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  • Another Q – Another Stupid Idea

    YHC pulled up to Okwata at 0527 (super early for me) to find Griswold patiently waiting.  Tool pulled in hot, doing a donut in his Chevy long bed while chunking the shovel flag like a spear out of the window into the ground at our feet.  YHC volunteered to Q, forgot the disclaimer and headed out.

    The Thang

    Warm up COP – SSH x 30; IW x 30; DQ x 15; LSS x 30

    We then moseyed to the levee.  YHC decided to run up the slickest part and close to face planted as I reached the top.  From the top of the levee we completed a set of Quadraphiia* – four minutes of running down the levee forward and back up backwards.  We ran up and down 7 or 8 times.  I was shooting for 12, but that was some very poor estimating.  There is an added degree of difficulty to Quadriphilia* on this levee due to the fresh sod.

    *Found out Quadraphilia sounds remarkably similar to something Tool picked up during Spring Break back in the late 90s.

    From there we moseyed along the top of the levee stopping to do a set of Jack Webbs – escalator from 1 to 10, merkins followed by air presses.  At this point Tool questioned what the standard is for the last number in a Jack Webb.  I think it is 10, but maybe that is up for debate.

    After the Jack Webbs we moseyed to the bottom of the hill for some Mary:  LBC x 40; Penguin x 20; Elbow Plank Jacks* x 20; Dying Cockroach x 20; Elbow Peter Parkers* x 15; Flutter Kicks x 20.

    *This was the first time I have done Elbow Plank Jacks and Elbow PP (chuckle).  I highly recommend them.

    We followed Mary up with 10 hill sprints – sprint to the top of the hill and recovery jog back down, everyone stays together.

    Mosey to the water’s edge for some arm work.  20 dips followed by another bad idea by YHC – decline merkins on the steps leading into Lake Pontchartrain x 9.  Fortunately no one indeed up in the lake.  We followed that with Incline Merkins a safe distance from the water x 6 (I didn’t think about how embarrassing that would be to write) and Squats x 20.  Then it was time to Mosey back to the flag

    Announcements: BR Mud Run 4/16.  Let’s do it.  http://www.battle611.com/battleofbatonrouge/

    We ended with a Shout Out.

    Griswold has the flag for Saturday.  Aye!

     

  • Where is the Q???

    It was very windy gloom in NOLA… Most of the Pax arrived to Okwata like this…

    landing windy aiort madeira

    PRE-THANG

    Luckily, the PAX arrived in one piece.  7 men gathered ready to get better.  However, with a few minutes to spare the QIC was MIA to attend to some business that goes unspoken….  As SHORTY pushed for these Thursday workouts, he and Cowbell were MIA…  They were fartsacking in Idaho and also doing this…

    Justin snow panda snow play combined gifs

    WARM-UP

    Hopefully OSHA gave the disclaimer for QIC…. PAX moseyed around the fountain and finally QIC joined up for the 1st COP

    THE THANG

    SSH X 20 IC

    IW X 20 IC

    Low Slow Squats X 20 IC

    Good Mornings X 20 IC

    Mountain Climbers X 20 IC

    Burpees X 5 OYO

    Mosey to the top of the levee behind the fountain for QIC’s “Football Runs”.  The PAX started by running towards Canal Blvd. for 10 seconds, then stop and run down the levee.  There we alternated between 10 Merks and 10 LBCs.  Then run on the bottom of the levee for 10 seconds and run back to the top.  Rinse and Repeat until the PAX reached Canal Blvd.  Once there, plank up for the Pax.  T-Claps to Bubba for counting out loud.

    Once the PAX was accounted for, we moseyed down the lakefront for a while to a nice parking lot…There the PAX completed COP #2

    Kareoke for approximately 40 yards, followed by Back peddle runs, Sprints, and a Slow Mosey to another parking lot for 6MOM and COP#3

    Flutter Kicks X 20 IC

    LBCs X 20 IC

    Dying Cockroach X 20 IC

    Russian Twist X 20 IC

    Mosey back to Canal Blvd. and the Lakefront to grab some ledge.  The PAX didn’t like this due to the crashing 40 foot waves (as so it seemed) and felt like this….

    wave sandy running away worldwarmike crashing wave

    Here we performed COP #4.  QIC wanted to perform these IC, but due to the waves PAX completed these OYO

    R Leg Step Ups X 15 OYO

    Dips X 15 OYO

    L Leg Step Up X 15 OYO

    Dips X 15 OYO

    As it was getting close to the end of QIC’s VQ, the PAX moseyed towards the flag and then suddenly QIC saw something in the sky… The PAX began some mumble chatter and claimed it was the moon or the stars or some planet, but QIC said it was a BLIMP! So, here we performed COP #5

    B – Burpees X 5 OYO

    L – Lunges (Alternating legs) X 10 OYO

    I – Imperial Walkers X 15 OYO

    M – Merkins X 20 OYO

    P – Plank Jacks X 25 OYO

    S – Squats X 30 OYO

    As the time was closing in, we performed our last COP in honor of Shorty

    Calf Raises X 20 IC

    R Calf Raises X 10 IC

    L Calf Raises X 10 IC

    Whe QIC looked at his watch it was 0615 and his VQ was in the books!

    Name-O-Rama

    7 Men got better today and the PAX grew by 1 with the addition of FNG – Fountain.  T-Claps for completing the workout.

    Shout Out

    Multiple intensions for the PAX family and friends.  Also for the safe travels for all during the Mardi Gras season.  T-Claps to Bubba leading us in prayer.

    Hotty Toddy’s VQ in the books (sorry for the more than a week late post!)

    HT-Out

     

  • The Bar Has Been Set

    T-claps to Jingle Vader who saw his NOLA record of 17 straight posts come to an end at Okwata this morning.  Rumor has it he is out of town.  I would also like to note that, although not nearly as impressive, YHC’s streak of 10 straight fartsacks also came to an end.

    The Thang

    YHC gave the disclaimer as Bubba rolled in hot to make a JV-less pax of 5.  We moseyed around the Mardis Gras Fountain and selected a nice mushy area where there had obviously been some sort of monster truck competition for our Warm-up COP:  SSH x 30; IW x 30; Don Quixote x 15; LSS x 30; Arm Circles Foward x 15 and Reverse x 15

    We then moseyed to the top of the levee where we prepared for some Quadraphilia.  I saw this once in some old back blasts, but they never explained what it was, just that it was awful.  Fortunately, it was recently defined on the exercise page, so it made it’s Okwata debut this morning

    Quadraphilia – Run down the hill forward and up the hill backwards.  Continue for four minutes. #crowdpleaser

    We then moseyed along the top of the levee stopping right before Canal Blvd.  Here we ran down the levee forward and back up backwards once more to get our mind right for some push-a-rama

    Merkins x 10, Wide-Merkins x 10, Diamond Merks x 10, Stagger Left Merks x 10, and Stagger Right Merks x 10.  Rinse and repeat for a total of 100 reps.

    We recovered and headed to the Lake Okwata aka Pontchartrain.  Here it was every man for himself as we grabbed some ledge and did 100 dips OYO.  (Note to self: this is harder than I thought).

    After a 10 second rest as we waited on the 6:00 am Lakeshore Dr. traffic, it was back up to the top of the levee for some Triple Nickel

    Triple Nickel:  Run to the bottom of the levee and perform 5 reps of said exercise, run back up to the top for 5 more reps.  All running is forward this time.  We did 5 sets varying the exercises (Burpees, Lunges – 5 each leg, Merkins, Burpees, four count flutter kicks).

    Then it was 100 LBC’s OYO and back to the flag.

    Shout Out

    Continued prayer’s for OSHA’s wife.  We also prayed for the family of Monte Williams after the death of his wife Ingrid.

    We also took it upon ourselves to rename Fountain.