Black Jack 21s
Run lap, warmup
7 stations
Field
burpees
Sit-ups
Squats
Gazebo 1
Step ups alternating
Derkins
V ups
Wall Gym
Plank ups
Wall step ups
Incline wife pleasers
Stairs Gym
Calf raises
Balls to walls 21 secs
People’s chair
Gazebo 2
Dips
Bulgarian split
Decline shoulder taps
Hill
Bear crawl to top and crawl bear down
Incline hello dolly
21 incline burpees
Rocks
Thrusters
Curls
Russian twists
Mary
YHC decided to start the Birthday Week bonanza with a replay of his very first Q
So as 530 struck, 9 PAX set off to the rock pile (it would grow to 12 as late arrivers Heisenberg, Mr Rogers and Wedding Planner joined us during the warm up) while another 5 went off for KoT.
Circle Up for quick warm up to get blood moving. Grass Grabbers and Don Quixote (what they were called back in 2016, according to my backblast) and then describe the workout. Hand Grenada had the audacity to talk smack about the recency of this national championship. Yet he proudly recalled the 1959 Ole Miss championship year.
Lets relive the year.
Game 1: #13 ND 19 – #9 Michigan 17. 5 foot nothing freshman Reggie Ho boots 4 FGs. 19 count IW, SSH and Peter Parkers. False Start as Frac appropriately notified the Q that he was performing Hillbillies. And a 5 burpee penalty applied to Kenna Brah for talking smack.
Game 2: ND 20 – MSU 3. 20 Merkins in cadence. NOLA football star Michael Stonebreaker returns an INT for a TD.
Grab a Rock.
Game 3: As our young QB (Tony Rice) starts showing of his arms, we’ll start working our arms. ND 52 – Purdue 7. Overhead x15, Curl x15, Row x15, Push x7. Drop the rock (Yes, Mayhem – that was 52 total)
Game 4: ND 42 – Stanford 14. Repeat with x13, then x3 for the Push.
Game 5: TRAP ALERT! Looking forward to upcoming “Game of the Century”, ND squeaks by. ND 30 – Pitt 20. Repeat with x9, then x3 for the Push
Mosey to the football field, leave the rock on the baseline as we won’t be needing it for a bit.
Game 6: Catholics vs Convicts! #4 ND 31 – #1 Miami 30. Hero of the game, Safety Pat Terrel with an interception return, and breaking up the potential game winning 2 pt conversion with 30 seconds remaining. We’ll sprint the 50 yards, 10 Squat Jumps, sprint 50 yards back.
Games 7 & 8. The Military Academies. ND 41 – Air Force 13, and ND 22 – Navy 7. Suicide Sprints and Burpees. 10/20 then 10 burpees. 10/20/30 then 7 burpees. 10/20/30/41 then 5 burpees. Mr Rogers is FLYING through this.
Game 9: ND 54 – Rice 11. Rocket takes it to the house! 80 yard sprint. Oh wait, HE DOES IT AGAIN. 80 yard sprint back.
Grab your rocks, head to the pavillion
Game 10: ND 21 – PSU 3. Bad weather so the passing game is shelved, leaning on the stable of RBs. Work our quads with Step Ups – x21 each side.
Game 11: 2nd “Game of the century” of the year. #1 ND 27 – #2 USC 10. Coach Lou Holtz sends 2 starters home for “improprieties”. What integrity! We’ll take a seat in the people’s chair and watch the game with them. 27 seconds, then 10 curls. Repeat.
Getting late – return rocks, head back to the flag.
Game 12: #1 ND 34 – #4 WVU 21. Finish up with 34 LBC as we were running behind.
COT: Count Off, Prayers for Mr Rogers for his surgery this week. He swears he’ll be back for the Friday Birthday Q!!! YHC remains incredibly grateful for this group of men and the accountability and encouragement they bring. Prayers that we all may bring those same skills and abilities to all of our encounters.
Birthday Q
8/7/61
Arm Circles
Twists
Imperial Walkers
Abe Vigoda
Low Slow Squat
Flora 1-2-3
100 Merkins – P1 does 10 with feet on coupon. P2 holds plank with feet on his coupon. Flapjack.
200 LBCs – P1 does 20 LBC holding coupon high on chest. P2 holds legs 6″ off ground, and extends arms w/ coupon over chest. Flapjack.
300 Goblet Squats – P1 does 25 goblet squats. P2 lowers to bottom of goblet squat w/ coupon, and holds. Flapjack.
200 LBCs – P1 does 20 LBC holding coupon high on chest. P2 holds legs 6″ off ground, and extends arms w/ coupon over chest. Flapjack.
100 Merkins – P1 does 10 with feet on coupon. P2 holds plank with feet on his coupon.
Rifle/any carry down to the gazebo for some recovery stretches
Return to rock pit for Ring of fire till times up – then backwards walk/jog to flag
COT
Q started selling Rudy at 7:30pm the evening before on showing up to the proper AO… ABC (always be closing)… Rudy got sold
530am
Disclaimer
Mosey
Warmarama: windmills, grass grabbers, side straddle hops, peter parker peter, mountain climbers, arm circles, reverse arm circles
Rock pile then to the parking lot
Doracides
2 PAX work together
Suicides first line, 1 burpee and back, second line 2 burpees and back, third line 3 burpees, tag other PAX and rotate
100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBCs
Take the rock to the bollards, manmakers until Triple is done five, take rock back to the start
Circle up with me
Game of dice
Ended with Rudy’s low slow squats
Back to the rock pile
Back to the flag (one minute late because of Rudy’s squats)
Prayer requests for PVC, Rudy’s daughter, Wedding Planner’s friend and all those that are going through a rough patch that we may not know
Have a great day and weekend
SYITG
July 24th – National Drive Thru Day. Every day is a holiday, you just gotta find it. And this one had an immediate relevance for YHC, as it allowed me to break out a favorite Rudy-Family road trip song.
Yup, Weird Al’s 10 minute “Trapped in the Drive Thru”
Head to the rock pile for a quick warmup with some stretches (while Hokie and PVC disappeared for the mysterious KoT). While stretching, YHC saw the tracks and remembered how weak his balance is. So – lets mosey up to the tracks.
* Try to hold balance and get 5 squats. Once done with that, start walking the rail. Mayhem showed his prematurely old balancing (lack-of) skills, while The Architect was off to the races. YHC did manage to get 5 squats in But it was NOT easy.
Then grab a rock and lets head to the Pavillion for some Tabata.
Round 1 – the PAX were astounded at the riffs, the intricacies of the melody and the story of the drive thru. 10 sets, 45 seconds on 15 seconds rest, going through rock based exercises. The cycle completed just as Weird Al realizes “They forgot the Onions”.
Round 2 – same exercises, but the music this time was July 24th birthdays. Robbie Grey (Modern English – I Melt With You), J-Lo (On The Floor), Kristen Chenoweth (Popular), Marvin the Martian (I’m a Martian).
At this point, Bogey and others seemed VERY upset about the musical choices.
Finally – head to the building for a final round of Wonder Bra’s, celebrating the birthday of the Original Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) while she sang Put the Gun Down.
Mosey back to the flag to the sounds of Eye of the Tiger for our COT.
I only posted because I was the Q. The time change, the Mardi Gras break, the darkness of the gloom- all good reasons to sack. As been said many times, if left to my own devices I wouldn’t be there. Thanks to F3 I was. Disclaimer which included a very Confession-like ‘my last Q was 6 months ago’(!) and we were off.
Warm Up in oak alley:
The Thang: I wanted to do Catch Me if You Can all the way around the park with some beat downs interspersed. Keeping the pax in order necessitated lining up in alphabetical order so we got a little brain workout as well. Once organized we made our way around the park doing Catch Me if You Can with the last guy in the column dropping off for 3 burpees. This seemed to please everyone. Alphabetical order insured we all got a chance to participate!
First beat down at the row bars for: rows (count to 10), lunges, Bobby Hurley’s, LBCs, Low Slow Squats
Next COP across from the bridge: Merkin Wave with bear crawl to center and out between each wave. 3 waves total.
Next COP was at the benches by the fountain: RLSU IC X 20, Dips X 15, LLSU X 20, Classic Tinkles (just offering that moniker)(Akin to naming yourself ‘Ice Man’ or similar I assume): Shoulder taps IC X 10 straight into Derkins IC X 10, followed by shoulder taps IC X 10
Mosey on to grassy knoll for some Mary:
Back to the track and on to the pull up bars. Short on O2 I went with the same rotation that we had done at the row bars. The mumble chatter involved Yankee wondering how many likes his posts get. He must work with adolescent/teen girls all day.
Back to the flag and only several seconds over the time limit. Not bad.
Count off, namorama, and COT. Continued prayers for Angie’s dad.
Thanks for the opportunity to lead!
20 Men gathered in the gloom on Monday February 25th to join Bones on his VQ
Warmup:
Run the loop to the bandstand. 19 Sidestraddle hops. 10 Forward Arm Circles. 10 Backward Arm Circles. 20 Peter Parkers. 20 Parker Peters.
Run down Oak Alley with ascending burpees at each lightpost 2-4-6 then bearcrawl to the track.
Run to the zoo, 10 windmills, 20 hillbillies, 20 imperial walkers.
The Thang:
Dora The Explorer: 100 Dips, 200 Jump Lunges (2 is 1), 300 LBCs, 10 Murkins to finish.
Run to levee: 7s with Burpees and Jump Squats
End at the Flag with Protractor, 20 Freddie Mercuries.
How could I forget to tag Nip/Tuck, the one who EH’d me into this whole deal in the first place?? This has been addressed, thanks to my man for changing my life.
It was a cold, wet and windy morning at The Skinny. I broke my own rule of long-sleeve shirt when the temp is below 57. At 56 with some strong wind and light drizzle, I immediately regretted my short sleeves. Being the wuss that I am, we started under the pavilion with a warm-up and nine rounds of tabata. Russian twists, squat jumps and Peter Parkers got our blood flowing and let the drizzle die down. We may have annoyed a couple of ladies on yoga mats, but nobody farted, so it was a win overall. We then headed to the track for six sprint/jog running man intervals before stopping at the pull-up bars. We did a round of pull-ups, high knees, burpees and squat jumps before another six sprint/jog running man intervals. We then hit another round of tabata before doing an Indian run back to the start. One more tabata there before heading back to the pavilion for some alternating step/power-ups and dips. We finished right on time at 6:15.
37 Pax showed up on this cool Friday morning for some fitness and fellowship. YHC was leading a run up the mountain, and 86 lead the Angry (Tepid) Wave for some miles around the Tulane and Loyola campus. The usual disclaimer and off we go.
We started with our usual jog, making a short loop down St. Charles Ave and back to the horseshoe lawn at Touchdown Jesus. There we circled up for our warm-up COP:
SSH x 20 IC, IW x 20 IC, Peter Parkers x 20 IC, Windmills x 10 IC, Arm Circles 10 Forward 10 Backwards IC, Mountain Climbers x 20 IC
Next we moseyed to the bottom of Wolfpack Mountain. The entire Pax ran up the mountain, forward running on the inclines, side-hopping the ends, and back peddling the staright aways. Once at the top, a COP with Merkins x 10 IC, Penguins x 20 IC, Left leg cross over Merkins x 10 IC, Dying Cockroach x 20 IC, Right leg cross over Merkins x 10 IC.
At the top of the Mountain, we knocked out some Dora 1-2-3. Apologies to the Pax, as YHC misjudged the amount of time Dora would take. We split into pairs. One Pax ran down the stairs one floor and back up the ramp, while the other Pax exercised. 100 Floyd Mayweathers, 200 Squats, 300 LBC’s.
We ran down the stairs to hit the park benches. Left leg step-ups x 20 IC, Dips x 20 IC, Right leg step-ups x 20 IC, Dips x 15 IC.
We moseyed to the quad for a couple quick sprints. Sprint the quad, 10 Merkins, sprint the quad, 10 Merkins. Then we moseyed back to the flag for the finish.
86 lead his Pax on a 5 mile run to Yulman stadium and back, hitting all 3 mountains along the way.
Count off (37 Pax today!), Name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and a prayer. I am truly grateful to have F3 Nola in my life. You guys are good friends, and you push me and hopefully make me a better man. Thanks for letting me lead today.
Walleye
After Tinkles started talking crazy about 5 miles & three garages, most the PAX followed YHC to the touchdown Jesus for our first COP:
SSH x20, MC x20, HB x20, PP x20, SJ x20
Moseyed to the mountain:
Indian Run to the top
2nd COP:
Flutter kicks x20, Hello Dollys x20, PP x20, shoulder-tap merkins x15 & Real Freddies x20
Moseyed to the incline:
10 shoulder-tap merkins run down the incline followed by 10 burpees then backwards run up the incline, repeat twice and on the third time bear-crawl up the incline
Plank-o-rama while we wait
Moseyed down the stairs to the benches:
RLSUx20, Dips x20, RLPU x20, Incline Merkins x20, LLSU x20, Dips x20, LLPU, Decline PP x20 followed by 5 decline merkins
Finished at touchdown Jesus with 20 Russian twists
Back to flag for count off, name-o-rama & prayer
Stop eating beans & roadkill on Thursday nights!
