Tag: Neverland (Page 2 of 3)

Big crowd to start the week at Neverland.  This was the last week of school, which at this point seems like an eternity ago.   It was also Whoopees anniversary.  The only thing missing was rain puddles to celebrate.  Congrats on 24 years.

Went something like this

Warm up – SSH’s, LBCs, Merkins

Mosey towards old Harris Teeter, stopping in the parking lot by the pizza shop

First up, run to the loading dock, jump up, bear crawl down the ramp, run to parking lot, 20 squats – rinse and repeat x3

Mosey towards Food Lion, stopping at the wall by the old car wash

Wall sits for 60 seconds, followed by balls to the wall for 60 seconds

Quick 10 count

Rinse and repeat

Mosey towards the school, frog’er across Union Rd

Stop on the church road, on your six for 25 big boy sit ups, feet on the highside of the decline.   Think we rinsed and repeated

Mosey up to front of Robinson Elementary.  Partner up for some 11’s.   Run to alternate ends of the side walks, perform dips, run to the middle for bouyha merkins

Plank it up waiting on the six

Meander to the front lot for some Mary work

Mosey back to Food Lion, stopping by the same wall.   Believe we did some derkins and perhaps donkey kicks.

Line up, sprint across the parking lot.  Wait on the six and mosey to the HT lot.

Sprint across and mosey towards the start at Snoballs

Time

More running than normal for some.   It was a soaker.   Great work brothers.  Keep pushing.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

Turtleman

Another beautiful morning in the gloom to jump start the week.   Was great to see T-Bone back after a long stint on the IR.  Let’s get to it.

Disclosure

Warm up

Imperial Walkers IC x 20

SSH’s IC x 20

MNC’s IC x 51 (Mumble Chatter about hitting 100, waited till the first Pax dropped their hands)

LBC’s IC x 20

Plank Jacks IC x 20

Mosey down the parkway, stopping at each light for some monkey humpers, which escalated at each light (Mumble Chatter about increasing the reps), YHC kept obliging.   20, 30, 40, 60

Meander across the street to the doctor’s office.

Broad jump up the incline to the first light, mosey back, 20 big boy sit ups

Rinse and Repeat x3

Plank it up waiting on the six

Mosey into the neighborhood – think we stopped for some more monkey humpers

At the bottom of hill stop, lunge walk up the hill to the first light, mosey back to the start

Rinse and repeat x3 (Traffic was heavy in the neighborhood at 5:50am

Meander to the trail, stop for some freddie mercury’s x 20 oyo

Mosey down the trail into park – An observation was made about the sun coming up earlier.  We could see running down the trail.

At the first fork in the trial, Watt’s Up had the choice of going left or right with a surprise behind each door

Choose left, stop for 10 burpees

Mosey to the next fork, Watt’s Up choice right.  10 burpees again

Up to the next fork, same option, choice right.  10 burpees

Mosey to the shelter

Grab a spot at a table

Dips x 10 IC, Step ups x 10 oyo each leg, rinse and repeat x3

YHC called on Watts Up to lead us with Body Destroyers – 10 count

Next asked Gastone to lead us with a round of flutter kicks, Easy Rider was strong with the mumble chatter today encouraged to 100.  YHC called time at 50

Meander to the parking lot

Bernie Sanders to the top of the parking lot – FEEL THE BURN.  This has become a Turtleman special.   Shout out to Watts Up, made it much further than he has before.  Way to push the rock brother

A few minutes left, next up Derkins x20 IC

Mosey back to Snoballs – TIME

Pledge

COT

Always a honor to Q.  Appreciate the push.  Good work brothers.

Turtleman

Publishing on behalf of Island, who is yet to graduate from the back blast 101 core curriculum.   Perhaps the weasel shaker could offer an early am course.   Anyway, the beat down goes something like this.

Quick warm up

SSH’s and Merkins

The Thang

Not much running.   Did not have to leave the area

Started with the circuit (editor’s note:  sounds like some crazy Short Sale diatribe).  Completed 3 circuits and each circuit finished with a run.  Rinsed and repeated until the time ran out for that circuit and moved to the next.

First circuit – Burpees, lunges, merkins, big boy sit ups, dips and run

Second circuit – 30 seconds of mtn climbers, squats, shoulder press, freddie mercury’s, plank jacks and run

Third circuit – SSH’s, LBCs, 30 second of plank each side and run

Sounds interesting.  Hate that I missed it.

Turtleman

After being a MORON, withstanding Hush Puppy’s PainLab on Saturday, and celebrating Mother’s Day yesterday, YHC was not quite ready for Monday to get here (physically or mentally). But time rolls on, so YHC rolled out of the fartsack a little earlier than normal to try to get a little more stretching in. Rolling into Neverland at 0515, Easy Rider was already parked. Within just a few minutes 13 had joined YHC in the gloom.

0530 its go time.

No FNG’s, so a short standard disclaimer is given.

Pledge

Warm Up (While some would claim there was no warm up, YHC is going to write it up this way.):
Mosey to Bellacino’s parking lot (Side Note: If you haven’t tried Bellacinos, they have great pizza and grinders.)

Thang:
YHC had been reading old backblasts from the start of F3 Gastonia, the inspiration for this came from a Martha’s House workout Q’d by none other than Outhouse in 2015.
Start with 5 SSH in the first set of parking spots.
Sprint to 1st light – 10 Sumo Squats.
Nur to start – 10 SSH
Sprint to 2nd light (stop at 1st light – 1 Burpee) – 15 Sumo Squats
Nur to start – 15 SSH
Spring to 3rd light (stop and 1st and 2nd light – 1 Burpee) – 20 Sumo Squats
Nur to start – 20 SSH

During the 10 count, Island graced us with his presence, bringing the total to 16.

Next YHC called an Indian Run around the building. While this started out well, it quickly got out of hand with a near sprint pace by halfway around and JJ, Whoopee and Defib taking off in a full-on jailbrake by 2/3.

Next on the hit parade was a repeat of the first exercise with Mountain Climbers in the parking spots and Hand-Release Merkins at the lights.

While the intent was to do another Indian Run, this was quickly modified to a just a mosey around the building return to the wall of the abandoned grocery store. (Even then certain attendees ran some EC around the ATM as well.)

Everybody on the wall for People’s Chair with some hands in the air marching. YHC doesn’t remember the count as he was scheming an audible to the plan…

To ensure there was much joy brought to all who attended, YHC asked Whoopee to lead in 10 Hip-Slappers IC. If you have ever done Whoopee’s Hip-Slappers, you know the joy this brings to everyone.

Even though we were now on the other end of the parking lot a repeat of the 1st set of exercises was in order with American Hammers in the parking spots and Monkey Humpers at the lights.
YHC knew time was starting to get short, so the mosey was shortened to just around the parking lot, again ending at the wall.

Again the People’s Chair was called, this time all were “encouraged” to get those thighs parallel to the ground. YHC then asked Gastone to lead the marching this time. YHC did not give Gastone a count, so after 25, Q Omaha’d whatever number Gastone may have gone to… Q fail #1.

YHC was down to less than 10 minutes and still had one more set to get done. To get this in, the “first” light was eliminated with Big Boy Sit-ups in the parking spots and LBCs at the lights.
Somewhere in the middle of the last Big Boys, it was time to mosey back to SnoBalls to ensure YHC was not accused of demanding EC/overtime.

We arrived there with 2 minutes to spare, so some Mary. As Gastone had been out of pocket with family, YHC asked him to start.
30 IC Flutters later, YHC informed Gastone he had to share Mary (Q fail #2)
To complete Mary, Island called LBCs and Dirt with Peter Parkers and Parker Peters.

Time!

Thanks to JJ for picking up the six (other than during the Jailbrake).

Announcements:
Mt. Mitchell hike rescheduled for 19-May.
Belmont 5K – SFN – 25-May
The Murph – 27-May
Monk’s Departure Celebration – 31-May

Prayer Requests:
Mayor’s Recovery, Gastone’s Family, Sargento’s Family, PizzaMan’s Family, Roadie’s Family, Mothers
JJ took us out

Moleskin:
While I was driving to work after this workout, I ended up behind a minivan who driving either very slow or very fast and was barely keeping it between the curb and oncoming traffic. The vehicle ultimately missed a curve in the road, jumped the curb and hit one the big switch housings (that control the traffic lights) at 35-40, half-flipped, half-rolled and landed on the wheels. The lady driving didn’t have any visible wounds, but didn’t start to respond until just before EMS/Fire/Police rolled up. The van is going to be a total loss, but I pray she is ok.
Seeing this accident brought to mind how short and precious life is and how our region has been hit with much loss and hurt recently. Through our Fellowship and Faith we can get each other through these trials. None of us know the time we have allotted on this Earth, but I know we can have eternity if we know Jesus.
Thank you for the opportunity to lead. I hope I made it worth your while to roll out of the fartsack.
Either way, there are no refunds…

Watts Up powering down.