In the sticky, hot air, this workout keeps it simple. Start with 5 minutes of warmup stretches to shake off the sluggishness. Then dive into a set of “11s” on a ramp: Freak Nasties at the top, Merkins at the bottom, with every journey down and up testing your agility—backward runs, karaoke, side steps, sprints, and more. Once done, tackle the classic Lt. Dan to the bottom and back up. Finish strong with 10 minutes of core work at the top. COT. Sign up to Q boys!
Thanks for the read/post this morning. When is the cold front going to come? Where’s Fletch? When is Bushwacker going to post? These questions and more, next week…
Tag: Einstein
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Swamp Sweat: The Humidity Hustle with Usual HIMS at the A1C – from Jose10k
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The Walls of Jericho at the A1c – from Einstein
Rain at the A1Cc on this All Saints Day ~71 degrees
Warmup: all IC15x; toe touch, side straddle hops, arm circles, neck rolls(snap, crackle, pops),
hi-jack hi-jills, butt kicks, high knees, shoulder rolls, scissors, etc.The Thang: Walls of Jericho from the F3NATION exicon, also, see Old Testament Joshua 6:1-27 for more details
7 sets of: 7 exercises, 7 reps of each, followed by a lap around the parking deck. We didn’t have any horns to blast
as we tripped around, although Fletch did manage to “toot.” Don’t know if it was intentional.The exercises:
7 burpees
7 squats
7 star jack jumps
7 backward lunges (2is1)
7 merkins
7 obliques left side
7 obliques right sideWe all worked up a good sweat.
Mosey back, with Jose and Fletch doing a duet of Joe Walsh’s “Life’s Been Good to Me.”
Very inspiringMary: finished with a 40 second plank as time expired.
Fletch led us out with prayers for Jose’s mother-in-law Marilyn – who’s in hospice, her family, and for world peace.
BBQ introduced the pax to his new car – a “noice” looking Subaru.
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Hello Boys, I’m BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – from Jose10k
Grundy reached out to Q another Spartan beatdown, naturally, because who else would? But after my last dance with sandbags and buckets, the splash pad can keep that level of punishment. Today, we’re enjoying the beautiful weather at the A1C, and instead of finding new ways to wreck my body, I went with a classic choice—The 4 Corners of Doom. Extended warm-up to wake up every sore muscle I’ve got, then it’s game on:
• 7 Merkins at each corner (and yes, you backpedal to the next…for style),
• 14 Copperhead Squats (just low enough to make you hate them),
• 21 Freak Nasties
• And a grand finale of 28 Wife Pleasers (you can imagine the conversations about that one).When you think it’s over, enter the round robin Tabata. Just enough to remember why we love…or mostly survive…these sessions. COT. Happy Birthday to Bushwacker. Y’all have fun at the convergence tomorrow. I’ve got the Q at the lakefront. Thanks for posting, thanks for reading, thanks for pushing me to be better. Jose10K out!
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LEGS & CORE at The A1C – from Einstein
Nice and cool this morning ~ 46 degrees, atop the Justice Center Parking Garage deck.
And as an extra bonus – the AO was well lit with Thursday’s Hunter’s Full Supermoon.
IF BBQ had been there, he would have classified it as…”beautiful.”Warmup: all IC15x; toe touch, side staddle hops, arm circles, neck rolls, cherry pickers,
hi-jack hi-jills/BBQ Wings/DarkWingDuck Wings, butt kicks, high knees, shoulder rolls, scissors, etc.Using the parking lot stripes (fyi; there are 24 parking spaces, bounded by 25 stripes, per parking row)
The Thang: Four sets of: a stripe exercise followed by a core exercise at each of the four corners – as we mosey back to the starting line:
First set: Lunge walk forward three stripes, inch worm out for three merkins, inch warm in, all along the length of the deck,
Second set: Zombie Walk; left arm to right leg, right arm to left leg, all along the length of the deck
Third set: Wounded Bear Crawl; left leg and left arm up on the 8 inch parking barrier, bear crawl, then switch over to the other side of the barrier
to bear crawl with the right leg and right arm up on the barrier, all along the length of the deckFourth set: Star Jack Jump at each stripe, all along the length of the deck
Core at the corners included: wife pleasers with alternating leg lift, static v-ups, roll-ups,
supermans, scubasteve, iron crosses, big boy sit-us, crunches, dips, flutter kicks vertical,
flutter kick horizontal, Russian twists, etc.Mary: finished run back to circle up as time expired
DarkWingDuck led us out with prayers for the F3NOLA Pax traveling up to the Texas CSAUP, for world peace, for the U.S.A. election.
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Rain Day at The A1c – from Einstein
Muggy and dank where the pax gathered inside the Justice Center garage.
Warmup: all IC15x; toe touch, side staddle hops, arm circles, neck rolls,
hi-jack hi-jills, butt kicks, high knees, popeye punches, BBQ wings, shoulder rolls, etc.With the rain YHC had to go to Plan B…the lesser of Plan A.
Thang-1: from the Exicon; “The Gross” 12 exercise with 12 reps of each. 12×12=144 hence The Gross:
burpees x12
merkins x 12
cobra squats x 12 IC
star jack jumps x12
plank jacks x 12
iron crosses x 12
lunges x 12 IC 2-1
box cutters x 12 IC
walk outs with a merkin x 12
zombie kicks x 12
star stretch x 12
side to side lunge x 12 ICThang-2: the Pax, in search of some moving air, heads to the upper ramp, the light drizzle and fresh air felt good.
Jose’s Lieutenant Dan routine up the ramp; lunges/squats, ascending count while maintaining the 2:1 ratio,
freak nasties up top, repeat Lieutenant Dan going down the ramp, then a backwards lunge up the ramp, some derkins
up top.Mary: finished with a round robin of core
DarkWingDuck led us out with prayers for those suffering from Hurricane Helene