Author: Rudy

  • Welcome back Bear for IPC 2021 Week 4 – MaryAnne’s Mayhem – from Hokie

    For this 45 minute workout, set the timer for 52 minutes and 30 seconds 😉

    AMRAP

    In sets up 25 with a 25 yard run, 3 burpees and 25 yard run back

    200 curls (8 sets of 25)
    175 squats (7 sets of 25)
    150 Overhead Press (6 sets of 25)
    125 Kettlebell Swings (5 sets of 25)
    100 Merkins (4 sets of 25)
    75 Thrusters (3 sets of 25)
    50 Bonnie Blairs (right leg-left leg = 1 rep) (2 sets of 25)
    25 Blockees (1 sets of 25)

    If you finish all of the exercises, repeat in reverse order from the last time you just did it.

    The burpees DO NOT count in your rep count.

    900 reps is the total if you get through all of the exercises.

  • Leave Some Men Behind (And then find them) – from Tinkles

    It was a nice morning for workout. The park still looks like a firewood farm in many of our usual locations. Good excuse to stick the track for some running. A lighter but spirited crew brought their A-game today.

    Warm-up: Arm circles (forwards and back), Grass Grabbers

    First Thing: 1.8 mile Indian run around the park. 2 modifying pax finished along with the main group. 2 additional pax were still modifying.

    Next Thing: Ring of fire merkins x 2. Still missing two guys.

    Next Next Thing: Mosey to lot in front of the zoo for some 4-corners BLIMPS. Pretty sure they will catch up with us soon.

    Next Next Next Thing: Head to the parking lot for some Mary. The girls workout is going full blast and who is that over there doing their own Mary… the missing pax! Great instincts to seek out friendly foe! Rewards with Russian Twists, LBCs, Penguins, Dying Cockroaches.

    Last Thing: One more four corner BLIMPS modified to take us back to the flag.

    Extra Credit: planks with mission impossible.

    COT: count off, namorama, and intentions. T-claps to our lost friend Pauly D who is town for a brief stopover and came out to the gloom. Welcome back friend! Have a great week.

  • Something Borrowed – from Akbar

    3 PAX at the Marsh this morning, arriving to a near perfect 61 degrees. Mumblechatter before warm up was of course IronPax, and JV was telling his tales of Saturday.

    Mentioning his sister’s wedding happening this weekend, the tie in was perfect since YHC had already planned to borrow some ideas of a recent workout and modify it for the Marsh. We could have made the tradition work since Waterpik was wearing something blue and JV is new. But YHC is not old, and no one knows what a sixpence is.

    Warm Up: Walkout plank merkin hold x 10. (Standing position, bend at waist, touch the ground and walk out to plank, merkin, walk back up = 1)

    Mosey to the lakefront stopping for SSH, IW, Self-Love x10

    Lakefront Wall: Freak Nasty/ Bulgarian Split Squat L/R leg 12,8,5 IC

    Rips: wall sit + 50 air presses; 25 Calf raises OYO

    7’s at Rips stairs: T Merkins bottom, SMC top. JV guessed where this came from, one of Steve’s favorites.

    25 calf raises OYO

    Lakefront Wall: Freak Nasties | Copperhead Squats IC 12,8,5 IC

    Mosey back to the Marsh, stopping at the first 3 intersections for bear crawls and 5 Merkins. Jog to the Marsh for another round of Wall sit and 50 air presses

    Mosey to playground for 7’s: Pull ups and LBC’s

    Count, Name, and Pik prayed us out.

    Announcements: 7 Year Convergence October 16th at City Park/Mothership

    Thanks for letting me lead – Akbar

  • Deck of death with a bunch of old cores – from Jose10k

    On a beautiful crisp morning, YHC arrived to the a1c realizing that he had forgotten to create a workout for this morning. Softball had kept him out to late the night before, so he reached into his bag for supplies. The usual crew showed up. I quickly found a deck of cards and it was on!
    Warmups: arm circles, self love, torso twists, and something else ( with 10 hand released merkins in between). Inspired by STEVE, lt. Dan’s across the parking garage. Moseyed back to the center, rock music playing, the deck of death began. Hearts: leg raises. Diamond: big boy situps, spades: gas pumps, and clubs: freddy mercurys in cadence, the joker was 5 calf raises on each step, up all 3 flights. Deck of death, core style! COT, and einstein prayed us out! Thanks for letting me lead brothers.

  • Afternoon Delight! 9-22-2021 – from Almonaster

    Beating the Train!

    PAX:

    – Coastrat
    – Gabby
    – Subprime
    – FCOJ
    – Doc Ock
    – Almonaster

    Mosey to the field with the Soccer goal.
    Warmup:

    SSH – 20 IC
    Arm Circles -10 IC
    Reverse Arm Circles – 10 IC
    Imperial Walkers – 10 IC
    Balance on 1 foot for 10 seconds – Each Foot
    The Morpheus – 10 IC
    Grass Grabbers – 10 IC
    Windmills – 10 IC
    Mountain Climbers – 10 IC

    The Thang:

    Mosey to the Fly Hill.

    Dora

    Merkins – 100
    Squats – 200
    LBC’s – 300

    Bear crawl up and over the hill. Run Back.

    Mosey to the Fly, Light Pole.

    5 X’s

    Lunge walk 10 yards
    Merkins – 10
    Flutter Kicks – 10 2 is 1

    Mosey to Moana’s Island.

    Mary

    Freddie Mercury’s – 20 OYO
    Russian Twists (Douilles) – 20 2 is 1 OYO

    Back to Flag

    Birthdays
    Anniversaries
    Announcements
    Intentions
    Prayer

    Thanks for the opportunity to Lead!

  • The Wobble – from TurboTax

    YHC had to dust off his PhD in theoretical physics to understand it and employ the oratory skills of Socrates to explain it, but make no mistake, The Wobble is worthy of its name.

    Four PAX materialized out of the Gloom right on time, and we got right down to business. 50 Kracken Burpees, 50 DBE Burpees, 50 Bonnie Blair’s, and 2400 meters later Iron PAX #3 was in the books. It was a solid downpainment on the day, and the geriatric PAX wobbled back off into the Gloom to start theirs.

    Thanks for letting me lead guys.

  • El Diablo in the Fall – from Fracsac

    El Diablo is an AO where limits are to be pushed and new nearly impossible feats of strength are to be embraced. This was the intent at Pontiff this day where 6 pax converged to embrace the suck. With a cool breeze signaling the entrance of Autumn, Bogey, Boo-Boo, Hokie, Thumb War, RevSox and YHC got after it.

    Disclaimer given, then short mosey to the waterlogged field.

    Warmup

    SSh IC x 31
    AV IC x 10
    GG IC x 10
    Bat wings with AC, OC, SC and MNC

    The Thang

    BLIMPS can be tough, but we would put a theory to the test that SBE is a real thing. Glad you asked (you know you did). SBE means Simple But Effective.

    BLIMPS are composed of Burpees, Lunges, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Plank Jacks and Squats.

    Start with 5 Burpees OYO, then 5 of the LIMPS in cadence. Run a lap around the track.

    Next round was 10, followed by a lap, then 15, then 20 and onto 25 where we ran out of time. We got two-thirds through the 5th round.

    COT

    NMM

    -Check on your F3 brothers. A pax could be in a mental battle where the wounds are deep but strategically well covered. We need each other now more than ever.
    -Lafitte recovery trip is scheduled for Saturday leaving from some coffee shop that has other stuff. You had to be there to understand, but know it was funnier than that really funny Dad joke. Anyways, check Slack for details. Bogey has the deets.
    -Fall is here, at least for now. Let’s hope it keeps the hurricanes away.

    SYITG

  • Burnin’ Down the Holy Day House w/ Rings of Fire – from Baywatch

    5 PAX joined yours truly to push themselves on this Sunday morning. The pleasantries were exchanged, disclaimer given, and then we moseyed to the museum steps for a warmup IC:

    SSH 25x
    Arm circles forward/backward 15x
    Grassgrabbers 15x
    Windmills 15x

    With the warmup complete, the fun stuff began. First came the Deep Sea Divers down the museum steps with 1 merkin per step. Then we turned around at the bottom
    and repeated back up to the top. Next we moseyed over to the pond to make one lap with three stops along the way. Rings of fire occurred at each stop with 3 rounds and 10 reps per round.

    Stop 1 was a static Al Gore with jump squats round 1, Mary Janes round 2, and 180 jumps round 3.

    Stop 2 was a static plank with diamond merkins, shoulder taps, and merkins.

    Stop 3 was a static six inches with flutter kicks (2 is 1), dying cockroaches (2 is 1), and box cutters.

    With the lap finished we moseyed to the foundry. 4 stations; 2 rounds; 1 person per station. Pull ups, big boy sit-ups, derkins, and the timer was a run to the track with 5 burpees and return.

    After that we moseyed back to the museum to finish off with Sunday Mornings. This is where Catfish and Tripleshift met the rest of the group to finish off the beat down. Catfish had just completed Week 2 of IPC with an awesome sub 30 minute time.

    Then back to the flag for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and a prayer.

  • 1.1 – 2.1 – 3.1 – 4.1 and Hawg 10 K – from Hokie

    3 Pax showed up on a gloomy “Moist” day

    1 mile opening mosey followed with 100 meter Sprint and 100 Mosey, 200 Sprint 100 Mosey, 300 Sprint 100 Mosey, 400 Sprint 100 Mosey, then 300-100, 200-100, 100-100, 200-100, etc…

    At 6:10 we did “Bell Curves”. Start at goal line, get to 100% by 50 yard line and taper…. rinse and repeat.

    Slow down with mosey to flag for some stretching

    Thanks for showing up Hawg & Moist

  • I know where I’m going – from Waterpik

    With a hurricane evacuation and some knee soreness in the rear view mirror, it was good to get back on the Q sheet.

    Not having been to the marsh in a while ,there was no doubt in my mind that today’s beatdown would include a mosey the lakefront. Its always enjoyable to work out with the lake as a backdrop.

    So after a brief warmup and disclaimer, YHC lead the pax to the lakefront for exercises at the sea wall: derkins, freak nasties, step ups, Bulgarian split squats.

    Mosey back to the marsh for countoff, prayer.

    I’d like to send out a big F3 welcome to fng Junior Varsity who is spending time in our parts while his house in Destrehan is repaired following damage during Ida.

    It was good to be back out in the gloom with you guys this morning.