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  • A motivated James Bond coupon – from Hogs Breath

    Began with a warm-up. Abe Vigoda arm circle, self love, Einstein’s theory of relativity, world’s greatest, and a new one Inca gods.

    We began with a rousing rendition of a motivator. A 10 to 1 SSH beatdown. We began with a full SSH, star hop, leg only, and a bunny hop. Much to Jose’s delight, the balls of our feet and our calves were aching…

    The thang

    Next up was some Slidell [the 007]love. YHC saw an article from “The Art of Manliness” about a James Bond workout. Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond series of books, described the famous spy’s workout routine in one of his books. The article even had a nice graphic of a tuxedo’d James Bond performing various exercises. The beatdown began with 20 slow count Merkins. This is then followed up by some leg levers and grass grabbers. And ending with freak nastys. This was a great rendition, especially since the Q was visiting from the 007 AO!

    Next up was a coupon walk and the Deck of Death. One pax would walk with the coupon, while other pax drew a card and performed the exercise listed. Once the coupon was dropped everybody else sprinted to said coupon. The pax then rotated out and begin again.

    Next step was a hot potato, swapping the coupon back-and-forth while all pax went the stairwells and did calf raises.

    Ended with a few minutes of a circle of trust.

    A great Motivated way to begin our Friday!

  • Just Makin It Up – from Mobydick

    Last minute sign up started with SSH x 20 4 is 1 to get the blood flowing 20x merkins oyo. Cherry pickers and hi jack hi jill and few others. The thang was a hodgepodge lunge wslk to the wall ftom mid garage. There 40x freak nasty. 20x merkins 20x box cutters 20x jane fondas. Mosey to stsirs and 2 cslf raise each stair backwards to the bottom. 20x merkins and something else. Back to the roof by way of the ramps side shuffle switch sides at esch ramp. Top side 2 minute plank and something else. Back to the start and each (7) pax chose a core to close it out. COT and 🙏🏻.
    That kinda how I remember it. Might have keft out a few things.

  • To Bata or not Tabata – from Mobydick

    An overcast damp AO greeted the PAX this morning. Apologies to the runners. No moseying. After a 10 minute stretch and a little butt kicking and SSH YHC turned over the workout to the Tabata app. 45 sec exercise 30 sec rest. 6 exercises SSH/squats/merkins/crunches/freddie mercuries/box cutters 5 sets of each 1 minute between sets. Timed sets give everyone the chance to pack in all the reps he can.
    COT. and prayer for acceptance.

  • Route 66 Part II and post beat down breakfast! – from BBQ

    Another Route 66 themed beat down on 10/6 and following YHC ‘s 66th birthday! A quick warm up as YHC was late and we needed to get to the thang. A BLIMPS. 6 spots for 6 different exercises and different reps. 6 Burpees then mosey to 12 lunges ( 2 as 1 and half forward and 1/2 backward ) then mosey to 18 Imperial walkers then Bobby Hurley every third parking spot line to 24 Merkins then mosey to 30 air presses then mosey to 36 squats and finish with a Travis Kelce every third parking spot line ( a 3 point stance!) . Most of the PAX completed 6 rounds. Bushwhacker and Hogsbreath intensified and did 8+. There was music. Route 66 song in warm ups and XFM’s Classic Rock BBQ channel. We ended with a few stretches. COT and BBQ prayed us out. It was a honor to lead this PAX. The big bonus was another breakfast by Stella. Umm great! Bushwhacker brought flower and made my M’s day!

  • Friday Fun Day! – from BBQ

    A mighty 5 started wit the usual warm ups. As always my warm ups are inspired by Einstein’s Q’s. The thang was a ladder exercise in 4 corners. We started with 5 burpees, 10 lunges with 2 as 1, 15 Hand release merkins and 20 LBC’s in each corner. The ladder for each round around the top parking lot was +5, +5, -5 and -5. Between the East to West corners we did a star jack at every third parking lot line on one side and copperhead squats every third line on the other side. A mosey on the short North to South sides. We finished with a few good hip and hamstring stretches for this respect full PAX. Jose 10K prayed us out and added more inspiration. It was an honor to lead these fine young men.

  • The whole abs and nothing but the abs – from Mobydick

    After a brief delay due to technical operations errors the pax preped for the thang with some SSH GG SL OHR NR x15 or so. Then a workout curated by Sworkt. With an ipad guiding pax did 30 sec intervals of practically every core exercise known to man with 5 sec transitions and 30 second break every 4 exercises. A good sweat worked up by all even on a most pleasant morning. COT and Dark Wing prayed us out

  • Hot and Sweaty – from Mobydick

    It was Hot. So whats new. YHC picked up the Q minutes before the beat down so improve was the catch word. After a thorough stretching with Torso twists big arm circles grass grabbers windmills side straddle hops neck rolls ankle rolls for about 10 minutes it was off to the coupon pile. The thang was a 1min work 1 min rest tabata. Starting with presses then rows. Next on our sticks for crunchs and chest presses followed by squats and kettles. Time allowed 2 1/2 rounds tgen finished iff with rifle carry coupons back to the pile. Countarama and COT and we are done. Didnt count reps but it felt like a lot.

  • Gorilla Instincts – from Jose10k

    After spending two days in Pensacola swimming with my nephew, I got in at 9 last night. Tired, sunburned,and very sore. But that’s never an excuse to miss the A1C. 78 degrees outside, 92% humidity, still not a reason to skip the A1C. I was thinking about taking it easy, however, a traveler from far away (Slidell) rolled up at exactly 5:15. Anyone who travels that far, deserves a quality beatdown. To be honest, I hadn’t planned a workout. I was planning on making it up as we went. Warm-up: you know how it goes
    The Thang: Mosey over to the butterfly garden to pick up a coupon each. Mosey over to the side of the courthouse for a Shooter inspired Gorilla workout. But while walking there, a wise voice came over me. YOU INTENSIFY TO MODIFY. Y’all know who this wise voice is, wisdom beyond his years: that’s right, Hammer’s oldest boy: PickAxe. How do you intensify the Gorilla workout? That’s when I thought of another F3 brother, none other than the stepfather of the splash pad, Russo. I have to throw him a little love, I mean, we hate on him quite a bit. It’s his own fault, he opens his mouth about his lack of taste in 80s and 90s movies, it just makes him a target of ridicule. One thing that we can not make fun of, his intense workouts. And one of his favorite exercises is: murder bunnies. So that’s how we intensified this morning’s workout. 8 reps of each exercise, curls, shoulder presses, kettlebell swings, and merkins. Then murder bunny to the first intersection. 8 gorilla squats, then rifle carry the block back to the start. Returned the blocks, back to the top of the A1C for 5 minutes of Mary led by Hogs Breath. YHC had to leave to bring his car back for his daughter to use. As always, it was an honor to lead you gentlemen. Thanks for read. Hammer’s offspring has the Q tomorrow morning. Mark it in your calendar, and plan to show. July 28th marks the 3rd anniversary of the A1C. Come out and celebrate with us. I do hope that our cross town rivals will join us too. SYITG

  • Music and Respect – from Jose10k

    As y’all have probably learned that the cross town rival splash pad AO has a lake and a tunnel. The stepdad of both the Splash pad and Grandmas, Russo, has pointed out several advantages of both AOs. Russo is a smart man who is a great salesman. His back blasts are epic, creative, and inspiring. So YHC was curious if he could sell his AO, the A1C, like the stepfather sold his AOs. And it’s so simple: Music and Respect. That’s right gentlemen, at the A1C, you will always have music and respect. Rock n roll is always blasting, and the average age is over 50 (much respect). Top that Russo, I doubt you can, however, I eagerly anticipate reading your blackblast to see you try. I’ll leave your questionable movie choices for another backblast. FYI, how can anyone not like the Goonies. That’s damn near unamerican.

    Humid, check, hot, check, a group of highly motivated men ready to work out, check.
    Warm-up: y’all have been to a beat down, you know how that goes
    The Thang: Music, yes, music. We began with the Cupid Shuffle, a nice 4 minute song in which participants did shoulder taps until the song lyrics make you shuffle to the right 3 times, the left 3 times, butt kick into the air 4 times, followed by 6 mountain climbers. Then back to the shoulder taps.
    Open the trunk for various goodies, coupons, 35 lb plates, and 30 pound dumbbells. Pick your poison for some 11s on the ramp. Shoulder presses at the top, slow squats at the bottom, rifle carry your weight up and down the ramp. Finish it off, return the weights to the trunk, exactly 5 minutes of Mary. COT, with Moby praying us out. The summer heat and humidity is officially here boys, stay hydrated. Grundy is bringing the pain tomorrow. Thanks for letting me lead and thanks for the gentlemen. Goonies never die! Life is like a box of chocolates….

  • A Trio of Tabata – from Jose10k

    Cool morning, perfect temperature for a tabata. The usual crowd showed up, so YHC opened up the trunk of his car for some props. Some coupon work up on top of the A1C. 45 sec on, 15 sec break round robin tabata. The music was blaring, and the workout began. Exercises from squats, shoulder presses, wife pleasers, a ton of core, a lap around top, calf raises, shoulder presses, triceps, etc… Dark Wing prayed us out. Remember, bring your gloves and a coupon to Zoolanders beat down tomorrow, probably won’t be any music though. Later gents.