5 PAX made the decision to pickup where the Tuesday PAX left off.
Warmup
Single file lap around 1/3 the track then we jumped into 11th grade. 12 reps of each Merkins, Jump squats, Plank Jacks, Crunchy frogs, SMC, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peters, 8 count body builders, LBCs, Apolo ohnos, Shoulder taps.
thang
3.3ish miles throughout the classic route.. Returning for our graduation R/R 11th grade adding Burpees as we released our caps to the sky in celebration..
Appreciate your attendance gentlemen and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!
YHC arrived to Grandmas with his winky in his pocket. The instructions would be simple and plain for this Gloom, but it’s always best to write it down just in case you have the occasional poster that may decide to throw in thoughts, of say a hidden coupon that has yet to make its debut. However, moving forward something tells me our lost friend in the BUSH will soon be revealed by his father Bushwacker.. Q reached very shallow into the Exicon for today’s beatdown, although the work was geared towards a fellow PAX who often shows up collecting his tardy slip at the AOs. Today would be logged as a skip out day instead. My creativeness is very limited in writing so let’s move on already..
warmarama
10IC Torso twist, Arm circles forward/reverse, Overhead claps, SSH and Butt kicks.
thang
“Billy Madison”
Back to School
1st-12th grade in 40 mins.. Well, actually we all dropped out in 10th but there is hope for redemption later this week.
All reps to 12 adding a grade after each lap in single file fashion. These students wanted to be over achievers on this day, but the instructor decided to keep the class on the same level today..
8th Merkins, Jump squats, Plank Jacks, Crunchy frogs, SMC, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peters, 8 count body builders (again your welcome Cowbell)
9th Merkins, Jump squats, Plank jacks, Crunchy Frogs, SMC, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peters, 8 count body builders, LBCs
10th Merkins, Jump squats, Plank jacks, Crunchy frogs, SMC, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peters, 8 count body builders, LBCs, Apollo unos.
Time was running out so the instructor released the students, but still wanting extra credit Hammer and Steve skipped a grade and completed the Burpees. Moseyed back to the flag with 2 mins. Held chillcut plank followed by the “chillcut rock” back and forth on toes IC to 12. I am sure there is another name but the Q will take credit on this Gloom for creating this one😬..
Count, Name and COT
Appreciate the Hammer’s closeout and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!
Was he out there? I don’t think so!!!!! Feeling somber that the NFC and AFC Championships are this weekend and the Saints will again be watching from their couches, YHC felt it was time for a fun beatdown. So a competitive game of two hand touch football (technically it was just keep away with a football) was in the cards on the Lakefront Saturday.
YHC divided the PAX into 4 teams of 5 players each with 2 fields next to one another. Each team earned a point by stringing together 5 consecutive passes. If a turnover occured, the offending team had to do a penalty exercise. The penalties were merkins, burpees, Sister Mary Katherine’s, Jump Squats, Bobby Hurley’s. Set the timer for 5 minutes and let the games begin. When the buzzer sounded, the winning teams faced off and the losing teams squared off. Rinse and repeat a couple of times and it was time to head back to the flag.
This is going to be short guys. 4 of us showed up to the A1C on a rainy morning (no turbo dog though) . With no official Q, Cowbell and I decided to share. I conducted the warmups which consisted of SSH, grassgrabers, torso twists, and imperial walkers. Then I turned it over to Cowbell, who I knew was going to get his 100 burpees in.
The thang: 10 burpees on one corner, 20 squats at the next, 20 LBc’s next corner, 20 crunchy frogs at the next, 20 Mericans at the last. Running from corner to corner. 3 rounds of that. Mosey to the first floor for some BLIMPS, with an added bonus of 5 burpees at the end of the incline. 5 burpees at the bottom, run to the top 5 more burpees, then run back down for 10 lunges, run back to the top 5 burpees, then 15 imperial walkers at the bottom, 5 burpees at the top, 20 mericans, 25 plankjacks, 30 squats.
Arrived at the AO with flags already planted and the regulars. The always consistent Waterpik minus his recent absence has become a staple along with Pelican and Cowbell. We also had our famous out of work hairdresser in Steve who is no stranger to the Scramble, but YHC is super excited to have the likes of Russo posting on this Gloom. He has recently committed to the AO and has not looked back. The impressiveness of this fellow brethren is that YHC having heard not so very long ago phrase of “I am not a runner!” “Danielson you must focus” and focus he has. T 👏🏼👏🏼
warmup
15IC Imperial walkers, Windmills, Scorpion kicks, Toe Touches and Butt kicks.
Thang
Standard route with stops at Messina and Monroe for some lagniappe times 2.
10 Jump squats
10 Eight count body builders
10 (2 is 1) Mountain climbers
15 Jump squats
15 Eight count body builders
15 (2 is 1) Mountain climbers
Returned with a min to spare
2 Jump squats
2 Eight count body builders
2 (2-1) Mountain climbers
Count, announce, COT
Appreciate you men following my lead.
Thanks to Waterpik for closing us out land until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!
After a brief warmup of Seal Jacks, Lunges, Imperial Walkers, Toe Touches, and SSHs, with some Burpees sprinkled in for good measure, it was game time this morning on the Mandeville Lakefront. Forming up into three teams of four and armed with tennis balls, the PAX made their way to the Mandeville harbor playground via a passing/running game and with a brief stop for some Merkins.
At the playground, the ball games continued. We started with a cooperative passing game. Penalties of Burpees, Merkins, and Squat Jumps were dished out for every break down, and the difficulty level was increased as we got the hang of things. Then we switched to a competitive possession game where despite an early lead, the red team lost it at the buzzer. No one was to blame of course and his name will not be mentioned, but let’s just say that the red team would have prevailed if a certain PAX whose name rhymes with BurboBax had caught the final pass.
Back to our three teams of four and to the shovel flag using just our feet to move the tennis balls with us.
Nameorama, countorama and Moby prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead and playing along this morning, guys.
NMM
Having Zoolander in the PAX for a running dominant workout is like bringing your dog for a walk in the park. He runs 3 miles for every one that you walk.
Krazy Ivan is on for Friday February 5th at 2000 hours. Hope to see you all out there if not for the run then for the F2 afterwards at the Barley Oak.
File this one as one of those better-late-than-never backblasts…
Well, young Grover finally hit 18. Yes, it’s still a long road to respect (just ask poor Grundy), but a pretty big milestone nonetheless. We celebrated the day by getting up ridiculously early to put in a little work in some very cold weather. (You know it’s cold when the fully-charged iPhone sitting in your car simply shuts off as a protection measure. Shooter laughs at your protection measures, Apple!)
As is often the case with these BLTN backblasts, it’s so tardy that I can no longer remember the warmups, the mary, or even the actual pax. Apologies. Knowing my own lazy tendencies, however, I did have the foresight to jot down what we did:
18 Blocks for 18 Years:
Mosey eastward on the trace, stopping at every block to do 18X of an exercise. Did one big loop, hitting Jackson, down to the lake, and then back up Lamarque to the Marsh. The exercises were (all 18x):
Merkins (IC)
Lunges (IC)
Squat Jumps
Stone Mountains / CDD
Sister Marys
Monkey Humpers (IC)
T-Merkins
Hello Dollys (IC)
Sit-ups
Peter Parkers (IC)
Freak Nasties (IC)
Burpees
Star Jumps
Smurf Jacks (IC)
Flutters (IC)
Diamond Merkins
Tuck Jumps
Pull-ups
Personally, YHC was never a big fan of 16 Candles. I think most would agree (except for Cowbell, who has somehow never seen a movie in his life, too busy running probably) that of similarly themed John Hughes movies, The Breakfast Club was slightly better and maybe Ferris Bueller was the best. (Weird Science should also probably be lumped in there.) Hughes pretty much did the same thing in most of these movies, which was to take teenage stereotypes (the jock, the nerd, the outcast, the neurotic, the free spirit, etc) and invert them in some way. He would have had a hard time writing a character like Grover, because the kid is just too multi-dimensional for a Hughes movie. He’s all of those characters wrapped up into one. YHC has really enjoyed getting to know Grover; he’s the kind of guy that, as a parent, you hope your own kids might turn out like. Heck, I’d be happy if they were even half as cool as Grover. So happy (belated) 18th brother!
Imagine Cowbell’s face when he arrived (on time, give the man credit) to the AO to find Waterpik and YHC, fresh out of Covid quarantine, as the only two pax present. Had Hog’s Breath posted (he broke his quarantine spell the day before at the Marsh), Cowbell might’ve just gotten right back in the truck and bounced. But he made it this far, and it was too cold to turn back around, so we got down to business.
Warmorama: Good mornings, toe touches, SSH, IW’s, torso twists, seal jacks, x10-20 IC.
YHC is gonna miss the Christmas lights at the trailhead, they’re downright cheerful. And heart warming! And the place is so well-lit! Anyway, the last few times YHC has Q’d, I’ve elected to stay close and enjoy the twinkling lights, and today was no different. Quick mosey around the block to warm up before launching into a long lunge walk down the length of the corridor and around the bend until we reached the stage. At every other column, we would perform 5 burpees, thereby helping Cowbell (the sole Northshore ISI participant) get some in before daybreak. By the time we hit the stage we had 55.
Once at the stage, we circled up for:
Squats x20 IC
Burpees x5
Jump Squats x20
Burpees x5
Sister Mary’s x20 IC
Burpees x5
Monkey Humpers x20 IC
Burpees x5
Calf Raises x20 IC
Back to the corridor, where we bunny hopped our way back, stopping at every other column to do x10 merkins. With 110 merkins completed, we knocked out another 5 burpees.
Our favorite stair-climbing couple has been MIA lately, probably because it’s so darn cold, so we took over their stairs for alternating single-leg calf raises, x5 each step up.
YHC was ready to head over to the bus stop, my preferred location for bench work, but after spotting the knife-wielding Mr. Perkins sleeping there at the start of the beatdown, we decided to give him a wide berth and chose the benches around the splash pad instead. Time for … more legs!
L leg step up, x20 IC
Freak Nasties, x10 IC
R leg step up, x20 IC
Freak Nasties, x10 IC
L leg Bulgarians, x20 IC
Freak Nasties, x10 IC
R leg Bulgarians, x20 IC
Freak Nasties, x10 IC
And finally, some standard Mary with Jane Fonda’s mixed in to complete the legorama. Thanks to the guys for posting, when it’s as cold as it’s been lately, it is tough getting out of bed and to the AO. The whole accountability thing works, so I can’t thank you guys enough.
YHC braved the chilly, chilly temps of the Saturday morn’ gloom and managed to sweat despite the dip in the thermometer.
YHC was met early by a self-admittedly “tired” Bushwhacker, who still managed to dig up old memories of Saved by the Bell. We were so excited, so excited, so scared to get started, but once we did, a PAX of 18 joined us for a beatdown centered around a baseball diamond.
Warmup (most in cadence)
Seal jacks
Arm circles
Toe touches
High Knees
Cherry pickers
Imperial Walkers
Da’ Thing
After “warming” up, YHC asked the PAX to really stretch their brain and remember their number for a rock to the park, a mosey that was intermittently halted to perform a 10 count of the lucky number’s choosing. Sensing Zoolander struggling to remember “15”, YHC called his number first, followed mostly by odd numbers (see how that worked to remember them, Tanked Up?). Good mix of work, including burpees, shoulder tap/merkin combos, leg raises, various squats, freak nasties, mountain climbers, etc.
Main Event
YHC really asked for an extra effort by asking the PAX to remember ANOTHER number from 1 to 4 to break into 4 groups to work their way around a little league diamond in 5 “innings” of work. Each group started at a base, and completed the reps for that base, moving to the next for the next portion of the inning, until all 4 bases were touched, comprising the “inning”.
1st base – 5 reps each (Innings 1-5 were Burpees, 8 count body builders, T merkins, Diamond merkins, Burpees, respectively)
2nd base – 10 reps each (Innings 1-5: Apollo Onos, Sister Mary Catherine’s, Makhtar N’diayes, side squats, Monkey humpers)
3rd base – 15 reps each (Innings 1-5: Jump squats, George Thoroughgoods, Suicide Squats, Peter Parkers, Crab Cakes)
Home – 20 reps each (Innings 1-5: LBCs, 6 inch drill, Leg raises, Crunchy Frogs, Wife Pleasers)
Between base mode of transportation? Back pedals, Karaokes, Murder Bunnies (quickly becoming a favorite of YHC), Bear Crawls.
A mosey back to the flag with a few other 10 reps mixed in wrapped up the beatdown.
Count off, name-o-rama, announcements, COT closed us out.
An ever present thank you to everyone for posting and always supporting me and each other.
With the return of Steve and Hogsbreath from quarantine the Marsh had a nice showing of 6 PAX. Our Editor and chief of emails sir Wacker, so eloquently mentioned the Fartsack in the weekly blast that he took it to heart and sacked yet again. Was it the cold 🥶? Perhaps it was the rain 🌧 that did it? One only needs to wonder whether the influence poured over to the reliable postmaster Cowbell? Nevertheless the YHC kept in consideration the conditions and built the beatdown under the protection of Mandeville’s overhang at the Marsh.
warmup
15IC Imperial walkers, SSH, Windmills, Toe Touches, Butt kicks, High knees and Torso twists.
thang
Two workouts from the Exicon. First was the William Wallace with Coupon. P1 held variety of planks and core exercises while P2 took center court for reps of 10 and 20. Reps of 10 8 count body builders, squat thrusters, kettle swings and alternating one arm elf on the shelf. Core plank, chill cut, left and right arm high. Reps of 20 chest press, curls and overhead press. Core Nolan Ryan’s left and right and reverse plank. Upon completion stayed partnered for The W.A.S.H. PAX able to get through the S. Instead of cumulative count all reps on OYO while partner ran suicides free throw, half court, free throw and full court. Rep count was 50 Hand release (instead of wide arm Merkin), 100 American Hammers and 150 step ups (75 each leg). With time expired PAX circled up for namarama, announcements and COT as YHC closed us out.
Appreciate you men posting in unfavorable conditions and following my lead!
