Cool temps this morning ~ 38 degrees. Shooter and Akbar not deterred by the cold, still wearing shorts
warm-up: toe touch, side straddle hops, arm circles, imperial walkers, neck rolls, shoulder rolls, side stretch, shoulder thrust, smurf jacks, etc.
thang: 3 sets of block work, each separated by a run around the block.
mary: world’s greatest stretch, BBQ’s hip flexor stretch
prayer: Akbar did the honors
Cool temps at the A1C this past Friday.
After an extensive warmup, we headed to the up-down parking garage ramp for an Elevens set. Push-up variety (wide, diamond, normal, etc.) up top and squats at the bottom – jogging down the ramp and variety ( back peddle, side shuffle left, side shuffle right, etc.) up the ramp.
Then on the upper deck; bear crawling and backward lunges, with core at the corners.
Jose10K did the prayer
A chilly morning at the Gipper. 4 geezers showed up to make an average age of 64.5 years. YHD being senior senior Qd. Since there seemed to be a few back issues in the crowd I elected to guide us in a vast variety of streches and core. To keep the youngest amongst us happy a couple of long block circuit mosseys thrown in. All seemed to benifit from the departure from the usual sweaty beat down.
Closure with COT and a prayer of gratitude for the strength we have been given.
Cool in the mid-30s at The Gipper
Round Robin was the order for the day as the Q sheet was empty
Each Pax chose a warmup excercise. Then, off to the coupon cache to grab a block.
Each Pax chose a block movement, after everyone had a turn – we ran around the block – repeat.
The cool weather came in and YHC was ready for round 2. It was chilly, much different from the humidity from yesterday. Moby was the first to show up, while TurboDog refused to get out of the truck due to the weather. Einstein was next to show up, plant the flag, and the beatdown began. Warm-up: stretches, ssh, neck rolls, etc… That’s when we noticed something…Mandevillians don’t travel well. I wonder what about 190 scares them. It’s just a quick trip to the Gipper y’all, come on man. Any who, we grabbed some coupons to the gravel parking lot we went for some 11’s. Curls on one end, squat thrusts on the other side, rifle carry the coupon between exercises. We followed up with a quick couple of laps to test out this shin. We then did 3 rounds of 11/22 merkins and squats. Followed up with Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (new stretch). You have to come to Covington to learn this one. Moby prayed us out. Safe travels to all. SYITG
Great morning with some visitors for YHC first northshore beat down.
Warmup
Side straddle hops, Imperial walkers, Abe Vigodas, arm circles (front and back), seal claps, plank jacks, high knees, butt kicks. Mosey to area for beat down.
Thang
B. = 5 burpees
L. = 10 lunges
I. = 15 Imperial walkers
M. = 20 merkins
P. = 25 plank jacks
S. = 30 squats
Round 1 – perform B
Round 2 – perform B, bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L., run to the beginning
Round 3 – perform B, bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L., bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L.M., run to the beginning
I think you see where I’m going with this but just in case you don’t…
Round 4 – perform B, bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L., bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L.M., bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L.M.I., run to the beginning
Round 5 – perform B, bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L., bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L.M., bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L.M.I., bear crawl 5yds, perform B.L.I.M.P., run to the beginning
Round 6 – perform B, bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L., bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L.M., bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L.M.I., bear crawl 5yds, perform B.L.I.M.P., bear crawl 5 yds, perform B.L.I.M.P.S. run to the beginning.
PAX continued series in reverse order while waiting for the six.
2 rounds of ring of fire. One with squats while holding an AL Gore. The next was flutter kicks while holding legs 6″ off the ground.
Mosey back to flag.
Finished with freak nasty and 5 burpees because 105 wasn’t enough.
Count off, namorama, COT
Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell’s the matter with you? Stupid! We’re all very different people. We’re not Watusi. We’re not Spartans. We’re Americans, with a capital ‘A’, huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We’re the underdog. We’re mutts! Here’s proof: his nose is cold! But there’s no animal that’s more faithful, that’s more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw “Old Yeller?” Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end?
Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? I’m sure.
I cried my eyes out. So we’re all dogfaces, we’re all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. We’re mutants. There’s something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us – we’re soldiers. But we’re American soldiers! We’ve been kicking ass for 200 years! We’re ten and one! Now we don’t have to worry about whether or not we practiced. We don’t have to worry about whether Captain Stillman wants to have us hung. All we have to do is to be the great American fighting soldier that is inside each one of us. Now do what I do, and say what I say. And make me proud.
Psycho: The name’s Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I’ll kill you.
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. And I don’t like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meat-hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you. Also, I don’t like nobody touching me. Now, any of you homos touch me, and I’ll kill you.
Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis.
Recruiter: Now, are either of you homosexuals?
John Winger: [John and Russell look at each other] You mean, like, flaming, or…
Recruiter: Well, it’s a standard question we have to ask.
Russell Ziskey: No, we’re not homosexual, but we are *willing to learn*.
John Winger: Yeah, would they send us someplace special?
Recruiter: I guess that’s “no” on both. Now if you could just give Uncle Sam your autograph…
John Winger: Why’d the chicken cross the road?
Soldiers: To get from the left to the right
John Winger: He stepped out of rank, got hit by a tank
Soldiers: He ain’t no chicken no more
I am hoping with the title that you started remembering how great that movie was, and how it could not be made today. Oh well, it was the theme to the workout this morning. So we had a warm-up, picture us singing
There she was just a-walkin’ down the street, singin’
‘Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do’
Snappin’ her fingers and shufflin’ her feet, singin’
‘Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do’
She looked good (Looked good)
She looked fine (Looked fine)
She looked good, she looked fine
And I nearly lost my mind
Okay, to the actually workout. The stripes on the parking garage: 1merkin, skip a stripe, 2 merkings, and so on. On the way back, 1 squat, skip, 4 squats, skip, 8 squats, and so on. Back again, lunges. 2 is 1: 1 skip a stripe, 2, skip a stripe, 4, then 6, and so on. Finished up with 2 minutes of stretching. COT, prayers for my coworkers husband in ICU, Hammer and his home purchase and future house being sold, and good will to all that need it. SOGO has the Q tomorrow, turkey trot next thursday. SYITG, thanks for letting me lead this amazing group of young men.
It was a team effort. The mighty four rotated exercises and had a wonderful beat down. There were so many and I can not recap. All good! Barely Legal added two runs around the block for some aerobics. COT and prayer out by Legal. It was a fun PAX.
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.
Fair Weather this morning at the Gipper – mid 60s
Warmup: toe touch, sshops, arm circles, imperial walkers, hi jack hi jills, hillbillys,
peter parkers, snap crackle pops, and more
Thang: mosey to the St. Tammany Courthouse promenade for Dora-1-2-3
partner up, 100 merkins, 200 lunges, 300 squats. While one partner works on the totals the other partner runs up the runway, up the stairs, perform one burpee, then back peddle , side shuffle or karaoke back to relieve partner.
Mosey back to the flag.
Mary: round robin of core, each pax picks a favorite; box cutters, crunches, leg lifts, American hammers, crunchy frogs, Ja-Lo(s)
Returning Guest Pax Dinghy did the prayers honors
