Tag: Mathlete

  • Welcome to Hazzard County! – from The Duke of Hazzard

    Good golly miss molly, the weather hit this morning! 76 with a nice breeze in early August is a gift from the gods. And as the god of chaos (aka The Duke of Hazard) prepared to make his VQ, the PAX showed in numbers to shake the heavens.

    WARMORAMA

    YHC co-Q’d to lend moral support to the leadership of the 7 year old ball of energy, and so we started with x10, IC:
    SSH, Windmills, IW, Self Love, High Knees, Butt Kicks, 5 Burpees OYO

    THANG

    Mosied all of 20’ to 1st fire hydrant for the Wheel of Animal Walks:
    Frog Hop to 2nd fire hydrant (apex 80’ away) 10 Merkins
    Bear Crawl back, 10 Merkins
    Duck Walk, 10 Merkins
    Crab Walk, 10 Merkins

    5 Burpees OYO

    Mosey to Noah’s Ark

    5 Burpees OYO

    Partner up with “similarly sized” PAX for Fireman’s Carry. Using carry of choice, P1 carried P2 to Claiborne and P2 carried P1 back to sea wall.

    5 Burpees OYO

    Mosey to Gazebo

    5 Burpees OYO

    Fireman Drag
    Same partners, P1 drags P2 to designated point then switch and return

    5 Burpees OYO

    Mosey to flag

    5 Burpees OYO

    100 count Circle Merkins
    100 count Al Gore/Jump Squats
    100 count Tanked Up’s Down Ups

    5 Burpees OYO

    MARY

    XY’s
    On your 6, legs lifted, Hello Dolly (1,2), Flutter Kick (3,4)

    WWI Snow Angels
    WWI Sit Up, Snow Angel w/ arms & legs slightly elevated

    Foxhole Merkins
    Starting in Merlin down position perform Merkin (1,2) WWI Roll right Merkin (3,4) WWI Roll left

    Plank 30 seconds – 5Merkins – Plank 30 seconds R&R until time

    COT
    Count off, name-o-ramma, Happy Birthday T Claps to the returning Bear who made 14 the next day (today). Welcome FNGs Titan, Ikkie Shuffle, and Siggy!

    Gentlemen, many thanks for showing up for The Duke’s VQ and following his pint-sized lead. His tentative calls belied his excitement at leading the PAX on a tour of Hazard County!

  • Veterans Day 2023 – from Fracsac

    13 Pax showed up to better themselves at the Mothership. We had Mathlete from the Northshore and Crawdad a little further north, Toledo if you must know.

    3 ran away for fear that YHC might hurt them. I get it. The rest were part of a Veterans Day beat down celebration including a little trivia sprinkled in.

    Warmup with regular stuff at the peristyle.

    The thang:

    10 minutes of 11 WW2 sit-ups and 11 squats followed by 200 meter run. Increase by 11 reps followed by the run until time runs out.

    5 minutes of step ups to commemorate fallen veterans to suicide, based on Chad Wilkinson and Chad 1000x.

    BLIMPS

    All in cadence with a 400 m run between exercises.

    COT

    Thanks to all veterans for their service.

    SYITG

  • Hurt Locker – from Akbar

    You’ll know it when you’re in it. Google definition: to physically mess someone up, badly. AKA a world of pain.

    Unlike the movie – we weren’t disarming bombs in the heat of combat, recklessly plunging men into a deadly game of urban combat, didn’t have to control a wild leader, no cities exploding into chaos, and may not have changed every man’s character forever.

    There wasn’t even a locker per se, but the 13 men who showed up to make themselves better for the day were in a sense locked into the beatdown.

    Did we have to overcome obstacles? Were we challenged? Was there sweat and complaints? Absolutely. There was enough bang to send us all to Jesus, but we didn’t die. We made ourselves better today.

    Conditions 79,WNW wind 4, 5% cloud cover, still hot

    Warm Up: x10 IC: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Grass Grabbers, Self-Love, Toe Touches, Windmills, Merkin, Squat, 2 burpees
    _____________________

    Mosey toward the Gazebo for the main thang at the wall, with various moseys to the street and back in between. 20 reps for the first exercise, 30 for the second, and 2 burpees to wrap it up.

    Merkin, Squat, Burpees
    Dirkin, LBC, Burpees
    Irkin, Sumo Squat, Burpees
    Stone Mountain, American Hammers, Burpees
    Merkin, Lunges, Burpees
    Dirkin, Mountain Climber, Burpees
    Irkin, Sweat Angels, Burpees
    Wide Merkin, SSH, Burpees

    _____________________
    11’s at the wall – Freak Nasties and Supermans with a run in between

    7’s – Plank Jacks and Squats, Bear Crawl/run

    _____________________
    Mosey back to the flag for a Mountain Climber Ring of Fire

    Hold plank, start with 1 MC and add 1 each time around the circle – ended up stopping at 5.

    ____________________
    6 minutes of Mary, x10 IC

    LBC, Wife Pleaser, E2k, Little Manny crunches, Nolan Ryan, Heels to Heaven, Flutter
    Kicks, Plank, Down Dog, Cobra

    Count, Name, and Mathlete prayed us out.

    _____________________
    Announcements

    Iron Pax: Week 0 next week
    Grow Run NOLA – need more men or the event will be canceled. See Slack for details and sign up, or get with Fracsac
    Never forget 5k run/walk in Covington, Sept 9th

    Thanks for following my lead👊
    SYITG – Akbar

  • Gipper Good & Plenty – from Einstein

    A pleasant 53 degrees for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper.
    Good to see Maverick strolling out of the gloom and into the Gipper AO. I thought he was an FNG

    Long Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Good Mornings, Neck Rolls, Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, High Kneees, Butt Kicks, Scissors, Thumb Drives, Swimmers, Hi-Jack-Hi-Jills, Smurf Jacks, Ice Skater Hops etc.

    mosey to the coupon cache location

    Event: grab your cinder block
    Round 1 curls, rows, overhead press, then right arm farmer carry around the AO
    Round 2 leg lifts over the block, alernating plank pushups over the block, bridges on block, then left arm farmer carry around the AO
    Round 3 big boy situps with block on chest, presses from the horizontal, lunge walk forward, lunge walk backward, then rifle carry around the AO
    Round 4 murder bunnies up and down the small hill

    Mary: one minute plank

    Count-o-rama, Maverick leads us out with prayer and intentions.

  • Run, Jump, Crawl at the A1C – from Einstein

    A cool 51 degrees at 5:15 a.m. with steady 7 knot breeze at the A1C, atop the Justice Center Parking Garage.

    Warmup:
    all 15xIC: toe touch, ss hops, good-mornings, imperial walkers, neck rolls, hillbillies, shoulder stretch, high kneees, butt kicks, smurf jacks, ankle rotate, hi jack hi jill, etc.

    Thang: run the ramps forward and backward
    then head to the parking stripes for merkin bear crawl, star jack jumps, with core at the four corners.

    All had fun…with mumble chatter about BBQ’s minor league football team,
    then the fun stopped when Moby Dick blasted us with a “wendy’s chili special.”

    Count-o-rama

    Mathlete led us out with prayer.

  • Kansas City Chiefs Rally – from Einstein

    But BBQ doesn’t.

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Shoulder Rolls, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillys,
    Neck Rolls

    Thang:
    With Deck of Cards, each pax is assigned their suit: Moby-hearts, Jose10K-spades, Mathlete-diamonds, Einstein-clubs
    one at a time, each pax draws a card, the owner of that suit calls out an exercise of their choice and we do that amount of the card.
    Jokers – back-peddle around the upper deck

    We made it through the deck just as time expired.
    BBQ missed it all – his sweat-o-meter KCC hat would have registered south of the top squatchee button.

    Count-o-rama

    Jose-10K led us out with a prayer

  • Kickball Redeaux – from Akbar

    21 strong at the Lakefront for a redeaux of Kickball. This time, it was simple.

    Conditions
    Wet, muggy, just another day in SE Louisiana.

    Warm Up
    SSH x20 IC, Grass Grabbers, Butt Kicks, Self Love, High Knees, Imperial Walkers, Mountain Climbers, Merkins – x15 -10 IC

    Thang
    Mosey to the baseball field, count off 1’s and 2’s and teams were made. Regular rules apply this go round, with exercises called by QIC at random of Merkins and Sister Mary Catherines. Team 2 came out strong with a big lead, while Team 1 went 3 and out pretty quickly. A modification was made to not let all the kids kick first, and it was better. After a couple of innings, we were getting stomped. At this point, Mathlete had a suggestion that YHC implemented- Team 2 would have to Bear Crawl the bases to give us a chance. We made a short rally, but still got squashed by double digits.

    We headed back to the flag a little early since we didn’t really exercise that much and YHC implemented the Red Hot Chili Pepper. A standard of Hogcycle, we did Merkins and Squats to finish out in 3 rounds. Merkins and Squats x20 IC, Merkins and Squats x15 IC, Merkins and Squats x 10IC

    Count, Name
    Announcements

    Sept 10 5k/5mile at Covington trailhead

    Iron Pax is coming in September

    Hammers bible study Wednesday at 8:30 at the Crisi Pregnancy Center

    Bubba prayed us out with special prayers for JV’s Grandma who passed this morning at 98.

    Head to Coffeeteria and called it a day

    Thanks for following my lead – Akbar

  • Return of the Catship – from Catfish

    Feeling zesty out at the Mothership this morning with 6 PAX.

    Started at the peristyle with a warmup:

    Abe Vigodas x 10 (in cadence)
    Grass Grabbers x 10 (in cadence)
    SSH x 30 (in cadence)
    Imperial Squat Walkers x 20 (in cadence)
    8-Counts x 15 (in cadence)
    Peter Parkers x 20 (in cadence)
    Plank Jacks x 20 (in cadence)
    Floyd Mayweathers x 20 (in cadence)
    Parker Peters x 20 (in cadence)
    Hold Plank, then low plank

    Back to feet for a round of the Motivator (counted down from 10), then grabbed some columns for
    calf raises x 20 (in cadence)
    tib raises x 20 (in cadence)
    SSH x 20 (in cadence) to keep the heart rate up

    Moseyed to benches for

    Dips x 20 (in cadence)
    Rocky Balboas x 20 (in cadence)
    Derkins x 20 (in cadence)
    Irkins x 20 (in cadence)
    SSH x 20 (in cadence) to keep the heart rate up

    Moseyed to the grass over by the museum for round of Killer B’s (bear crawls, burpees, broad jumps). PAX bear crawled two tree lengths, then broad jumped back, stopping for three burpees every 5 broad jumps. Did one round, then did Jack Webbs up to seven. Did another round of Killer B’s, then coninued Jack Webbs from eight to twelve. Did another round of Killer B’s, then got on sixes for

    LBTs x 20 (in cadence)
    Big Boys x 15 (in cadence)
    Not So Lazy Boys for time (10 seconds each position, right, center, then left)
    Dying Cockroaches x 15(in cadence)
    Hello Dollys x 15 (in cadence)

    Started the mosey back to the flag, stopped just before the bridge for another round of 8-counts x 10 (in cadence).

    Got to flags zone, then did some more of the Motivators for the remaining 2 minutes or so.

    CoT, coffeeteria @ PJs. Fun one!

  • The MURPH – from Jose10k

    It was simple: 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats, and 2 miles. We had split off into different groups of different levels, but in the end it was 14 of my F3 brothers completing the Murph this morning. COT, Hammer prayed us out with special intentions for TruCoats friend and Zoolanders father.

  • Breaking down the walls – from Shooter

    With YHC out for the week coming up I decided to sign up for back to back Qs.. Arrived at the top of the A1c to Hammer running around and Jose 10k planting the shovel flag through the wire guard rail.. Must admit the A1c checks the box for the coolest way to shovel plant than any other AO.. PAX increases by 2 more as BBQ and Moby pull up.. We get started with our warmup and as we get about 4 exercises in there are lights coming up the ramp.. Could it be the always behind Cowbell? Not this time,! Its an unfamiliar truck and as we chatter amongst the circle Mathlete (Kenny Rocks as later determined) exits and joins in..

    Warmarama
    15IC Seal jacks, Toe Touches, Self love, Cherry Pickers, Arm circles, SSH and Grass grabbers.

    Thang
    Walls of Jericho introduced a few years back by Grundy…
    7 exercises 7 reps 7 rounds with a lap in between..
    Exercises 8count body builders, Merkins, Mountain climbers 2×1, plank jacks, Donkey kickoffs, lunges 2×1 and jump squats.. Run a lap around the top of the parking garage.. R/R

    Finished with 4 minutes so took to our 6 for some Mary 15IC Little Manny crunches, Left leg over right knee oblique crunches F/J..

    Count, announce and COT

    Congratulations and T👏🏼 to Mathlete with his recent 🏆 in the JuJitSu tournament and the passing of his contractor test…

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!