meet in the middle for 10 Hand Slap Merkins. Rinse and Repeat 3x.

Mosey Around and on the way back.

Backwards up the hill 50 yards

Stop in random lot.

40 Monkey Humpers

Walk to next opening

40 Monkey Humpers

40 Squats with a break for another train and 5 Burpee’s

Then 5 Burpee’s

Mosey to bottom of long hill

Run backwards up the hill. 100 yards

Mosey more.

Stop for 6 minutes of Mary.

50 LBC’s

40 Flutter’s

Sister Act tried to leave at this point but was called back for the next exercise just because he was talking about it.

Partner Wheel barrow 20 yards each. Now he can leave.

Mosey to the start

The Moleskin:

Great group of men this morning that received a improve workout from Gastone. We had one FNG which was the 2.0 of Dr Feelgood and he mentioned he like to beat up his brother. So he got the name Chet from the older movie but great movie Weird Science. Welcome Chet.

Q vs Q tomorrow. Linus is now the main judge since Roscoe has to work. Should be a good battle between Florence and Shortsale.

Check your calendars and sign up for some of the events upcoming in the F3 agenda.

Prayers for all the people that have so far been affected by Florence.

It is always a privilege.

Gastone