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  • Celebrating the Olympics – from Thighs

    This workout was a practice for the upcoming QvsQ that was being held in the near future at Pontiff.

    To celebrate Team USA and the big win we experienced over all the other countries, I decided to have an Olympics-themed workout.

    We started the beat down with a warmup:
    15x Jumping Jacks
    7x Cherry Pickers
    7x Windmills
    10x Sun Gods (each arm)
    7x Merkins
    7x Mountain Climbers
    7x Toe Touches
    7x Tempo Merkins
    7x Squats

    Then we mosey-ed to the parking lot.

    We got in a circle and performed the following exercises with a set of 15, then 10, then 5, with a 100yd Mosey between each set.

    O – Overhead Claps w/ People’s Chair
    L – Lunges
    Y – YXs (the opposite of XYs)
    M – Mountain Climbers
    P – Plank Toe Touches
    I – Imperial Squat Walkers
    C – Carolina Dry Docks
    S – Side Straddle Hops

    After that workout, we can’t celebrate the Olympics without a competition, right?!

    So I set up 4 stations in a line. Each station was going to be a sport. Since we had so few people, I modified it and made it PAX competition instead of a team competition.

    *Team Competition: 4 Stations, 5 PAX. A PAX at each station doing the exercise until they are bumped by the PAX that is running. The PAX that ran from one station to the other would replace the PAX he bumped and continue to exercise. The 4 PAX would run to back to the 1st Station and that would be one complete round. The Team with the most rounds wins.

    Instead we did a PAX competition. 10 Reps per station. Whoever does the most Rounds wins.

    1st Station: Track & Field = High Knees
    2nd Station: Swimming = Backstrokes (Ab Exercise)
    3rd Station: Karate = Taekwondo Squats (Squat then kick)
    4th Station: Boxing = Boxer Merkins (Merkin then overhead punch)

    We did that for 6 minutes and it was time to go.

    After that set, we ran back to the start and did a set of ab workouts.
    We ended with the usual close out, sending us off with a prayer and enjoying the sun rise.

    Looking forward to next time!

  • Practice makes perfect – from Thighs

    This workout was a practice for the upcoming QvsQ that was being held in the near future at The OG. But it was raining, so we decided to move to the Gretna Flea Market. I had to modify the workout by a lot.

    We started the beat down with a warmup:
    15x Jumping Jacks
    7x Cherry Pickers
    7x Windmills
    10x Sun Gods (each arm)
    7x Merkins
    7x Mountain Climbers
    7x Toe Touches
    7x Tempo Merkins
    7x Squats

    We started with a Burpee Pyramid going up to 4 reps. Every 2 stanchions was a station.
    Station 1: Burpees
    Station 2: Catcher Burpees
    Station 3: Plank Walk Burpees
    Station 4: Pike Up Burpees
    We went from 1 rep to up to 4 reps and back down. But that smoked us.

    So, we did a long 30 count rest.

    We moved to doing The Gauntlet. Again every 2 stanchions was a station. After finishing a station, the PAX would run to the beginning and start the station work all over again and progressing to the next Station.
    Station 1: 3x Lunges
    Station 2: 10x Merkins
    Station 3: 10x Bobby Hurleys
    Station 4: 30x Plank Toe Touches
    We did 2 Guantlets

    Finally, we were going to do a Figure 8, but the Stations did not count right. So, every stanchion was a Station.
    We did 1 rep and moved to only 3 reps
    Hand Release Merkins
    Lunges
    Pike Ups
    Flutter Kicks
    Diamond Merkins
    Bonny Blairs

    After that set, we ran back to the start and did a set of ab workouts.
    We ended with the usual close out, sending us off with a prayer and enjoying the sun rise.

    Looking forward to next time!

  • Burpees & AMRAPs – from Thighs

    We finally moved our AO start time to 0530. There are still mixed feelings, but seeing the sun rise was a new feeling for us all.

    We started the beat down with a warmup:
    15x Jumping Jacks
    7x Cherry Pickers
    7x Windmills
    10x Sun Gods (each arm)
    7x Merkins
    7x Mountain Climbers
    7x Toe Touches
    7x Tempo Merkins
    7x Squats

    Then we ran to the parking lot to start the beat down. I arranged 4 cones into a large square which is the outline for the stations. Each station had a burpee workout. The reps started at 1 and built a pyramid to 5 reps and back down to 1. We ran to each station around the square.

    Station 1: Burpees
    Station 2: Catcher Burpees
    Station 3: Plank Walk Burpees
    Station 4: Pike Up Burpees

    After that workout, we ran over to the archway and did a static workout.
    We did 3 Wall-Sits: 60 secs, 45 Secs, and then 30 Secs.
    Then we did 3 Planks: 60 secs, 45 Secs, and then 30 Secs.

    Then we did AMRAP for 5 minutes; 40 secs on; 20 secs off.
    First set was from the archway to the cannon:
    3x Burpees
    Broadjump to the cannon
    10x SmurfJacks
    And then run back. Complete as many rounds as possible.
    We did this 3 times.

    For the 4th and 5th round, we did:
    5x Merkins
    Murder Bunnies to the cannon
    5x Plank Jacks
    And then run back. Complete as many rounds as possible.

    After that set, we ran back to the start and did a set of ab workouts.

    We ended with the usual close out, sending us off with a prayer and enjoying the sun rise.

    Looking forward to next time!

  • Light Poles – from Thighs

    This Q we did our workout at the Light Poles.

    We started the beat down with a warmup:
    15x Jumping Jacks
    7x Cherry Pickers
    7x Windmills
    10x Sun Gods (each arm)
    7x Merkins
    7x Mountain Climbers
    7x Toe Touches
    7x Tempo Merkins
    7x Squats

    Then we ran to the Light Poles to start the workout.

    We started the 44s workout:
    11x Jump Ups
    11x Hello Dollies
    11x Bonny Blares
    11x Pike Ups and reducing the reps by 1 at the start of new round.

    After a few of us got done, we turned to Rochamburpee
    Starting with a low squat, we played rock, paper, scissors.
    The winner does Merkins.
    The loser does a Burpee.
    Each round we increased the reps by 1. We did 5 rounds.

    Then we turned to a running exercise where at each light pole we changed exercise to the following. 6 light poles 6 exercises and run back to the start. We did 3 rounds.
    Lunge
    Run
    Broad Jumps
    Backwards Run
    Bear Crawl
    High Knees Running

    We closed with a set of ab workout.

    We ended with the usual close out, sending us off with a prayer as the rain continued to come down.

    Looking forward to next time!