Tag: Downtown (Page 7 of 21)

After multiple attempts to introduce 2000’s rock to a bunch of 50 year old curmudgeons, YHC decided to turn back the clock and culture said curmudgeonly crew with some 1840’s rock. More precisely, with the Symphonie Fantastique by my man Hector Berlioz. If you thought Motley Crue and AC/DC were off the chain, you need to read the story of Monsieur Berlioz…

Anyway, the workout was great, the music was better. Show to know.

In the words of everyone’s favorite cop Roscoe: “If you ain’t got culture, you ain’t got shit.” And I believe all present would agree, there was plenty of the latter.

Until next time,

GD

Ironically, 11 PAX gathered at the Pavilion for a very muggy and humbling gloom honoring all those lost during the 9/11 terrorist attacks 19 years ago.  This morning was nothing like that of September 11, 2001 as someone had clearly adjusted the “humidistat” to 100%.  No FNGs but the standard disclaimer was presented.

• Warm-Up
  • SSH x 9 IC
  • Moroccan Night Clubs x 9 IC
  • Grass Pickers x 9 IC
• Step-ups x 110 OYO (Count both legs) @ Pavillion
• Mosey to the wall (Alliance Bank)
  • Wall Sits w/ Arm Press x 9 IC
• Mosey to W Main Ave / S South St begin 11 stops w/ 9 reps @ each block to 4th Ave cross to S Marietta then return to E Main Ave / Dr MLK Jr Way then to Parking Deck
  • Burpees x 9 OYO
  • LBCs x 9 IC 
  • Lunges x 9 per leg
  • Merkins x 9 IC 
  • Big Boys x 9 
  • Air Squats x 9 IC 
  • Dips x 9 IC 
  • Dying Cockroaches x 9 IC 
  • Toy Soldiers x 9 per leg 
  • Shoulder Tap Plank x 9 IC 
• Mosey to Parking Deck / Climb each set of stairs to next floor / Run to opposite set of stairs then repeat
• Once at the top repeat all exercises x 11
• Mosey back to Pavillion 
• Round Robin
  • Each HIM calls an exercise x 9 or x 11
  • Then recall / share where they were that day
• PoA / Announcements / COT
• Water Boy prayed us out

It was truly an honor to lead such a great bunch of HIMs on such a special day.

8 men showed this morning for the downtown beat down – 1 FNG

Warm up:

SSH x 30 IC

Moroccan Night Clubs x 20 or 30 IC ( until Waterboy arrived from the parking lot)

Merkins x 10 IC

Mosey to bridge – Lunge Lunge burpee across the bridge and plank for the six

Mosey to behind the Social Services  building

11’s from one side the small parking area to the other side – Merkins and Moroccan Night club

Sprint the up the parking lot a few time to improve our running??

Stop for more 11″s – LBC’s and Hand release merkins

Mosey to bottom of parking lot and partner up:

300 LBC’s as a team – one run up the parking lot while the other performs said exercise.

200 Flutter kicks (counting one leg)

Nur the complete parking lot to Airline Ave. and then up to the light.

Back to bridge – lunge walk the bridge

Mosey a longer route back to the flag and finish up the last 2 minutes with Merry

Pledge

Many prayer request: pax family’s, our Nation, and may others

Name the FNG:  since he is a big Tarheel fan we named him JV after the great  Jimmy V.

Pray and off to work we go

Honor to lead this morning and until next time

EZ out!!

Another warm humid morning was served up for the 14 of us to enjoy!  As there were no FNGs a quick disclaimer was given and we warmed up with some Moroccan Nightclubs, Don Quixotes and Side Straddle Hops.  After that we did the Pledge.

A short mosey to the front of the Gaston County Administrative Offices.  There we prepared for the Walls of Jericho.  We did seven sets of each of seven exercises and then took a lap around the building.  The idea was to repeat this seven times.

The following were the called exercises:

Jumping Spider
Merkin with a bounce on the up (getting feet & hands off the ground)
E2k
Elbow to knee
Russian Twist
American Hammer, but I needed an “R”
Imperial Squat Walker
Cruel cousin of the Imperial Walker, squat between each elbow to knee
Crunchy Frog
a Dr. Seuss favorite, too bad he missed them
Happy Jacks
5 side straddle hops quickly followed by two jump squats
One-legged burpee
Not enough exercises start with “O”… this was a crowd pleaser

I should have made tic marks as the laps were completed… I though we were on lap six, but a vocal contingent insisted we had done seven rounds.  I capitulated to their count so we went to a more open space in the parking lot and lined up for 11’s.  We did merkins and tiger squats.

Mosey back to the flag and do flutter kicks until TIME!

Everyone put in some good hard work to get just a little bit better.

Announcements

Gastone will be running a mile with a cancer survivor who is running a mile in every state… it will be 9/28 at 7 AM… more details to follow

Prayer Requests

Family members, 39 children rescued in GA, PAX recovering from injuries

We closed with prayer.

So YHC rarely if ever posted at the Friday uptown AO due to commitments across the river in the Big Town and an affinity for the Metro pAX AT Atilla. Since Covid however that has changed since YHC has no place to shower and get presentable due to gym closures. So, this AO has for now become my Friday destination. And a good one it is! Lots of opportunities and obstacles to work with. So this morning was time for a first Q here. Went like this:

COP:

Arm stretches

SSH X 20

IW X 20

Grapevine Stretch

Mtn. Climbers,

Cotton Pickers

Mosey over to the Hotbox West.

L1: 5 burpees

L2: 5 burpees, 10 AH

L3: 5 burpees, 10 AH, 15 CDDs

L4: 5 burpees, 10 AH, 15 CDDs, 20 Big boy situps

L5: 5 burpees, 10 AH, 15 CDDS, 20 Big boy situps, 15 HR merkins

Repeat backwards going back down so that we end with 5 burpees on L1.

Mosey in the rain to the Franklin Hill fro some triple nickel work:

Start at the bottom,

Plank Jacks X 5

Top

Jump Squats X 5

Repeat 5X

Mosey back to the flag.

Bear Crawl @ the Pavillion

Circle up for some Mary where pax calls move and does 10 merkins. Made it @ 5 pax or so.

Pledge and done.

NMM:

Great work today by everyone. Humid amd a little rain never hurt anyone. Rain was pleasant today. Enjoyed it in fact. Prayers up for Sister Act and his daughter, for Purple Haze’s big job opportunity! Lots of other things as well as we head into fall. School. Covid. You name it. Lot on teh plate today.

Pleasure to lead this group today. Hope to do it again soon.

Tesla

Ten had gather around YHC when 0530 hit.

No FNGs are visible, so only the briefest of introduction/disclaimer is given.

We knockout The Pledge of Allegiance before moving on to…

Warmup

• 5 Burpees
• 10 SSH IC
• 10 Merkins OYO
• 10 IW IC
• 5 Burpees

Main Event

We mosey straight down South Street a few blocks until you get to the building with parking underneath.

Partner up for some DORA.
P1 does the exercise, P2 up the stairs and around the bldg back to P1, then flap jack.
Complete the following:
100 Merkins
200 Squats
300 LBCs
400 MNCs

Somewhere in here Tube started to not feel well and exited.  Hope he is feeling better.

Going North on South Street, between 2nd and Franklin, Nur, but stop at every wooden pole on left and do increasing Burpees.  That’s seven poles for those that are keeping count.

Move over to the parking lot for some 11s.

AHs at Franklin and CDDs at the trucks

Mosey on up South Street, back to where we started for a few minutes of Mary.

Announcements

• Annihilation Workout – 29-Aug GasHouse
• JJK5 26-Sep
• Mt. Mitchell hike 27-Sep
• CSAUP coming up in Sep.

Prayer Requests

• ShortSale recovery from surgery
• Sister Act 2.0
• Spiderman
• Teachers and Students starting school

Top Hat took us out.

Way to push out there!  Keep it up.

The title…Its Day 227 of 2020, 61.75% of the year is complete.  Are you on track for your personal goals?

Watts Up Powering Down

Bakers dozen today. We did some stuff in the parking garage. Some of it was dirty. Some double negatives. All around near 2 miles.

announcements.
CSAP ON Sept 19th

jj 5k the sept 26th

mt Mitchell hike sept 27

ez rider requesting some qs for downtown

beers at primal brewing in Belmont at 5pm tonight

prayer requests

SAs family, pillagers family, injured pax

Pledge

Warm up : 30 SSH in cadence

Mosey to wall: wall sit left over right and right over left and 10 Mike Tyson’s

Mosey to McQuitter wall: 20 step up per leg

Mosey down South St to first stop light – from there to the 10th light pole stop and do jump squats (1 at first and 10 at 10th)

Mosey on down to Garrison Blvd.

Brief pause and then mosey back to first stop sign.

Repeat in reverse for the next 10 light poles on the left only – this time nur up the hill.

What do you know we ended back at McQuitter wall again – 20 step ups each leg.

Mosey back toward the start and stop at the wall for a little more wall sitting but no Mike Tyson’s

F3 Fun Run from there to start but everyone has to have a turn so we circle the parking  lot – word of advance do not follow Buckeye in the fun run !

Side note: we did a lot of Flutter Kicks and LBC’s before and after the moseys.

Arrive back at start with a few minutes of “NO BURPEE” merry (don’t recall all of the fun stuff that was called).

Time!!

Announcements: Mt Mitchell

Prayer request: may family members and our Nation

Out with Prayer

Until next time

EZ out

14 men showed at Downtown!

Warm-up:

Slaughter Starter = 20 Burpees

The Thang:

Mosey to the main street.  Exercise called is Route 66.  Use the lights poles on the left.  Start with 1 Hand Release Merkin at first pole.  Mosey to 2nd pole for 2 HR Merkins.  Work your way down the street adding rep at each pole. Finish with 11 HR Merkins at the last pole.

Mosey to the parking deck.  This was a terrible decision because it felt like 150 degrees in there, but we kept to the plan.  Do a Rack and Stack in the parking deck.  Run all the way to the top level using the ramps and do 10 Burpees.  Take the stairs down to bottom level and do 10 Burpees.  Run back to top for 20 Jump Lunges.  Take stairs down for 10 Burpees, 20 Jump Lunges. Run to top for 30 Merkins.  Back down for 10 Burpees, 20 Jump Lunges, 30 Merkins.  Run to top for 40 Big Boys.  Back down for 10 Burpees, 20 Jump Lunges, 30 Merkins, 40 Big Boys.  Run to top 50 Squats.  Go back down for 10 Burpees 20 Jump Lunges 30 Merkins 40 Big Boys 50 Squats.  That was awful!!!  Mosey back to flag.  Time!!!!

Nameorama

Announcements

Prayer Request

Honor to lead you men.

Sister Act