Tag: FracSac

  • They’ve Never Felt So Wrong – from Boo-Boo

    12 PAX entered the Pontiff bull pen, of which ten were hoping to add another notch in their quest to have their name etched in the El Diablo bat! Tclaps to Hokie and Rudy for being the first two to complete the challenge.

    A short mosey to midfield for a warmup. YHC always decides the warmup on the fly, and Rudy was quick to comment when YHC was slow in deciding the next exercise. He mistakenly took that as a sign of weakness and poor planning. The warmup included (at a minimum) SSH x31 in honor of Wally Pontiff, #31 LSU baseball; Grass Grabbers; Arm circles x10 forward and x11 backwards (to throw off Fracsac with his backwards counting); Mountain Climbers x15, PP x15; and IW x20. It is possible YHC forgot a few exercises.

    The PAX were instructed to line up on the the south goal line, facing north. As YHC pulled out his phone an announced we would be recycling a stacking beatdown, with some modifications, Hawg brought during the COVID shutdown, the mumblechatter increased, with Rudy again misjudging what was about to happen. Over the laughter and heckling, YHC gave instructions to the PAX to complete the designated stacking workout with a 50 yard mosey between each set as follows:

    5 burpees

    5 burpees, 10 merkins

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1)

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1)

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks, 35 American Hammers (2/1)

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks, 35 American Hammers (2/1), 40 SSH

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks, 35 American Hammers (2/1), 40 SSH, 45 big boi sit-ups

    5 burpees, 10 merkins,15 LBC, 20 lunges (2/1), 25 mountain climbers (2/1), 30 plank jacks, 35 American Hammers (2/1), 40 SSH, 45 big boi sit-ups, 50 squats

    Things got quiet around the time the mountain climbers kicked in. Funny how that happens!

    COT, prayer lead by War Eagle, OUT!

    It’s always an honor to lead HIM and have your leadership tested. Thanks for pushing!

  • Penalty Shots – from Fracsac

    Two Pax posted at the Goldmine for Fun & Games Friday. With a disclaimer given and a mosey to the blue mat, we did a warmup with the usual stuff.
    First up: Stations with Pax choice
    Pax 1 runs 100 60 yards does 3 burpees and runs back as the timer.
    Pax 2 does an exercise called by Pax 1.
    Flack Jack and rinse and repeat x 5

    Grab the soccer ball and head to the field. Passing drills goal to goal followed by taking turns with penalty shots on each end. Final score – 1 to 1.

    COT followed by Coffeteria.

    SYITG

  • Blasting the Track – from Fracsac

    With red beans making their way through from Monday, 3 pax hit the track for a little afterburner blast. Sprint the straightaways and mosey between for 4.20 miles of work.

  • Core Strength builder – from PVC

    Warmorama

    Thang
    Run 50yard & 2 burpee run back (timer), step ups, BBSU, Kettle swing, flip tire…….rinse repeat

    Coolorama

    COT

  • Happy LiveAid Day! – from Rudy

    37 years ago today. Live Aid. July 13th, 1985. For those of us of a certain age, it might be hard to overstate how big of an event this was. This was early MTV days (music videos!). Concerts were still treats (because I had no real source of income). But I remember watching and listening to the whole thing – the mystery of Phil Collins hitting BOTH stages. IN THE SAME DAY. So today, as I earn my name on the bat alongside Hokie, I put together a Live Aid playlist.

    The Workout:
    Filled up the MINI with a whole bunch of toys from around the house. Battle rope. Bricks. Cinder Blocks (oh, I’ve missed you aNDy!). Logs. Weights. Cones. A lonely Medicine Ball. Thanks to the early arrivers (War Eagle, Charmin, Bogey) who helped me haul all of this from the car out to the field. Get them arranged in a circle and then ponder the eternal Q question “Uh, how many PAX today?” Would I need 6 stations? 16 stations? One never knows.

    Warm Up: somewhere around 10 PAX in the circle at 530. So a mosey around the football field border. Vagabond coming in hot. Then Hokie. BooBoo with the usual Orange Waterbottle (is he EVER without that?).

    Circle up next to the flag (yup, I even brought one of those). SSH, IW, Windmills.

    Meanwhile, the playlist is pushing out Bryan Adams “Summer of 69”

    Next up: trying to herd cats. we’ve got 13 people. so make do with 12 stations. The timer is run a half-a-lap holding the Wood-let/Toothpick overhead.
    * Burpees
    * Medicine Ball PushUps (Diamond or Stagger, your choice)
    * Big wooden Stump Crunch (or Hammer)
    * Butter Fly w/ Weights
    * Battle Rope (in Squat)
    * Dips (yup, we hauled a bench out to the middle)
    * Bear Crawl/Crawl Bear (about 20 yds out & back)
    * Rifle Carry a Cindy Block (again, about 20 yds0
    * Calf Raises on the other Cindy (WHOA Pillsbury! You ok there??? Hold onto the Flag!)
    * Brick Shoulder Taps
    * Curls w/ Weights
    * The big old log – Overhead or Bench Press

    12 stations. I do appreciate Frac BARKING instructions when it was his turn to run with the bat. We need more PAX who are less disruptive! (nah, that’s no fun…)

    Oh by the way, any PAX could buy a “skip” for the cost of 6 burpees for themselves PLUS 2 burpees for Charmin. (One time Charmin attempted to tell YHC that the Q couldn’t just tell 1 PAX to do something. I believe he has been corrected of that misconception.)

    So as we skipped through Sting’s Message in a Bottle (too slow), We Are the World (too cheesy) Madonna’s Get Into the Groove (Madonna?!?) and a few others – Charmin got plenty of burpees in (so did War Eagle for that matter).

    2 songs were Q-declared NO SKIP ALLOWED: Roll with the Changes (REO!) and Radio GaGa (Queen)

    13 loops through got us to 605. Partner up with one pair bricks each. PAX1: Floyd Mayweather. PAX2: Crab Walk/Walk Crab 20 yds out & back. Rinse and Repeat. Finish with a final 3 burpees for Charmin as we hit 615.

    COT: Count Off. Announcements. My word for the day – Intentionality. Asked all the PAX to frame a thought of something they are thankful for, and then commit to INTENTIONALLY showing their thanks to that person today. Not accidental (i.e., we all try to be nice to our family). But intentionally. Above and Beyond the norm. Something done specifically AND explicitly to show appreciation and thanks.

    War Eagle took us home. And THANK YOU to the PAX for helping me haul all this stuff back to the car (where Hand Gernada discovered, apparently for the first time, that YHC has ND stuff plastered all over his car….)

  • Full-body Beatdown Bonus Burpees – from Bolt

    Warmorama Rapper’s Delight edition
    The Thang: make our way from exercise pad near flag to exercise pad on David Dr. side using the path via alternating side shuffles, stopping at each bench for five burpees (Frac is a semantics stickler and informed us a picnic table is a picnic bench therefore a burpee station). Arriving at the exercise equipment, we assumed the following stations: pull ups, dips, leg press, incline bench, horizontal lat pull, rower, incline sit ups for tabata sets of AMRAP then rotate counterclockwise (a concept War Eagle’s millennial brain couldn’t follow, thus chaos ensued). Return to flag via same route, method as before. Frac was pleased he exceeded his RDA of burpees during a beatdown. Welcomed FNG, stroganoff, who is Glamper’s 15yo 2.0.

  • 100s – from Vagabond

    Face the Bacon Warmup

    100 reps apiece around the lake
    step ups
    big boi
    irkins
    squats
    plank jack

    Pass the ruck along the way

    Sunday mornings

  • Poetic Frac at the Goldmine – from Fracsac

    I arrived ready at the Goldmine
    looking around it was just me
    I did see a feline
    but no sign of F3

    I decided to go for some miles
    and while doing so came across a rabbit
    soon I was radiating with smiles
    as I remembered BooBoos story where he yelled dagnabit!

    Then I remembered this was a beat down
    so I knocked out some burpees
    then I was ready to get to PJs in the next town
    where the pax from the Uptowner were having some coffees.

    SYITG

  • Cinco de Julio – from Fracsac

    3 pax beat the fartsack and hit the track to get some miles in. 100 % participation at Coffeteria.

  • Frisbee Run and 7.4 Suck HINDU STYLE – from Hokie

    After meeting @Strings on Saturday YHC incorporated Hindu Merkins and Hindu Sit ups to the plan

    Warmorama
    Slow VIGODA
    Concrete grabbers
    Low slow squats

    The Thang

    Run around NOMA with Frisbee and 5 burpees for each drop

    25 Reps of 7 exercises followed with 4 burpees

    Rinse and repeat with Frisbee Loops of NOMA

    HINDU Big Boi Sit ups
    Shoulder Taps
    Step Ups
    HINDU Merkins
    Superman with Lat Pull downs
    Lunges
    LBC’s

    And of course, we closed with Sunday Mornings with last one

    7 Air presses
    4 Donkey Kicks
    4 Balls to the Wall push ups